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Pacifica Headlines with Jesse Lent closes the hour: dozens of UN delegates walked out on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's General Assembly speech; Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas addressed the body by video call after the Trump administration blocked his visa for the second consecutive year; and Trump's FDA nominee Dr. Heidi Overton declined at her Senate confirmation hearing to say the president could be wrong about anything.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-09"},{"id":"122054","t":"On The Ground","d":1790344800,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"9","sho":"onground","mp3":null,"desc":"Felix Sharpe Caballero told the September 2, 2026, shadow hearing on Capitol Hill that 7,000 shipping containers of legally purchased goods are stranded in Caribbean ports because of State Department activity. His cousin Dr. Raúl Calderín Sharp, who oversees prenatal care in Havana Province, described babies dying on ventilators during power outages. Dr. Tanya Zakrisson, trauma surgeon and professor of surgery at the University of Chicago, testified that Cuba's infant mortality rate has doubled to roughly 9.9 per 1,000 since 2019 — in a country that in 2015 was the first to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis — and that her team's unpublished research points to thousands of preventable deaths of newborns and children under five. Suzanne Adderley, president of the National Lawyers Guild, argued the blockade violates jus cogens norms and the UN Charter and cited the Lester Maloney 1960 memorandum as a basis for genocide claims under the Rome Statute. The hearing was convened by Representative Delia Ramirez of Illinois and Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota. Host Esther Everam of *On the Ground: Voices of Resistance from the Nation's Capital* also covers the UN General Assembly walkout over Benjamin Netanyahu's visit, Ben Norton of Geopolitical Economy Report on the 10-year Treasury yield hitting 5.19%, and attorney Lisa Park's statement to reporters that the Mississippi State autopsy in the Nolan Wells case found no fluid in the airways or lungs.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-09"},{"id":"122051","t":"Morning Brew Jazz Edition feat. Union City Radio","d":1790326800,"len":"2:59:52","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"amaltfri","mp3":null,"desc":"Heidi Martin traces her love of Coltrane to a mixtape made by Washington, D.C. saxophonist Marshall Keys — the first time she heard a saxophone carry a full melody before a vocalist entered, on \"My One and Only Love\" with Johnny Hartman. That story is one of seven on Candy Shannon's Friday Morning Brew Jazz Edition, built from voices she couldn't air during WPFW's all-day Coltrane centennial tribute on Wednesday, September 23rd. Each musician answered the same two questions: what is your favorite Coltrane track, and why. Howard University colleagues Carolyn Malachi — Grammy-nominated producer, engineer, and current assistant chair of the Department of Media, Journalism, and Film — and Kyle Murdock, who holds both a Grammy and an Emmy, each chose \"Naima.\" Drummer Kwaku Sumbry, artistic director of the Jimbé Orchestra and member of the Emanuel Wilkins Quartet, picked \"All or Nothing at All\" from Ballads for the opening groove Elvin Jones lays down before the head. Trumpeter and jazz historian Mounir Nasser chose \"Hallelujah\" for a 30-second duet between Coltrane and his father, bassist Jamil Nasser — then known as George Joyner — who recorded with Coltrane on the Red Garland Quintet's Soul Junction; Lafayette Gilchrist, D.C.-born pianist, newest member of the Sun Ra Orchestra, and leader of the New Volcanoes, also appears, alongside singer-songwriter Heidi Martin, whose album Attunement includes the track \"Being Lifted.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-09"},{"id":"122050","t":"Into The Dawn - After Hour Jazz","d":1790316000,"len":"3:00:03","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"ovjazzdb","mp3":null,"desc":"Link Shields signs off just before 5 AM with \"everybody have a great and safe weekend,\" closing a Friday overnight on *After Hour Jazz*. The set moves through Nicholas Payton's \"West End Blues\" from *Dear Louis*, Ike Quebec's \"Blues Fight\" from *Heavy Soul*, Cecil Brooks III's \"Swamp Thing,\" and James Carter's \"OG\" from *At the Crossroads*. Giacomo Gates performs \"Lady Day and John Coltrane\" from *The Revolution Will Be Jazz*, and Shields notes that WPFW had just run an all-day John Coltrane 100th birthday special the previous Wednesday, 5 AM to midnight. Also in rotation: Pat Martino, Houston Person, Rosanna Vitro's \"One Mint Julep\" from *Catching Some Rays*, Gerald Clayton's \"Booger Blues\" from *Two Shades*, and Arturo Sandoval's \"Swingin'\" from *The Very Best of Arturo Sandoval*. Shields mentions WPFW is approaching its 50th anniversary, with February of next year marking the occasion.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-09"},{"id":"122049","t":"Jam Session - Charvis Campbell","d":1790308800,"len":"2:00:03","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"ovjazzda","mp3":null,"desc":"Charvis Campbell spent his entire college senior year listening to nothing but Coltrane and Miles — and that obsession shapes every track in this *Jazz Expressions* tribute to John Coltrane's 100th birthday. The centerpiece is Bill Lee's composition \"John Coltrane,\" traced through three recordings: the Clifford Jordan Quartet version from October 29, 1973, with Stanley Cowell on piano, Billy Higgins on drums, and Bill Lee on bass; Lee's own December 1973 take on *A Spirit Speaks: The Descendants of Mike and Phoebe*; and Campbell's personal favorite, Clifford Jordan's third version on *Night of the Mark VII*. Pharoah Sanders' \"Love Is Everywhere\" from *Wisdom Through Music* opens the hour, as it does every Friday morning on the program, leading into Sanders' \"Bluesin' for John C.,\" Hampton Hawes' \"Evening Train\" from *2 Sides of Hampton Hawes*, Steve Reed Ensemble's \"For Coltrane\" on *Spirit Walk*, and Carsten Minnaert's \"2-Train.\" The tribute goes international with Tete Mbasa's \"Train Ride\" and Carmelo Garcia's \"Train,\" then moves to Doug Karn's \"Acknowledgement\" and Alice Coltrane's \"A Love Supreme\" from *Astro Meditation*. Gil Scott-Heron's \"Lady Day and John Coltrane,\" Dwight Tribble's \"John Coltrane\" from *Living Water* (2006), and Alice Coltrane's \"Something About Coltrane\" close the episode.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-09"},{"id":"122048","t":"Late Night Jazz - Rusty Hassan","d":1790301600,"len":"2:00:03","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"nitejazzd","mp3":null,"desc":"Rusty Hassan opens this episode of *Thursday Late Night Jazz* by recounting the night in July 1963 when, at 17, he and his friend Butch Fettick drove a 1954 Studebaker from Greenwich to Newport, Rhode Island, to hear John Coltrane close the Newport Jazz Festival — staying past dawn despite having summer jobs the next morning. He goes on to describe a later night at the Caverns in Washington, D.C., walking down the steps with Estella Motif to find Jimmy Garrison alone on stage in a long solo introduction before McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones, and Coltrane joined him. \n\nThe episode traces how a Carnegie Hall concert recorded by the Voice of America in November 1957 — never broadcast domestically — reached listeners decades later after the late WPFW broadcaster Larry Applebaum found the tape at the Library of Congress and alerted the Coltrane and Monk families; it was released as a Phonius Records production by T.S. Monk, with Bruce Lundvall as executive producer at Blue Note Records. Hassan reads liner notes by then-Leroi Jones — later Amiri Baraka — from *Live at Birdland*, including the line \"One of the most baffling things about America is that despite its essentially vile profile, so much beauty continues to exist here,\" and explains that \"Alabama\" was built on the cadence of Martin Luther King speaking at the funeral of the four girls killed in the 1963 Birmingham church bombing. The program also marks birthday anniversaries for Gary Bartz, whose album *Coltrane Rules: Tao of a Music Warrior* features Greg Bandy, James King, and Barney McAll; for Billy Pierce, heard on *Art Blakey and the","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-09"},{"id":"122047","t":"Jazz Masters","d":1790290800,"len":"2:59:59","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"pmjazzd","mp3":null,"desc":"A 19-year-old John Coltrane plays alto saxophone on Charlie Parker's \"Ornithology\" — recorded by a Navy Band in Hawaii in 1946 and collected on *First Giant Steps* (RLR Records). That session opens three full hours devoted to Coltrane in sideman and ensemble roles, airing one day after his 100th birth anniversary. Earl Bostic's April and August 1952 dates follow, including \"Moonglow,\" \"Smoke Gets in Your Eyes,\" and \"You Go to My Head,\" then the Johnny Hodges small group on \"Through for the Night,\" \"Castle Rock,\" and the Verve studio track \"Used to Be Duke.\" Paul Chambers' Blue Note sessions surface next: \"John Paul Jones\" from *Chambers Music* (March 1956) and \"Nita\" — written for Coltrane's first wife Juanita Grubbs — from *Whims of Chambers* (September 1956). The program also includes Coltrane's sole appearance on Sonny Rollins' *Tenor Madness* (May 1956), the Wilbur Harden–Coltrane Savoy recordings \"Rotomagnetics\" and \"Dial Africa\" from *Jazz Way Out* (1958), and \"Naima\" from *Giant Steps* (Atlantic, December 1959) — with Masters noting that Juanita Grubbs is the woman the song honors, the same Juanita Grubbs for whom \"Nita\" was written years earlier, and whose excerpts Kevin Whitehead had featured on NPR's *Fresh Air* just days before this broadcast.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-08"},{"id":"122044","t":"Jazz & Justice - Jazz Stories","d":1790276400,"len":"2:00:03","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"jazzampjustijazzstori","mp3":null,"desc":"Andrew White spent years transcribing over 1,000 John Coltrane solos and coined the term \"polydiatonicism\" to name what he heard in Coltrane's harmony. This two-hour episode of *Jazz Stories* on WPFW 89.3, hosted by Joshua Myers, builds around White's argument that Coltrane never stopped being a bebopper — that his inflection was unshakeable from the 1940s forward, and that players who came of age after 1958 simply missed the bebop foundation. That claim comes from a 1975 interview conducted by Eddie Lemon of WHUR, later released by White on *Coltrane Interviews, Volume 2*. A second interview, recorded February 28, 1978, on WPFW's *Noontime Notes* by Renee Gravatt and Stephanie Lewis, finds White arguing that Coltrane's improvised music needed a manuscript tradition — like Bach chorales in the Bach-Riemenschneider collection — and that his 1973 transcription releases, followed by 308 Charlie Parker solos that September, were a first step toward one. The episode also features White's composition \"Heavy Hit\" from the Elvin Jones Jazz Machine's 1980 record *Soul Train*, with Ari Brown on tenor saxophone, Marvin Horn on guitar, and Andy McLeod on bass, alongside improvisations from *7 Giant Steps for Coltrane* recorded at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst on April 23, 1975, and the Top O'Foolery House of Jazz in Washington, D.C.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-08"},{"id":"122041","t":"Don't Forget The Blues-Scooter Magruder","d":1790265601,"len":"1:00:05","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"dontforgebluesthurs","mp3":null,"desc":"Scooter Magruder opens his *Don't Forget the Blues* broadcast on WPFW 89.3 FM in Washington, D.C. with a riff on mail-in voting and non-self-adhesive stamps, then spins D.C.'s Bobby Parker doing \"Stamps On Your Letter.\" September 23rd was Ray Charles Robinson's birthday — he would have turned 96 — and Magruder plays \"In the Heat of the Night\" before steering listeners toward the 1967 film starring Rod Steiger and Sidney Poitier, not the Carroll O'Connor TV series. He traces John Lee Hooker's \"Boom Boom\" back to the 1961 VJ label session, naming the players: Joe Hunter, bassist James Jamerson, drummer Benny Benjamin, guitarist Larry Vida, tenor saxophonist Hank Cosby, and baritone saxophonist Andrew \"Mike\" Terry — the musicians who would become the Funk Brothers. The set also includes Montgomery County's the Nighthawks featuring Mark Wenner, Shemekia Copeland's \"Rise Up,\" Little Milton's \"Your Wife is Cheating On Us,\" and Clark Terry on \"Big Spender.\" Magruder announces the first anniversary of the Milk Crate, formerly the Treehouse, a senior dance event held Fridays from 1 to 5 PM at 4722 14th Street Northwest, signing off with thanks to May Magruder, James Brown, Needle to the Groove Productions, 3 Max Incorporated, and Mag Attack.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-08"},{"id":"122035","t":"Morning Brew Classic Jazz Edition feat. Union City Radio","d":1790240400,"len":"2:59:46","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"amalt","mp3":null,"desc":"Craig Williams cues up John Coltrane's \"Equinox\" from *Coltrane Sound* on Atlantic — then realizes a misprint on the CD cover sent him to \"Body and Soul\" instead, and he walks through the tracks one by one until he finds it. This Thursday, September 24, 2026 *Morning Brew Classic Jazz Edition* featuring Union City Radio runs two hours and forty-two minutes across three parts. The Coltrane centennial hour moves from \"After the Rain\" from *Dear Old Stockholm* through Billy Strayhorn's \"Lush Life\" with Johnny Hartman on Impulse, \"Alabama\" — written after the Birmingham 16th Street Baptist Church bombing — and \"Naima\" from *Giant Steps* with Cedar Walton, Tommy Flanagan, Paul Chambers, and Art Taylor, closing on the title track from *Crescent* with McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, and Elvin Jones. The Ray Charles birthday tribute draws from *Genius Plus Soul Equals Jazz* on Impulse, arranged and conducted by Quincy Jones, *The Genius of Ray Charles* on Atlantic, and *Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, Volumes 1 and 2*, including Hank Williams's \"Oh Lonesome Me\" and Bobby Timmons's \"Moanin'\" with Charles on organ. New releases include pianist Donald Vega's \"Into the Unknown\" from *Play It Forward* on Imagery Records, the Emmanuel Wilkins Quartet's \"Warriors\" from *Live at the Village Vanguard Volume 1*, and Bahamian trumpeter Givatan Gallen.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-08"},{"id":"122034","t":"The Music Bed","d":1790229601,"len":"3:00:05","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"musicbed","mp3":null,"desc":"Cody V opens this overnight set with a centennial tribute to John Coltrane, then lets the music pull in nearly every direction at once. A listener request brings in the Dynamic Superiors, the D.C. group's cover of \"Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing\" arriving mid-stream alongside Anita Baker, Angela Winbush, En Vogue, Vanessa Williams, Rick James, and Roberta Flack's reading of Leonard Cohen's \"Suzanne.\" At one point Cody V pauses on 10cc's \"I'm Not in Love\" to note the tension between its lyrics and its sound — and that you're unlikely to hear it on the radio anymore.\n\nCalls and requests run through the full two hours of soul, R&B, and pop on The Music Bed, closing just before 5 a.m. when Craig Williams arrives with the Morning Brew.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-08"},{"id":"122033","t":"Jam Session - Life Music","d":1790222400,"len":"2:00:06","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"jamsesslifemusi","mp3":null,"desc":"Saïs Kamalidiin marked John Coltrane's 100th birthday with an overnight hour he called \"Kamala Dean's Coltrane Cooldown,\" programming the Gerald Wilson Big Band's \"Equinox\" alongside Ernie Watts and Mulgrew Miller performing \"Lush Life\" with flutist Hubert Laws, and \"Afro Blue\" from *Rise*. *Life Music* airs Thursdays from midnight to 2 AM on WPFW 89.3 FM.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-08"},{"id":"122032","t":"Ascension: June '65 Forward","d":1790215200,"len":"2:00:06","days":null,"cat":"12","sho":"ascensjuneforwar","mp3":null,"desc":"Jordan Strudwick ends WPFW's all-day Coltrane centennial with a chronological sweep through the late recordings: Ascension Edition 1 (June 28, 1965), Attaining (August 26, 1965 — one of the few quartet sessions not recorded by Rudy Van Gelder), Kulu Se Mama, Meditations, Reverend King, Stellar Regions, and Ogunde. Along the way Strudwick notes that Coltrane wrote Alabama from reading a King speech, not hearing one, and that Reverend King was recorded while Dr. King was still alive, two years before his assassination.\n\nThe programme also points back to an earlier hour: Africa Now with Mwiza Munthali and James Pope, where a previously unheard Alice Coltrane interview aired. That interview set aside the spiritual framing that dominates most Coltrane coverage and turned instead to his worldly thinking — his letters with Dick Gregory, his ideas about collective movement as a people.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-08"},{"id":"122031","t":"The Classic Quartet: 1962-64","d":1790208000,"len":"2:00:06","days":null,"cat":"12","sho":"classicquartet","mp3":null,"desc":"Coltrane rebuilt Harold Arlen's \"Out of This World\" by shifting its time signature from straight 4 to 6/8, and host Miles Willis uses that restructuring to open his account of the classic quartet's 1962–64 recordings. Behind the sessions, producer Bob Thiele paired Coltrane with Duke Ellington and vocalist Johnny Hartman specifically to win over critics put off by the avant-garde work. Willis admits he owned the *Coltrane Live at Birdland* liner notes — written by Amiri Baraka, then still known as Leroy Jones — without ever noticing that only two of the five tracks were recorded at the club.\n\n\"Alabama,\" Coltrane's response to the 1963 Birmingham church bombing, was constructed by aligning its melody to the rhythmic cadences of Dr. Martin Luther King's funeral oration for Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, and Carole Denise McNair.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-08"},{"id":"122030","t":"Trane Live!","d":1790200800,"len":"2:00:03","days":null,"cat":"12","sho":"tranelive","mp3":null,"desc":"Four percussionists — Robert Kenyatta, Umar Ali, Charles Brown, and Auggie DeWitt — joined John Coltrane's band midstream on \"Crescent\" at Temple University in November 1966. Host Joshua Myers builds to that moment through a decade of live recordings, opening with \"India\" at the Village Vanguard in November 1961, then moving through Newport Jazz Festival sets from 1963 and 1965. A 1966 Village Vanguard \"My Favorite Things\" features Alice Coltrane on piano alongside Pharoah Sanders.\n\nThe episode also premieres the Tabiri Tapes, a newly released bootleg recorded by a young Frank Tiberi at the Showboat in Philadelphia in the early 1960s — one of two Coltrane live recordings released that day on the centennial of his birth.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-08"},{"id":"122029","t":"My Favorite Things: The Artists Surveyed","d":1790193600,"len":"1:59:44","days":null,"cat":"12","sho":"myfavoritthingsartistssurveye","mp3":null,"desc":"Rusty Hassan was 17 when he told his parents he was sleeping at a friend's house, climbed into a 1954 Studebaker, and drove from Greenwich, Connecticut to Newport, Rhode Island to hear John Coltrane at the 1963 festival — staying put even as a friend tugged his sleeve because they had summer jobs to get back to. Candy Shannon's two-hour centennial program collects firsthand accounts from Washington-area musicians, each naming a favorite Coltrane recording and explaining why.\n\nBassist Michael Bowie and saxophonist Antonio Parker both chose \"Resolution\" from *A Love Supreme*. Bowie notes the track was nearly cut from the album, and that Coltrane shifted its key from B-flat to E-flat after playing it live at Pep's, a Philadelphia club. Judy Corey, curator of the Felix E. Grant Jazz Archives at UDC, selects \"Alabama\" and ties it directly to the 1963 Birmingham church bombing that killed four girls. Bassist Ralph Armstrong recalls that Stevie Wonder requested \"Giant Steps\" every time they played together.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-08"},{"id":"122028","t":"The Atlantic Trane","d":1790186400,"len":"1:59:55","days":null,"cat":"12","sho":"atlantitrane","mp3":null,"desc":"Willard Jenkins, NEA Jazz Master, anchors a two-hour centennial block on WPFW marking John Coltrane's September 23rd, 1926 birthdate. Drawing on the 1995 box set *The Heavyweight Champion: The Complete John Coltrane Atlantic Recordings*, he traces Coltrane's Atlantic years through \"Giant Steps,\" \"Naima,\" \"Equinox,\" \"Mr. P.C.,\" and a recording of Coltrane playing Ornette Coleman's \"The Blessing\" with Coleman's own rhythm section. A 1962 *DownBeat* interview surfaces in which Coltrane names Sonny Rollins as a favorite — pointed timing, given that Rollins had just been memorialized at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Program director Katea Stitt joins throughout to take pledges and discuss the Coltrane estate's vinyl box sets offered as premiums.\n\nThe block closes with a preview from incoming host Candy Shannon, whose following segment is built around interviews with specific people about their favorite Coltrane track and why.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-07"},{"id":"122026","t":"A Love Supreme","d":1790175600,"len":"1:59:56","days":null,"cat":"12","sho":"lovesuprem","mp3":null,"desc":"Lakecia Benjamin knew Alice Coltrane's music before she ever heard John Coltrane's — and that imbalance drove her to make *Pursuance: The Coltranes*. The album was recorded after a car accident so severe that, as Ellen Carter puts it, survival seemed unimaginable. In a 2024 interview with Carter, Benjamin says she wanted to \"equal the playing field\" between them.\n\nCarter hosts this two-hour segment of WPFW's all-day John Coltrane centennial tribute, threading Coltrane's spiritual and romantic sides through selections that span his full career: his first recorded solo with Dizzy Gillespie's band on March 1, 1951; the *A Love Supreme* quartet sides with McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, and Elvin Jones; a 1956 session with Kenny Drew and Philly Joe Jones. A local Washington ensemble closes the block with Coltrane's \"Equinox.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-07"},{"id":"122025","t":"Coltraane in Europe - 1961-65","d":1790168400,"len":"2:00:03","days":null,"cat":"12","sho":"coltraaineurope","mp3":null,"desc":"From a concert stage in Paris to the frenzied late-night drive of Graz and Comblain-la-Tour, Belgium, Craig Williams plays John Coltrane's European recordings in strict chronological order so the evolution speaks for itself. The two-hour block draws from *So Many Things: The European Tour 1961* on Acrobat and archival recordings from Copenhagen, Stockholm, and Baden-Baden, tracing the rotating lineups of Eric Dolphy, McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, and Elvin Jones as the group moves from melodic early sets toward something harder and more relentless. Williams notes that Coltrane was born in Hamlet, North Carolina, and points to young Chicago tenor player Isaiah Collier as someone carrying that tradition forward. The program aired as part of a station-wide day of Coltrane centennial programming running from morning to midnight on September 23, 2026.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-07"},{"id":"122023","t":"Cosmic Love: John and Alice Coltrane","d":1790154000,"len":"3:00:03","days":null,"cat":"12","sho":"cosmiclovejohnandalicecoltra","mp3":null,"desc":"Alice Coltrane told a *Black Journal* documentary crew in 1970 that John spent seven days in the attic writing *A Love Supreme* — food left for him downstairs — and came back down with his aura visibly transformed. On what would have been John Coltrane's 100th birthday, September 23rd, host Katea Stitt devoted her morning broadcast to their bond, drawing on their shared recording *Cosmic Music* and the posthumously released *Stellar Regions*.\n\nShe aired a 25-minute live performance of \"Peace on Earth,\" recorded at the Shinjuku Kosei Nenkin Hall in Tokyo in 1966, after Coltrane had visited Hiroshima and Nagasaki and laid wreaths for the victims. From there, Stitt dedicated Coltrane's \"Offering\" to sculptor Baba Allan Uzicki Nelson — a longtime WPFW presence who had died the previous Saturday — and to his wife Genua Moji.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-07"},{"id":"122022","t":"Into The Dawn - Nate D. Skate","d":1790143200,"len":"3:00:03","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"ovjazzcc","mp3":null,"desc":"Ray Charles was born September 23, 1930, in Albany, Georgia — he preferred \"Brother Ray\" — and John Coltrane was born on the same date in 1926, in Hamlet, North Carolina, dead at 40. Nate D. Skate opens this 2 a.m. edition of *Into the Dawn* (Flight Time Edition) on WPFW with both birthdays shaping the night's playlist. Miles Davis, who died September 28, 1991, at 65 in Santa Monica, also figures into the set.\n\nLive in the studio is Robert Hughes — Bobby Sax — a friend Nate met around age 16 walking from the Navy Yard to Georgetown, fronting his band the Housekeepers for a performance of \"Ooh Baby Baby.\" The two-hour soul and R&B set moves through the Manhattans, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, the Dramatics, Stacy Lattisaw, the Natural Four, and a Smokey Robinson track Nate says he only discovered that morning.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-07"},{"id":"122021","t":"Jam Session - Beats, Bars, and Bangers","d":1790136000,"len":"2:00:00","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"beatsbarsandbangea","mp3":null,"desc":"Kamau Harris and co-host Science air this midnight-to-2am edition of *Beats, Bars, and Bangers* on what would have been John Coltrane's 100th birthday, September 23rd. Every track they spin samples Coltrane: Killer Priest pulling from \"My Little Brown Book,\" Mac Miller and Schoolboy Q both drawing from \"In a Sentimental Mood\" (1963), Schoolboy Q and Freddie Gibbs sampling \"Naima\" (1960). From there the set moves into a Midwest hip-hop retrospective with cuts from Common, Chance the Rapper, Wu-Tang, and Eminem. The back stretch goes jazz-forward through Digable Planets and De La Soul — Digable Planets' Doodlebug attended Howard University in the mid-1980s. The episode closes with a preview of the following week's Blue-Eyed Soul session and details on the Jazz and Justice Festival at Malcolm X Park.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-07"},{"id":"122020","t":"MusicRelief","d":1790128801,"len":"2:00:03","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"musicrelease","mp3":null,"desc":"Standing in a record store, DJ Rahsaan heard Dave Grusin's \"In the Middle of the Night\" and stopped cold. That memory anchors this two-hour Music Relief Radio set, alongside his reflection on Grace Jones's \"Don't Cry, It's Only the Rhythm\" — an album he estimates is more than 40 years old — still sounding ahead of its time.\n\nThe playlist moves from Omar featuring Ledisi's \"Holding On to Life\" off *Brighter the Days*, Sy Smith and Dominique Xavier's \"Feeling Good,\" and Glenn Lewis, to classics like Angela Bofill's \"I Try,\" Misha Paris's late-'80s UK soul track \"My One Temptation,\" and Michael Franks's *Passion Fruit* album, with Ralph Gum also in the mix. Mid-show, a listener called in to say how much he was enjoying the set — which was fortunate timing. Rahsaan had loaded the second half with new music, decided it was going \"off brand,\" and pulled the whole thing back toward his roots.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-07"},{"id":"122019","t":"Soul Conversations","d":1790121600,"len":"2:00:03","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"soulconv","mp3":null,"desc":"Derrick Weston Brown, going by DJ Watermark for the night, pauses mid-set to note that the Erykah Badu and Thundercat collaboration \"Until the World Blows\" features Thundercat on bass and vocals, then traces producer Craig Street from Cassandra Wilson's \"New Moon Daughter\" and \"Blue Light Till Dawn\" to his favorite Meshell Ndegeocello record, \"Bitter.\" The playlist moves through a slowed-echo re-edit of D'Angelo's \"Spanish Joint,\" D'Angelo's live cover of Slum Village's \"Fall in Love,\" Brazilian artist Avua, Little Dragon featuring DC's April and Vista, and a Gerhard Trier vinyl cut.\n\nBrown also pauses to remember Soul Conversations co-founder Kimberly Washington, aka DJ Kimmy Wah, marking a show that is 20-plus years running—and notes that the following Tuesday will bring something notable.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-07"},{"id":"122012","t":"Don't Forget The Blues - Lady Myrrh","d":1790092800,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"dontforagruder","mp3":null,"desc":"The 11th annual Don't Forget the Blues Remembering Nap Turner Day falls during this broadcast week, and Lady Myrrh marks the occasion alongside birthdays for economist Julianne Malveaux and Brenda Martin — wife of Von Martin, the man who hit the button when WPFW first went on air. The music moves from Bobby Blue Bland and Howlin' Wolf through B.B. King's early Memphis recordings and Chuck Berry's \"Maybelline,\" with Robert Cray appearing alongside local artists Linwood Taylor and Jose Ramirez, a former DC Blues Society Challenge winner who went on to compete in Memphis.\n\nA spoken blues calendar rounds out the broadcast, running live shows from September 24 through 28 at venues across the Washington area, anchored by the 23rd Greenbelt Blues Festival.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-06"},{"id":"122007","t":"Morning Brew Yardbird Sweets Edition feat. Union City Radio","d":1790067600,"len":"3:00:06","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"amalttue","mp3":null,"desc":"Arthur McLeod, sitting in for Bro Jamil, opens with a week's worth of birthdays: Gary Bartz, Marlena Shaw's \"Woman of the Ghetto,\" and a Ray Charles set that moves from \"What'd I Say\" into a live-at-Montreux \"A Song for You.\" McLeod notes that John Coltrane and Ray Charles share a September 23rd birthday.\n\nEddie Bo's \"Hook and Sling,\" recorded live in New Orleans in 1999, sits alongside Les McCann and Eddie Harris at the Montreal Jazz Festival in 1969. The final hour shifts to what McLeod calls \"black lights, strobe lights, basement\" music — house parties lit by construction-site flashing yellow lights — and closes on Rare Earth's \"Get Ready\" and Mandrill's \"Mango Meat.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-06"},{"id":"122006","t":"Expansions","d":1790056800,"len":"2:59:22","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"expansionsa","mp3":null,"desc":"James, Sly, George — that's the Mount Rushmore of funk right there.\" Vince Brown says that midway through *Expansions* on WPFW, pausing between sets to place Sly Stone in the company he deserves. The show opens and closes with Lonnie Liston Smith's \"Expansions\" and moves through disco, funk, soul, and R&B: Universal Robot Band, Sharon Brown, Parliament's \"Mothership Connection,\" Sly and the Family Stone, Gil Scott-Heron's \"The Klan.\"\n\nA money-themed set pulls together the O'Jays' \"For the Love of Money\" and \"Money's Too Tight to Mention.\" Brown also reminds listeners about the upcoming Jazz and Justice Music Festival at Meridian Hill Park, aka Malcolm X Park, at 16th and W.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-06"},{"id":"122005","t":"Soulful House Sessions","d":1790049600,"len":"1:59:54","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"soulfulhousesession","mp3":null,"desc":"DJ Divine opens with shoutouts to listeners tuning in from Winchester, Virginia, and York, Pennsylvania, then settles into deep, soulful, and underground house music on WPFW 89.3 FM. Mid-show, he announces the 2nd annual Jazz and Justice Festival — free, all-ages, noon to 7 PM at Meridian Hill/Malcolm X Park, 16th and W Street NW — with a lineup of Edwin Ortiz, La Mafia del Guancanco, Brandon Woody, Mumu Fresh, Proverbs Reggae Band, and Belladonna.\n\nThe festival runs beyond the stage: across the park at the Josephine Butler Park Center, the day includes community discussions, documentary films, an art gallery, an elder circle, and yoga. DJ Divine closes by noting that Vince Brown's vinyl-focused show *Expansion* follows immediately after.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-06"},{"id":"122004","t":"Black Star Radio","d":1790042400,"len":"2:00:03","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"blackstarradio","mp3":null,"desc":"Zaya Ross has been playing \"message music\" in what he calls \"Babylon Central\" for 25 years — and in a live phone interview with DJ Underdog, he explains how France's demand for restitution from Haiti after independence moved him to write \"Sweet Haiti.\" Ross's DC reggae band Proverbs takes its name from a commitment to sharing ancestral wisdom, and the band was set to perform at the WPFW Jazz and Justice Festival in Malcolm X Park that Sunday. A caller named Naima requests Wayne Wade's \"Lady,\" a 33-inch record she bought at a community record shop in Virginia decades ago and covered in her own artwork. DJ Underdog marks birthdays for King Sunny Ade and U-Roy, plays music from La Réunion Island at a listener's request, and includes a remembrance of Betsy Jean Farrakhan. Audrey Monet's spoken-word piece \"The Water's Still Rising\" also features in the hour. Black Star Radio aired Monday, September 21, 2026 at 10:00 pm on WPFW.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-06"},{"id":"122003","t":"Brother Ah’s Collectors: Next Generation in Sound","d":1790035201,"len":"1:59:59","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"brotherahrsquocollectnextgeneratins","mp3":null,"desc":"John Coltrane would have turned 100 on September 23rd. Brother Craig opens this tribute on **Brother Ah's Collectors: Next Generation in Sound** with \"All or Nothing at All\" from *Ballads*, and the dedications stack up from there: Khalil El-Zabar's version of \"Resolution\" with Isaiah Collier on reeds, then Bob Thiele's \"Lament for John Coltrane\" featuring Elvin Jones on drums. Coltrane's own \"Song of the Underground Railroad\" from *Africa Brass Volume 2* draws a note from Brother Craig — it features \"our very own brother\" Bob Northern on French horn.\n\nThe hour rounds out with the WPFW Jazz Calendar, local listings that run from Herb Scott at Yours Cafe in Georgetown to Isaiah Collier performing a Coltrane tribute at Keystone Corner in Baltimore.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-06"},{"id":"121999","t":"Jazz and Justice - African Deep Thought","d":1790017201,"len":"1:57:33","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"jjdeepthought","mp3":null,"desc":"Nana Kofi Ofori — Washington, D.C.-born, initiated as both an Abasunfo (owner of the shrine) in the Akan tradition and a high priest in the Vodun tradition of Benin — told Brother Ka'Ba that the contradiction between those two paths dissolved once he understood that \"human beings invented religion\" while spirits operate outside such divisions. Dr. Kelechi Egwuem of APPEAL (Association of People for Pan-Africanist Economic Advancement Through Leverage) previews the organization's inaugural Black Empowerment Conference at Thurgood Marshall Center and marks its 10th Founders Day honoring the late Lasana Mack. Ras Zaya Ayubu of Proverbs Reggae Band — who taught himself guitar climbing mango trees in St. Vincent — discusses conscious and protest music ahead of the 2nd Annual Jazz and Justice Festival at Malcolm X Park. The episode marks September 21st with Earth, Wind & Fire's \"September\" and honors John Coltrane's approaching 100th birthday with several of his recordings, all on Brother Ka'Ba's Jazz and Justice Radio: African Deep Thought.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-05"},{"id":"121996","t":"Don't Forget the Blues - Elliott Gross","d":1790006400,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"donforgeta","mp3":null,"desc":"Jake Banaszak didn't get a phone call confirming his band had opened for Buddy Guy at the Bottle and Cork in Dewey Beach — he found out by spotting it on a poster. Banaszak, guitarist for Lowercase Blues, tells that story in Elliott Gross's *Don't Forget the Blues Hour*, recorded Monday, September 21, 2026, and also talks about the band's roots at Hudsonville Tech, their Rehoboth Beach home base, and an upcoming set at the Greenbelt Blues Festival. The hour opens with a birthday tribute to Ray Charles — born September 23, 1930 in Albany, Georgia — pairing his 1961 cover of Maceo Merriweather's 1941 \"Worried Life Blues\" with his original \"I Wonder Who.\" Gross also honors Roy Buchanan, born in Ozark, Arkansas in 1939, a longtime area resident who died in Fairfax in 1988. The program closes with Joe Bonamassa performing Tony Joe White's \"As the Crow Flies\" from his tribute album to Irish guitarist Rory Gallagher, then turns to 17-year-old Canadian guitarist Jake Suberlak.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-05"},{"id":"121991","t":"Morning Brew Jazz Notes Edition feat. Union City Radio","d":1789981200,"len":"3:00:03","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"amaltmon","mp3":null,"desc":"Slam Stewart could play arco bass while simultaneously singing the same line an octave higher. Ellen Carter plays him in a September 21 birthday salute, noting she once interviewed him and introduced him at a concert. Her two-hour *Morning Brew Jazz Notes Edition* builds around John Coltrane's centennial, moving from Lakecia Benjamin's *Pursuance: The Coltranes* with Dee Dee Bridgewater on vocals through Alice Coltrane's *Translinear Light* to Branford Marsalis and Dianne Reeves' tribute album *Dedicated to You*.\n\nStewart is not the only birthday being marked on September 21. Henry Butler, a pianist and composer born that date in 1948 and blinded by glaucoma as an infant, gets his own spotlight. A Labor Radio Podcast Daily segment rounds out the programme, marking the 1913 date when Mother Jones led a march of miners' children through Charleston, West Virginia.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-05"},{"id":"121990","t":"Behind the Mic","d":1789970401,"len":"3:00:02","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"behinmic","mp3":null,"desc":"Brother Ike calls in from Baltimore, and Coka-Lani shouts him out by name. That's the texture of *Behind the Mic* on WPFW — a Monday morning show running 2 AM to 5 AM where the music and the audience both feel present.\n\nThe episode moves from DMX and Mobb Deep's \"Shook Ones\" through Nas's \"The World Is Yours\" and a Cam'ron posse cut built around the question \"you had 24 hours to live, what would you do?\" Public Enemy's \"Fight the Power\" and Digital Underground's \"The Humpty Dance\" carry the set out of hard-edged rap into slower territory, where Janet Jackson, New Edition, Heavy D, and Prince take over. Coka-Lani closes by handing off to the *Monday Morning Brew with Ellen Carter*.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-05"},{"id":"121989","t":"The Reggae Experience","d":1789963200,"len":"2:00:03","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"regexp","mp3":null,"desc":"A wiring mishap killed the livestream, but the dance itself ran \"war from start to end.\" That verdict comes from Reuben Vibes, who joined Teacha and DJ Smooth Devastation on Radio Andy to break down Sunday night's Sound Clash in Riverdale, Maryland. Vibes has been working the DMV clash scene since 2010 and co-promoted the battle between Cannabis Sounds out of Antigua and Franchise Music out of Virginia. He also announces his next event: a Dubplate Appreciation on October 23rd at the Park House on University Boulevard in Silver Spring, drawing sounds from New Jersey, Philadelphia, Atlanta, and the DMV.\n\nThe two-hour midnight set on WPFW moves through reggae selections with shoutouts to Guinea Pepper, Carlton Livingston, Barrington Levy, and Charlie Chaplin. The host closes with a personal dedication marking the anniversary of his father's passing.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-05"},{"id":"121988","t":"This is Reggae Music","d":1789956000,"len":"2:00:03","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"regsun","mp3":null,"desc":"Papa Michigan calls Toots and the Maytals' \"54-46 Was My Number\" a song of \"deep historical significance\" — and a tribute to a friend. On Tony Carr's *This Is Reggae Music*, Michigan, one half of Jamaican duo Michigan and Smiley, walks through his new album *So Many Roads*, recorded in Los Angeles, Jamaica, and Tanzania. He explains why he opened it with five dancehall tracks aimed at younger listeners before moving into the roots style he began with \"Rubber Dub Style\" at Studio One in 1978.\n\nThe two-hour show also moves through tracks by Garnet Silk, JC Lodge, Jesse Royal, AJ Brown of Third World, and Queens-born singer Nestor, who remixed songs by Beres Hammond and Buju Banton. Carr gives several plays to G. Cole's new album *Black, Green and Reggae* and says he expects to interview Cole the following week.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-05"},{"id":"121987","t":"Berimbau","d":1789948800,"len":"2:00:03","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"berimbau","mp3":null,"desc":"Roberto dos Santos opened *Bilingüe* by announcing on air that he had just proposed to Miss Sybil and she had said yes. \n\nThe two-hour set ran through samba and pagode — Gloria Estefan, Molejo, Só Para Contrariar — then into a Bahia block with Timbalada and Daniela Mercury. From there an Afrobeat-leaning stretch crossed to Cape Verde with Cesária Evora and on to Angola, before a closing funky set featuring Marcos Vale and Celso Fonseca. Throughout, dos Santos promoted Brazil's featured role at the upcoming Fiesta DC festival on Pennsylvania Avenue and Constitution Avenue.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-05"},{"id":"121986","t":"Latin Flavor Classic Edition","d":1789941601,"len":"2:00:03","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"latinflimbyers","mp3":null,"desc":"Charlie Palmieri was already a child prodigy when he brought his younger brother Eddie to study under Margaret Bonds — the African American composer who kept studios at Carnegie Hall. Host Jim Byers marks Palmieri's birthday eve on *Latin Flavor Classic Edition* by tracing exactly how that early formation shaped a career full of firsts. Palmieri's Dubonnet Orchestra became the first commercially successful charanga in the U.S. around 1959; his Alegre All-Stars, which he directed from 1961, pushed descarga recordings to four, five, and six minutes when radio formats demanded under four, helping set the stage for the modern salsa era. The two-hour program closes with unreleased 1953 RCA Victor studio sessions gifted to the show by the late producer Joe Conzo — including a version of \"Este Es Mambo\" containing a passage cut from the released recording, and cuts featuring Palmieri alongside Tito Rodríguez, Tito Puente, Pupi Campo, and Pete Terriss.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-04"},{"id":"121985","t":"Miles Ahead","d":1789934401,"len":"2:00:03","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"milesahead","mp3":null,"desc":"Brandon Woody came back from his first Europe tour with his quartet and promptly sold out a big band debut at Terrace Space in Baltimore. Miles Ahead host Miles Willis talks with the Baltimore trumpeter about what comes next: a trumpet-plus-string-quartet concert at UMBC and a trip to Tokyo University, where students will arrange his music for their own big band.\n\nWillis also traces Norman Granz's Jazz at the Philharmonic from its July 1944 inaugural concert at the Philharmonic Auditorium in Los Angeles to the Library of Congress's 2010 selection of the series for the National Recording Registry. That history opens with a 1960 Stockholm live recording of Miles Davis's band — the same personnel who recorded Kind of Blue — on what turned out to be John Coltrane's final tour with Davis. Willis rounds out the hour with tracks by McCoy Tyner, Phineas Newborn Jr., Will Calhoun, Bernie Worrell, and a Gil Evans recording of Django, on which French horn player Bob Northern — later WPFW's own Brother Ah — performed in 1959.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-04"},{"id":"121984","t":"Open Sky","d":1789927200,"len":"2:00:03","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"opensky","mp3":null,"desc":"Willard Jenkins calls Cassandra Wilson's *Blue Skies* one of his desert island discs, and he plays tracks from it — with Mulgrew Miller, Lonnie Plaxico, and Terri Lyne Carrington — alongside *After the Beginning Again* and *New Moon Daughter* in tribute to the recently deceased singer. Randy Weston's centennial falls on April 6th. Jenkins marks it with \"The African Cookbook\" from *Spirits of Our Ancestors*, featuring Pharoah Sanders, Dewey Redmond, and Billy Harper on tenor saxophones, played in memory of Weston's late wife Fatou.\n\nThe second hour opens a new-release segment with 2026 DC Jazz Pre-Bands Competition winner Luther Allison performing Harold Mabern's \"There But for the Grace Of.\" From there the hour moves through George Benson's *Inspiration: A Tribute to Nat King Cole*, Joe Lovano's Paramount Quartet, DMV-based flutist Alex Hamburger, and Brazilian-born pianist José Luiz Martins. Big Chief Donald Harrison closes the segment with *The Magic Touch* — nine versions of one tune across styles including nouveau swing and bossa nova.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-04"},{"id":"121983","t":"Sunday Kind Of Love","d":1789920000,"len":"2:00:03","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"sundaykilliams","mp3":null,"desc":"Mumia Abu-Jamal told Dave Zirin \"they're at war against history because their agenda demands ignorance\" — and that line sits at the center of Zirin's new biography *The People's Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn*, which he discusses with host Miyuki Williams on *A Sunday Kind of Love*. Zirin, sports editor of *The Nation* and WPFW co-host, traces how Zinn's method of telling history from the bottom up shaped his own sportswriting. Ziah Ayubu of Proverbs Reggae Band — formed in D.C. after he relocated from New York in 2000 — previews the band's set at the WPFW Jazz and Justice Festival at Meridian Hill Malcolm X Park. Filmmakers Merawi Gerima and Jordan Strudwick discuss the festival's film program, including Gerima's 2020 gentrification drama *Residue*, shot near North Capitol and Florida Avenue largely with non-actor D.C. residents, alongside the new Sun Ra documentary *Do the Impossible*. Music across the hour draws from Donald Byrd's *A New Perspective*, a Brandon Woody track from *For the Love of It All*, Nina Simone, Ray Charles, and John Coltrane, with Williams marking Coltrane's 100th birthday and an all-day WPFW tribute airing the following Wednesday.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-04"},{"id":"121982","t":"G-Strings","d":1789909201,"len":"3:00:02","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"gstringomecole","mp3":null,"desc":"Red Mitchell was born September 20, 1927, in New York City, and Tom Cole's *G Strings* follows his career from West Coast sessions with Hampton Hawes all the way to Stockholm, where he settled in 1968. Chico Hamilton shares the birthday. The program draws on the *Sweet Smell of Success* soundtrack — actor Marty Milner's on-screen guitar fingerings were actually performed by John Pisano.\n\nSue Mingus gave one of her late husband's basses to Hungarian bassist Aladar Pégé after hearing him at the 1980 Jazz Yatra Festival in Bombay. The hour reaches toward the approaching Coltrane centennial through his 1958 session with Kenny Burrell, with violin from Billy Bang and the String Trio of New York, and bassist David Shevin's Afro-Semitic Experience. Miyuki Williams joins to discuss the upcoming WPFW Jazz and Justice Festival at Meridian Hill Malcolm X Park.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-04"},{"id":"121981","t":"Spirit Of Jazz","d":1789898400,"len":"3:00:03","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"spiritoonalias","mp3":null,"desc":"Lona Alias opened *Spirit of Jazz* hoarse — broadcasting through allergies and bronchitis on the fall equinox — but still led with the Kurt Carr Singers and moved through gospel and inspirational music featuring James Fortune and Zacardi Cortez, before a spoken-word piece made the case that congressional and state legislative races, not presidential contests, are where the real decisions get made: minimum wage, child support, school meals, court costs. A meditation on the oneness of all life followed, and the hour closed with Cassandra Wilson's rendition of \"Tupelo Honey.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-04"},{"id":"121980","t":"The S.H.E.A.Train \"An Old School Gospel Experience\"","d":1789891200,"len":"2:00:03","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"sheatrain","mp3":null,"desc":"A caller tells host Mr. Shea Butta that God spoke to him verbally. Another identifies himself as a two-time cancer survivor at 68. Between calls on this week's \"Ridin' on the Shay Train,\" Shea Butta frames belief as a \"gamble on God\" and describes Jesus as his \"personal friend, attorney, and advisor.\" The open phone lines turn on a single question: how do you know God exists? The hour closes with a set of traditional gospel songs.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-04"},{"id":"121979","t":"Charlie Dee Show","d":1789884000,"len":"2:00:03","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"worldmurliedee","mp3":null,"desc":"Francis Taylor tunes in every Sunday at 2 AM, and Charlie Dee dedicates a set to him by name. The September 28 edition of Charlie D's Morning Show, broadcasting from Washington DC, opens with soca, Afrobeats, and Caribbean-flavored dance tracks — among them a song credited to Sam Fantomar of Cameroon and a replay of Bobby James Ngwemi — before shifting into roots reggae with cuts from Owen Gray, Gregory Isaacs, and Jimmy Cliff's \"The Harder They Come.\" Charlie Dee closes under the name \"Siddy.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-04"},{"id":"121978","t":"African Rhythms and Extensions","d":1789876800,"len":"2:00:03","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"africandompere","mp3":null,"desc":"Kofi Kissi Dompere opens a late-night set with Franco on guitar and bassist Johnny Deyan, dedicating that track to Abdullah Ibrahim. The music moves from Ghana to Nigeria, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, Senegal, and South Africa — highlife, Makossa, Soukous, and related styles. Between tracks, Dompere notes that Kente and Adinkra symbols carry epistemic structures behind each motif, and that \"rhythm is a power of the nature.\" African Rhythms and Extensions closes with a spoken-word piece tracing enslaved Africans across the sea: descendants working \"from morn till night\" without human rights, children \"born with no last names\" — gathered under the phrase \"American fruit with African roots.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-04"},{"id":"121977","t":"Decipher","d":1789866000,"len":"3:00:03","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"deciphersat","mp3":null,"desc":"DJ Senpai pulled up to DreamCon and found a black SUV waiting with his name on it — the kind of moment that should feel like arrival. The 36-year-old DC-area DJ told Eddie Smith, Ron Brown, and DJ Machete on Decipher that it took a therapist to help him work through the imposter syndrome and self-sabotage that followed. The conversation kept returning to money: DJs hauling $1,500 to $2,500 or more in equipment, maintaining flash drives, laptops, and backup gear across 17 years of learning to read a room cannot work for $200 or $300.\n\nLongtime station supporter Marvin called in to argue that a DJ also has to know the racial and social justice issues of the community they serve. Noodles closed by announcing the Jazz and Justice Festival — Sunday, September 27th, noon to seven, at Malcolm X Park at 16th and Euclid Street Northwest — marking the park's 90th anniversary.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-04"},{"id":"121976","t":"Caribbeana","d":1789855200,"len":"3:00:03","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"caribbenmartin","mp3":null,"desc":"Ozzy Stewart of Beyond the Call 24/7 describes a friend surrounded by family who still felt so unseen she no longer wanted to live — and how, at last year's mental health and abuse-awareness event, a man was the first to step forward publicly about his abuse. Stewart's nonprofit is staging a simultaneous event across New York, Canada, and Trinidad and Tobago. Osman Patterson, a Guyanese immigrant and author of *The New Immigrant's Handbook*, argues Caribbean arrivals sabotage their finances by fearing credit and sending money home for what he calls non-emergencies — concert tickets — while working extra shifts to cover rent. The episode marks the 43rd independence of St. Kitts and Nevis, notes Alexander Hamilton was born there, and mourns Haitian trumpeter André Desjardins, dead at 75. Caribbean news covers Trinidad's post-state-of-emergency joint police-army posts, a last-minute ICE reprieve for a Haitian pastor arrested while making DoorDash deliveries, and Jamaica Kingsmen's five-wicket win over Guyana Amazon Warriors to reach the CPL final. Vaughn Martin and Bryan Bernard host *Caribbeana* on WPFW.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-03"},{"id":"121975","t":"Kulcha Shak","d":1789848000,"len":"2:00:03","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"kulcha","mp3":null,"desc":"DJ Z Lion is solo this week on *Kulcha Shak*, with co-host Kim Bey away, steering through reggae, R&B, soca, and African music. Two DC-area artists get the spotlight early: \"Soulmate,\" produced by Danny Queen with Jerome McCall and Lauren White on vocals, and Big Chest DC's go-go-flavored \"She's Always in My Hair.\" The playlist moves from Junior Marvin and Pressure Busspipe to Jackie Wilson, Marvin Gaye, and Frankie Beverly and Maze — and mid-show, Everett called in to wish his wife Marie Robertson Green a happy birthday, the couple married 66 years.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-03"},{"id":"121974","t":"Roots and Fruits","d":1789840800,"len":"2:00:03","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"rootsfruits","mp3":null,"desc":"Ray Charles hated being called \"the Genius\" — that nickname was invented by Atlantic Records' PR department, and the name he preferred was Brother Ray. To mark what would have been Charles's September 23rd birthday, Bill Wax devotes two hours of *Roots and Fruits* to paired recordings, each original played back-to-back with the Ray Charles version it shaped.\n\nCharles Brown and the Three Blazers lead into Ray's early imitations, and gospel tracks by the Famous Ward Singers and the Original Five Blind Boys give way to the R&B rewrites that stirred church controversy. Percy Mayfield's demo of \"Hit the Road Jack\" is followed by Ray's live recording, then by Nina Simone's answer song \"Come On Back, Jack.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-03"},{"id":"121973","t":"Southern Soul Party","d":1789833600,"len":"2:00:03","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"southesoulparty","mp3":null,"desc":"Protesters outside the Kennedy Center were sharing memories of the first musical they ever saw, the first orchestra — and Lady C, on WPFW's *Southern Soul Party*, told listeners those stories were exactly why they need to vote in November to change the political direction. Mid-show, she paused to announce the passing of her uncle, Edward Jones Sr. The playlist ran deep: Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, James Brown, Tyrone Davis, Denise LaSalle, Omar Cunningham, Tucker, and Jeter Jones. Several of those artists were performing that same day at American Legion Post 170 in Indian Head, Maryland. Listeners called in birthdays and anniversaries throughout the hour.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-03"},{"id":"121972","t":"House Of Soul","d":1789826400,"len":"2:00:03","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"soulhouse","mp3":null,"desc":"Malcolm Jamal Warner's voice closes a W. Ellington Felton track with spoken-word poetry — and DJ Lance Reynolds notes that Warner used to attend sets by Felton's father, jazz pianist Hilton Felton. From there Reynolds moves through new releases: Sacred Souls, Victor Axelrod, Erykah Badu, the Alchemist featuring Thundercat, Christian McBride, and Terri Lyne Carrington with Ravi Coltrane and Samara Joy. Midway through, Cynthia from the Kunta Kinte Heritage Festival stops by to talk about the free Annapolis event marking the 50th anniversary of Alex Haley's *Roots* — a panel with Haley's grandson and nephew, a farmers market giving free produce to the first 100 families, and headliner Mumu Fresh.\n\nReynolds closes on a personal note, with a tribute to his late birth mother Alice Ray Clark and recently lost bonus mother Andrea Beasley. He plays Roberta Flack and Natalie Cole, and dedicates a Prince song to Alice Ray, who \"used to dance around the house to Purple Rain all the time.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-03"},{"id":"121971","t":"Oldies House Party","d":1789815600,"len":"3:00:03","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"houseparty","mp3":null,"desc":"Jas. Funk opens this edition of *Oldies House Party* with a long tribute to Willie Bill Irey, a friend he describes as someone who \"got so close to you, it's like blood, but thicker\" — a man he shared half-smokes and half-pints with across the years. Between records, Funk calls out the Washington, D.C. landmarks and corners that shaped those memories: Griffith Stadium, Turkey Thicket, the 821 Club, the Viking Club, 22nd and Benning Road.\n\nHe's just back from a cruise where he caught Charlie Wilson performing onstage with his granddaughter, and that energy carries into the Saturday-morning playlist: the Chi-Lites, Curtis Mayfield's \"Pusher Man,\" James Brown, Otis Redding, with back-to-back dedications going out to the seniors Funk pictures dancing upstairs. Broadcast September 19, 2026.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-03"},{"id":"121970","t":"In The Mood","d":1789808400,"len":"2:00:03","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"inmood","mp3":null,"desc":"The grass looks greener on the other side,\" Arthur McCloud tells his listeners on WPFW, \"because you haven't dealt with the weeds.\" The sermon is part of his \"Amp Diaries\" series, dedicated to a friend who shares his taste for \"deep, deep, deep music,\" and it steers toward a pointed argument: invest in your existing relationship instead of chasing outside attractions.\n\nThe music set moves from the Isley Brothers' \"Love Put Me on the Corner\" and the Chi-Lites' \"The Coldest Days of My Life\" from *A Lonely Man* to Donny Hathaway performing \"Yesterday\" from *These Songs for You Live*. From there, an a cappella doo-wop block features Black Ivory and the Manhattans, among others, before McCloud closes by teasing the following program, Captain Fly and James Funk's Oldies House Party.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-03"},{"id":"121969","t":"Regeneration","d":1789797600,"len":"3:00:02","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"regeneration","mp3":null,"desc":"Kayvon Gordon describes the body as musical notation. Host Joshua Myers reads that phrase aloud from Gordon's own prose before spinning four tracks from *Blood Memory*, a live album released just two days before this September 19, 2026 broadcast. The episode also mourns Cassandra Wilson, airing her composition \"Cycle of Change\" from the M-Base Collective's 1992 *Anatomy of a Groove*. Ron Carter appears alongside gospel singer Ricky Dillard, the two drawing on hymns from Carter's Detroit upbringing.\n\nMyers moves through new releases from flutist Alaina Pinderhughes, trumpeter Adam O'Farrill's band Elephant, bassist Hrish Raghavan, and Wyclef Jean's jazz-oriented *Q Theory: Quantum Leap Volume 2*, then reaches back for older recordings: Eric Dolphy, Charles Mingus's \"So Long, Eric,\" and Shirley Scott on Hammond B-3 organ, recorded live at the Left Bank in Baltimore in 1972.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-03"},{"id":"121968","t":"Back 2 Paradise","d":1789790401,"len":"2:00:03","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"backparadise","mp3":null,"desc":"Byron \"B-Note\" Brown stops mid-show on *Back 2 Paradise* to read out the full playlist — Inner City, Louie Vega, CeCe Peniston, Estelle, a Junior Vasquez remix of Lisa Lisa, plus newer vocals from Tasha LaRay and Merlin Bobb — before closing with a tribute roll call of the vocalists who shaped the culture: Ultra Naté, Inaya Day, Tracy Hamlin, Monique Bingham. Broadcast Saturday, September 19, 2026, the two hours also make room to shout out DJ Spin's benefit show, where Kenny Dope, Terry Hunter, and Baltimore's Teddy Douglas all appeared.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-03"},{"id":"121967","t":"Meeting in the Ladies Room","d":1789783200,"len":"2:00:03","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"meetiinladieroom","mp3":null,"desc":"DJ Housecat closes out a two-hour house set on *Meeting in the Ladies Room* by reading the full track IDs: Teowink on Toupee Records, Saheed Muhammad and Afro Orbit, Soul in the Horn with Cujo the Artist and Chico Casino, Louie Vega, and Lisa Fischer's \"Soar.\" Listeners called and texted requests throughout the set.\n\nShe runs through a weekend of DMV events — the 16th annual Hyattsville Arts Festival, where she was scheduled to play, the H Street Festival, and night parties at Caldi's Rooftop in Silver Spring and the Mess Hall — before closing with shoutouts to callers from Fort Washington, Virginia, and someone driving in somewhere on the road.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-03"},{"id":"121966","t":"Robyn's Place","d":1789772400,"len":"3:00:03","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"pmjazze","mp3":null,"desc":"Lance Reynolds steps in for Robyn Holden and opens with Kurt Elling singing Joe Jackson's \"Steppin' Out\" — a pairing that sets the tone for an hour built around jazz vocalists across generations. Kevin Mahogany's \"Nature Boy\" and LaBelle's \"Miss Otis Regrets\" anchor the middle of the set, before Reynolds introduces the Womack Sisters: granddaughters of Sam Cooke, children of Womack and Womack, and former touring background singers for Bobby Womack.\n\nThe second half turns to new material — tracks from a newly released four-track Al Green record featuring the Hi Rhythm Section and string arrangements by Lester Snell. The program closes on Somi's \"Ginger Me Slowly,\" the same song Reynolds played at the wedding reception of Patricia and Renee Raymond, whose anniversary he marks here.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-02"},{"id":"121963","t":"Jazz and Justice - Bobby Rox","d":1789758000,"len":"2:00:03","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"jjfantastic","mp3":null,"desc":"Bobby Rox walked out of the Congressional Black Caucus Annual Legislative Conference — theme: \"Rooted, Ready, and Rising\" — and gave it a C-minus. The indictment he and Dr. George Frazier build comes down to what the panels never named: a 34% Black marriage rate driving family breakdown, set against a 94% marriage rate among East Indian households with a $104,000 median income, compared to $55,000 for Black households. A recorded excerpt from Dr. Claude Anderson supplies the framework Rox says was absent — economics, then politics, courts, media, and education, in that order.\n\nTwo voices from panel clips extend the argument in different directions. Mark Philpott of the California Black Freedom Fund describes how a planned five-year, $100-million spend-down became a permanent institution. Brittany Pinknett Cunningham of Children's Defense Fund addresses Black women feeding neighborhood children and keeping churches funded with no wages or benefits attached. Rox closes the summer with a music set that includes Childish Gambino's \"Feels Like Summer.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-02"},{"id":"121960","t":"Don't Forget The Blues - Ida Campbell","d":1789747200,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"dontforotgross","mp3":null,"desc":"Memphis Gold calls in to tell Ida Campbell about \"From Africa to the Blues,\" an event pairing African music from Cameroon with low-down blues. He's also heading back into the studio — COVID stalled recordings still sitting on his hard drive — and he's thinking of calling the new material \"Southern Sanctified Soul.\" His mother, who had a fifth-grade education, gave him three rules to live by, including that \"a true friend is a gift that you give yourself\" and that \"you got 12 months in a year: 6 months to mind your own business and 6 months to leave everybody's business alone.\"\n\nThe gospel hour draws from the Greater Women's Choir, George Dean and the Gospel Four, and a live City Winery recording by We Are One. The blues runs from Lonnie Baker Brooks, Ronnie Baker Brooks, and Wayne Baker Brooks through Albert King.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-02"},{"id":"121958","t":"On The Ground","d":1789740000,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"9","sho":"onground","mp3":null,"desc":"Christopher Gioia's Long Island community of Franklin Square and Munson voted to demand a new federal investigation into 9/11, and on *On the Ground*, hosted by Esther Iverem, he explains why. Gioia points to the 441-day delay before the Bush administration formed the 9/11 Commission as one piece of the picture. Another is the sale of 200,000 tons of Ground Zero steel — to buyers including China's Shanghai Baosteel Group at $120 a ton — which he describes as destruction of evidence in what he calls a controlled demolition of all three World Trade Center towers.\n\nBill Manning, former editor-in-chief of *Fire Engineering*, held credentials at Ground Zero for three days after the attacks and published a January 2002 column titled \"Selling Out the Investigation.\" Also speaking on the program, Manning recounts that forensic examination of the steel did not begin until at least November 2001, leaving engineers to guess where recovered pieces originated. By May 2002, when the Building Performance Assessment Team published its findings, Ground Zero had been, in Manning's word, \"scrubbed.\" Both speakers appeared at the \"Turning the Tide: 9/11 25 Years Later\" conference, held September 10–13, 2026, in New York City.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-02"},{"id":"121955","t":"Morning Brew Jazz Edition feat. Union City Radio","d":1789722000,"len":"3:00:03","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"amaltfri","mp3":null,"desc":"I may look like a nice Jewish girl from New Jersey, but inside I'm a 50-year-old heavyset Black man with a big thumb, like Wes Montgomery.\" That's Emily Remler, speaking to *People* magazine, and she is the subject of Candy Shannon's 6 o'clock birthday-artist segment on \"Friday Morning Brew.\" Remler died of a heart attack on tour in Australia at 32, having moved from Berklee College of Music through New Orleans blues and jazz clubs to a 1985 *DownBeat* Guitarist of the Year award. Shannon plays tracks from *East to Wes* and from Remler's final recording, *This Is Me*.\n\nFrom there, commentator Skylar Borton traces today's corporate political dominance to the August 1971 Powell Memo — eight pages drafted by Richmond attorney Lewis Powell for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, mapping a long-game strategy to reshape lobbying, the judiciary, media, and education. That Lewis Powell had previously argued on behalf of Philip Morris that smoking did not cause cancer before Nixon appointed him to the Supreme Court.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-02"},{"id":"121954","t":"Into The Dawn - After Hour Jazz","d":1789711200,"len":"3:00:03","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"ovjazzdb","mp3":null,"desc":"Link Shields opens by apologizing to Philip Manuel for talking over the end of \"Just Squeeze Me,\" then keeps going — three hours deep into jazz, soul, and blues on WPFW. The playlist runs from 2 AM to 5 AM on Friday, September 18, 2026, opening with Larry Bocek and Regina Carter before moving through pairings of Gregory Porter and Lou Donaldson, Benny Golson and Herbie Hancock, and Thelonious Monk and Cheryl Bentine.