In Search of Black Power
In Search of Black Power challenges conventional narratives around Black policy, Black movements, and Black Life. We focus on creating a new language to discuss the issues presenting Black America, with a focus on independent institutional building and seeing Black folks as the solutions to our own problems.
Podcasting since 2019 • 79 episodes
In Search of Black Power
Latest Episodes
A History of How We Care for Our Own: An Introduction to “Race Work”
We welcome back S. Rasheem to In Search of Black Power! In this episode we are exposed to the concept of “Race Work”. In conversation with LBS Dir. of Research Lawrence Grandpre, Rasheem exposes us to critical figures in debates throughout the ...
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Season 5
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Episode 10
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1:26:20
Economic Justice and Black Liberation
This discussion addresses the intersection between radical politics and advancing an agenda of economic justice from a lens of Black Liberation.
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Season 5
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Episode 9
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56:15
Black Nationalism, Pan-Africanism and Zionism. Reflecting on Ta-Nehisi Coates's "The Message"
In the Black radical tradition, critiques of Nationalism as inherently violent have clashed with recognition of the importance of national liberation movements and the desire for self-determination of oppressed people. Ta-Nehisi Coats grapples ...
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Season 5
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Episode 6
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46:54
Is It Time To Go Beyond "The New Jim Crow"? The Limits of Michelle Alexander's View of Mass Incarceration
This year marks the 15-year anniversary of the first publication of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow. The text was praised as challenging the post-racial ethos that rose after the election of Obama by presenting a compelling a...
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Season 5
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Episode 5
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45:05
#BaltimoreUprising Ten Years Later: Grassroots Truths vs the Ivory Tower
April 2025 marks the 10th anniversary of the #BaltimoreUprising, a series of protests sparked by Freddie Gray’s death in Baltimore Police custody in 2015.Baltimore has long reflected America’s racial and political anxieties, making the ...
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Season 5
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Episode 4
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1:10:35
