Make it Plain

In this week's  Black World News , Kehinde Andrews discusses the 14-year-old Black male being held in a headlock and tasered to the ground by a UK police officer and the problem with Black Employment Month aka Black History Month.  - In this week's  guest interview , Kehinde Andrews talks with Abdul Alkalimat, Black Studies OG and professor emeritus of African American Studies about what is Black...

In this week's  Black World News , Kehinde Andrews discusses how we can understand the Israel-Palestine conflict through the prism of Black radicalism—understanding the universal of the world through the particular of Blackness—to see the world differently.  - In this week's  guest interview , Kehinde Andrews talks with Beverely Bryan about Black women in the movement and in Britain, teaching and...

In this week's Black World News , Kehinde discusses Black History Month, Kemi Badenoch's "Best Place to be Black" speech, and the mainstream popularity of today's Black and Brown politicians in the UK/US.  - In this week's guest interview , Kehinde talks with Pan-Afrikan OG Cecil Gutzmore about Pan-Afrikanism past and present in the UK, the race & class debate, Black success in White academia, you...

In this week's Black World News , Kehinde discusses a big survey (with "over 10,000 voices") out this week on the "Black British" experiences by the Black British Voices Project.  - In this week's guest interview , Kehinde talks with Leila Hassan Howe about her life in Zanzibar and coming back to Britain in the 60s, working for the Institute of Race Relations (IRR, directed by A. Sivanandan) and t...

In this week's Black World News, Kehinde discusses the murder charge of the police officer who killed Chris Kaba. - In this week's interview, Kehinde talks with Professor Nicola Rollock about the under-representation of Black women at the post-graduate and professorial level, why they're not optimistic about change in their field, the question of White antiracist allyship, her new book The Racial...

Kehinde Andrews talks with David Harewood live from a book launch event of Kehinde's book "The Psychosis of Whiteness" (OUT NOW). They talk about David's experience of psychosis, acting while Black, growing up in Whitenss, Black mental health & therapy, the psychosis of Whiteness, and more. David Harewood is a top actor, director, and author of "Maybe I Don't Belong Here" his first book. - David H...

Kehinde Andrews talks with Wesley Lowrey at a live event earlier this year about his arrest while covering protests in Ferguson, Missouri, and about his new book American Whitelash. A book about the rise in racial violence in the decade following the election of the US' first Black president.  Wesley Lowery is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, reporter, editor, and best-selling author known for...

Kehinde Andrews talks with Kelechi Okafor about the responsibility of having a media platform, education (not schooling), erasure and silencing of private violence against Black women, mashing up White supremacy and the more we need to do.  Kelechi Okafor is a Black-British writer, actor, and host of Say Your Mind podcast, born in Nigeria and raised in London. - Kelechnekoff's Linktree: https://li...

For Make it Plain's (MIP) first-ever podcast episode Kehinde Andrews talks with Kimberlé Crenshaw about CRT, intersectionality, #SayHerName, and the attack on antiracism.  Kimberlé Crenshaw is an American Civil Rights Advocate, the co-founder and executive director of the African American Policy Forum, and the founder and executive director of the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Stu...