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.
Latest episodes
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Midterms Preview: Anti-Black "Abundace" and Dem's Civil War
Send us Fan MailAbundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson claims Democrats lose because they allow their left base to block progress with red tape and “woke” regulations and "iden…
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1 h 09
Gun Violence Prevention: Black Studies vs. The Academic Epstein Class
Send us Fan MailWe show African-centered concepts used by on the ground violence prevention workers that are grounded in a Black Studies tradition and show how theorists like Steve…
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1 h 12
Black Women's Contribution to Black Advancement Part 2
Send us Fan MailThroughout history women have made remarkable and lasting contributions to Black advancement. They have played instrumental roles in advocacy, policy development, c…
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Black Women's Contribution to Black Advancement Part 1
Send us Fan MailThroughout history women have made remarkable and lasting contributions to Black advancement. They have played instrumental roles in advocacy, policy development, c…
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47 min
Baltimore's Black Radical Tradition
Send us Fan MailSupport the showIn Search of Black Power is a Black-owned internet show and podcast. This podcast is sponsored and produced by Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle (LBS)…
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57 min
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…
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1 h 12
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 p…
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39 min
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…
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46 min
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 le…
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47 min
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…
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1 h 35
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…
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1 h 16
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…
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57 min
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…
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45 min
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 h…
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46 min
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 righ…
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1 h 26
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 Lawr…
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56 min
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 S…
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47 min
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…
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45 min
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…
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#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…