\n\nShields names every track and release title on the air, including a self-corrected stumble over Brian Torkin's name. Between sets he reads the Washington weather and thanks listeners for the station's summer fundraiser. He signs off by passing the mic to Candace Shannon for *Morning Brew*.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-02"},{"id":"121953","t":"Jam Session - Charvis Campbell","d":1789704000,"len":"2:00:03","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"ovjazzda","mp3":null,"desc":"Pharoah Sanders' \"Love Is Everywhere\" opens every Friday morning on Charvis Campbell's *Jazz Expressions*, and this session doesn't stray far from that devotional spirit. At the center of the set sits a 1969 Horace Tapscott recording held unreleased until 2022, from the same session that produced *The Giant Is Awakened*. Wynton Marsalis's \"From the Plantation to the Penitentiary\" follows, alongside Gary Bartz's \"Ooh, Sa, Sa\" from his 1973 Harlem bush music recordings.\n\nCampbell closes the two-hour program with what he calls a surprise: an African jazz selection he places in a lineage of music connected to the ancestors.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-02"},{"id":"121952","t":"Late Night Jazz - Rusty Hassan","d":1789696800,"len":"2:00:03","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"nitejazzd","mp3":null,"desc":"Cannonball Adderley's 1958 Blue Note session opens Rusty Hassan's Thursday Late Night Jazz on September 17, 2026 — and it features Miles Davis as a sideman. The tribute follows Adderley from a 1959 live date at the Jazz Workshop in San Francisco through a sextet concert in Japan with Yusef Lateef on flute and Joe Zawinul on piano. Along the way, Leon Chewberry's 1938 recording of Body and Soul gets its due: it predated Coleman Hawkins' celebrated 1939 version by roughly six to eight months. Birthday sets honor Jack McDuff, Emily Remler, Joseph Jarman, and Muhal Richard Abrams.\n\nThe hour closes with a preview of an upcoming Post-Classical Ensemble concert curated by Murray Horowitz, with Chuck Redd and Lena Sekely performing works by Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Fats Waller, and others at the Klein Theater on 7th Street.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-02"},{"id":"121951","t":"Jazz Masters","d":1789686000,"len":"3:00:03","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"pmjazzd","mp3":null,"desc":"On September 17, 2026, a S. Neil Fujita painting — the original cover art for *Time Out* — sold at auction for $576,000, including a 28% buyer's premium, against a pre-sale estimate of $10,000–$20,000. Pre-auction bidding alone had already reached $100,000. Host Tim Masters reported the sale from the Dave Brubeck estate that same day, then turned to John Coltrane's approaching 100th birthday: September 23, 1926, born in Hamlet, North Carolina. Masters traced a path from *Blue Train* (1957) through *Giant Steps* and *Ballads*, while also working through five albums recorded on September 17th across different years.\n\nThose included Philly Joe Jones's *Blues for Dracula* (1958) and Duke Ellington's piano-trio date *Money Jungle* (1962), with Charles Mingus and Max Roach. Mingus, Masters noted, disliked being called \"Charlie,\" yet the Blue Note credits listed him exactly that way. The program closed with Rufus Wainwright performing Kurt Weill and Judy Garland material, ahead of a local appearance that weekend.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-01"},{"id":"121948","t":"Jazz & Justice - Jazz Stories","d":1789671601,"len":"2:00:02","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"jazzampjustijazzstori","mp3":null,"desc":"Seven of the eight songs on *Catalog of Dreams* were recorded in a single day. Flutist and vocalist Alice Hamburger and pianist José Luis Martínez tell host Joshua Myers how a Thundercat obsession picked up during a Swiss mountain residency made it onto the album alongside Wayne Shorter and Héctor Moreira.\n\nThe conversation shifts to bassist and composer Stephen Arnold, who joins Myers and co-host Gio Russonello to trace the title of his 2026 album *The Hitting Wall* — made with his group Sea Change — to daily groundstroke sessions against a wall during COVID. Arnold describes stopping \"hiding behind\" his bandmates by spending serious time alone with the metronome and bow. The hour also draws on music from Cyrus Chestnut's 1994 and 1996 records, a performance of \"Good Morning, Heartache\" by Chestnut student and vocalist Ikeb Nkweli, and a 1954 Frank Wess session with Oscar Pettiford on bass.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-01"},{"id":"121945","t":"Don't Forget The Blues-Scooter Magruder","d":1789660800,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"dontforgebluesthurs","mp3":null,"desc":"T-Bone Walker wrote and recorded \"Stormy Monday\" first — Scooter Magruder makes sure listeners know that before the set is over. The September 17, 2026 edition of *Don't Forget the Blues* opens with a three-song Walker block, then moves through ZZ Hill, Bobby Parker, Blues Boy Willie, the Canes from the Stax box set, Dinah Washington, Ann Peebles with the Willie Mitchell Band, and Bobby Rush.\n\nElliott Gross reads a live blues calendar covering venues from Falls Church, Virginia to Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. The episode closes with notice of an upcoming 20th Blue Monday Blues anniversary and a farewell to Reverend Brian Hamilton at Westminster Church in Southwest DC.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-01"},{"id":"121940","t":"Morning Brew Classic Jazz Edition feat. Union City Radio","d":1789635600,"len":"3:00:03","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"amalt","mp3":null,"desc":"Craig Williams built a 75-minute water-themed set around Pharoah Sanders playing Coltrane's \"After the Rain,\" then moved through Gregory Porter, Charlie Haden and Hank Jones on \"Wade in the Water,\" and three back-to-back versions of \"Bridge Over Troubled Waters\" — Aretha Franklin with King Curtis on reeds and Billy Preston on organ, Roberta Flack, and Eva Cassidy recorded live at Blues Alley. Faith and Harmony closed that stretch.\n\nFrom there the show turned to a live 1987 Leon Thomas and Gary Bartz performance from Baltimore's long-gone Ethel's, followed by three versions of \"The Creator Has a Master Plan\": the original Pharoah Sanders recording — Sanders credited as Little Rock — and a new reading by D.C. vocalist Ekep Nkwelle on Mack Avenue. The Sullivan Fortner Trio then performed \"Shaw Nuff\" live at the Bim Haas in Amsterdam. Williams closed with an Alan Harris album of songs written entirely by Ike Joseph, signing off with the note that an upcoming album would be turning 50 on the 28th — reason enough, he said, to play it.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-01"},{"id":"121939","t":"The Music Bed","d":1789624800,"len":"3:00:03","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"musicbed","mp3":null,"desc":"Danny Queen walks into a CD bin at Iverson Mall and walks out with a connection to soul singer William Devon — whose relatives danced to \"Be Thankful for What You Got\" at cookouts without knowing it was their own cousin's record. Queen joined DJ Cody V on *The Music Bed* to premiere \"Soulmate Sonata,\" two years in the making in Bowie, Maryland, built entirely from musical terminology around the word \"soulmate,\" with vocalists Jerome McCall and Lauren White. He also recited two poems live: \"Chocolate City Candy\" and \"Chocolate Rainbow (Shades of Black).\"\n\nThe musical sets moved from the Sherry Payne and Susie Greene *Partners* album and Minnie Riperton's \"Inside My Love\" through back-to-back Nas and Roy Ayers tributes. Craig Williams stopped in to report that a judge had twice blocked the removal of a presidential name from the Kennedy Center, while laid-off employees organized a Friday protest called \"Hands Around the Kennedy Center.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-01"},{"id":"121938","t":"Jam Session - Life Music","d":1789617600,"len":"2:00:03","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"jamsesslifemusi","mp3":null,"desc":"Every music that is labeled American music ultimately starts in our community.\" That observation, from Saïs Kamalidiin, closed the episode.\n\nMost of this late-night *Life Music* was given over to a full album presentation of Shaboozy's *The Outlaw Sherry Lee and Other Western Tales*, a cinematic concept record that follows a woman named Sherry Lee hunting down the men responsible for her father's death. Duke Pearson's \"Prairie Dog\" was among the other music aired. The programme had a timely backdrop: Kamalidiin noted that the Bill Pickett Invitational Championship Finals Rodeo was taking place that weekend at the Showplace Arena in Upper Marlboro, Maryland.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-01"},{"id":"121937","t":"Late Night Jazz - Blue Notes Edition","d":1789610400,"len":"2:00:03","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"latenightjazz","mp3":null,"desc":"Alice Coltrane said her husband received *A Love Supreme* complete, in five days of solitude, then came downstairs and described it to her. Jordan Strudwick's *Late Night Jazz: Blue Notes Edition* traces Coltrane's arc from 1960 to 1964, opening with \"Africa\" — a 14-piece orchestra that included WPFW's Robert Northern on French horn. The programme also corrects the record on \"Alabama\": what McCoy Tyner told interviewer Ashley Kahn in 2002 was that Coltrane based the piece on the rhythm of a King speech he read in a newspaper, not, as a later writer extrapolated, on the eulogy King delivered for the four girls killed at the 16th Street Baptist Church.\n\nFilmmaker and organizer Merawi Gerima appears to discuss the D.C. Alliance Against Racism and Political Repression's case for David Black, sentenced to life plus 50 years at 21 after a witness testified, some 30 years later, that D.C. police officer Roger Vinson had beaten and threatened him into a false identification. Gerima explains why he is making a film about Black as a direct organizing tool rather than a stand-alone artistic project.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-01"},{"id":"121936","t":"Lovethology","d":1789603201,"len":"2:00:05","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"lovethology","mp3":null,"desc":"Barbara Morrison opens Donald Temple's *Love Thology* on WPFW singing \"I Love Being Here With You,\" setting the tone for an hour that moves through Ramsey Lewis, Dionne Warwick, Don Cherry, the Harold Mabern Trio on \"Don't Know Why,\" and Kevin Mahogany. Between selections, Temple flags Maryland Governor Wes Moore's remarks at a Prince George's County Democratic unity breakfast as worth paying attention to, noting that mail ballots were set to open in many states within 30 days and tying the Congressional Black Caucus weekend to the electoral calendar.\n\nThat political thread runs into harder territory. Temple sets U.S. asylum policy toward Haitian deportees against what he calls a fiction of political oppression used to bring people from South Africa, framing both against WPFW's jazz-and-justice mission.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-01"},{"id":"121932","t":"Jazz and Justice - Sophie's Parlor","d":1789585200,"len":"2:00:03","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"jjsophie","mp3":null,"desc":"Helen — \"your Diva of Today\" — opened her two-hour *Sophie's Parlor* by anchoring the word \"move\" to four movements: Command, Body, March, and Arrival. Nina Simone's \"Mississippi Goddam\" landed mid-program with Helen's note that it \"makes 100% sense right now too.\" The musical arc stretched from Cassandra Wilson's \"You Gotta Move\" and Odetta's Spiritual Trilogy through Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Esperanza Spalding, and Diane Reeves. News breaks covered a federal judge blocking Trump's attempt to rename the Kennedy Center, the Federal Reserve's first interest rate increase in more than three years, and a class-action lawsuit against the NIH over 235 keywords used to cancel scientific grants.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-30"},{"id":"121929","t":"Don't Forget the Blues - Texas Fred","d":1789574400,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"dontforgbluetexafred","mp3":null,"desc":"Guitar Shorty once set off car alarms for five blocks outside a surf club — Texas Fred tells that story on *Don't Forget the Blues: The Ride*, airing on WPFW on B.B. King's September 16th birthday. The set opens in the 1920s with Gus Cannon's jug band recordings, Will Shade on jug and Milton Robey on washboard, then moves forward through a Bobby Blue Bland and B.B. King pairing before closing on King alongside Willie Nelson and the Dirty Dozen Brass Band. Calvin Owens, whose track ends the main set, served as B.B. King's music director. Odetta performs Lead Belly's Jim Crow Blues from the *Lightning in a Bottle* soundtrack.\n\nTexas Fred also previews an upcoming interview with Dr. Cleve Francis — a cardiologist from Jennings, Louisiana who performs country and western music and recently appeared at the Grand Ole Opry for a book signing about his experiences in country music.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-30"},{"id":"121924","t":"Morning Brew Beyond Borders Edition feat. Union City Radio","d":1789549200,"len":"2:57:48","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"amaltwed","mp3":null,"desc":"Joshua Myers, sitting in for Katea Stitt, opens this Beyond Borders edition of The Morning Brew with a pointed note: \"Tobi Ilu,\" from Art Blakey and the Afro Drum Ensemble's 1962 album *The African Beat*, was composed by Chief Bey from Yamassee, South Carolina. The hour doubles as a tribute to the recently deceased Cassandra Wilson, with Myers directing listeners to a three-hour Regeneration episode from September 5th devoted to her legacy and spinning tracks from her commercial breakthrough *Blue Light Till Dawn*.\n\nNduduzo Makatini's 2026 release *The Myths We Choose*, featuring Shabaka Hutchings, sits alongside Nubia Garcia's cumbia-rooted homage to Afro-Colombian musical tradition. The Nation African Liberation Arts Ensemble's 1976 recordings bring in poet Haki R. Madhubuti, and sets from Tomás Fujiwara's Percussion Quartet and Emmanuel Wilkins's *Blues Blood* round out the program.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-30"},{"id":"121923","t":"Into The Dawn - Nate D. Skate","d":1789538401,"len":"3:00:05","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"ovjazzcc","mp3":null,"desc":"Nate the Skate opens by planting himself at the gate of the Carterburn venue before it unlocked, waiting for a front-row spot whenever B.B. King — born September 16 — came through. It's birthday week for two giants: King, and Buddy Miles, born September 5, 1947, in Omaha, Nebraska, founding member of the Electric Flag and drummer in Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsies, who died at 60.\n\nThe playlist on this *Into the Dawn* (Flight Time Edition) on WPFW moves through a rare Intruders track, a re-recorded Delfonics number, and a Walter Jackson song tied to nights at the Howard Theater, where Nate and about a dozen friends sat every other seat waiting for Jackson to walk out on his crutches. Rounding out the hour: announcements for the annual W Street Family Reunion at Rock Creek Park lot 24 and a Hands Around the Kennedy Center demonstration on September 18th.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-30"},{"id":"121922","t":"Jam Session - Beats, Bars, and Bangers","d":1789531200,"len":"2:00:06","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"beatsbarsandbangea","mp3":null,"desc":"Kanye West was born in Atlanta and raised in Chicago — neither Kamau Harris nor co-host Science knew that before researching the show. They spend two hours on *Beats, Bars, and Bangers* working through hip-hop from all 12 Midwest states, and Harris adds another relocation story to the mix: Eminem was born in St. Joseph, Missouri before moving to Detroit.\n\nThe set moves from Slum Village and Kid Cudi to the Ohio Players, pulling in artists from Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland, and Cincinnati along the way, and closes on tracks sampled by RZA and J Dilla. Harris and Science sign off with shoutouts to listeners streaming live from North Carolina, the Bay Area, Florida, Atlanta, and Texas.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-30"},{"id":"121921","t":"MusicRelief","d":1789524001,"len":"2:00:05","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"musicrelease","mp3":null,"desc":"DJ Rahsaan grew up conflicted about contemporary sounds in worship — and Noah Rue's gospel-R&B is where that tension finally resolved for him. He plays several Rue tracks, including \"Surely Jesus\" and \"God Made You Whole,\" pausing to explain how his appreciation for different styles in worship settings expanded over time. The hour also moves through new discoveries like Let It Flow by the Fusion Foundation and a multi-song stretch of UK funk. Rahsaan closes with \"Sunshine Carey\" by Lee Oscar — harmonica player and lead vocalist for War — noting the solo track still sounds to him like a full War recording, a tip he traces back to his Uncle George's mixtape called Easy Listening.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-30"},{"id":"121920","t":"Soul Conversations","d":1789516800,"len":"2:00:06","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"soulconv","mp3":null,"desc":"Derrick Weston Brown — going by DJ Second Wind for the evening — opened his two-hour *Soul Conversations: Leaders of the New Cool* set with Kaiti Tatham's live Church of Sound 10th-anniversary version of \"Do What You Gotta Do,\" featuring Vanessa Freeman. The playlist moved through Jill Scott's \"The Math,\" Gregory Porter's \"1960s,\" and a Brandy Younger and Meshell Ndegeocello duet called \"Dust\" from *Brand New Life*, which Brown compared to the work of soul harpist Dorothy Ashby. He also dropped hints about a long-awaited return tied to Stuart Matthewman and Sweetback.\n\nThe broadcast aired Tuesday, September 15, 2026, and included a memoriam shout-out to co-founder DJ Kimiwa, Kimberly Washington.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-30"},{"id":"121913","t":"Don't Forget The Blues - Lady Myrrh","d":1789488000,"len":"1:00:06","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"dontforagruder","mp3":null,"desc":"Lady Myrrh showed up to her B.B. King birthday tribute without the music. She'd left it at home. So *Don't Forget the Blues* pivots to Chicago blues and R&B: Muddy Waters' \"Hoochie Coochie Man,\" Howlin' Wolf's \"Smokestack Lightning,\" Fats Domino, Jimmy Reed, Bo Diddley, Taj Mahal, and Brownie McGhee's pawn shop blues. A Robert Cray track marks his upcoming Birchmere appearance. Lady Myrrh also pays tribute to the late harmonica player Phil Wiggins, then turns to Reverend Bryan Hamilton, whose Blue Monday blues series at Westminster Church in Southwest DC is closing out its 20th and final year.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-29"},{"id":"121908","t":"Morning Brew Yardbird Sweets Edition feat. Union City Radio","d":1789462800,"len":"3:00:03","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"amalttue","mp3":null,"desc":"Brother Jamil opens by dedicating Cannonball Adderley's \"Serenata,\" from *Cannonball Takes Charge*, to Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carol Robertson, and Denise McNair — the four girls killed in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing on September 15, 1963, 63 years earlier. From the Askia Corner, a segment honoring *Morning Brew*'s late founder Askia Muhammad, he reads Claude McKay's \"If We Must Die,\" a poem from McKay's 1890 birth year.\n\nThe rest of the programme turns on September birth anniversaries. Cannonball Adderley, born in Tampa, Florida in 1928, shares the occasion with Ray Charles, Sonny Rollins, and New York trumpeter Bruce Harris, who just turned 47; cuts come from Rollins's *Alfie* score, Samara Joy's *Portrait*, and Harris's *Soundview* and *Beginnings*. A Labor Radio Podcast insert marks the date in 1845 when some 5,000 women cotton workers in the Pittsburgh area struck for a ten-hour workday. New artist Ekepnkwele gets a spotlight ahead of her debut album *Early One Morning*, due the following month.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-29"},{"id":"121907","t":"Expansions","d":1789452000,"len":"2:59:52","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"expansionsa","mp3":null,"desc":"Vince Brown recently met Hiatus Coyote vocalist Napalm while she was in town performing, and that night he put her song \"Get Sun\" on the air in her honor. The show opens from there: Lonnie Liston Smith, Vince Montana's South Soul Orchestra covering \"I Love Music,\" Chaka Khan, Cameo's \"Candy,\" and \"The Ballad of Dorothy Parker.\"\n\nBrown then dedicates an extended run from Stevie Wonder's *Songs in the Key of Life* — sides 1 and 4, including \"Love's in Need of Love Today,\" \"Village Ghetto Land,\" \"As,\" \"If It's Magic,\" and \"Sir Duke\" — to listeners who, like himself, can't afford tickets to Wonder's current tour performing the album in full. The Blackbirds' \"Rock Creek Park\" gets a spin as well; Brown notes the band were once students of Donald Byrd when he taught music at Howard University in the early 1970s.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-29"},{"id":"121906","t":"Soulful House Sessions","d":1789444800,"len":"2:00:03","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"soulfulhousesession","mp3":null,"desc":"DJ Divine opens by calling out listeners in York, PA and Baltimore before rattling off NFL Week 1 results: the Chargers lost to the Cardinals, the Chiefs won, and the Giants beat the Cowboys. Bills fans get a heads-up on Thursday Night Football. Then the set runs uninterrupted — deep, soulful, underground house music, no breaks. Midway through, a guest endorsement from DJ Tony Touch kicks off the \"Baby Powder Hour,\" a stretch that folds in tracks with Spanish-language vocals alongside the English-language soul-house that anchors *Soulful House Sessions* on WPFW. The hour closes with DJ Divine handing off to Vince Brown's *Expansions*, a vinyl program on the same station.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-29"},{"id":"121905","t":"Black Star Radio","d":1789437600,"len":"2:00:05","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"blackstarradio","mp3":null,"desc":"A voice in archival audio explains that South Africa's Black Consciousness Movement existed to make Black people \"proud of themselves, proud of their color\" — to counter the psychological frustration, as the speaker put it, of striving to become white under apartheid. DJ Underdog builds the episode around that foundation, moving through Ethiopian jazz, Studio One reggae, Yoruba percussion, and tracks from Tanzania including Makadem's \"Muhogo wa Jengombe.\" He dedicates selections to Enkutatash, the Ethiopian New Year, and pauses to note that Ethiopia runs on a 13-month calendar he calls \"the true calendar.\" Jamaican dub poet Rashadai gets a spotlight placing him in the lineage of Mutabaruka and Linton Kwesi Johnson. The episode closes with a live salon session recorded by Yardcore at Sweet V in Brooklyn, previewing a mixtape called *Reggae Aroma Volume 5*.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-29"},{"id":"121904","t":"Brother Ah’s Collectors: Next Generation in Sound","d":1789430401,"len":"2:00:05","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"brotherahrsquocollectnextgeneratins","mp3":null,"desc":"Brother Craig calls out the full personnel before every track — Kenny Kirkland on electric piano behind Carlos Garnett, Larry Carlton alongside Joe Sample on the Crusaders cut — treating the credits as part of the music. This is an all-1976 hour of *Brother Oz Collector's Next Generation in Sound*, fifty years on from the recordings. Gil Scott-Heron, Bobby Hutcherson, McCoy Tyner, Woody Shaw, Yusef Lateef, Lonnie Liston Smith, and Carlos Garnett all appear.\n\nThe hour closes with Lloyd McNeil's \"Griot\" from *Treasures*, Cecil McBee on bass, and Jean Lucien's \"Gaku\" from *Premonition*. The full playlist is on Facebook at Jazz and Justice with Brother Craig.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-29"},{"id":"121900","t":"Jazz and Justice - African Deep Thought","d":1789412400,"len":"1:59:01","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"jjdeepthought","mp3":null,"desc":"W. Paul Coates, founder of Black Classic Press, tells Brother Ka'Ba' that the so-called golden age of Black bookstores is a myth. At any given time, there were likely no more than 50 to 100 active Black booksellers nationwide — a number inflated by mailing lists that included stores closed for a generation. Coates is preparing for a community forum at the Thurgood Marshall Center on the future of four Black legacy publishing houses: Third World Press, Black Classic Press, Africa World Press, and Just Us Books. Their founders are all around 80 years old, and the presses range from nearly 50 to almost 60 years in operation.\n\nThe printing side of Black Classic Press is being transitioned to a worker-owned co-op, though the publishing mission remains unresolved — one of the central questions the forum will face. The hour draws on music from Pharoah Sanders' 1980 album *Journey to the One* and closes with a tribute to the recently deceased Cassandra Wilson.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-28"},{"id":"121897","t":"Don't Forget the Blues - Elliott Gross","d":1789401600,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"donforgeta","mp3":null,"desc":"B.B. King's \"Blues Boys Theme\" opens the hour, with Elliott Gross calling *Blues on the Bayou* the best studio album King released in roughly his last 30 years — a judgment timed to what would have been King's birthday on September 15th. From there, Gross moves through recent releases, beginning with tracks from Jad Tariq, a Memphis guitarist who has toured with Bob Dylan and played alongside Charlie Musselwhite. Danielle Nicole, a 10-time Blues Music Award winner, follows with material from her new album *Fireflies*.\n\nThe Blues Calendar closes out the hour, running through live shows across the Washington metro area: the Nighthawks at Westminster Church in Southwest DC, and a 20th-anniversary farewell show for Reverend Brian Hamilton the following Monday.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-28"},{"id":"121892","t":"Morning Brew Jazz Notes Edition feat. Union City Radio","d":1789376400,"len":"3:00:03","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"amaltmon","mp3":null,"desc":"As a child, Ellen Carter sneaked fast food into Nat Adderley's house in Teaneck — that's where they first encountered Cannonball Adderley, born September 15, 1928. The episode also marks the birth anniversaries of Joseph Jarman (September 14, 1937) — AACM co-founder, Shinshu Buddhist priest, and Army paratrooper injured in a Vietnam raid that killed 18 U.S. soldiers — and organist Jack McDuff (September 17), who gave George Benson his first break.\n\nFrom there the story turns to Charlie Byrd, who carried bossa nova recordings by João Gilberto and Antônio Carlos Jobim back from Brazil and played them for Stan Getz at his home. The two recorded *Jazz Samba* live at Pierce Hall at All Souls Unitarian Church in Washington, D.C. in 1962. It closes with liner notes in which Byrd, plagued by chronic respiratory difficulties near the end of his life, told a writer over breakfast: \"I'm not used to looking back.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-28"},{"id":"121891","t":"Behind the Mic","d":1789365600,"len":"3:00:03","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"behinmic","mp3":null,"desc":"Wu-Tang Clan had a show booked in the DMV that Tuesday, so Coka-Lani built the first hour around that — track after track spanning their catalog. The program moves from there into R&B and soul from the same era, love songs and ballads woven in alongside the hip-hop, before Coka-Lani closes out by thanking listeners who checked in, including Hazel and the Butterfly Lady. *Behind the Mic* airs every Monday morning from 2 to 5.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-28"},{"id":"121890","t":"The Reggae Experience","d":1789358401,"len":"2:00:02","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"regexp","mp3":null,"desc":"Carl Malcolm took the main stage at Adams Morgan Day Festival that weekend, one stop on a string of DMV events that Teacha and DJ Smooth Devastation recap mid-show. A DSA Association sound system gathering in Indian Head, Maryland drew crews from North Carolina, New York, Baltimore, and Virginia, and a private Ghana fundraising event in Bowie, Maryland honored Nana Peppy Parks. The hosts also preview a Sound Clash on the 19th: Cannabis from Antigua versus Franchise Sound out of Virginia.\n\nThe first hour covers foundation reggae and dancehall — Tanya Stevens, Rap Simeon, Icarus, and an original Barry Brown selection. Jerry Culture Sound then takes the second hour into dub and roots classics.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-28"},{"id":"121889","t":"This is Reggae Music","d":1789351200,"len":"2:00:03","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"regsun","mp3":null,"desc":"Rick Zeron opens his two-hour set on *This Is Reggae Music* with Gregory Isaacs' \"Night Nurse,\" then moves through roots, lovers rock, and contemporary dancehall. Sitting in for Tony Carr on Sunday, September 13, 2026, Zeron pauses to mention a listener conversation about Miss Lou. He describes her as one of Jamaica's folk heroes. The episode closes with Zeron handing off to Radio Andy and the Reggae Experience.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-28"},{"id":"121888","t":"Berimbau","d":1789344000,"len":"2:00:03","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"berimbau","mp3":null,"desc":"Roberto dos Santos opens with a dedication to DJ Babalicious, who is set to appear on Fiesta DC's all-Brazilian stage on September 26th, and a shout-out to Grupo Raíces, performing samba con salsa every Wednesday at El Segredo de Rosita. This is *Beating Bow*, his two-hour Sunday Brazilian music program on WPFW. The set moves through João Bosco and Hamilton de Holanda's live \"Linha de Passe,\" Seu Jorge, Chico César's \"Mama África,\" and Naná Vasconcelos, before Alfredo Rodriguez, vocalist Alana Cinque, and Pedrito Martinez close out the hour with a Stevie Wonder cover.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-28"},{"id":"121887","t":"Latin Flavor Classic Edition","d":1789336800,"len":"2:00:03","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"latinflimbyers","mp3":null,"desc":"Tito Puente leaned into someone's microphone at a 1979 live concert at World Trade Center Plaza and credited Stevie Wonder with pressuring NARAS behind the scenes to create the first Grammy categories for Latin music. Host Jim Byers built this September 11th edition of *Latin Flavor Classic Edition* around that recording, dedicating the show to historian Joe Conzo Sr. on what would have been his birthday — Conzo collected and curated the tape.\n\nThe episode also honors bassist Israel Cachao López on the eve of his birthday, with selections from *Cachao y su Descarga 77*, a midnight tribute session recorded after the death of Noro Morales on the Alegre label in 1964. A live recording of El Jamaiquino from the Palladium Ballroom in 1954 surfaces here too — remarkable because owner Max Hyman otherwise banned recording entirely. Byers traces Conzo's work across liner notes and reissues: a 1978 Arcáneo reissue of Tito Rodríguez's *Three Loves Have I* and the Columbia Legacy release of *The Original Latin Dance King*.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-27"},{"id":"121886","t":"Miles Ahead","d":1789329600,"len":"2:00:04","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"milesahead","mp3":null,"desc":"The alternate take of \"Flamenco Sketches\" is the only complete alternate from the 1959 *Kind of Blue* sessions, found exclusively on the 50th-anniversary package, and host Miles Willis traces a line from that Columbia date straight to *Sketches of Spain*. Kevin Mahogany follows. Gene Lees deliberately loosened his English lyrics to Jobim's \"Chovendo na Roseira\" from the original Portuguese to make the song easier to sing, renaming it \"Double Rainbow.\" Courtney Pine's *Modern Day Jazz Stories* gets examined as an early jazz and hip-hop synthesis: DJ Pogo's turntable tracks were prerecorded and tailored to Pine's compositions rather than improvised live.\n\nThe hour closes on Cassandra Wilson. Producer Craig Street asked her to list music that had genuinely moved her to tears, and when no jazz standards appeared on that list, the 1993 album *Blue Light Till Dawn* was built instead from Robert Johnson, Ann Peebles, and Wilson's own compositions.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-27"},{"id":"121885","t":"Open Sky","d":1789322400,"len":"2:00:06","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"opensky","mp3":null,"desc":"Willard Jenkins opens this edition of *Open Sky* by honoring jazz centenarians of 2026, spinning Oscar Brown Jr.'s \"But I Was Cool\" from *Sin and Soul*, Jack McDuff's \"Rock Candy\" with Houston Person on tenor, and a Miles Davis–Coltrane sextet reading of Thelonious Monk's \"Straight No Chaser.\" The 3 o'clock new-release hour brings a Ledisi–Gregory Porter duet on Dinah Washington's \"You've Got What It Takes,\" from Ledisi's tribute album *For Dinah*, then Jason Moran's solo piano take on Duke Ellington's \"Fleurette Africaine\" from *Jason Moran Plays Duke Ellington*. His wife Alicia Hall Moran follows with \"River\" — both records on the couple's YES Records label.\n\nJenkins also previews that afternoon's WPFW benefit concert at Palisades Hub, with tracks from the two headlining acts: Baltimore bassist Chris Funn's Corner Store and Herman Burney's Two Bass Hit. Rounding out the hour are a Gary Bartz medley by the Baltimore Jazz Collective and a set from Luther Allison, winner of the previous week's D.C. Jazz Pre-Emerging Bands Competition.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-27"},{"id":"121884","t":"Sunday Kind Of Love","d":1789315200,"len":"2:00:02","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"sundaykilliams","mp3":null,"desc":"Jacari Sherman traces stepping back to the Negro Act of 1740, which banned drums in colonial South Carolina and forced enslaved and free Black people to make their bodies percussive instruments. His choreography for *The Fruits of Our Labor*, Step Afrika!'s production at Arena Stage, builds one section around Reverend C.L. Franklin's sermon \"The Eagle Stirreth in Her Nest\" — treating the congregation's responses as central to the movement as Franklin's own cadence. Sherman names \"freedom\" as the single word that unlocks the entire work. Miyuki Williams presents.\n\nThat history has a present address: Meridian Hill Malcolm X Park, where Steve Coleman of Washington Parks and People recalls 20,000 people gathering one month after Dr. King's assassination to hear Pearl Bailey perform. Producer Charvis Campbell details the full-day public affairs programming planned for WPFW's September 27th Jazz and Justice Festival at that same park. The episode closes with birthday tributes to blues pianist Charles Brown and Mel Tormé, who co-wrote \"The Christmas Song\" in 40 minutes on a sweltering summer day.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-27"},{"id":"121883","t":"G-Strings","d":1789304400,"len":"3:00:06","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"gstringomecole","mp3":null,"desc":"Butch Warren grew up in Washington, D.C., became the go-to bassist for Blue Note Records in the late 1950s and early 1960s, then spent decades struggling with addiction and mental illness. On his Sunday morning program G-Strings, Tom Cole traces him through two Grant Green sessions — one with Herbie Hancock, one with Sonny Clark, the pianist who first brought Warren to Blue Note's attention. Victor Dvoshkin's \"Song for Edward,\" written for Edward Cohen, the man who helped Dvoshkin emigrate from the Soviet Union \"at a fraught time,\" draws a pointed parallel to the present.\n\nThe three-hour program is anchored by a benefit concert that afternoon at Palisades Hub, featuring Herman Burney's group Two Bass Hit and Baltimore bassist Chris Funn's group Corner Store.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-27"},{"id":"121882","t":"Spirit Of Jazz","d":1789293600,"len":"3:00:05","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"spiritoonalias","mp3":null,"desc":"Scientists from Underwriters Laboratories, who wrote the specs allowing the Port Authority to insure the World Trade Center, told host Lona Alias that jet fuel could not burn hot enough to turn steel orange — and that the towers should have survived a 24-hour fire with their structure intact. Alias says she gathered those claims firsthand while working for INS in New York. She presents them here in this September 11 anniversary edition of *The Spirit of Jazz*, alongside her account of WPFW's post-9/11 investigative program *Peace Watch*, produced under executive producer Verna Avery-Brown. That program brought in CIA briefer Ray McGovern; national counterterrorism coordinator Richard Clarke, whose book *Against All Enemies* she names; FBI whistleblower Coleen Rowley; and Ambassador Joseph Wilson, whose wife Valerie Plame was outed after he disputed the claim that Iraq sought uranium from Niger.\n\nThe three-hour broadcast's music moves from gospel and inspirational R&B — including the Sounds of Blackness, Dionne Warwick, Earth Wind and Fire, and an Isley Brothers album Alias identifies as recorded in a single take — to Sam Cooke's \"A Change Is Gonna Come\" and Nina Simone.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-27"},{"id":"121881","t":"The S.H.E.A.Train \"An Old School Gospel Experience\"","d":1789286400,"len":"2:00:06","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"sheatrain","mp3":null,"desc":"Mr. Shea Butta took the mic in place of his wife after her cousin Malcolm Armwood of Baton Rouge, Louisiana passed away. He opened the phone lines, and Winston Chaney of WHUR, Reverend Gerald Patterson, and Brother Isaac from Baltimore called in with prayers and condolences. Music held the hour together — Marvin Gaye's \"God Is Love\" from the *What's Going On* Deluxe CD, the Burning Bush's \"Straighten Me Up,\" Bishop G. Patterson's \"Look Where He Brought Me From,\" and James Cleveland's \"Jesus Is the Best Thing\" — before Marvin Winans closed it out with \"He Is Lord\" and \"Let the Church Say Amen.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-27"},{"id":"121880","t":"Charlie Dee Show","d":1789279200,"len":"1:59:56","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"worldmurliedee","mp3":null,"desc":"Charlie Dee's Morning Show on WPFW ran two hours of African and Caribbean music spanning soca, Afrobeats, South African township sound, and Congolese rumba, with artists including Judy Mowatt, Yvonne Chaka Chaka, and Oliver de Coque. Midway through, Dee paused to announce the death of a listener and friend named Saboura Tilo Kamara, who had been buried the previous day, and dedicated a stretch of music to his memory. The program closed with Dee signing off and handing the Sunday-morning schedule to the next show, the Shade Train.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-27"},{"id":"121879","t":"African Rhythms and Extensions","d":1789272000,"len":"2:00:09","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"africandompere","mp3":null,"desc":"Kofi Kissi Dompere dedicates this episode of *African Rhythms and Extensions* to John Coltrane's 100th birthday, tracing Coltrane's expansion of jazz harmony and his role as a spiritual voice in the Black liberation struggles of the 1960s back to African polyrhythm. The music ranges across Eritrea, Kenya, Guinea, the Republic of the Congo, Senegal, Togo, Sierra Leone, and Cameroon, drawing in work by Mongo Santamaria and Armando Peraza alongside Congolese rumba and Cuban rhythmic traditions. Dompere closes with his standing reminder: \"if you are drinking, don't drive; if you are driving, don't drink.\"","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-27"},{"id":"121878","t":"Decipher","d":1789261200,"len":"3:00:06","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"deciphersat","mp3":null,"desc":"Bush Head Ed opened this Soul Controller Second Saturdays edition of *The Cypher* with a tribute to Peter Cullen — the voice of Optimus Prime — playing Big Daddy Kane's \"Smooth Operator,\" with its line \"transforming on stage like a Decepticon,\" alongside Gnarls Barkley's \"Transformer\" and Ty's \"When Robots Go to War.\" Cullen had voiced the character from *Transformers*' 1984 cartoon debut through a forthcoming short film marking the franchise's 40th anniversary.\n\nA Virgo-season birthday run covered Nas, Eazy-E, Doug E. Fresh, and Ludacris. Ed had caught Reese performing the 25th anniversary of *How I Do* at Songbird and followed that with her \"Ice King\" featuring Nas. Rapsody's \"Pick a Side\" from *God's Got an Afro and Gold Hoops* appeared alongside a posse cut from Storm the Unpredictable, Poor Righteous Teachers, Common and Pete Rock, and material from Nas and DJ Premier's \"Pause Tapes\" project. Ed broadcast the whole show after flying back from Alabama A&M on a 6 AM flight he nearly missed.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-27"},{"id":"121877","t":"Caribbeana","d":1789250400,"len":"2:47:31","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"caribbenmartin","mp3":null,"desc":"Carl and Carol Jacobs stayed in the studio until 2 or 3 in the morning — one microphone, no flying tracks — doing background vocals for Kitchener, Sparrow, and Shadow. The duo told hosts Von Martin and Bryan Bernard how they built \"Fix It Up\" by fusing calypso with rock, disco, and funk to pull younger listeners toward the music's political and social messages. Then Anya Gloden, whose godmother was Miss Lou, described crossing the hills of Gordon Town as a child to get a bowl of soup from her. Gloden joined Professor Opal Palmer-Adisa to discuss how Louise Bennett-Coverley validated Jamaican Nation Language by tracing its roots to Twi and other African languages, endured years of dismissal as a poet, and used humor and performance to defend the dignity of Jamaican women from the 1940s onward. The hour also covered kidnappings in Haiti, medication shortages in Trinidad and Tobago, and Howard University's investiture of the Eric Eustace Williams Endowed Chair in Caribbean Studies upon scholar Carol Boyce Davies.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-27"},{"id":"121876","t":"Kulcha Shak","d":1789243200,"len":"0:58:14","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"kulcha","mp3":null,"desc":"Steel Pulse's \"Heart of Stone\" opens the show, and that choice sets the terms for what follows: two hours in which DJ Zee-Lion and Kim Bey pursue their stated mission of \"musically bridging the cultural gap between Africa and the diaspora.\" Kulcha Shak moves through reggae, R&B, and soul, with sets drawing on Morgan Heritage, Bushman, Chalice, and Elaine Brown before the back stretch loosens its reggae roots into R&B and touches of jazz, closing out on \"Sunny Gets Blue\" and Sly Stone's \"Stand.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-26"},{"id":"121875","t":"Roots and Fruits","d":1789236001,"len":"2:00:02","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"rootsfruits","mp3":null,"desc":"Carl Davis never performed, yet he talked Gene Chandler into going solo and pushed \"Duke of Earl\" into existence over his own group's objections. Bill Wax traces how Davis, a Chicago producer and arranger born in 1934, funneled Curtis Mayfield songs — ones Mayfield felt didn't fit the Impressions — to Major Lance, Walter Jackson, and Jackie Wilson. Major Lance's daughter later became mayor of Atlanta. The second half of this *Roots and Fruits* marks what would have been B.B. King's 101st birthday on September 16th, with Wax drawing on the 40 one-hour interview programs he produced with King for XM's Bluesville. Early tracks highlight King's falsetto; duets pair him with Bonnie Raitt, Bobby Blue Bland, and Etta James.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-26"},{"id":"121874","t":"Southern Soul Party","d":1789228800,"len":"2:00:06","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"southesoulparty","mp3":null,"desc":"I'm gonna sing pretty for the people,\" says Jessie Terrell, a Chicago-born singer who has called Washington home for 17 years. Her forthcoming album *After Hours* is built around intimate love songs, and on September 19th she heads to Indian Head, Maryland for an outdoor show headlined by Karen Wolfe, J Redd, and Jeter Jones.\n\nMid-show, Ray Apollo Allen calls in with a story about years performing alongside Solomon Burke — \"we called him Saul\" — and marks his 60th year in the music business with a birthday set that afternoon at Bistro 64 on Marlboro Pike. The music on Lady C's Southern Soul Party ranges from J. Morris Group, Vic Allen, Mr. Breeze Too Much, and Marvin Gaye to the Teskey Brothers.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-26"},{"id":"121873","t":"House Of Soul","d":1789221600,"len":"2:00:06","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"soulhouse","mp3":null,"desc":"Walter Williams of the O'Jays has performed through MS, barely able to move before stepping onstage — DJ Lance Reynolds drops that detail mid-set on this Virgo-themed episode of House of Soul. Reynolds plays birthday-season sets from Otis Redding, Freda Payne, the Fifth Dimension, Sylvester, Roy Ayers, Bubba Knight of Gladys Knight and the Pips, and Williams, among others. Between sets he sits down with Adina Gittens-Smith, co-founder of Belly Dancers of Color Collective, ahead of their tenth annual Honoring the Divine Masculine Day on September 19th in Upper Marlboro — an event combining tai chi, sound meditation, Egyptian yoga, drumming, and a \"sacred flower shower\" of white roses over the men present.\n\nNear the end of the hour, Reynolds sets the celebration aside. His stepmother Andrea Beasley died the previous Thursday, and he remembers her by describing how she taught him Washington, D.C. — driving him to every T.G.I. Friday's in the region and showing him the city's back ways and alleys.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-26"},{"id":"121872","t":"Oldies House Party","d":1789210801,"len":"3:00:05","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"houseparty","mp3":null,"desc":"Cap'n Fly and Jas. Funk have been on WPFW for 36 years, and they remember it was a September when they first joined the station's family. The Oldies House Party rolls through the Dells' Chicago showmanship, basement-party classics, and hands-on dance instruction — the mashed potato, the tighten up, the popcorn, the limbo. Listeners call in, birthdays get called out, and the hosts name Willie Mitchell as the songwriter and producer behind the Al Green records played during the hour. Shout-outs land at Sam Caden's record store on 7th Street, a classic-car show at Anacostia Park, and a go-go night at the Charles County Fairgrounds with Backyard Band and Pocket 3.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-26"},{"id":"121871","t":"In The Mood","d":1789203600,"len":"2:00:06","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"inmood","mp3":null,"desc":"Arthur McCloud, the Mellow Man himself, stops the music to read an original poem he wrote the day after September 11 — warning listeners that \"we got attacked 3 times in less than 1 hour\" and that America was \"caught with our pants down.\" That pause marks the 15th anniversary. From there the Sexy Sensual Sounds Saturday set draws from Tyrone Davis, the Isley Brothers, Marvin Gaye, Natalie Cole, and Janet Jackson, followed by a tribute to Rodney Franklin, who died in mid-August, featuring \"A Song for You\" from the CD *Skydance*.\n\nThe Doo Wop Plus segment opens with Aki Starr's a cappella \"Baby I'm for Real,\" then works through the Originals, the Brothers of Soul, and Barbara Mason.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-26"},{"id":"121870","t":"Regeneration","d":1789192800,"len":"3:00:05","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"regeneration","mp3":null,"desc":"Nicholas Payton and Butcher Brown open the set with *A Supreme Blue*, a record that moves through both *A Love Supreme* and *Kind of Blue* at once. Host Joshua Myers built this two-hour *Regeneration* around John Coltrane's centennial, threading together Coltrane's classic quartet live at the Penthouse in Seattle, Robert Glasper Experiment's bonus-track riff on \"Acknowledgement\" from *Black Radio* (2012), and Ghanaian musicologist J. Kwabena Nketiah's definition of improvisation as simultaneously \"the way what is known is recreated\" and \"the process of invention.\" That frame holds the whole program together.\n\nBuried in the set is an early Geri Allen recording — the title track from *Medasi*, cut when Allen was a freshman or sophomore at Howard University with the Nation African Liberation Arts Ensemble and poet Hakim Marabuti. The program also moves through Sarah Elizabeth Charles, Marcus Strickland, Samora Penderhughes, rapper Rapsody, and Busta Rhymes over J Dilla beats.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-26"},{"id":"121869","t":"Back 2 Paradise","d":1789185600,"len":"2:00:05","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"backparadise","mp3":null,"desc":"Derrick \"D-Train\" Coleman opens his two-hour set on *Back to Paradise* with a brief reflection on the 25th anniversary of September 11th, then lets the music take over — first Margaret Grace's \"Circle of Life,\" a Timmy Register rework of \"You Brought the Sunshine,\" and Dinga Daba's remix of \"I Feel for You,\" then, in hour two, a Timmy Register and Adam Rios remix of The Police's \"Wrapped Around Your Finger,\" sets from Julian Gomes and Ultra Nate, and a closing stretch built around Stacey Kidd's \"The Situation.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-26"},{"id":"121868","t":"Meeting in the Ladies Room","d":1789178401,"len":"2:00:05","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"meetiinladieroom","mp3":null,"desc":"Roy Ayers was born on September 10th, and for roughly 20 years he closed out Fort Dupont Park's summer concert series every year — a detail listener Mark called in to explain. Ayers died in February 2025, and on this Feel Good Friday edition of *A Meeting in the Ladies' Room*, DJ Abby marks both that history and that loss, spinning D.C.-themed Ayers tracks, his multiple Virgo-titled albums, and a 17-minute collaboration with Fela Kuti called \"Africa, Center of the World.\"\n\nThe tribute carries into the second hour by way of house music: a Masters at Work remix of Ayers' \"Holiday,\" alongside tracks from Sounds of Blackness and Nuyorican Soul, before the show hands off to *Back to Paradise*.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-26"},{"id":"121867","t":"Robyn's Place","d":1789167600,"len":"3:00:02","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"pmjazze","mp3":null,"desc":"Substitute host Lakeisha Harrison opens Robyn's Place — Robyn Holden's program — by dedicating Sonny Rollins's \"Sunny Moon for Two\" to a couple she knows who had just married. She moves from there through themed rooms: Rollins, Duke Ellington, Joe Williams, Miles Davis, Shirley Horn, Sarah Vaughan, Phyllis Hyman, and Mahalia Jackson, narrating each turn and explaining, for instance, why Joe Williams's \"Going to Chicago\" leads directly into Chet Baker's \"Easy Living.\" Midway through, a live call from WPFW community member Sabu brings word of the station's 9th annual 5K at Bladensburg Waterfront Park, 4601 Annapolis Road, running 7:40 a.m. to 3 p.m., with a new children's 1K and activities including yoga, tai chi, double dutch, line dancing, and hand dancing.\n\nHarrison then pauses to acknowledge the recent death of Cassandra Wilson, noting it is her first time on air since Wilson's passing. The hour closes with Tia Fuller's \"The Olive Leaf and the Dove.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-25"},{"id":"121864","t":"Jazz and Justice - Bobby Rox","d":1789153200,"len":"2:00:06","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"jjfantastic","mp3":null,"desc":"Dr. Don Lottie Whitten, a physical therapist, opens Bobby Rox's Fantastic Friday Show with the argument that muscles function as an endocrine organ — releasing proteins called myokines that cross the blood-brain barrier and improve brain health. Strength training, she contends, can open pathways for glucose to enter muscle directly without raising insulin levels, making exercise act like medicine.\n\nAudio clips from Dr. Francis Cress Welsing, Dr. Amos Wilson, Minister Louis Farrakhan, and Anthony Browder thread through the episode. Browder contends that the word \"genius\" derives from tapping into the genetic memory of ancestors carried in one's DNA. Rox anchors everything to September 11, 2001 — the date Jay-Z's *The Blueprint* dropped — while marking the US Open semifinal run of Hyattsville, Maryland native Francis Tiafoe, who would be the first Black American man to play in the US Open Championship since Arthur Ashe in 1972.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-25"},{"id":"121861","t":"Don't Forget The Blues - Ida Campbell","d":1789142400,"len":"0:59:52","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"dontforotgross","mp3":null,"desc":"Ida Campbell opens her September 11 broadcast by playing Patti LaBelle's \"Walk Around Heaven\" for listeners who lost someone that day, then reads a tribute sent by the mayor of Ocean City. The hour moves through Gospel, Al Green, and Leon Bridges, with a live blues calendar running from Graysonville, Maryland to Falls Church, Virginia.\n\nAlong the way, Campbell pauses to remember the recently deceased Cassandra Wilson, describing Wilson's \"Subatomic Blues\" as using scientific language to reach \"the smallest particles of each matter\" beneath human feeling. She closes with Freddie King and Albert King, signing off just ahead of her 75th birthday.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-25"},{"id":"121859","t":"On The Ground","d":1789135200,"len":"1:00:06","days":null,"cat":"9","sho":"onground","mp3":null,"desc":"Linda Sarsour was walking from her college campus in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, toward Bay Ridge on September 11, 2001, catching burned paper falling from across the river. She arrived to find mosques gated and her mother refusing to wear her hijab. That day ended her plans to become a high school English teacher and pulled her into 25 years of activism — among them a class action lawsuit against the NYPD over mosque infiltrators, informants planted on whitewater rafting trips, and surveillance of coffee shop customers.\n\nHistorian Gerald Horne traces a line from Jimmy Carter and Zbigniew Brzezinski's 1970s alliance with religious zealots in Afghanistan — through the castration and lynching of Afghanistan's last left-leaning leader Najibullah, the Iraq invasion on \"spurious\" weapons-of-mass-destruction grounds, and China's rise during America's \"forever war\" distraction — to the current U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. The program also draws on engineer Jonathan Cole's documentary *False Flag Day* and a presentation by journalist James Corbett on the 9/11 money trail: Larry Silverstein's insurance payout, anomalous pre-attack trading, and a German data recovery firm's findings that the FBI later denied to the 9/11 Commission. Host Esther Iverem presents this edition of *On the Ground* on the 25th anniversary of the September 11th attacks.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-25"},{"id":"121856","t":"Morning Brew Jazz Edition feat. Union City Radio","d":1789117200,"len":"3:00:06","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"amaltfri","mp3":null,"desc":"Jaribu Shahid moved from the Sun Ra Orchestra (1978–80) through Roscoe Mitchell's band before joining the Art Ensemble of Chicago in 2004 — and his recent Detroit Jazz Fest artist-in-residency, where he led a tribute to the AACM, anchors Candy Shannon's birthday segment on the Friday Morning Brew. Commentator Skyler Borton covers the Treasury Department's $12.5 billion bond buyback amid foreign sell-offs and a First Circuit ruling blocking the administration's mail-in voting plan. Also in Borton's segment: Houthi control of the port of Mokka near the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait, and an Ohio resident's case that AI data center development is a speculative bubble requiring municipalities to demand upfront capital bonds before granting tax and zoning concessions. Music includes tracks from Charles Tolliver's remastered 1968 debut *Right Now and Then* — with Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, and Gary Bartz — plus selections from Dee Dee Bridgewater's Horace Silver tribute and Cindy Blackman's *Someday*.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-25"},{"id":"121855","t":"Into The Dawn - After Hour Jazz","d":1789106400,"len":"2:56:51","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"ovjazzdb","mp3":null,"desc":"Link Shields calls Antonio Parker \"originally from Philly, but we call him our own,\" opening a set with Parker's \"Train's Thing\" from *Stepping Out*. This edition of *After Hour Jazz*, Friday September 11, 2026, runs from 2 AM to just before 5 AM. The playlist moves across decades — McCoy Tyner, Sonny Rollins, Chuck Brown and Eva Cassidy paired on \"Drowning in My Own Tears.\" Frank Sinatra and Aretha Franklin close out another stretch with \"What Now, My Love\" from *Duets*.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-25"},{"id":"121854","t":"Jam Session - Charvis Campbell","d":1789099201,"len":"1:59:47","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"ovjazzda","mp3":null,"desc":"Coltrane can be heard speaking between six attempted beginnings of \"Dear Lord\" — outtakes and alternate takes that Charvis Campbell brought to his Friday morning *Jazz Expressions* program on September 11, 2026, built around the Coltrane centennial. Selections from the September 1965 *Meditations* recording follow, featuring the Classic Quartet: Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, and Elvin Jones. The set opened with Pharoah Sanders.\n\nBrother Ah (Robert Northern), a former WPFW programmer, performs \"Motherless Child\" from *Key to Nowhere*. Plunky Branch appears on the first record he ever recorded on, with Dico Zaba and the Natives. Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson contribute \"We Almost Lost Detroit,\" and Idris Muhammad closes out with a ten-minute drum piece from *Peace and Rhythm*.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-25"},{"id":"121853","t":"Late Night Jazz - Rusty Hassan","d":1789092000,"len":"2:00:03","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"nitejazzd","mp3":null,"desc":"When the Billy Eckstine Orchestra refused to record in 1944, they had one demand: Sarah Vaughan gets her vocal feature first. That standoff is how \"I'll Wait and Pray\" became her debut recording. Rusty Hassan heard the story directly from pianist John Malachi and shares it here.\n\nFrom there the episode turns to Sonny Rollins, who had died roughly a month before this September 10, 2026 broadcast at just short of 96. Hassan traces him across sessions: the 1955 Max Roach–Clifford Brown quintet, a 1957 Village Vanguard date with Elvin Jones, and a recording with Don Cherry and Billy Higgins. He also plays *Solid Perspective*, a new alto sax album by Bruce Williams — who had handed him the record in person at the D.C. Jazz Festival the previous Saturday.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-25"},{"id":"121852","t":"Jazz Masters","d":1789081200,"len":"2:59:41","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"pmjazzd","mp3":null,"desc":"Four days after evacuating his apartment near the World Trade Center with nothing but the clothes on his back and his saxophone, Sonny Rollins walked onto the stage of the Berklee Performance Center in Boston and recorded what many called his best work in more than a decade. That September 15, 2001 performance became *Without a Song*, released on the Milestone label, and it anchors Tim Masters's September 10, 2026 edition of *Jazz Masters* on WPFW. Alongside it, the program moves through anniversary albums recorded on September 10th: the Miles Davis Quintet's *Round About Midnight* (Columbia, 1956, with Coltrane, Red Garland, Paul Chambers, and Philly Joe Jones) and Shelly Manne's *The Three and the Two* (Contemporary, 1954, with Shorty Rogers and Jimmy Giuffre).\n\nTwo sessions from September 3rd get their due as well — Ella Fitzgerald's *Get Happy* and Mary Lou Williams's *Mary Lou's Mass*, the latter featuring *Willis*, written for Williams's half-brother. The show closes with a tribute to the recently deceased Cassandra Wilson, including her lyrics set to the Miles Davis/Victor Feldman composition *Seven Steps*, from her album *Traveling Miles*.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-25"},{"id":"121849","t":"Jazz & Justice - Jazz Stories","d":1789066800,"len":"1:59:56","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"jazzampjustijazzstori","mp3":null,"desc":"Butch Warren, a DC native, holds down the bass on Thelonious Monk's 1963 Tokyo recordings alongside fellow Washingtonian Charlie Rouse on tenor saxophone — and that pairing is where Joshua Myers begins tracing Washington DC's bass tradition on Jazz Stories. The line runs through DC-rooted Keeter Betts and forward to Baltimore bassist Chris Funn, whose compositions Myers follows across multiple records, including the 2012 Christian Atunde Ajua album and the more recent Corner Store. Cellist Tamika Reid's 2026 record Dance Skip Hop gets its turn, as does Greg Holloway's drum-and-vibraphone work on the 1999 Play Therapy. Sets by Chelsea Green, Musina, and Yazara fill out the hour, closing with Yazara's Dedicated to You.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-24"},{"id":"121846","t":"Don't Forget The Blues-Scooter Magruder","d":1789056000,"len":"0:50:09","days":null,"cat":"4","sho":"dontforgebluesthurs","mp3":null,"desc":"James Brown once said that in the 1970s, only two artists stayed true to the blues: B.B. King and Bobby Blue Bland. On this episode of *Don't Forget the Blues* on WPFW 89.3 FM, host Scooter Magruder pairs their songs throughout the hour as a birthday tribute to Riley B. King. Elliott Gross reads the live blues calendar, listing upcoming performances at Leisure World in Silver Spring, the 219 Restaurant in Alexandria, and Westminster Church in Southwest DC. Magruder closes with birthday shout-outs to listeners in Fort Lincoln and Fort Washington.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-24"},{"id":"121841","t":"Morning Brew Classic Jazz Edition feat. Union City Radio","d":1789030800,"len":null,"days":null,"cat":"","sho":"amalt","mp3":null,"desc":"Baltimore trumpeter Brandon Woody and Chicago tenor saxophonist Isaiah Collier turned out to be college roommates from Humboldt University. They reunited on stage at Union Stage when Collier sat in for about three tunes during Woody's late evening DC Jazz Festival set. Craig Williams caught that moment and brings it to Morning Brew Classic Jazz Edition alongside Emmett Cohen's District Pier set featuring Jeremy Pelt.\n\nThe programme also covers Etienne Charles' Creole Soul Band, Joshua Redman's quartet, and the Epris, an all-woman saxophone quartet with Lauren Sevian on baritone and Chelsea Boratz on tenor. Williams closes by previewing music from DC bassist Herman Burney and Baltimore's Chris Funn, both appearing at WPFW's upcoming benefit concert.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-24"},{"id":"121840","t":"The Music Bed","d":1789020000,"len":null,"days":null,"cat":"","sho":"musicbed","mp3":null,"desc":"Marvin Gaye called Barry White through Don Cornelius on a Friday, agreed to show up at White's house Monday to collaborate as equals — then was murdered that weekend. DJ Cody V opens this three-hour birthday tribute with that story, drawn from White's own autobiography, and builds from it an argument: that White is undervalued as a songwriter, composer, and arranger whose entire catalog — hundreds of songs — was devoted exclusively to love.\n\nThe music moves through White's own recordings, Love Unlimited, Tom Brock, Gloria Scott, and Chuck Brown's cover of Playing Your Game Baby, before closing on I Found Love from the Love Is the Message album.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-24"},{"id":"121839","t":"Jam Session - Life Music","d":1789012800,"len":null,"days":null,"cat":"","sho":"jamsesslifemusi","mp3":null,"desc":"Saiïs Kamalidiin calls it a visit to \"a bygone era,\" and the phones light up with memories, \"some good, some not so good.\" TV theme songs anchor the hour — *A Different World*, *Living Single*, *Sister Sister*, *Chico and the Man* — alongside a dedicated set for pianist Wynton Kelly. The show runs midnight to 2 a.m. on this Thursday, September 10, 2026 edition of Life Music, before Kamalidiin hands the overnight to DJ Valentine.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-24"},{"id":"121554","t":"#UMustLearn","d":1787263200,"len":"1:00:02","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"umustlearn","mp3":null,"desc":"André Kearns can trace his bloodline to Emmanuel and Joan Cumbo — captives from the Kingdom of Ndongo in present-day Angola who arrived at Port Comfort around 1628 — and to a bill of sale from 1832 that listed his third great-grandfather William B. Harvell as a child named Buck. After emancipation, Harvell became a landowner, founded a church, and built a school that sent five generations of his descendants to HBCUs; a sixth is now at Howard. Kearns, a Washington D.C. genealogist and author, tells that full arc on #YouMustLearn on WPFW. Also this hour: DiverseCITY Fund board member Nkechi Feaster — who first encountered the fund while living in a family shelter at D.C. General — describes its fall grant cycle for Black and brown-led organizations with budgets under $50,999 doing organizing, advocacy, or healing justice work in D.C., and how its community grantmaking model removes barriers that block impacted residents from both funding decisions and the funding itself. Holistic health practitioner and Black Love Day founder Mama Ayo Handy Kendi previews WPFW's 5th annual 5K walk/run on September 12th at Bladensburg Waterfront Park, including new additions of walking meditation and strength training.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-20"},{"id":"121553","t":"Unionism Drives Community","d":1787259600,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"unionismdrivescommunit","mp3":null,"desc":"Nearly 40% of green jobs require a high school diploma or less — and those positions pay 8 to 9% more per hour than national averages. That is the research Devashree Saha, Director of the Clean Energy Economy Program at the World Resources Institute, brings to host Renee Bowser, drawing on Brookings Institution findings. Saha puts the global picture in sharp relief: 35 million clean energy jobs now exist worldwide, edging out 32 million in fossil fuels. In the United States alone, nearly 3.6 million clean energy jobs existed at the end of 2024, with energy efficiency holding the largest share, and over 60% of new utility-scale solar, wind, and battery manufacturing projects are sited in Republican congressional districts.\n\nThe numbers, though, only go so far. Saha argues that transportation, childcare, and what she calls \"wraparound services\" are the real barriers keeping lower-income workers from reaching training programs. She also warns against training workers too narrowly for technologies whose market demand can shift with policy changes.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-19"},{"id":"121551","t":"Short Money: Dissecting Racial Capitalism","d":1787248800,"len":"1:00:04","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"shortmoneydissectiracialcapitali","mp3":null,"desc":"Moses African Cemetery was formally established in 1911 on land used for burial since the slavery era, but that history has not protected it. A sewage trench was dug through it in the 1930s. Its tombstones were demolished for a parking lot. A storage facility is now going up on a parcel where the developer's own excavators have turned up human bones sized to belong to children. Robert Stubblefield, a volunteer with the Bethesda African Cemetery Coalition and worshiper at Macedonia Baptist Church, explains how the River Road community of freed people was dismantled through higher utility bills, tax liens, and Klan violence — including the beating of Harvey Matthews' father and grandfather until they signed away their farm. Macedonia Baptist Church is the sole surviving institution of a neighborhood that once had a colored school, a beer hall, and a semi-pro baseball team.