Episodes

Dr. João H. Costa Vargas (left) and Conscientization 101 Managing Editor Zari Sundiata, at University of Texas at Austin on August 1, 2015 In this episode we air excerpts from a dialogue we had in 2011 with Dr. João Costa Vargas about his books: Never Meant to Survive: Genocide and Utopias in Black Diaspora Communities and Catching Hell In The City Of Angels: Life And Meanings Of Blackness In South Central Los Angeles. In this discussion we discuss the structural conditions Africans from Brazil ...

Dr. João H. Costa Vargas (left) and Conscientization 101 Managing Editor Zari Sundiata, at University of Texas at Austin on August 1, 2015 In this episode we air excerpts from a dialogue we had in 2011 with Dr. João Costa Vargas about his books: Never Meant to Survive: Genocide and Utopias in Black Diaspora Communities and Catching Hell In The City Of Angels: Life And Meanings Of Blackness In South Central Los Angeles. In this discussion we discuss the structural conditions Africans from Brazil ...

Donnie Mossberg, musician, technician, videographer, and a member and organizer of the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party. This is part 2 of our dialogue with Donnie Mossberg. You can find Donnie on SoundCloud, Instagram, and Twitter. This podcast episode features Donnie Mossberg’s “Milonga Triste” and “Israelite (This Uprising) 05′” from Wise Intelligent’s album, Blessed Be The Poor. The Podcast Was Just A Snippet Of The Interview. Want To Listen To The Unabridged Interview? Try C-101 P...

Donnie Mossberg, musician, technician, videographer, and a member and organizer of the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party. This is part 2 of our dialogue with Donnie Mossberg. You can find Donnie on SoundCloud, Instagram, and Twitter. This podcast episode features Donnie Mossberg’s “Milonga Triste” and “Israelite (This Uprising) 05′” from Wise Intelligent’s album, Blessed Be The Poor. The Podcast Was Just A Snippet Of The Interview. Want To Listen To The Unabridged Interview? Try C-101 P...

Donnie Mossberg On this episode we interview Donnie Mossberg! Donnie is a musician, technician, videographer, and a member and organizer of the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party. If any of you have ever looked for a YouTube video with talks from John Henrik Clarke, Kwame Ture, Amos Wilson, and so many of our other ancestors, you probably watched a video Donnie edited/posted. We first noticed his name pop up every time we watched one of these videos on YouTube, so we did the research to le...

Donnie Mossberg On this episode we interview Donnie Mossberg! Donnie is a musician, technician, videographer, and a member and organizer of the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party. If any of you have ever looked for a YouTube video with talks from John Henrik Clarke, Kwame Ture, Amos Wilson, and so many of our other ancestors, you probably watched a video Donnie edited/posted. We first noticed his name pop up every time we watched one of these videos on YouTube, so we did the research to le...

Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe (December 5, 1924 – February 27, 1978), founder of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC), is frequently omitted from the Western mainstream historical record of liberation struggles in Azania (South Africa). The PAC was formed by brake away members of the African National Congress (ANC) because of their uncompromising stance that Africa was for Africans, a stance that stood in contradistinction to the integrationist ANC. This is part 2 of our discussion with Dr. Ju...

Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe (December 5, 1924 – February 27, 1978), founder of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC), is frequently omitted from the Western mainstream historical record of liberation struggles in Azania (South Africa). The PAC was formed by brake away members of the African National Congress (ANC) because of their uncompromising stance that Africa was for Africans, a stance that stood in contradistinction to the integrationist ANC. This is part 2 of our discussion with Dr. Ju...

Mandela pictured with known racist and white nationalist P.W. Botha, former prime minister of settler colonial South Africa. Botha is responsible for the death and mangling of countless Africans, but Mandela looks totally smitten! Compromise anyone? This is how one achieves racial harmony! On this episode we talk with Dr. Julian Kunnie about his book Is Apartheid Really Dead?: Pan-Africanist Working-Class Cultural Critical Perspectives. His book argues that the path of capitalism the post-aparth...

Mandela pictured with known racist and white nationalist P.W. Botha, former prime minister of settler colonial South Africa. Botha is responsible for the death and mangling of countless Africans, but Mandela looks totally smitten! Compromise anyone? This is how one achieves racial harmony! On this episode we talk with Dr. Julian Kunnie about his book Is Apartheid Really Dead?: Pan-Africanist Working-Class Cultural Critical Perspectives. His book argues that the path of capitalism the post-aparth...

Raggo Zulu Rebel Alright everyone, we got part 2 of our interview with Raggo Zulu Rebel! We continue our discussion about the fierce competition involved in the music industry and how it creates a myriad of distractions. We also discuss how competition engenders an environment where everyone is attempting to stake their place in the different “degrees of pimping”. Raggo breaks down the fallacies of charities and talks about the concepts behind his latest album Holy War. There is so much covered ...

Raggo Zulu Rebel Alright everyone, we got part 2 of our interview with Raggo Zulu Rebel! We continue our discussion about the fierce competition involved in the music industry and how it creates a myriad of distractions. We also discuss how competition engenders an environment where everyone is attempting to stake their place in the different “degrees of pimping”. Raggo breaks down the fallacies of charities and talks about the concepts behind his latest album Holy War. There is so much covered ...

