The Real Black Lives Matter vs. The Fake One & the Coopting of the Movement with Dr. Melina Abdullah

(Airdate 6/3/25) Dr. Melina Abdullah is a Professor of Pan-African Studies at Cal State LA, Co-Founder of Black Lives Matter Los Angeles, Director of Black Lives Matter Grassroots, and a leader in the California Faculty Association. She earned her Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of Southern California in Political Science and her B.A. from Howard University in African American Studies. On this podcast we look at the crazy case of former Deputy Trevor Kirk, unpack her podcast with Pastor Jamal Bryant on the real BLM (Grassroots) vs the fake one (the Global Network Foundation), why Black Joy is not a strategy, and why she is President of the Prince Fan Club.

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