Black Talk Radio News w/ Scotty Reid
A podcast covering social, political and cultural issues in topic as they related to the global Black community and those who identify as being part of a larger African Diaspora.
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Episodes
Friday Nov 13, 2020
Friday Nov 13, 2020
In this episode, BTR News hosts a discussion led by a friend of the show Kwabena Rasuli of the activist collective Clear The Airwaves Project which works to enforce FCC guidelines on urban programming.
Wednesday Nov 11, 2020
Wednesday Nov 11, 2020
A meme circulating on the internet implies that the late artist Prince suggested people should not vote and nothing ever changes by voting. Is this an accurate quote being attributed to Prince or is it just part of the disinformation campaign targeting Black voters?
Saturday Oct 31, 2020
Saturday Oct 31, 2020
Black voters are taking note of the type of black people who have endorsed on of the most incompetent anti-black candidates in recent US election history.
Thursday Oct 29, 2020
Thursday Oct 29, 2020
In what some of us see as hypocrisy, Hillary Clinton joins the electoral college despite a movement on the left to abolish it. Is it only super-wealthy people, how do you get picked?
Tuesday Oct 27, 2020
Tuesday Oct 27, 2020
Tonight, October 27, 2020, is a Gaston County Commissioner’s meetings which I have been attending every other week as they are held, since becoming part of organized opposition to a Neo-Confederate statute in front of the courthouse, and institutional racism in general.
Saturday Oct 24, 2020
Saturday Oct 24, 2020
Before going into the issues concerning abolishing the police, abolishing prisons, and the incorrect conclusion that policing and prisons are rooted in White Supremacy, let's give Colin Kaepernick his due and recognize his sacrifice to elevate a nation's consciousness on matters of the intersection of race and the police state.
Monday Oct 05, 2020
Monday Oct 05, 2020
Once again Donald Trump is displaying irrational behavior as it relates to his becoming infected with COVID 19.
Saturday Oct 03, 2020
Saturday Oct 03, 2020
After reportedly contracting COVID-19, if Trump dies then he dies and his supporters will have no one to blame but the Trump administration, and it's likely that he contracted the virus during one of several campaign events where guidelines on wearing masks and social distancing were ignored as some kind of fringe political statement.
Tuesday Sep 29, 2020
Tuesday Sep 29, 2020
BTR News with Scotty Reid walks through the documented timeline of the killing of 24 yr old US citizen Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky on March 23, 2020, by narcotics officers enforcing a decades-old drug war that has claimed perhaps thousands of lives by law enforcement officers kicking down doors in the middle of the night with the controversial no-knock warrants.
Friday Sep 25, 2020
Friday Sep 25, 2020
Benjamin Lloyd Crump is a US attorney who specializes in civil rights and catastrophic personal injury cases. It seems that his law firm is the popular choice when it comes to families who have suffered civil rights violations by government employees. He is frequently a media guest when it comes to commentary surrounding police shooting case.