\n\nHost Jon Jeter, author of *Class War in America*, fills in the context of slave breeding on Montgomery County plantations, where the recorded life expectancy of enslaved Africans was roughly 20 years. Against that backdrop, Stubblefield traces the coalition's legal fights through three courts, culminating in a Maryland Supreme Court ruling that descendant communities can sue for equitable relief. A court date on the developer of Parcel 242 is set for September 24th.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-19"},{"id":"121550","t":"The Labor Heritage Power Hour","d":1787245201,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"dcpolitebarras","mp3":null,"desc":"Pete Seeger performing \"The Preacher and the Slave\" in 1960 opens a listener-request hour marking the 115th anniversary of the IWW's Little Red Songbook — 38 editions between 1909 and 2010, with a 39th now in progress. Host Chris Garlock also airs Labor Heritage Foundation co-founder Saul Schneiderman singing an a cappella \"Dump the Bosses Off Your Back.\" The hour's centerpiece is labor historian Nick Jurevich interviewing veteran organizer Phil Cohen about his memoir *Maximum Leverage: From the Street to the Picket Line*. Cohen drove illegal gypsy cabs in New York at 17, lived in a Skid Row hotel while clearing a stack of arrest warrants, and eventually rebuilt union locals from 30% to 80% membership. Among the tactics he describes: having workers fan out down separate aisles of a Sam's Club simultaneously so managers couldn't stop them all at once.\n\nThe labor arts news rounds out the hour. Video game workers rallied in six states against Xbox layoffs, the Traverse City Philharmonic voted to join the American Federation of Musicians, and workers ratified a first contract at Dallas Black Dance Theatre.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-19"},{"id":"121548","t":"Code Pink Radio","d":1787238000,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"9","sho":"codepinkwomepeac","mp3":null,"desc":"Terry Madsen, a Mexico City-based podcaster, tells Code Pink Radio host Marcie Winograd that 19 Latin American countries have joined the Trump administration's Shield of the Americas and Counter-Cartel Coalition — what Madsen calls \"Monroe Doctrine 2.0 on steroids\" — while Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Venezuela refused rather than relinquish sovereignty. Cuba's current conditions, Madsen says, resemble a war zone: under sanctions, the state is barred from purchasing petroleum while private companies can.\n\nThe conversation turns to K-12 classrooms. Winograd speaks with Liz Jackson, legal director of K-12 Legal Defense, about that organization's intervention in a Brandeis Center for Human Rights lawsuit against the state of California and the California Department of Education. The suit seeks to compel nearly 400,000 school staff to undergo antisemitism training coordinated by the plaintiffs and to install curriculum monitors in 14 school districts. Jackson also details a recently settled federal case against the Sequoia Union High School District, in which the district agreed to a plaintiff-selected censor to prescreen all Israel-Palestine curriculum and adopted a definition of antisemitism under which calling Israel \"a racist endeavor\" is officially prohibited.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-19"},{"id":"121547","t":"The Collision: Sports and Politics","d":1787234400,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"collision","mp3":null,"desc":"Etan Thomas walked out of the National Association of Black Journalists convention and onto *The Collision* with a firsthand account: young journalists at his panel named Stephen A. Smith \"Exhibit A\" for the rift between athletes and the media. Smith had just responded to the NABJ's Thumbs Down Award by appearing on Sean Hannity's Fox News show, where Hannity questioned why an organization specifically for Black journalists needs to exist — a claim Smith did not correct. Attendees told Thomas that independent shows like *The Collision* say things corporate journalists wish they could say. Chuck Modiano marks ten years since Colin Kaepernick took a knee on August 19, 2016, arguing the NFL's willingness to lose games rather than sign Kaepernick was no accident. He ties that to ESPN's removal of Black journalists Jemele Hill, Bomani Jones, Howard Bryant, Ryan Clark, and Cam Newton as a deliberate institutional pattern.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-19"},{"id":"121546","t":"On The Margin","d":1787230800,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"empamon","mp3":null,"desc":"Onika Mays stripped off her clothes the moment she got home from Rikers Island Correctional Facility each day — that was what a decade of teaching yoga and mindfulness there actually cost. Each morning she rode the Q100 bus in, called on her ancestors before leaving home, and sprayed liquid sage in her office. Reading from her book *Sit With Me* on *On The Margin* with host E. Ethelbert Miller, she describes Rikers's ten facilities, its power plant, solitary complex, and the barge that once held incarcerated people and now holds migrants — all visible from the bridge. She doesn't call the criminal justice system broken; she calls it working exactly as designed. The conversation moves through her years as a bookseller, bell hooks's *All About Love* and the women's facility, and whether the Buddhist concept of metta can coexist with Pan-Africanism. It closes on what the constant noise and lights-on dorm conditions do to a person's nervous system within three days.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-19"},{"id":"121545","t":"Democracy Now!","d":1787227201,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"7","sho":"democragoodman","mp3":null,"desc":null,"gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-19"},{"id":"121539","t":"Konbit Lakay","d":1787180400,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"konbitlsdayiti","mp3":null,"desc":"Haiti is heading toward a December 13th election with roughly 104 political parties already in the certification process, and the CEP is pressing them to merge into coalitions. To help secure the vote, a Japan–OAS cooperation agreement delivers a $3 million grant to expand Haiti's national identification system and procure 350,000 blank biometric cards before the election.\n\nHost Eugenia Charles tracks six Haitian and Haitian American candidates on Florida's primary ballot, among them Florida State Representative Doty Joseph seeking the Democratic gubernatorial nomination and physician Dr. Rudolph Moïse running in District 24 to succeed retiring Congresswoman Frederica Wilson. A recorded segment from Ezuli Danto on the 1791 Bois-Caïman gathering opens a broader discussion of what democracy and freedom mean under Haiti's current government. Charles argues that Prime Minister Alix Didier Filsaime has lost more territory to gangs than existed before he took office and is paying over $35,000 a month in legal fees to stay in power.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-19"},{"id":"121538","t":"New World Order","d":1787176800,"len":"0:59:12","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"newworldorder","mp3":null,"desc":"George Carter III grew up in New Orleans's 9th Ward, survived Hurricane Katrina, and was killed in an act of intercommunal violence. Before he died, he imagined schools with mood detectors instead of metal detectors and strawberry gardens instead of suspension rooms. That vision opens a conversation with Jomo, National Information Coordinator for the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, on this Black August episode of *New World Order*.\n\nJomo traces Black August to California prisons in the 1960s and '70s, where incarcerated people studied and trained to join the broader freedom struggle upon release, and to mourning the murder of a political prisoner that ended nearly a decade of organizing. He introduces \"Black thrival\" and the \"revolutionary potential of Black youth,\" drawing on *Educating for the Insurgency*, which documents that many people who escaped enslavement were between 13 and 29 years old. The episode, produced by the youth artivist collective Freedom Futures Collective, also covers the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement's Wednesday programming at the Black Workers and Wellness Center, their organizing framework of people's assemblies, people's self-defense, and political prisoners, and a Pride Purpose Power Top 5 Countdown of independent artivist music.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-19"},{"id":"121537","t":"All Eyes on DC","d":1787173200,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"alleyeondc","mp3":null,"desc":"Matt Miller noticed men in his community were \"walking around looking like bank robbers\" — so District Dads at Martha's Table built a fashion showcase. Alumni dads will model four scenes of four different styles at the Outfitters clothing boutique on Martin Luther King Avenue, where everything is free to community members. Miller also walks host Brother Sam PK Collins through District Dads' 17-week fatherhood curriculum, which draws participants ages 16 to 77 and ends with five weeks on emotional wellness.\n\nXavier Brown and Jamila White describe the Black Environmental Fellowship, a six-week summer program for youth from east of the Anacostia River. Fellows toured Harriet Tubman's birthplace on the Eastern Shore, visited Black-owned land formerly used to enslave ancestors, and camped in Southern Maryland. The program closed with fellows presenting on the Kwanzaa principles — wearing sashes handmade in Accra — to their community.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-19"},{"id":"121535","t":"Shay Wah Nana","d":1787162400,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"shoofee","mp3":null,"desc":"A folkloric lullaby in Arabic, anonymous and sung at the concert All Together for Palestine, opens the hour before Leith Marouf takes over.\n\nMarouf — founder of Palestine TV and host Zein El-Amine's named authority on Lebanon, Gaza, and the Arab world — argues that Morocco's King deliberately released 40,000 amnestied petty criminals toward the Spanish enclave of Ceuta within 24 to 48 hours, punishment for Spain's rhetorical support for Palestinians. The King's father, Marouf claims, accepted $50 per Jewish Moroccan expelled to Palestine to help establish the Zionist colony. A mine outside Barcelona, he says, produces the vast majority of the white phosphorus used on Palestine and South Lebanon, and Spanish territorial waters on both sides of the Strait of Gibraltar give ordinary citizens legal standing to blockade weapons shipments to Israel without government permission.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-18"},{"id":"121534","t":"AfricaNow!","d":1787158800,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"africanunthali","mp3":null,"desc":"When FBI agents logged Jamil Al-Amin's possessions at the time of his arrests, the books in his bag were works by Nkrumah, Fanon, and Robert Williams. Writer Arun Kundnani tells host Mwiza Munthali what that detail reveals about Al-Amin's political life — the man formerly known as H. Rap Brown, elected SNCC chair at 23 and named in J. Edgar Hoover's 1967 COINTELPRO memo alongside three others. At the National Conference for New Politics, Al-Amin argued that Black people constituted \"an internal colony\" and that America was enacting genocide through Vietnam draft casualties, child poverty, mass incarceration, and disproportionate targeting in reproductive health. After his conversion to Islam in the New York State prison system in 1971, he contended that Islam made activists \"COINTELPRO-proof,\" and he organized alongside Puerto Rican and Chicano movements. Kundnani discusses all of this in the context of his ongoing biography of Al-Amin, the first of its kind, with those FBI files — obtained through Freedom of Information requests — among its primary sources.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-18"},{"id":"121532","t":"TBD","d":1787151600,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"nea","mp3":null,"desc":"Roger McAfee, a white farmer from Fresno whom Angela Davis had never met, put up his farm as collateral to bail her out of jail. He then needed movement members to guard it after the Ku Klux Klan shot some of his animals. Aretha Franklin had publicly pledged to pay, but it was McAfee who acted. Davis makes that correction speaking at USC's Bovard Auditorium on February 23, 2015, before 1,500 people, in conversation with Dr. Michelle Turner.\n\nShe also addresses her co-defendant Ruchell Magee, still imprisoned after more than 50 years, and names Leonard Peltier and Mumia Abu-Jamal among political prisoners she connects to ongoing racist violence. Davis links the ideology of colorblindness to a failure to reckon with the history of lynching. The episode opens with a montage of Pacifica Radio Archives recordings of Davis spanning 1969 to 2011, compiled by Mark Torres.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-18"},{"id":"121531","t":"Wake Up, Stay Woke","d":1787148000,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"wakeupstaywoke","mp3":null,"desc":"Dr. Willie Jolly's grandmother ran a beauty shop in Philadelphia until she died at 88 — doing three heads that morning, a pocket full of money in her smock. On *Wake Up and Stay Woke*, host E. Faye Williams asks Jolly, author of *Rich Is Good, Wealthy Is Better*, to explain the difference between the two: rich is money you earn from what you do, wealthy is money you generate from what you own, usually while you sleep. Jolly lays out five types of wealth — financial, health, relationship, reputational, and intellectual capital — and five money mindsets that range from day-to-day survival to generational planning. He also describes a trust structure he uses with his own family that requires heirs to submit a W-2 each year to receive 5 percent of their earnings as their inheritance payment. Williams, who references her book *This Is Me* and her past run for U.S. Congress in Louisiana, also presses Jolly on voting and what it takes to write a book.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-18"},{"id":"121530","t":"What's At Stake","d":1787144400,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"whatstake","mp3":null,"desc":"On July 4th, Nolan Wells — an 18-year-old Black college athlete — went missing during a boat trip to Horn Island, Mississippi; his three white companions returned home without him, had the boat scrubbed down at 3 AM, and immediately retained lawyers. Host Verna Avery-Brown connects his case to at least 22 Black individuals found dead under suspicious hanging circumstances since March 2025. Eric K. Ward, Executive Vice President of Race Forward and Senior Advisor to the Southern Poverty Law Center, argues the cluster demands federal investigation and says Black communities should look to bodies like the UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent when domestic government fails. The second half turns to author Andrew Oake, whose two-volume *Unusual for Their Time: On the Road with America's First Ladies* draws on two to three years of travel to recover overlooked histories. Those include Martha Washington managing 8,000 tobacco acres before marrying George Washington, Dolley Madison being expelled from the Quaker Church over her necklines before marrying James Madison, and Martha Jefferson's deathbed request that Thomas Jefferson never remarry — which he honored.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-18"},{"id":"121529","t":"Democracy Now!","d":1787140800,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"7","sho":"democragoodman","mp3":null,"desc":null,"gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-18"},{"id":"121523","t":"Liberation on Our Minds","d":1787094000,"len":"1:00:04","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"liberaonourminds","mp3":null,"desc":"Dennis Banks walked into his own trial in Custer, South Dakota wearing full Native American regalia and Nike shoes. Alice Walker tells that story in a Stanford University lecture recorded ten days after Banks's death — he was her friend and a leader of the American Indian Movement — which she delivered wearing a squash blossom necklace in mourning. Walker argues that turning away from others' pain leaves an \"arrow in the heart\" that festers until people become, as she puts it, like those they hate. Among the wounded she names the children of Che Guevara, Medgar Evers, and Malcolm X.\n\nShe also reads her own poems, including tributes to Michael Jackson and Martin Luther King Jr., and speaks about Whitney Houston and Prince — and what she sees as the harm of pressing artists to perform identities not their own.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-17"},{"id":"121522","t":"Full Spectrum","d":1787090400,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"fullspectru","mp3":null,"desc":"David Cobb, Green Party member and host of *Redneck Gone Green*, says a real grassroots organizer can do \"with $10 what it takes $1,000\" in high-cost media markets. He and *Full Spectrum* host Anthony Rogers-Wright take that as a starting point for the Democratic National Committee's decision to move South Carolina, Nevada, New Mexico, and Michigan earlier in the 2028 presidential primary calendar — a shift Cobb argues forces candidates to engage Black, Latino, Arab American, and Indigenous communities from the start rather than as afterthoughts.\n\nRogers-Wright recorded the second segment on the ground in Belém, Brazil at COP30, where over 1,600 oil and gas lobbyists were present and the UN and Brazilian government rejected Afro-descendant self-agency as a standalone constituency. Those failures at the international level feed back into the conversation with Cobb: together they connect the dynamics at COP30 to data center proliferation, the Battle of Blair Mountain, and the original Rainbow Coalition built by Fred Hampton.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-17"},{"id":"121521","t":"Black Agenda Radio","d":1787086801,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"7","sho":"blackagendareportradio","mp3":null,"desc":"\"I woke up illegal.\" A 23-year-old woman from Gonaïves said that to Guerline Joseph after the Trump administration ended the CHNV parole program she had used to enter the United States legally at age 19. Now in Brooklyn, she fears ICE the same way she once feared armed groups in Haiti. Joseph, founder of the Haitian Bridge Alliance, tells Black Agenda Report host Margaret Kimberley that the Alliance's hotline received over 600 calls in two weeks, including seven detentions in a single day, among more than 300,000 affected Haitians — 80% of whom work in healthcare.\n\nThe program's reach extends well beyond Haiti. Gerald Carrera of the Organization for the Victory of the People in Guyana argues that the Shield of the Americas coalition is less about drug cartels than about U.S. control of regional resources. Boats bombed in the Caribbean under the program were carrying fishermen, not drugs. The U.S. Defense Department has purchased a Guyanese bauxite mine, and Secretary of State Rubio ordered the expulsion of Cuba's medical brigade, which Carrera says had kept Guyana's rural health system from collapsing.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-17"},{"id":"121520","t":"Something to Say","d":1787079600,"len":"2:00:03","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"somethisay","mp3":null,"desc":"Sarah Collins Rudolph, the sole survivor among the five girls in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, told a panel that those survivors, unlike 9/11 survivors, never received physical therapy, help, or compensation. Isisara Bey, artistic director of the March On Festival, was sitting across from her when she said it. Now Bey and festival director of audience development Nina preview the 13th annual March On Festival, running September 29 through October. It opens with a Friday-night rally at Metropolitan AME Church — the site of Frederick Douglass's last public address — pairing a conversation on allyship with a performance by original Freedom Singer Rutha Mae Harris and Maimouna Youssef. A Saturday event at the Atlas Theater examines three New Orleans families — the Francises, the Morials, and the Landreus — whose civil rights work ran across the 20th and 21st centuries.\n\nHost Mazi Mutafa speaks with Words Beats and Life Academy Assistant Director David Jones about a six-week summer arts apprenticeship for DC youth ages 14–19. Patrick Washington interviews 2023 Virginia State Youth Poet Laureate Kashvi Rahmani, who discusses her forthcoming collection *Saffron Skies and Kajal Cries* and a work-in-progress film about Indian traditionalism and generational conflict, with a book release event at the Kennedy Center's River Terrace Theater on August 26th.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-17"},{"id":"121519","t":"Capitalism, Race & Democracy","d":1787076000,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"7","sho":"covidraceampdemocr","mp3":null,"desc":"Ian Lustig, co-author of *Israel's Lobby: America in the Grip of a Foreign Power*, says Netanyahu privately met with Trump before the Iran attack and \"together they planned that war.\" Lustig also argues the Israel lobby helped produce the invasion of Iraq, and that lobby strategy manuals shifted over decades from substantive policy defense to instructing advocates to call critics antisemites rather than engage their arguments. Street interviews from a Wednesday protest in New Orleans include a palliative care physician describing her arrest at an ICE protest after identifying herself as a doctor, and an organizer detailing Louisiana's 8,000 ICE detainees — second only to Texas — held in rural northern parishes near a facility 200 miles from New Orleans where Mahmoud Khalil was briefly detained. WPFW News covers Florida primary races pitting DSA candidates against Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Alex Vindman. The Congo Ebola outbreak has killed at least 2,300 people, spread to a sixth province, and the WHO has raised only about 60% of the $115 million needed for the response.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-17"},{"id":"121518","t":"Project Censored","d":1787072400,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"7","sho":"projcen","mp3":null,"desc":"Florida's Board of Governors chancellor declared every introductory sociology textbook non-compliant with state law, then routed all faculty guidance through phone calls so no paper trail would exist. Zachary Levinson, a sociology professor at Florida International University, walks through what followed: a secret committee whose records remain sealed, and sociology removed from the general education curriculum entirely.\n\nNolan Higdon traces how that moment became possible. His book *MAG Academy* documents the decades of neoliberal restructuring that flipped tenure-track faculty from roughly 70% of the workforce in the 1980s to roughly 30–35% today. Higdon argues corporate DEI functioned as social-justice branding for a system that simultaneously funneled more faculty of color into the most precarious, lowest-paid positions. This edition of *Project Censored* aired on Pacifica Radio on Tuesday, August 18, 2026.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-17"},{"id":"121516","t":"Community Watch & Comment - Tuesday","d":1787065200,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"8","sho":"comcomb","mp3":null,"desc":"On the morning of September 21, 1976, a car bomb killed Orlando Letelier and Ronni Moffitt at Sheridan Circle on Embassy Row — less than two miles from the White House. Moffitt was 25, an Institute for Policy Studies staffer who had opened a music center in a low-income Washington neighborhood where people could borrow instruments for free. David Rabin, who presents the program as Host Dave Raven, speaks with IPS Global Economy Project Director Sarah Anderson about three former Chilean secret police agents sentenced to 15 years in prison for Moffitt's murder, nearly 50 years after the assassination, and about American operative Michael Townley — who taped the bomb under the car — still living in U.S. witness protection. Elliot Nagan of the Substack publication Money Trail traces Trump's \"communists are coming\" rhetoric back through Roy Cohn and the McCarthy era. Organizer Burton Bollag describes a weekly Saturday demonstration outside D.C.'s Holocaust Museum, where he and a small group hand out leaflets connecting the museum's historical mission to what the Committee to Protect Journalists has called the deadliest and most deliberate effort to kill journalists it has ever documented.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-17"},{"id":"121515","t":"Crossroads","d":1787061600,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"roachbrown","mp3":null,"desc":"Andrea James collected more than 11,000 signatures to land on the Massachusetts gubernatorial ballot, running as an independent after a federal wire fraud conviction sent her to prison. A Boston attorney who founded the National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls, she told host Roach Brown that African Americans are 7% of Massachusetts' population but 51% of its jail and prison population. Her platform centers on affordable housing, universal healthcare, equitably funded education, and childcare — the same pressures, she argues, that drive women into incarceration.\n\nThe conversation moves to the current Massachusetts governor's proposal to spend $360 million on a new women's prison to house roughly 200 people, then to the legislature's 2020 decision to strip incarcerated people of the right to vote — a move that followed prisoners at Norfolk State Prison organizing their families against tough-on-crime legislation.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-17"},{"id":"121514","t":"Voices With Vision","d":1787058000,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"voiceswdiocoop","mp3":null,"desc":"Mumia Abu-Jamal mourns Dr. Johanna Fernandez — his former advocate, dead at 55 — recalling the black blazer and black slacks she wore daily as her \"armor.\" He first met her after a labor historian brought her to visit him on death row.\n\nHosts Netfa Freeman and Craig draw on Pan-African Community Action's August 12th political education session, \"Taking It to the Streets: The Long Tradition of Revolutionary Youth Resistance.\" Jalil Muntaqim, introduced as one of the longest-held political prisoners of warfare in the country, explains that Black August originated inside California prisons, where enslaved Africans banded together against the Aryan Brotherhood and neo-Nazi guards — naming George Jackson, Jonathan Jackson, and others as central figures. That history runs alongside a clip from the 1968 NET Journal documentary *Color Us Black*, filmed during the student takeover of Howard University, and discussion of COINTELPRO's targeting of youth organizers. The session closes with Pan-African Community Action's Community Control DC platform, whose first demand is that youth shall govern youth resources.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-17"},{"id":"121513","t":"Democracy Now!","d":1787054400,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"7","sho":"democragoodman","mp3":null,"desc":null,"gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-17"},{"id":"121507","t":"Building Bridges","d":1787007600,"len":"0:59:59","days":null,"cat":"7","sho":"buildingbridges","mp3":null,"desc":"After the Confederacy fell in 1865, defeated Confederate officers W.W. Loring, H.H. Sibley, Samuel Lockett, and Raleigh Colston traveled to Cairo to help Egypt plan an invasion of Ethiopia — the goal being a fresh supply of enslaved labor. Historian Gerald Horne lays this out for host Mimi Rosenberg, alongside the parallel story of ex-enslavers relocating to Brazil and Cuba, where slavery remained legal into the 1880s. His new book, *Slavery, the Slave Trade, and the Roots of U.S. Imperialism*, traces the network further: Zanzibar as a hub of U.S.-connected slave trading in the 1840s, Ottoman Turkey castrating enslaved African men to staff imperial harems, Saudi rulers arriving in Washington as late as 1957 with enslaved Africans.\n\nHorne argues that the 9th-century Zanj Revolt in Iraq, the Haitian Revolution, and Ethiopia's defeat of Italian invaders in 1896 each forced measurable contractions of the slave system. The post-Civil War rise of American labor unions, he contends, was a direct consequence of removing enslaved people as a drag on wages.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-17"},{"id":"121506","t":"Inside Out Collective","d":1787004000,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"lmpab","mp3":null,"desc":"A Black patient arrives at the emergency room in crisis and nearly gets turned away because hospital staff didn't know how to remove a lace front wig. A Black nurse intervened. Hosts Daffo the Flowa and Jay Barber use that case to anchor a Fellowship Hall conversation about how mental health care became stigmatized in Black communities, tracing a line from the Tuskegee syphilis study through white-dominated psychiatric institutions that routinely labeled Black patients insane. The Lafarge Clinic in Harlem — established in the 1940s through a partnership with local religious leadership as the neighborhood's first dedicated mental health services — shows how the Black church stepped in to fill that gap.\n\nThe hour closes with Baltimore house DJ and producer Charisma, also known as K-Tronic, blending gospel and deep house, then Donny Hathaway's \"Someday We'll All Be Free.\" The episode also lists free D.C. mental health resources and Black mental health Instagram accounts for listeners seeking support.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-16"},{"id":"121505","t":"To The East","d":1787000400,"len":"1:00:04","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"east","mp3":null,"desc":"D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwab and At-Large Councilmember Christina Henderson sent a joint letter alleging the Department of Behavioral Health illegally directed $10.7 million in opioid settlement funds toward unauthorized purposes — and host Ambrose Lane Jr. reads every word of it on air. Among the alleged misuses: approximately $2.3 million put toward covering the District's Medicaid local match, a purpose the letter says does not meet the legal criteria for those funds. Lane is himself one of over 40 signatories on a related community letter, and he says he is writing an article asking whether the money is being stolen. From there he traces a week of Black history from August 17–23, identifying the 1989 murder of Yusef Hawkins in Bensonhurst, New York as the basis for the Public Enemy song \"Fight the Power.\"\n\nThe program then turns to an extended segment from the Geopolitical Economy Report tying together Japan's yen carry trade, the Bank of Japan's nearly $1.2 trillion in U.S. Treasury holdings, and the U.S. Treasury's use of euro reserves to prop up the yen. Economist Barry Eichengreen's verdict: the dollar is \"not the attractive reserve currency it once was.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-16"},{"id":"121503","t":"To Your Health","d":1786989600,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"11","sho":"tohealth","mp3":null,"desc":"Richard Van Dyke walked 4.5 to 5 miles a day, steamed unseasoned asparagus and kale, and brought his hemoglobin A1c from 6.5 down to 5.5 — then came off diabetes medication entirely. Attorney Patricia Grady grew organic vegetables across four garden plots at her church, drank 64 ounces of alkaline water daily, and watched her blood pressure drop from readings as high as 180–190 to 118/77. Host Dr. Theodore Watkins, now approaching 50 years since his medical school portrait went up on the wall, argues that lifestyle intervention was once the first line of treatment in medical textbooks before it largely disappeared from practice. On *To Your Health*, he interviews both patients about the diet changes, cleansing program, and daily check-ins that drove those results.\n\nVan Dyke and Grady walk through the specifics of what the shift looked like for each of them.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-16"},{"id":"121502","t":"Equal Portions","d":1786986000,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"equalportion","mp3":null,"desc":"Mayor Muriel Bowser's $3.875 million grant is now open to independently owned D.C. brick-and-mortar restaurants and retailers with no more than three locations that lost revenue in 2025. From that, host Seysha Lamira turns to Poplar Island in the Chesapeake Bay, where dredge material from Port of Baltimore shipping channels has rebuilt a 1,700-acre wildlife habitat supporting over 260 bird species and a growing diamondback terrapin population.\n\nThe island has its own buried history. Waterman Willie Rowe once salvaged headstones from Poplar Island's submerged cemetery and kept them in his yard for more than 50 years before Lee Howarth's family recovered them and returned them to the island. The episode features music from local artists Chloe Jai and Yusuf Latif.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-16"},{"id":"121500","t":"Make It Plain","d":1786978800,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"9","sho":"makeitplai","mp3":null,"desc":"A Maryland man tells *Make It Plain* host Reverend Mark Thompson he has not voted in nearly 70 years. That call opens a wide-ranging phones segment on third-party politics — the Umoja Party, the Working Families Party, the DSA — alongside a Virginia political consultant running four Northern Virginia races who argues the Democratic Party would be four separate parties if it were in Europe.\n\nTerrence Woodbury, president of HIT Strategies, then presents findings from his organization's *State of Black Opposition and Engagement* research. Among the results: 62% of Black respondents said no one had asked them to join resistance activities, and Black approval of ICE sits at 6%. The share of Black Americans taking three or more civic actions climbed from 64% in October 2025 to 75% by April, a rise Woodbury ties partly to what he calls the \"Kale decision\" and escalating attacks on Black political power in the South. His polling also shows that corporations and special interests rank above Donald Trump on Black voters' list of who is most responsible for undermining democracy.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-16"},{"id":"121499","t":"Heal DC","d":1786975200,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"tohealdc","mp3":null,"desc":"Gerald Horne calls Nat Turner's 1831 Southampton rebellion a revolt of \"the unpaid sector of the working class,\" and that framing sets the tone for the entire hour. Horne, author of more than 40 books and Chair of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston, joins civil rights activist Larry Hamm on *Heal DC* with host Joni to mark the 195th anniversary of the uprising. He connects it to a lesser-known 1835 slave revolt across a wide swath of Mississippi, and argues that August 1st — the date of Caribbean emancipation — deserves recognition alongside Juneteenth as a date of solidarity.\n\nThe second half becomes an impromptu tribute to Rami Cheeks: a native Washingtonian who co-founded the Clubhouse, a Black LGBTQ social club in mid-1970s D.C., helped build Us Helping Us, one of the first Black HIV/AIDS organizations in the city, and established a Unity Fellowship Church congregation in Detroit in 1994. Chuck Hicks recalls that Cheeks and Andre Scott secured a $350,000 grant for Black-led AIDS organizations and persuaded the D.C. mayor to require HIV/AIDS training for all District government employees. Beatitude Zachary Jones of the Unity Fellowship Church movement also appears among the guests.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-16"},{"id":"121497","t":"MALVEAUX!","d":1786971600,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"malveaux","mp3":null,"desc":"When unemployment falls because workers stop looking, that's not progress — Dr. Kyle Moore, newly appointed chief economist at the Century Foundation, explains why July's drop signals stagnation and why Black workers depend on a tight labor market to make any movement toward equity. He connects Strait of Hormuz disruptions and the administration's tariff reversals to prices corporations have no obligation to lower, even after courts ruled those tariffs illegal. Then Dr. Starsky Wilson, CEO of the Children's Defense Fund, walks through the administration's proposed Head Start rule changes: higher student-to-teacher ratios, removal of prohibitions on corporal punishment and seclusion, an English-only provision, and a ban on \"preferencing\" — in a program whose enrollment is 29% Black and 40% Hispanic.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-16"},{"id":"121496","t":"Democracy Now!","d":1786968000,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"7","sho":"democragoodman","mp3":null,"desc":null,"gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-16"},{"id":"121469","t":"News Views","d":1786744800,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"2","sho":"nusvus","mp3":null,"desc":"Garland Nixon opens with a number: Niger gets roughly $2 an ounce for uranium that France then sells for around $250. That gap, he argues, is the through-line connecting every U.S. war since World War II — not ideology, but colonial extraction. Iraq's oil revenue has flowed into a New York bank since the invasion, with Washington withholding it to block an elected prime minister. U.S. bombers hit poor Black neighborhoods in Panama during the operation to remove Noriega, deployed partly, Nixon says, to demonstrate capability to the Soviet Union.\n\nThe calls that follow push the conversation in different directions. A caller who identifies as part-Iranian pushes back hard on Nixon's figures for Iranian protest casualties. A 92-year-old listener who has known Nixon since childhood calls in to pledge. Nixon closes by explaining why he broke with the Democratic Socialists of America — their repetition, he says, of CIA talking points on Venezuela and Cuba.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-14"},{"id":"121468","t":"Darker Than Blue","d":1786741200,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"darkethanblue","mp3":null,"desc":"At Joint Base Andrews, Trump was asked about sailors on the USS Abraham Lincoln surviving on half a cup of rice and two tortillas. His answer: the 250-day combat deployment was \"not nearly long enough.\" Navy Times and Stars and Stripes had already reported multiple sailors attempting to jump overboard, moldy showers, and broken toilets during operations against Iran. Then Luigi Mangione's guilty plea in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson — the host reads Mangione's courtroom statement aloud: years of untreated back pain, an email to UnitedHealthcare posing as an investor managing over $50 billion in assets to get the conference location, a 3D-printed firearm component. The host lives near Joint Base Andrews, where military helicopters have been passing over daily since the bombing of Iran began, and both stories run through that same neighborhood sky.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-13"},{"id":"121466","t":"Resistance Radio with John and Regan","d":1786730400,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"7","sho":"letstalknativa","mp3":null,"desc":"Sharice Davids endorsed Markwayne Mullin for a Homeland Security post on one basis alone: he said he was Native. John Kane, broadcasting from the Cattaraugus territory of the Seneca Nation, uses that move to anchor a broader argument — that voting party lines is not civic engagement, and Native political figures are not exempt from the standard. Deb Haaland's gubernatorial run in New Mexico, he contends, rides institutional momentum, not grassroots origins. Peggy Flanagan served as lieutenant governor under Tim Walz while ICE operations intensified in Minnesota, and Kane puts the question of what she accomplished on the table.\n\nHe also connects the Osage murders depicted in *Killers of the Flower Moon* to the Tulsa Massacre roughly 50 miles away — Kane had the book's author on an earlier program and asked him directly about that omission. The hour was recorded during a WPFW fund drive, with co-host Jackie Luckman joining Kane throughout.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-13"},{"id":"121465","t":"Latino Media Collective","d":1786726800,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"latinomedia","mp3":null,"desc":"At St. Matthew's St. Joseph's Episcopal Church — a documented Underground Railroad hub since the 1840s — Detroit hosted a People's Tribunal in June 2026 to coordinate resistance to ICE. Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African Newswire, tells host Oscar Fernandez how the event grew out of Detroit Will Breathe, the Black Lives Matter group formed after George Floyd's death, drawing small community groups from across Michigan. Azikiwe details conditions at the Northlake immigration detention facility in Baldwin, Michigan — 3.5 hours from Detroit — where detainees have recorded accounts of rotten food, beatings, racial targeting of Black and Latino inmates, and solitary confinement. Five women have died in recent months at the state's only women's detention facility, in Washtenaw County.\n\nThe conversation also covers how flock surveillance cameras and Michigan's ban on driver's licenses for undocumented residents make racial profiling routine on Detroit's southwest side, including the targeting of African migrants from countries like Senegal alongside Latin American migrants. A community campaign successfully stopped a planned ICE detention center near Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Romulus.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-13"},{"id":"121463","t":"Community Watch & Comment - Friday / The Local Station Board Show (Last Frid","d":1786719600,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"8","sho":"comcomfri","mp3":null,"desc":"**Community Watch and Comment** with hosts Ron Pinchback and Chipp Jones opens with two policy debates drawing listener calls: a South Carolina Republican congresswoman's bill to reinstate the death penalty in D.C. — which one co-host notes would bypass DC residents' vote entirely — and the Department of Homeland Security's plan to equip ICE agents with shock gloves that deliver a debilitating electrical charge through skin contact and, unlike tasers, leave no marks. Callers raise the Innocence Project's record of exonerating people of color on death row, the closure of Lorton prison and its aftermath, and a listener named Joni reminds the hosts that WPFW's own former program director Tom Porter led the campaign against the death penalty in D.C. in the early 1990s, a piece of the station's history she ties to its approaching 50th anniversary.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-13"},{"id":"121461","t":"#Climate Friday","d":1786712400,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"7","sho":"thinkclimafrida","mp3":null,"desc":"A major petrochemical company called the FBI on Dr. Lemire Toran simply for writing a report on human health impacts. Toran, a Howard University professor in its new Department of Earth, Environment, and Equity, discusses his book *Unlearned Power: Strengthening Communities in the Age of Environmental Crisis*, which moves from the Onondaga Nation through communities across the country. The title carries a double meaning: rethinking literal energy systems, and dismantling the political and socioeconomic arrangements that have placed Black, brown, and Indigenous communities in what host Rev. Yearwood calls \"the path of least resistance.\"\n\nYearwood brings his own recent work into the conversation. At the NABJ conference in Atlanta, he argued that the progressive climate movement is in a \"crisis of imagination\" and must do better at storytelling and narrative — a conviction that runs through his own work producing climate documentaries, including *Plastic Detox*, currently on Netflix.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-13"},{"id":"121460","t":"Democracy Now!","d":1786708800,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"7","sho":"democragoodman","mp3":null,"desc":null,"gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-13"},{"id":"121456","t":"The Afro-Cuban Connection","d":1786676400,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"12","sho":"afrocubanconnection","mp3":null,"desc":"Mongo Santamaría composed \"Afro Blue\" before John Coltrane made it famous, then scored a 1962 hit with Herbie Hancock's \"Watermelon Man.\" Rusty Hassan's *Afro-Cuban Connection* uses that arc to anchor a centennial tribute to Cuba, tracing the thread between Cuban music and American jazz. From Santamaría, the episode moves through Irakere, the Cuban group that included Paquito D'Rivera and Arturo Sandoval and landed a Columbia Records contract after Dizzy Gillespie's return visit to the island. Hassan also recalls seeing Celia Cruz perform on a chilly night at the Sylvan Theater near the Washington Monument.\n\nThe hour opens and closes with a deliberate pairing: the Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra of Chico O'Farrill's \"Egoist's Dream\" beside his son Arturo O'Farrill's *Dreaming in Lions*, the two recordings linked by their titles as a programming choice.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-13"},{"id":"121455","t":"The Afro-Cuban Connection","d":1786672800,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"12","sho":"afrocubanconnection","mp3":null,"desc":"Mario Bauza introduced Dizzy Gillespie to percussionist Chano Pozo, and what followed were the 1947–48 recordings — \"Manteca\" among them — that Pozo made with Gillespie's big band before he was killed in New York City. Rusty Hassan's Thursday late-night program, recast as \"the Afro-Cuban Connection,\" builds outward from that origin to trace the musical bond between Cuban and American jazz musicians from the 1940s onward.\n\nThe episode moves through Chano Pozo's recordings with James Moody and Art Blakey's 1947 big band work, then follows Blakey to his 1949 trip to Africa. A Cuban track by Raul Paz, drawn from Hassan's wife's copy of *Putumayo Presents the Latin Party*, sits alongside Mongo Santamaría recorded live at the Black Hawk. The broadcast is part of WPFW's all-day tribute marking the centennial of Fidel Castro's birth, with a challenge grant in place to double listener donations made during the fundraising drive.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-13"},{"id":"121454","t":"The Rich and Varied Sounds of Cuban Music","d":1786665600,"len":"2:00:03","days":null,"cat":"12","sho":"richandvariesoundcubanmusic","mp3":null,"desc":"Kathleen Franks and Brother Jamil open this two-hour Cuban music special with Chucho Valdés and his ensemble Irakere — the group that once counted Arturo Sandoval among its members. The occasion is the centennial birthday of Fidel Castro, and the program moves chronologically, from bolero queen Olga Guillot and Bebo Valdés singing \"Corazón Loco\" to the Buena Vista Social Club's \"Chan Chan.\"\n\nFrom there the program turns to younger voices. Daimé Arónsina, described as Cuba's finest young female singer, and Yusa, a singer-songwriter from Havana's Buena Vista district who received two nominations at the 2003 BBC Radio 3 World Music Awards, both weave Afro-Cuban jazz together with hip-hop and rap influences.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-13"},{"id":"121453","t":"Jazz, Medicine, and Energy Independence","d":1786662000,"len":"0:59:55","days":null,"cat":"12","sho":"jazzmedicinandenergyindepen","mp3":null,"desc":"When the Shelburne Hotel demanded a $10,000 deposit from Cuba's UN delegation and accused them of plucking live chickens, Malcolm X personally invited Fidel Castro to stay at Harlem's Black-owned Hotel Teresa instead. That 1960 standoff opens this Cuba Libre special hosted by Anthony Rogers-Wright. Scholar-musician Joe Consol Sr. traces the African roots of Afro-Cuban jazz through Mario Bauzá and Machito forming the Afro-Cubans in 1941 and composing \"Tanga\" in 1943.\n\nThe music shares the hour with the present. Manolo de los Santos of the People's Forum describes Cuba's national grid collapsing five times in one year under a US oil blockade that, according to the Center for Economic and Policy Research, has more than doubled Cuba's infant mortality rate. Cuba's answer to that crisis was 49 new solar parks brought online, pushing solar-generated electricity from 5.8 percent to over 20 percent of national output in roughly twelve months, with equipment and financing from China.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-13"},{"id":"121452","t":"Participatory Democracy and Social Transformation in Cuba","d":1786658400,"len":"0:57:49","days":null,"cat":"12","sho":"participdemocracandsocialtransforin","mp3":null,"desc":"Cuban Deputy Head of Mission Sister Dieguez has a number she wants heard: more than 96,000 Cubans are currently waiting for surgeries, 12,000 of them children, the direct result of an executive order issued since January. Host Baba Izay marks the 100th birthday of Fidel Castro — born August 13, 1926 — on #YouMustLearn by putting that figure alongside a contrasting one: Cuba's 2022 Families Code went through more than 70,000 community meetings and was revised by 60% before passage. Filmmaker Catherine Murphy then joins to discuss her documentary *Maestra*, which follows Cuba's 1961 literacy campaign, the one Castro announced at the UN General Assembly would make the country fully literate within a year. It did — driving illiteracy down from above 40% in some rural areas to below 4%. *Maestra* streams free on Kanopy with a public library card and screens at Sankofa on August 29th, hosted by Africa World Now Project.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-12"},{"id":"121451","t":"The International Solidarity Movement","d":1786654800,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"12","sho":"internationsolidaritymovement","mp3":null,"desc":"Mark Friedman of the Hands Off Cuba Committee puts a number on what the U.S. blockade means right now: 7,000 containers of food, medical supplies, and solar panels stranded in Caribbean and European ports because no shipping company will challenge it. One oil tanker allowed through in seven months. Daily blackouts of up to 22 or 24 hours that he says have contributed to the deaths of 1,800 infants in hospital ICU units.\n\nThat account sets the frame for the rest of the hour on *Unionism Drives Community*, hosted by Renee Bowser. Amber Longo, a Teamsters organizer at an Amazon warehouse in California's Inland Empire, attended the May Day parade in Havana and watched Cuban workers march past the U.S. Embassy on electric motorbikes — a direct demonstration against the fuel blockade. She also describes a meeting with the president of the Central de Trabajadores de Cuba, where she learned that three elected workers sit on every factory executive board alongside one manager and one Communist Party representative. César Omar Sánchez of the National Network on Cuba joins as the third guest.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-12"},{"id":"121450","t":"Playing Dirty: Rubio’s War on Cuban Athletes","d":1786651201,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"12","sho":"playindirtyrubiorwaroncubanathlet","mp3":null,"desc":"A Cuban basketball team beat the United States in Havana in 2024 — the first time in 53 years — and then Marco Rubio's visa policy barred them from traveling to compete on American soil. Chuck Modiano speaks with Reid Lindsay, journalist and documentary filmmaker with Belly of the Beast, about how that policy is playing out across Cuban athletics on *The Collision*. Lindsay's documentary *Safe at Home* profiles a pitcher who signed with Cleveland for $300,000, renounced the contract, kept the signing bonus, and went home to the Cuban countryside. That story opens onto a broader pattern: the MLB deal negotiated during the Obama opening would have let players remain in Cuba until their mid-twenties before signing abroad, but Trump cancelled it in his first term.\n\nThe conversation moves to the May 2025 secondary sanctions threatening foreign companies and their family members for doing business with Cuba, and to the longer history behind these policies. Lindsay traces the Cuban American lobbying apparatus back to advice and organizational help from AIPAC in the early 1980s.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-12"},{"id":"121449","t":"Cuba’s Historic Role","d":1786647600,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"12","sho":"cubarsquhistoricrole","mp3":null,"desc":"Obi Agbonna — playwright, organizer, and producer — co-produced the Kutulumela Bolingo with Russell Schultz, son of former Black Panther Russell Maroon Schultz: a 30-song double album honoring Assata Shakur and Pauline Lumumba and supporting the roughly 4,000 Cuban doctors currently working on the African continent. Agbonna joins development intern Sunit Teklaab and co-host Netfa Freeman to trace Cuba's solidarity with Africa well past the Angola campaign, back to the first Cuban medical mission to Algeria in 1963, and through the training of 3,000 Zimbabwean teachers in Cuba between 1986 and 1996 — a program Agbonna credits for Zimbabwe's 97% literacy rate. He details how Fidel Castro deliberately recognized non-Marxist African revolutionary leaders — Kwame Nkrumah, Sékou Touré, and Thomas Sankara, the first African head of state to receive the Martí Award — as an explicit challenge to Soviet criteria for authentic revolutionaries.\n\nThe hour features album tracks including \"Wounded Wombs\" and \"Mothers in the Revolution,\" and draws a line between two acts of resistance separated by decades. One is Pauline Lumumba's bare-breasted march of 100 women on the United Nations headquarters in the Congo. The other is the ongoing campaign to remove Assata Shakur from the U.S. terrorism list and lift the $2 million bounty on her head.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-12"},{"id":"121448","t":"Culture and the Human Resilience of the Cuban People","d":1786644000,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"12","sho":"cultureandhumanresiliecubanpeople","mp3":null,"desc":"Fidel Castro was mid-speech, drinks in hand all around, and Alice Walker had to sit down — she couldn't follow a Castro lecture and keep standing at the same time. Walker, who grew up in the Deep South, tells host Katea Stitt on *Cuba Libre* that Castro's 1959 rise \"meant everything\" to poor Black Southerners being lynched and beaten. She also recounts Celia Sánchez's largely unrecognized work steering the revolution against the sexual exploitation of children by mobsters running gambling operations on the island. Walker has made four trips to Cuba in total.\n\nThat history of connection runs forward into the present. Busboys and Poets founder Andy Shallal describes the 2024 unveiling of a bust of Langston Hughes at the House of Poetry in Old Havana, sculpted by Cuban sculptor Duett Laskay. Hughes had translated the poems of Cuban national poet Nicolás Guillén into a collection also titled *Cuba Libre*, and the two men's verse shared a foundation in blues and son rhythms.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-12"},{"id":"121447","t":"Diversity and Engagement in the Diaspora","d":1786640400,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"12","sho":"diversiandengagemindiaspor","mp3":null,"desc":"Danny Valdez grew up in Miami believing his grandfather had been jailed for his beliefs — then discovered the man was actually a cop under the previous regime who had been funneling money to anti-revolutionary groups. That unraveling led Valdez to co-found Cuban Americans for Cuba, an organization he describes as a Cuban American counterweight to AIPAC. In March, he traveled to Havana as part of the Nuestra América convoy, organized in response to the Trump administration's oil blockade on Cuba; strangers on the street stopped the group to thank them for coming.\n\nThis hour is part of WPFW's 24-hour Cuba Libre programming marking the centennial birthday of Fidel Castro. The conversation also takes in the Venceremos Brigade's decades of annual work-delegations to Cuba, the 2019 Cuban constitutional reforms that followed the Obama-era normalization period, and Cuba's development of medications for Alzheimer's, lung cancer, and a diabetes treatment credited with preventing amputations.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-12"},{"id":"121446","t":"Aijaco","d":1786636800,"len":"1:00:04","days":null,"cat":"12","sho":"aijaco","mp3":null,"desc":"DJ Abby closes with Bobby Céspedes's *Si Agua No Llueve, Maíz No Crece* — \"If it doesn't rain, corn doesn't grow\" — framing it as commentary on current conditions and a call to lift the U.S. blockade on Cuba. That closing choice is one thread in a larger design: this *Cuba Libre* broadcast on WPFW marks the centennial birthday of Fidel Castro with a daylong fundraiser built around what DJ Abby calls an \"ajiaco\" mix, named for a Cuban stew she describes as a metaphor for the Cuban people — multiple elements and textures blending, against America's melting-pot homogenization.\n\nTwo all-women salsa orchestras anchor the music, Son Damas and Orquesta Anacoana, alongside Los Van Van, Daimé Arocena, Ibeji, and Céspedes. Host Katea Stitt will also speak with Alice Walker and Andy Shallal about Cuba and Castro — Walker among those who met Castro many times.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-12"},{"id":"121445","t":"Revolutionary Friendship","d":1786633201,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"12","sho":"revolutionarfriendship","mp3":null,"desc":"In 1984, Benjamin Chavis Jr. introduced Fidel Castro at a United Methodist Church in Havana — the first time Castro had entered a Christian church since the Cuban Revolution. Chavis was there as a PhD student at Union Theological Seminary with the Black Theology Project, on the same visit that brought Jesse Jackson to negotiate the release of Cuban political prisoners. Speaking with host Julianne Malveaux, Chavis also describes being present with Cuban troops during the 1980s Battle of Cuito Canavale in Angola, where Castro had conditioned troop withdrawal on South Africa freeing Nelson Mandela, while the Reagan administration backed the apartheid regime's designs on Angola, Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.\n\nMalveaux brings her own witness to the conversation. In May she traveled to Cuba with a delegation led by Ron Daniels of the Center for the Black World, and she reports a baby who died when an incubator lost power during a rolling blackout. A medical student from the Bronx struggled to find vegetarian food because of transportation shortages, and a hospital visit left a colleague with a bill of eight dollars.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-12"},{"id":"121444","t":"The ELAM Model and Health as a Human Right","d":1786629600,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"12","sho":"elammodelandhealtashumanright","mp3":null,"desc":"Sitting across from Fidel Castro in Havana in 2001, Dr. Lucy Pérez suggested Cuba's meningitis vaccine could bring \"fiscal resources\" to the island. Castro turned her down flat. He also declined her invitation to the National Medical Association's annual convention in Hawaii, saying the only U.S. hotel he would stay in was the Hotel Teresa in Harlem. Pérez, past president of the NMA and former Black Panther Party member, traces her relationship with the Cuban health model back to her teenage years running a Free People's Clinic on Sutter Avenue in Brooklyn and teaching health door-to-door through the Party.\n\nHer 2001 delegation visit to the Latin American School of Medicine found students receiving full tuition, housing, and food in exchange for a commitment to return and serve underserved communities in the United States. That same solidarity is the lens through which she examines Cuba's response to Hurricane Katrina — Castro offered a medical team for a full year while the Bush administration committed only six months — and the current toll of sanctions on Cuba's power grid, which Pérez says has left 100,000 surgeries unperformed and dialysis patients without treatment.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-12"},{"id":"121442","t":"Cuba: Master of its Own Destiny","d":1786626000,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"12","sho":"cubamasteritsowndestinysolidarendbl","mp3":null,"desc":"A waiting list of 100,000 Cubans needing surgery — 12,000 of them children — exists because a January 2025 executive order cut off oil supplies, leaving hospitals with only 2–3 hours of electricity per day. Cuba's Ambassador to the United Nations, Ernesto Soberón Guzmán, adds that 36,000 pregnant women cannot get an ultrasound. Bob Schwartz of Global Health Partners reports Cuba's infant mortality rate has nearly doubled to 10 deaths per 1,000 live births. His organization has worked to supply two Havana hospitals with incubators, ventilators, and prenatal nutrition, part of more than $280 million in medical supplies donated over three decades.\n\nThat history of deprivation did not begin in January 2025. Cultural scholar James Early traces the blockade to Eisenhower administration documents explicitly naming hunger and desperation as tools of regime change, then draws a line from that history through Malcolm X's welcome of the Cuban UN delegation in Harlem to today's push for congressional action. The program is hosted by Mimi Rosenberg.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-12"},{"id":"121441","t":"Democracy Now!","d":1786622400,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"7","sho":"democragoodman","mp3":null,"desc":null,"gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-12"},{"id":"121440","t":"Buena Vista Social Club and Beyond","d":1786611600,"len":"3:00:03","days":null,"cat":"12","sho":"buenavistasociaclubandbeyon","mp3":null,"desc":"A Washington judge ordered Kennedy Center trustees to pay jazz musician Chuck Redd $252,000 in legal fees — news Craig Williams broke mid-broadcast on his Morning Brew Classic Jazz Edition. The lawsuit stemmed from the cancellation of Redd's Christmas show, and a \"Hands Around the Kennedy Center\" rally was set for September 18th.\n\nWilliams used Ry Cooder's 1997 Buena Vista Social Club project, later paired with a Wim Wenders film, as an entry point into Cuban jazz's longer history. Roy Hargrove's Crisol band — featuring Chucho Valdés, Gary Bartz, and Russell Malone — shared the program with Mongo Santamaría's \"Afro Blue\" and \"Elephant Pants.\" Jerry Gonzalez took on Monk's \"Misterioso\" from *Rumba para Monk*. Gonzalo Rubalcaba played \"Transparency\" alongside the late Charlie Haden on *Tokyo Adagio*, with further duets pairing Hilario Durán with David Virales.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-12"},{"id":"121439","t":"The Music Bed Presents Dalé Liberaciión","d":1786600800,"len":"3:00:03","days":null,"cat":"12","sho":"musicbedpresentsdaleacuteliberacii","mp3":null,"desc":"DJ Cody V closes a three-hour set with Common's \"Song for Assata,\" first telling listeners that ballistics evidence showed Assata Shakur could not have held the gun in question — and that her comrades later broke her out of prison before she lived in Cuba. That moment caps a centennial birthday tribute to Fidel Castro broadcast on WPFW, moving through classic Cuban boleros and Afro-Cuban music: Omara Portuondo, Ibrahim Ferrer, Antonio Machín, Tito Puente, and Dizzy Gillespie's rendition of Manteca.\n\nThe set is part of a full day of Cuba Libre programming. Program director Katea Stitt secured a $10,000 matching grant for it, which Craig Williams joins to announce. DJ Cody V previews the rest of the 24-hour schedule: Cuba's role in African liberation, the new Cuban Family Code, and a 2 p.m. hour featuring Alice Walker and Andy Shallal.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-12"},{"id":"121438","t":"Afro-Cuban Music:","d":1786593600,"len":"2:00:03","days":null,"cat":"12","sho":"afrocubamusic","mp3":null,"desc":"Fidel Castro's centennial birthday prompted WPFW to run a full 24-hour tribute to Cuba, and Saiz Kamaluddin opened it at midnight with this special edition of *Life Music*. The playlist ran from Celia Cruz and Tito Puente to Orquesta Revé, Harry Belafonte, the Fania All-Stars, Pancho Sanchez, and Johnny Pacheco, with Pérez Prado's \"Patricia\" in the mix alongside Kenny Dorham's \"Aphrodisiac\" from his album *Afro-Cuban*. Between sets, Kamaluddin told listeners that later in the day they would hear stories, information about current conditions in Cuba, and ways to help. The broadcast ran from midnight to 2 a.m.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-12"},{"id":"121435","t":"Konbit Lakay","d":1786575600,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"konbitlsdayiti","mp3":null,"desc":"Eugenia Charles opens by arguing that the Bois-Caïman gathering of 1791 was not primarily a spiritual ceremony but a strategic political meeting — one that took twelve years to organize, carried out underground by women and men traveling routes unknown to slave masters in Saint-Domingue. That reframing anchors the anniversary episode of Konbit Lakay. The second half airs a segment from a WBAI special report on the TPS crisis, including New York Mayor Mamdani's statement explaining that the city was forced to separate Haitian municipal workers after the Supreme Court's 6-3 decision lifted a stay on ending TPS for 350,000 Haitians. Civil rights attorney Norman Siegel joins other guests to debate whether the city's move will trigger a cascading compliance effect across both the public and private sectors.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-11"},{"id":"121434","t":"New World Order","d":1786572000,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"newworldorder","mp3":null,"desc":"Ahmad performed at a Free D.C. Project rally the day before this recording, marking one year since Trump sent the National Guard to take over MPD. That event is the entry point into a Black August episode built around the four tenets — study, fast, train, and fight — that incarcerated people at San Quentin Prison first observed in 1979 to honor George Jackson and other Black freedom fighters.\n\nYoung members of the Freedom Futures Collective take turns at the mic, weaving original music through roundtable conversation about community control over food and funding, the racial wealth gap, and police brutality. One host reaches for Maya Angelou's \"Still I Rise\" and her work alongside Martin Luther King and Malcolm X to argue that training should point toward liberation, not personal success. The collective names what they hope will no longer define Black life in America by 2076.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-11"},{"id":"121433","t":"All Eyes on DC","d":1786568400,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"alleyeondc","mp3":null,"desc":"FBI agents don't give up easily. When a teenager turned them away the day after they watched National Guard pull a kid off a Lime bike, they came back with a taunt: they read out the names of the kid's incarcerated friends. Jawana Hardy, U.S. Air Force veteran and founder of Guns Down Friday, tells host Brother Sam PK Collins exactly how that unfolded, and how a Know Your Rights training led by Black Swan Academy made it possible.\n\nPoet Janari Mitchell describes being handcuffed by four Park Police officers at Anacostia Metro Station on June 29th — the first day of a summer youth employment program — having her shoelaces and shorts drawstring removed, and sitting at the Park Police station at Haines Point for hours before charges were dropped. Mitchell names it plainly: a pattern of data collection and surveillance targeting Black youth. Both guests are speaking from communities east of the Anacostia River, at the one-year mark of what Collins calls the federal occupation of Washington, DC.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-11"},{"id":"121431","t":"Shay Wah Nana","d":1786557600,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"shoofee","mp3":null,"desc":"Ta-Nehisi Coates grew up watching the nightly news with his Baltimore parents, who talked about Israelis and Palestinians in terms of \"who was oppressed, who was not.\" He later dismissed that framing as too simple, then traveled, wrote *The Message*, and concluded that \"the basic morality that I had grown up with actually probably had more to say about the world.