Move The Crowd, a new show starting the week off with a roundup of the pressing Black news of the week and highlights of current activism campaigns fighting for freedom in Los Angeles and around the globe. Every Monday morning at 7 am PT, we’ll bring together Black thinkers, organizers, community leaders, and visionaries to get the week started with a commitment to uprooting racism and uplifting liberation efforts. We’ll explore historical narratives of the past, to better understand the present, and evoke the urgency of collectively building a future where we are all free. We know that through collective action, Black liberation will be realized. It’s time to Move The Crowd.
A summary of the pressing Black issues of the week and current activism campaigns fighting for freedom in Los Angeles and around the globe.
Listen to the first program here
About Melina Abdullah "Black liberation through collective action."
Melina Abdullah is Professor of Pan-African Studies at California State University, Los Angeles, and immediate past Department Chair. Dr. Abdullah earned her Ph.D. from the University of Southern California in Political Science and her B.A. from Howard University in African American Studies. She is a recognized expert on race, gender, class, and social movements. Abdullah is the author of numerous scholarly articles and book chapters, with subjects ranging from political coalition building to womanist mothering. She has also contributed to popular media outlets, including The North Star, The Root, Los Angeles Times, Truthdig, Los Angeles Sentinel, Los Angeles Progressive, and BK Nation.
Professor Abdullah is a womanist scholar-activist, understanding the role that she plays in the academy as intrinsically linked to broader struggles for the liberation of oppressed people. Professor Abdullah is a leader in the fight for Ethnic Studies in the K-12 and university systems and was a part of the historic victory that made Ethnic Studies a requirement in the Los Angeles Unified School District, also serving on the Taskforce for the Advancement of Ethnic Studies and the Ethnic Studies Council Steering Committee for the California State University system. She was among the original group of organizers that convened to form Black Lives Matter and continues to serve as a Los Angeles chapter lead, policy team lead for the California chapters, and contributes to leadership for the Global Network. She is co-host and co-producer of the weekly radio program Beautiful Struggle which airs on KPFK, part of the Pacifica radio network, and hosts and produces the weekly internet radio show “Move the Crowd,” which airs on Radio Justice (radiojustice.org).
From 2014-2018, Dr. Abdullah served on the Los Angeles County Human Relations Commission, where she initiated and chaired the county-wide hearings on community experiences with policing and was instrumental in replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous People’s Day. Dr. Abdullah also serves on boards for the Black Community, Clergy and Labor Alliance (BCCLA), California Faculty Association-Los Angeles, Los Angeles Community Action Network (LA-CAN), National Association for Ethnic Studies, the Reverence Project, and Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education (SCOPE).
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