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“Time for an Awakening” with Bro. Elliott & Bro. Richard, Sunday 03/16/2025 at 6:00 PM (EST) our guests was Organizer, Lead Activist for American Redress Coalition of California,  And the Coalition for a Just and Equitable California, Chris Lodgson and Organizer, Vice President of the Los Angeles Reparations Advisory Commission, President and Co-Facilitator of the National Assembly of American Sla...

“Time for an Awakening” with Bro. Elliott & Bro. Richard, Sunday 03-02-25 “OPEN FORUM SUNDAY EDITION… To most Black America this “Democracy is Hypocrisy”, was part of the discussion in open forum. Always topics that effect Black people locally, nationally, internationally. Information, insights and dialogue from a Black Perspective.

“Time for an Awakening” with Bro. Elliott & Bro. Richard, Sunday 2/23/2025 at 7:00 PM (EST) guest was Activist, Educator, Radio Host on WURD in Philadelphia, Brother Shomari. It’s been 60 years since Bro. Malcolm became an ancestor, and the struggle remains just as relevant today. Brother Shomari shared commemorations and reflections on the ideals of Malcolm X, and how we must use those tools to a...

“Time for an Awakening” with Bro. Elliott & Bro. Richard, Sunday 2/16/2025 at  7:00 PM (EST) guest was Attorney, Human rights Activist, Founder and Executive Director of the Restitution Study Group, Deadria Farmer-Paellmann. The unnraveling the Benin Bronze Controversy, the lawsuit against the Smithsonian and the missing Benin Bronzes, was some of the information shared by the hard work of the Res...

“Time for an Awakening” with Bro. Elliott & Bro. Richard, Sunday 02-09-25 “OPEN FORUM SUNDAY EDITION… The Right to be Critical with the Direction of Black Elected Leadership” was part of the discussion in open forum. Maurice Carver, host of Black Men Screaming, joined us in discussion. Always topics that effect Black people locally, nationally, internationally. Information, insights and dialogue f...

“Time for an Awakening” with Bro. Elliott & Bro. Richard, Sunday 2/02/2025 at SPECIAL TIME 6:00 PM (EST) guests was Author, Scholar of African-American History, and Associate Professor in the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia, Dr. Justene Hill Edwards. The book written by our guest “Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman’s Bank” was part two of our Dece...

“Time for an Awakening” with Bro. Elliott & Bro. Richard, Sunday 1/26/2025 at 7:00 PM (EST) guest was Activist, Organizer, Vice President of the Los Angeles Reparations Advisory Commission, President and Co-Facilitator of the National Assembly of American Slavery Descendants, Friday Jones. Sister “Friday Jones” gave our monthly update us on the reparation struggle in California, and the community...

“Time for an Awakening” with Bro. Elliott & Bro. Richard, Sunday 1/12/2025 at 7:00 PM (EST)  guest was Educator, Journalist, Staff Writer for the Final Call, Nisa I. Muhammad. Our guest,  Journalist Nisa Muhammad discussed her observations as she reported on the Cuba 2024 Decade of People of African Descent Equality-equity-social justice gathering, attended by over 100 delegates came from 18 count...

“Time for an Awakening” with Bro. Elliott & Bro. Richard, Sunday 1/05/2025 at SPECIAL TIME 6:00 PM (EST) guests was Organizer, Chairperson of the December 12th Movement, Omowale Clay : Organizer, Journalist, Playwright, Obi Egbuna Jr. In the first segment of the program, Bro. Omowale informed the listeners of the activism in N.Y. Centered around the acquittal in the Jordan Neely murder, and the ly...

“Time for an Awakening” with Bro. Elliott & Bro. Richard, Sunday 12/22/2024 at 7:00 PM (EST) guest was Journalist, Educator,  Professor and Past Chair, Department of Pan-African Studies University of Louisville, Dr. Ricky L. Jones. Dr. Jones discussed the ongoing campaign to ban Black History, and what is going on with Black student enrollment and Black studies on predominately white university Ca...

"Time for an Awakening" for Sunday 12/15/2024 at 7:00 PM (EST) 6:00 PM (CST) guest will be Activist, Organizer (former Vice- Presidential Green Party candidate), Prof. of Black and Islamic Studies at  UC Santa-Barbara, Dr. Bilal (Butch) Ware. The conversation with our guest Dr. Ware could go in many different directions. Still, it will center around the need for independent political organizing in...

“Time for an Awakening” with Bro. Elliott & Bro. Richard, Sunday 12/8/2024 at 7:00 PM (EST) guest was Author, Scholar of African-American History, and Associate Professor in the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia, Dr. Justene Hill Edwards. The book written by our guest “Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman’s Bank” was the center of the discussion. Imme...

“Time for an Awakening” with Bro. Elliott & Bro. Richard; Sunday 12/1/2024 at 7:00 PM (EST) 6:00 PM (CST) guests was Author, Historian, Moores Professor of History and African American Studies at the Univ. of Houston, Dr. Gerald Horne. With the 2024 election in the rear view mirror, Dr. Horne raises the idea of a Black International Front Conference, with proposed locations and the need for indepe...