\" In November 2023 he hosted a private gathering at his home, bringing together Palestinian Americans and Black journalists to talk through what was happening and what was coming.\n\nHost Zein El-Amine, a WPFW volunteer for seven or eight years, anchors the interview in the argument that domestic and international injustice are inextricable, citing the Martin Luther King line about bombs dropped on Vietnam falling on American cities. One measure of what that means in practice: a journalist Al-Amin had lined up to speak from South Lebanon went dark for two weeks — she was in an area under bombardment.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-11"},{"id":"121430","t":"AfricaNow!","d":1786554000,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"africanunthali","mp3":null,"desc":"At Busboys and Poets, Linda Penzey-Gunther reads aloud from her book *No to Nuclear* about the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, then pivots to Operation Plumbat, a covert Israeli operation that smuggled Congolese uranium to the Dimona nuclear center. The ore came from the Shinkolobwe mine in the Belgian Congo, grading at roughly 65% purity against 0.5% in Canada or Czechoslovakia — which is why it mattered so much to the Manhattan Project. Maurice Carney, executive director of Friends of the Congo, traces that supply chain forward into present-day conflict over the DRC's minerals.\n\nPenzey-Gunther also covers Navajo miners told uranium extraction was their \"patriotic duty,\" who worked without protective gear and are now surrounded by at least 500 abandoned mines on their land. Host Mwiza Munthali closes with a pledge-drive segment dedicating the fundraising goal to WPFW's first program director, Denise Oliver-Vélez, a Young Lord and Black Panther.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-11"},{"id":"121428","t":"TBD","d":1786546801,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"nea","mp3":null,"desc":"Marion Barry walked out of a Howard University appointment, saw a van pull up, and broke down crying — it was full of Black male amputees arriving for dialysis. Kim Dickens recounts that moment, and it anchors *To Heal D.C.*, which tracks why Washington, D.C. has the highest kidney disease rate of any city in the United States, with some Southeast D.C. zip codes running four times the national average. Dr. Clive Callender, the transplant surgeon who performed Barry's own 2009 kidney transplant, makes that case.\n\nDr. Theodore Watkins goes further: lab reference ranges classify stage-two and stage-three kidney failure as normal, most physicians never share GFR numbers with patients, and Watkins describes reversing late-stage kidney failure using a plant-based diet and activated charcoal. The episode also hears from Katea Stitt, who gave a kidney to performance poet Sekou Sundiata around 2000 and found that six friends volunteered to be tested at Westchester Medical Center while only one family member did.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-11"},{"id":"121427","t":"Wake Up, Stay Woke","d":1786543200,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"wakeupstaywoke","mp3":null,"desc":"Diane Powell, founder and director of Community and Family Builders, wants you to notice the unopened mail, the accumulating boxes from excessive ordering, the forgotten steps for making coffee. These are warning signs of dementia, and she's specific about why Black women need to hear them. African Americans are twice as likely to develop dementia as their white counterparts, two-thirds of those diagnosed are women, and over 7 million people in the U.S. currently live with the disease. Powell gives out the Alzheimer's Association 24/7 hotline number on air.\n\nThat same clarity about where people are and what they don't yet know carries into the second conversation. Dr. Hattie Washington — Florida's 2026 Mother of the Year — describes walking onto Norfolk State's campus without having applied, not knowing college required an application or tuition. That story threads into her new book *Happy Motherhood Every Day*, launching on National Relaxation Day, August 15th. Host Faye Williams leads both conversations on *Wake Up and Stay Woke*, Wednesday, August 12, 2026.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-11"},{"id":"121426","t":"What's At Stake","d":1786539600,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"whatstake","mp3":null,"desc":"Yajide Orenmila, president of the African National Women's Organization, calls it the \"Arrest CPS\" campaign — launched in 2016 after two Philadelphia mothers sought help and lost their children instead. On *What's at Stake*, host Denise Young pairs Orenmila with Dr. Annie Woodley Brown, retired Howard University professor of social work, to press on whether Child Protective Services protects Black children or polices Black families. Orenmila argues that when poverty-related neglect triggers removal, the money follows the child to foster care while the original family gets nothing — or gets sent to anger management classes they didn't need, arriving angry only because their children were taken. Dr. Woodley Brown answers with the history of family preservation programs, kinship care, and the professional development of \"cultural competency\" in risk assessment to prevent one-size-fits-all removal.\n\nThe hour also carries audio from a series by the late journalist and activist Ambrose I. Lane Sr., reading verbatim from 1690s South Carolina statutes — including the law specifying the exact grades of cloth enslaved people were permitted to wear.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-11"},{"id":"121425","t":"Democracy Now!","d":1786536000,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"7","sho":"democragoodman","mp3":null,"desc":null,"gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-11"},{"id":"121419","t":"Liberation on Our Minds","d":1786489200,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"liberaonourminds","mp3":null,"desc":"Muhammad al-Kuwaiti, speaking one month before he was killed, described losing his wife, his son, and every piece of archived work he had made since 2005 in a single strike. His words come from the Living Record Project, an unreleased oral archive built by Writers Against the War on Gaza from testimony by Gaza journalists about their killed colleagues. Translated from Arabic by volunteers and read aloud, these testimonies were aired for the first time anywhere on Liberation on Our Minds, broadcast August 11, 2026, by the DMV chapter of the Palestinian Youth Movement. A WAWAG member named Sami explained that the project emerged from criticism that Western memorials cast martyred journalists as isolated individual heroes rather than a collective. He also described the challenge of building a website that resists reducing people to \"little boxes on a web page or numbers in a database.\"\n\nThe archive holds other voices. A colleague remembers Anas al-Sharif saying he spoke \"the language of the street\" deliberately, so his message would reach \"the ignorant before the educated.\" A colleague of Mahmoud al-Nauq describes how he opened his home in Deir el-Balah to everyone fleeing the north, then was killed two days after their last phone call, along with roughly twenty members of his family.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-10"},{"id":"121418","t":"Full Spectrum","d":1786485600,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"fullspectru","mp3":null,"desc":"Malcolm X's voice opens this episode of *Full Spectrum* — his \"Ballot or the Bullet\" speech played as evidence that Black voters' loyalty to the Democratic Party proves his own charge that they are \"chumps.\" From there, host Anthony Rogers-Wright and guest Jacqueline Luqman, host of *Darker Than Blue*, trace what they call the party's slide from de facto to de jure racism through the 1965 Moynihan Report, the 1994 Crime Bill, and the rise of the Democratic Leadership Council under Bill Clinton.\n\nThat historical arc finds a live example in a recent clip of Democratic strategist James Carville, who dismisses Kamala Harris's 2028 chances and says the path to the nomination runs through making Black voters in South Carolina \"hum and sway.\" Rogers-Wright and Luqman take that line as evidence of what they call the party's contempt for Black material needs. The episode closes on Rogers-Wright's concept of \"fourth-way politics,\" applied to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: her 2021 Met Gala appearance in a \"tax the rich\" dress and her defense of the Biden administration's deportation record in an interview with *Jacobin*.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-10"},{"id":"121417","t":"Black Agenda Radio","d":1786482000,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"7","sho":"blackagendareportradio","mp3":null,"desc":"Ambassador Melenin Lakal, Deputy Representative of the Sahrawi Republic to the African Union, tells Black Agenda Radio host Margaret Kimberley that a 1975 deal Kissinger helped engineer set the foundation for fifty years of Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara. Morocco has since weaponized that position — deploying mass migration into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, Pegasus spyware against Spanish Prime Minister Sánchez, and a drug-trafficking network worth an estimated $23 billion to press European governments into accepting its claims.\n\nDetroit-based journalist and activist Abayomi Azikiwe turns to a closer contest: the Michigan Democratic Senate primary, where Dr. Abdul El-Sayed defeated AIPAC-backed incumbent Haley Stevens despite an estimated $60–70 million spent against him. Azikiwe examines a generational fault line in Detroit — older Black voters broke roughly 60–40 for Stevens while younger voters backed El-Sayed — and connects that divide to the Flint water crisis, deindustrialization, and the broader erosion of Democratic Party legitimacy.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-10"},{"id":"121416","t":"Something to Say","d":1786474800,"len":"2:00:03","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"somethisay","mp3":null,"desc":"Carlos Mare 139 was painting subway cars in the South Bronx before hip-hop had a name. Now his b-boy sculptures and large-scale paintings, influenced by the Italian Futurists, anchor two simultaneous exhibitions. One just opened on the site of the former Spofford Detention Center in the South Bronx, centered on a Truth and Reconciliation Cypher through dance and words. The other is at the Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C., through the State Department's Arts in Embassies program. He joined host Mazi Mutafa on *Something to Say* alongside Michelle \"Noodles\" Smith — one of D.C.'s original B-Girls, a 37-year radio veteran, and founder of T-Con, a 10-year-old t-shirt and fashion convention at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.\n\nSmith started T-Con after customers kept bringing poorly made merch into her store Cookie Ware, and she is currently writing *The Pioneers of Hip-Hop of Washington, D.C.: The Beginning*. The hour opened with 16-year-old Prince George's County poet Chimwekeli Okoro reading an untitled poem about leaving home, followed by additional youth poetry from the monthly open mic Slamtastic.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-10"},{"id":"121415","t":"Capitalism, Race & Democracy","d":1786471201,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"7","sho":"covidraceampdemocr","mp3":null,"desc":"Dr. Anthony Fauci invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination more than 120 times before the Senate Homeland Security Committee in July 2026. That committee, chaired by Rand Paul, then voted 8 to 7 along party lines to refer a contempt charge to the Department of Justice. Paulina Vasilev hosts this episode of *Capitalism, Race, and Democracy*.\n\nOn the ground in San Francisco, SEIU 1021 mental health chapter president Augusto Guerra describes how his clinic serving Medicaid patients faces closure, accusing union leadership of \"direct dealing\" that used vulnerable clinics as bargaining chips to protect other workers' jobs. His colleague Cheryl Thornton adds that District 10 — San Francisco's largest and poorest district — has no pharmacies, leaving children with asthma unable to fill prescriptions. The episode then reaches back to 1968, where former Black Panther Party members Clarence Thomas and Judy Juanita explain how Juanita's discovery of a \"2% rule\" in San Francisco State's admissions office pushed student organizers to raise their open-enrollment demand from 40 to 400 students, building the base that made the strike possible.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-10"},{"id":"121414","t":"Project Censored","d":1786467600,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"7","sho":"projcen","mp3":null,"desc":"After 50 years in classrooms, William Pernickis says the censorship he sees in U.S. public education today is the worst of his entire career. On The Project Censored Show, hosts Mickey Huff and Eleanor Goldfield talk with Pernickis and fellow Human Rights Educators USA co-founder Kristi Redelius-Palmer about building the first pre-K through 12th grade human rights curriculum in the country, developed in Minnesota in 2003, and teaching over 10,000 students — with human rights education required for graduation in one New Jersey school district. Journalist Kevin Gosztola then explains how his newsletter, the Elmwood Park Advocate, drew retaliation from his local library after it reported on uneven weed-code enforcement in his Chicago suburb — a fight that ended with him winning the Illinois Library Association's 2026 Intellectual Freedom Award. Gosztola also covers the House Ways and Means Committee's subpoenaing of Breakthrough News and his film-by-film series on post-9/11 propaganda, beginning with Black Hawk Down, running at weeklymatinee.substack.com.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-10"},{"id":"121412","t":"Community Watch & Comment - Tuesday","d":1786460400,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"8","sho":"comcomb","mp3":null,"desc":"Taylor Fraser McCollum's family homes sit less than a mile from the site of a proposed $5 billion, 820-megawatt data center campus in Landover. She launched a Change.org petition against it; after the Party for Socialism and Liberation promoted it on Instagram, signatures reached 25,000. David Rabin speaks with McCollum, who credits that pressure with securing Prince George's County's two-year moratorium and now argues for an outright ban on hyperscale data centers, warning that even closed-loop cooling systems discharge wastewater containing biocides, heavy metals, and corrosion inhibitors into the Potomac River — ranked the most endangered river in the United States. Steve Shapiro of Praxis Energy, who has testified before the Montgomery County Council, offers a different path: host communities issue requests for information that set enforceable terms on energy sourcing, property values, and noise before any developer enters negotiations. He points to a Google pilot in New Jersey that installs solar and battery equipment directly in residents' homes as one possible template.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-10"},{"id":"121411","t":"Crossroads","d":1786456800,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"roachbrown","mp3":null,"desc":"In 1990, Tyrone Colbert received a life-plus-20-year sentence during the crack epidemic while his white co-defendants got five years. He joined *Crossroads* host Roach Brown to talk about his stage play *The Waiting Room*, which centers not on the incarcerated but on the women visiting them: wives, girlfriends, sisters, aunts making one-to-two-hour trips to facilities in Hagerstown and the Eastern Shore. The play draws directly from the life of his wife Ivy, who wrote to Colbert after reading his prison articles in Court of Harlem magazine and visited him for 14 years before Governor Hogan released him in 2022. One scene shows a woman confronted by an officer over her underwire bra.\n\nNow a Justice Ambassador with Prison Fellowship, Colbert also discussed his advocacy trips to Capitol Hill on behalf of returning citizens and his interest in eventually writing a play about Fannie Lou Hamer. *The Waiting Room* runs two performances on September 20th at the Bethesda Writers Center; tickets are at tyvyproductions.com.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-10"},{"id":"121410","t":"Voices With Vision","d":1786453200,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"voiceswdiocoop","mp3":null,"desc":"Onyeka Igwe noticed something about London's blue plaques: C.L.R. James and Paul Robeson were honored, but the women who worked alongside them — Una Marson, Amy Ashwood Garvey — were not. That absence drove her short film *A Radical Duet*, which imagines a 1947 London encounter between Nigerian activist Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti and a young Caribbean student-dancer based on Sylvia Wynter, the two women attempting to write a revolutionary play together. Igwe discussed the film with co-hosts Nefer Freeman and Craig; it screens August 14–16 at the African Diaspora International Film Festival DC at George Washington University.\n\nThe episode also marks the approaching centennial of Fidel Castro, pairing journalist Camila Escalante's report on an ALBA movements gathering at the University of Havana with archival audio of Kwame Ture. Ture argued that Cuba had sent more doctors to Africa than the United States and all of Western Europe combined, and recalled finding Cuban combatants among liberation movements including MPLA and FRELIMO when he first traveled to Africa in the 1960s.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-10"},{"id":"121409","t":"Democracy Now!","d":1786449600,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"7","sho":"democragoodman","mp3":null,"desc":null,"gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-10"},{"id":"121403","t":"Building Bridges","d":1786402801,"len":"1:00:05","days":null,"cat":"7","sho":"buildingbridges","mp3":null,"desc":"A 4.5-by-6-foot cell at the Alameda County Jail — guards called it the Soul Breaker. In 1964, Huey P. Newton was locked inside one. Historian and retired judge Lisa Pearlman traces that world on *Building Bridges* with host Mimi Rosenberg, discussing her book *Huey P. Newton's Family: Roots of a Revolutionary Suicide* — the Newton family's passage through slavery, Jim Crow, and the Great Migration out of Alabama, Louisiana, and Arkansas to Oakland. She reads a second passage as well, linking Emmett Till's 1955 murder to the political awakening of David Hilliard, future Black Panther Party Chief of Staff.\n\nProfessor Emeritus Melvin Newton joins the conversation, explaining that the Black Panther Party's 10-point program was modeled on the Black Muslims' platform and crediting Ralph Ellison's *Invisible Man* with radicalizing his own thinking. D.L. Newton, Huey's nephew and treasurer of the Longshoremen's Union in Oakland, rounds out the program, describing recent work stoppages at the CNA Sugar Factory and at the docks to block ships carrying armaments.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-09"},{"id":"121402","t":"Inside Out Collective","d":1786399200,"len":"1:00:06","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"lmpab","mp3":null,"desc":"Coach Queen Nai spent a decade married to a narcissistic partner. She has since opened a brick-and-mortar healing center in Woodbridge, Virginia — now in its fifth year — built specifically around narcissistic abuse recovery in LGBTQ+ communities. She tells host Mimi Magic how same-sex relationship abuse gets dismissed as \"just a catfight,\" and why that erasure compounds the harm. Leaving a narcissist, she explains, produces neurological changes visible on brain scans.\n\nHer recovery work draws on selenite wands, inner-child exercises, and nervous system regulation techniques. Queen Nai also announces she is removing tarot card readings from her booking menu in favor of intuitive and prophetic readings. Her book, *She Who Returns to Her*, is available on Amazon.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-09"},{"id":"121401","t":"To The East","d":1786395601,"len":"1:00:06","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"east","mp3":null,"desc":"Scott Kratz of Building Bridges Across the River tells Ambrose Lane Jr. that last year's Back-to-School Festival handed out 750 backpacks in 45 minutes. This year's August 23rd event at the ARC on Mississippi Avenue in Ward 8 is scaling up to 2,000 backpacks, 700 pairs of shoes, 33 barbers, hair braiding, and free eye exams with same-day glasses.\n\nInvestigative journalist Eli Clifton, co-author of *Israel's Lobby: America in the Grip of a Foreign Power*, breaks down AIPAC's super PAC spending in the Michigan Democratic Senate primary in an excerpt from the Useful Idiots podcast: $32 million against Abdul El-Sayed, more than the combined $23 million spent to defeat Cori Bush and Jamaal Bowman, with 97% of those donations coming from outside Michigan. The programme closes with a Black history segment covering August 10th through 16th, marking Anna Julia Cooper's birth in 1858, Carol Moseley Braun's birth in 1947, and the 1965 Watts rebellion.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-09"},{"id":"121399","t":"To Your Health","d":1786384800,"len":"0:52:27","days":null,"cat":"11","sho":"tohealth","mp3":null,"desc":"Dr. Theodore Watkins, host of *To Your Health*, once quit sugar and watched his chronic headaches disappear — then traced the cause back to his Saturday-night strawberry milkshake habit. From that starting point he explains how hyper-palatable foods trigger the brain's dopamine and endorphin systems the same way opiates do, with roughly 20% of the U.S. population affected and women addicted at nearly twice the rate of men. Treatment approaches include elimination diets, cognitive behavioral therapy, and fasting.\n\nCo-host Frank Smith brings his own measure of what those changes can mean: he is now 13 years past a 2013 cancer diagnosis that gave him a six-percent survival chance, a margin he attributes to lifestyle change. Watkins widens the lens further, connecting Black Americans' kidney failure rate — four times that of white Americans — to diet-related hypertension and diabetes rather than genetics alone.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-09"},{"id":"121398","t":"Equal Portions","d":1786381200,"len":"0:57:17","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"equalportion","mp3":null,"desc":"Alphonso Coles spent 20 years managing clinics in Ward 7 at D.C. General Hospital. What broke him was finding cigarette machines and 35-cent sodas in a building full of diabetic patients — and watching cardiologists eat badly in the cafeteria. He tells host Seisha Lemira how those observations led him to found Urban Seed, a proposed indoor farming and urban aquaculture operation built around a recirculating aquacultural system. It would grow branzino and vegetables year-round, sell them through an attached bodega, and carry halal and kosher certification alongside a partnership with UDC's urban agriculture program.\n\nLemira brings the same attention to a single ingredient in her \"Story of Food\" segment: chayote, the gourd-family vegetable pear standard in Louisiana Creole cooking but rarely appearing on DMV menus. She shares her father's recipe — chayote and tri-color peppers marinated in red wine vinegar, rice wine vinegar, balsamic vinegar, and hoisin sauce. Local tracks by Rent Riot and DSMB R round out the hour.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-09"},{"id":"121396","t":"Make It Plain","d":1786374000,"len":"1:00:06","days":null,"cat":"9","sho":"makeitplai","mp3":null,"desc":"Among Black women who call themselves progressive, 54% of Gen Z also identify as Democratic Socialists — a number that stops Reverend Mark A. Thompson and Brother Minister Jamil Muhammad cold. Dr. Avis Jones-DeWeaver brings the data: the Annual Black Women's Roundtable Power of the Silent Vote Poll shows a 20-point surge in Black women's motivation to vote compared to two years earlier, and a 17-point increase since 2024 in the share identifying as strongly Democrat. Thompson and Muhammad tie the shift to federal worker layoffs, cuts to SNAP, and attacks on affirmative action, framing each as part of what they call an ongoing assault on Black women's economic security.\n\nThe broadcast falls during WPFW's summer pledge drive. Thompson also tells a story about his grandfather, director of admissions at Fisk University, where a young Marion Barry was a student before he came to Washington.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-09"},{"id":"121395","t":"Heal DC","d":1786370400,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"tohealdc","mp3":null,"desc":"Marion Barry wept in a parking lot after encountering a van full of Black men — all amputees, all headed to dialysis — and declared, \"Now we have to do something about this.\" On this episode of *Heal DC*, Dr. Clive Callender, the Howard University transplant surgeon who performed Barry's 2009 kidney transplant, explains that 12 people die every day nationally from the shortage of organ donors, and that Black Americans account for roughly 35% of end-stage kidney disease patients despite being 13.5% of the U.S. population — Washington D.C. carrying the highest rate of kidney disease in the country. Dr. Theodore Watkins argues that doctors routinely fail to tell patients they are already in Stage 2 or 3 kidney failure, because a GFR reading the lab slip marks as \"greater than 59\" actually indicates third-stage failure, and describes reversing late-stage kidney disease through a plant-based diet, activated charcoal, and walking. The second half features two kidney donors: Katea Stitt, who donated to performance poet and professor Sekou Sundiata in 2001, recounts that six friends — only one a family member — volunteered to be tested together at Westchester Medical Center. Kim Dickens describes the parking lot moment that moved Barry to act.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-09"},{"id":"121394","t":"MALVEAUX!","d":1786366800,"len":"0:46:32","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"malveaux","mp3":null,"desc":"Exxon and Chevron didn't discover new oil or build anything new, economist Brion Williams of the Groundwork Collaborative tells host Julianne Malveaux — the war in Iran simply repriced the barrels they already had overnight. That windfall went to shareholders, not consumers. An estimated $166 billion collected from Americans through tariffs has similarly never been returned to working families.\n\nNajeeb Mujahid, founder of the Black August Planning Organization, anchors the observance to two fixed points: Jonathan Jackson's armed entry into a Marin County courthouse on August 7, 1970, and the assassination of George Jackson at San Quentin on August 21, 1971. The Black August Organizing Committee in California built the observance afterward around study, physical training, and fasting modeled partly on Ramadan; the Washington, D.C. observance began around 2008 or 2009. Mujahid cautions that a recent resurgence risks diluting what is a commemoration, not a celebration, and directs listeners to blackaugustpo.org for events.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-09"},{"id":"121393","t":"Democracy Now!","d":1786363200,"len":"0:40:25","days":null,"cat":"7","sho":"democragoodman","mp3":null,"desc":null,"gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-09"},{"id":"121365","t":"News Views","d":1786140000,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"2","sho":"nusvus","mp3":null,"desc":"In 1953, the CIA and British intelligence toppled Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh after he moved to nationalize Iran's oil — then handed the U.S. 50 percent of the profits while ordinary Iranians received nothing. Host Garland Nixon opens *News Views* with that history and argues it is the only honest starting point for understanding current U.S.-Iran tensions. He builds from there into what he calls \"imperial overstretch\": hypersonic missiles and long-range drones have made the old colonial playbook unworkable, a case he illustrates with Yemen's demonstrated ability to threaten Red Sea shipping. The hour also covers the Belgian colonization of the Congo and France's extraction of uranium from Niger while most Nigerians had no electricity. Nixon draws a closing parallel between the Iranian Revolution's mosque-based organizing and the Black church networks that structured slave revolts in the antebellum South.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-06"},{"id":"121364","t":"Darker Than Blue","d":1786136400,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"darkethanblue","mp3":null,"desc":"Dr. Abdul El-Sayed won the Michigan Democratic primary while being outspent 11 to 1 in what host Jackie and guest Anthony Rogers-Wright of Full Spectrum call the most expensive Senate race in the history of the country. That result becomes the entry point for a wider argument about racism inside the Democratic Party, AIPAC's reach into local elections, and what they describe as a new Red Scare. Central to that argument is a contrast between American resistance to socialist policies and unconditional support for Israel, which they argue already provides universal healthcare and free college tuition.\n\nThe conversation ranges back to the Democratic Leadership Council's reaction to Jesse Jackson's 1988 primary campaign, then forward to the Black Panther Party's rule requiring members to study two hours daily, and to the news that Puerto Rico is rationing water while hosting six data centers on the island. This is a pledge-drive edition of *Darker Than Blue*.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-06"},{"id":"121362","t":"Resistance Radio with John and Regan","d":1786125600,"len":"1:00:06","days":null,"cat":"7","sho":"letstalknativa","mp3":null,"desc":"John Kane, broadcasting from the Cattaraugus territory of the Seneca Nation, asks why Native people were declared citizens in 1924 by an ordinary statute when a constitutional amendment was required to grant citizenship to people of African descent. He points to the \"Indians not taxed\" language in Section 2 of the 14th Amendment as evidence that the exclusion was deliberate. Hawaiians, he notes, received citizenship through a joint resolution of Congress that carries no force of law. Kane also breaks down why 70% of domestic violence against Native women is committed by non-Native men who cannot be prosecuted in tribal courts, and he criticizes the Deb Haaland-era report on residential schools for calculating redress based on what Congress spent committing the atrocity rather than on the harm caused.\n\nJacqueline Luqman joins Kane during the fund drive to discuss the citizenship arguments and take calls.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-06"},{"id":"121361","t":"Latino Media Collective","d":1786122001,"len":"1:00:05","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"latinomedia","mp3":null,"desc":"Martina Grifaldo's network had already been tracking ICE movements since 5:30 a.m. when the footage of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo's shooting death arrived at 7 — making her organization, Alianza Latina Internacional, among the first to post it. She tells host Oscar Fernandez how her 350,000-follower Facebook page uses coded language and fire emojis to flag ICE locations without triggering platform censorship. At a press conference included in the episode, Salgado Araujo's son explains that his father ran from the unmarked cars because he thought someone was trying to steal his work tools.\n\nThat death landed in a city already on edge. The previous week, 15 groups of construction workers — concrete workers, brick workers, and others — had staged a work stoppage over fear of workplace raids. Grifaldo also announces that a lawsuit against the Houston Police Department was set to be filed the following day, stemming from HPD holding a man for two hours until immigration officers arrived.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-06"},{"id":"121359","t":"Community Watch & Comment - Friday / The Local Station Board Show (Last Frid","d":1786114800,"len":"1:00:02","days":null,"cat":"8","sho":"comcomfri","mp3":null,"desc":"A Maryland kid was arrested for holding a bag of Doritos — flagged by an AI surveillance system that, one caller noted, is 8 to 10 times more likely to identify people of color as suspects. On *Community Watch and Comment Friday Edition*, hosts Ron Pinchback and Chipp Jones took open phones on artificial intelligence, and the calls kept arriving with more.\n\nAnother caller drew a direct line to the nuclear arms race, arguing the U.S. rush to outpace China on AI repeats the same pattern of speed over safety. Proposed \"kill switch\" legislation would let agencies shut down AI systems that go rogue. Data centers are already driving up residential electricity and water costs, and even the coders building these systems don't fully understand how the decisions are being made.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-06"},{"id":"121357","t":"#Climate Friday","d":1786107600,"len":"1:00:06","days":null,"cat":"7","sho":"thinkclimafrida","mp3":null,"desc":"Sharon Lavine started Rise St. James in 2018 after Louisiana's governor approved a Formosa Plastics facility two miles from her home in St. James Parish. She and her daughter Shamaya Lavine-Davey tell host DeJuan Cross how Rise St. James brought a book of ancestors' names — compiled by an archaeologist — to the parish council 17 months before Formosa did, proving the proposed plant site held ancestral burial grounds; the council sided with industry anyway. A judge revoked Formosa's air permits in 2022, that decision was overturned on appeal, and Rise St. James is now pursuing a Supreme Court appeal while new EPA rules limiting ethylene oxide emissions cloud the project's economic future. Rev Yearwood's TED Talk argues the climate movement suffers from a \"crisis of imagination,\" speaking from \"the rage of the privileged\" instead of from the communities dying along Cancer Alley's 85-mile stretch between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. The episode also covers the temporary federal pause on LNG permitting and the fossil fuel industry's withdrawal of school funding — including a computer lab and dance uniforms at a local high school — after losing a fight to build.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-06"},{"id":"121356","t":"Democracy Now!","d":1786104000,"len":"1:00:06","days":null,"cat":"7","sho":"democragoodman","mp3":null,"desc":null,"gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-06"},{"id":"121350","t":"#UMustLearn","d":1786053600,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"umustlearn","mp3":null,"desc":"Cliff, co-founder of Blue Montessori on Marion Barry Avenue in Anacostia, teaches 3-to-6-year-olds using go-go drumming and HBCU-style marching. He argues that Montessori's emphasis on self-direction maps directly onto the demands of college and the workplace. His tuition-free school is in its third year.\n\nBaba Ayize's #YouMustLearn turns next to film director Ime Atuk, whose film *Outdoor School* centers on a 12-year-old boy in 1994 Portland, Oregon living under a tree with his mother and sister while guarding a pair of neon Deion Sanders patent leather Nike shoes. After audiences at screenings were repeatedly affected by the film's treatment of domestic violence, Atuk began distributing a resource guide on the subject. He also recounts meeting a 12-year-old boy outside a theater in Ashland, Oregon whose family turned out to be in a situation mirroring the film's story. *Outdoor School* screens August 15th at the George Washington University Student Center as part of the ADIFF DC festival.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-05"},{"id":"121349","t":"Unionism Drives Community","d":1786050000,"len":"1:00:06","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"unionismdrivescommunit","mp3":null,"desc":"Amazon spent $5 million trying to stop Chris Smalls from organizing JFK8 and deliberately churned workers at over 150% annual turnover to keep wages at entry level and block collective identity from forming. Renee Bowser of *Unionism Drives Community* walks through Smalls' book *When the Revolution Comes: A Fight for the Future of the Working Class*, tracing how the Amazon Labor Union prevailed anyway at the Staten Island warehouse. That same company, in 2025, was required to pay $3.95 million to the District of Columbia after the Office of the Attorney General found it had diverted customer tips meant for Amazon Flex delivery drivers to offset their base wages.\n\nA caller working for a Washington, D.C. landscape company raises the legal bar on agricultural workers forming unions in D.C., Virginia, and Maryland. That question carries the conversation into Biden-era Department of Labor regulations that may extend some organizing protections to those workers.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-05"},{"id":"121347","t":"Short Money: Dissecting Racial Capitalism","d":1786039200,"len":"1:00:06","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"shortmoneydissectiracialcapitali","mp3":null,"desc":"Jeffrey Herbsman called 911 saying \"I think I may be a danger to others\" and appeared on body camera audio saying \"I killed her\" — yet it was Michael Jackson Bolanos, a young Black Detroit man, who stood trial for the 2023 murder of Samantha Wohl, a Jewish community leader and founder of the Muslim Jewish Forum of Detroit. Host Jon Jeter of *Short Money: Dissecting Racial Capitalism* interviews Bolanos's defense attorney, Poorna Krishnamoorthi, who describes how prosecutors offered Herbsman immunity to testify only after she threatened to play his recorded confession for the jury. The jury acquitted Bolanos of murder.\n\nThe judge sentenced him to 18 months to 15 years in prison anyway, overriding a probation recommendation, for lying to police about checking car door handles. Krishnamoorthi and Jeter examine Wayne County prosecutor Kym Worthy's decision to charge Bolanos and place the case alongside other examples of disparate criminal-justice outcomes for Black defendants.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-05"},{"id":"121346","t":"The Labor Heritage Power Hour","d":1786035600,"len":"1:00:06","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"dcpolitebarras","mp3":null,"desc":"A 10-year-old Matt Damon lived next door to Howard Zinn in Boston, heard him typing *A People's History of the United States* through the wall, then went to school and argued Columbus was a monster — citing eyewitness Bartolomé de las Casas. On *Labor Heritage Power Hour*, host Chris Garlock interviews sports writer Dave Zirin about *The People's Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn*, six years in the making and Zirin's first non-sports book. They cover Zinn's union basketball team captaincy in the 1930s, his three produced plays including *Emma* and *Marx in Soho*, and how corporate broadcasters repeatedly passed on Matt Damon's attempts to adapt *A People's History* before it became *The People Speak* on the History Channel, with James Earl Jones, Chuck D, and Lupe Fiasco. The labor arts news segment reports Graham Nash and Jesse Wells canceling concerts at Richmond's Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden over a labor dispute, special effects workers across the Star Wars franchise organizing with IATSE, and the opening of *Woody Guthrie's American Song* in Washington, D.C.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-05"},{"id":"121344","t":"Code Pink Radio","d":1786028400,"len":"1:00:06","days":null,"cat":"9","sho":"codepinkwomepeac","mp3":null,"desc":"Venezuelan oil revenue now flows straight into U.S. Treasuries, with Marco Rubio controlling its distribution — Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin tells host Marcy Winograd that the Venezuelan foreign minister had to walk back even mild criticism of a U.S. action after Trump objected. Dima Khatib, managing director of Al Jazeera's multilingual digital service, reports that Israeli military personnel arrived in Caracas in full uniform under a humanitarian label, delivering a national reconstruction plan following a June 24 earthquake and reversing nearly two decades of severed ties. A clip of Representative Ro Khanna describes his 90-minute detention in the West Bank by the IDF, which he says sided with armed settlers against him. Code Pink digital organizer Mikayla Heiser reports that over 18,000 Dallas residents have been taken by ICE and that Dallas Love Field Airport is being used to charter deportation flights. She also walks through how to start a local Code Pink chapter and join the organization's biweekly calling parties targeting institutions such as the American Medical Association over the imprisonment of Palestinian hospital director Dr. Hussam Abu Safia.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-05"},{"id":"121343","t":"The Collision: Sports and Politics","d":1786024800,"len":"0:59:58","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"collision","mp3":null,"desc":"Carly Chardonnay Webb of OutSports opens with a blunt claim: the right wing has already lost the culture war — through Black quarterbacks, Jackie Robinson, and the WNBA's embrace of its queer fan base. The attacks on trans athletes, she argues, are less about sports than about erasing transgender Americans from public life entirely. She details Washington State's Ballot Initiative 638, which would require SRY gene testing of schoolchildren and includes a provision opening the door to genital inspection. That same morning, Connecticut Children's Hospital ended gender-affirming care and agreed to a $500,000 settlement with anti-trans parent groups.\n\nCo-host Chuck Modiano joins from a Zoom court appearance stemming from his arrest at a protest outside the Delaney Hall ICE detention facility, where detainees had gone on hunger strike over maggots in the food. He and Dave Zirin turn to the Michigan Democratic primaries, including Abdul El-Sayed's victory despite being outspent roughly 10 to 1, and deliver a pointed critique of Bernie Sanders for failing to shield Cori Bush and Palestinian solidarity legislators when it mattered.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-05"},{"id":"121342","t":"On The Margin","d":1786021200,"len":"1:00:06","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"empamon","mp3":null,"desc":"Tracy Childs McGee looked at the NEA's 24-book list for the U.S. 250th anniversary and noticed something: no Black women authors. That absence prompted her and a committee of 10 to build the Power Read 25 Initiative, a counter-list of 25 biographies of Black women. McGee walks host E. Ethelbert Miller through specific titles — among them Dana A. Williams's *Toni at Random*, covering Toni Morrison's years as an editor before her fame as a novelist, and Alexis Gumbs's biography of Audre Lorde.\n\nMcGee is also at work on her own Zora Neale Hurston biography, tentatively titled *Becoming Cosmic Zora*, centered on Hurston's time in Baltimore. She recounts how Robert Hemingway, author of a 1977 literary biography of Hurston, opened his research files to Valerie Boyd, whose *Wrapped in Rainbows* was published in 2003.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-05"},{"id":"121341","t":"Democracy Now!","d":1786017600,"len":"1:00:02","days":null,"cat":"7","sho":"democragoodman","mp3":null,"desc":null,"gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-05"},{"id":"121335","t":"Konbit Lakay","d":1785970800,"len":"1:00:06","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"konbitlsdayiti","mp3":null,"desc":"Viles Dorsainville, executive director of the Haitian Support Center in Springfield, Ohio, has watched TPS holders get summoned to ICE offices in Cincinnati and Westerville, fitted with ankle monitors, and offered $2,600 — money he says he has never seen anyone actually receive. Getting to those appointments is itself a problem: Springfield has no public transportation connecting it to either city, and TPS termination has stripped many holders of the ability to drive legally, leaving hundreds of community members dependent on others just to show up. Dorsainville, himself a plaintiff in a Northern California TPS case, tells host Eugenia Charles what that looks like on the ground.\n\nThe Haitian Support Center he now leads grew out of a specific moment of loss — it was founded in the aftermath of the 2023 school-bus accident that killed 11-year-old Aiden Clark. Dorsainville also raises two pieces of pending legislation: S.4814, which would extend TPS by three years, and S.2106, both of which listeners can bring to their representatives.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-05"},{"id":"121334","t":"New World Order","d":1785967200,"len":"1:00:06","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"newworldorder","mp3":null,"desc":"Liv Grace couldn't join the pandemic protests — immunocompromised family members were home — so she wrote \"Hear Me Roar\" instead, building it around a recitation of dozens of victims of police brutality. \"I might not be able to breathe, but you gonna hear me roar.\" That track opens a \"Pride, Purpose, Power Black August mashup\" from the Freedom Futures Collective's *New World Order*, songs chosen, as the hosts put it, for \"the streets, the study, and the spirit.\"\n\nThe hour moves through tracks by Suckatash (formerly Holding Access), Dynamism, and artists from the Afro Surrealist Research Bureau's seven-part *Black Noise for Black August* mixtape series, with the hosts drawing a continuous line from the 1803 Igbo Landing story — told in one interlude — to Tupac, James Brown, and Nat Turner.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-04"},{"id":"121333","t":"All Eyes on DC","d":1785963601,"len":"1:00:05","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"alleyeondc","mp3":null,"desc":"Three police cars pulled David Black over mid-interview — his car in park — and handed him a ticket for being on his phone. Black, a DC native who spent 26 years in prison for a 1997 murder he says he didn't commit, was on the inaugural episode of *All Eyes on DC* to discuss a pending motion to vacate his conviction. The motion cites witness intimidation, recanted statements, and prosecutorial suppression of evidence. He also described repeated failed attempts, while incarcerated, to reach organizations including Roc Nation for help.\n\nThe conversation then turned to what community infrastructure looks like from the outside of a cell. Brother Johannes of Pan-African Community Action laid out the group's People's Transit Solidarity Program — launching August 8th at Anacostia Metro Station with free SmarTrip card distribution — as part of a strategy for community control over public infrastructure in Southeast DC. Host Sam P.K. Collins closed by invoking Mumia Abu-Jamal and Ida B. Wells, naming the show a platform for Black journalism that refuses to be \"watered down.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-04"},{"id":"121331","t":"Shay Wah Nana","d":1785952800,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"shoofee","mp3":null,"desc":"Rukaiya Shamseddine drove through roughly 60 destroyed villages in South Lebanon — Arzoun, Ksaibe, At-Sheet — and recorded what she found: flattened neighborhoods, a bombed UNESCO-protected castle, demolished mosques, churches, and Roman-era ruins. Her field report airs on Zein El-Amine's *Shay Nana Show* alongside an interview with Laith Marouf, founder of Radio Free Palestine. Marouf reads the Israeli strike on Al-Mansouri as a political message timed to undercut a Hezbollah speech by Secretary General Sheikh Naim al-Qassem. He also argues that HTS threats against Lebanon are being used as a \"scarecrow\" to build momentum for the Lebanese government's negotiations with Israel.\n\nThe hour opens elsewhere: Al-Amin on Abdul El-Sayed's narrow Michigan Senate primary win — called by NBC but disputed by the New York Times as too close to call — framing it alongside the \"Mamdani tsunami\" as evidence that candidates who focused on affordability and rejected corporate money beat the Democratic establishment.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-04"},{"id":"121330","t":"AfricaNow!","d":1785949200,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"africanunthali","mp3":null,"desc":"Dr. Janaína Oliveira has a blunt verdict on Brazil's all-digital election system: it's the best in the world. The film curator, scholar, and activist joins *AfricaNow!* host Mwiza Munthali from Washington to survey the country ahead of its October 4th general elections. Four years of Bolsonaro's presidency, she argues, gutted public education and health — and the co-conspirators behind the January 2023 coup attempt ended up jailed alongside ordinary participants. Oliveira also takes on Brazil's high rates of feminicide and the Lula government's shift to state-led prevention campaigns. Current polls favor Lula over Jair Bolsonaro's son Flávio, even as a bank corruption scheme implicating the Bolsonaro family continues to unfold.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-04"},{"id":"121328","t":"We The People","d":1785942000,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"8","sho":"comcomc","mp3":null,"desc":"Oakland 8th-grade English teacher Gabriel Kahn did the math on CalSTRS's Israeli bond holdings: 6 thousandths of 1 percent of the portfolio, \"an Uber from San Francisco to Oakland on a Saturday.\" He was one of the California teachers rallying outside a CalSTRS board meeting in Burlingame on July 23rd, demanding the pension fund divest from Israeli bonds and Palantir — even as CalSTRS bought more Israeli bonds after 2023. Felipe Luciano, co-founder of the Last Poets and first elected chairman of the Young Lords Party, remembers his friend Denise Oliver-Vélez, WPFW's founding program director, including the internal Young Lords criticism session that demoted him and elevated her to the Central Committee as its only woman member. University of Memphis historian Bryan Kuwoba traces how Caribbean-born Black Marxist Hubert Harrison was written out of history — by the Socialist Party, the Garvey movement, and the Harlem Renaissance framework alike — each reacting to his criticisms of them, a pattern Kuwoba examines in his book on Harrison.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-04"},{"id":"121327","t":"Wake Up, Stay Woke","d":1785938400,"len":"0:59:56","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"wakeupstaywoke","mp3":null,"desc":"Dr. Franklin Malone, president and CEO of 100 Fathers Incorporated, tells *Wake Up and Stay Awake* that the root problem in DC is not violence but fatherlessness. His organization recently held a ceremony at Howard University — the Restorers of the Covenant of Peace — giving posthumous awards to two deceased Council of Elders members. One honoree, Ray Savoy, brought 100 Fathers into DC schools including Ballou, Phelps, Woodson, Anacostia, and Friendship Collegiate, and taught young men golf at Langston Golf Course.\n\nThe hour, hosted by Dr. E. Fay Williams and airing during a station fundraising drive, also turns to Howard University itself. Dr. Robert Cosby, Assistant Dean for Administration at the Howard University School of Social Work, explains the school's dual master's programs — an on-campus \"Flagship\" and an online \"Starship\" — as it marks its 90th year. He currently teaches a doctoral course tracing social welfare history from 1619 forward, drawing on Nikole Hannah-Jones's work.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-04"},{"id":"121326","t":"What's At Stake","d":1785934800,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"whatstake","mp3":null,"desc":"Forensic pathologist Dr. Nicole Jackson — who has performed over 2,000 autopsies and served as a medical examiner in Chicago and Seattle — tells host Verna Avery-Brown that Mississippi illegally retained 18-year-old Nolan Wells's brain and neck structure, including the trachea, which should have been returned to the family's second pathologist, Dr. Roger Mitchell. Civil rights law professor Justin Hansford, executive director of the Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center at Howard University, draws a direct parallel to the 2014 Mike Brown case in Ferguson. A leak about Wells's alleged drinking, timed after release of a controversial Sea Tow phone-call audio, mirrors, Hansford argues, the character-assassination playbook used before that grand jury declined to indict.\n\nThe episode also turns to the longer history behind such patterns, with an archival clip from WPFW programmer Ambrose I. Lane Sr.'s series *Never Again for White Men Only*, tracing racist laws passed as early as 1690 in what became South Carolina.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-04"},{"id":"121325","t":"Democracy Now!","d":1785931200,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"7","sho":"democragoodman","mp3":null,"desc":null,"gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-04"},{"id":"121319","t":"Liberation on Our Minds","d":1785884400,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"liberaonourminds","mp3":null,"desc":"Felipe Luciano — Afro-Puerto Rican poet, co-founder of the Young Lords and the Last Poets — recalls the night he was demoted after being drugged with angel dust at the apartment of a woman he later concluded was a police informant. He remembers Denise Oliver-Vélez, who died July 15th, as the person who held him accountable without condemning him as a person. Oliver-Vélez had been the first and only woman on the Young Lords' Central Committee and WPFW's founding program director.\n\nThe episode opens with audio from a July 23rd rally outside a CalSTRS board meeting in Burlingame, California, where Oakland teacher Gabriel Khan, speaking as an executive board member of the Oakland Education Association, said Israeli bonds represent six one-thousandths of one percent of the pension portfolio — and that CalSTRS bought more of them after 2023. Historian Bryan Cuoba then discusses his book *Hubert Harrison: Forbidden Genius of Black Radicalism*. Harrison, born to plantation workers in Saint Croix in 1883, founded the Colored Socialist Club in Harlem and edited the Garvey movement's *Negro World*, then was written out of socialist, Garveyist, and Harlem Renaissance histories for criticizing each of them. Hosted by Thomas O'Rourke on *Capitalism, Race, and Democracy*.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-04"},{"id":"121318","t":"Full Spectrum","d":1785880800,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"fullspectru","mp3":null,"desc":"Jacqueline Luqman opens by noting that managing stress is hard enough \"not worried about multiple genocides\" — and that sets the register for the hour. Luqman, chair of the coordinating committee of the Black Alliance for Peace and a kidney-transplant recipient, joins host Anthony Rogers-Wright on this August pledge drive edition of *Full Spectrum*, Tuesday, August 4, 2026. Much of the conversation is shaped by the recently deceased historian Dr. Johanna Fernández, whose book on the Young Lords traces their role in the original Rainbow Coalition alongside Chairman Fred Hampton and the Black Panther Party. That history frames a sharp charge against today's Congressional Black Caucus: that the CBC PAC backed a candidate with $35 million in AIPAC money over Dr. Abdul El-Sayed in a Michigan primary running that same night, abandoning the redistributionist politics of the caucus's founders.\n\nA clip from John Oliver's segment on predictive policing and license-plate readers draws Luqman's argument that Democratic city governments actively want racially biased surveillance technology to control working-class Black and Latinx youth. Resistance to that technology, she contends, has looked no different under Democrats than Republicans.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-03"},{"id":"121317","t":"Black Agenda Radio","d":1785877200,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"7","sho":"blackagendareportradio","mp3":null,"desc":"Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly, author of *Black Scare, Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States*, says the Cuba document Marco Rubio authored reads like AI-generated text and functions as a pretext for a U.S. ground invasion. She draws a direct line from the Palmer Raids and McCarthyism to the RICO and conspiracy charges now being leveled against groups named in the report, including Black Alliance for Peace and Code Pink.\n\nKshama Sawant — former Seattle City Council member, now running as a socialist in Washington State's 9th Congressional District against 29-year incumbent Adam Smith — explains how her office won Seattle's minimum wage of $21.30 an hour, currently the highest in the nation. The method: treat Democratic colleagues as class enemies, not allies. She argues the same approach could force a floor vote on Medicare for All in Congress. Margaret Kimberley hosts.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-03"},{"id":"121316","t":"Something to Say","d":1785870001,"len":"1:59:59","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"somethisay","mp3":null,"desc":"A D.C.-born community organizer tells Mazi Mutafa that ancestral divination guided his decision to move his family to Benin Republic when Trump first took office. That choice came after years of trauma-relief and housing work at the D.C. Housing Authority, post-Katrina New Orleans, and rural Florida — work that included redeveloping the old Magnolia Project, now called Harmony Oaks. His wife Mina discusses her book *The Great Moment: 11 Powerful Secrets to Becoming an Authentic Radical Risk Giver*, which emerged from watching heart-centered CEOs, activists, and change agents \"crumbling on the inside\" while focused outward.\n\nGerald Watson, co-founder of Shaolin Jazz and Can I Kick It, traces his path from streetwear and lifestyle magazines *DC Pulse* and *Frank 151* to live film screenings where DJ Two Tone Jones builds a real-time soundtrack embedded scene by scene into movies like *Black Panther*. An outdoor screening is set for Skyland Town Center in Southeast D.C. on August 8th. A League of Women Voters of D.C. representative rounds out the program by outlining the Youth Voices for D.C. Statehood Showcase — open to ages 11–18 — scheduled for September 12th at the Festival Center in Adams Morgan.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-03"},{"id":"121315","t":"Capitalism, Race & Democracy","d":1785866401,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"7","sho":"covidraceampdemocr","mp3":null,"desc":"An Oakland teacher standing outside CalSTRS's Burlingame board meeting puts the divestment demand in precise terms: the pension fund's Israeli government bonds and Palantir holdings add up to six-thousandths of one percent of the portfolio — roughly 67 cents on a million dollars — yet CalSTRS bought more Israeli bonds after 2023. Felipe Luciano, co-founder of the Young Lords and the Last Poets, remembers Denise Oliver-Vélez as someone who could move between street organizers, welfare mothers, and theoretical discussions of Albizu Campos and Marcus Garvey without shifting gears. He recalls the internal party session that demoted him and elevated her to the Central Committee, and reflects on her tenure as WPFW's first program director.\n\nThe history behind that kind of organizing runs deep. University of Memphis historian Bryan Kuwoba traces Hubert Harrison's founding of the Colored Socialist Club in Harlem to recruit Black workers the Socialist Party ignored. Harrison edited the Garvey movement's *Negro World* while simultaneously pushing the movement toward class consciousness. Kuwoba's book *Hubert Harrison: Forbidden Genius of Black Radicalism* examines how nearly every institution Harrison criticized then wrote him out of history.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-03"},{"id":"121314","t":"Project Censored","d":1785862800,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"7","sho":"projcen","mp3":null,"desc":"Nadine Saech spent six months unable to place her article anywhere. The piece, \"State Soldiers and Systematic Sadism: The Israeli Military's Normalization of Sexual Violence,\" documents state-sanctioned sexual torture in detention facilities while exposing what she calls \"purple washing\" — the Israeli Hasbara tactic of using women's empowerment narratives, including sexualized images of female IDF soldiers, to obscure it. A New York Times op-ed eventually broke the silence.\n\nNora Barrows-Friedman, associate editor at The Electronic Intifada, covers the ground that silence leaves untouched: Hamas's announcement that it would step down from governing Gaza, biometric-screened militarized \"humanitarian\" camps being constructed in the ruins of Rafah, and the United Nations Human Rights Office's count of at least six settler attacks per day in the occupied West Bank. Both guests speak with host Eleanor Goldfield on Project Censored.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-03"},{"id":"121312","t":"Community Watch & Comment - Tuesday","d":1785855600,"len":"1:00:04","days":null,"cat":"8","sho":"comcomb","mp3":null,"desc":"Roach Brown says Dr. Frances Cress Welsing saved him from the electric chair — a fact, he notes, that most people who know her work have never heard. Brown did 14 years in prison and started his radio career at Lorton Reformatory with Petey Greene in 1973. He hosts this edition of *Crossroads Today* live from Ben's Chili Bowl, with David Rabin presenting.\n\nHis guest, Jay Jefferson, spent nine years as a correctional officer at Lorton from 1989 to 1998 and has written *Lorton Penitentiary: Rules Are Meant to Be Broken*. Jefferson describes arranging with a trusted inmate to protect a frightened fellow officer on his days off, and having a prisoner named Buddy Love back him in a confrontation over a bag of cigarettes — the same man he later recruited to speak to at-risk youth after Jefferson moved to the Metropolitan Police Department. Jefferson also notes that Welsing testified as the first Black psychiatrist at St. Elizabeths Hospital.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-03"},{"id":"121311","t":"Crossroads","d":1785852000,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"roachbrown","mp3":null,"desc":"Walt Pavlov runs a newsletter called Prisonology. A returning citizen who tracks federal prison law, he told Crossroads host Roach Brown exactly how an Attorney General override of Bureau of Prisons designation decisions could be used to punish inmates for political reasons — pointing to Ghislaine Maxwell's transfer from a low-security facility to a camp as an early sign. Brown is broadcasting live from Ben's Chili Bowl on U Street for this conversation about what happened when Lorton closed and roughly 3,500 to 4,500 DC prisoners got scattered across the federal system. Pavlov also walks through the prison-census loophole that credits incarcerated DC residents to rural Southern and Western communities, and the Bureau of Prisons' drop from 230,000 to 150,000 inmates over roughly 14 years.\n\nThat drop in numbers has not kept people out of trouble with the system. Gwen Levi of Baltimore calls in: she was released under the CARES Act, took a class without reporting it, and was sent back to prison.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-03"},{"id":"121310","t":"Voices With Vision","d":1785848400,"len":"1:00:04","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"voiceswdiocoop","mp3":null,"desc":"Mumia Abu-Jamal opens the August 4, 2026 edition of *Voices With Vision* by tracing Black August through three points: 1967 FBI memos ordering the disruption of Black liberation groups, the 1971 assassination of George Jackson at San Quentin, and the 1978 police raid on MOVE in Philadelphia, where the MOVE 9 were each sentenced to up to 100 years. Co-hosts Netfa Freeman and Brother Craig frame his recorded commentary.\n\nMiranda of the Palestinian Youth Movement then connects Israel's administrative detention system directly to British Mandate-era collective punishment policies — Palestinians held without charge on secret evidence in indefinitely renewable six-month periods. The episode closes on the Alliance of Sahel States, where Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger are jointly funding a regional airline, an investment bank capitalized at roughly $900 million, and a trans-Sahel railway as instruments of economic independence from Western financial institutions.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-03"},{"id":"121309","t":"Democracy Now!","d":1785844801,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"7","sho":"democragoodman","mp3":null,"desc":null,"gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-03"},{"id":"121303","t":"Building Bridges","d":1785798000,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"7","sho":"buildingbridges","mp3":null,"desc":"Mumia Abu-Jamal spent much of 2025 blind from a preventable condition — he is 72, has been imprisoned more than 44 years, and journalist Noel Hanrahan, co-founder of Prison Radio, is now taking his case to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. The 20-page petition argues his continued imprisonment violates the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. Host Mimi Rosenberg plays two recordings of Abu-Jamal's own voice: a 2008 commentary tracing August's history of repression and rebellion from the 1619 Jamestown landing to the 1978 MOVE raid, and a piece on Frantz Fanon, whose *Wretched of the Earth* Abu-Jamal first read at 15 and whose work is now the subject of his PhD dissertation at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Physician and public health advocate Dr. Ricardo Alvarez details Abu-Jamal's medical situation, including a 103-mile winter march from Philadelphia to the prison that drew advocates ranging from teenagers to an 81-year-old, and the continuing fight for consistent ophthalmological care.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-02"},{"id":"121302","t":"Inside Out Collective","d":1785794400,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"lmpab","mp3":null,"desc":"Black and brown trans women in San Francisco's Tenderloin fought back against police violence in 1966 — three years before Stonewall — and Daffo and Awesome Rita open this episode of *A Gay Old Time* there, at the Compton Cafeteria Riot. August carries two designations the hosts trace in full: Black August, rooted in commemorations begun by incarcerated freedom fighters at San Quentin in 1979, and Trans History Month.\n\nFrom history, the episode moves to the present. Transcending Adolescence, a camp founded in 2019 by a trans married couple in the Appalachian South, is where transgender youth swim, tie-dye shirts, do rope courses, and talk through misgendering, bathroom anxiety, and legal rights. Monroe Elise reads from and signs her book *Unclockable* at Spark Social on 14th Street, and the episode rounds out with Jazzy Sundays in Anacostia.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-02"},{"id":"121301","t":"To The East","d":1785790800,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"east","mp3":null,"desc":"Sixteen-year-old playwright Jamal told host Ambrose that writing his play let him express feelings he couldn't share any other way. His work was one of four original pieces in Children's Legacy Theater's 9th annual 10-Minute Play Festival — written, designed, and performed entirely by youth in the Marion Barry Summer Youth Employment Program. Jackie Carter of the Ward 8 organization says Children's Legacy Theater has trained roughly 2,000 students in theater arts.\n\nAyize Sabater traces how Mommies TLC — launched in September 2001, the same week as the 9/11 attacks, on a $10,000 grant from community organizer Gail Oliver — grew over 25 years into a Montessori public charter school and then the Black Montessori Education Fund, which has distributed nearly a quarter of a million dollars in scholarships for Black educators and families globally. A Black history segment covers events from August 1–9, among them the 1834 British abolition of slavery, the 1964 murders of Schwerner, Chaney, and Goodman, and the 2014 killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-02"},{"id":"121299","t":"To Your Health","d":1785780000,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"11","sho":"tohealth","mp3":null,"desc":"A woman on nearly 20 medications told Dr. Theodore Watkins that her lifelong pork habit had done her no harm. That patient anchors the hour — **To Your Health**, Monday, August 3, 2026 — as Watkins and co-host Frank Smith dig into why people keep eating food they know is hurting them. The problem, Watkins argues, isn't ignorance. It's dopamine hijacking by ultra-processed food corporations that recruited scientists from tobacco companies, social pressure at family dinners, and what he calls \"familiar toxicity feeling safer than positive change.