Every Monday at 7PM EST Hosted by Thandisizwe Chimurenga "Radical" means to get "down to the root". Rootwork is a broadcast of interviews, News and Analysis of people, ideas, and concepts that aims to dig deeper than mainstream media. View Playlist The Show Host Thandisizwe Chimurenga Thandisizwe Chimurenga is a longtime activist and grassroots journalist based in South Central Los Angeles, CA. Most Recent Shows 1:39:06 Walter Riley’s decades of organizing experience spans mobilizations against Jim Crow to student and labor organizing with the Progressive Labor Party, early Black Panther Party formations, anti-war activities, and co-leading the Peace and Freedom Party’s Black Caucus, labor and welfare organizing and against South Africa’s apartheid system. Well known throughout the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Area, he is also the father of artist and organizer Boots Riley. #civilrights #humanrights #organizing = Copyright Disclaimer: “Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, commenting, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.” = Thandisizwe Chimurenga is a New Afrikan revolutionary nationalist, a longtime activist, author and independent grassroots journalist based in South Central Los Angeles, CA. She is the creator, host and producer of “Rootwork: Getting Down to the Roots,” a broadcast of Interviews, News and Analysis of people, ideas, concepts and events that aim to dig deeper than mainstream colonial media. A co-founder of Black August Los Angeles and a member of the editorial committee of the ReBuild Collective, Chimurenga is also the author of No Doubt: The Murder(s) of Oscar Grant; Reparations ... Not Yet: Reparations and Why We Must Wait; Some Of Us Are Brave: Interviews and Conversations with Sistas on Life, Art and Struggle (Volumes 1 and 2), and the co-author of What We Stood For: The Story of a Revolutionary Black Woman with Deborah Jones. Website: thandisizwe.net LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/tchimurenga CashApp: $rootwrk Venmo: @rootwrk PATREON:  / blackpowermedia YouTube Video UEw3X1gtVmVyb1dSdGVJQU1xMXBlWHkzOW5LTjJ3a2diUy44REI4QUZDRDI5MDc4Q0NF Civil Rights and Structural Attacks: A Conversation with Walter Riley 📱 07/21/26 1:39:07 Walter Riley’s decades of organizing experience spans mobilizations against Jim Crow to student and labor organizing with the Progressive Labor Party, early Black Panther Party formations, anti-war activities, and co-leading the Peace and Freedom Party’s Black Caucus, labor and welfare organizing and against South Africa’s apartheid system. Well known throughout the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Area, he is also the father of artist and organizer Boots Riley. #civilrights #humanrights #organizing = Copyright Disclaimer: “Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, commenting, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.” = Thandisizwe Chimurenga is a New Afrikan revolutionary nationalist, a longtime activist, author and independent grassroots journalist based in South Central Los Angeles, CA. She is the creator, host and producer of “Rootwork: Getting Down to the Roots,” a broadcast of Interviews, News and Analysis of people, ideas, concepts and events that aim to dig deeper than mainstream colonial media. A co-founder of Black August Los Angeles and a member of the editorial committee of the ReBuild Collective, Chimurenga is also the author of No Doubt: The Murder(s) of Oscar Grant; Reparations ... Not Yet: Reparations and Why We Must Wait; Some Of Us Are Brave: Interviews and Conversations with Sistas on Life, Art and Struggle (Volumes 1 and 2), and the co-author of What We Stood For: The Story of a Revolutionary Black Woman with Deborah Jones. Website: thandisizwe.net LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/tchimurenga CashApp: $rootwrk Venmo: @rootwrk PATREON:  / blackpowermedia YouTube Video UEw3X1gtVmVyb1dSdGVJQU1xMXBlWHkzOW5LTjJ3a2diUy5FQjcyRDZBMEMyNTY3OTdE Civil Rights and Structural Attacks: A Conversation with Walter Riley 07/21/26 1:13:41 Brooke Obie is an author, journalist, filmmaker and film critic, AND the editor/curator of Black Girl Watching. #ILoveBoosters #IsGodIs #BlackFilm #BlackWomen YouTube Video UEw3X1gtVmVyb1dSdGVJQU1xMXBlWHkzOW5LTjJ3a2diUy44M0Q5MzQ0QTcwQzFDMjc5 A Conversation with Brooke Obie! 06/30/26 1:13:39 Brooke Obie is an author, journalist, filmmaker and film critic, AND the editor/curator of Black Girl Watching. #ILoveBoosters #IsGodIs #BlackFilm #BlackWomen YouTube Video UEw3X1gtVmVyb1dSdGVJQU1xMXBlWHkzOW5LTjJ3a2diUy4wMEMyQTBBOTUwNTM0OUFG A Conversation with Brooke Obie! 📱 06/30/26 1:14:25 365 Days of Dissent: a Conversation with Gabriel San Roman YouTube Video UEw3X1gtVmVyb1dSdGVJQU1xMXBlWHkzOW5LTjJ3a2diUy5BQzRBQzNEOTgzNTU2QkZB 365 Days of Dissent 📱 06/23/26 1:14:27 365 Days of Dissent: a Conversation with Gabriel San Roman YouTube Video UEw3X1gtVmVyb1dSdGVJQU1xMXBlWHkzOW5LTjJ3a2diUy5EN0U0NTk3NzIwMjUxN0M3 365 Days of Dissent 06/23/26 Our Other Shows BLMedia SpecialsBlack MythsBroke-ish©Classical BreakdownDare 2 Struggle, Dare 2 Wini MiX WHAT i LiKEIn Search of Black PowerLife.Study.Revolution.Luqman NationPolitical Commentary CornerRealTalkRemix Morning ShowRootworkSaturdays with ReneeSundaze/The Drs Office Return to the Shows Page