“Time for an Awakening” With Bro. Elliott & Bro. Richard, Sunday 11/24/2024 at 7:00 PM (EST) 6:00 PM (CST) guest was Activist, Organizer, Vice President of the Los Angeles Reparations Advisory Commission, President and Co-Facilitator of the National Assembly of American Slavery Descendants, “Friday Jones”. In this post-election 2024 discussion, Sister “Friday Jones” updated us on the reparation ac...

“Time for an Awakening” with Bro. Elliott & Bro. Richard,  Sunday 11/17/2024 at 7:00 PM (EST) our guest was Author, XM Radio and Connecting the Dots Podcast Host, and Political Scientist, Dr. Wilmer Leon. The post-2024 election conversation with our guest Dr. Wilmer Leon, centered around alternatives to the direction of Black political leadership in the current Two-party system. As always, convers...

“Time for an Awakening” with Bro. Elliott & Bro. Richard, Sunday 11/10/2024 at 7:00 PM (EST) “OPEN FORUM SUNDAY EDITION” The 2024 Elections. We also received an update on the Afro-descendant Nation plebiscite vote-a-thon by Bro. Jabbar.  In 2024, from the need to develop a new mindset in our communities, to our political and economic empowerment, the solution to these problems must come from us. L...

“Time for an Awakening” with Bro. Elliott & Bro. Richard, Sunday 10/27/2024 at 7:00 PM (EST) OPEN FORUM SUNDAY EDITION. With the election looming, "The Black Family and The Failure of The Two-Party System" was part of the discussion in open forum. Always topics that effect Black people locally, nationally, internationally. Information, insights and dialogue from a Black Perspective.

“Time for an Awakening” with Bro. Elliott & Bro. Richard, Sunday 10/20/2024 at 7:00 PM (EST) guests were Activists, Organizers, of the Black Radical Political Convention 2024. Founder of the New Afrikan Independence Party, Khalid Raheem, Dr. Joyce Maxwell, Jersey City Organizer, Co-founder of Ujima Peoples Progress Party, Nnamdi Lumumba, highlight the platform and purpose and alternative of the Na...

“Time for an Awakening” with Bro. Elliott & Bro. Richard, Sunday 10/06/2024 at 7:00 PM (EST) guests was Activist, Reparations Organizer, Director of Reparations United, Kamm Howard, and Chief of Staff of Afrodescendant Nation, Tamara (Achoti) Singleton. The National Reparations Strategy Call to Action Meeting on Oct 11, 2024, with over 30 organizations participating, also updated progress on the N...

“Time for an Awakening” with Bro. Elliott & Bro. Richard, Sunday 9/29/2024 at 7:00 PM (EST) “OPEN FORUM SUNDAY EDITION” Black America, Reparations, Free Speech, and Project 2025, all came together as part of the discussion in open forum. Always topics that affect Black people locally, nationally, and internationally. Information, insights, and dialogue from a Black Perspective.

“Time for an Awakening” with Bro. Elliott & Bro. Richard , Sunday 09/15/2024 at 7:00 PM (EST) our guest was Activist, Organizer, Vice President of the Los Angeles Reparations Advisory Commission, President and Co-Facilitator of the National Assembly of American Slavery Descendants, Khansa Jones-Muhammad. Sister Jones-Muhammad shared information about the California Black Caucus blockage of key rep...

“Time for an Awakening” with Bro. Elliott & Bro. Richard, Sunday 9/1/2024 at 7:00 PM (EST)guest was Author, Historian, Moores Professor of History and African American Studies at the Univ. of Houston, Dr. Gerald Horne. The discussion centered around Dr. Horne’s new book “Armed Struggle?”, and how the struggle continues in the present day. Also, open forum discussion on topics that affect Black Peo...

“Time for an Awakening” with Bro. Elliott & Bro. Richard, Sunday 08/25/2024 at 7:00 PM (EST) our guest was Activist, National Black Farmers Association Program Director, Mrs. Kara Boyd After decades of protests, numerous failed Congressional bills, and dozens of lawsuits, Black farmers will receive payment from the $2.2 Billion Discrimination Financial Assistance Program from the Biden Administrat...

“Time for an Awakening” with Bro. Elliott & Bro. Richard, Sunday 08/11/2024 at 7:00 PM (EST) guest was Activist, Los Angeles Radio Talk show contributor on KBLA 1580, Award-winning Investigative Journalist for the LA Progressive, James Farr. We centered the discussion around politics, from a Black perspective, in a solution-focused conversation wrapped around social and restorative justice with “C...

“Time for an Awakening” with Bro. Elliott & Bro. Richard, Sunday 07/28/2024 at 7:00 PM (EST) guests was Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, Economics, and the director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University, Dr. William A. (Sandy) Darity Jr., and Writer, Folklorist, founder/ director of the arts consulting practice Artefactual, A. Kirsten...