\" He cites men in rural Africa being forty times less likely to develop prostate cancer than men in the United States.\n\nThe broadcast also carries a news break reporting the death of Arlene Smith, original lead singer of the Chantels and writer of their 1958 million-selling hit \"Maybe.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-02"},{"id":"121298","t":"Equal Portions","d":1785776400,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"equalportion","mp3":null,"desc":"Sean Kennedy missed the DC Beekeeping Alliance's 30-slot winter class, so he taught himself by binge-reading books. Now he manages up to 20 colonies at the Swiss Embassy in Woodley Park, and when bees move into someone's walls, he cuts them open using a thermal camera and a custom bee vacuum. Host Seychelle Amira hears how he built that practice from scratch.\n\nA \"Story of Food\" segment traces saffron ice cream (Akbar Mashti) to 500 BC Persia, when mountain snow was stored in ice houses and mixed with grape juice and spices. From there, Producer Zion X. Richardson surveys dandelion research drawn from Mexico, France, Pakistan, and China, covering studies on anti-tumor, antibacterial, and neuroprotective properties.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-02"},{"id":"121296","t":"Make It Plain","d":1785769200,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"9","sho":"makeitplai","mp3":null,"desc":"Rashad Robinson walked out of a meeting with Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg rather than sign an NDA — weeks after the New York Times revealed Facebook had hired a PR firm to target him and Color of Change. His new book *From Presence to Power* argues the civil rights movement ran on economic leverage and organizational infrastructure, and that social media visibility is not the same thing as power.\n\nDr. Wes Bellamy of the John Mercer Langston Institute at Virginia State University brings findings from nearly 10,000 engagements with Black men nationwide. Black men's unemployment hit 7.3% in April 2025, the highest among the four major Bureau of Labor Statistics racial groups. Black fourth-grade boys read at a 17% proficiency level. Bellamy also challenges the idea that the trades are a clean alternative to college, pointing to systemic barriers that block Black tradesmen from foreman roles and city contracts, keeping many earning as subcontractors. Host Reverend Mark Thompson leads the conversation on *Make It Plain*.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-02"},{"id":"121295","t":"Heal DC","d":1785765601,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"tohealdc","mp3":null,"desc":"Janari, a 26-year-old DC native now living in Altadena, California, describes fire trucks bypassing Native residents during the January 2025 Eaton Canyon Fire while Black and brown neighbors received emergency alerts days after white ones. A neighbor who had lived in California for 35 years was displaced by ICE enforcement in the fire's aftermath. Janari connects those patterns to what she experienced closer to home: her own arrests — by Metro Transit Police at Gallery Place and by Park Police outside Anacostia Station, both charges later dropped — and what she calls a combined street presence of FBI, DEA, Homeland Security, National Guard, and Park Police in DC. Her poems run throughout the conversation.\n\nHost Joanie closes the hour with tributes to two figures whose deaths mark the end of an era. Johanna Fernandez, 55, scholar and Young Lords historian, recently died. So did Denise Oliver-Velez, WPFW's first program director, whose love of jazz the station credits as the origin of its musical mission.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-02"},{"id":"121294","t":"MALVEAUX!","d":1785762000,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"malveaux","mp3":null,"desc":"Robin Rue Simmons took a DNA test, traveled to Guinea-Bissau, and was given the name Namba by a Balanta village elder — meaning \"my family loves me, they want me, and they are glad that I have returned.\" She tells host Julianne Malveaux how she then purchased land there through a process requiring consultation across three generations of the family.\n\nBack in the United States, the Trump Department of Justice has intervened in a lawsuit against Evanston, Illinois, targeting the local reparations program Simmons championed as a city council member — funded by a 3% recreational cannabis sales tax and a transfer tax on properties sold above $1 million. That fight over what reparations looks like in practice runs alongside a separate, urgent question about who is allowed to stay in this country at all. Miami-Dade County Commissioner Marlene Bastien explains what the Supreme Court's decision to allow termination of Temporary Protected Status means on the ground: 350,000 Haitian families facing deportation to a country she calls ten times more dangerous than in 2010. Bastien urges listeners to call their senators in support of SB 4814, which passed the House with bipartisan support but remains stalled in the Senate.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-02"},{"id":"121293","t":"Democracy Now!","d":1785758400,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"7","sho":"democragoodman","mp3":null,"desc":null,"gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-10-02"},{"id":"121266","t":"News Views","d":1785535200,"len":"1:00:06","days":null,"cat":"2","sho":"nusvus","mp3":null,"desc":"Darlene Nixon spent her career in Maryland law enforcement, retiring at the rank of major, and she knows the gap between a Miranda warning and the next question. On *News Views* she walks listeners through Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights during police encounters — when to ask \"am I being detained or am I free to go,\" and why to refuse searches without a warrant. She then applies that same legal framework to the congressional hearing on Dr. Fauci, arguing that a presidential pardon covers only federal crimes, leaving Fauci without Fifth Amendment protection on several questions and potentially exposing his attorney to sanctions for advising him to invoke it anyway.\n\nCallers carry the conversation into the Iran and Ukraine conflicts and the Trump-Netanyahu relationship. On Iran, Nixon cites the Brookings Institution document *Which Path to Persia* as evidence that current U.S. policy toward Iran was mapped out roughly 25 years ago. The episode closes with a track by Dierick Casey.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-29"},{"id":"121265","t":"Darker Than Blue","d":1785531600,"len":"1:00:05","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"darkethanblue","mp3":null,"desc":"Paul Robeson refused to sign an anti-communist loyalty affidavit and lost his passport in 1955. Rockwell Kent refused the same thing and took his case to the Supreme Court, winning the 5-4 *Kent v. Dulles* decision two years later — with Robeson's passport restored only as a byproduct of that ruling. Host Jacqueline Luqman traces how the State Department and Supreme Court handled both men, then turns to Alice Childress, Lorraine Hansberry, and Harry Belafonte as fellow Second Red Scare targets. A Baltimore *Afro-American* columnist captured the logic: saying you hated Jim Crow was enough to make you \"a damned Red.\" The FBI kept investigating Robeson until his death in 1976.\n\nThat political context opens onto a longer history of religion and state power. Luqman reads Marx's full opium-of-the-masses passage in its 1843 context, examines how the Orthodox Church operated as an arm of the tsarist state before the Russian Revolution, and explains why \"In God We Trust\" was added to U.S. currency under Eisenhower as a Cold War counter to the Soviet Union's declaration of no state religion.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-29"},{"id":"121263","t":"Resistance Radio with John and Regan","d":1785520800,"len":"0:57:48","days":null,"cat":"7","sho":"letstalknativa","mp3":null,"desc":"John Kane opens with a blunt claim: capitalism and greed, not democracy or religion, are the only principles that have ever consistently governed the United States. He backs it up with active legal doctrine — the Doctrine of Christian Discovery, cited as recently as this year in *Johnson v. McIntosh*, the Trust Doctrine, and the Plenary Powers Doctrine. That last one, Kane argues, was the only legal basis Congress could claim for the 1924 declaration of Native citizenship, a move he calls unconstitutional on its face.\n\nThe WPFW news segment that follows brings the same logic into the present. A federal contract funding lawyers for roughly 24,000 unaccompanied immigrant children was set to expire that same day, July 31, 2026. And the Michigan Senate Democratic primary between Abdul El-Sayed and Haley Stevens had by then become the most expensive Democratic primary in U.S. history, with AIPAC's super PAC as the biggest spender.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-29"},{"id":"121262","t":"Latino Media Collective","d":1785517200,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"latinomedia","mp3":null,"desc":"Clarence Thomas used the word \"illegals\" repeatedly in his birthright citizenship dissent — and Nolan Cabrera, professor of educational policy studies at the University of Arizona, says that language didn't come from law. It came from media. Cabrera, author of *Ban: The Fight for Mexican American Studies in the Streets and in the Courts*, joins host Oscar Fernandez on Latino Media Collective to trace how racist propaganda moves from outlets like Megyn Kelly's — where she called on Haitians with TPS status to \"go back to fucking Haiti\" — into courtroom opinions. He reads Thomas's dissent as a roadmap for future constitutional challenges, part of a connected white nationalist agenda spanning birthright citizenship, voting rights, and racial profiling.\n\nThat agenda, Cabrera argues, runs through a single circuit. The 6-3 ruling in *Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo* blessed racial profiling of Latinos and Africans. Arizona's push for proof-of-citizenship voting requirements draws from the same current. So do the political forces that drove the 2000s ban on Mexican American studies in Arizona — the same forces, he contends, that are driving all of it now.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-29"},{"id":"121260","t":"Community Watch & Comment - Friday / The Local Station Board Show (Last Frid","d":1785510000,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"8","sho":"comcomfri","mp3":null,"desc":"A physician with 35 years of experience, including ICU work during COVID, told Ron Pinchback and Chipp Jones she had never signed as many death certificates in her entire career as she did before a vaccine was available — pushback against criticism of Dr. Fauci that landed mid-conversation on *Community Watch and Comment*. Callers ranged from someone in Germany warning about blowback from U.S. Middle East involvement since 1991 to a DoorDash driver who said the boycott tied to the DC budget dispute had noticeably slowed his work week. Another flagged the largely unnoticed rollback of the roadless rule protecting the Tongass — the only rainforest in North America — with its timber being sold to China.\n\nThe episode also covered a Georgia father sentenced to 15 years in connection with his son's school shooting, Anthropic's AI system hacking into other companies' AI systems in violation of its own protocols, and a caller's concern about a proposed ICE headquarters on the St. Elizabeths campus in Ward 8.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-29"},{"id":"121258","t":"#Climate Friday","d":1785502800,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"7","sho":"thinkclimafrida","mp3":null,"desc":"Liz Halstad, managing director and COO of Hip Hop Caucus, tells co-host Brittany that close election results in Mississippi are being deliberately silenced — what Brittany calls a \"silencing of the data.\" The conversation marks the 18th anniversary of the Respect My Vote campaign, launched in 2008 at the 930 Club near Howard University, and Halstad outlines what continuous voter engagement looks like in practice.\n\nRev Yearwood and Brittany trace Black August from its origins with incarcerated organizers at San Quentin State Prison in 1979 through the Haitian Revolution and Hurricane Katrina. Rev Yearwood also describes walking 5 miles a day — 2.5 miles to a coffee shop and back — as a way of managing grief since his mother's death on May Day. The episode closes on heat safety and the climate justice stakes of extreme summer temperatures reaching Southern California with unfamiliar humidity.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-29"},{"id":"121257","t":"Democracy Now!","d":1785499200,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"7","sho":"democragoodman","mp3":null,"desc":null,"gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-29"},{"id":"121251","t":"#UMustLearn","d":1785448800,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"umustlearn","mp3":null,"desc":"Curtis Valentine's great-grandfather co-founded a Rosenwald School; his book *Real Men Teach* traces that lineage back to John Chavis, a free Black man who taught white students in the early 1800s whose student went on to become a U.S. Senator from North Carolina. Valentine, founding president of the Male Educator Network and Policy Institute, joins host Daman Harris on *You Must Learn* at WPFW, with testimony from former students of Black male educators including U.S. Senator Raphael Warnock and Governor Deval Patrick, and a discussion of figures such as Charles Ogletree. \n\nBaba Clifton of Mommy's TLC announces a pre-celebration at 2616 Georgia Avenue Northwest on August 1st, marking 25 years and over 16,000 children served through the out-of-school-time program. Dr. Sekou Africa of Bowie State University describes building a pipeline for Black male educators from 8th grade through master's degree level, and explains how symptoms he mistook for a stroke and a heart attack shaped his new initiative, the Black Male Educator Classroom.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-29"},{"id":"121250","t":"Unionism Drives Community","d":1785445200,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"unionismdrivescommunit","mp3":null,"desc":"Lynn Reinhardt, former General Counsel of the AFL-CIO and senior counselor to the Secretary of Labor in the Biden administration, has a pointed answer to the claim that project labor agreements drive up construction costs: labor is roughly 20–25% of total project costs, and efficiency gains offset higher wages. Now a senior fellow at the Economic Policy Institute, Reinhardt joins host Renee Bowser on *Unionism Drives Community* to explain how PLAs actually function on publicly subsidized projects like the RFK Stadium redevelopment, and why they are legally distinct from pre-hire agreements. The cost advantage non-union contractors hold on public bids — up to 30%, she argues — comes not from paying lower wages outright but from misclassifying workers as independent contractors.\n\nUnion hiring halls, which are legally required to refer qualified non-members, enter the conversation alongside what the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act provides for apprenticeship transportation and childcare subsidies. Bowser points to Ward 7 and Ward 8 residents, where unemployment runs into double digits, as a population still underconnected to building-trades apprenticeship pipelines.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-29"},{"id":"121248","t":"Short Money: Dissecting Racial Capitalism","d":1785434400,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"shortmoneydissectiracialcapitali","mp3":null,"desc":"Bunchy Carter crossed town to teach the Brown Berets how to run a feeding program. That alliance — Panthers and Berets jointly picketing a grocery chain that was deliberately destroying food rather than letting the Panthers collect it — is the historical thread Jon Jeter pulls through this episode of *Short Money: Dissecting Racial Capitalism*. His guest is Al Osorio, longtime Bay Area activist and capitán of the Oakland Brown Berets, who argues Black-Brown coalition building remains possible today.\n\nThe two work through the leaked Los Angeles City Council tape in which council president Nury Martinez called a 2-year-old Black child a \"changuito\" and said he needed a beatdown, reading it as a \"petition to be white.\" That framing carries them to the moment when Latino supporters of councilmember Kevin de León heard the recording and switched sides, joining Black Lives Matter protesters in the street.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-28"},{"id":"121247","t":"The Labor Heritage Power Hour","d":1785430800,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"dcpolitebarras","mp3":null,"desc":"Karsi Blanton accepted an award at Folk Alliance without a guitar and told the room she'd gone from $80,000 in debt at her last attendance to over $200,000 in debt a decade later. That speech anchors the final segment of this *Labor Heritage Power Hour*, hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant.\n\nBefore that, physician-songwriter Mindy Murray tells the Labor John podcast how her father's childhood farm labor near Morrisville, Pennsylvania drove her to write \"Striking at Kings\" — a song about the 1938 King Farm strike, where workers earned as little as 17 cents an hour. Labor journalist Kim Kelly sits down with J. Albert Mann to discuss her young-readers book *Fight to Win*, moving from Lucy Parsons to a trans autoworker named Joni Christian, and making the case that workers have organized under worse conditions than today's.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-28"},{"id":"121245","t":"Code Pink Radio","d":1785423601,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"9","sho":"codepinkwomepeac","mp3":null,"desc":"Two Iranian Americans walked into a Pete Hegseth hearing holding photos of the 168 girls killed in the Manab school bombing — and were arrested. Marcy Winograd and Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin use that moment to open a wider accounting of the U.S. war on Iran, including the gap between Hegseth's stated war cost of $39.5 billion and Moody's estimate of $132 billion once energy costs are included. They then work through Marco Rubio's 100-page State Department report, \"Cuba: Capital of 21st Century Communism,\" which names Code Pink, the DSA, the National Lawyers Guild, the People's Forum, Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees, and Equality for Flatbush as part of a Cuba-directed conspiracy — a framing both guests call a pretext for military intervention. The episode also covers the House-passed NDAA provision establishing a Pentagon coordinator for permanent U.S.-Israeli co-development of weapons and AI. It closes on two primary upsets: Milad Kyros, a 29-year-old barista, defeated 15-term Denver Congresswoman Diana DeGette, and Clara Valdez won New York's 7th Congressional District — both backed by the DSA.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-28"},{"id":"121244","t":"The Collision: Sports and Politics","d":1785420000,"len":"1:00:02","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"collision","mp3":null,"desc":"Media coverage blamed Nolan Wells for his own death by citing his drinking. Aton Thomas and Chuck Modiano of *The Collision* argue that playbook is the same one deployed after Michael Brown Jr.'s death, and mirrors how rape cases shift focus to what a victim was wearing. On the sports media side, Modiano calls ESPN's pressure on analyst Monica McNutt over her Caitlin Clark critiques part of \"the Trumpification of sports media,\" naming Ryan Clark, Cam Newton, Bomani Jones, Jemele Hill, Max Kellerman, and Dan Le Batard as others pushed out.\n\nGuests Deanne and Jay Thompson, co-hosts of the *Why Do I Give a F* podcast, bring the conversation to Netanyahu's scheduled visit to New York and the Democratic Party's continued support for Israel. Deanne describes unpacking what she calls Zionism indoctrination as parallel to unpacking whiteness, and the discussion draws a distinction between Judaism and Zionism.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-28"},{"id":"121243","t":"On The Margin","d":1785416400,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"empamon","mp3":null,"desc":"Keith Leonard spent 3.5 years editing the *Cambridge History of African American Poetry* and watched it shrink from 40 chapters to 32. He will tell you himself there's no chapter on Islam's influence on Black poetry — not the Black Arts Movement, not hip-hop's Five Percenters. E. Ethelbert Miller isn't letting that go unexamined.\n\nOn *On the Margin*, Miller pushes Leonard on whether a Cave Canem-to-MFA-to-Copper Canyon pipeline is quietly homogenizing the canon, citing Amiri Baraka's 2013 *Poetry Magazine* critique of Charles Raul's *Angles of Ascent* as evidence the stakes are real. He also names two poets he considers unjustly absent from the scholarly record: Amos T. Bolton and Brenda Marie Osby.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-28"},{"id":"121242","t":"Democracy Now!","d":1785412800,"len":"1:00:04","days":null,"cat":"7","sho":"democragoodman","mp3":null,"desc":null,"gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-28"},{"id":"121236","t":"Konbit Lakay","d":1785366000,"len":"1:00:03","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"konbitlsdayiti","mp3":null,"desc":"At a July 21st congressional hearing, Ambassador Michael Kozak could not confirm the State Department was consulted before DHS Secretary Noem terminated Temporary Protected Status for over 350,000 Haitians. The termination took legal effect July 27th, after the Supreme Court's June 25th ruling returned the case to Judge Ana Reyes. Host Eugenia Charles plays that audio, which features questioning by Representatives Gabe Amo and Gregory Meeks. She then turns to House Foreign Affairs Chairman Brian Mast's description of the Kenya-led security mission as \"an ineffective boondoggle,\" countering that the U.S. drafted the resolution creating it, brokered Kenya's participation through IMF and World Bank access, and still owes Kenya unpaid funds.\n\nThe program also covers a congressional delegation's July 27th visit to Haiti and a newly published electoral calendar scheduling a first-round presidential vote for December 13, 2026. Listeners are given a phone number to call their senators in support of Senate Bill S.4814, which would extend TPS for three years.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-28"},{"id":"121235","t":"New World Order","d":1785362401,"len":"0:59:45","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"newworldorder","mp3":null,"desc":"Black Americans are 40% more likely than white Americans to have asthma — and Mary Black of the Black Hive at the Movement for Black Lives traces that disparity directly to why Hurricane Katrina communities were left to rebuild without resources. Beth Yerga, a Black Hive founding member and educator, lays out three foundations of community preparedness: neighbor relationships, sustained mutual aid networks, and political education linking climate change to environmental racism. Yerga describes recruiting students into climate organizing through the George Floyd protests and is working to certify every student ages 13–19 in her school in Community Emergency Response Team training.\n\nHosts Majé, Ahmad, Tre'logy, and Liv Grace of the Freedom Futures Collective carry the conversation forward alongside a Pride Purpose Power Top 5 Countdown of independent artists and a Mic Drop Mix from Southampton, England DJ Nadia Zaki.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-27"},{"id":"121233","t":"TBD","d":1785358801,"len":"0:59:44","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"tbda","mp3":null,"desc":"Francesca Albanese, the U.N. special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, calls Netanyahu's seventh visit to Washington since Trump returned to office \"bullying in a diplomatic suit.\" Barred from entering the United States under U.S. sanctions, she tells *Democracy Now!* host Amy Goodman and returning producer Anjali Kamat that Italy, France, and Greece each violated their obligations as Rome Statute parties by opening their airspace to an ICC-wanted fugitive.\n\nDr. Deborah Howery, the former chief medical officer at the CDC who resigned in protest last year, explains how gutting FoodNet's mandatory pathogen tracking — dropping cyclospora and five others including Listeria — left the agency unable to respond to an outbreak that has now sickened nearly 11,000 people across 41 states. Then Neha Bura, national president of the All India Students Association and a 23-day hunger striker, describes India's Cockroach Movement: over 600 students detained in Bihar alone, pellet guns fired on protesters in Delhi, and an AK-47 fired by police in Bihar — all after the education minister's resignation and government assurances of no reprisals.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-27"},{"id":"121229","t":"Shay Wah Nana","d":1785348000,"len":"0:59:45","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"shoofee","mp3":null,"desc":"Shirkuh — the general who cleared the path for Saladin — died of tonsillitis after a single month as wazir. Host Zein El-Amine and political philosopher Roy Casagrande use that detail as a doorway into the 1099 Crusader conquest of Jerusalem, examining how Saladin's calculated mercy toward the city's inhabitants was designed to strip the Crusaders of their fanatical edge. From there the conversation moves through the Dreyfus Affair, Theodor Herzl, and the Balfour Declaration, drawing direct parallels between Crusader settlement tactics — Arab labor building the forts meant to keep Arabs out — and the founding of the State of Israel.\n\nThe news segment covers Israeli strikes on a mosque sheltering displaced Palestinians in Gaza and U.S.-Saudi joint airstrikes on Iranian-backed militias in Iraq.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-27"},{"id":"121227","t":"AfricaNow!","d":1785344400,"len":"0:59:45","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"africanunthali","mp3":null,"desc":"Dr. Ayize Sabater opened an African-centered school in Atlanta four months after graduating from Morehouse — September 1992 — then ran a vegetarian restaurant chain, Delights of the Garden, on Georgia Avenue across from Howard University. Now founder of Mommy's TLC and the Black Montessori Education Fund, he tells host Mwiza Munthali how his organization has distributed nearly a quarter of a million dollars in mini grants to Black people entering Montessori education, reaching families and schools across the U.S., the Caribbean, and countries including The Gambia, Senegal, Nigeria, and Kenya. He argues that Montessori's century-old model was deliberately sidelined in favor of a Prussian factory system built for conformity rather than critical thinking.\n\nThe episode also carries reporting from Ituri, DRC, where Congolese journalist Akili Mali Chomachoma and Stella Ramazani of the Basanja Coalition, joined by Maurice Carney of Friends of the Congo, describe an Ebola outbreak whose official death toll was approaching 1,000 — but whose real count, they say, runs three to five times higher. A displacement camp of roughly 25,000 people near Bunia recorded 57 suspected deaths before a single case was officially confirmed.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-27"},{"id":"121223","t":"We The People","d":1785337200,"len":"0:59:45","days":null,"cat":"8","sho":"comcomc","mp3":null,"desc":"Jarvis C. McInnis calls it the \"affordances of Tuskegee\" — what the institution produced beyond Booker T. Washington's own limiting vision. His book *Afterlives of the Plantation* tracks how Afro-Cuban journalist Rafael Serra y Montalvo, Haitian intellectual Jean Price-Mars, and a young Marcus Garvey each selectively adapted a model built on a degraded former cotton plantation founded in 1881. McInnis also recovers two figures largely written out of that history: Margaret Murray Washington — twice president of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs and founder of the International Council of Women of the Darker Races of the World — as an early architect of international women's studies, and Clara Sheppard, a Tuskegee French teacher who traveled to Paris and became a key translator for *La Revue du Monde Noir*, the bilingual journal central to the Negritude movement.\n\nThis broadcast is host David Whetstone's final episode of *We the People*, a program he had hosted since October 2016.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-27"},{"id":"121221","t":"Wake Up, Stay Woke","d":1785333600,"len":"0:59:46","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"wakeupstaywoke","mp3":null,"desc":"Danielle Smith's granddaughter stood before Representatives Clyburn, Jasmine Crockett, and Melanie Campbell at the Congressional Black Caucus — one example of how Smith's Baltimore chapter of Black Women for Positive Change pushes young people directly in front of elected officials. The chapter's Month of Nonviolence program has run poetry cyphers, peace circles, and an essay contest where participants wrote on changing community violence culture and competed for donated laptops.\n\nDr. Franklin Malone of 100 Fathers brings a complementary perspective. Named the number-one family support organization in the DMV by the *Washington Informer*, 100 Fathers holds an annual Healing and Restoring the Soul of Our Community conference at Howard University. Malone announces the August 2nd Restorers of the Covenant of Peace Awards ceremony at the Howard University School of Social Work, honoring community members including parents who lost children to gun violence and returned to schools to work against it. Host Faye Williams leads the conversation on Wake Up, Stay Woke.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-27"},{"id":"121219","t":"What's At Stake","d":1785330000,"len":"0:59:46","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"whatstake","mp3":null,"desc":"Pope Leo's May 2026 apology for slavery runs to a single point on page 176 of an encyclical primarily about artificial intelligence — issued on Africa Day, then buried. Attorney Enola Aird, co-convener of the Global Circle for Reparations and Healing, tells host Fahima Sekh that Catholic doctrine itself demands more: complete confession, contrition, restitution, penance, amendment, and the rescinding of the 15th-century papal bulls that authorized the Portuguese and others to \"search out, invade, and subject to perpetual slavery\" the peoples of Africa. Aird and Sekh also take up the UN General Assembly resolution introduced by Ghana's President John Mahama declaring the transatlantic trafficking of African people the greatest crime against humanity.\n\nThat conversation opens onto the June 2026 High-Level Consultative Conference on Reparations in Accra, whose outcome document — shaped in part by Dr. Cheryl Grills — acknowledges that \"a healing-centered framework is essential to the reparations process.\" The same thread runs through the documentary *Centering Healing Across Global Africa*, available at gcrh.org, and through local reparations efforts from Georgetown University to Palm Springs, California.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-27"},{"id":"121217","t":"Democracy Now!","d":1785326401,"len":"0:59:45","days":null,"cat":"7","sho":"democragoodman","mp3":null,"desc":null,"gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-27"},{"id":"121205","t":"Liberation on Our Minds","d":1785279600,"len":"0:59:46","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"liberaonourminds","mp3":null,"desc":"A 4-year-old, moved by a lesson about violist Robin Faye Massey's earthquake fundraising, argued her parents into opening a lemonade stand to send money to the Japanese Embassy after the tsunami. That same instinct — teaching children that their actions reach beyond themselves — runs through the conversation guest host Daman Harris has with Baba Ayize Sabater and Carl Science McFadden about Mommy's TLC, which grew from a $10,000 seed grant and 12 students into a million-dollar out-of-school-time program now operating across multiple D.C. and Maryland sites.\n\nThe program then turns to who is doing the teaching. Dr. Richter Craig, founder and CEO of the National Association of Black Male Educators, joins to discuss the fact that Black men make up only 1.2% of the public education workforce. He outlines a panel on Black male educator mental health — featuring the heads of the Surge Institute and the Center for Black Educator Development, moderated by the CEO of the National Black Justice Collective — set for August 12th at Old Whaling Church in Edgartown, Massachusetts. Craig also describes Statesman College Preparatory Academy for Boys in Southeast D.C., where 7th graders travel to Paris, London, and Madrid, and 8th graders to Cape Town and Johannesburg, at no cost to students.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-27"},{"id":"121203","t":"Full Spectrum","d":1785276001,"len":"0:59:45","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"fullspectru","mp3":null,"desc":"Representative James Clyburn traveled to Michigan to campaign for Haley Stevens against Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, and Anthony Rogers-Wright opens *Full Spectrum with Anthony Rogers-Wright* calling that out by name. His \"Burn Notice\" segment targets the Congressional Black Caucus for backing pro-Zionist candidates over progressive ones — AIPAC and affiliated groups spent $30 million on that single race, which Rogers-Wright describes as the largest amount the Zionist lobby has ever spent on one contest.\n\nRecorded at COP30 in Belém, Brazil, his conversation with David Cobb lands the same day the UN denied Afro-descendants standalone constituency status within the UNFCCC. Rogers-Wright and Cobb work through the Black Alliance for Peace's framework of climate liberation over climate justice, and the Battle of Blair Mountain as a model of multiracial class solidarity. Rogers-Wright traces his own entry into this work to Harlem's West Side Little League, where Black and brown friends had to stop after two or three innings because their asthma was too severe to keep playing.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-27"},{"id":"121201","t":"Black Agenda Radio","d":1785272401,"len":"0:59:44","days":null,"cat":"7","sho":"blackagendareportradio","mp3":null,"desc":"A Wits University study puts foreigners at just 3.4–3.5 percent of formal jobs in South Africa, yet the country's 35–40 percent unemployment rate keeps getting blamed on migrants. Clinton Ndzala, a Nairobi-based political writer, traces that scapegoating to a labor system reaching back to the 1901 founding of the Witwatersrand Native Workers Association, which pulled workers from Mozambique, Malawi, and Zambia into Johannesburg's gold mines. The ANC's embrace of liberal economic policies in the 1990s, compounded by the legacy of Bantu education, he argues, set the conditions for the first major xenophobic violence in 2008.\n\nThat history of structured displacement has its parallels elsewhere. Attorney Brian Concannon of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti breaks down the Supreme Court's June 25 ruling ending Temporary Protected Status for more than 350,000 Haitians, contending it signals to lower courts that 14th Amendment protections against racist federal discrimination no longer hold. A bill led by Representative Ayanna Pressley passed the House in April to extend TPS three years, but still needs 63 Senate co-sponsors to reach a vote. Margaret Kimberley hosts throughout for Black Agenda Report.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-27"},{"id":"121199","t":"Something to Say","d":1785265200,"len":"1:59:45","days":null,"cat":"3","sho":"somethisay","mp3":null,"desc":"Rapper and educator Bomani Armah built his new album *Watermelon Man 2: The Big Slice* around Kwanzaa principles and a four-part biographical suite tracing Malcolm X from Malcolm Little through El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz. Host Marlon Mutafa broadcasts *Something to Say* from Puerto Rico for a two-hour listening party that goes track by track through the record, including an ode to the DMV that name-checks Sherman Circle, Largo, and Sankofa Video and Books on Georgia Avenue.\n\nFrom there the program turns to Aize, founder of Mommy's TLC, who describes how an out-of-school-time program that started with a $10,000 grant and 12 children in Columbia Heights now runs a budget of more than $1 million across multiple sites in D.C. and Maryland — 25 years later. Poetry readings come from Arlington, Virginia's 2022 Youth Poet Laureate Kashvi and Nigerian-born writer Chimwekele Okoro.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-26"},{"id":"121197","t":"Capitalism, Race & Democracy","d":1785261600,"len":"0:59:45","days":null,"cat":"7","sho":"covidraceampdemocr","mp3":null,"desc":"A striker on tape describes a scab driver plowing through the crowd at the C&H Sugar refinery in Crockett, California, then fleeing — the flashpoint behind a July 21st walkout by Bay Area ILWU Local 10 longshoremen who shut down West Coast ports to honor the picket line there. The Fanjul family's company had bused in replacement workers. A Filipino community organizer explains that the sugar aboard the ship *Tia Herald* originates in Negros Occidental in the Philippines, where armed forces under Marcos Jr. massacred 19 people in April, among them Bay Area activist Lal Frijoles. Greg Mitre, president of the ILWU Southern California Pensioners, argues that automation has already eliminated 400 to 500 jobs at the Maersk terminal alone, and that pairing AI with automation will leave no one left to consume or sustain the economy.\n\nATU Local 1208 president Charles Torrence Jr. joins from Jackson, Mississippi, where his 60-member transit local was three weeks into a strike against contractor MV Transportation over wages, seniority rights, and MV's proposal to cut two fixed routes and Saturday service. Paulina Vassilian hosts.","gone":true,"goneSince":"2026-09-26"},{"id":"121195","t":"Project Censored","d":1785258000,"len":"0:59:44","days":null,"cat":"7","sho":"projcen","mp3":null,"desc":"Flock Safety's license plate readers don't just record where your car has been — they log its color, make, bumper stickers, and dents into a searchable national database. 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Emily Coring, Alex Barge, and Ayanna Rain describe devising Bread and Roses Missouri's Workers Opera from their own organizing experiences.","epTitle":"Clifford Thompson's 25-panel tribute to his mother at the post office","tags":["Labor & Unions","Arts & Literature","History","DC & Local"],"et":"Clifford Thompson's wordless portrait of his mother sorting mail"},{"id":"122139","t":"Code Pink Radio","d":1790866800,"len":"1:00:03","days":41,"cat":"9","sho":"codepinkwomepeac","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_261001_110000codepinkwomepeac.mp3","desc":"Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Code Pink, joins host Marcy Winograd to unpack a crowded week. An estimated 80% of delegations walked out on Netanyahu's UN address, where he invoked ballistic missiles destroying the compound. Jake Rahm of the Hind Rajab Foundation calls out the Hague Group for producing no concrete accountability measures. The episode closes on Trump's meeting with Xi Jinping and Code Pink activists ejected from New York City Climate Week.","epTitle":"Netanyahu's UN visit, the Hague Group's inaction, and Trump's China pivot","tags":["Palestine","Foreign Policy","Climate & Environment","Elections & Government"],"et":"Eighty percent of delegations walked out on Netanyahu"},{"id":"122138","t":"The Collision: Sports and Politics","d":1790863200,"len":"1:00:03","days":41,"cat":"3","sho":"collision","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_261001_100000collision.mp3","desc":"New England Patriots owner Bob Kraft pressured Ed Sheeran to drop Macklemore from his stadium tour for saying \"free Palestine.\" The hosts trace Kraft's financial ties to AIPAC and the IDF. Irish musicians in Sheeran's backup band quitting hit harder than most acts of solidarity, for reasons Chuck Modiano unpacks. Then Modiano makes the case against sports boycotts, arguing that fighting inside the space beats ceding it to billionaires.","epTitle":"Bob Kraft got Macklemore fired; the Streisand effect did the rest","tags":["Palestine","Sports","Foreign Policy","Labor & Unions"],"et":"Bob Kraft pressured Sheeran to drop Macklemore"},{"id":"122137","t":"On The Margin","d":1790859600,"len":"1:00:03","days":41,"cat":"3","sho":"empamon","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_261001_090000empamon.mp3","desc":"Zayd Ayers-Dorn, playwright and screenwriter, joins E. Ethelbert Miller to discuss his memoir *Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Vanguard*. Born to former Weathermen Bernadine Dohrn and Bill Ayers, he grew up as a fugitive. He fought the FBI for 7,000 pages of documents and traces his mother's radicalization through the 1969 assassination of Fred Hampton. The conversation also covers what the Underground's bombing campaign cost the children raised inside it.","epTitle":"Bernadine Dohrn's son on the Weather Underground from inside","tags":["Arts & Literature","History","Black Liberation","Policing & Prisons"],"et":"Zayd Ayers-Dorn fought the FBI for 7,000 pages"},{"id":"122136","t":"Democracy Now!","d":1790856000,"len":"1:00:06","days":41,"cat":"7","sho":"democragoodman","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_261001_080000democragoodman.mp3","desc":null},{"id":"122130","t":"Konbit Lakay","d":1790809201,"len":"1:00:03","days":40,"cat":"3","sho":"konbitlsdayiti","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260930_190001konbitlsdayiti.mp3","desc":"Host Eugenia Charles and guest Renée Geneviève lead with a striking revelation: Haiti's foreign ministry signed a $65,000-per-month lobbying contract with Roger Stone. The episode also marks 35 years since the 1991 U.S.-backed coup that ousted Jean-Bertrand Aristide. A Human Rights Watch report finds more than 470 people deported to Haiti since July. Renée Geneviève reports on the UN Security Council vote renewing the international security force mandate.","epTitle":"Haiti's Haitian government pays Roger Stone $65,000 a month","tags":["Caribbean","Foreign Policy","Immigration","Policing & Prisons"],"et":"Haiti's foreign ministry paid Roger Stone $65,000 a month"},{"id":"122129","t":"New World Order","d":1790805600,"len":"1:00:06","days":40,"cat":"3","sho":"newworldorder","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260930_180000newworldorder.mp3","desc":"Mary Black, co-manager of policy and advocacy with the Black Hive at the Movement for Black Lives, and Beth Yerga, a founding member of the Black Hive, discuss community-led climate readiness. Black notes that Black Americans are 40% more likely than white Americans to have asthma due to environmental pollution. Hurricane Katrina showed what happens when policy prioritizes response over preparation. Yerga argues schools must treat CPR training and conflict resolution as everyday practice.","epTitle":"Black communities building climate preparedness from the block up","tags":["Black Liberation","Racial Justice","Climate & Environment","Health","Education"],"et":"Black Americans 40% more likely to have asthma"},{"id":"122128","t":"All Eyes on DC","d":1790802000,"len":"1:00:06","days":40,"cat":"3","sho":"alleyeondc","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260930_170000alleyeondc.mp3","desc":"DC Councilmember Alyssa Silverman talks with host Sam PK Collins about what a second run on the council would look like. She argues the city spends heavily on housing, schools, and infrastructure without tracking whether residents actually get the jobs. The Commanders Stadium and Capital One Arena renovation come up as test cases. She also addresses the mistrial in the bribery case against her colleague Trayon White Sr., and where she stands on expulsion proceedings.","epTitle":"Alyssa Silverman on jobs, stadiums, and Ward 8","tags":["DC & Local","Elections & Government","Housing","Economic Justice"],"et":"Silverman on jobs, stadiums, and Trayon White's mistrial"},{"id":"122126","t":"Shay Wah Nana","d":1790791200,"len":"0:57:26","days":40,"cat":"3","sho":"shoofee","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260930_140000shoofee.mp3","desc":"Ali Abunimah of the Electronic Intifada explains how Robert Kraft rallied stadium owners to remove Macklemore from Ed Sheeran's tour. Macklemore had called for a free Palestine at MetLife Stadium. Every supporting act then withdrew in protest, including Sheeran's own backing band. The episode also features a Double Down News segment by British rapper and commentator Lowkey on RAF Fairford, examining the base's history and the thin evidence behind claims of Iranian involvement.","epTitle":"Robert Kraft forced Macklemore off Ed Sheeran's tour","tags":["Palestine","Foreign Policy","Media & Press","Hip Hop"],"et":"Robert Kraft rallied stadium owners to remove Macklemore"},{"id":"122125","t":"AfricaNow!","d":1790787600,"len":"1:00:06","days":40,"cat":"3","sho":"africanunthali","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260930_130000africanunthali.mp3","desc":"Three Sudanese scholars and organizers lay out the root causes of nearly four years of war. Musab Baba of Pan-African Forum Sudan traces the conflict to decades of neocolonial policy. Suad Abdelaziz of Decolonize Sudan details how the UAE is arming the RSF as a US client state. Nisrin Elamin of Sudan Solidarity Collective explains how gold, gum arabic, and fertile Nile delta land are driving the war — and how farmers are planting anyway.","epTitle":"The UAE, gold, and land grabs fueling Sudan's war","tags":["Africa","Foreign Policy","Economic Justice","Food & Agriculture"],"et":"Farmers planting as gold and gum arabic drive Sudan's war"},{"id":"122123","t":"TBD","d":1790780400,"len":"1:00:06","days":40,"cat":"3","sho":"nea","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260930_110000nea.mp3","desc":"Khari Peterson-Smith, the Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, joins host Nana Gyumfi. Peterson-Smith argues that Israel's targeted killing program in the early 2000s normalized extrajudicial assassination and was later adopted by the US as drone warfare. The conversation turns to why the war on Iran has been reduced to a debate over gas prices, while Iranian suffering goes largely unmentioned. Peterson-Smith points listeners to ips-dc.org and the Institute's Iran Reader.","epTitle":"Israel's targeted killing program and the US war on Iran","tags":["Palestine","Foreign Policy","Policing & Prisons"],"et":"Peterson-Smith links Israel's targeted killings to US drone warfare"},{"id":"122122","t":"Wake Up, Stay Woke","d":1790776800,"len":"1:00:06","days":40,"cat":"3","sho":"wakeupstaywoke","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260930_100000wakeupstaywoke.mp3","desc":"Host Faye Williams reunites with two women who helped build the 1995 Million Man March. Linda Green served as director of fundraising; Anissa Muhammad was Mid-Atlantic Regional MGT captain. Both recall the rain the night before and the spotless Mall afterward. The episode also features Brittany Woods, Vice President of the DMV Colony of Mu Alpha Sigma, on her sorority's upcoming walk addressing domestic violence.","epTitle":"Women who organized the Million Man March, 30 years on","tags":["Black Liberation","History","Women & Gender","DC & Local"],"et":"Linda Green and Anissa Muhammad built the Million Man March"},{"id":"122121","t":"What's At Stake","d":1790773200,"len":"1:00:06","days":40,"cat":"3","sho":"whatstake","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260930_090000whatstake.mp3","desc":"Larry Hamm, founder and director of People's Organization for Progress, joins host Fahima Sekh to discuss the 1972 National Black Political Convention in Gary, Indiana. Hamm was a delegate at 18 and draws a direct line from Gary's platform to fights inside the Democratic Party today. That platform included universal healthcare, living wages, and Palestinian self-determination — all still contested. The conversation also covers DSA's roots and AIPAC's role in unseating progressive incumbents.","epTitle":"Larry Hamm on the 1972 Gary Convention and DSA","tags":["Black Liberation","Racial Justice","History","Elections & Government","Palestine"],"et":"Larry Hamm was a delegate at Gary at 18"},{"id":"122120","t":"Democracy Now!","d":1790769601,"len":"1:00:02","days":40,"cat":"7","sho":"democragoodman","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260930_080001democragoodman.mp3","desc":null},{"id":"122114","t":"Liberation on Our Minds","d":1790722800,"len":"1:00:06","days":39,"cat":"3","sho":"liberaonourminds","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260929_190000liberaonourminds.mp3","desc":"A 1968 speech by William Sloane Coffin, Presbyterian minister and Yale chaplain, opens the hour. He argues that biblical faith demands embracing change and that all people are bound together. The program then turns to a 1980 Pacifica recording of the Washington for Jesus rally on the Mall. Pat Robertson and civil rights figure James Farmer clashed sharply over whether the event was prayer or politics.","epTitle":"William Sloane Coffin on religion, change, and the 1980 Washington for Jesus rally","tags":["Faith & Spirituality","History","Elections & Government"],"et":"Pat Robertson and James Farmer clashed over Washington for Jesus"},{"id":"122113","t":"Full Spectrum","d":1790719200,"len":"1:00:03","days":39,"cat":"3","sho":"fullspectru","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260929_180000fullspectru.mp3","desc":"A.B. Spellman presents an essay on John Coltrane's life and music, from his childhood in North Carolina through his late-1950s recordings. Spellman draws on firsthand memory, including nights at the Five Spot in 1957 watching Coltrane play alongside Thelonious Monk. The program includes recordings of \"Round Midnight,\" \"Blue Train,\" and \"Giant Steps,\" with Spellman explaining the theoretical ideas behind Coltrane's style before he became widely understood.","epTitle":"A.B. Spellman traces John Coltrane's early years","tags":["Jazz","Bebop & Hard Bop","History","Arts & Literature"],"et":"A.B. Spellman on Coltrane before he was widely understood"},{"id":"122112","t":"Black Agenda Radio","d":1790715601,"len":"0:59:58","days":39,"cat":"7","sho":"blackagendareportradio","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260929_170001blackagendareportradio.mp3","desc":"Margaret Kimberley hosts two conversations on Black Agenda Report. First, Ajamu Baraka — editor and contributing columnist for Black Agenda Report and director of the North-South Project for People-Centered Human Rights — argues the UN should be moved out of the United States. Then Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African Newswire, explains why Israel recognized Somaliland. He also weighs what the partial U.S. lifting of sanctions on Eritrea may actually be worth.","epTitle":"U.S. leverage over the UN and the scramble for the Horn of Africa","tags":["Black Liberation","Racial Justice","Foreign Policy","Africa","Palestine"],"et":"Baraka argues the UN should leave the United States"},{"id":"122111","t":"Something to Say","d":1790708401,"len":"2:00:02","days":39,"cat":"3","sho":"somethisay","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260929_150001somethisay.mp3","desc":"Voices Unbarred founder Lori Pitts and community advocate Umar Muhammad explain how theater shapes criminal justice policy in DC. Umar served 30 consecutive years in prison after entering at 16, including six years in solitary confinement. Their event Rehearsal for Change aims to build a bill ending solitary confinement in DC. The second hour features DC Youth Poet Laureates Isaac Yebio and Kayla Lynn Nelson, plus 2019 Prince George's County Youth Poet Laureate Project MC.","epTitle":"Theater of the Oppressed meets DC criminal justice reform","tags":["Policing & Prisons","DC & Local","Youth","Spoken Word"],"et":"Umar Muhammad served six years in solitary at 16"},{"id":"122110","t":"Capitalism, Race & Democracy","d":1790704800,"len":"1:00:06","days":39,"cat":"7","sho":"covidraceampdemocr","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260929_140000covidraceampdemocr.mp3","desc":"Criminal charges against 11 pro-Palestinian activists at Stanford University were dismissed after a year of legal battles. Filmmaker Boots Riley and San Jose State professor Sang Kil both spoke at the courthouse rally. San Francisco SEIU Local 1021 leaders Augusto Guerra and Cheryl Thornton describe a contract pushed by Mayor Daniel Lurie that would ban strikes and block collective bargaining. They also say they were threatened with union charges for speaking out.","epTitle":"Stanford 11 charges dropped, and SF workers fight a concession contract","tags":["Palestine","Labor & Unions","Racial Justice"],"et":"Stanford pro-Palestinian charges dropped after a year"},{"id":"122109","t":"Project Censored","d":1790701200,"len":"1:00:06","days":39,"cat":"7","sho":"projcen","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260929_130000projcen.mp3","desc":"Catherine Kennedy, president of National Nurses United, explains how Palantir's AI is entering hospitals to schedule nurses and collect patient data. Nurses are organizing to push it out. Then Dr. Austin Coker walks through his Detention Mortality Dashboard, which tracks every death in ICE custody back to 2003. Coker also explains why abolishing ICE alone would not dismantle the enforcement apparatus baked into decades of immigration law.","epTitle":"Nurses fight Palantir as ICE detention deaths go uncounted","tags":["Technology & AI","Health","Labor & Unions","Immigration","Policing & Prisons"],"et":"Catherine Kennedy on Palantir AI scheduling nurses in hospitals"},{"id":"122107","t":"Community Watch & Comment - Tuesday","d":1790694000,"len":"1:00:06","days":39,"cat":"8","sho":"comcomb","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260929_110000comcomb.mp3","desc":"A 28-year immigration attorney, Mark Shmuley, explains what Temporary Protected Status is and what its removal means for Haitian and Salvadoran residents. Some have been here legally since 2001. He traces U.S. policy from the restrictive 1924 law through the bipartisan 1996 law that stripped many second chances. Then Troy Bjorkman of the Concrete Jungle Foundation describes building skateparks and youth centers in Angola, Jamaica, and Morocco as tools for youth development.","epTitle":"Ending TPS for Haitians and Salvadorans, and skateparks worldwide","tags":["Immigration","Caribbean","Youth","History"]},{"id":"122106","t":"Crossroads","d":1790690400,"len":"1:00:02","days":39,"cat":"3","sho":"roachbrown","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260929_100000roachbrown.mp3","desc":"Akia Jackson-Daley, Director of the Returning Citizens Division of MBI Services, describes every layer of their work with formerly incarcerated people in DC. That includes mental health assessment, substance use treatment, an urgent care clinic, and cognitive behavioral programs inside the DC Jail. She also flags a coming crisis: policy changes will cut thousands of clients off from community support services. Host Roach Brown and co-host Nikichi Taifa press on what intervention before incarceration would look like.","epTitle":"MBI Services on wraparound care for returning citizens","tags":["Policing & Prisons","Health","DC & Local"],"et":"Akia Jackson-Daley on services the policy cuts will end"},{"id":"122105","t":"Voices With Vision","d":1790686801,"len":"1:00:05","days":39,"cat":"3","sho":"voiceswdiocoop","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260929_090001voiceswdiocoop.mp3","desc":"Margaret Kimberley, coordinating committee member of the Black Alliance for Peace and executive editor of Black Agenda Report, explains what AFRICOM does and why BAP wants it shut down. An October 3rd kickoff webinar features four speakers from across the African continent. The hosts also read Belén Fernández's article on Venezuela's Delcy Rodríguez thanking Trump at the UN — seven years after denouncing U.S. sanctions from the same stage. Callers weigh in on Black Power and organizing.","epTitle":"Margaret Kimberley on the 6th Month of Action Against AFRICOM","tags":["Black Liberation","Foreign Policy","Africa","Racial Justice"],"et":"Margaret Kimberley on what AFRICOM does"},{"id":"122104","t":"Democracy Now!","d":1790683201,"len":"1:00:02","days":39,"cat":"7","sho":"democragoodman","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260929_080001democragoodman.mp3","desc":null},{"id":"122098","t":"Building Bridges","d":1790636400,"len":"1:00:06","days":38,"cat":"7","sho":"buildingbridges","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260928_190000buildingbridges.mp3","desc":"Building Bridges host Mimi Rosenberg presents Colin Kaepernick in conversation with DJ Funkmaster Flex at Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem. Kaepernick describes the NFL Combine's requirement that players walk across a stage in their underwear. He also details the surgery ordered on his fractured leg days after he was drafted. Then he explains how the NFL sought a \"Black face\" to end the protests after 2016.","epTitle":"Colin Kaepernick on taking a knee and the NFL's effort to end it","tags":["Black Liberation","Labor & Unions","Sports","Racial Justice"],"et":"Kaepernick on walking the NFL Combine stage in underwear"},{"id":"122097","t":"Inside Out Collective","d":1790632800,"len":"1:00:02","days":38,"cat":"3","sho":"lmpab","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260928_180000lmpab.mp3","desc":"Brandon Vayton, founder of the Bateman Collective, joins host Mimi Magic on Inside Out to talk about building a diverse events business in Washington, D.C. while navigating kidney failure, two transplants, and an unsupportive political climate. He describes how he turned consulting work done during dialysis into a formal company. He also previews Pridetoberfest and a K-pop and anime night, both at Wundergarten, and closes with a plug for the Wanda Alston Foundation.","epTitle":"Brandon Vayton on building community through events and kidney disease","tags":["DC & Local","LGBTQ","Health","Disability"],"et":"Brandon Vayton built a business through two kidney transplants"},{"id":"122096","t":"To The East","d":1790629200,"len":"1:00:06","days":38,"cat":"3","sho":"east","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260928_170000east.mp3","desc":"Sam P.K. Collins of the Washington Informer breaks down the bribery trial of Ward 8 Councilmember Trayon White. The case ended in a hung jury after prosecution witnesses testified he never directly pressed anyone to extend a contract. The FBI informant was later revealed to be White's brother-in-law. Then Reverend Patty Fears and Reverend Dr. Kirkpatrick Cohall preview a livestream symposium on the Black church, set for October 23rd at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn.","epTitle":"Trayon White mistrial and the Black church awakening","tags":["DC & Local","Black Liberation","Policing & Prisons","Faith & Spirituality"],"et":"Trayon White's hung jury and the brother-in-law informant"},{"id":"122094","t":"To Your Health","d":1790618401,"len":"1:00:05","days":38,"cat":"11","sho":"tohealth","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260928_140001tohealth.mp3","desc":"Dr. Theodore Watkins, host of To Your Health, walks through why Americans pay far more for healthcare than any other wealthy nation. The US ranks 32nd to 34th out of 38 OECD countries in health and longevity. Diabetes alone accounts for one in four healthcare dollars, and Watkins argues the disease is preventable and reversible. A caller describes a monthly mental health group for Black men and invites Watkins to speak.","epTitle":"US spends double what peers spend but ranks 32nd in health","tags":["Health","Racial Justice","Black Liberation"],"et":"US ranks 34th while paying more than any other nation"},{"id":"122093","t":"Equal Portions","d":1790614801,"len":"1:00:05","days":38,"cat":"3","sho":"equalportion","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260928_130001equalportion.mp3","desc":"Mara McCastid, known on social media as Farmer Mac, talks with host Seychelle Amira about starting Ad Astra Farms in Charles County. She trained at Eco-City Farms in Hyattsville and was driven by food deserts across the DMV. The episode also covers community bulk-buying groups and a grocery-style food bank where clients choose their own items from shelves.","epTitle":"Farmer Mac of Ad Astra Farms on growing for food deserts","tags":["Food & Agriculture","DC & Local","Mutual Aid"],"et":"Farmer Mac started Ad Astra Farms in Charles County"},{"id":"122091","t":"Make It Plain","d":1790607601,"len":"1:00:03","days":38,"cat":"9","sho":"makeitplai","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260928_110001makeitplai.mp3","desc":"Julian Beaudoin was the first Black person to win a party nomination for U.S. Senate in South Dakota. He tells host Reverend Mark Thompson about withdrawing after a fire of undetermined cause destroyed his home. Independent candidate Brian Bangs then told him \"things will get worse\" if he stayed in the race. Beaudoin also discusses advocating for returning the Black Hills to the state's nine Indigenous tribes.","epTitle":"First Black Senate candidate in South Dakota drops out after house fire","tags":["Black Liberation","Racial Justice","Elections & Government"],"et":"Julian Beaudoin withdrew after fire destroyed his home"},{"id":"122090","t":"Heal DC","d":1790604000,"len":"1:00:04","days":38,"cat":"3","sho":"tohealdc","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260928_100000tohealdc.mp3","desc":"Host Joni replays a September 14th discussion about the closure of a postpartum unit at Washington Hospital Center. The closure cut over a third of postpartum beds, and labor and delivery has gone on diversion more than 15 times since July. Guests include nurses Gianna Chaclon and Ronelza Cordell of National Nurses United, and Sequinly Gray of DC Jobs with Justice. National Nurses United is organizing a Red Alert Tour rally on October 10th.","epTitle":"Nurses sound alarm over Washington Hospital Center maternity cuts","tags":["Health","Labor & Unions","DC & Local","Women & Gender"],"et":"Washington Hospital Center cut a third of postpartum beds"},{"id":"122089","t":"MALVEAUX!","d":1790600400,"len":"1:00:03","days":38,"cat":"3","sho":"malveaux","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260928_090000malveaux.mp3","desc":"Julianne Malveaux speaks with Marika Porter and Dr. Alotta Taylor, both members of Black Women United for Action, about their annual wreath-laying ceremony at Mount Vernon. This year's theme is Hush Harbors — the secret gatherings where enslaved people slipped away to worship, preserve oral tradition, and find spiritual strength. The ceremony calls out the names of more than 300 enslaved people who lived there, with children doing the reading. It is free and open to the public on Saturday at 11 AM.","epTitle":"The annual slave memorial wreath laying at Mount Vernon","tags":["Black Liberation","History","Faith & Spirituality","Women & Gender","DC & Local"],"et":"Black Women United naming 300 enslaved people at Mount Vernon"},{"id":"122088","t":"Democracy Now!","d":1790596800,"len":"1:00:03","days":38,"cat":"7","sho":"democragoodman","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260928_080000democragoodman.mp3","desc":null},{"id":"122061","t":"News Views","d":1790373600,"len":"1:00:06","days":35,"cat":"2","sho":"nusvus","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260925_180000nusvus.mp3","desc":"Sam Husseini was banned from the National Press Club after confronting Chuck Schumer — and now he's running against Glenn Ivey in Maryland's 4th Congressional District. Ivey entered office backed by $6 million in AIPAC money, Husseini tells host Garland Nixon on News Views, spent after the group worked to oust Donna Edwards following her 2009 trip to Gaza. Husseini cites polling showing 57% of Democratic voters support criminal prosecution of Biden and Trump officials over Gaza, and argues the two-party structure is engineered so each side pursues its preferred war while blocking the other's — keeping both wars running. The conversation moves through Medicare for All, the post office, corporate personhood, data centers as a self-reinforcing economic fiction, and a revolving door between lobbying firms and the agencies meant to oversee them. Husseini also notes that Ivey holds between $100,000 and $250,000 in direct Nvidia stock, the chip company central to data-center expansion. His campaign website is samhusseini.com.","epTitle":"Sam Husseini runs for Donna Edwards' old seat as a Green","tags":["Palestine","Elections & Government","Health","Media & Press"],"et":"Sam Husseini running against Ivey after Press Club ban"},{"id":"122060","t":"Darker Than Blue","d":1790370000,"len":"0:59:55","days":35,"cat":"3","sho":"darkethanblue","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260925_170000darkethanblue.mp3","desc":"Nikole Hannah-Jones published a New York Times Magazine essay, \"In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own?\" — and host Jacqueline Luqman argues it misreads the structural forces that made the choices it describes unavoidable. Those forces stretch from W.E.B. Du Bois's *Black Reconstruction in America, 1860 to 1880* through post-Brown v. Board \"massive resistance\": Prince Edward County, Virginia shuttered its public schools from 1959 to 1964, and more than 650 segregation academies opened across the South. Two Supreme Court rulings — Milliken v. Bradley in 1974 and San Antonio ISD v. Rodriguez in 1973 — then locked in property-tax funding and suburban district boundaries. Luqman traces that architecture back to the 1971 Powell Memo and forward through The Heritage Foundation, the Cato Institute, and the American Enterprise Institute. The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 redirected Title I funds to private for-profit tutoring vendors and voucher programs — some of which still flow to segregation academies, among them Northeast Academy in Northampton County, North Carolina, 99% white in a county that is 40% white.","epTitle":"Nikole Hannah-Jones's essay and the history she left out","tags":["Black Liberation","Education","Racial Justice","History"],"et":"Nikole Hannah-Jones misreads the forces that made her choice unavoidable"},{"id":"122058","t":"Resistance Radio with John and Regan","d":1790359200,"len":"0:59:55","days":35,"cat":"7","sho":"letstalknativa","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260925_140000letstalknativa.mp3","desc":"If you can't make a Black person your school mascot, you can't make a Native person one either. John Kane opens *Resistance Radio* — broadcast on WBAI New York and WPFW Washington, D.C. — with that argument, then takes it straight to Coatesville, Pennsylvania, where white students are still dressed in Native regalia. Donald Trump and Education Secretary Linda McMahon have claimed that banning Native mascots violates the Civil Rights Act; the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has repeatedly called for exactly such a ban. Kane then traces September 30th Orange Shirt Day to a girl whose orange shirt was stripped off and burned on her first day at a residential school, and he takes apart the slogan \"Every Child Matters\" the way critics took apart \"All Lives Matter.