Black Reality Think Tank Podcasts
Navigating The Journey To The Mountain Top
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A dialog in order to make sense of our world and understand the “hidden hand” behind the daily political and economic activities. How do African people use this understanding to move forward?
Who’ll Pay Reparations on My Soul?
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Jamaican filmmaker creates a documentary on Slavery, Reparations, and Repatriation in Jamaica. The name of the film is “The Price of Memory.” She will be a guest on the Black Reality Think Tank Tuesday 11/20 at 8pm eastern time.
The film is available for viewing for a limited time at no cost for Black Reality Think Tank listeners prior to tomorrow’s broadcast.
All of History is a Current Event
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The Black Reality Think Tank is honored to have as our guest conversationalist on this week’s broadcast, Mr. Gene Peters.
Mr. Peters is a Historian, Educator, Educational Consultant, and noted Heritage Collector. His private collection is called “THE GENE ALEXANDER PETERS COLLECTION OF RARE & HISTORIC AFRICAN AMERICAN ARTIFACTS.” He is also President of The Schomburg Corporation (the officially chartered, independent advisory affiliate to the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture) headquartered in Harem, NY.
Mr. Peters was recently invited to curate and feature a custom: “SLAVERY IN NEW YORK CITY: The African Burial Ground Tribute Exhibit” for the National Black Theater in Harlem, NY!!
The production entitle “UNHEARD VOICES,” conceived, developed, and produced by 4x Emmy award winning writer & playwright JUDY TATE, is a powerful, original, monologue play in which featured actors “Give Voice” to the 419 unnamed African and African American men, women, and children who are buried in the “rediscovered” colonial era burial ground in NYC, originally named, ‘Negroes Burying Ground’ or ‘Negroes Burial Ground’ (@1690 – 1794).
The Socio-Economic Side of the Negro Baseball League
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The Black Reality Think Tank will host a discussion on the Negro Baseball Leagues as a financial opportunity for the Black Community during the 1920’s and 30’s. Our guest is Mr. Dennis Biddle founder of Yesterday’s Nego Baseball League, LLC. Mr. Biddle will discuss his role in the history of Negro Baseball and its impact on the Black Community economically and socially.
The Continuing Discussion on the Impact of Chattel Slavery
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The enslavement and captivity of African people is a 500+ years system of horror and turmoil. Throughout the contemporary African diaspora, descendants of that system are still suffering in many ways. In order to address these ills and offer solutions depends on being able to understand what was done and how it was done. This understanding can only be achieved through in-depth and careful research, coupled with critical analysis. We must remember that the impact of African captivity embraces every area of human life: history, economic, political, social, spiritual, religious, health, community building, family development, psychology, sexual health, and education. This is not a “light way” process. African people must be consciously consistent in the quest to understand what happened during slavery and how it impacted our lives.
The Black Reality Think Tank is committed to offering a platform and structure to mitigate our understanding of slavery.
Our aim here at the Black Reality Think Tank is to render among African people in America an awareness that we are somebody.
The goal and objective of the Black Reality Think Tank are to study and understand the past, in order to dissect the present and support implementing a meaningful future.
AMERICAN HISTORY: WHY WERE THESE IMAGES NECESSARY FOR EUROPEAN AMERICANS?
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This week’s guest on The Black Reality Think Tank is Bill Doggett a well respected published historian, archivist, and lecturer specializing in African American Performing Arts History. In 2015 Doggett was commissioned by The Recorded Sound Division of The Library of Congress to produce a project on Race and Early Sound Recordings for The National Jukebox.
Bill Doggett has a Cum Laude Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from UCLA and has been recognized for leadership in utilizing history and The Arts in creating intergenerational dialogue within and across Bay Area communities by former San Francisco Mayor, Gavin Newsom, Berkeley Mayor, Tom Bates, and State Senator, Mark Leno.
Mr. Doggett will share with our listening audience the reason and motivation behind these images. He will also give a sample of his collective work from The Library of Congress.
REAL MEN DON’T BEAT THEIR WOMEN: HEALING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN THE AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY
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We must address the issue of domestic violence in the African American community now. The Black Reality Think Tank will convene a panel of specialist from the Alma Center in Milwaukee. Using the best research available, the center has developed a group of core programs to support men who desire to live a more productive lifestyle, be better fathers, husbands and community role models. The programs are Men Ending Violence, Restorative Fatherhood, Wisdom Walk to Self-Mastery, and Reentry Services.
Mr. Kitonga Alexander and James Mosley, the staff of the Alma Center will discuss the cause, effect, and solutions to family violence in our community.
The goals and objective of the Black Reality Think Tank are to study and understand the past, in order to dissect the present and support implementing a meaningful future.
Black Reality Think Tank With Dr.William Rogers; Interview with Marvin X
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!['WRITING IS FIGHTING! DECLARING WAR ON PAPER Tuesday 7/17/18 â 8pm (eastern time) Steaming live on www.timeforanawakening.com The Black Reality Think Tank will feature one the great African American poets and writers of our time, Marvin X. Jackmon. Because of X's affiliations with Black Panther activists of the day (Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale and Eldridge Cleaver) and his work in Black theater with Ed Bullins, X is considered one of the major essayists and playwrights of the Black Aesthetics Movement.[2] Marvin attended Oaklandâs Merritt College where he encountered fellow students who organized the Black Panther Party. He indicates they taught him Black Nationalism. Marvinâs first play Flowers for the Trashman was produced by the Drama department at San Francisco State University, 1965. Marvin X went on to establish his own Black Arts West Theatre in the Fillmore, 1966, along with playwright Ed Bullins. Months later Marvin would co-found Black House with Eldridge Cleaver, 1967. Marvin introduced Eldridge Cleaver to Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. Eldridge immediately joined the Black Panther Party. Huey Newton said, âMarvin X was my teacher, many of our comrades came from his Black Arts Theatre: Bobby Seale, Eldridge Cleaver, Emory Douglas and Samuel Napier.â One of the movers and shakers of the Black Arts Movement (BAM) Marvin X has published 30 books, including essays, poetry, and his autobiography Somethinâ Proper. Important books include Fly to Allah, poems, Beyond Religion, toward Spirituality, essays on consciousness, and How to Recover from the Addiction to White Supremacy, a manual based on the 12 step Recovery model.'](https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-0/p160x160/37070670_2086906248234575_8435230192120627200_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=1d5e8944dfe0a5007c0e3c92749cee42&oe=5C13339C)
The Black Reality Think Tank will feature one the great African American poets and writers of our time, Marvin X. Jackmon. Because of X’s affiliations with Black Panther activists of the day (Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale and Eldridge Cleaver) and his work in Black theater with Ed Bullins, X is considered one of the major essayists and playwrights of the Black Aesthetics Movement.
