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EVERY WEEK WE'RE MAKING PLAIN WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE BLACK WORLD - INTERVIEWING GUESTS YOU NEED TO HEARMake It Plain (MIP) is an independent media platform, the editorial wing of Harambee Organisation of Black Unity (HOBU), and a go-to-hub for Black radical politics.Kehinde…
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Jamaica begs the King for reparations; the end of the UK; Reform w/ Busayo Twins + RIP Bonnie Greer (opens the original)
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Kehinde opens with a tribute to Bonnie Greer and a recap of the vote over whether he should still keep the title of 'professor'. Then he is joined by new regular contributor to the pod, Busayo Twins for a wide ranging conversation. Reparations, Reform, and respectability politics get dragged into the light in this wide-ranging conversation. Kehinde and Busayo Twins discuss Jamaica's push to challenge the King and bring the case for reparations into UK law, while asking a much bigger question: wh
Is it time to drop the professor title?; Jason Arday fallout; Joy Mbakwe on anti-Blackness at school (opens the original)
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Kehinde is back from holiday and reflects on the reaction to the death of Jason Arday and says we need to to better to support each other when we are still here. He also drops the poll question of whether now that he is out of the university he should renounce the title of professor? He also briefly touches on the the latest Reform scandal but reminds us that Whiteness is a psychosis so don't expect it to change many voters minds. This weeks interview is with Joy Mbakwe, who brings the perspecti
The lynching of Jason Arday (opens the original)
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A public lynching, a media pile-on, and a university that should have stopped it but didn't. This episode goes straight at the Jason Arday story and asks the question everyone should be confronting now: how did a respected black professor become the target of a three-and-a-half-year campaign that ended in tragedy? Kehinde breaks down the pressure campaign from the right-wing press, the role of race in the scrutiny, and why the usual "wait for the facts" response collapses when the facts have alr
End of Black Studies at BCU + Jason Arday Witch hunt (opens the original)
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Kehinde starts off by delivering the news that he and two other colleagues are now off the books at Birmingham City University. Thanks to everyone who singed the petition and supported the campaign but university management decided to go ahead with their vandalism. He will spill all the tea in the coming weeks but for now just know that there are plans ahead to build on Black Studies outside of the confines of the university....but we have to hold to account those who pretend to be for racial ju
The end of Black Studies at BCU + Despite the World Cup England is racist + Farage against.. a bin (opens the original)
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Welcome to this week's episode of Make it Plain. Kehinde opens up with an update about the Black Studies and shares that he has been served his papers. Pending one last appeal Black Studies is closed and 3 out of the 5 staff members, including Kehinde, will be out of their jobs by the end of July. Please support by signing the petition, link below, or email David Mba (David.mba@bcu.ac.uk) on of two Black Vice Chancellors in the country who is supposedly a champion of Black staff and students. He
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