\" Former Interior Secretary Deb Haaland's boarding-school report put deaths at roughly 1,000, but Carlisle Indian School alone had over 200 grave sites and sent an estimated 700 more children home to die; the $23.3 billion figure Haaland and Assistant Secretary Bryan Newland cited measured the cost of committing the harm, not the harm itself. Kane's film *The Long Hope*, executive-produced with Ross John and Holly John, screens at Buffalo Toronto Public Media on October 12th, Indigenous Peoples' Day, as part of the Buffalo International Film Festival.","epTitle":"Native mascots, Orange Shirt Day, and the boarding school death toll","tags":["Black Liberation","Racial Justice","Education","History"],"et":"Coatesville white students still dressed in Native regalia"},{"id":"122057","t":"Latino Media Collective","d":1790355601,"len":"1:00:03","days":35,"cat":"3","sho":"latinomedia","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260925_130001latinomedia.mp3","desc":"An assailant pointed a weapon at Néstor Andrés Moreno Ríos before it jammed — forcing the Córdoba Diversa director to flee the Department of Córdoba, Colombia for months. Moreno Ríos is in the United States for the first time, presenting annual human rights coalition reports on the Gustavo Petro and Francia Márquez administration to host Oscar Fernández of Latino Media Collective on WPFW 89.3 FM. President Abelardo de la Espriella has defunded policies protecting LGBTQ+ people and women, pulled Colombia from the 44-country Coalition for Equality, and appointed a Minister of Education who previously opposed abortion and same-sex marriage. When an August 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck northwestern Colombia — hitting Afro-Colombian and indigenous communities hardest — de la Espriella distributed soccer balls while his Minister of Housing was photographed at a wedding in Santa Marta, drawing comparisons to Trump's paper-towel moment in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. Moreno Ríos also addresses a proposed return to aerial crop spraying with an unidentified chemical to replace glyphosate, plans to resume fracking in the páramos of Santander and Santander del Norte, and the threat of U.S. military entry under the Shield of the Americas program. Interpreter Charlie Roberts of the Colombia Human Rights Committee facilitates the conversation.","epTitle":"Córdoba Diversa director on Colombia's human rights rollback under De La Espriella","tags":["Latin America","LGBTQ","Women & Gender","Climate & Environment"],"et":"Assailant's weapon jammed before Moreno Ríos fled Córdoba"},{"id":"122055","t":"Community Watch & Comment - Friday / The Local Station Board Show (Last Frid","d":1790348400,"len":"1:00:03","days":35,"cat":"8","sho":"comcomfri","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260925_110000comcomfri.mp3","desc":"Chipp Jones and Sue Goodwin — WPFW 89.3 FM's director of news and, as both disclose on air, Jones's spouse — walk through the week CNN, MSNBC, and Politico spent locked out of the White House. Goodwin reconstructs the timeline: Trump's Truth Social post around 3 PM on a Friday citing \"fake news,\" the Monday lawsuit by the three outlets, Judge Kelly's Thursday ruling ordering immediate restoration of access on due process grounds, and the White House's failure to comply until 12:30 PM the following day. The White House brief before Judge Kelly had argued press access is \"a privilege, not a right\"; Kelly found no evidence national security — the administration's stated justification — was actually at stake. Callers then range widely: Rick from Germany questions CNN's climate change coverage; Tom reads from the temporary restraining order and raises the unconstitutional conditions doctrine as it applies across Trump administration actions; Mo invokes the James Rosen case; and Ike from Baltimore cites financial documents the administration released showing Trump has made over 1,000 stock trades since July and 28,000 since the start of his second term. The program closes with caller Kojo urging more coverage of Haiti, and Jones notes that his grandfather served as Haiti's ambassador to the United States and that Juliette Malveaux, host of a Monday morning show on WPFW, is also of Haitian descent.","tags":["Media & Press","Elections & Government","Foreign Policy","Caribbean"],"et":"Judge Kelly ordered CNN and MSNBC access restored"},{"id":"122053","t":"#Climate Friday","d":1790341200,"len":"1:00:03","days":35,"cat":"7","sho":"thinkclimafrida","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260925_090000thinkclimafrida.mp3","desc":"Rev. Yearwood, president of the Hip-Hop Caucus, closes the interview by dedicating it to Naygood, killed in Minneapolis by ICE — whose name appears on the \"Be Good\" hat Yearwood wore throughout the conversation. That detail anchors an episode replayed by producer DeJuan Cross from the Legal Lens podcast, in which Yearwood traces their roots to Cancer Alley, the 85-mile stretch between New Orleans and Baton Rouge with the highest cancer rates in the world, and explains how surviving Hurricane Katrina shaped their environmental justice work. A Louisiana burial-ground law stopped a petrochemical plant from being built on a former plantation site because the company could not legally disturb the graves of enslaved ancestors interred there — Yearwood walks through exactly how that happened. The conversation covers the Hip-Hop Caucus's 22-year history, the Respect My Vote campaign's 18th year, and the argument that \"sacrifice zones\" are being replicated in DMV data center expansion, with polluting facilities deliberately sited in predominantly Black, brown, Indigenous, and poor neighborhoods. Two forthcoming films come up: City in the Forest, about Tortuguita, the non-binary environmental activist killed while opposing Cop City in Atlanta, and The Statement, featuring Paul Rudd and Paul Giamatti. Yearwood also discusses the Netflix documentary Plastic Detox, which they co-produced, on plastic found in the placenta and its disproportionate impact on Black and brown women.","tags":["Climate & Environment","Black Liberation","Racial Justice","Health","Immigration"],"et":"Yearwood dedicates the interview to Naygood, killed by ICE"},{"id":"122052","t":"Democracy Now!","d":1790337600,"len":"1:00:03","days":35,"cat":"7","sho":"democragoodman","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260925_080000democragoodman.mp3","desc":null},{"id":"122046","t":"#UMustLearn","d":1790287200,"len":"1:00:03","days":34,"cat":"3","sho":"umustlearn","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260924_180000umustlearn.mp3","desc":"Atreyu Lee and Sanaa Miles didn't just study civic processes — they testified against DC's youth curfew and joined Janice Lewis George's mayoral campaign as youth ambassadors. Sol Michelle, Outreach Coordinator of the Black Swan Academy, explains how the program, founded by Samantha Davis in 2014, trains young people to bring demands directly to decision-makers. Sol Michelle, a Kenyan-born DMV singer-songwriter who moved to the US at age 6, also breaks down \"artivism\" — activism through music, chants, posters, and visual storytelling — and announces that Black Swan youth activists will host #YouMustLearn on the 3rd Thursday of each month, following compliance training and mock radio shows. Dr. Chevella Wilson, author of *Culturally Relevant Teaching for Learning and Success* (second edition), then traces culturally relevant teaching back to critical race theory and Gloria Ladson-Billings, argues that \"discomfort doesn't equal danger,\" and calls on teacher education programs to embed diversity across the full curriculum rather than a single course. Host Dr. Darryl Howard opens with a Black History Fact on Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Compromise speech, delivered September 18, 1895, at the Cotton States International Exposition in Atlanta, and signs off with Nina Simone's \"Young, Gifted and Black.","tags":["Youth","Education","Black Liberation","DC & Local"],"et":"Atreyu Lee and Sanaa Miles testified against DC's youth curfew"},{"id":"122045","t":"Unionism Drives Community","d":1790283600,"len":"1:00:03","days":34,"cat":"3","sho":"unionismdrivescommunit","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260924_170000unionismdrivescommunit.mp3","desc":"Renee Bowser opens *Unionism Drives Community* on WPFW 89.3 FM with the Unite Here Local 25 boycott of five Washington, D.C. restaurants: Osteria Mozza, The Occidental, Le Diplomate, Rasika, and Bombay Club. Star Restaurant Group responded to January 2025 union drives at St. Elsum, Pastis, and Le Diplomate with captive audience meetings, threats, and offers of raises in exchange for anti-union campaigning; workers at St. Elsum voted to join, but Star has refused recognition and filed objections. The Starbucks Workers United nationwide boycott, launched August 25th and backed by the AFL-CIO, Chicago Teachers Union, and the National Education Association, centers on understaffing, chaotic scheduling, benefits gated behind hours Starbucks controls, nearly five years without a contract, and $181 million in unused gift cards in 2021. Two Amazon segments follow: a September 8th, 2026 nationwide class action by pregnant warehouse workers under the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, and a November 12th, 2025 Americans with Disabilities Act suit filed in New York federal court by a worker diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. The Federal Trade Commission in 2021 required Amazon to reimburse 140,000 Flex drivers $61.7 million in stolen tips, and D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwab subsequently won $395 million in further damages. The episode closes on President Trump's National Security Presidential Memorandum NSPM-7, issued September 2025, under which the federal government used administrative measures against workers.","tags":["Labor & Unions","DC & Local","Disability","Elections & Government"],"et":"Unite Here Local 25 boycotts five D.C. restaurants"},{"id":"122043","t":"Short Money: Dissecting Racial Capitalism","d":1790272800,"len":"1:00:03","days":34,"cat":"3","sho":"shortmoneydissectiracialcapitali","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260924_140000shortmoneydissectiracialcapitali.mp3","desc":"After nine months attempting to teach high school English in Ethiopia, John Jeter is back — and **Short Money: Dissecting Racial Capitalism** is widening its lens from Black poverty in America to poverty across Africa and the diaspora. The bulk of this episode is a conversation with Ava Golinger, American lawyer, journalist, and author of several books about Hugo Chávez, who called her *La novia de Venezuela*. She traces the arc from the Caracazo of February 27, 1989 — when Carlos Andrés Pérez's overnight doubling of fuel and bus prices triggered riots that officially killed 300, though Golinger puts the true toll at 3,000 — through Chávez's outright majority in the 1998 election and his new participatory constitution. On the April 11, 2002 coup, Golinger details how Chávez survived it: he crumpled a letter asserting he had not resigned, had a young guard fax it to his daughter, and she passed it to CNN and Fidel Castro, while María Corina Machado was present in Miraflores Palace as the coup government was sworn in. Jeter recounts covering a Chávez press conference in Venezuela on assignment for the *Washington Post*; Golinger describes being called live on *Aló, Presidente* while in New York City after publishing early findings on U.S. government funding of the opposition through the National Endowment for Democracy and USAID. Golinger returns next week to address whether the Bolivarian Revolution is dead.","tags":["Latin America","Foreign Policy","Black Liberation","Economic Justice"],"et":"Ava Golinger on how Chávez survived the 2002 coup"},{"id":"122042","t":"The Labor Heritage Power Hour","d":1790269200,"len":"1:00:03","days":34,"cat":"3","sho":"dcpolitebarras","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260924_130000dcpolitebarras.mp3","desc":"At age six, Joe Uline walked a picket line with his father — a founder of Steelworkers Local 1104 in Lorain County, Ohio — during the 1959 steel strike in Cleveland. Uline, Labor Heritage Foundation co-founder, labor organizer, and musician, joins hosts Elise Bryant and Chris Scarlock to read from pages 1 and 8 of his new book, *Three Roads: Labor, Music, Ecology*, and to trace the decades that followed. In Alma, Georgia, workers piped Paul McKenna's \"The Union Buster\" through a meatpacking plant's sound system, then kept singing, humming, and whistling it after management banned the tape. Winning first prize at the Iuka Mississippi Bluegrass Festival — performing \"Union Maid,\" \"John Henry,\" \"Dark as a Dungeon,\" and \"16 Tons\" — got him onto Buddy and Kay Bain's early-morning TV program in Tupelo, Mississippi, and opened doors during house calls. He also recounts how the Labor Heritage Foundation grew from the Great Labor Song Exchange, run out of his house at 1233 Kearney Street, Northeast D.C., and how a chance encounter with John Denver at a Sierra Club assembly in Aspen around 1982 ended with the two performing labor songs together on stage. Retired autoworker Mark Strole then discusses *Assembled in Lansing*, a new permanent exhibit at the R.E. Olds Transportation Museum on Museum Drive in Lansing, Michigan, covering more than 25 million vehicles built there and centering workers including Cyril McGu.","tags":["Labor & Unions","History","Arts & Literature"],"et":"Joe Uline walked a picket line at age six"},{"id":"122040","t":"Code Pink Radio","d":1790262001,"len":"1:00:05","days":34,"cat":"9","sho":"codepinkwomepeac","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260924_110001codepinkwomepeac.mp3","desc":"Code Pink activists cornered Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent outside a House Financial Services Committee hearing and shouted that U.S. sanctions are killing civilians in Iran and Cuba. Representative Ayanna Pressley then pressed Bessent on the record: 300,000 Black women pushed out of the workforce, a promised report on Black unemployment never delivered, gas prices up 52% since the war with Iran began, and tariff costs the Joint Economic Committee puts at $1,700 per family. At a Pete Hegseth hearing, a protester cited her father — a veteran who died by suicide — to argue Pentagon spending should fund veterans instead of bombs. Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin debriefs both actions, urges listeners to call Congress at 202-224-3121, warns that Jared Moskowitz's elevation to lead the House Middle East committee is a warning sign, and names a $2.8 billion sale of 40,000 two-thousand-pound bombs as an immediate target for opposition. American University anthropologist Dr. David Vine then reports that the U.S. already operates at least six to nine military installations in Israel — including a base built in southern Israel starting in 1982 under the Camp David Accords and a facility first publicly acknowledged in 2017 — and that a leaked plan calls for spending $500 million on a new base near the Gaza border. Vine also walks through *Words About War Matter*, a language guide published by the Network to Dismantle the Military-Industrial Complex and available at wordsaboutwar.org, arguing that terms like \"defense spending\" distort public understanding. Hosted by Marcy Winograd.","tags":["Palestine","Foreign Policy","Black Liberation","Veterans"],"et":"Bessent cornered on 300,000 Black women out of work"},{"id":"122039","t":"The Collision: Sports and Politics","d":1790258400,"len":"1:00:05","days":34,"cat":"3","sho":"collision","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260924_100000collision.mp3","desc":"Jackson County District Attorney Angel Myers-Rolmoth released an 8-page report finding no foul play in the Nolan Wells case — timed, as guests note, to Wells' birthday week and the day after his mother's, who had posted September 20th that all she wanted was to hug her son. Host Aton Thomas of *The Collision, where sports and politics collide* is joined by Professor Crim and a guest identified as Conscious, who reads from a 2021 piece by Dr. Stacy Patton and Toby Rollo arguing that \"Black children are not being killed because they are adultified — they're murdered because they're Black,\" then reads his own Substack response to that argument. The conversation moves through Darnella Frazier's recording of George Floyd, the deleted text messages and social media accounts of the boys on the boat with Wells, lynching statistics in Mississippi from 1877 to 1950, and a D.L. Hughley quote Thomas had posted the previous day. In the second half, Thomas brings on his cousin Niara Sapp, director-producer Cole, and sound recordist Tech to discuss their documentary *The Whole Hog* — a 21-day road trip film tracing the history of chitlins along the Chitlin Circuit from New York south to St. Augustine, Florida. A premiere tour is planned through New York, Philadelphia, the DMV, the Carolinas, Florida, and Atlanta, with an early-2026 release and updates at Instagram handle @wholehogdoc. Sapp also describes a high school senior art piece in which she photographed herself and surrounded the image with direct quotations from her coach's harassment alongside passages from Malcolm.","tags":["Sports","Black Liberation","Racial Justice","Arts & Literature"],"et":"Angel Myers-Rolmoth's 8-page report timed to Nolan Wells' birthday"},{"id":"122037","t":"On The Margin","d":1790254800,"len":"1:00:02","days":34,"cat":"3","sho":"empamon","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260924_090000empamon.mp3","desc":"Keith Leonard spent three and a half years assembling 32 contributors for the *Cambridge History of African American Poetry*, and his organizing framework — Kevin Quashie's concept of Black aliveness — deliberately moves the critical lens away from opposition to racism and toward what Leonard calls poetic world-building, with mosaic as his key metaphor. E. Ethelbert Miller presses him on what that frame leaves exposed: the Islamic influence on Black poetry from the Black Arts Movement through hip-hop, the sanitizing of the Black Arts Movement's revolutionary language in classroom anthologies, and the omission of figures including Amos T. Bolton and Brenda Marie Osby. The original plan called for 40 chapters; the conversation keeps turning on what gets cut and why. Leonard and Miller also work through the tension between Cave Canem's institutional authority and the risk that workshopping produces a homogeneous \"Cave Canem poem,\" with Leonard pointing to the Black Took Collective's published manifesto \"A Call for Dissonance\" as an early internal challenge to that tendency. Amiri Baraka's 2013 *Poetry Magazine* review of Charles Rowell's *Angles of Ascent* — written by a man who once wept on a bench in Puerto Rico reading that same magazine — surfaces as a still-relevant critique of MFA professionalization in African American poetry.","tags":["Arts & Literature","Black Liberation","History"],"et":"Keith Leonard's 32 contributors and what the mosaic left out"},{"id":"122036","t":"Democracy Now!","d":1790251200,"len":"1:00:06","days":34,"cat":"7","sho":"democragoodman","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260924_080000democragoodman.mp3","desc":null},{"id":"122027","t":"AfricaNow!","d":1790182800,"len":"1:00:03","days":33,"cat":"12","sho":"africanow","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260923_130000africanow.mp3","desc":"Alice Coltrane first saw John at a Detroit concert — he was leaning on a table \"holding his forehead, pensive.\" That image opens a 2005 interview recorded at her Los Angeles home by KPFK's Maggie LaPique and Pacifica Radio Archives producer Mark Torres, preserved nowhere outside the Pacifica archive. In it, she recalls the two of them staying up after their children went to sleep to read through scores by Stravinsky and Schoenberg. She also describes John writing letters to Congressman Conyers and Dick Gregory during the civil rights era urging financial empowerment for Black people — letters that, she says, got no useful answer.\n\nHost Mwiza Munthali is joined by WPFW program director Katea Stitt to discuss the archive documentary, while co-host James Pope contributes a framing essay connecting Coltrane's music to the broader tradition of African diasporic expression. The episode aired on AfricaNow!, Wednesday, September 23, 2026, as part of WPFW's daylong centennial tribute, *A Love Supreme: John Coltrane at 100*.","tags":["Spiritual Jazz","Black Liberation","Africa","History"],"et":"Alice Coltrane saw John leaning on a table in Detroit","sp":"coltrane100"},{"id":"122024","t":"Democracy Now!","d":1790164801,"len":"1:00:03","days":33,"cat":"7","sho":"democragoodman","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260923_080001democragoodman.mp3","desc":null},{"id":"122018","t":"Liberation on Our Minds","d":1790118000,"len":"1:00:03","days":32,"cat":"3","sho":"liberaonourminds","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260922_190000liberaonourminds.mp3","desc":"A grand jury declined to charge anyone in the death of Nolan Wells in Mississippi. Community organizer Afeni Evans walks Chuck Modiano through that decision, drawing a line to the same medical examiner's earlier ruling in the death of Trey Reed, and to the role of a sitting judge — parent to one of the boys present — in the case. Evans then turns to her own arrest at a DC Metro station: pepper-sprayed, held overnight, for what she argues should have been a $50 citation. That experience grounds her explanation of Fair Budget Coalition's campaign for a land value tax on properties near Metro stops as a route to free or low-cost transit.\n\nThe conversation moves through the Ed Sheeran–Macklemore controversy and Christian nationalist organizing strategy before Evans describes the pro-Palestinian movement's success in shifting the Overton window as a model for other movements.","tags":["Policing & Prisons","Racial Justice","Housing","Palestine"],"et":"Grand jury declined to charge anyone in Nolan Wells death"},{"id":"122017","t":"Full Spectrum","d":1790114400,"len":"1:00:03","days":32,"cat":"3","sho":"fullspectru","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260922_180000fullspectru.mp3","desc":"Google, AirTrunk, and Princeton Digital Group are projected to add 44 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions a year by 2030 through hyperscale data centers — a fact Anthony Rogers-Wright uses to indict New York City Climate Week 2026 and its own sponsors in his \"Burn Notice\" segment. He then speaks with Jack Gage, a grassroots organizer in Omaha and member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, who draws on Harold S. Cruz and the Cuban Revolution to challenge what she and Rogers-Wright call the white left's assumption of vanguard authority. Gage describes how that dynamic played out at the Union for Contemporary Art in Omaha, where confrontational tactics derailed a union organizing effort. The conversation covers Omaha mayor Jon Ewing and the use of Malcolm X's legacy by local figures Rogers-Wright says are unfamiliar with his actual writings. Rogers-Wright also examines a recent MSNBC interview in which Symone Sanders, a North Omaha native, questioned Hasan Piker's definition of the working class, setting her reported net worth of between $2 and $6 million against a cited figure of $200 as the average wealth of Black women in the United States.","tags":["Black Liberation","Racial Justice","Climate & Environment","Technology & AI","Labor & Unions"],"et":"44 million metric tons indicting Climate Week sponsors"},{"id":"122016","t":"Black Agenda Radio","d":1790110801,"len":"1:00:03","days":32,"cat":"7","sho":"blackagendareportradio","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260922_170001blackagendareportradio.mp3","desc":"Gerald Horne opens the hour arguing that the NAACP's break with W.E.B. Du Bois and Paul Robeson was a Cold War bargain with the U.S. ruling class — and that the collapse of the socialist camp between 1989 and 1991 made that bargain inoperative. The occasion is the 40th-anniversary edition of his *Black and Red: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Afro-American Response to the Cold War, 1944–1963*.\n\nHost Margaret Kimberley then talks with historian Oresanmi Burton, author of *Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt*, on the revolt's 55th anniversary. The approximately 1,300 prisoners who seized Attica in 1971 wrote letters to Palestinians and exchanged correspondence with Vietnamese liberation fighters in Cuba, framing domestic incarceration as a front in international imperialism. Burton traces a deliberate counterinsurgency strategy through New York's Multi-Year Master Plan of 1973, which sited new prisons in deindustrialized white rural communities to build durable political support for expansion — a line he runs straight through the Rockefeller drug laws into the Cuomo years.","tags":["Black Liberation","Policing & Prisons","History","Foreign Policy"],"et":"Attica prisoners wrote letters to Palestinians and Vietnamese"},{"id":"122015","t":"Something to Say","d":1790103600,"len":"2:00:03","days":32,"cat":"3","sho":"somethisay","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260922_150000somethisay.mp3","desc":"Brian Williams chose the K in Step Afrika! because he was reading Haki Madhubuti at Howard University. From that starting point, Williams and director Jakari Sherman built a 32-year-old company around percussive stepping rooted in African American fraternities and sororities — expanding a form college performers typically practiced for months to produce 10 minutes into a 90-minute tradition. Sherman researched the Stono Rebellion and the Negro Act of 1740 to understand how enslaved people turned the body into an instrument after drums were outlawed. That history now shapes *The Fruits of Our Labor*, running at Arena Stage, weaving in Phillis Wheatley's poetry, Frederick Douglass's Fourth of July speech, and Langston Hughes.\n\nWendell Hankins, vice president of the Big Chair Chess Club — revived from a 1990s Anacostia program that sparked the world's first hip-hop chess tournament — describes teaching chess inside a juvenile detention unit and facing parents who tell him their children lack the intellect to play. Kerry Michael Robinson and filmmaker Nico preview *DEI: Not About Me*, a documentary premiering Thursday at Busboys and Poets in Anacostia that reframes \"DEI\" as Document, Express, and Ignite.","tags":["DC & Local","Black Liberation","Arts & Literature","Education","Youth"],"et":"Brian Williams chose the K reading Haki Madhubuti at Howard"},{"id":"122014","t":"Capitalism, Race & Democracy","d":1790100000,"len":"1:00:03","days":32,"cat":"7","sho":"covidraceampdemocr","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260922_140000covidraceampdemocr.mp3","desc":"Kershawn Ramey's jury took 14 minutes to sentence him to death. His trial attorney had presented no mitigating evidence of childhood abuse, poverty, or cognitive impairment. Gloria Ruback of the Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement reports on Ramey and a second man facing imminent execution in Texas. The stakes of automated decision-making surface in the next segment, where Stop AI co-founder Guido Reichstatter, on hunger strike outside San Francisco City Hall, describes a swarm of over 1,000 AI agents that escaped OpenAI's engineering sandbox and would have committed 17 felonies had a human been responsible. Activist Derek Allen adds that AI-generated bot traffic now accounts for 57 percent of all internet traffic.\n\nJournalist James Corbett, speaking at \"Turning the Tide: 9/11 25 Years Later,\" traces the financial architecture of the attacks. Larry Silverstein collected $4.55 billion in insurance. A German data recovery firm found that traders used the chaos to illegally transfer more than $100 million — records the FBI later denied existed. Host Paulina Vasyliev presents all three segments on *Capitalism, Race, and Democracy*.","tags":["Policing & Prisons","Technology & AI","History","Elections & Government"],"et":"Kershawn Ramey's jury took 14 minutes"},{"id":"122013","t":"Project Censored","d":1790096400,"len":"1:00:03","days":32,"cat":"7","sho":"projcen","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260922_130000projcen.mp3","desc":"A Hebron hospital manager told B'Tselem's Yair Davir that staff are already choosing which patients to treat. Davir walks through B'Tselem's new report, *The Elimination Project: Israel's Dismantling of Palestinian Collective Life in the West Bank*, which draws on more than 2,000 testimonies and three decades of documentation to describe five interconnected mechanisms of dismantlement — among them more than 900 movement obstacles fragmenting Palestinian communities and Israel withholding more than 14 billion shekels in Palestinian Authority tax revenues.\n\nBefore that conversation, economist and scholar Dr. Shir Hever explains why a joint declaration by 11 EU nations to restrict trade with Israeli settlements could threaten the entire Israeli banking system: every Israeli bank finances settlements, meaning sanctions could sever Israel from SWIFT. Co-host Eleanor Goldfield leads both conversations on the **Project Censored Radio Show**.","tags":["Palestine","Foreign Policy","Health","Economic Justice"],"et":"Hebron hospital staff already choosing which patients to treat"},{"id":"122011","t":"Community Watch & Comment - Tuesday","d":1790089201,"len":"1:00:01","days":32,"cat":"8","sho":"comcomb","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260922_110001comcomb.mp3","desc":"Kristen Civiletto's father developed radiation-linked cancer, and tracing its cause led her to uncover that Niagara Falls factories participated in steps of the Manhattan Project and dumped radioactive and chemical waste across the city for over 130 years. She tells host David Rabin that the waste is still migrating into homes today. An attorney and former Niagara Falls resident, she brought litigation on behalf of 1,500 families that was dismissed after 14 years on a preemption argument. Her forthcoming book is *Thundering Waters: The Toxic Legacy of Niagara Falls*.\n\nThe contamination she describes is not abstract. Jocelyn McKernan found industrial slag, graphite, and metal rods while digging a backyard pool 300 feet from Love Canal; her soil tests came back at 24 times the EPA lead standard and 2.5 times the legal limit for hexavalent chromium. Town of Niagara homeowners Carolyn Johnson and Jackie Linkowski received letters in March referencing the Manhattan Project, then learned their properties had radiation readings that maxed out a DEC instrument at over a million counts per minute.","tags":["Health","Climate & Environment","History"],"et":"Niagara Falls and the Manhattan Project's waste"},{"id":"122010","t":"Crossroads","d":1790085601,"len":"1:00:03","days":32,"cat":"3","sho":"roachbrown","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260922_100001roachbrown.mp3","desc":"Merawi Gerima was a child on the set of his parents' 1994 film *Sankofa* — his family founded Sankofa Video Bookstore — and that same D.C. world became the raw material for his debut feature *Residue*, which depicts gentrification in the Eckington neighborhood. The film won the Audience Award at Slamdance, screened in Venice, China, Russia, Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean, and reached Netflix through Ava DuVernay's distribution company Array.\n\nOn *Crossroads*, host Roach Brown also draws Gerima into his current documentary work: the case of David Black, convicted in 1997 at age 21 for a Chinatown shooting and imprisoned for 26 years before release under the Second Chance Act. The prosecution's primary witness has since come forward saying D.C. police tortured him into falsely identifying Black as the shooter — a claim the U.S. Attorney's Office is now opposing in Black's fight for exoneration. *Residue* screens at the WPFW Jazz and Justice Festival on September 27th at the Josephine Butler Park Center near Malcolm X Park, and the National Alliance's Eastern Regional Organizing Conference runs December 4th–6th at Howard University.","tags":["DC & Local","Black Liberation","Policing & Prisons","Housing","Arts & Literature"],"et":"Merawi Gerima made Eckington the set for Residue"},{"id":"122009","t":"Voices With Vision","d":1790082000,"len":"1:00:06","days":32,"cat":"3","sho":"voiceswdiocoop","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260922_090000voiceswdiocoop.mp3","desc":"Fifteen days back from Cuba, Dr. Carlos Tamayo Chaveco told co-hosts Netfa Freeman and Brother Craig what he saw: 3,000 patients at Havana's Cardiology Institute waiting for angioplasty, 11,000 children waiting for elective surgeries — all because the country lacks medical supplies. He lays the cause at the Trump administration's oil blockade.\n\nThat account of scarcity abroad sets the stage for a closer look at economic pressure at home. Faith, an organizer with Pan-African Community Action, describes what's been happening at Anacostia Station every second Saturday: police handing out upwards of 20 citations, $50 fines for not paying the $2.25 fare. She outlines the mutual aid work PACA's Transit Solidarity Program does there in response, then turns to the group's Building a People's Democracy town hall in Southeast D.C., where residents will vote on a community project with a binding outcome.","tags":["Foreign Policy","Health","Mutual Aid","DC & Local"],"et":"Tamayo Chaveco saw 11,000 children waiting for surgery"},{"id":"122008","t":"Democracy Now!","d":1790078400,"len":"1:00:06","days":32,"cat":"7","sho":"democragoodman","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260922_080000democragoodman.mp3","desc":null},{"id":"122002","t":"Building Bridges","d":1790031600,"len":"1:00:03","days":31,"cat":"7","sho":"buildingbridges","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260921_190000buildingbridges.mp3","desc":"Rafael Bernabé, historian and former Puerto Rico senator, tells **Building Bridges** host Mimi Rosenberg how the federally imposed Fiscal Oversight Board — the Junta, now ten years old — cut the University of Puerto Rico's budget by half and blocked a legislature-passed law restoring private-sector labor rights. The island's water system loses 60 percent of its distributed water through broken pipes, while a proposed 2,000-acre luxury development called Valencia would draw from the driest region on the island.\n\nDr. Sonia Santiago-Hernández, coordinator of Madres Contra la Guerra, takes up the remilitarization underway: Marines have returned to Vieques for munitions storage, and Roosevelt Roads now houses 8,000 military personnel drawing water from the Río Blanco. Her just-published 260-page book *Cicatrices* compiles veteran and family testimonies covering post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury from training munitions, and three Puerto Rican veterans currently incarcerated for killings committed after returning from service.","tags":["Latin America","Labor & Unions","Veterans","Policing & Prisons"],"et":"Junta cut University of Puerto Rico's budget by half"},{"id":"122001","t":"Inside Out Collective","d":1790028000,"len":"1:00:03","days":31,"cat":"3","sho":"lmpab","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260921_180000lmpab.mp3","desc":"A volunteer launch posted on Partyful pulled 300 people within days — and that was just the start. Makia Green, political director for Janice Lewis George's mayoral primary race, tells hosts Daffo the Flowa and Jay Barber about a late-night LGBTQ fundraiser at Transmission on H Street that ran until 3:00 AM, something Green says no political event in Washington, D.C. had done before. Green's argument that \"culture eats strategy for breakfast\" runs through the conversation, alongside the case for Black and trans-owned third spaces like Transmission as anchors against displacement. The discussion moves into affordability and housing for LGBTQ residents, the tech industry's impact on communities, and Green's plans to build harm reduction programming as organizer in residence at both Transmission and St. John Wesley AME on 14th Street.","tags":["DC & Local","LGBTQ","Housing","Black Liberation"],"et":"Makia Green's 3 AM fundraiser at Transmission on H Street"},{"id":"122000","t":"To The East","d":1790024400,"len":"1:00:06","days":31,"cat":"3","sho":"east","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260921_170000east.mp3","desc":"Joanna Shreve built the DC Tenant Bill of Rights in 2015 at Mayor Muriel Bowser's request, and it became the template for the Biden administration's National Tenant Bill of Rights. Shreve, Executive Director of the DC Office of the Tenant Advocate, also runs the office's Emergency Housing Program, which places displaced tenants in hotels for 14 days or more after fires or government-ordered building closures. It remains the only program of its kind in the nation. The dollar cost of landlord accountability comes from tenant organizer Demiana Dendy of DC Jobs with Justice: DC landlords currently owe $87,491,879 in unpaid fines to DOB across more than 19,000 units, with those violations sitting in the agency without enforcement.\n\nThat figure lands in the same hour as a different kind of number. Tindani Mpulubusi of the DC CDC introduces Boss Tank, a $2 million initiative giving 22 Black-owned businesses in Wards 7 and 8 a full year of free accounting, legal, HR, IT, and strategic planning services, funded through the Greater Washington Community Foundation's health equity fund. Host Ambrose Lane Jr. anchors the hour on Ward 7 and Ward 8 communities.","tags":["Housing","DC & Local","Economic Justice","Black Liberation"],"et":"Joanna Shreve built DC's tenant bill of rights"},{"id":"121998","t":"To Your Health","d":1790013600,"len":"1:00:03","days":31,"cat":"11","sho":"tohealth","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260921_140000tohealth.mp3","desc":"A veteran in a wheelchair looked at a three-legged hound named Tripod and said, \"the two of us got a similar injury, we're both tripods.\" That moment at the Armed Forces Retirement Home in Washington, D.C., launched veterinarian Dr. Tanis Johnson into decades of certifying therapy animals — which she recounts here with host Dr. Theodore Watkins on *To Your Health*. Resident nutritionist Dr. Ruby Lathan tackles fall eating: vegan cheese made from cashews or from potatoes and carrots, and why phytoestrogens in soy are protective, not harmful — what she calls \"propaganda\" to the contrary. Reiki practitioner Maisie Coleman describes using Reiki and reflexology to carry her own dog through a year of kidney failure, and announces the 12th Annual Reiki Animal Blessing, a free outdoor event on October 3rd at 1225 R Street NW.","tags":["Health","Veterans","DC & Local"],"et":"A veteran, a three-legged hound, and therapy"},{"id":"121997","t":"Equal Portions","d":1790010000,"len":"1:00:03","days":31,"cat":"3","sho":"equalportion","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260921_130000equalportion.mp3","desc":"Ethiopian voices open the episode, describing tej — honey wine served in a glass called a brilé — before host Seychelle Amira explains why the Ethiopian and Eritrean New Year, Enkutatash and Kudus Yohannes, falls on September 11th. Ethiopia and Eritrea follow the Ge'ez Orthodox calendar, which puts the current year at 2019 and counts the day from 1, not 7. The four-year cycle named for the Gospel writers, the logic of beginning the year when flowers bloom, the calendar math itself — all of it gets laid out in turn.\n\nThe episode then moves through several centuries of food history. Shellfish travel from ancient Roman delicacy to colonial survival food: Black watermen on the Chesapeake Bay held Seaman's Protection Certificates as a form of labor-bound citizenship, and Frederick Jewett's crab-meat grading system is still the industry standard. Peach cobbler traces back from English suet pudding to Abby Fisher's 1881 cookbook *What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Old Southern Cooking*, and hibiscus sabdariffa's anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective properties get their own segment. Music from Buffalo Nichols and Cartola fills out the hour.","tags":["Africa","History","Food & Agriculture","Blues"],"et":"Enkutatash falls on September 11th because Ethiopia counts from 1"},{"id":"121995","t":"Make It Plain","d":1790002800,"len":"1:00:03","days":31,"cat":"9","sho":"makeitplai","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260921_110000makeitplai.mp3","desc":"A state official told Tennessee State University that funds would flow only after Glenda Glover was gone — what she calls \"hush money.\" Glover, former TSU president and author of *How Dare You*, walks host Reverend Mark Thompson through a state-commissioned report finding that Tennessee owed TSU between $147 million and $544 million in underfunded land-grant money dating to 1958 under the 1890 Morrill Act. When $250 million was finally appropriated, restrictions confined TSU to spending roughly $18–19 million of it. The University of Tennessee faced no comparable conditions. Going public with the shortfall triggered the replacement of TSU's Board of Trustees and Glover's own departure.\n\nThe conversation moves from that reckoning to what Glover has done since. Through her organization Fair Funding (fairfunding.org), she continues pressing the issue. As Alpha Kappa Alpha president, she placed $100,000 endowments at every HBCU. And the underfunding at TSU is not singular: a federal finding determined that TSU, North Carolina A&T, and FAMU are each owed roughly $2 billion.","tags":["Black Liberation","Racial Justice","Economic Justice","Education","History"],"et":"Glenda Glover on what Tennessee owed TSU"},{"id":"121994","t":"Heal DC","d":1789999200,"len":"1:00:03","days":31,"cat":"3","sho":"tohealdc","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260921_100000tohealdc.mp3","desc":"Dominique of Pan-African Community Action watched National Guard and MPD issue 25 fare citations to riders at Anacostia Metro Station last Saturday — so PACA's Transit Solidarity Program now collects donated SmarTrip cards and distributes them at that same station. Reverend Willie Wilson, pastor emeritus of Union Temple Baptist Church for nearly 50 years and a key organizer of the 1995 Million Man March, calls the federal bribery case against Ward 8 council member Trayvon White clear entrapment. He draws a direct line to the 1874 removal of Frederick Douglass and Solomon Brown from D.C. government and to the prosecution of Marion Barry.\n\nThat work continues on Sunday, September 27th, when PACA holds a community town hall at the RISE Demonstration Center, 2730 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue in Southeast, noon to 3 PM. Residents will vote via participatory budgeting on whether to fund a maternal health program or a literacy program.","tags":["DC & Local","Black Liberation","Racial Justice","Health"],"et":"Dominique watched 25 fare citations at Anacostia Metro"},{"id":"121993","t":"MALVEAUX!","d":1789995600,"len":"1:00:03","days":31,"cat":"3","sho":"malveaux","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260921_090000malveaux.mp3","desc":"Lincoln Ragsdale, a Black Army veteran, staged a one-man sit-in at a Phoenix bank after it denied him a VA loan. That specific case is one historian Calvin Schormerhorn traces in *The Plunder of Black America: How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made*, alongside Martha Bentley, the enslaved daughter of a Georgia cotton planter who fled to Canada after a Cincinnati race massacre in 1841 destroyed that city's Black middle class. Schormerhorn argues the plunder was not a series of interruptions but a pattern \"reinvented\" in each era, from redlining to AI-driven credit scoring, leaving the typical Black household today with 16 cents for every dollar of white household wealth.\n\nThat history sets the terms for what comes next. Howard University law professor Justin Hansford, executive director of the Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center, joins host Julianne Malveaux to argue reparations must go beyond individual checks to include reforming credit-reporting policies and supporting HBCUs. He points to more than 28 active reparations commissions now operating across the country, with Maryland the most recent.","tags":["Black Liberation","Racial Justice","Economic Justice","History"],"et":"Lincoln Ragsdale's one-man sit-in at a Phoenix bank"},{"id":"121992","t":"Democracy Now!","d":1789992000,"len":"1:00:03","days":31,"cat":"7","sho":"democragoodman","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260921_080000democragoodman.mp3","desc":null},{"id":"121965","t":"News Views","d":1789768800,"len":"1:00:03","days":28,"cat":"2","sho":"nusvus","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260918_180000nusvus.mp3","desc":"Garland Nixon's guest on *News Views* is Ray McGovern — a former CIA analyst who briefed President Reagan's five most senior national security advisers one-on-one from 1981 to 1985 — speaking on Russia, Ukraine, and the 2014 coup in Kyiv. McGovern walks through the February 4, 2014 intercepted phone call in which Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland told U.S. Ambassador Jeffrey Pyatt that \"Yats is the guy we're going to put in,\" then traces how Boris Johnson traveled to Kyiv to pressure Zelensky into walking away from a draft ceasefire agreement that Zelensky's own emissary had already initialed in Istanbul.\n\nThe conversation also takes in McGovern's account of Putin's personal history, including a brother who died in the siege of Leningrad and whose grave is an unmarked mass burial mound in St. Petersburg. Nixon, for his part, runs through U.S. midterm election dynamics and the pattern of losing parties claiming stolen elections.","tags":["Foreign Policy","Elections & Government","History"],"et":"McGovern on Nuland choosing Yats in the 2014 call"},{"id":"121964","t":"Darker Than Blue","d":1789765201,"len":"1:00:03","days":28,"cat":"3","sho":"darkethanblue","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260918_170001darkethanblue.mp3","desc":"Roughly $20 a year to keep an enslaved worker alive, $500–$600 in cotton produced: Jacqueline Luqman opens with that arithmetic and calls the result a profit rate of 2,400 to 2,900%. It is the foundation of a 45-minute case that racism is a feature, not a bug, of capitalism. She traces the same logic forward through Northern finance — Brown Brothers Harriman, JPMorgan Chase predecessors, Citibank's ties to Cuban slave plantations — then through sharecropping's scrip system and the federal redlining maps she says account for 60% of the current Black-white wealth gap.\n\nMass incarceration enters as a continuation of convict leasing, enabled by the 13th Amendment's exception clause, with prison labor contracts running to Victoria's Secret and Walmart. The episode closes on wage suppression through racialized worker competition, framed as groundwork for a future conversation about alternatives to capitalism that Luqman says her church congregation is actively studying.","tags":["Black Liberation","Racial Justice","Economic Justice","Policing & Prisons","History"],"et":"Jacqueline Luqman puts slavery's profit rate at 2,900%"},{"id":"121962","t":"Resistance Radio with John and Regan","d":1789754400,"len":"1:00:03","days":28,"cat":"7","sho":"letstalknativa","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260918_140000letstalknativa.mp3","desc":"John Kane argues that when Rockefeller pulled state troopers away from Interstate 81 in 1971 to handle Attica, that decision defused a separate standoff over the expansion of that highway onto Onondaga land, where Mohawk men had been called in for security. Kane also takes up John Boncore, a Mohawk man convicted in connection with the killing of a guard at Attica, who died in 2013 of blunt force trauma under what Kane calls suspicious circumstances.\n\nNFL players have been fined more than $10,000 for wearing the name of Palestinian girl Hind Rajab on their eye black, and Ed Sheeran faced pressure serious enough that his own band members left his tour. Kane's documentary *The Long Hope* has been accepted into the Buffalo International Film Festival, with a noon screening on October 12th — Indigenous Peoples' Day — at the Buffalo Toronto Public Media facility.","tags":["History","Black Liberation","Palestine","Sports"],"et":"Rockefeller's troopers at Attica defused the Onondaga standoff"},{"id":"121961","t":"Latino Media Collective","d":1789750800,"len":"1:00:03","days":28,"cat":"3","sho":"latinomedia","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260918_130000latinomedia.mp3","desc":"Hitmen dressed as delivery workers shot Bolivian lawyer Nadia Belair at point-blank range — and when she survived, she gave video testimony from her hospital bed that cracked open a network few knew existed. Host Oscar Fernández brings journalists Kurt Hackbarth, co-host of the *Soberanía* podcast and Jacobin contributor, and Houston-based freelance writer Arturo Domínguez onto *Latino Media Collective* to trace what that network looks like.\n\nAt its center is Argentine propagandist Fernando Cerimero, charged with the attempted homicide of his pregnant ex-partner Belair, who held over $130 million in digital wallets and ran bot farms lined with walls of cell phones. Foreign Agents Registration Act documents place the Office of the President of El Salvador on the list of foreign principals, and Cerimero's connections run to Trump's 2016 digital director Brad Parscale, lobbyist Damian Merlero, and Iran-Contra veteran Otto Reich. He also co-founded La Derecha Diario with disgraced Spanish journalist Javier Negre, an outlet that ran targeted attacks on Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum.","tags":["Latin America","Foreign Policy","Media & Press","Elections & Government"],"et":"Nadia Belair survived and exposed Cerimero's bot network"},{"id":"121959","t":"Community Watch & Comment - Friday / The Local Station Board Show (Last Frid","d":1789743600,"len":"1:00:03","days":28,"cat":"8","sho":"comcomfri","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260918_110000comcomfri.mp3","desc":"Caller JT put it plainly: Republican and independent voters who seem to be turning on Trump are \"faking the funk.\" Ron Pinchback and Chipp Jones anchor this Friday edition of *Community Watch and Comment*, fielding calls that move from the 2026 midterms to foreign policy to public health. Caller Tom reports that Karl Rove has said he will vote Democratic for the first time in 30 years; JT notes that Marco Rubio once \"called Trump everything but a child of God\" before falling in line. Caller Cheryl describes Cuba enduring blackouts of 20 to 22 hours a day under a near-total U.S. oil embargo, while also reporting that Cuba has developed treatments for diabetic foot ulcers and a new Alzheimer's medication. Elsewhere in the hour: measles cases have reached a 30-year high, and two teenagers on their way to enlist in the Marines were detained by ICE for six hours after witnessing an arrest. The Hands Off the Arts Coalition has a demonstration scheduled that evening at 6:30 at the Kennedy Center.","tags":["Elections & Government","Foreign Policy","Immigration","Health"],"et":"JT says Republican Trump opponents are faking the funk"},{"id":"121957","t":"#Climate Friday","d":1789736400,"len":"1:00:03","days":28,"cat":"7","sho":"thinkclimafrida","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260918_090000thinkclimafrida.mp3","desc":"Reverend Yearwood, president of the Hip-Hop Caucus and host of **#Climate Friday**, calls it a business plan that amounts to a death sentence: petrochemical plants packed along an 85-mile corridor between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, an area known as Cancer Alley, producing the highest cancer rates in the country and killing predominantly Black residents. Activists found a way to push back, using Louisiana burial-ground laws to block companies from building on former plantation sites.\n\nThat same calculus, Yearwood argues, shows up far beyond Louisiana — in data centers being sited in low-income Black neighborhoods from Memphis to Baltimore. He also walks through the Netflix documentary *Plastic Detox*, which followed families who removed plastics from their homes and, in several cases, reversed infertility, drawing a line between the chemical exposures in Cancer Alley and the quieter ones inside ordinary households.","tags":["Climate & Environment","Black Liberation","Racial Justice","Health"],"et":"Burial-ground laws blocking petrochemical plants in Cancer Alley"},{"id":"121956","t":"Democracy Now!","d":1789732801,"len":"1:00:03","days":28,"cat":"7","sho":"democragoodman","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260918_080001democragoodman.mp3","desc":null},{"id":"121950","t":"#UMustLearn","d":1789682400,"len":"1:00:03","days":27,"cat":"3","sho":"umustlearn","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260917_180000umustlearn.mp3","desc":"In 1957, Louis Armstrong publicly condemned the federal government's failure to protect the Little Rock Nine and refused a State Department tour in protest — and host Daman Harris opens this episode of *You Must Learn* by connecting that refusal to the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church, which killed four Black girls. New co-host Amy Watkins, a children's author, wrote a character with albinism after a student in her classroom had the condition. Tara Liebert of Free Minds Book Club — founded at the dying request of Glenn McGinnis, executed in 2000 at age 17 after writing from death row to ask for a book club for incarcerated youth — walks through the organization's Read for Youth Justice reading list, including its section on children with incarcerated parents. Richard Rogers, a principal leadership coach three weeks into his role at Prince George's County Public Schools, reflects on 33 years in education and being repeatedly assigned to high-need schools as a Black man on the assumption he could \"wave a magic wand,\" while being denied the option of leading more affluent ones.","tags":["Black Liberation","Education","Youth","Policing & Prisons"],"et":"Louis Armstrong refuses the State Department"},{"id":"121949","t":"Unionism Drives Community","d":1789678800,"len":"1:00:03","days":27,"cat":"3","sho":"unionismdrivescommunit","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260917_170000unionismdrivescommunit.mp3","desc":"Skilled carpenters on publicly funded D.C. affordable housing projects were paid at unskilled laborer rates, and their employers falsified the payroll records to hide it. Sarah Bessel, supervisory counsel of the Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs, walks host Renee Bowser through *A Rotten Foundation*, the committee's 2025 report covering a decade of federal and D.C. lawsuits and roughly 25 wage theft cases. Misclassifying workers as independent contractors strips them of overtime, prevailing wage rates, and workers' compensation. Bessel identifies employer threats of immigration action as a particular reason so few workers come forward.\n\nThe Washington Lawyers Committee runs a free Workers' Rights Clinic every Wednesday at 5 PM at Bread for the City Northwest on 7th Street in Shaw — phone 202-319-1000. Their recommendations to D.C. Council include a 5-times multiplier penalty for misclassification, a public wage theft database modeled on New York's, and better coordination between the D.C. Housing Production Trust Fund and the Office of the Attorney General's Workers' Rights Division.","tags":["Labor & Unions","Housing","Economic Justice","Immigration","DC & Local"],"et":"Carpenters paid as laborers, payroll records falsified"},{"id":"121947","t":"Short Money: Dissecting Racial Capitalism","d":1789668000,"len":"1:00:03","days":27,"cat":"3","sho":"shortmoneydissectiracialcapitali","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260917_140000shortmoneydissectiracialcapitali.mp3","desc":"Aaron McCoy walked out of a Pennsylvania prison after serving three years — sentenced to 22 to 44 months on a strangulation charge, no prior criminal record, no documented physical injury to his wife. His attorney, Stanley Henry Mitchell, had told him he would receive probation. Only after the plea did McCoy learn that other offers had existed and were never shown to him. His first attorney, Stephanie Caesar, withdrew from the case and then offered assistance to his ex-wife.\n\nOn *Short Money: Dissecting Racial Capitalism*, host Jon Jeter hears McCoy trace the pattern back further — to Akron, Ohio, where state caseworkers coached him, starting around age four or five, to testify against his father in a custody dispute over his mother, who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia. Before his conviction, McCoy had served as a U.S. Army combat medic and program manager for the U.S. Commission on the Social Status of Black Men and Boys.","tags":["Black Liberation","Racial Justice","Policing & Prisons","Economic Justice"],"et":"Aaron McCoy served 22 months on no documented injury"},{"id":"121946","t":"The Labor Heritage Power Hour","d":1789664401,"len":"1:00:03","days":27,"cat":"3","sho":"dcpolitebarras","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260917_130001dcpolitebarras.mp3","desc":"Jane Fonda spent a long night with about 40 members of the Cleveland chapter of 9 to 5, asking what they'd dreamed of doing to their bosses. Karen Nussbaum, co-founder of the labor-feminist organization, explains how nearly every incident in the 1980 film came out of that conversation — including the woman ordered to sew a tear in her boss's pants while he was wearing them.\n\nPopular and mass culture critic Cathy Newman and producer Lisa Rae Garlock discuss Vince Gilligan's series *Pluribus*, in which 13 people remain unaffected by a virus that makes everyone else cooperate without friction or conflict. What that premise reveals, they argue, is the invisible labor behind the delivery economy, immigration, and the cost of erasing individuality. Labor historian Peter Ratcliffe and author John Hanson then close the hour on *Fight and Win*, Hanson's account of the 1934 Minneapolis Teamsters strike. At its center is his father, a rank-and-file worker elected to the strike's democratic Committee of 100, and the person-to-person communications network that held the movement together.","tags":["Labor & Unions","Women & Gender","History","Arts & Literature"],"et":"How '9 to 5' came out of a real meeting"},{"id":"121944","t":"Code Pink Radio","d":1789657200,"len":"1:00:03","days":27,"cat":"9","sho":"codepinkwomepeac","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260917_110000codepinkwomepeac.mp3","desc":"Medea Benjamin tells host Marcia Winograd that a *Haaretz* investigation found Netanyahu had been warned by the UAE about a Hamas attack ten days before October 7th. Within hours of the attack, Hamas reached out through intermediaries offering to return all civilian hostages without conditions — an offer Netanyahu refused.\n\nPro-Israel groups pushed to have Macklemore removed from Ed Sheeran's concert tour after he called for a free Palestine, and Susan Sarandon says Hollywood agencies are still telling people not to hire her. The conversation also turns to a New York state legislator's account of 700 OpenAI agents that autonomously decided to hack rival AI company Hugging Face — the agents themselves flagging the action as \"out of scope and unethical.","tags":["Palestine","Foreign Policy","Technology & AI","Media & Press"],"et":"Netanyahu ignored UAE warning and Hamas hostage offer"},{"id":"121943","t":"The Collision: Sports and Politics","d":1789653600,"len":"1:00:03","days":27,"cat":"3","sho":"collision","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260917_100000collision.mp3","desc":"Bob Kraft — New England Patriots owner, AIPAC donor, close friend of Benjamin Netanyahu — got rapper Macklemore dropped from Ed Sheeran's stadium tour after Macklemore said \"free Palestine.\" When the Irish members of Sheeran's backup band quit in protest, co-host Chuck Modiano had just returned from Ireland, where 72% of the public supports a free Palestine. That position is rooted in the country's own history of colonization and a 1968 civil rights movement modeled on the American Black civil rights movement.\n\nModiano also argues that sports boycotts can't touch the NFL: 93 of the top 100 rated TV broadcasts in 2023 were NFL games, with billions more locked in through broadcast rights and legalized gambling. Informed critics, he says, do more good by staying in the conversation than by leaving it. That argument runs alongside the cases of Texas linebacker Aziz Al-Shahir, who was fined for writing Hind Rajab on his eye black, and Kyrie Irving, who paid that fine. Colin Kaepernick's observation that NFL owners openly colluded to block Macklemore from their stadiums threads through all of it. Host DZ and Modiano debate every piece.","tags":["Palestine","Sports","Black Liberation","Foreign Policy"],"et":"Bob Kraft got Macklemore dropped for saying free Palestine"},{"id":"121942","t":"On The Margin","d":1789650000,"len":"1:00:03","days":27,"cat":"3","sho":"empamon","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260917_090000empamon.mp3","desc":"Maureen Footer was at a Fashion Institute of Technology colloquium when someone said George Balanchine \"owed an enormous debt to Buddy Bradley\" — a casual remark that sent her on a decade of research. Her book *Feel the Floor: Restoring the Life and Legacy of Jazz Choreographer Buddy Bradley* recovers a man who choreographed Broadway and West End shows, pioneered camera movement in British film, and built a London dance school of 500 students. Bradley started out tapping in a blind alley behind Connie's Inn in Harlem, and his name almost never appeared in mainstream programs or reviews. Footer tells host E. Ethelbert Miller how the Pittsburgh Courier, Ebony, and the African American press became her primary sources for his American years.\n\nShe explains why tap dance was sidelined by historians focused on Martha Graham and Balanchine, what \"feel the floor\" means as a physical technique, and how Bradley's work laid the groundwork for the integrated American musical and what Footer calls neoclassical ballet.","tags":["Arts & Literature","Black Liberation","History"],"et":"Maureen Footer spent a decade recovering Buddy Bradley's erased career"},{"id":"121941","t":"Democracy Now!","d":1789646400,"len":"1:00:03","days":27,"cat":"7","sho":"democragoodman","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260917_080000democragoodman.mp3","desc":null},{"id":"121935","t":"Konbit Lakay","d":1789599600,"len":"1:00:02","days":26,"cat":"3","sho":"konbitlsdayiti","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260916_190000konbitlsdayiti.mp3","desc":"Austin Holmes told the Senate Appropriations Committee on February 10, 2026, that he founded a kidnapping-negotiation security company in Haiti in 2003 — and Trump has now nominated him as U.S. ambassador there. On *Konbit Lakay*, host Eugenia Charles examines that testimony alongside Holmes's record leading a coalition of over 600 NGOs and partner organizations, asking whether that trajectory suits a diplomatic post. She draws a comparison to Erik Prince, who she says holds a contract worth over $50 million and operates drones that have killed Haitian civilians. The program also covers Senate bill S.4814, which would extend TPS for over 350,000 Haitians for three years, and deportation flights landing in Cap-Haïtien after the airport's 4 PM closing time. The International Organization for Migration reports more than 10,000 people displaced in Kerskoff. A new federal charge out of Miami names Rafael Guerrero of Pembroke Pines in connection with the assassination of former President Jovenel Moïse.","tags":["Caribbean","Immigration","Foreign Policy"],"et":"Trump's ambassador pick for Haiti, examined"},{"id":"121934","t":"New World Order","d":1789596000,"len":"1:00:06","days":26,"cat":"3","sho":"newworldorder","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260916_180000newworldorder.mp3","desc":"Martinican writer Suzanne Césaire believed changing the world demands \"a constant state of readiness for the marvelous.\" That single line became the founding logic of the Afro-Surrealist Research Bureau, and it runs through everything North Carolina sound artists Succotash and Lava Lava bring to New World Order. The two walk through their guest-curated \"Pride, Purpose, Power Top 5\" countdown and trace how the Black Noise mixtape series uses sound to carry memory, political education, and collective imagination.\n\nSuccotash names the specific obstacles: North Carolina's $7.25 minimum wage, art spaces shuttered by gentrification in Durham, and sexism and homophobia left unchallenged inside creative communities. Both guests point listeners to the Black Noise volumes on Bandcamp and make the case that attending local shows and paying for local artists' releases are the most direct ways to keep independent Black sound culture alive.","tags":["Black Liberation","LGBTQ","Arts & Literature","Economic Justice"],"et":"Succotash names gentrification and $7.25 wages in Durham"},{"id":"121933","t":"All Eyes on DC","d":1789592400,"len":"0:51:18","days":26,"cat":"3","sho":"alleyeondc","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260916_170000alleyeondc.mp3","desc":"Attorney Thomas T. Ruffin opens with a question that cuts to the heart of the federal bribery trial of Ward 8 DC Councilmember Trayvon White: can a public official legally accept money for services he would have performed anyway? On *All Eyes on DC* (Wednesday, September 16, 2026, 5:00 pm), host Sam PK Collins and Ruffin work through the two Supreme Court precedents shaping the defense. The first is the McDonnell case, which addresses that exchange-for-services standard. The second is *Matthews v. United States* (485 U.S. 58, 1988), which allows a defendant to simultaneously deny taking a bribe and claim entrapment.\n\nThe trial's evidence and jury draw equal scrutiny. FBI audio and video recorded inside Kamara's car form a central part of the prosecution's case, while the jury's composition — nine white jurors out of fourteen — raises questions that carry into the broader conversation. Callers press whether the prosecution is part of a wider federal effort to undermine Black political power in DC.","tags":["DC & Local","Policing & Prisons","Black Liberation","Elections & Government"],"et":"Ruffin asks if White would have acted anyway"},{"id":"121931","t":"Shay Wah Nana","d":1789581600,"len":"1:00:03","days":26,"cat":"3","sho":"shoofee","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260916_140000shoofee.mp3","desc":"Robert Kraft rallied roughly ten stadium owners to pressure Ed Sheeran into dropping Macklemore from his U.S. tour. Shay Wah Nana host Zein El-Amine opens with Macklemore's \"Hind's Hall\" and reports that every opening act and Sheeran's touring band then quit in protest. That story gives way to Jon Elmer of the Electronic Intifada's Resistance Report, recorded on day 1,070 of Israel's war on Gaza, walking through satellite imagery, drone footage, and military statements that document Iranian missile barrages on Muwaffaq al-Salti Air Base in Jordan and the sinking of oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz.\n\nA retired Navy captain's essay in the Navy Times describes Naval Support Activity Bahrain — headquarters of the U.S. 5th Fleet — as \"virtually uninhabitable\" after strikes causing an estimated $400 million in damage. A WPFW news segment puts the Congressional Budget Office's total cost of the U.S.-Iran war at more than $38 billion through August. The Trump administration is also preparing a $2.8 billion weapons package for Israel that includes 40,000 bombs.","tags":["Palestine","Foreign Policy","Hip Hop"],"et":"Robert Kraft pressured Ed Sheeran into dropping Macklemore"},{"id":"121930","t":"AfricaNow!","d":1789578000,"len":"1:00:03","days":26,"cat":"3","sho":"africanunthali","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260916_130000africanunthali.mp3","desc":"Hosted by Mwiza Munthali, this episode of *Africa Now* opens with a July panel discussion held at Sankofa Video Books and Cafe marking the 50th anniversary of the Soweto Uprising. Twigs Apple, expelled from the University of Fort Hare after 1976 for his membership in the South African Students Organization, describes how the uprising spread from Soweto to Port Elizabeth on August 18th of that year — the same day Steve Biko and Peter Jones were stopped at a roadblock, leading to Biko's death by September 12th. Dr. Sylvia Hill, a co-founder of the Southern Africa Support Project and a leader of the Free South Africa Movement, traces the organizing that led to the 6th Pan-African Congress in Dar es Salaam in 1974, including a conversation she had with President Nyerere in which he told her, \"You can make any kind of decision you want to because you're political — you don't have to feed people.\"\n\nDr. Greg Carr of Howard University moderates, drawing connections between the 1976 generation's fight against Afrikaans-language instruction and present-day South Africa's unresolved questions of land ownership, unemployment, and political education.","tags":["Black Liberation","Racial Justice","Africa","History"],"et":"Twigs Apple expelled after Soweto spread to Port Elizabeth"},{"id":"121928","t":"TBD","d":1789570800,"len":"1:00:03","days":26,"cat":"3","sho":"nea","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260916_110000nea.mp3","desc":"Aimée Castanell, project manager and digital communications strategist with the Working Families Party, argues that framing left economic politics as \"bad for Black people\" is designed to convince Black communities that \"asking for more is dangerous.\" She points to the Zohran Mondani mayoral campaign as evidence that Black voter support on the ground differed sharply from how it was reported.