Heri za Kwanzaa 2019

Heri za Kwanzaa !!!
Kwanzaa brings a cultural message which speaks to the best of what it means to be African and human in the fullest sense.

If we strive to embrace the N’Guzo Saba (the7-Priniciples) from which the holiday is built, incorporate them into our lives, our community activism and our relationships one to the other, we can model for our children the best that is us. I urge you to bring that good into focus as we suffer this economic genocide, body politic failure and this civil war in this country.

The holiday presents an opportunity for us as family and community to create a cultural tradition which reflects the best of African thought and practice in its reaffirmation of the dignity of the human person in community and culture, the well-being of family and community, the integrity of the environment and our kinship with it, and the rich resource and meaning of a people’s culture.

“I’ll be Listening for YOU”

We have hosted discussion with many of the most important voices in Black America. Enjoy these LIVE broadcasts as podcasts.

Our 2016-2016 Line-Up

2016 SEASON

2016 SEASON PART I

OCG SPECIAL :: 40M Souls : Marginalized, Traumatized, Terrorized and Murdered

Sunday, July 10, 2016 10pm LIVE

Joining us: Yvette Carnell of BreakingBrown.com, Dr. James L. Taylor, USF and UC Berkeley, Dr. Tommy J. Curry, Texas A&M University

What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy-a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour.

REBROADCAST Orignally Aired Live May 19, 2012

“Sankofa” teaches us that we must go back to our roots in order to move forward. That is, we should reach back and gather the best of what our past has to teach us, so that we can achieve our full potential as we move forward. Whatever we have lost, forgotten, forgone, or been stripped of can be reclaimed, revived, preserved, and perpetuated.

OUR COMMON GROUND THIS WEEK

Session 2 of the 2015 Season begins September 5, 2015

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REPARATIONS for American Slavery: A Question of Debt

The Matter of Reparations :

INSIDE THE HISTORY

Professor Sir Hilary Beckles

ARCHIVED PROGRAMS

OCG 2014 PROGRAM LINE UP

Black History Games Pre-Emptied and will be rescheduled. Stay tuned.

OUR COMMON GROUND . . .

A Sanctuary FOR Black Voice and Truth”

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TALK RADIO that MATTERS

“Transforming Truth to POWER one BROADCAST at a time”

ABOUT OUR COMMON GROUND

Alternative,interactive, activist URBAN PROGRESSIVE talk radio program, covering global and community issues, events, thought, ideas and perspectives in and about the African-American community. We bring the TALK eVOLUTION to the internet. OUR COMMON GROUND is the “university in the air” for people who want to construct strong functional community concepts and solutions.. The program brings the best scholastic and creative diverse minds, significant personalities and “doers” onto the American talk landscape. The show features guests who bring new ideas, creative and innovative solutions and opportunities. Alternative, interactive, activist URBAN PROGRESSIVE talk radio program, covering global and community issues, events, thought, ideas and perspectives in and about the African-American community. We bring the TALK eVOLUTION to the internet. OUR COMMON GROUND, listeners, callers and guests, explore the events, problems, struggles and victories which has critical impact for all of us and around the nation and world. The show brings together the diversity of opinion, resources and talent who give voice to disenfranchised and marginalized people and communities, and who speak truth to power. The OCG talk programming honors and fosters the recognition and value of our differences and the differences that it makes. Janice Graham provides unique and critical informed observation,provokes new ways of thinking and blazes paths so that her audience move beyond talk radio as today’s entertainment, into a powerful source of information and exchange which becomes the foundation to EMPOWER self, others and communities. Her experience which spans more than 30 years of private industry executive management; political and management consulting and community activism, nationally and locally, resounds in her keen and insightful interviews with guests and interchange with callers. Her show has been the recipient of numerous worthy community honors and media reviews. Her instinct, keen analysis and “eye on the prize”, served in a saucy spice of wit and critical thought and leadership is well respected by diverse audiences.

OUR COMMON GROUND journeys far beyond the rhetoric of problems, fueling energy of SOLUTIONS. OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham is smart and insightful people radio . . . refining and finishing the genius within.