Raggo Zulu Rebel C-101 presents part one of a two-part series featuring excerpts from our interview with highly creative and prolific hip hop artist Raggo Zulu Rebel! We discuss many aspects of the music industry, including how it is used to dominate and control people through cultural hegemony, the proliferation of “key word lyricism”, and music’s quotidian influence on people’s lives. We also discuss the various aspects of organizing, self-understanding, spirituality, health, and building rela...

Raggo Zulu Rebel C-101 presents part one of a two-part series featuring excerpts from our interview with highly creative and prolific hip hop artist Raggo Zulu Rebel! We discuss many aspects of the music industry, including how it is used to dominate and control people through cultural hegemony, the proliferation of “key word lyricism”, and music’s quotidian influence on people’s lives. We also discuss the various aspects of organizing, self-understanding, spirituality, health, and building rela...

Ezrah Aharone If you were to ask the average African in the Diaspora if they considered themselves free, chances are they would exclaim with tremendous fervor, “Hell yeah, I am free! Slavery was back then in them times long ago. Fool we got a Black president; we can do whatever white people do, so that means we are free!” When you hear something like that, you have to ask yourself is the agency of an oppressed group to be judged by their ability to ape their oppressors? Why is it that freedom is...

Ezrah Aharone If you were to ask the average African in the Diaspora if they considered themselves free, chances are they would exclaim with tremendous fervor, “Hell yeah, I am free! Slavery was back then in them times long ago. Fool we got a Black president; we can do whatever white people do, so that means we are free!” When you hear something like that, you have to ask yourself is the agency of an oppressed group to be judged by their ability to ape their oppressors? Why is it that freedom is...

Cyclonious The Natural Disaster Conscientization 101 interviews independent UK hip hop artist, Cyclonious The Natural Disaster. We discuss African nationhood and identity, 360 deals imposed by major record labels, and music as a form of social conditioning. Cyclonious also offers his analysis on the sloganeering of “Hands Up Don’t Shoot” and talks about his new project which he says is his best yet (can’t wait for this one!). We feature Cyclonious’s songs “The Chosen”, “Together” ft. Phoenix Da...

Cyclonious The Natural Disaster Conscientization 101 interviews independent UK hip hop artist, Cyclonious The Natural Disaster. We discuss African nationhood and identity, 360 deals imposed by major record labels, and music as a form of social conditioning. Cyclonious also offers his analysis on the sloganeering of “Hands Up Don’t Shoot” and talks about his new project which he says is his best yet (can’t wait for this one!). We feature Cyclonious’s songs “The Chosen”, “Together” ft. Phoenix Da...

As promised, we present the second and final part of our series on the book Catastrophism: The Apocalyptic Politics of Collapse and Rebirth. On this part we have a dialogue with Sasha Lilley and James Davis. Sasha’s contribution to the book is entitled “Great Chaos Under Heaven: Catastrophism and the Left” and James’s piece is entitled “At War with the Future: Catastrophism and the Right”. During this interview we discuss the various tendencies on the left and the right toward the ideology of Ca...

As promised, we present the second and final part of our series on the book Catastrophism: The Apocalyptic Politics of Collapse and Rebirth. On this part we have a dialogue with Sasha Lilley and James Davis. Sasha’s contribution to the book is entitled “Great Chaos Under Heaven: Catastrophism and the Left” and James’s piece is entitled “At War with the Future: Catastrophism and the Right”. During this interview we discuss the various tendencies on the left and the right toward the ideology of Ca...

Conscientization 101’s Managing Editor, Zari Sundiata and Eddie Yuen after our interview at The People’s Park in Oakland, California 2014. On this edition of C-101 podcast we sat down with Eddie Yuen to discuss his piece entitled “The Politics of Failure Have Failed: The Environmental Movement and Catastrophism”, in the book Catastrophism: The Apocalyptic Politics of Collapse and Rebirth. In this interview we discuss various aspects and tendencies within the politics of catastrophe. We also expl...

Conscientization 101’s Managing Editor, Zari Sundiata and Eddie Yuen after our interview at The People’s Park in Oakland, California 2014. On this edition of C-101 podcast we sat down with Eddie Yuen to discuss his piece entitled “The Politics of Failure Have Failed: The Environmental Movement and Catastrophism”, in the book Catastrophism: The Apocalyptic Politics of Collapse and Rebirth. In this interview we discuss various aspects and tendencies within the politics of catastrophe. We also expl...

Leo Lameda (left) and Conscientization 101 Senior Editor James Stone (right) in Caracaras, Venezuela June 27, 2013. On March 5, 2013 the charismatic and revolutionary president of Venezuela, Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías, died seemingly unexpectedly. While it was known that Chávez had undergone operations in Havana, Cuba to remove an abscessed tumor with cancerous cells, it was reported prior to his death that his cancer had undergone a complete remission. Questions immediately began to surface about...

Leo Lameda (left) and Conscientization 101 Senior Editor James Stone (right) in Caracaras, Venezuela June 27, 2013. On March 5, 2013 the charismatic and revolutionary president of Venezuela, Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías, died seemingly unexpectedly. While it was known that Chávez had undergone operations in Havana, Cuba to remove an abscessed tumor with cancerous cells, it was reported prior to his death that his cancer had undergone a complete remission. Questions immediately began to surface about...