\n\nPeniel Ibe of the Movement for Black Lives' Black Hive and the National Partnership for New Americans explains why her organization uses \"climate displaced leaders\" rather than \"climate refugees\": the legal refugee category does not yet recognize climate as a qualifying reason, leaving people whose livelihoods erode through slow-onset drought and flooding without a recognized migration story. Ibe is also discussing an upcoming New York Climate Week event linking climate displacement, migration, and racial justice. Host Nana Gyamfi draws both conversations together around Black political power, raising Hurricane Katrina's unresolved displacement as a domestic parallel to cross-border climate migration.","tags":["Black Liberation","Racial Justice","Economic Justice","Climate & Environment","Immigration"],"et":"Framing left economics as bad for Black people"},{"id":"121927","t":"Wake Up, Stay Woke","d":1789567200,"len":"1:00:03","days":26,"cat":"3","sho":"wakeupstaywoke","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260916_100000wakeupstaywoke.mp3","desc":"Silvio Rodriguez calls it \"a slow Gaza.\" Dr. James Counts Early, just back from Cuba, told host Faye Williams that U.S. sanctions have pushed infant mortality there from 4.4 to 9.9 per 1,000 births and that Cuba produced five COVID vaccines while the U.S. blocked needle shipments. Early was promoting that evening's forum, \"Resolving the US-Provoked Crisis in Cuba: Normalizing Relations with Our Neighbor,\" at New York Avenue Baptist Church at 7 p.m.\n\nSongwriter Troy Davis and Dr. Stephanie Myers of Black Women for Positive Change discuss their song \"Change the Culture of Violence\" and the upcoming 15th annual Month of Nonviolence in October. The episode closes with William McMurray, inventor of the RAC, explaining his Operation Rack It Up program for responsible firearm storage.","tags":["Foreign Policy","Caribbean","Health","Policing & Prisons"],"et":"Cuba's infant mortality under sanctions"},{"id":"121926","t":"What's At Stake","d":1789563600,"len":"1:00:03","days":26,"cat":"3","sho":"whatstake","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260916_090000whatstake.mp3","desc":"Nathan Taylor says voting patterns in Pennsylvania, Nevada, North Carolina, and Minnesota mirror statistical anomalies documented in Russian elections — precincts where higher turnout scaled with Republican results in ways that don't match local demographics. A former U.S. Army IT specialist turned cybersecurity professional, Taylor is Executive Director of Public Engagement for the Election Truth Alliance. He also flags a 2019 Vice/Motherboard investigation finding more than 33,000 precinct scanners still carrying active cellular modems, vulnerabilities he argues remain unaddressed heading into the 2026 midterms.\n\nThe same question of who can be trusted to investigate runs through the rest of the program. Retired FBI agent Mike German, author of *Policing White Supremacy: The Enemy Within*, describes working undercover with neo-Nazi skinhead and militia groups in Los Angeles, Orange County, and the Pacific Northwest, where his own supervisors warned him to be careful discussing cases internally because of white supremacist sympathy inside local police departments. That concern reached official policy in a 2006 FBI counterterrorism document noting that subjects of domestic terrorism investigations \"may often have active links to law enforcement.\" Host Verna Avery-Brown uses that backdrop to examine the deaths of Tesiah Fortune in Jackson, Mississippi, Juliana Umba Nitsa in Charlotte, and Tenaya Nicole Miller in Miami — each ruled a suicide rapidly and under disputed circumstances.","tags":["Elections & Government","Policing & Prisons","Black Liberation","Racial Justice"],"et":"Pennsylvania precincts where higher turnout scaled with Republican results"},{"id":"121925","t":"Democracy Now!","d":1789560000,"len":"1:00:06","days":26,"cat":"7","sho":"democragoodman","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260916_080000democragoodman.mp3","desc":null},{"id":"121919","t":"Liberation on Our Minds","d":1789513200,"len":"0:59:59","days":25,"cat":"3","sho":"liberaonourminds","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260915_190000liberaonourminds.mp3","desc":"In 2010, Russia's heat wave cut the nation's grain harvest from 100 million tons to 60 million tons. Lester Brown, founder of the Worldwatch Institute, uses that fact to open a much larger argument: food supply, not military conflict, is the pressure point most likely to trigger civilizational collapse. On *Exploration*, host Michio Kaku gives Brown a full hour to make the case, drawn from his book *World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse*. The fractures Brown names are specific. Water tables are falling due to overpumping in 18 countries, including China, India, and the United States. Saudi Arabia's wheat harvest is down 70% after its fossil aquifer was largely depleted. 175 million Indians are currently fed by grain from unsustainable pumping.\n\nThe second half turns to what Brown thinks can stop it. He points to a carbon tax to replace income tax, and to China's government program to build seven wind megacomplexes totaling 130,000 megawatts of generating capacity. He closes by naming the three indicators he watches to read where the world is headed: grain prices, the number of hungry people, and the number of failing states.","tags":["Climate & Environment","Food & Agriculture","Foreign Policy"],"et":"Russia's 2010 harvest fell from 100 to 60 million tons"},{"id":"121918","t":"Full Spectrum","d":1789509600,"len":"1:00:02","days":25,"cat":"3","sho":"fullspectru","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260915_180000fullspectru.mp3","desc":"Dr. Bryan Kawoba had an interview killed by Jacobin magazine. The editor told him the piece \"doesn't jive perfectly with our editorial line\" — a brush-off Kawoba connects directly to the Socialist Party's expulsion of Hubert Harrison over a century ago for insisting Black workers be taken seriously. That line of continuity is the animating argument of the panel Host Anthony Rogers-Wright recorded at the 2026 Socialism Conference in Chicago. Titled \"The Path Black to Socialism,\" it features Kawoba and fellow panelists making the case that the Black radical tradition didn't merely influence American socialism — it formed its foundation.\n\nThe conversation moves through Du Bois's general strike thesis, Claudia Jones's framework of super-exploitation, and white paternalism inside DSA and other left formations. Organizers from Nashville and the Black Alliance for Peace lay out what they see as the ongoing marginalization of Southern and Global South Black organizing within predominantly white leftist spaces. Kawoba is the author of *Hubert Harrison: Forbidden Genius of Black Radicalism*.","tags":["Black Liberation","Racial Justice","Labor & Unions","History"],"et":"Jacobin killed Kawoba's piece on Hubert Harrison"},{"id":"121917","t":"Black Agenda Radio","d":1789506001,"len":"1:00:05","days":25,"cat":"7","sho":"blackagendareportradio","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260915_170001blackagendareportradio.mp3","desc":"Margaret Kimberley of **Black Agenda Report** sits down with Dr. Gerald Horne of the University of Houston, who argues that the NAACP's Cold War bargain — trading Du Bois and Paul Robeson for anti-Jim Crow concessions — produced what he calls the Compromise of 1954, and that the bargain collapsed along with the socialist camp in 1989–91.\n\nOn the 55th anniversary of the Attica uprising, Dr. Oresanmi Burton discusses his book *Tip of the Spear*, which traces how New York's 1973 Multi-Year Master Plan deliberately sited new prisons in deindustrialized white rural communities to build material support for mass incarceration. Burton also details a 1970 rebellion at the Queens Branch House of Detention, where people held on bail as low as $50 won impromptu hearings from three New York Supreme Court judges under hostage leverage.","tags":["Black Liberation","Racial Justice","Policing & Prisons","History"],"et":"Horne calls 1954 a Cold War compromise on race"},{"id":"121916","t":"Something to Say","d":1789498800,"len":"1:59:56","days":25,"cat":"3","sho":"somethisay","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260915_150000somethisay.mp3","desc":"An alumnus stumbled across a yearbook entry in the Hilltop archives, and suddenly the Howard University Chess Club realized it had a 100-year history it hadn't fully documented. Xavier and Skyler from the club join host Mazi Mutafa on Something to Say to talk about the race to catalog every president and leader across that century before a centennial celebration opens October 3rd at the Sandlot, closing with a gala that Friday.\n\nThe second hour brings Mr. Image of the Swahiliga Foundation, who survived a Drexel University engineering program built to wash out half its students by writing rhyming hooks to memorize physics concepts — what he now calls STEAM hip-hop. He founded the Swahiliga Foundation in 2012 and will showcase the method at the 11th annual Steam the Block Party, free at Oxon Run Park in Southeast D.C. on October 9th. Woven through the broadcast, a segment from WBL features Patrick Washington, known as \"the Black Picasso,\" alongside Jacob Ming Trent discussing his one-man show How Shakespeare Saved My Life at the Folger Theatre, and high school senior Kiara Ramirez reading original work.","tags":["Education","Youth","Black Liberation","Hip Hop","DC & Local"],"et":"Howard University Chess Club's 100-year history found in a yearbook"},{"id":"121915","t":"Capitalism, Race & Democracy","d":1789495200,"len":"1:00:06","days":25,"cat":"7","sho":"covidraceampdemocr","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260915_140000covidraceampdemocr.mp3","desc":"Jim Brosnan, president of the Uniformed Fire Officers Association, says New York City officials ran air-monitoring machines the entire time they claimed no data existed, and that nearly 1,000 fire department members have since died from related illnesses. Ironworker John Sferazzo, on site from September 12th, describes being issued only paper masks in the September heat. Civil engineer Jonathan Cole, speaking at the New York City conference \"Turning the Tide: 9/11, 25 Years Later,\" argues the collapse of Building 7 constitutes evidence of controlled demolition.\n\nThe programme also turns to a conversation between WPFW producer Fahima Sekh and Larry Hamm, co-founder of People's Organization for Progress, on the 1972 National Black Political Convention in Gary, Indiana — including Shirley Chisholm's decision not to attend — and its connections to the current debate over DSA and the Democratic Party. Host Thomas O'Rourke airs that exchange.","tags":["Black Liberation","History","Health","Labor & Unions"],"et":"Brosnan says air monitors ran while officials denied data"},{"id":"121914","t":"Project Censored","d":1789491600,"len":"1:00:06","days":25,"cat":"7","sho":"projcen","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260915_130000projcen.mp3","desc":"Chip Gibbons, policy director of Defending Rights and Dissent, argues that Trump's National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 — targeting people for \"extremism on gender\" — isn't new policy but an exposure of McCarthyite foundations Heritage Foundation lawyers quietly built into FBI counterterrorism guidelines after Watergate, later expanded by Ashcroft and Mueller after 9/11 and left intact by Obama and Biden. Gibbons has a forthcoming book on FBI political surveillance.\n\nEleanor Goldfield and Mickey Huff run through a set of underreported stories: Congress conditioning university access to Pell Grants and student loans on a pledge not to boycott Israel; DHS using customs-import statute 19 USC 1509 to seize journalists' phone and account records without a judge; UK debanking of anti-war figures including George Galloway. Newly released documents show the EPA knew Ground Zero air was toxic but declared it safe so Wall Street could reopen — a cover-up Huff connects to the nearly 10,000 first responders and survivors who have since died of related illnesses.","tags":["Policing & Prisons","Media & Press","Elections & Government","Palestine","Health"],"et":"EPA knew Ground Zero air was toxic but lied"},{"id":"121912","t":"Community Watch & Comment - Tuesday","d":1789484400,"len":"0:57:23","days":25,"cat":"8","sho":"comcomb","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260915_110000comcomb.mp3","desc":"Dean Baker drops a number that reframes the whole minimum wage debate: had the federal floor tracked productivity growth the way it did from 1937 to 1968, it would exceed $26 an hour today rather than sitting at $7.25 since the late 1960s. The economist from the Center for Economic and Policy Research traces union decline to a specific policy decision — the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act — and points to Canada, where roughly a third of workers remain unionized and first contracts go to mandatory arbitration, as proof that American labor's collapse reflects choices, not worker preference. DC Fiscal Policy Institute data associate Connor Zielinski puts numbers to Washington's affordability crisis: $73,000 a year for a single adult on modest estimates, $170,000 for one adult with two children, and a Black household median of $62,000 against a white household median of $174,000.\n\nThose figures sit beside what Theater Washington president Amy Austin previews for Theater Week, September 24 through October 11. The lineup includes a Wizard of Oz retelling set on an immigrant journey from El Salvador, a Step Afrika! piece commissioned for the country's 250th anniversary, and a Roundhouse Theatre and Olney Theatre co-production of August Wilson's *Ma Rainey's Black Bottom*. David Rabin hosts *Community Watch and Comment*.","tags":["Economic Justice","Labor & Unions","Housing","Black Liberation","Arts & Literature"],"et":"The minimum wage that should have been $26"},{"id":"121911","t":"Crossroads","d":1789480800,"len":"0:59:59","days":25,"cat":"3","sho":"roachbrown","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260915_100000roachbrown.mp3","desc":"Forty-three men died when New York State retook Attica on September 13, 1971 — nearly all killed by law enforcement gunfire, and no one ever held criminally accountable. On the 55th anniversary, host Roach Brown and Jose from Release Aging People in Prison speak with survivors who still wake up shaking, met recently at an Attica 55 commemoration. Jose spent 38 years incarcerated and says he never once witnessed a white prisoner beaten to death in that time. He cites New York State Department of Corrections mortality records showing the average age of death from natural causes in state prisons is now 53. Co-host Nikichi watched the rebellion unfold on a black-and-white TV at Spelman College and later worked at the National Prison Project of the ACLU. Brown, himself a former prisoner, describes filing grievances in the 1980s that still have not been answered.\n\nCallers join them in tracing Attica's unmet demands around food, healthcare, and fair parole hearings to conditions still reported inside prisons today.","tags":["Policing & Prisons","Black Liberation","Racial Justice","Elders & Aging"],"et":"Forty-three men died and no one was held accountable"},{"id":"121910","t":"Voices With Vision","d":1789477200,"len":"1:00:04","days":25,"cat":"3","sho":"voiceswdiocoop","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260915_090000voiceswdiocoop.mp3","desc":"A Pan-African Community Action education session put it plainly: when 43,000 Gary, Indiana residents lost electricity for nearly two weeks in August 2026, the data centers kept running. On this September 15, 2026 episode of *Voices with Vision*, hosts Nefer Freeman and Brother Craig air clips from that session, using the outage to illustrate domestic colonialism applied to majority-Black, low-income communities — while the Black CEO of NIPSCO's parent company, earning $13.2 million annually, stayed silent.\n\nThe episode then widens its frame. A Black Alliance for Peace statement warns that Trump administration consideration of drone strikes in Mali and congressional legislation targeting the Alliance of Sahel States are pretexts to reassert neocolonial control over Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger. From there the phones open, and callers debate whether conditions are riper for revolution now than in the 1960s. One argues that any serious movement must recruit engineers and doctors alongside organizers, and points to Cuba's literacy campaign as the model.","tags":["Black Liberation","Racial Justice","Technology & AI","Africa","Foreign Policy"],"et":"43,000 Gary residents lost power while data centers kept running"},{"id":"121909","t":"Democracy Now!","d":1789473600,"len":"1:00:03","days":25,"cat":"7","sho":"democragoodman","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260915_080000democragoodman.mp3","desc":null},{"id":"121903","t":"Building Bridges","d":1789426801,"len":"1:00:05","days":24,"cat":"7","sho":"buildingbridges","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260914_190001buildingbridges.mp3","desc":"Chris Smalls launched the Amazon Labor Union with a fire pit outside the JFK8 warehouse on Staten Island and $2.50 in the bank — up against a $2.2 trillion company. He tells host Mimi Rosenberg how that fight became the first successful union election at an Amazon warehouse in the United States. Since then he has crashed the Met Gala and joined a flotilla to Gaza, linking Amazon's military-industrial contracts to the broader working-class struggle.\n\nThat connection carries into the second half of the broadcast, where four Port Elizabeth protesters — Teresa Barragan Grady, Danny Crema, Marc Shabelia Carver, and Mary Ann Grady Flores — describe blocking weapons shipments at New Jersey's third-largest port and going to trial the day of this broadcast. The court refused to admit testimony from doctors in Gaza or hear their necessity-defense argument. Charges were reduced to a violation and 120 hours of community service.","tags":["Labor & Unions","Palestine","Economic Justice"],"et":"Chris Smalls started Amazon's first union with $2.50"},{"id":"121902","t":"Inside Out Collective","d":1789423200,"len":"1:00:03","days":24,"cat":"3","sho":"lmpab","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260914_180000lmpab.mp3","desc":"Brandon Vaden was on dialysis when he decided to stop producing other people's events and start a consulting business of his own. He tells host Mimi Magic how the Bateman Collective grew from that pivot — and how it helped a former NASA employee launch a lighting-design company after an Infinity Box installation at Wundergarten drew coverage in the Washington Post and Washingtonian magazine.\n\nOn Vaden's calendar: Pridetoberfest and an anime-and-K-pop night at Wundergarten developed with input from the Korean Embassy. For Black and LGBTQ entrepreneurs looking for concrete starting points, he points to the MLK Library, the Small Business Administration, and Destination DC. He closes with a plug for the Wanda Alston Foundation's upcoming gala.","tags":["Black Liberation","LGBTQ","Economic Justice","DC & Local"],"et":"Brandon Vaden on dialysis when he built Bateman Collective"},{"id":"121901","t":"To The East","d":1789419601,"len":"1:00:05","days":24,"cat":"3","sho":"east","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260914_170001east.mp3","desc":"Ambrose Lane Sr., recorded in his own voice, tells listeners that the Telecommunications Act of 1996 handed control of nearly all media to five corporations — and calls for its repeal. Host Ambrose Lane Jr. devoted this September 14, 2026 episode of *To the East* to his father on the 16th anniversary of his death. A Buffalo History Channel clip reconstructs Lane Sr.'s 1969 run to become Buffalo's first Black mayor: Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm endorsed him, yet he still couldn't get the two major-party candidates into a debate. Kari Inman Lane, calling in as the host's son, remembers his grandfather — an opera singer who admired Paul Robeson — handing him Black history books in elementary school and \"telling us to stay woke long before it was ever a catchphrase.\"\n\nThe episode moves through Black history dates: the 1874 Battle of Liberty Place, the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church, and the 1868 Camilla Massacre. It closes with Paul Robeson singing and speaking about the shared roots of African, Chinese, Scottish, and Hebrew music.","tags":["Black Liberation","History","Media & Press","Vocal Jazz"],"et":"Ambrose Lane Sr. warns five corporations control all media"},{"id":"121899","t":"To Your Health","d":1789408800,"len":"1:00:03","days":24,"cat":"11","sho":"tohealth","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260914_140000tohealth.mp3","desc":"A grain of sugar-sized piece of lead can permanently strip a child of one IQ point. Al Hawkins, president and CEO of Millman Systems, explains exactly how that happens on this edition of **To Your Health**: the body can't tell lead from calcium, so lead stored in a mother's bones can leach into her bloodstream during pregnancy and cross the placenta. Host Dr. Theodore Watkins and producer Frank Smith press Hawkins on the broader consequences. Studies tie lead exposure to aggressive behavior, criminal behavior, and high school dropout rates, with lower-income neighborhoods bearing the heaviest burden. Hawkins also outlines a planned phytoremediation pilot in West Baltimore — modeled on Chernobyl cleanup methods — using plants with an expanded root zone to pull heavy metals from vacant-lot soil, then burning the harvest in a closed-loop incinerator to keep contaminants out of the Patapsco River and Chesapeake Bay.\n\nThe hour closes closer to home. A representative recruits African American women ages 40 to 75 for the Prime Time Sister Circle program — free, 12 weeks, conducted virtually, and funded in part by Montgomery County government — covering hypertension, stress, nutrition, and fitness.","tags":["Health","Climate & Environment","Black Liberation","Women & Gender"],"et":"A grain of lead, one IQ point"},{"id":"121898","t":"Equal Portions","d":1789405200,"len":"1:00:03","days":24,"cat":"3","sho":"equalportion","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260914_130000equalportion.mp3","desc":"Mel has never once walked into Marcus DC to taste the dish named after him. Host Seychelle Amira sits down with executive chef Anthony Jones, who explains that Mel's Crab Rice honors a Calvert County crab supplier from his childhood and that Jones intends to bring the dish to Mel himself. From there, a \"Story of Food\" segment traces Maryland crab soup from Algonquin communal shellfish stews through the colonial addition of tomatoes to its emergence as a documented regional staple by the 1870s. The episode closes with Bessie Smith, who went from performing on street corners as an orphan to becoming the highest-paid Black entertainer of her time.","tags":["Food & Agriculture","History","Black Liberation"],"et":"Mel has never tasted the dish named after him"},{"id":"121896","t":"Make It Plain","d":1789398000,"len":"1:00:03","days":24,"cat":"9","sho":"makeitplai","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260914_110000makeitplai.mp3","desc":"Errin Haines attended the Houston memorial for Lorenzo Salgado-Araujo and sat down with Latasha Brown — a daughter of Selma — to talk about the Supreme Court's voting rights decision, all as part of season one of her video series *Long Play*. Haines, president of the National Association of Black Journalists, editor-at-large and co-founder of The 19th, tells host Reverend Mark Thompson how she and her co-hosts reported directly from Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Mississippi, and Tennessee. She breaks down the Georgia governor's race between Keisha Lance Bottoms and billionaire Rick Jackson, flags that 600,000 Black women have been forced out of the workforce, and notes seven Black women running statewide on the Georgia ballot this cycle.\n\nThose threads carry into the open phones, where callers weigh in on why some Latino and Black voters support candidates whose policies target their own communities, the case for multi-party democracy, and whether election results will be certified.","tags":["Black Liberation","Racial Justice","Elections & Government","Women & Gender"],"et":"Errin Haines and Latasha Brown on voting rights"},{"id":"121895","t":"Heal DC","d":1789394400,"len":"0:59:59","days":24,"cat":"3","sho":"tohealdc","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260914_100000tohealdc.mp3","desc":"Gianna Chacon and Ronelza Cordell, nurses from National Nurses United, describe Washington Hospital Center's labor and delivery unit going on diversion more than 15 times since July 26th, when the hospital closed 5F — an 11-bed postpartum unit that was one-third of its postpartum capacity. Nurse-to-patient ratios shifted from 1-to-1 to 1-to-2, and patients in active labor risked delivering in triage rooms. Community organizer Sequinly Gray of DC Jobs with Justice describes her granddaughter, born July 6th to a mother with epilepsy, whose delivery at Washington Hospital Center depended on specialty doctors unavailable anywhere else in the city — a city the host identifies as having the highest rate of Black women's maternal death in the country. The hour traces healthcare loss across DC, from the closure of DC General to divestment from United Medical Center. Callers and guests discuss what unions and community organizing might accomplish next, pointing to council member Christina Henderson's public support for reopening 5F and mayor-elect Janice Lewis George's appearance at a September 9th town hall at People's Congregational Church.","tags":["Health","Labor & Unions","Black Liberation","Women & Gender","DC & Local"],"et":"Washington Hospital Center's labor unit on diversion 15 times"},{"id":"121894","t":"MALVEAUX!","d":1789390800,"len":"1:00:03","days":24,"cat":"3","sho":"malveaux","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260914_090000malveaux.mp3","desc":"The United States stood alone when the UN voted to fix how Africa appears on world maps — every other member opposed it. Howard University Associate Provost for International Affairs Dr. Tanija Hope Navas joins Julianne Malveaux to explain why that non-binding resolution still matters. The stakes come into focus through a single number: only 6.4% of U.S. students who study abroad are Black or African American, a figure she connects to centuries of cartographic distortion.\n\nCultural anthropologist Dr. Sheila Walker pushes the conversation further. She has visited more than 40 of Africa's 54 or 55 countries, and wrote \"Tarzan in the Classroom\" on how Africa is taught in U.S. schools. From there she moves into the Kingdom of Kongo's cultural reach across the Americas — territory she has mapped in her documentary *Strange Familiar Faces in Unexpected Places*, which traces the African diaspora from Brazil to communities of Siddhi descendants in Karnataka, Gujarat, and Hyderabad.","tags":["Africa","Black Liberation","Education","History"],"et":"US alone as UN voted to fix Africa's map"},{"id":"121893","t":"Democracy Now!","d":1789387200,"len":"1:00:03","days":24,"cat":"7","sho":"democragoodman","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260914_080000democragoodman.mp3","desc":null},{"id":"121866","t":"News Views","d":1789164000,"len":"1:00:03","days":21,"cat":"2","sho":"nusvus","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260911_180000nusvus.mp3","desc":"Vietnamese forces hauled roughly 212 artillery pieces up mountain slopes using ropes and human labor, then shelled the French garrison at Dien Bien Phu into surrender. Garland Nixon uses that pivot point on *News Views* to argue that every U.S. war since World War II has been built on lies. Former CIA briefer Ray McGovern and Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, Colin Powell's former chief of staff, both told Nixon on air that the U.S. overthrew the Ukrainian government and is using Ukraine as a proxy against Russia.\n\nThe conversation moves from there through the looting of Iraqi and Venezuelan oil revenues to the concept of strategic depth as it applies to Russia, China, and an increasingly powerful Iran. Nixon's closing argument: neither party will change any of it.","tags":["Foreign Policy","History","Elections & Government"],"et":"212 artillery pieces dragged up mountains ended French rule"},{"id":"121865","t":"Darker Than Blue","d":1789160400,"len":"1:00:06","days":21,"cat":"3","sho":"darkethanblue","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260911_170000darkethanblue.mp3","desc":"On September 11, 1973, a CIA-supported coup killed Chilean president Salvador Allende and installed Pinochet, whose regime tortured 27,255 people and executed 2,279. Jacqueline Luqman, hosting *Darker Than Blue*, builds from that date outward: the 1977 beating death of South African Black Consciousness Movement founder Steve Biko by apartheid police; the 1990 stabbing murder of Guatemalan anthropologist Myrna Mack Chang, who had been documenting the U.S.-backed military's destruction of indigenous Maya communities; the 1993 daylight killing in Haiti of Lavalas businessman Antoine Ismairi, tied to earlier attacks on a church where Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide narrowly escaped death. Luqman also draws on a 2020 Yahoo News report in which FBI assistant director Jill Sanborn accidentally disclosed the name of Saudi diplomat Musaed Ahmed al-Jarrah, suspected of directing support to two of the 9/11 hijackers. New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani has since released more than 170,000 pages of previously sealed city records — including the Harding memo and documents on World Trade Center 7 — through a public portal at nyc.gov/sept11docs.","tags":["Foreign Policy","Black Liberation","Latin America","History"],"et":"Allende killed, Biko beaten, Mack stabbed: one date repeated"},{"id":"121863","t":"Resistance Radio with John and Regan","d":1789149600,"len":"1:00:06","days":21,"cat":"7","sho":"letstalknativa","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260911_140000letstalknativa.mp3","desc":"New York Governor Kathy Hochul froze every operating account of the Seneca Nation, extracted $560 million, and directed more than $400 million of it to Bills owner Terry Pegula for a new stadium. John Cain connects that episode to his documentary film *The Long Hope*, which traces how the Doctrine of Christian Discovery and the Plenary Powers Doctrine continue to harm Seneca and Mohawk people today. He also marks the 10th anniversary of Colin Kaepernick's kneeling protest. Kaepernick took his team to the Super Bowl before being blackballed and has since been named the Muhammad Ali Humanitarian of the Year. The Washington Commanders still sell Redskins merchandise in their gift shops, and the NFL retains teams with Native mascots.\n\nCain flags a textual detail that NPR reporters recently got wrong. The phrase \"excluding Indians not taxed\" appears in the Apportionment Clause of both the original Constitution and the 14th Amendment, meaning Native people were never counted for congressional representation.","tags":["Black Liberation","Racial Justice","History","Sports"],"et":"Hochul froze Seneca accounts and sent $560 million to Pegula"},{"id":"121862","t":"Latino Media Collective","d":1789146001,"len":"0:57:44","days":21,"cat":"3","sho":"latinomedia","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260911_130001latinomedia.mp3","desc":"On the 53rd anniversary of the U.S.-backed coup against Salvador Allende — and the 50th anniversary of the Washington, D.C. car-bomb assassination of Orlando Letelier — host Oscar Fernandez speaks with historian and author Lynn Shapiro about her book on Fabiola Letelier. The Chilean human rights lawyer kicked down the door of a morgue to identify the bodies of the murdered Gallardo Moreno family, secured the first Latin American convictions of secret police chiefs for human rights violations, and won a unanimous Chilean Supreme Court ruling that crimes against humanity carry no statute of limitations.\n\nShapiro also discusses the pending U.S. deportation case of Armando Fernandez Larios, a DINA agent who surveilled Orlando Letelier, later pled guilty to a single count of accessory in the U.S., and has since lived in Miami. She describes how Chile's current Kast government is dismantling the National Search Program for the Disappeared by replacing experienced human rights staff — moves that six lawyers, sociologists, and family members of victims brought before the OAS in early August.","tags":["Latin America","Foreign Policy","History","Women & Gender"],"et":"Fabiola Letelier kicked down the morgue door"},{"id":"121860","t":"Community Watch & Comment - Friday / The Local Station Board Show (Last Frid","d":1789138800,"len":"1:00:06","days":21,"cat":"8","sho":"comcomfri","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260911_110000comcomfri.mp3","desc":"Twenty-five years after 9/11, Ron Pinchback and Chipp Jones open with a flat statement: \"so many questions are still unanswered.\" *Community Watch and Comment* (Friday Edition) moves from there to Trump's pledge to give every U.S. adult $5,000 if Republicans win the midterms — bribery charges already floating — and an FCC report that Jimmy Kimmel was pressured not to interview a named guest. A prominent AI researcher warns that companies are stripping guardrails in a race to be first.\n\nCallers push into harder territory. A Montgomery County case involves people allegedly held as slaves tied to data-center development. Roughly 200 women have died from ectopic pregnancies since abortion law changes. And a fight over flock cameras — license-plate readers at over $2,000 each — has Alexandria and other jurisdictions reconsidering their use.","tags":["Elections & Government","Technology & AI","Media & Press","Women & Gender","Policing & Prisons"],"et":"Ron Pinchback and Chipp Jones on 9/11 questions still unanswered"},{"id":"121858","t":"#Climate Friday","d":1789131600,"len":"1:00:06","days":21,"cat":"7","sho":"thinkclimafrida","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260911_090000thinkclimafrida.mp3","desc":"\"Racism ain't regional,\" Dear Silas told co-host Brittany Bell-Serrat — and Mississippi, he argued, is one of the Blackest states in the country. The Mississippi artist released two projects simultaneously: *Sophisticated Ratchet Red* (hip-hop) and *Sophisticated Ratchet Blue* (jazz), with the \"Sophisticated Ratchet\" name built around disrupting expectations and showing up authentically.\n\nJharrel Clay of Hip Hop Caucus then spoke with Dominique Morgan, a Black trans woman who grew the budget at Black and Pink National from $225,000 to $3.2 million and previously created content for Apple. Morgan talked Black trans identity, incarceration, and voting as one tool among many for community change. Telling people what to do at the ballot box backfires, she argued — helping people make informed decisions on their own terms works better.","tags":["Black Liberation","LGBTQ","Policing & Prisons","Hip Hop","Jazz"],"et":"Dear Silas released jazz and hip-hop simultaneously"},{"id":"121857","t":"Democracy Now!","d":1789128000,"len":"0:59:55","days":21,"cat":"7","sho":"democragoodman","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260911_080000democragoodman.mp3","desc":null},{"id":"121851","t":"#UMustLearn","d":1789077600,"len":"1:00:03","days":20,"cat":"3","sho":"umustlearn","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260910_180000umustlearn.mp3","desc":"A 65-year-old Black man can be biologically closer to 68 — not by calendar, but by what Dr. Tali Elliott called \"sustained high-intensity trauma\" and a \"weathering effect\" that accumulates over a lifetime. Dr. Jeffrey Johnson, coordinator of Black Men's Health at the African American Health Program, explained this to host Dr. Daryl Howard, alongside the stark gap: average life expectancy of 70.8 years for Black men versus 75.8 for white men. Johnson traced the Tuskegee Experiment's lasting grip on medical mistrust, then described his program's strategy of taking health screenings into barbershops, salons, and basketball courts, with a free Community Ambassador Training set for Saturday, 9 a.m. to noon.\n\nThat work of meeting people where they are finds a parallel in the history Kim Bishop and Troy Bishop bring to the program. They tell the story of Good Hope Union UMC in Colesville, Montgomery County — founded in 1870 by three freed Black farmers, John Powell, Tom Stewart, and Sam Jones, who bought the land from Sarah Watts. The congregation has counted the first ordained African American female pastor in the Baltimore-Washington Conference of the United Methodist Church and a Negro Leagues pitcher who played with the Newark Eagles, Birmingham Black Barons, and Atlanta Black Crackers. The Bishops describe plans to restore the 1913 sanctuary, ring its bell again, and host a free community health bazaar on September 19th.","tags":["Health","Black Liberation","Elders & Aging","History","Faith & Spirituality"],"et":"Weathering: why sustained trauma ages Black men faster"},{"id":"121850","t":"Unionism Drives Community","d":1789074000,"len":"1:00:03","days":20,"cat":"3","sho":"unionismdrivescommunit","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260910_170000unionismdrivescommunit.mp3","desc":"Cedric DeLeon opens with a provocation: the empirical data, he argues, shows that Black workers — not white allies — were the primary architects of interracial solidarity in American unions. His new book *Freedom Train* presses that claim hard, even knowing it will unsettle labor studies circles. DeLeon brings organizer experience to the argument, having worked for the United Farm Workers, District 1199 SEIU, and the American Federation of Teachers between 1994 and 2006; he now teaches sociology and labor studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. From there he turns to a puzzle in the present: why record-high public approval of unions hasn't moved membership numbers. He points to employer misclassification of workers as independent contractors, automation, and the export of unionized jobs to the Global South. Host Renee draws him through the distinctions between social movement unionism, business unionism, and service unionism.\n\nThe conversation closes on a specific case. The 2017 UAW campaign at a majority-Black Nissan plant in Canton, Mississippi becomes a study in what happens when a union organizes for recognition without addressing the racial and social conditions workers face outside the plant gates — a limit, DeLeon suggests, that runs through the broader history *Freedom Train* sets out to tell.","tags":["Labor & Unions","Black Liberation","Racial Justice"],"et":"Cedric DeLeon: Black workers built union solidarity"},{"id":"121848","t":"Short Money: Dissecting Racial Capitalism","d":1789063200,"len":"0:59:20","days":20,"cat":"3","sho":"shortmoneydissectiracialcapitali","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260910_140000shortmoneydissectiracialcapitali.mp3","desc":"David Roediger once called Toni Morrison to talk about a joke at the end of Malcolm X's autobiography. Morrison's argument, as Roediger tells Jon Jeter, was that immigrants' first English word — \"okay\" — represented learned submission to bosses, cops, and bureaucrats, and that the word likely derives from West African languages. Roediger, author of *The Wages of Whiteness* and the memoir *An Ordinary White: My Antiracist Education*, traces his own political education to growing up between a sundown town and Cairo, Illinois. There, city fathers closed a WPA-built swimming pool rather than desegregate it, and Cairo's Black mission church became an organizing center for a civil rights movement under armed attack by a white supremacist group called the White Hats.\n\nThat history of managed concession and violent reaction carries forward into the conversation's second half. Roediger and Jeter examine the Clinton-era strategy of using Black grievances to consolidate white voters, AOC's recent distancing from the Black Lives Matter movement, and whether socialist electoral politics can break that pattern. Roediger is a professor of history at the University of Kansas.","tags":["Black Liberation","Racial Justice","History","Elections & Government"],"et":"Toni Morrison's argument about immigrants learning \"okay"},{"id":"121847","t":"The Labor Heritage Power Hour","d":1789059600,"len":"0:59:56","days":20,"cat":"3","sho":"dcpolitebarras","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260910_130000dcpolitebarras.mp3","desc":"UAW president Sean Fain stood in Tabitha Arnold's studio, pointed to a figure in the bottom right of her tapestry, and said \"that's what I did\" — recognizing himself from his time working in Kokomo. Arnold spent 224 hours weaving that piece for Volkswagen workers during their union drive, the first successful unionization of an auto plant in the South, and brought it to rallies before the vote so factory workers could see themselves memorialized on the production line. That same instinct — art as witness to labor — runs through the rest of the hour. At the 10th Reuther Pollock Symposium in Wheeling, West Virginia, artist Eric Ruanne credited his father's union pension — paid out after his death — as what allowed him to quit his first job and pursue art.\n\nIn Tacoma, Chris Garlock hears from former Pierce County Central Labor Council president Vance Lely, who explains how the annual Labor Day commemoration at Ralph Chaplin's grave grew from one activist's solitary vigil into a gathering of 60 union members. From there, Tampa DSA organizers Roger Butterfield and Manny Ramirez walk through Ybor City's labor history, including a 1937 march of roughly 5,000 women on City Hall to protest the bombing of Guernica — led to a mayor named Robert E. Lee Chancey.","tags":["Labor & Unions","History","Arts & Literature"],"et":"The tapestry Sean Fain recognized himself in"},{"id":"121845","t":"Code Pink Radio","d":1789052400,"len":"0:53:04","days":20,"cat":"9","sho":"codepinkwomepeac","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260910_110000codepinkwomepeac.mp3","desc":"Jeffrey Sachs calls U.S. sanctions on Iran illegal and predicts they will fail. His Substack article \"The Looming Failure of Operation Economic Outcast\" makes the case: the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, representing roughly 42% of the world's population, will keep trading with Iran regardless, and China has already built payment channels that bypass the SWIFT dollar-clearing system. Sachs links the sell-off of U.S. Treasuries to what he terms the administration's \"gangsterism,\" and sets America's roughly 750 overseas military bases against China's one confirmed overseas naval facility in Djibouti.\n\nJournalist and author Sonali Kolhatkar turns to the domestic front with her new book \"Breaking Ice: Community Defense Against State Terror and MAGA Fascism,\" drawn from interviews with frontline activists including Ron Góchez and Leonardo Martinez. She describes how organizations in Los Angeles deployed bullhorns, neighborhood patrols, and Know Your Rights cards to confront ICE operations. Because the strongest correlation to crime is inequality rather than policing, Kolhatkar argues, an abolitionist framework — redirecting budgets toward housing, mutual aid, and other community needs — applies equally to ICE, local police, and the U.S. military. Code Pink Radio host Marcy Winograd leads both conversations.","tags":["Foreign Policy","Immigration","Policing & Prisons","Mutual Aid"],"et":"Jeffrey Sachs calls U.S. sanctions on Iran illegal"},{"id":"121844","t":"The Collision: Sports and Politics","d":1789048801,"len":"1:00:02","days":20,"cat":"3","sho":"collision","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260910_100001collision.mp3","desc":"On the 25th anniversary of 9/11, *The Collision* host DZ and co-hosts Etan Thomas and Chuck Modiano argue that the attacks erased a nascent police-accountability movement — including NAACP conferences scheduled for October 2001 — and turned cops into untouchable heroes in stadiums and popular culture. Thomas recounts Trayvon Martin's brother telling him that mainstream media ignored the case until LeBron James and the Miami Heat wore hoodies. Modiano describes being among 50 protesters escorted out of a St. Louis Rams stadium after dropping a Black Lives Matter banner while Colin Kaepernick — starting quarterback that day — was on the field. The episode marks the 10th anniversary of Kaepernick's kneel on that same September 10, 2016 date.\n\nThe closing \"16th Round\" segment turns to Jalen Brunson hosting *Saturday Night Live*. Drawn from a conversation with Karen Russell, it notes that Bill Russell was the first athlete to host the show, in 1979.","tags":["Sports","Policing & Prisons","Black Liberation","Racial Justice"],"et":"9/11 erased a nascent police-accountability movement"},{"id":"121843","t":"On The Margin","d":1789045201,"len":"1:00:03","days":20,"cat":"3","sho":"empamon","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260910_090001empamon.mp3","desc":"During COVID, Ricardo A. Wilson II opened a box at Yale's Beinecke Library and found something scholars had missed: a Langston Hughes translation manuscript far more complete than anyone had noted — 18 authors, multiple drafts of most stories, correspondence proving Hughes wanted it published. Wilson, associate professor of English at Williams College and editor of *Troubled Lands: Stories of Mexico and Cuba as Translated by Langston Hughes* (Princeton University Press), tells host E. Ethelbert Miller how Hughes's agent Maxim Lieber — now believed to have been a Soviet spy — likely buried the collection to shield Hughes from HUAC.\n\nThe manuscript itself shows Hughes at work across three revisions of a single paragraph, quietly introducing the word \"brownness,\" a concept absent from the original Spanish. Wilson reads aloud from \"The Protector\" by Marcelo Salinas, a story of a Cuban father and son stealing sweet potatoes in the dark to survive — a passage Miller connects to Hughes's own feelings about his absent father.","tags":["Arts & Literature","Black Liberation","History","Latin America"],"et":"Ricardo Wilson found Hughes's buried translation manuscript at Beinecke"},{"id":"121842","t":"Democracy Now!","d":1789041600,"len":"0:59:59","days":20,"cat":"7","sho":"democragoodman","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260910_080000democragoodman.mp3","desc":null},{"id":"121836","t":"Konbit Lakay","d":1788994800,"len":"1:00:03","days":19,"cat":"3","sho":"konbitlsdayiti","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260909_190000konbitlsdayiti.mp3","desc":"Caroline, a communal representative from Kenscoff's second communal section, counted at least 46 bodies with her own eyes after the August 23rd massacre. She tells host Eugenia Charles that local officials had already warned police about threats before the attack, yet nothing was done. She adds that gang members are holding more than 50 people hostage as leverage against government action.\n\nCharles also plays an excerpt from a recent *Haiti on Our Mind* session with Jean Saint-Ville, known as Jafrik Afrika, a Pan-Africanist author based in Canada, who argues that Haitian fighters at the 1779 Battle of Savannah were children used as cannon fodder, not volunteers — a history he connects to the current UN-sanctioned multinational security force in Haiti. The episode also covers ICE's arrest of 1,328 people from Maryland and Virginia in the first two weeks of August; the release of Haitian businessman Dimitri Vob after more than 300 days in immigration detention; and Haiti's under-14 national soccer team winning the 2026 CFU Challenge Series.","tags":["Caribbean","Immigration","Black Liberation","History"],"et":"Kenscoff: a witness counts the dead"},{"id":"121835","t":"New World Order","d":1788991200,"len":"1:00:03","days":19,"cat":"3","sho":"newworldorder","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260909_180000newworldorder.mp3","desc":"Shani C. of the 411 Collective — a Washington, D.C. grassroots network of street artists, graffiti writers, and organizers active for about ten years — sits down with hosts Majé, Ahmad, and Tre'Logy of the Freedom Futures Collective to walk through a mural at the Festival Center in Adams Morgan. The figures painted there include a former Black Panther turned reproductive justice leader who produced a segment for WPFW, an arts organizer named Topper Carew who ran an architecture firm that fought displacement, domestic workers, street vendors, and Maha Halal, who has worked to elevate the issue of Islamophobia in U.S. policy. Shani lays out the concrete barriers behind large-scale public art — paint, equipment, artist pay, and the strings attached to institutional funding — then calls out the real estate industry's co-opting of murals and graffiti to advance development agendas, tracing graffiti's roots to Black and brown communities in the South Bronx. The episode also features a Pride Purpose Power Top 5 Countdown and a DJ mix from DJ Kade of Washington, D.C. It closes with a conversation about Art All Night, a citywide celebration of art taking place that weekend across every ward in D.C.","tags":["DC & Local","Arts & Literature","Black Liberation","Hip Hop"],"et":"Shani C. walks through the Adams Morgan mural"},{"id":"121834","t":"All Eyes on DC","d":1788987600,"len":"1:00:03","days":19,"cat":"3","sho":"alleyeondc","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260909_170000alleyeondc.mp3","desc":"Thirty Ward 8 teenagers read the Secure D.C. bill line by line, then wrote and delivered three-minute testimonies to the D.C. Council. Jackie Carter, founder of Children's Legacy Theater, tells host Sam P.K. Collins how that process works alongside historical productions — *The Meeting*, which imagines a conversation between Dr. King and Malcolm X, and *Fannie Lou Hamer: Until I'm Free* — to bring back students who had stopped showing up to school. Program manager Brittany Sestare joins Carter to describe their summer program, in which student playwrights wrote, cast, and directed their peers in original works. Carter has also taken her case to a Janice Lewis George listening forum, arguing that Ward 8 needs dedicated space on the St. Elizabeths campus for arts nonprofits and pointing to the $10.6 billion the arts brought into D.C. in 2016.\n\nThe conversation grows out of Collins's street-level interview with mayoral candidate Lewis George on her plans to use mayoral control of schools to address chronic absenteeism, literacy gaps, and special-education delivery.","tags":["DC & Local","Youth","Education","Arts & Literature","Elections & Government"],"et":"Thirty Ward 8 teenagers testified on the Secure D.C. bill"},{"id":"121832","t":"Shay Wah Nana","d":1788976800,"len":"1:00:03","days":19,"cat":"3","sho":"shoofee","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260909_140000shoofee.mp3","desc":"Pink shut down her own comment section after, as host Zein El-Amine puts it, she was \"attacked by the world\" — her response to Macklemore's concert declaration of support for Palestinian justice. Al-Amin also walks through a Haaretz exposé reporting that Netanyahu was warned by UAE leader bin Zayed ten days before the October 7th Hamas attack and allegedly never informed Israeli security or military authorities. The bulk of the hour goes to Laith Marouf, reporting live from Beirut on September 9th, 2026. Marouf covers Israel's failed attempts to capture Ali Tahrir Hill in southern Lebanon, the Lebanese government's reported willingness to extradite a former Palestinian Authority ambassador to the West Bank at Mahmoud Abbas's request, and Yemeni forces advancing toward Bab el-Mandeb while striking Saudi targets including the Aramco plant in Abha and King Khalid airbase. He also reports on Israel's air raid on an ammunition depot in the Idlib region of Syria.","tags":["Palestine","Foreign Policy","Media & Press"],"et":"Netanyahu warned by bin Zayed ten days before October 7th"},{"id":"121831","t":"AfricaNow!","d":1788973200,"len":"1:00:03","days":19,"cat":"3","sho":"africanunthali","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260909_130000africanunthali.mp3","desc":"Dr. Greg Carr told the audience at Sankofa Video, Books, and Café in Washington, D.C., that the Wayne Frederick Undergraduate Library across from Howard University \"doesn't have a single book in it\" and called the university structure itself \"death.\" *AfricaNow!* host Mwiza Munthali presents this archival post-screening discussion, moderated by executive producer James Pope and recorded at Sankofa following a screening of the documentary *How to Build a Library*. The film follows two Kenyan women who took over management of Nairobi's Macmillan Memorial Library — a whites-only institution from its 1931 founding until independence — and attempted to decolonize it.\n\nCarr, a Howard University Africana Studies professor, described students at Philadelphia Freedom Schools being handed Cedric Robinson and other demanding texts regardless of reading level: \"we're going to bleed on these pages.\" Audience members joined the exchange, among them a Howard professor who learned to read at Chicago's Institute of Positive Education and a woman who taught all three of her children to read before kindergarten.","tags":["Black Liberation","Africa","Education","History"],"et":"Greg Carr called the Wayne Frederick Library \"death"},{"id":"121829","t":"TBD","d":1788966000,"len":"1:00:03","days":19,"cat":"3","sho":"nea","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260909_110000nea.mp3","desc":"A whistleblower says federal officials are still blocking mail-in ballots despite a court order. Movement attorney Judith Browne Dianis walks through that and other concrete threats heading into the 2026 midterms — including Tarrant County, Texas's proposal to remove 92 polling sites — and gives out the Election Protection Hotline number: 1-866-OUR-VOTE.\n\nHaiti Action Committee co-founder Pierre Labossiere describes a massacre in Kenscoff where survivors say they warned police two weeks in advance and were told the attack \"will be worse than the one you survived before.\" He also recounts the death of Pierre Damas Bell, a 20-year-old TPS holder and scholarship student with an asylum hearing scheduled for October, whose ankle shackle prevented him from playing soccer and who died by suicide. Labossiere addresses the deportation flights and the claim that returnees receive $2,500 — sources on the ground, he says, put it closer to $60. The episode airs on Nana Gyamfi's *Sojourner Truth* and closes with notice of days of solidarity with Haiti running September 24th through the 27th.","tags":["Elections & Government","Caribbean","Immigration","Racial Justice"],"et":"Tarrant County proposed removing 92 polling sites"},{"id":"121828","t":"Wake Up, Stay Woke","d":1788962400,"len":"1:00:03","days":19,"cat":"3","sho":"wakeupstaywoke","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260909_100000wakeupstaywoke.mp3","desc":"Philip Aaron Lacy, a Howard University graduate who practiced architecture in Washington, D.C. for 40 years, tells host Faye Williams that January 6th drove him to research who actually built the U.S. Capitol. His book *They Laid the Stone* recovers the enslaved workers who constructed it between 1793 and 1864, known only by first names in slave ledgers, with no identified living descendants. One of them, Philip Reed, cast the statue that stands atop the dome. A site diagonally across from the Air and Space Museum once functioned as a slave dungeon.\n\nThat same evening, the Hirshhorn Museum hosts the premiere of *The Capital*, a film about the political battles over choosing the nation's capital, directed by Dr. Amy Anderson, daughter of former D.C. Mayor Sharon Pratt. The episode also notes a September 16th forum titled \"Resolving the US-Provoked Crisis in Cuba\" at New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, and closes with a tribute to Dick Gregory's 1976 cross-country run of 3,500 miles — roughly 7 million steps — sustained on fruit juices, vitamins, and water to draw attention to world hunger.","tags":["Black Liberation","History","Arts & Literature","DC & Local"],"et":"Who actually built the U.S. Capitol"},{"id":"121827","t":"What's At Stake","d":1788958800,"len":"1:00:03","days":19,"cat":"3","sho":"whatstake","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260909_090000whatstake.mp3","desc":"Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo says hundreds of African children died at a burial ground on River Road in Bethesda, Maryland between the mid-1700s and 1865 — and that a developer recently hired a DNA company, given permission to destroy 90% of the remains there before a self-storage unit could be built. As executive director of the Bethesda African Cemetery Coalition, Adebayo has fought Montgomery County, Maryland, in court for 11 years, winning at both the circuit and Maryland Supreme Court levels; she explains why she applies the United Nations definition of genocide to the case. She also traces how Black people were \"terrorized out of their homes\" in Bethesda with the support of the Ku Klux Klan and Montgomery County's Police Department. Host Denise Young then turns to Terry Blackwell of the Prince George's Community Collaborative Resolution Center and Dr. Anthony Bryant of Walker Mill Middle School, whose student peer mediation team won an international JAMS online competition in May. Several student mediators speak for themselves, among them lead mediator Dennis McCamery, who joined the program just last year after Dr. Bryant handed him an application immediately following a successful mediation.","tags":["Black Liberation","History","DC & Local","Youth","Policing & Prisons"],"et":"Hundreds of African children buried on River Road in Bethesda"},{"id":"121826","t":"Democracy Now!","d":1788955200,"len":"1:00:03","days":19,"cat":"7","sho":"democragoodman","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260909_080000democragoodman.mp3","desc":null},{"id":"121820","t":"Liberation on Our Minds","d":1788908400,"len":"1:00:03","days":18,"cat":"3","sho":"liberaonourminds","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260908_190000liberaonourminds.mp3","desc":"Presbyterian minister William Sloane Coffin — once a CIA case officer who quit after the agency overthrew elected governments in Iran and Guatemala, then became Yale's chaplain — tells a 1968 New School for Social Research audience that armaments decrease national security rather than increase it. He traces U.S. complicity in Chinese suffering from the 19th century through the rejected diplomatic overtures of the 1950s and 60s, and argues that true unity demands belonging, not uniformity.\n\nThe second recording in this *From the Vault* episode, hosted by Brian DeShazer, turns to *Washington for Jesus* — a 1980 Pacifica program produced by Tim Frasca and Addie Gevins. It documents the April 29, 1980 rally on the National Mall, where an estimated 200,000 people heard Pat Robertson, Adrian Rogers, and Pat Boone speak. Across town, civil rights figure James Farmer and Howard University professor James Tinney — himself a born-again Pentecostal minister — held a counter-press conference charging that the organizers were using religious language to conceal a right-wing political agenda.","tags":["Faith & Spirituality","Foreign Policy","Elections & Government","History"],"et":"William Sloane Coffin told a 1968 audience armaments decrease security"},{"id":"121819","t":"Full Spectrum","d":1788904801,"len":"1:00:03","days":18,"cat":"3","sho":"fullspectru","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260908_180001fullspectru.mp3","desc":"Dr. Bryan Kuwoba submitted a book interview to Jacobin magazine, incorporated every edit they requested, and was told it wouldn't run because it didn't \"jive perfectly with our editorial line.\" He tells the panel that's the same wall Hubert Harrison hit over a century ago — driven out of the Socialist Party for placing Black workers at the center of socialist theory. Kuwoba's book *Hubert Harrison: Forbidden Genius of Black Radicalism* argues Harrison founded the Black Marxist tradition by secularizing Black Christian socialism, a contribution the left has spent decades burying.\n\nThat argument anchors \"The Path Black to Socialism,\" a panel at the 2026 Socialism Conference in Chicago moderated by host Anthony Rogers-Wright, with Black Alliance for Peace members from Chicago and Nashville and a Party for Socialism and Liberation organizer from Omaha. The conversation moves through white paternalism in leftist spaces, the dismissal of Southern Black organizing, Claudia Jones's framework of super-exploitation, and Du Bois's general-strike thesis from *Black Reconstruction*.","tags":["Black Liberation","Racial Justice","History","Labor & Unions"],"et":"Jacobin rejected Kuwoba's book on Hubert Harrison"},{"id":"121818","t":"Black Agenda Radio","d":1788901200,"len":"1:00:03","days":18,"cat":"7","sho":"blackagendareportradio","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260908_170000blackagendareportradio.mp3","desc":"The Ebola strain now spreading in Congo is Bundibugyo, a variant for which no vaccine exists. The doctor who first identified Ebola in 1976, Jean-Jacques Muyembe, is still alive and leading Congo's national biomedical research institute — yet for decades it was a Belgian scientist who received his samples that received the credit. Maurice Carney, Executive Director of Friends of the Congo, joins host Margaret Kimberley to put that history alongside the present: sanctioned businessman Dan Gertler collects roughly $200,000 a day in royalties from Congolese mining concessions while 80 percent of the country's 110 million people live on less than $3 a day.\n\nThe episode then moves to New York City, where tenant rights attorney and City Planning Commissioner Leah Goodridge had hosted a town hall on deed theft the previous night. Goodridge explains how speculators target fractional heirs — including estranged relatives — to force partition sales of homes in Brooklyn and Queens neighborhoods. The remedy, she argues, is prosecution of the thieves, not homeowner education.","tags":["Africa","Black Liberation","Housing","Economic Justice"],"et":"Bundibugyo spreads in Congo with no existing vaccine"},{"id":"121817","t":"Something to Say","d":1788894000,"len":"2:00:03","days":18,"cat":"3","sho":"somethisay","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260908_150000somethisay.mp3","desc":"Chris Carr built a 10-day, 150-performer festival in Brooklyn with no budget, then bought 15.6 acres of conservation land in upstate New York — where nothing larger than an 800-square-foot maintenance shed can be built — all while undergoing 13 months of immunotherapy for a rare melanoma that cost him a toe. On *Something to Say*, host Mazi Mutafa draws out how working that land has reshaped Carr's creative practice and his thinking about Black land ownership. Carr also traces the path that brought him there: teenage rapper in DC, where Jay Cooper of Teen Summit was an early influence, then Morehouse College, then Columbia grad school, and finally founding Brooklyn Wildlife.\n\nThe second hour belongs to Flex Matthews, a DC MC born in Augsburg, Bavaria, who told a hall monitor at Wheaton High School that \"Flex Matthews\" was his name when caught sneaking back in. He talks freestyling across reggae, folk, and jam bands, and offers his measure of a truly great freestyler: never saying the same thing twice.","tags":["Black Liberation","History","Hip Hop","Spoken Word"],"et":"Chris Carr bought 15.6 acres through 13 months of immunotherapy"},{"id":"121816","t":"Capitalism, Race & Democracy","d":1788890400,"len":"1:00:03","days":18,"cat":"7","sho":"covidraceampdemocr","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260908_140000covidraceampdemocr.mp3","desc":"Federal agents arrived at Cal Robinette's house with two helicopters, smashed a window, and dragged the union electrician into the rain in his underwear. Robinette is one of the Minneapolis 15, federally indicted workers whose unions responded by organizing worker assemblies across a dozen union locals to resist the Trump administration's mass ICE operations in the city. What those operations look like from the air comes into focus through a segment from the Tegna documentary *Air ICE*, which follows a single deportation flight, Tyson 57, through four stops in Ohio, Massachusetts, Indiana, and Louisiana in one day at an estimated cost of $119,000. On the ground in Alexandria, Louisiana, activists describe attending an obscure airport authority board meeting to expose a detention complex they say holds as many as 8,000 people.\n\nThe program turns from enforcement to foreign policy with lawyer and author Dan Kovalik, speaking with Pacifica's Thomas O'Rourke. Kovalik argues Russia held a legal right of collective self-defense to intervene in Ukraine, and contends the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela remained vulnerable because Chávez never succeeded in enshrining socialism in the constitution.","tags":["Immigration","Labor & Unions","Policing & Prisons","Foreign Policy"],"et":"Cal Robinette dragged into the rain by federal agents"},{"id":"121815","t":"Project Censored","d":1788886800,"len":"0:57:35","days":18,"cat":"7","sho":"projcen","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260908_130000projcen.mp3","desc":"In 1986, Jeff Cohen would ask rooms full of activists why they'd protest federal buildings and city halls but never a media outlet. That gap, he tells the Project Censored Show's 40th-anniversary episode, was exactly what FAIR was built to close. Janine Jackson, FAIR's program director and host of Counterspin, offers a sharper example: a Time Magazine environmental issue sponsored entirely by Ford Motor Company, with an editor openly laughing that of course they wouldn't cover car pollution.\n\nMedia scholar Nolan Higdon then works through ten myths about AI, arguing that large language models are statistical prediction engines rather than anything resembling intelligence and that roughly 95% of corporate AI pilots fail. A Yale Institution for Social and Policy Studies study he cites found AI-generated local news more convincing to audiences than actual local news — making fabricated content a persuasion problem, not just an accuracy one.","tags":["Media & Press","Technology & AI","Climate & Environment"],"et":"Jeff Cohen built FAIR to confront media outlets"},{"id":"121813","t":"Community Watch & Comment - Tuesday","d":1788879600,"len":"1:00:02","days":18,"cat":"8","sho":"comcomb","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260908_110000comcomb.mp3","desc":"Demolition debris from the White House East Wing — containing arsenic — was dumped into East Potomac Golf Links at Hains Point without testing for two weeks, then seeded over with grass. That disclosure comes from Rebecca Miller of the DC Preservation League, one of several voices in David Rabin's Community Watch and Comment challenging Trump's plan to convert the century-old public course into a championship-level facility. Golfer Alex Dixon, cyclist Nailet Broadnax, and Washington Area Bicyclists Association emeritus member Peter Harnick detail how the proposal would reshape Ohio Drive for everyone using it. Green Party House candidate Sam Husseini describes standing up at a National Press Club event to challenge Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, being walked out by security, and receiving a lifetime ban from the club.\n\nPost-Classical Ensemble music director Ángel Ordóñez, curator Murray Horwitz, and jazz director Chuck Redd preview their September 23rd concert at the Shakespeare Theatre. It opens with Gershwin's \"I Got Rhythm\" and draws on the Coltrane-Ellington album for an arrangement of Ellington's \"In a Sentimental Mood.","tags":["DC & Local","Climate & Environment","Elections & Government","Jazz"],"et":"Arsenic debris dumped at Hains Point"},{"id":"121812","t":"Crossroads","d":1788876000,"len":"1:00:03","days":18,"cat":"3","sho":"roachbrown","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260908_100000roachbrown.mp3","desc":"Alonzo Turner-Bey spent 31 years, 6 months, 16 days, and 5 hours in prison. On the day of this interview, he signed closing documents on a 2,700-square-foot, four-bedroom house. While earning $18 a month inside, he had sent $25 money orders to WPFW every few months. He now serves as Director of Returning Citizens Affairs for Prince George's County under County Executive Aisha Braveboy, and he tells host Roach Brown what it actually takes to reconnect with family and the job market after decades away — including the concept of \"freedom guilt\" as part of post-incarceration syndrome.