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Hosted by Dr. Jared A. Ball and Renee

Saturdays with Renee is a weekly commentary that covers a range of information as it relates to breaking the propaganda and achieving our shared liberation.

So, we're just here to break the bubble of propaganda... and sometimes we do that with a spreadsheet.

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Dr. Jared A. Ball

Communication and Africana Studies Professor at Morgan State, and author of The Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power. His decades of emancipatory journalism, media, writing, and political work can be found at imixwhatilike.org.

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Renee

GPNJ committee chair and member of Black Alliance for Peace. Her organizing work mostly involves police/prison abolition and political education, and her writings and research can be found on http://www.isyourlifebetter.com.

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#ReneeJohnston #Saturday #JaredBall #GreenPartyUSA #GPUSA #GreenParty #NJ #NewJersey Learn more about GPNJ: gpnj.org Lily Benavides: https://www.benavides4nj.com/ Savitha Gokulraman https://savitha4congress.org/index.html Steve Welzer: https://www.welzerforcongress.org/ ✅ Renee Johnston is a registered member and state committee chair for the Green Party of NJ and a member of the Black Alliance for Peace. Her organizing work mostly involves police/prison abolition and political education. Her many musings and random rabbit hole research can also be found on https://reneecj.substack.com/. Renee previously worked as an educator and was a union member for over 20 years. ✅Doc JAB ✅LINKTREE: https://linktr.ee/jaredball ✅YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@imixwhatilikejab ____________ 📌PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/blackliberationmedia 📌WEBSITE: https://blkliberationmedia.org/ 📌TWITTER/X: https://x.com/BLM_edia 📌DISCORD: https://discord.gg/TDP9a4f5 New Jersey to the Nation: How Green Are You?

New Jersey to the Nation: How Green Are You?

October 24, 2026 1:08 PM

#ReneeJohnston #Saturday #JaredBall #ImaniLawrence #ZoeRivera #Exceptionalism #BlackExceptionalism #SODA ✅ Renee Johnston is a registered member and state committee chair for the Green Party of NJ and a member of the Black Alliance for Peace. Her organizing work mostly involves police/prison abolition and political education. Her many musings and random rabbit hole research can also be found on http://www.isyourlifebetter.com. Renee previously worked as an educator and was a union member for over 20 years. ✅Doc JAB ✅LINKTREE: https://linktr.ee/jaredball ✅YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@imixwhatilikejab ____________ 📌PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/blackliberationmedia 📌WEBSITE: https://blkliberationmedia.org/ 📌TWITTER/X: https://x.com/BLM_edia 📌DISCORD: https://discord.gg/TDP9a4f5Ez Black "American" Exceptionalism? ft. Imani Lawrence and Zoe Rivera

Black "American" Exceptionalism? ft. Imani Lawrence and Zoe Rivera

October 17, 2026 12:12 PM

#ReneeJohnston #Saturday #JaredBall #ICE #SocialistReconstruction ✅ Renee Johnston is a registered member and state committee chair for the Green Party of NJ and a member of the Black Alliance for Peace. Her organizing work mostly involves police/prison abolition and political education. Renee previously worked as an educator and was a union member for over 20 years. Her many musings and random rabbit hole research can also be found on her Substack at https://reneecj.substack.com/ ✅Doc JAB ✅LINKTREE: https://linktr.ee/jaredball ✅YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@imixwhatilikejab ____________ 📌PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/blackliberationmedia 📌WEBSITE: https://blkliberationmedia.org/ 📌TWITTER/X: https://x.com/BLM_edia 📌DISCORD: https://discord.gg/TDP9a4f5Ez In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/magazine/ny-public-schools-black-students-segregation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ClE.h06_.GY6BQli0jKkI&smid=url-share A Socialist Answer to the Police State

A Socialist Answer to the Police State

October 10, 2026 1:34 PM

From the director and producer of “Reimagining Safety," Matthew Solomon. The documentary, Seeds for Liberation centers the Free Palestine movement and its connection to Black, Chicano and other struggles. Movie screening will begin at 6:15pm and immediately followed by a panel conversation with Matthew Solomon, Mo Hamzeh and Chuck Modiano. Learn more about the film at: seedsforliberationmovie.com A Saturdays with Renee Movie Screening: Seeds for Liberation

A Saturdays with Renee Movie Screening: Seeds for Liberation

October 6, 2026 9:01 PM

#ReneeJohnston #Saturday #JaredBall # #NewYorkTimes #Education #BlackBourgeoisie #Class #Race #SudipBhattacharya #CornelWest #SeanHannity Sudip’s Newsletter https://sudipbhattacharya.substack.com/ ✅ Renee Johnston is a registered member and state committee chair for the Green Party of NJ and a member of the Black Alliance for Peace. Her organizing work mostly involves police/prison abolition and political education. Her many musings and random rabbit hole research can also be found on http://www.isyourlifebetter.com. Renee previously worked as an educator and was a union member for over 20 years. ✅Doc JAB ✅LINKTREE: https://linktr.ee/jaredball ✅YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@imixwhatilikejab ____________ 📌PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/blackliberationmedia 📌WEBSITE: https://blkliberationmedia.org/ 📌TWITTER/X: https://x.com/BLM_edia 📌DISCORD: https://discord.gg/TDP9a4f5Ez In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/magazine/ny-public-schools-black-students-segregation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ClE.h06_.GY6BQli0jKkI&smid=url-share 9/11 and the Casualty to Political Imagination and Is Cornel West Alright?🙄

9/11 and the Casualty to Political Imagination and Is Cornel West Alright?🙄

October 3, 2026 12:14 PM

For this special edition of Saturdays with Renee, we are joined by Zora J Murff for a continuation of the conversation regarding the "If Emmett Till Lived" exhibition/monument. As a special thanks to our paid Patreon members you are getting access to this video first! It will release to everyone else on October 1. An extra special thanks to Zora J Murff for his intention to support our work!!! Zora plans to donate 10% of all sales on his website's store to Black Liberation Media. Please support his work (and ours) at Simple Exchange: https://www.zora-murff.com/simple-exchange. Link to Jabari's Instagram post: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdcOESTpXYk/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&stkn=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== Link to Zora's essay: https://cityboyzora.substack.com/p/fb7021a5-3bed-4dc3-9450-0b0bdf057294?postPreview=free&updated=2026-09-21T15%3A43%3A24.916Z&audience=everyone&free_preview=false&freemail=true Smithsonian article: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/what-if-emmett-till-had-lived-a-new-exhibition-imagines-an-alternate-future-for-the-murdered-black-teenager-180989498/ Financial Times article: https://www.ft.com/content/38b807a6-462b-49c6-9969-bdafdb73ee2c ✅ Renee Johnston is a registered member and state committee chair for the Green Party of NJ and a member of the Black Alliance for Peace. Her organizing work mostly involves police/prison abolition and political education. Her many musings and random rabbit hole research can also be found on http://www.isyourlifebetter.com. Renee previously worked as an educator and was a union member for over 20 years. ✅Doc JAB ✅LINKTREE: https://linktr.ee/jaredball ✅YOUTUBE: / @imixwhatilikejab ____________ WEBSITE: https://blkliberationmedia.org PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/blackliberationmedia INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/blackliberationmedia TWITTER/X: https://x.com/BLM_edia FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/BlkLiberationMedia DISCORD: https://discord.gg/TDP9a4f5Ez But He Didn't Live

But He Didn't Live

October 1, 2026 7:30 PM

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