Rootwork: Getting Down to the Root

Rootwork with:
Thandisizwe Chimurenga

New shows 3rd and 4th Thursdays
at 10AM PST; Tuesdays at 4pm PST

Rootwork: Getting Down to the Roots, is a broadcast of Interviews, News and Analysis of people, ideas, concepts and events that aim to dig deeper than mainstream colonial media.

Rootwork Local also airs on the 3rd and 4th Thursdays of the month on the Pacifica Network in Los Angeles and other parts of Southern California (KPFK) where the priority is to amplify local voices, perspectives, concerns and movements.  

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Brooke Obie is a journalist, author, filmmaker, film critic, and the editor/curator of Black Girl Watching.

We discuss some of the most recent portrayals of Black women in media.

#BlackWomen #BlackFilm #BlackHorror

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Thandisizwe Chimurenga is a New Afrikan revolutionary nationalist, a longtime activist 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, currently airing on KPFK 90.7 FM (Pacifica-Los Angeles) and the Black Liberation Media platform.

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

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Brooke Obie is a journalist, author, filmmaker, film critic, and the editor/curator of Black Girl Watching.

We discuss some of the most recent portrayals of Black women in media.

#BlackWomen #BlackFilm #BlackHorror

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“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.”

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Thandisizwe Chimurenga is a New Afrikan revolutionary nationalist, a longtime activist 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, currently airing on KPFK 90.7 FM (Pacifica-Los Angeles) and the Black Liberation Media platform.

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

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“Black Girl Watching”

11/11/25