"Black Power Talks" is produced by WBPU 96.3 FM "Black Power 96" in St. Petersburg, Florida. It is hosted by Dr. Matsemela Odom and Solyana Bekele, bringing an African Internationalist perspective to the important issues of our world.

This episode: December 8, 2022, Womens National Basketball Association superstar Brittney Griner was released from detention in Russia where she had been held following her conviction on drug charges. Upon her release, President Biden spoke of the intolerable prison conditions in Russia. Yet, In the United States, drug sentences commonly become death penalties for African people. In this episode, we talk with Angelika Mueller-Rowry about her husband, Robert Rowry, an African man who died chained to a prison bed in 2014, imprisoned for a few grams of marijuana and $50 of crack cocaine. Robert was a mechanic and a blues musician who had toured with Albert King. Mueller-Rowry discusses the life of Robert Rowry in north St. Louis and the conditions faced by the black community there following the U.S. counterinsurgency war against the Black Power Movement of the 1960s with the imposition of a drug economy. She recounts the inhumane conditions that Robert experienced and the circumstances around his death and reviews her work seeking justice for Robert and all other incarcerated people. To support justice for Robert Rowry and people like him, visit missouricure.org.