In Search of Black Power
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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.
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S5E8 Beyond the Wire
Send us Fan MailWhile The Wire is celebrated for its gritty realism however , it perpetuates an over-sensationalized, externally oriented, and ultimately limited view of Black life in Baltimore. It…
S5E8 What Critics of Black “Respectability Politics” Miss. Black Power Beyond “The Boundaries of Blackness”
Send us Fan MailIn the 90s and 2000s, a wave of academic texts emerged that challenge the dominate narrative of Black leadership and politics, claiming that the location of Black power in the Black…
S5E18 Black Baltimore 19th Century Political History
Send us Fan MailIn this episode of In Search of Black Power, filmmaker and historian Xavier Frink dives into the roots of Black excellence and resistance by exploring 19th-century political and civic…
S5E17 Baltimore Black Panther Party
Send us Fan MailBaltimore’s Panthers complicate the easy narratives. They were neither reckless radicals nor romantic revolutionaries. They were pragmatic idealists, adapting to legal constraints,…
S5E16 Why Venezuela Matters for Black Folks
Send us Fan MailTrump's attacks on Venezuela are an attempt to terrorize attempts to resist white supremacy worldwide. In this episode, LBS political commentator Lawrence Grandpre and Director of…
S5E15 Juvenile Justice Advocacy in Maryland
Send us Fan MailThis episode addresses how racism and white supremacy impact advocacy for juvenile justice reform in Maryland. Additionally this episode discusses some of the major policy reform that…
S5E14 Linking DOGE to Nonprofit Liberals: Racial Capitalism, Reparations & whose afraid of Black Power?
Send us Fan MailA conversation hosted by Baltimore Racial Justice Action between LBS director of research Lawrence Grandpre and Baltimore Green Party chair Andy Ellis. We touch on DOGE, the link…
S5E13 Navigating the Political Spectrum and 3rd Parties: Strategic Engagement Against the Political Duopoly
Send us Fan MailLeftist responses to the current moment range from rejecting engaging the state at all to grudgingly accepting centrist Democrats as a lesser evil. In an interview between LBS’s…
S5E12 Analysing The Alliance of Sahel States- Pan African Praxis Beyond Traoré
Send us Fan MailThe Alliance of the Sahel states has sent shock waves through the western world, raising the possiblity of anti-imperialist Pan-African block. While this movement has exploded online…
S5E11 Black Women & Class Politics in Baltimore
Send us Fan MailIn this episode, MJ and Rasheem explore the legacy and continued relevance of poor Black women's activism in Baltimore, focusing on housing justice and welfare rights. Drawing on…
S5E10 A History of How We Care for Our Own: An Introduction to “Race Work”
Send us Fan MailWe 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,…
S5E9 Economic Justice and Black Liberation
Send us Fan MailThis discussion addresses the intersection between radical politics and advancing an agenda of economic justice from a lens of Black Liberation.Support the showIn Search of Black…
S5E6 Black Nationalism, Pan-Africanism and Zionism. Reflecting on Ta-Nehisi Coates's "The Message"
Send us Fan MailIn 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…
S5E5 Is It Time To Go Beyond "The New Jim Crow"? The Limits of Michelle Alexander's View of Mass Incarceration
Send us Fan MailThis 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…
S5E4 #BaltimoreUprising Ten Years Later: Grassroots Truths vs the Ivory Tower
Send us Fan MailApril 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…
S5E3 Who deserves credit for the decline in murders? Police, Public Health, or the Grassroots?
Send us Fan MailDespite media fearmongering about crime in cities, violent crimes like shootings and murders have declined nationwide in 2024. In Baltimore, murders have dropped even as police…
S5E2 Beyond the Squad: AOC, Ryan Grim, and Left Media vs. Black Political Analysis
Send us Fan MailIn his book The Squad, journalist Ryan Grim provides an account of the experiences of “The Squad,” a group of progressive legislators elected to the House of Representatives, as they…
S5E1 The Baltimore Model of Community Controlled Reparations
Send us Fan MailOver the past decade, reparations have shifted from a fringe issue championed by Black nationalists to a mainstream topic in Democratic and nonprofit circles.In Baltimore, Leaders of…
S4E9 Post Election Panel: Is the Left Ready to Get Serious About Wielding Power?
Send us Fan MailIn the conclusion of Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle's Post-Election Analysis, we share a panel discussion hosted by Baltimore Racial Justice Action (BRJA), held the week after the…
S4E8 Grassroots Election Recap: Elite Dems Failed Black Folks and Brought Us Trump 2.0
Send us Fan MailTrump has won the election—again. But why? Lawrence and Dayvon delve beyond the data, drawing on their on-the-ground experience to contextualize the results. They highlight the…
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In Search of Black Power has published 89 episodes since February 2019, covering topics in Education, News.
In Search of Black Power is currently highly active with new episodes monthly. Average episode length is 52m.
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