Tag: Eddie conway
Real Talk Tho: How Can Baltimore Uplift Youth?
Real Talk Tho, our 6th ‘newsroom in the community’ show, where youth and experts will discuss how our city can create the conditions for young people to thrive. Topic: How Can Baltimore Uplift Youth? Panelists:…
Real Talk Tho: How To Make The Community Safer
How can we make Baltimore safe for everyone? What are the root causes of violence? How can we change the police department so the community has control? Those are the topics we’ll explore for our…
Future Resource Wars
The fantasy of the USA becoming the first global empire in history quickly dissolved in the wake of the Iraq war. Pepe Escobar and Eddie Conway discuss the coming nexus of global competition and climate…
Real Talk Tho: The Bay Area Reduced Murders, Can Baltimore?
The San Francisco Bay Area is fighting gun violence and winning. Why did gun deaths drop in the Bay Area, and are there lessons for Baltimore? Tougher gun laws, criminal justice reform, and well-funded violence…
Why Corporate Media Doesn’t Talk Honestly About Racism
Media conversations about racism are rarely accurate, let alone honest, facilitating the status quo and hindering systemic change. A discussion between Dylan Rodriguez, Eddie Conway, and Jaqueline Luqman Subscribe to our page and support our…
How Elites Crush Black Dissent
What does it mean for the people living under systemic oppression when society frames their rebellion as a riot? Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate. ** (Disclaimer: This video content is…
Danny Glover and Eddie Conway on the 50th Anniversary of MLK Assassination
TRNN Replay from 2018: Actor and activist Danny Glover and TRNN Executive Producer Eddie Conway talk about how Martin Luther King Jr. worked to build a movement of inclusiveness against militarism, exploitation and racism Subscribe…
Thinking Outside the Box: Do More Humane Prisons Exist?
Two experts discuss how we can end mass incarceration by building infrastructure that addresses its root causes. Director/Video Editor: Cameron Granadino Audio Engineer: Taylor Hebden Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate….
Slave Labor, Dire Conditions: A TRNN Update On Prisons And COVID-19
Eddie Conway talks to journalists Kim Kelly and Adryan Corcione about how the coronavirus pandemic is exposing the poor healthcare system in US prisons and jails. Subscribe to our page and support our work at…
What Happened To Cuba-US Relations Under Trump?
Eddie Conway talks to Dr. Ken Morgan from Baltimore and Professor Luis Montero-Cabrera about Cuba’s relief efforts and doctors, the cost of hostile relations with the US, and how Americans can still travel to Cuba…
Family Of Imprisoned New Yorkers Call On Governor For Clemency
Family members of inmates inside New York prisons and advocates host a virtual press conference with demands, including suspension of required office visits for parole and probation and for the release of inmates. Producer/Video Editor:…
COVID-19 Pandemic Illuminates Anti-Chinese Racism And Xenophobia
Eddie Conway talks with professor Dylan Rodriguez about how COVID-19 has exposed anti-Chinese sentiment, how it’s inseparable from anti-immigrant, anti-Black, and colonial violence, and how radical movements must include collective care to survive. Director/Video Editor:…
Rikers Island Prisoners Strike for Soap, Cleaning Wipes
Journalist Kim Kelly has been in contact with a prisoner inside Rikers Island. She talks with TRNN’s Eddie Conway about why immediate further action is needed to protect people from COVID-19. Subscribe to our page…
The Clock Is Ticking On Keeping Incarcerated Citizens Safe
As COVID-19 spreads, experts call for the release of the most vulnerable people in prisons and jails. Director/Video Editor: Cameron Granadino Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate. — Statement From Community…
Mainstream Media Blind Spots In The Coronavirus Crisis
The mainstream media let Trump’s blunders dominate the COVID-19 narrative, neglecting their chance for a nuanced look at public health, incarceration, farmers, and homelessness. Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate. **…
California Activists March To End Life Without Parole
Joanne Scheer, founder of the Felony Murder Elimination Project, and Kelly Savage, recently released after 23 years of incarceration, speak about how racial, gender and age disparities relate to life without parole (LWOP). Producer: Ericka…
Michigan Prisons Are One Of The Fastest Growing COVID-19 Hot Spots
Prisoners with the virus have been isolated with punitive solitary confinement measures. Symptomatic staff may still be working, raising the risk for a vulnerable prison population. Subscribe to our page and support our work at…
Hunger Strikes, Uprisings, And The Politics Of Who Gets Released From Prison
TRNN’s Eddie Conway tracks prison uprisings and discusses how these protests could pave the way for radical change in mass incarceration. Producer: Ericka Blount Danois Director/Video Editor: Cameron Granadino Subscribe to our page and support…
The Black Man Lab In Atlanta Is Providing A Reprieve For Men
Atlanta’s Black Man Lab is a forum where Black men can speak frankly and honestly address their concerns, even in the middle of a pandemic. Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate….
Majority Black Prison Populations In Maryland See Disproportionate COVID-19 Spikes
Racial disparities in Maryland prisons are affecting COVID-19’s spread, with majority white populations receiving protective equipment even as Jessup institutions with majority Black populations struggle to get supplies. Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional…
The US Has Been Moving Toward Fascism Since Goldwater
Forty years ago, Askia Muhammad spoke to prisoners at the Maryland Penitentiary about imperialism and the stifling of dissent as part of the ‘Say Their Own Word’ program. Eddie Conway interviews him 40 years later…
Black Panthers Eddie Conway and Paul Coates’ revolution wasn’t televised
Former Black Panthers Eddie Conway and Paul Coates talk about their new book, “The Brother You Choose,” which delves deep into their friendship and their parallel lives as freedom fighters and family men, featuring an…
COVID-19 spikes in prison will spread to the larger community
The National Commission on COVID-19 and Criminal Justice—whose mission is to assess the impact of COVID-19 on the justice system—reports that the rate of COVID cases in federal and state prisons is more than four…
Prisoners have power in their own words
Eddie Conway, former Lieutenant of Security for the Baltimore Black Panther Party, was locked up on dubious charges and held as a political prisoner for over 40 years. Conway is part of a generation of…
