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.
New episodes every Wednesday @ 12PM.
Dr. Tara Bynum a scholar of African American Literature and a Baltimore native. In this interview we discuss the narratives that are highly circulated in mainstream spaces about Baltimore and the politics of those narratives.
We analyze “The Whiteness of Wealth” by Dorothy A. Brown – which argues homeownership fails to fulfill its promise to stabilize Black communities and build wealth for Black families.
Heber Brown is the director of the Black Church Food Security Network. We discuss his work regarding food sovereignty and address larger issues of revolutionary praxis and Pan African nation building.
Reparations for slavery have gone from a third rail issue to a mainstream Democratic Party talking point. While much of the conversation has focused on HR 40 and local/statewide task forces – has the reparations movement left a critical tool in the reparations battle of off the battlefield?
In this talk, LBS Director of Research Lawrence Grandpre will use violence prevention as an example of the need for emancipatory, African Centered research. He’ll be diving into the literature to display the limitations in Eurocentric public health methodologies of violence prevention and the need for African-centered alternatives.
During the Maryland General Assembly, we offer insight an analysis on the issues impacting the Black community in Baltimore. Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle (LBS) is a grassroots thinktank in Baltimore, MD that advocates for the political interests of the Black community. We cut through the noise and give you the information that matters the most.
In this episode, we’ll be giving updates on our current legislative priorities including – cannabis legalization, Baltimore’s Civilian Review Board, public safety, crime and policing. Also – we’ll be discussing the Maryland Democratic Party leadership’s lack of regard for working class Black people. Dayvon Love will be leading the conversation and be joined by Lawrence Grandpre – Director of Public Policy for Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle.
We’re halfway through the 2022 MD General Assembly. Dayvon Love we’ll be giving an update on cannabis legalization, the Civilian Review Board, juvenile justice and more.
He’ll be joined by Andy Ellis from the Baltimore City Green Party.
An update on our legislative agenda from the 2022 MD General Assembly. We’ll be discussing the racist notions of pathology often grafted onto Baltimore in the MD General Assembly. Next
(WEAA)—Maryland lawmakers have concluded their 90-day legislative session. Dayvon Love, a Baltimore-based political organizer and co-founder Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle and Maryland State Senator Cory McCray, 45th District, join Two Way Talk to discuss the 2022 Legislative Session and what residents can expect to see in the near future.
(WEAA)— Two Way Talk discussion with Dayvon Love, director of Public Policy for Leaders Of A Beautiful Struggle, a grassroots think tank that advances the public policy interest of the Black community.
On Wednesday, Maryland lawmakers gathered in Annapolis for their 90-day legislative session. Lawmakers focused on measures including legalizing recreational marijuana, bills that would bar police from questioning kids without their
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