Let's Talk - Black Power
Tune in each Tuesday for Let’s Talk – Black Power with your host, Ruby Wharton. Each week, Ruby will be bringing the frontlines to the airwaves, sharing and amplifying the work of activists, organisers, artists and academics from all around the country, and honouring the legacy of independent Black media in the struggle for justice, land and liberation. From struggles for land rights and self-determination to the ongoing fight against prisons and policing, tune in for your weekly reminder of the strength, power, and joy of Blackfullas on this continent, and the ongoing work of dismantling the colony, piece by piece.
LT Black Power - Keeping the Fire Burning with Boe Spearim (part 1)
Tune in for another episode of Let’s Talk – Black Power as Ruby catches up with long-term Triple A & Brisbane Black icon, the one-and-only Boe Spearim. Ruby and Boe reflect on their shared experiences growing up in and around the Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy in Musgrave Park. Boe shares his own entry into Black […]
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LT – Black Knowing with Professor Lester Rigney.
Topic of discussion: Indigenous intellectual sovereignty Professor Chelsea Watego & Dr.David Singh invite our guest Professor Lester Rigney to share with us so much incite about the Narungga Knowledge Systems (traditionally spelled Nharangga) On the microphone Professor Lester gifts us with a hint of traditional language that is over 50,000 years old, Hey his not […]
Listen >>LT - Black Power - LIVE NAIDOC SPECIAL with Ruby Wharton & guests
Tune in for a massive DOUBLE EPISODE of Let’s Talk Black Power, recorded LIVE as part of our very special station NAIDOC launch brekky. Over two huge hours, Ruby catches up with her Dad, veteran Brisbane Black activist and community organiser Uncle Wayne Coco Wharton. They talk about the origins of NAIDOC and the long, […]
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LT - Black Power with Uncle Jim Everett-puralia meenamatta
Tune in for a very special DOUBLE episode of Let’s Talk – Black Power as Ruby catches up with Uncle Jim Everett-puralia meenamatta. He is from the clan plangermairreenner of the Turbuna (Mt Ben Lomond) people in Tasmania. In this wide-ranging conversation, Uncle Jim talks us through his childhood, growing up between Flinders Island, Tasmania […]
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LT - Black Power with Kevin Yow Yeh & Jayne Christian (part 2)
Another Tuesday, another episode of Let’s Talk Black Power with our guest host, Kevin Yow Yeh, bringing us the second episode in his mini-series with the brilliant Baramadagal artist, activist, and lawyer, Jayne Christian. Last week, Kevin and Jayne caught up to talk a bit about her exhibition, Djiriyay & Revolution, currently showing at Blacktown Arts […]
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