Newsitem List
"I place you under citizen's arrest Greg Suhr"...
Posted: Tue, Jan 19, 2016 3:17pm PST
Families demand justice in SFPD shootings of Mario Woods, Amilcar Lopez, Alex Nieto and Kenneth Harding...
Posted: Tue, Jan 19, 2016 3:17pm PST
Today's rally at Oscar Grant Plaza in solidarity Tamir Rice,, Mario Woods, Richard Perkins, Veronza Bowers and all others murdered, falsley imprisoned or victimized by racist state repression....
Posted: Sat, Jan 2, 2016 7:31pm PST
WTUL News and Views hears from the Take Em Down NOLA Coalition about the upcoming city council vote to remove four monuments to oppressors that are scattered around the city of New Orleans. Angela outlines why this issue is so important to the citizens of the city and speaks to those that say the issue isn't very important or that 'history' should be preserved....
Posted: Wed, Dec 16, 2015 7:25am PST
14 min Part 3 from journalist David Sheen’s lecture “the Bullet, the Ballot, and the Boycott” at University of New Orleans on Tuesday, November 10, 2015....
Posted: Mon, Dec 14, 2015 6:25am PST
Phone interview with Alexander J. Bourne from Orleans Parish Prison (OPP). Alex is incarcerated again over allegations of shoe theft. This is a follow up interview from one earlier this year describing Bourne's unjust imprisonment. The case involves potential political bribery in New Orleans....
Posted: Fri, Dec 4, 2015 7:16pm PST
Part 2 from journalist David Sheen’s lecture “the Bullet, the Ballot, and the Boycott” at University of New Orleans on Tuesday, November 10, 2015....
Posted: Sun, Nov 29, 2015 5:49pm PST
WTUL News reads Emily Carmichael's article on the Unity demonstrations at Tulane in Nov 2015. Appended is a reading of the Tulane Black Student Union's list of concrete demands to further campus unity and to begin to halt structural racism on Tulane's campus....
Posted: Fri, Nov 27, 2015 8:19am PST
19min Part 1 from journalist David Sheen’s lecture “the Bullet, the Ballot, and the Boycott” at University of New Orleans on Tuesday, November 10, 2015....
Posted: Sat, Nov 21, 2015 11:50am PST
Janet Hays interviews the imitable John Slade - New Orleans native, black cartoonist/author of Afro Brother Spacemen, WBOK Black talk radio host...
Posted: Fri, Nov 20, 2015 7:45am PST
WTUL News and Views speaks with Lydia Nichols, an independent curator about her exhibition In / Between, a mobile art pop up that showcases works by people of color based in New Orleans. This weekend, the show will focus on the subject of Black Christianity, exploring the tensions and contradictions that arise when black Christians are faced with the racist, colonialist, and oppressive history of Christianity. l...
Posted: Wed, Sep 16, 2015 7:19am PDT
WTUL News and Views Speaks to Kai Barrow and Shana Griffin about Ecohybridity: A Love Song for NOLA, a visual black opera in 5 acts that kicks off this weekend on the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina....
Posted: Wed, Aug 26, 2015 7:36am PDT
Janet Hays interviews Alexander J. Bourne about why he spent 9 months locked up at Orleans Parish jail - [AKA Orleans Parish Prison (OPP)] over allegations of shoe theft - all on the taxpayer's dime. This is an inside look at one person's experience with pre-trial services, the bail industry, incarceration and potential political bribery in New Orleans....
Posted: Fri, Aug 21, 2015 11:13pm PDT
On Monday, 08.19.2015, Black Agenda Report Managing Editor Bruce Dixon spoke to WBAI's Morning Show Hosts Michael G. Haskins and Jed Brandt about Black Lives Matter, Black organizing, and the Democratic Party. He says that the attempt to claim the Democratic Party as a populist organization has a long history which included successes, but that elites changed the rules to undermine every one of them....
Posted: Wed, Aug 19, 2015 4:20pm PDT
An interview that defines racism and identifies its presence in New Orleans, Katrina 10 and the protest against the narrative and political prisoners in the United States....
Posted: Wed, Aug 19, 2015 7:46am PDT
Nathaniel Wilks. That’s the name of the 24-year-old black man who was shot and killed by Oakland Police Officers this Wednesday at the intersection of 27th and Martin Luther King Jr. Way in Oakland....
Posted: Fri, Aug 14, 2015 10:16am PDT
Pam Nath speaks to WTUL News and Views about the forgiveness the families of the victims of the Charleston shooting offered Dylan Roof, how White Supremacy operates in our society and the role white people can play, and how the debate between Ta-Nehisi Coates and Mayor Mitch Landrieu demonstrates the issues still alive and well even among those making some effort to address issues of race. Includes conversation about hope and how we could move forward as a society....
Posted: Wed, Jul 22, 2015 7:33am PDT
Alex Abella is a journalist and author. His article for the Los Angeles Times called California, it's time to dump the Bear Flag, tells the history of California’s Bear Flag and its origins in a racist revolt....
Posted: Fri, Jul 17, 2015 1:15pm PDT
This is the first convening of a queer-black-feminist imagined collective dreaming house for people of color....
Posted: Wed, Jul 8, 2015 7:17am PDT
Angela Kinlaw and A Scribe Called Quess speak out at New Orleans' event "The Confederate Flag: A Call to Burn and Bury - July 4th 2015."...
Posted: Mon, Jul 6, 2015 6:33am PDT