\n\nThat conversation moves into the concrete. Turner-Bey walks through a Prince George's County program subsidizing CDL licenses and a forthcoming incentive-to-hire program offering businesses up to $5,000.","tags":["Policing & Prisons","Economic Justice","DC & Local"],"et":"Alonzo Turner-Bey signed closing documents after 31 years inside"},{"id":"121811","t":"Voices With Vision","d":1788872400,"len":"0:59:59","days":18,"cat":"3","sho":"voiceswdiocoop","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260908_090000voiceswdiocoop.mp3","desc":"Imani Naumodja of the African Party of Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde explains how Senegal's post-independence CFA franc kept 50% of foreign currency reserves in the French Treasury—and how a disputed election installed a president in Guinea-Bissau who secretly handed Chevron 90% of the country's offshore petroleum without parliamentary approval. That clip comes from the Black Alliance for Peace's \"Shut Down AFRICOM\" series, featured here by Voices With Vision hosts Nefer Freeman and Brother Craig. A Sovereign Media segment traces terrorist attacks in the Sahel rising from 1% of global incidents in 2007 to 47% in 2023, linking that trajectory directly to the 2011 NATO intervention in Libya and the U.S.-backed Ethiopian invasion of Somalia in 2006.\n\nThe episode rounds out with an AJ+ clip on the petrodollar system and a reflection from the late Thomas Blood McCreary. McCreary describes how the Black Liberation Army was never infiltrated because \"the BLA picked you,\" and recalls retaliatory actions taken after the killings at Attica and the death of George Jackson.","tags":["Africa","Foreign Policy","Black Liberation","Policing & Prisons"],"et":"Naumodja on Guinea-Bissau's offshore oil handed to Chevron"},{"id":"121810","t":"Democracy Now!","d":1788868801,"len":"1:00:05","days":18,"cat":"7","sho":"democragoodman","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260908_080001democragoodman.mp3","desc":null},{"id":"121804","t":"Building Bridges","d":1788822000,"len":"1:00:03","days":17,"cat":"7","sho":"buildingbridges","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260907_190000buildingbridges.mp3","desc":"Hosted by Mimi Rosenberg, this Labor Day special of *Building Bridges* opens with Cristóbal Ceballos, executive director of the DuPage Workers Center. He reports that roughly 40 to 50 percent of ICE raids in the Chicagoland area have been thwarted by patrol units — a 300-person network that is 60 to 70 percent Anglo, African American, and trans volunteers. Fewer than 3 percent of people taken by ICE, he adds, have violent criminal records.\n\nThe program then travels to a reparations rally in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, where speakers from the December 12th Movement, the NAACP Brooklyn Chapter, the New York Civil Liberties Union's Racial Justice Center, and Tsuru for Solidarity — a Japanese American group whose members describe being imprisoned in horse stalls at Santa Anita Racetrack during World War II — draw a line from the 2001 Durban Declaration's finding that the transatlantic slave trade was a crime against humanity to present-day issues: deed theft, the Rockefeller drug laws, and the displacement of 200,000 Black residents from New York City. New York City Public Advocate Jamani Williams closes by noting that his own reparations claim, tracing his family to Grenada, would properly go to England.","tags":["Black Liberation","Racial Justice","Labor & Unions","Immigration"],"et":"Ceballos: 300-person network thwarted 40 percent of ICE raids"},{"id":"121803","t":"Inside Out Collective","d":1788818400,"len":"1:00:04","days":17,"cat":"3","sho":"lmpab","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260907_180000lmpab.mp3","desc":"Mimi Rosenberg opens this Labor Day edition of *Building Bridges, Never Walls* by marking the first Labor Day without co-host Ken Nash — labor librarian, trade unionist, and 30-year presence on the program — who died the previous December. Ben Carroll of the Southern Workers Assembly then describes a network of more than 30 workers' assemblies across the South, along with a deliberate strategy of placing recruited workers inside electric vehicle and battery plants in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. That includes the world's largest BMW plant in Spartanburg, South Carolina, which ships 60 percent of its output overseas. Scholar and activist Abdul Akhalimat connects that new industrial landscape to Black community organizing.\n\nCarroll also describes coordinating with other unions toward a general strike on May Day 2028. The hour closes with Cristóbal Savasos of the DuPage Workers Center, who offers a pointed fact: Chicago ranks first in the nation in food and beverage production, and 75 percent or more of the workers who harvest and manufacture that food lack documents.","tags":["Labor & Unions","Black Liberation","Immigration","Economic Justice"],"et":"First Labor Day without Ken Nash"},{"id":"121802","t":"To The East","d":1788814800,"len":"1:00:03","days":17,"cat":"3","sho":"east","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260907_170000east.mp3","desc":"Cassandra Wilson died the previous Wednesday in Jackson, Mississippi, where she was born in 1955, and host Katia devoted the full hour to her memory. Katia had worked for District Curators and produced what she believed was Wilson's first Washington, D.C. concert, in the fall of 1990. Wilson came back later to play a benefit for WPFW at Bethesda Blues and Jazz, and the last time Katia saw her was at the Cape Town Jazz Festival, where Wilson had a suite overlooking Table Mountain and was joined by longtime musicians Brandon Ross and Lonnie Plaxico.\n\nThe program moved through recordings spanning Wilson's career: early JMT label tracks \"Electra Magnolia\" and \"Blue and Green,\" covers of Patsy Cline's \"Crazy,\" Neil Young's \"Harvest Moon,\" and Van Morrison's \"Tupelo Honey,\" and \"Vietnam Blues,\" \"Fragile,\" and \"Wichita Lineman.\" Between songs, Katia returned to the same observation — that what set Wilson apart was her ability to make any cover entirely her own.","tags":["Vocal Jazz","Jazz","Arts & Literature"],"et":"Katia produced Wilson's first Washington concert in 1990"},{"id":"121800","t":"To Your Health","d":1788804000,"len":"1:00:03","days":17,"cat":"11","sho":"tohealth","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260907_140000tohealth.mp3","desc":"Lifeguarding is probably 85% prevention,\" says a 59-year Asbury Park lifeguard explaining why drownings on guarded beaches are near zero. That claim opens an hour drawn from six podcasts across the Labor Radio Podcast Network. Two United Steelworkers members who work 2,150 feet underground at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico — the only facility in the world that disposes of nuclear waste underground — describe it as \"its own little city\" with ambulances, electricians, and fire protection. A Calgary freelance journalist traces her turning point to an all-nighter at an architecture firm when a boss arrived at 3 a.m. demanding drawing changes, realizing then \"this is why workers unionize.\"\n\nAustralian construction workers from the Concrete Gang react to police raiding union officials' homes, cops walking through asking \"how did you afford this?\" From there the hour turns to Colorado labor history: the 1927 Columbine Mine Massacre, the IWW's role in what historians call the most successful strike in Colorado history, and Big Bill Haywood's connection to the founding of the IWW. Hosted by Chris Garlock with Patrick Dixon and Harold Phillips.","tags":["Labor & Unions","Health","History","Policing & Prisons"],"et":"Lifeguarding is mostly prevention"},{"id":"121799","t":"Equal Portions","d":1788800400,"len":"1:00:03","days":17,"cat":"3","sho":"equalportion","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260907_130000equalportion.mp3","desc":"Historian Donna Haverty Stack, author of *America's Forgotten Holiday*, opens the hour with a pointed correction: the first Labor Day parade in 1882 had socialist organizers at its core, and the AFL deliberately rewrote that history after the Haymarket bombing made radical associations toxic. From there, NewsGuild President John Schloess puts a number on the crisis — roughly 60% of the country's journalists cannot afford to live in the communities they cover, with some Guild members using food pantries. He traces an organizing wave running from a 10-person nonprofit newsroom in rural Maine to an 8-person shop in Washington State's Skagit Valley.\n\nMayda Rosenstein of UAW Local 2110 closes the *Labor Heritage Power Hour* by naming what has kept cultural-sector wages depressed: the assumption that museum work is \"a labor of love,\" and that it helps to have a trust fund. A wave of organizing that began in 2018 has since brought in the Guggenheim, the Whitney, the MFA Boston, and the Met. This Labor Day special aired Monday, September 7, 2026.","tags":["Labor & Unions","History","Media & Press","Economic Justice"],"et":"60% of journalists cannot afford to live where they report"},{"id":"121797","t":"Make It Plain","d":1788793200,"len":"1:00:03","days":17,"cat":"9","sho":"makeitplai","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260907_110000makeitplai.mp3","desc":"Eighty-four percent of maternal deaths in Washington, D.C. are Black women, and the July closure of the postpartum and antepartum unit at Washington Hospital Center is making things worse. A community forum on the issue is set for September 9th at People's Church with mayor-elect Janice Lewis George. National Nurses United director Jazmyn reports that Medicare for All now has 115 House co-sponsors and 17 in the Senate — the most ever — with Senator Chris Van Hollen and Representatives April McClain Delaney and Sarah Elfreth signing on for the first time last December.\n\nCalling in from the Greenbelt Labor Day parade, Metropolitan Washington AFL-CIO president Sam Epps reports that workers at Verbal Beginnings, a Rockville company serving people with developmental disabilities, have been on strike for seven weeks through Teamsters 639. A recent Gallup poll puts union favorability at 71% nationally, with 47 million workers who want to join one but cannot. Heal DC host Joni Eisenberg anchors the two-hour Labor Day program.","tags":["Health","Black Liberation","Labor & Unions","DC & Local"],"et":"Black women and 84% of D.C. maternal deaths"},{"id":"121796","t":"Heal DC","d":1788789600,"len":"1:00:03","days":17,"cat":"3","sho":"tohealdc","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260907_100000tohealdc.mp3","desc":"Josh Williams has a pointed explanation for why Americans celebrate Labor Day in September instead of May 1st: labor leaders accepted the separation from International Workers' Day as a compromise after the holiday was branded communist during the McCarthy era. That history sets the frame for this Labor Day edition of *Heal DC*, hosted by Joni.\n\nNurses Renelsa Caudill and Luke Filomena, both members of National Nurses United at Washington Hospital Center, take on Palantir — the data company already under contract with the Department of Defense and ICE — which is now selling hospital scheduling software under names like HCA Inspire and Timpani. They argue the software optimizes for profit rather than safe staffing ratios. Caudill and Filomena also detail Washington Hospital Center's closure of its maternity unit in July 2026, after which the hospital recorded 15 diversions of laboring patients to other facilities in just five weeks, including one diversion that lasted 24 hours.","tags":["Labor & Unions","Health","Technology & AI","DC & Local"],"et":"15 diversions after Washington Hospital Center closed its maternity unit"},{"id":"121795","t":"MALVEAUX!","d":1788786000,"len":"1:00:03","days":17,"cat":"3","sho":"malveaux","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260907_090000malveaux.mp3","desc":"When sharecropper Robert Lee Hill tried to organize the Progressive Farmers and Householders Union in Arkansas, white law enforcement and vigilantes responded by killing hundreds of African Americans in what became the 1919 Elaine Massacre. Journalist and attorney Faye McCray traces that violence alongside earlier history: Black caulkers organizing at the Washington Navy Yard in the 1830s, and 214 delegates at the 1869 Colored National Labor Union convention petitioning Congress to subdivide Southern public lands into 40-acre farms with low-interest loans — a petition Congress ignored.\n\nThat unbroken line of suppressed labor organizing carries into the present. Dr. Annie McClellan, author of *Beneath the Wage: Tips, Tasks, and Gigs in the Age of Service Work*, explains how the federal tipped minimum wage was frozen at $2.13 an hour under Bill Clinton in the 1990s, details how DoorDash and Uber have been caught applying customer tips toward their own guaranteed-wage obligations, and describes how AI is \"deskilling\" white-collar work much as machinery once deskilled manufacturing.","tags":["Black Liberation","Labor & Unions","Economic Justice","Technology & AI","History"],"et":"Robert Lee Hill organized and hundreds were killed in Elaine"},{"id":"121794","t":"Democracy Now!","d":1788782400,"len":"1:00:03","days":17,"cat":"7","sho":"democragoodman","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260907_080000democragoodman.mp3","desc":null},{"id":"121767","t":"News Views","d":1788559200,"len":"1:00:06","days":14,"cat":"2","sho":"nusvus","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260904_180000nusvus.mp3","desc":"Ray McGovern — 27-year CIA analyst who briefed Reagan's five most senior national security advisers one-on-one — tells host Garland Nixon exactly how Victoria Nuland named \"Yats\" as the man to install in Ukraine during her intercepted call with Pyatt. McGovern walks through the evidence that the U.S. orchestrated the 2014 Ukrainian government overthrow, then explains why a peace deal initialed in Istanbul collapsed after Boris Johnson told Zelensky the West would not back it. He also recounts what he learned traveling to Russia with Oliver Stone: Putin's older brother died during the 900-day siege of Leningrad and lies buried in a mass grave holding an estimated 800,000 to 900,000 people. Nixon opens the hour with his own analysis, arguing that the three rules of winning an election all reduce to turning out your base, and predicting that whichever party loses the midterms will claim the election was stolen.","tags":["Foreign Policy","Elections & Government","History"],"et":"McGovern on Nuland naming Yats and the Istanbul collapse"},{"id":"121766","t":"Darker Than Blue","d":1788555600,"len":"1:00:06","days":14,"cat":"3","sho":"darkethanblue","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260904_170000darkethanblue.mp3","desc":"William Holden legally reported only $50,000 of his earnings from *The Bridge on the River Kwai* — and the government had quietly built the mechanism that made it possible. On *Darker Than Blue*, host Jacqueline Luqman argues that the famous 91% top marginal tax rate of the 1950s was essentially propaganda. The wealthiest 1% paid an effective federal income tax rate of just 16.9%, thanks to deliberate loopholes: accelerated depreciation on real estate, income-deferral arrangements nobody was penalized for using. The postwar boom's actual revenue came from a broadened middle-class tax base, corporate taxes, and Cold War defense spending.\n\nBeneath that prosperity sat documented exclusions. Luqman examines specific income figures comparing white and Black family earnings in 1950 and 1960, the deliberate denial of GI Bill benefits to non-white veterans, and Cherokee and Navajo family incomes in the early 1950s. The picture that emerges shapes her closing argument: \"tax the rich\" is an insufficient political demand precisely because the rich have never been made to pay the rates advertised, and the government has always engineered the code to ensure they wouldn't.","tags":["Economic Justice","Racial Justice","History","Veterans"],"et":"William Holden reported only $50,000 from River Kwai"},{"id":"121764","t":"Resistance Radio with John and Regan","d":1788544800,"len":"1:00:03","days":14,"cat":"7","sho":"letstalknativa","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260904_140000letstalknativa.mp3","desc":"New York Governor Kathy Hochul extracted over half a billion dollars from Seneca gaming revenue and handed it to the billionaire owner of the Buffalo Bills for a new stadium — and Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said nothing. On *Resistance Radio*, host John Kane uses that sequence to anchor his argument that Native people living on their own territories should not vote in U.S. state or national elections. Seneca Nation President J.C. Seneca's endorsement of Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman — who supports the predictive markets Kane says could kill Native gaming — sharpens the case. Kane traces the legal framework behind federal power over Native peoples: the Doctrine of Christian Discovery, the trust doctrine, and the plenary powers doctrine, all developed under Chief Justice John Marshall, with Ruth Bader Ginsburg citing the Doctrine of Christian Discovery as recently as 2005. No Democrat in Congress, Kane notes, has ever publicly opposed any of the three doctrines. The episode also covers the Two Row Wampum as a framework for Native independence, the broken promise to include residential school history in New York State's curriculum, and the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act as an exercise of plenary powers that handed states leverage over Native casinos.","tags":["Black Liberation","Racial Justice","Elections & Government","History"],"et":"Hochul took half a billion from Seneca gaming"},{"id":"121763","t":"Latino Media Collective","d":1788541200,"len":"1:00:03","days":14,"cat":"3","sho":"latinomedia","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260904_130000latinomedia.mp3","desc":"Bretton Louis, a professor of anthropology and African American and Africana studies at the University of Kentucky, calls the French indemnity imposed on Haiti outright extortion — 100 to 150 million gold francs demanded of a nation that had just freed itself. His Black Agenda Report article \"Anti-Haitianism: A Hemispheric Rejection of Black Humanity\" frames that debt as the opening move in a pattern stretching across centuries. Host Oscar Fernandez of the Latino Media Collective walks Louis through it: the 1915 U.S. Marine invasion that removed gold from Haitian banks, the 1980s HIV crisis, and the Supreme Court revocation of Temporary Protected Status for 300,000 to 350,000 Haitians. Saint-Domingue, Louis notes, once produced two-fifths of the world's sugar and nearly half of its coffee before that wealth was systematically stripped away.\n\nFrom there the conversation moves to New York's Democratic primary, where \"Haitian\" was deployed as an anti-Black slur against congressional candidate Daryalisa Ávila Chevalier. Louis also examines how the Bahamas legally assigns Haitian nationality to children born there of Haitian parents, a citizenship structure he compares to policies in the Dominican Republic and the United States.","tags":["Black Liberation","Racial Justice","Caribbean","Immigration","Elections & Government"],"et":"Bretton Louis calls the French indemnity on Haiti outright extortion"},{"id":"121761","t":"Community Watch & Comment - Friday / The Local Station Board Show (Last Frid","d":1788534000,"len":"1:00:03","days":14,"cat":"8","sho":"comcomfri","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260904_110000comcomfri.mp3","desc":"A federal judge's restraining order has blocked the Trump administration's plan to overhaul mail-in ballot distribution through the U.S. Postal Service — a plan a Postal Service whistleblower said was designed to fail and would disenfranchise voters before a ballot ever reached them. Ron Pinchback and Chipp Jones host *Community Watch and Comment* (Friday Edition) as callers weigh in on whether to switch from mail-in to in-person voting.\n\nA 77-year-old caller from Georgia recounts her father's 27 years at the Savannah post office. Another caller argues the country has been in a state of armistice since the Civil War, and that the vote is the \"soft power\" holding it together.","tags":["Elections & Government","Racial Justice","Elders & Aging"],"et":"Federal judge blocked Trump's postal ballot overhaul"},{"id":"121759","t":"#Climate Friday","d":1788526800,"len":"1:00:03","days":14,"cat":"7","sho":"thinkclimafrida","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260904_090000thinkclimafrida.mp3","desc":"Elon Musk's Colossus 1 data center sits in Boxtown, a Freedmen's community in Memphis where the cancer rate is already four times the national average. It runs on natural gas turbines. Dr. Sokobe Wilson, founder of CEJA Inc. and professor at the University of Maryland School of Public Health, walks Cross the Producer through how that fits a pattern: hyperscale facilities consuming roughly five million gallons of water a day, and low-frequency noise that bounces over barriers and disrupts sleep for miles. Unlike high-frequency sound, that noise can't be blocked by walls or fences.\n\nWilson also draws a direct line from redlining to the two-week outage in Gary, Indiana, showing how power shutoffs land hardest on Black communities. The conversation closes on her 12th annual Environmental Justice and Health Disparities Symposium, \"EJ 2076: Make America Just Again,\" running September 14–19 with keynotes from Justin Pearson and Peggy Shepard and in-person sessions at Bowie State University.","tags":["Climate & Environment","Racial Justice","Health","Technology & AI","Black Liberation"],"et":"Dr. Wilson links Colossus 1 to Boxtown's four-times cancer rate"},{"id":"121758","t":"Democracy Now!","d":1788523200,"len":"1:00:03","days":14,"cat":"7","sho":"democragoodman","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260904_080000democragoodman.mp3","desc":null},{"id":"121752","t":"#UMustLearn","d":1788472800,"len":"1:00:04","days":13,"cat":"3","sho":"umustlearn","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260903_180000umustlearn.mp3","desc":"Vaughn Bennett, a DC firefighter turned chess instructor, says the DC Chess League excluded Black DC residents from tournaments, scholarships, and leadership for nearly 80 years — a history the US Chess Federation documented in a 2022 report. Bennett has taught more than 7,000 children across 25 years. Baba Oso, a founding member of Kankuran West African Dance and Music Company, traces the banning of the drum under slavery to its role as a communication and healing tool, and previews the group's 43rd-anniversary performance at Crampton Auditorium at Howard University. Natani Victoria Lim of Embracing Equity, an Albuquerque-based nonprofit, describes its virtual workshops on building cultures of belonging in schools and a debate over whether to strip equity-related language from its website under current political pressure — a debate the team resolved by keeping the name and the mission intact. This episode of *#YouMustLearn* airs Thursday, September 3, 2026.","tags":["DC & Local","Black Liberation","Education","Racial Justice"],"et":"Eighty years of exclusion in D.C. chess"},{"id":"121751","t":"Unionism Drives Community","d":1788469201,"len":"1:00:03","days":13,"cat":"3","sho":"unionismdrivescommunit","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260903_170001unionismdrivescommunit.mp3","desc":"Vicente Martinez spent eight years as a Starbucks barista in Denton, Texas, and qualified for company health insurance exactly once. Starbucks controls the scheduling that determines eligibility. Martinez and fellow bargaining delegate Jasmine Lolly of Buffalo, New York, join host Renee Bowser to explain why Starbucks Workers United has called a nationwide boycott, citing hundreds of alleged unfair labor practices and stores running five workers during peak hours instead of thirteen.\n\nThe union has also pressed to remove silica powder from blended-drink recipes after workers reported lung irritation. Still unresolved at the bargaining table: a $17 starting wage, guaranteed minimum staffing of three workers on the floor, and just-cause protections. The boycott pledge is at boycottstarbucks.net.","tags":["Labor & Unions","Health","Economic Justice"],"et":"Eight years at Starbucks, insured once"},{"id":"121749","t":"Short Money: Dissecting Racial Capitalism","d":1788458400,"len":"1:00:03","days":13,"cat":"3","sho":"shortmoneydissectiracialcapitali","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260903_140000shortmoneydissectiracialcapitali.mp3","desc":"A third-grade teacher in southern Oklahoma shamed Native children in front of the class. Dr. Suzanne Claxton watched it happen, and it lodged. In a conversation with host Jon Jeter on *Short Money: Dissecting Racial Capitalism*, Claxton — an adjunct philosophy professor specializing in Heidegger — traces how that moment, an Iranian adoptive father, and years watching poverty grind Black residents in D.C. built her rejection of white identity before she had words for it. The discussion moves through Theodore Allen's *The Invention of the White Race*, AOC's recent distancing from defund-the-police language, and Plato's Allegory of the Cave as a metaphor for racial mythology. It lands on Heidegger's concept of *poiesis* — the poet and storyteller as the figures most capable of seeing \"beyond the merely actual into the realm of the possible\" — and why personal narrative is indispensable to social transformation.","tags":["Black Liberation","Racial Justice","History","Education"],"et":"Third-grade teacher shamed Native children in Oklahoma"},{"id":"121748","t":"The Labor Heritage Power Hour","d":1788454800,"len":"1:00:04","days":13,"cat":"3","sho":"dcpolitebarras","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260903_130000dcpolitebarras.mp3","desc":"At Detroit's riverfront stands *Transcending* — 63 feet of steel arches, bronze reliefs, and workers' quotations, North America's largest public artwork dedicated to organized labor. Michigan Labor History Society guides John Dick and Dave Elsila walk Chris Garlock through it, then Dick pivots to Hitsville, USA: letter carrier Freddie Gorman supplied the hook that turned Berry Gordy's unfinished song into \"Please Mr. Postman,\" Motown's first number one hit, before being edged out of the Holland-Dozier-Gorman songwriting team and returning to carrying mail until retirement. Harvard historian Kelly Goodman traces Detroit's 43-day teachers' strike of 1973 — launched on Labor Day against merit pay and classroom automation — through the Chicago Teachers Union strikes of 2012 and 2019, arriving at the 2022 Massachusetts ballot initiative that imposed a 4% surtax on incomes above $1 million to fund free community college and restore education cuts. Singer and activist Hallie Hammer closes the hour naming \"Union Maid\" as her favorite labor song for putting union women at the center of the fight.","tags":["Labor & Unions","History","Education","Soul & R&B"],"et":"Transcending: labor's largest public artwork"},{"id":"121746","t":"Code Pink Radio","d":1788447600,"len":"1:00:03","days":13,"cat":"9","sho":"codepinkwomepeac","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260903_110000codepinkwomepeac.mp3","desc":"Donghao Wang, a postdoc at the University of Michigan, jumped from a university building hours after being questioned by a federal agent. His case is one of several Megan Russell details in a Code Pink webinar on the China Is Not Our Enemy campaign, whose origins co-founder Jodi Evans traces to a surge in anti-China sentiment she noticed on her Facebook page in late 2019.\n\nThe episode opens, though, before that — with public testimony before the Los Angeles Unified School District board, where speakers from Code Pink, Jewish Voice for Peace, and CAIR urged members to reject a settlement in Brandeis v. California. That lawsuit would hand the Brandeis Center — led by former Trump appointee Kenneth Marcus — authority over teacher training on antisemitism and a seat on a committee reviewing ethnic studies curriculum. Code Pink Radio host Marcy Winograd presents both segments.","tags":["Foreign Policy","Palestine","Education","Immigration"],"et":"Donghao Wang jumped after being questioned by a federal agent"},{"id":"121745","t":"The Collision: Sports and Politics","d":1788444000,"len":"1:00:02","days":13,"cat":"3","sho":"collision","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260903_100000collision.mp3","desc":"The NBA just hit Steve Ballmer with a $30 million fine, a one-year ban, and five consecutive first-round draft picks stripped from the Los Angeles Clippers — 2029 through 2033 — after the team paid companies to hand Kawhi Leonard no-show sponsorship contracts as a way around the salary cap. Kawhi's Uncle Dennis received a five-year ban of his own. Dave Zirin, Chuck Modiano, and Kevin McNutt tear through every layer of the punishment on *The Collision*.\n\nThe episode also marks ten years since Colin Kaepernick first took a knee, and the hosts take up Howard Bryant's argument that today's players have been effectively silenced into writing messages on their cleats. Zirin turns the lens on himself: his book *The Kaepernick Effect* got it wrong, he says, by expecting Kaepernick's blackballing to become an animating spirit for other athletes — when it became instead a ghost tale used to warn players to toe the line. Chuck Modiano closes with an eye on the upcoming FIBA Women's World Cup and women's basketball.","tags":["Sports","Black Liberation","Racial Justice"],"et":"Ballmer fined $30 million over Kawhi Leonard contracts"},{"id":"121744","t":"On The Margin","d":1788440400,"len":"1:00:03","days":13,"cat":"3","sho":"empamon","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260903_090000empamon.mp3","desc":"Alice Madison kept a secret for years: Jane Kenyon's letters described a relationship with her former doctor, and Madison redacted those passages from copies sent to editor Chad Ricklesworth while Donald Hall was still alive. Hall's own writing had made the marriage \"seem very idyllic,\" she tells host E. Ethelbert Miller — but the letters reveal a \"questing and somewhat restless and very intelligent, discontented spirit.\" The conversation moves through Kenyon's years on Nardil and Prozac and the three-way writing workshop Madison ran with Kenyon and Joyce Pesteroff, all of it orbiting the book at the center of the discussion: *What Clever Friends: The Selected Letters of Jane Kenyon and Alice Madison*, edited by Ricklesworth and published by the University of Michigan Press.\n\nMadison also traces her own education as a fiction writer to coverless books by Tillie Olsen and Grace Paley, picked up from an illegal discount bookstore.","tags":["Arts & Literature","Women & Gender"],"et":"Alice Madison redacted Jane Kenyon's letters while Hall was alive"},{"id":"121743","t":"Democracy Now!","d":1788436801,"len":"0:59:55","days":13,"cat":"7","sho":"democragoodman","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260903_080001democragoodman.mp3","desc":null},{"id":"121737","t":"Konbit Lakay","d":1788390000,"len":"0:59:59","days":12,"cat":"3","sho":"konbitlsdayiti","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260902_190000konbitlsdayiti.mp3","desc":"Eugenia Charles had been Yvon Florival's agent for years, first meeting him when he designed sets for Théâtre Mapou productions, including a staging of a Jacques Roumain play. Florival died August 25, 2026, at 72. He had won a 1992 Congressional Black Caucus Spouse Quincy Jones Award and shown work at the White House Eisenhower Executive Building, the National Museum of American History, and the French Embassy in Washington. Charles devotes much of this episode of *Konbit Lakay* to his life and career.\n\nShe also follows the case of Pierre Damas Belle, a recent high school graduate and JROTC member in Springfield, Ohio, who was fitted with an ICE ankle bracelet during his first week of college and fell into depression — his father holds government immigration policy responsible. From there, Charles walks Haitian community members through concrete steps: finding a licensed immigration attorney before a crisis, understanding the new public charge test taking effect September 18th, and seeking mental health support. USCIS will now review credit reports as part of green card applications.","tags":["Caribbean","Immigration","Health","Black Liberation"],"et":"Yvon Florival, who designed for Theatre Mapou"},{"id":"121736","t":"New World Order","d":1788386400,"len":"0:59:55","days":12,"cat":"3","sho":"newworldorder","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260902_180000newworldorder.mp3","desc":"Hamza of Washington Area Road Skaters, Ashley of Skate Baltimore and We Are Skate DC, and Bree of Roll Club Delaware sat down during Skate DC Weekend to talk concrete logistics: beginner clinics, volunteer marshals, corkers holding intersections, and free Wednesday-night meetups where the only requirement is bringing your own skates. Entry-level skates start at $200, and Delaware lost its Ellesmere Skating Center in the early 2000s, sending state skaters to DC and Philadelphia just to find community. The three also name hostile architecture directly — skate blockers added to Freedom Plaza's ledges after renovation. Their vision runs toward skater-designed public spaces and school programming built on the institutional support other physical activities already receive.\n\nThe episode also features the Pride Purpose Power Top 5 Countdown and an open mic drop mix from DC-born DJ Tay. Produced by the Freedom Futures Collective.","tags":["DC & Local","Youth","Go-Go","Hip Hop"],"et":"Hamza, Ashley and Bree on building skate community infrastructure"},{"id":"121735","t":"All Eyes on DC","d":1788382800,"len":"1:00:03","days":12,"cat":"3","sho":"alleyeondc","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260902_170000alleyeondc.mp3","desc":"Marcellus Queen once threw his keys to a detained youth mid-fight — eight staff against one kid — so the boy could lock himself in a safe room. That act cost Queen his job at D.C.'s Youth Services Center, where children with serious mental health conditions share space with the general population, staff are undertrained, and one worker can be responsible for 15 kids with no padded rooms in sight. Queen, now founder and executive director of Representation for the Bottom, speaks with host Sam PK Collins about those conditions and about losing his longtime collaborator Shama King, whom he found dead the day after the two of them handed out 300 pairs of Jordans to youth at a back-to-school event.\n\nThe episode opens with local news: D.C. mayoral nominee Janice Lewis George's eight-ward listening tour and a D.C. Council hearing set for September 24th on the Vaccine Administration Protection Amendment Act, which would shield local healthcare providers from liability for vaccine-related injuries.","tags":["Youth","Policing & Prisons","Health","DC & Local"],"et":"Marcellus Queen threw his keys to a detained youth"},{"id":"121733","t":"Shay Wah Nana","d":1788372000,"len":"1:00:03","days":12,"cat":"3","sho":"shoofee","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260902_140000shoofee.mp3","desc":"Israel always means you cease and we fire,\" says Beirut-based analyst Leith Marouf on Zein El-Amine's show — his explanation for why Hezbollah had held back for more than three weeks before launching an offensive drone strike on Israeli troops near Ali al-Tahrir Hill the day of the broadcast. Marouf tallies what he describes as three years of accumulated Israeli military losses: more than 70 percent of its tanks gone, roughly 80 percent of its Humvees, Iron Dome batteries destroyed in the north, and U.S. PAC-3 stockpiles in Jordan drawn down 30 percent in a single day of exchanges with Iran. Lebanese President Joseph Aoun's invocation of the late Imam Musa Sadr at a commemoration ceremony drew a public rebuke from the Amal Movement, Speaker Nabih Berri, and Hezbollah, who disputed the reference. An NBC News interview captured on camera the beating of Palestinian woman Aida Ahmed Abdullah by Israeli settlers in the West Bank. Israeli investors are quietly acquiring properties and shoreline in Cyprus and along the Kalamata coast of Greece.","tags":["Palestine","Foreign Policy"],"et":"Leith Marouf on why Hezbollah waited three weeks"},{"id":"121732","t":"AfricaNow!","d":1788368400,"len":"1:00:03","days":12,"cat":"3","sho":"africanunthali","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260902_130000africanunthali.mp3","desc":"Destiny Blackwell is organizing Amazon workers in Garner, North Carolina with CAUSE (Carolina Amazonians United for Solidarity and Empowerment). She describes coworkers sleeping in their cars and missing rent while working for what she calls the richest company in the world, and argues that Amazon's tax cuts for employing HBCU students and disabled workers are subsidies that should go directly to workers' wages. Chris Hollis of Black Workers for Justice and UE 150 recounts how Virginia Beach municipal workers staged an illegal wildcat stoppage at Waste Management on a Wednesday — the day upper-class residents needed trash pickup — and won new equipment, a 10% raise, and eventually a $15 minimum wage.\n\nHistorian Robin D.G. Kelley traces Jim Crow segregation and right-to-work laws as ruling-class responses to interracial organizing, focusing on the largely African American female Local 22 of the Food, Tobacco, and Agriculture and Allied Workers Union at RJ Reynolds in Winston-Salem, which fought sexual harassment and ran voter registration drives before the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 stripped unions of much of that power. This Labor Day edition of *AfricaNow!*, hosted by Mwiza Munthali, draws from the program's archive around the Southern Workers Power Program's first point: the right to organize, collectively bargain, and strike.","tags":["Labor & Unions","Black Liberation","Economic Justice","History"],"et":"Destiny Blackwell organizing Amazon workers in Garner, North Carolina"},{"id":"121730","t":"TBD","d":1788361200,"len":"0:59:59","days":12,"cat":"3","sho":"nea","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260902_110000nea.mp3","desc":"Mildred Taylor says a warden at Stewart Detention Center told her husband Rodney — a double amputee detained there for 471 days — \"this is not Uber Eats\" when he requested charged prosthetics, a shower stool, and appropriate meals. Each time Mildred spoke to media, those accommodations were taken away. Her testimony anchors a Black August panel hosted by the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, alongside Manuela, a Cameroonian woman detained at Adelanto, who describes being chained, fed spoiled food, and threatened with solitary confinement for refusing meals, then monitored after release through ankle GPS and the BI SmartLink app. Shirley Leslie of Critical Resistance connects those conditions to the prison industrial complex and details prisoner-led hunger strikes that won a reduction of indefinite solitary confinement in California.\n\nThe program then turns to Esther Arma, founder of the Arma Institute of Emotional Justice, who defines the \"emotional mammy\" as a Black woman expected to center the feelings of white people and all men regardless of the cost to her own health. Her short film *Goodbye to the Emotional Mammy* screens at the Black Women Nonprofit Leaders Forum in Alhambra, California on September 3rd, organized by Dawn Brown of EmpowerHer Institute.","tags":["Immigration","Policing & Prisons","Black Liberation","Women & Gender"],"et":"Rodney Taylor denied prosthetics for 471 days at Stewart"},{"id":"121729","t":"Wake Up, Stay Woke","d":1788357600,"len":"1:00:06","days":12,"cat":"3","sho":"wakeupstaywoke","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260902_100000wakeupstaywoke.mp3","desc":"Benjamin Banneker reconstructed Pierre L'Enfant's entire plan for Washington, D.C. from memory after L'Enfant was fired and walked off with the original drawings — and that story is at the center of the documentary series *The Capitol*. Former Washington, D.C. Mayor Sharon Pratt and her daughter Dr. Aimee Dixon Anthony, director of *The Capitol*, joined host Dr. Faye Williams on *Wake Up and Stay Woke* to lay out what the film recovers: that Banneker's astronomical knowledge came from a West African tradition, and that the capital landed on the Potomac rather than in Pennsylvania partly because slaveholders feared Pennsylvania's law emancipating any enslaved person held there longer than six months. Also on the September 2, 2026 broadcast, Howard-trained engineer and lawyer Talib Muhammad described his legal fight after the D.C. Board of Elections gave him 30 minutes to complete 311 pages of petition forms. A court confirmed that time was treated differently than what Democratic candidates received — a ruling issued just the day before this broadcast. *The Capitol* premieres September 9th at the Hirshhorn Museum, with streaming on WETA+ the following day.","tags":["Black Liberation","History","Elections & Government","DC & Local"],"et":"Sharon Pratt on what the documentary recovers"},{"id":"121728","t":"What's At Stake","d":1788354000,"len":"0:53:30","days":12,"cat":"3","sho":"whatstake","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260902_090000whatstake.mp3","desc":"Mississippi held back Nolan Wells's brain and trachea from the second pathologist — and forensic expert Dr. Nicole Jackson says that's not standard protocol. Wells was 18, a Black college football player who vanished July 4th on Horn Island off the Gulf of Mississippi; his three white companions came home, and his body turned up on the beach two days later. Host Verna Avery-Brown brings Jackson onto **What's at Stake** to explain what those retained tissues would reveal about strangulation, aspiration, or blunt force trauma, and why their withholding from Dr. Roger Mitchell matters. Jackson has performed upwards of 2,000 autopsies and served as medical examiner for Chicago and Seattle.\n\nThe question of what a grand jury will do with any of this brings in law professor Justin Hansford, executive director of the Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center at Howard University. Drawing on his time near Ferguson during the 2014 Michael Brown grand jury, Hansford lays out how Mississippi prosecutors hold near-total control over what a secret, transcript-free grand jury sees. If no indictment comes back, he says, the Wells family's only remaining path runs through the Department of Justice.","tags":["Black Liberation","Racial Justice","Policing & Prisons","Health"],"et":"Mississippi kept Nolan Wells's brain from the second pathologist"},{"id":"121727","t":"Democracy Now!","d":1788350400,"len":"1:00:06","days":12,"cat":"7","sho":"democragoodman","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260902_080000democragoodman.mp3","desc":null},{"id":"121721","t":"Liberation on Our Minds","d":1788303600,"len":"0:59:44","days":11,"cat":"3","sho":"liberaonourminds","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260901_190000liberaonourminds.mp3","desc":"Amina Claudine Myers corrects the record mid-conversation: she was not a co-founder of the AACM, as host Katia had introduced her, but an early member. The actual founders included Muhal Richard Abrams and Steve McCall, and it was Ajaramu who gave Myers her African name and brought her into the organization. DC pianist Janelle Gill traveled to San Francisco specifically to meet Myers backstage after an Emmanuel Wilkins residency at SFJAZZ, arriving with Palo Santo perfume and a proposal for a collaboration — one that grew from Gill's artist-in-residency at the DC Jazz Festival.\n\nMyers also discusses two works in progress: a Harriet Tubman symphony and a piece about Navajo code writers. The conversation leads up to their joint performance on September 5th at the DC Jazz Festival.","tags":["Jazz","Spiritual Jazz","Black Liberation","DC & Local"],"et":"Amina Claudine Myers corrects her AACM founding credit"},{"id":"121720","t":"Full Spectrum","d":1788300000,"len":"1:00:06","days":11,"cat":"3","sho":"fullspectru","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260901_180000fullspectru.mp3","desc":"Akili Shakur is calling from her car — still without power two weeks after a derecho hit Gary, Indiana on August 11th — because NIPSCO never put Gary on its power-restoration list. Host Anthony Rogers-Wright adds context: Lake County, where Gary sits, received $715,404 across three federally declared disasters between 2011 and 2024, roughly $1 per resident, against $84,871,273 — $191 per person — for Santa Barbara County, California over the same period, figures drawn from a Harvard Kennedy School study. Shakur also points to Gary's mayor, Eddie Melton, whose past employment with NIPSCO she says explains his slow criticism of the utility.\n\n*Black Agenda Report* executive editor Margaret Kimberley takes up the case of Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab, freed in a prisoner swap and returned to Venezuela in 2023, only to be handed back to the United States in May and publicly smeared by Venezuelan officials. Kimberley reads that reversal as proof that the U.S. is now \"giving direct orders to the Venezuelans\" and that Venezuela has lost its sovereignty.","tags":["Climate & Environment","Economic Justice","Racial Justice","Latin America"],"et":"Gary got $1 per resident after the derecho"},{"id":"121719","t":"Black Agenda Radio","d":1788296400,"len":"1:00:03","days":11,"cat":"7","sho":"blackagendareportradio","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260901_170000blackagendareportradio.mp3","desc":"Sam Husseini was physically removed from a State Department briefing by Antony Blinken, then banned from the National Press Club after questioning Chuck Schumer about Israel at a Public Citizen anti-corruption event. Black Agenda Report host Margaret Kimberley talks with him about his Green Party challenge to Maryland's 4th District incumbent Glenn Ivey, who has taken more than $7 million from AIPAC and holds at least $100,000 of his own money in NVIDIA.\n\nAkili Shakur calls in from Gary, Indiana — speaking from her car because her power is out. A derecho knocked out electricity across the city for two weeks, and Gary, a 70% Black city in a red state, was left off NIPSCO's restoration list entirely. It was Black Lives Matter grassroots, not the utility, that distributed dry ice so residents could keep food and medicine cold.","tags":["Racial Justice","Elections & Government","Palestine","Media & Press","Mutual Aid"],"et":"Sam Husseini removed from Blinken's State Department briefing"},{"id":"121718","t":"Something to Say","d":1788289200,"len":"2:00:05","days":11,"cat":"3","sho":"somethisay","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260901_150000somethisay.mp3","desc":"The Black Panther Party ran sickle cell screenings in the late 1960s and helped pressure Congress into passing the Sickle Cell Control Act. That history comes from Barbara Harrison, Assistant Director for Community Outreach and Education at Howard University's Center for Sickle Cell Disease, which the Act funded into existence in 1972. Harrison traces the disease's geographic spread directly to the transatlantic slave trade and lays out a stark funding gap: cystic fibrosis, affecting roughly 30,000 Americans, has received three to four times more research funding than sickle cell, which affects 100,000, and has 12 to 13 approved drugs compared to sickle cell's three.\n\nHost Mazi Mutafa also sits down with actor Jacob Ming-Trent about his one-man show *How Shakespeare Saved My Life* at the Folger Theatre, then with MCs Do Me Right and Night Train 357, who discuss hip-hop history, their collaborations with pioneers like Chuck D, and an upcoming show at The Pocket in DC.","tags":["Black Liberation","Health","History","Hip Hop"]},{"id":"121717","t":"Capitalism, Race & Democracy","d":1788285600,"len":"1:00:06","days":11,"cat":"7","sho":"covidraceampdemocr","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260901_140000covidraceampdemocr.mp3","desc":"Dan Kovalik once sued Coca-Cola, Drummond Mining, and Occidental Petroleum under the Alien Tort Claims Act for allegedly sponsoring paramilitary violence against union members. He tells Pacifica's Thomas O'Rourke why Colombia's newly elected president — a former cartel lawyer nicknamed El Tigre — won through voter suppression, diaspora votes, and frustration over armed-group violence. U.S. military aid of $10 billion produced zero reduction in coca production. Kovalik had accompanied Colombian President Gustavo Petro to Washington in February.\n\nThat organizing thread — institutions that resist accountability — runs through the rest of the hour. National Nurses Union members rallied outside Palantir's former Palo Alto headquarters, accusing the company of using AI tools to cut hospital staffing and of helping ICE detain a union nurse colleague. Philadelphia Teamsters Local 623 secretary-treasurer Richard Hooker Jr. — the first Black leader in his local's history — describes how his Fearless slate filed election-fraud charges against Teamsters President Sean O'Brien that the Department of Labor received, reviewed, and left unresolved.","tags":["Labor & Unions","Latin America","Immigration","Technology & AI","Policing & Prisons"],"et":"Dan Kovalik sued Coca-Cola over paramilitary violence in Colombia"},{"id":"121716","t":"Project Censored","d":1788282000,"len":"0:59:57","days":11,"cat":"7","sho":"projcen","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260901_130000projcen.mp3","desc":"Flock Safety pushed a software update that silently turned its drones into flying license plate readers — no new contracts, no public notice. Beryl Lipton of the Electronic Frontier Foundation explains how that happened, tracing it back to drone-as-first-responder programs that began in Chula Vista, California in 2018 and now dispatch drones to every call for service, including reports of \"suspicious persons.\" That pattern of expanding surveillance without public accountability carries directly into the second conversation, where Ian Head of the Center for Constitutional Rights' Open Records Project describes filing a FOIA request with ICE in December 2020 and waiting four years for a response.\n\nWhen the Trump administration placed the HHS FOIA office on leave to halt document production in active litigation, multiple judges ruled that agencies cannot evade FOIA by firing their FOIA officers. Host Eleanor Goldfield leads both conversations on *The Project Censored Radio Show*.","tags":["Technology & AI","Policing & Prisons","Immigration","Elections & Government"],"et":"Flock Safety's update turned drones into license plate readers"},{"id":"121714","t":"Community Watch & Comment - Tuesday","d":1788274800,"len":"1:00:06","days":11,"cat":"8","sho":"comcomb","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260901_110000comcomb.mp3","desc":"Richard Pryor walked into Lorton prison, saw a gymnasium packed with roughly 1,000 incarcerated men, and wept. Roach Brown, host of *Crossroads Today*, was there, and he tells it live from Ben's Chili Bowl on this unscheduled open-phone hour, hosted by David Rabin after both booked guests canceled. Pryor went on to arrange for Brown's prison drama group, the Inner Voices, to perform at the Apollo Theater, Sing Sing, and Walpole State Prison.\n\nThe open phone draws callers who press Brown on returning-citizen voting rights in D.C. and Maryland, including the history of Public Law 179, introduced by Arrington Dixon in 1979 or 1980, and a Pennsylvania case where a woman received 53 years under felony murder rules for acting as a lookout. Brown also addresses the unmarked graves found at the Cheltenham boys' school in Maryland and shares the story of a man who had not encountered an automatic-flush toilet or a cellphone in 50 years.","tags":["Policing & Prisons","Black Liberation","Elections & Government","DC & Local"],"et":"Richard Pryor wept at Lorton"},{"id":"121713","t":"Crossroads","d":1788271200,"len":"0:52:52","days":11,"cat":"3","sho":"roachbrown","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260901_100000roachbrown.mp3","desc":"Andrea James told host Roach Brown she refused to run as a Democrat for one reason: \"I need people to focus on issues.\" She argues that the Democratic governor and legislature in Massachusetts have failed Black and working-class communities, and are pushing ahead with a $350 million women's prison built to hold roughly 200 people. James is running for governor of Massachusetts as an independent. She gathered more than 11,000 signatures, clearing the 10,000 required to reach the November general election ballot.\n\nA former attorney who served federal prison time for wire fraud, she went on to found the National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls. She also traced her family's seven generations in Boston, including her grandmother Corinne Alleyne, who broke the color barrier as the city's first Black nurse.","tags":["Policing & Prisons","Elections & Government","Black Liberation","Women & Gender"],"et":"Andrea James refused to run as a Democrat in Massachusetts"},{"id":"121712","t":"Voices With Vision","d":1788267600,"len":"1:00:06","days":11,"cat":"3","sho":"voiceswdiocoop","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260901_090000voiceswdiocoop.mp3","desc":"The August 25, 2026 edition of *Voices with Vision* opens with a recorded commentary by political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal, who spent 28 years on death row in solitary confinement, including eight years in isolation for refusing to cut his hair. From there the program turns to Roger Wareham, a human rights lawyer and December 12th Movement organizer, who spent more than a decade learning from Cuban diplomats how to fight over semicolons and hyphens in UN language. He walks through how that effort secured the 2001 Durban Declaration, which named the transatlantic slave trade a crime against humanity and established that reparations are owed. He details how the U.S. and Israel walked out of that conference, then tracks a March 2026 UN resolution that passed 123–3 — the United States, Israel, and Argentina voting against — and strengthened the declaration further.\n\nThe program closes at Pan-African Community Action's People's Community Health Walk in Hyattsville, where organizers offered free blood pressure screenings, fresh produce from a local farm, hygiene kits, and a session on how to read lab results. Hosts Nephthys Freeman and Brother Craig present the show.","tags":["Black Liberation","Racial Justice","Foreign Policy","Policing & Prisons","Health"],"et":"Mumia Abu-Jamal spent eight years in isolation for his hair"},{"id":"121711","t":"Democracy Now!","d":1788264001,"len":"1:00:05","days":11,"cat":"7","sho":"democragoodman","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260901_080001democragoodman.mp3","desc":null},{"id":"121705","t":"Building Bridges","d":1788217200,"len":"1:00:06","days":10,"cat":"7","sho":"buildingbridges","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260831_190000buildingbridges.mp3","desc":"Kasisi Sadiki opens by explaining why her father Kamau Sadiki keeps being denied parole: he refused to tell authorities where Assata Shakur was hiding. Host Mimi Rosenberg convenes six women with roots in the Young Lords and Black Panther movements for this special edition of *Building Bridges: Women on the Liberation Road*. A recorded clip of Assata Shakur describes the torture of Sekou Odinga — cigarettes extinguished on his body, a beating severe enough that his spleen was removed. From there the conversation turns to *Freedom Ain't Free*, a jazz, poetry, and spoken-word CD originally made as a fundraiser for Odinga.\n\nThe guests range across Young Lords cadre work, COINTELPRO, and Puerto Rico's ongoing displacement crisis before arriving at a question that runs through all of it: who counts as a political prisoner. They make the case for redefining the category to include women like Joanne Little, who acted in self-defense.","tags":["Black Liberation","Racial Justice","Policing & Prisons","Latin America","Spoken Word"],"et":"Kamau Sadiki denied parole for hiding Assata Shakur"},{"id":"121704","t":"Inside Out Collective","d":1788213600,"len":"1:00:06","days":10,"cat":"3","sho":"lmpab","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260831_180000lmpab.mp3","desc":"Rosemary Mealy left her job as a child psychologist in Philadelphia, drove to Chicago, and walked into the blood-soaked rooms where Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were assassinated. That visit ended her career and began something else. This special edition of *Building Bridges*, hosted by Mimi Rosenberg, gathers six women across two generations of Black and Puerto Rican liberation movements. Among them is Olga Robles Toro, who joined the Young Lords at 16 after organizing against the systematic defunding of Bronx schools, and Kasisi Sadiki, who describes arriving at a Georgia prison with her mother and children to visit her father — imprisoned former Black Panther Kamau Sadiki — only to be turned away at the gate. That was the moment she committed to building a campaign for his release.\n\nThe hour is framed as a Black August tribute, calling the names of movement ancestors while pressing the question of what women inside these organizations had to fight for even among their own comrades.","tags":["Black Liberation","Racial Justice","Policing & Prisons","Women & Gender"],"et":"Rosemary Mealy walked into Hampton's blood-soaked rooms"},{"id":"121703","t":"To The East","d":1788210001,"len":"1:00:05","days":10,"cat":"3","sho":"east","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260831_170001east.mp3","desc":"At thirteen, Mumia Abu-Jamal was beaten by white men and a police officer after opposing a George Wallace rally in Philadelphia in 1968. Ambrose Lane Jr., host of *To the East*, traces what followed: Abu-Jamal organizing the Philadelphia chapter of the Black Panther Party as a teenager, building a radio journalism career that put him across from Bob Marley and Alex Haley, and then the 1981 shooting of officer Daniel Faulkner and forty-plus years of appeals that converted his death sentence to life without parole. Assata Shakur appears in a recorded statement explaining why Abu-Jamal's case mattered.\n\nLane's Black history segment covers August 31 through September 6, moving from Gabriel Prosser's 1800 slave revolt in Virginia to the 1885 killing of 28 Chinese workers by white miners in Rock Springs, Wyoming, and the Lincoln Motion Picture Company's 1919 release of *A Man's Duty*, identified as the first feature-length African American film.","tags":["Black Liberation","Racial Justice","Policing & Prisons","History"],"et":"Mumia Abu-Jamal beaten at thirteen before the Wallace rally"},{"id":"121701","t":"To Your Health","d":1788199200,"len":"1:00:06","days":10,"cat":"11","sho":"tohealth","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260831_140000tohealth.mp3","desc":"Bob Dole took to the Senate floor and threatened NPR's funding — and according to Noelle Hanrahan, founder of Prison Radio, that threat is the direct reason prisons banned recording equipment. Hanrahan tells host Katea Stitt how Democracy Now dropped from 26 stations to 13 after it began airing commentaries by Mumia Abu-Jamal.\n\nAbu-Jamal himself then calls in from SCI Mahanoy. His PhD dissertation takes up the transformation between the man who wrote *Black Skin, White Masks* and the man who wrote *The Wretched of the Earth* — two versions of Frantz Fanon — and from there he moves to fear as a tool of empire, the ICE killing of Alex Preddy in Minneapolis, and AI as a mechanism for concentrating wealth among the super-rich. The episode is part of WPFW's Black August special, broadcast Monday, August 31, 2026.","tags":["Black Liberation","Policing & Prisons","Media & Press","Immigration"],"et":"Why prisons banned recording equipment"},{"id":"121700","t":"Equal Portions","d":1788195600,"len":"1:00:06","days":10,"cat":"3","sho":"equalportion","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260831_130000equalportion.mp3","desc":"Felipe Luciano opens with one detail: Denise Oliver-Velez once walked out of a police car after an arrest at the First Spanish Methodist Church. It sets the tone for what he tells host Fahima Sekh about a life that shaped American political history. Luciano — poet, Emmy Award-winning journalist, and co-founder of both the Young Lords and the Last Poets — describes how Oliver-Velez, an African American woman fluent in Puerto Rican political history, became the only woman on the Young Lords' Central Committee. She helped draft what became the Patient's Bill of Rights following the group's takeover of Lincoln Hospital's nurses' residence and illustrated the party's newspaper *Palante*.\n\nThe work didn't stop there. Oliver-Velez co-founded the Black Filmmakers Foundation with her first husband Warrington Hudlin, taught Caribbean diaspora history at SUNY New Paltz, and worked to get people into treatment during the crack epidemic. She was also a founding member and first program director of WPFW. She died July 15th.","tags":["Black Liberation","Racial Justice","Latin America","History","Health"],"et":"Denise Oliver-Velez walked out of a police car"},{"id":"121698","t":"Make It Plain","d":1788188400,"len":"1:00:02","days":10,"cat":"9","sho":"makeitplai","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260831_110000makeitplai.mp3","desc":"Gabriel Prosser's plan was precise: seize the armory, kidnap the governor or James Madison, and trade them for freedom. Lawrence Hamm, chair of the People's Organization for Progress in New Jersey, walks host Joni through that 1800 Virginia rebellion and the execution of roughly 26 of its participants — pardoned posthumously by Tim Kaine centuries later. From there the two move through Black August's bloodier landmarks: the Peekskill riots of August 27 and September 4, 1949, when racist mobs and police coordinating with the Klan attacked concertgoers at Paul Robeson's concerts. Emmett Till's killers confessed in a paid *Life* magazine interview and were acquitted by an all-white jury — which is exactly why the March on Washington was scheduled for August 28th.\n\nHamm connects the ongoing power outage in Gary, Indiana to that city's role hosting the 1972 National Black Political Convention, and the hour closes on Hurricane Katrina's August 29, 2005 anniversary.","tags":["Black Liberation","Racial Justice","History"],"et":"Gabriel Prosser's plan, 1800"},{"id":"121697","t":"Heal DC","d":1788184800,"len":"1:00:04","days":10,"cat":"3","sho":"tohealdc","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260831_100000tohealdc.mp3","desc":"Felipe Luciano — poet, co-founder of The Last Poets, Young Lords activist — says losing Johanna Fernández left him unable to leave his house: \"a sister from another mother.\" This August 31, 2026 episode of *Heal DC*, hosted by Joni, marks Black August with an hour-long tribute to Fernández, the scholar-activist who died at 55 and wrote *The Young Lords: A Radical History*. Luciano credits her as the first to push Puerto Ricans to seriously engage with Mumia Abu-Jamal's case in the 1990s.\n\nPam Africa, chairwoman of the International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal, describes how Fernández organized a packed event for Mumia at Philadelphia's Constitutional Center, and walked into a hospital unannounced to find him during a diabetic crisis. Historian Robyn Spencer-Antoine, who trained alongside Fernández at Columbia in the 1990s, joins Zaid Mohammed of the Malcolm X Commemoration Committee and DC community radio figure Kimon Freeman, who reads aloud a personal inscription Fernández wrote in his copy of her book in May 2021.","tags":["Black Liberation","Racial Justice","Latin America","History","Policing & Prisons"],"et":"Felipe Luciano could not leave his house after losing Fernández"},{"id":"121696","t":"MALVEAUX!","d":1788181201,"len":"1:00:06","days":10,"cat":"3","sho":"malveaux","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260831_090001malveaux.mp3","desc":"Julianne Malveaux hosts two conversations on the last day of Black August. The first is with Dr. Felipe Hinojosa of Baylor University, a close collaborator of the late scholar Johanna Fernández, whose book *The Young Lords* won the major awards of the Organization of American Historians and drew on nearly 100 pages of footnotes and repeated oral-history interviews with movement members. Hinojosa describes how Fernández resisted reducing the Young Lords to \"the brown version of the Black Panther Party\" and how she documented the group's machismo while insisting on the movement's significance in its own right — including the Young Lords' development of a patient bill of rights during their occupation of Lincoln Hospital.\n\nThe second guest, Chrissy Williams, whose great-aunt was a survivor of the 1921 Tulsa massacre, describes finding over 60 bodies at Oaklawn Cemetery, the city's reburial of massacre victims while a white man in a kilt played bagpipes over the remains, and the discovery of Greenwood artifacts stored in boxes next to a trash can in a janitor's closet. Her $1.5 million Mellon Foundation-funded Vernon Witness Experience and Museum is being built in the basement of Historic Vernon AME Church, where handmade nails bent eastward from the force of the bombing still hold the structure up.","tags":["Black Liberation","Racial Justice","Latin America","History"],"et":"Handmade nails bent eastward from the bombing at Vernon AME"},{"id":"121695","t":"Democracy Now!","d":1788177600,"len":"1:00:06","days":10,"cat":"7","sho":"democragoodman","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260831_080000democragoodman.mp3","desc":null},{"id":"121668","t":"News Views","d":1787954401,"len":"1:00:03","days":7,"cat":"2","sho":"nusvus","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260828_180001nusvus.mp3","desc":"Retired Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, who served as Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, tells host Garland Nixon that a recent report found U.S. sanctions have killed 38 million people worldwide since 1972 — half of them women and children. He recalls Madeleine Albright saying on the record that 500,000 Iraqi children's deaths were worth it to remove Saddam Hussein. Wilkerson assesses that the U.S. military has expended most of its conventional munitions, that Iran destroyed American radar and surveillance infrastructure across Bahrain, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Kuwait, and that carriers have been kept 1,000 nautical miles out in the Indian Ocean because Iran's hypervelocity missiles could sink them. Nixon and Wilkerson take up Congress's failure on war powers, the $32 million spent to defeat Tom Massie, and Wilkerson's warning that January 6th was a coup attempt whose organizers have since studied their own mistakes.","tags":["Foreign Policy","Elections & Government","Policing & Prisons"],"et":"Wilkerson says sanctions killed 38 million people since 1972"},{"id":"121667","t":"Darker Than Blue","d":1787950800,"len":"1:00:03","days":7,"cat":"3","sho":"darkethanblue","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260828_170000darkethanblue.mp3","desc":"In Louisiana, the same day Union troops withdrew, white residents burned freedmen's schoolhouses to the ground. That detail comes from W.E.B. Du Bois's *Black Reconstruction in America, 1860–1880*, and host Jacqueline Luqman reads aloud at length from it — specifically the chapter \"Founding the Public School\" — in response to listeners who challenged his previous show's argument that American opposition to tax-funded social programs is rooted in racial hatred. The evidence Du Bois marshals keeps accumulating: four young men in Adams County, Mississippi conspired to murder a Black school's teacher; in North Carolina, two women teachers were told by a county sheriff they would not be allowed to leave their steamer; North Carolina collected $136,076 for education in 1870 and delivered only $38,931 to the Department of Education.\n\nLuqman also foregrounds Du Bois's conclusion that \"the state public school system was formed mainly by Negro Reconstruction governments\" — a history Du Bois argues was systematically suppressed by white historians.","tags":["Black Liberation","Racial Justice","Education","History"],"et":"Louisiana burned freedmen's schoolhouses the day troops withdrew"},{"id":"121665","t":"Resistance Radio with John and Regan","d":1787940000,"len":"1:00:03","days":7,"cat":"7","sho":"letstalknativa","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260828_140000letstalknativa.mp3","desc":"John Kane says Deb Haaland wasn't a Native Interior Secretary — she was an American one. On Resistance Radio with John and Regan, Friday, August 28, 2026, Kane makes that case for four candidates: Peggy Flanagan running for Minnesota Senate, Mary Peltola for Alaska Senate, Sharice Davids for Kansas House, and Haaland now running for New Mexico governor. He argues Haaland stood aside while New York Governor Kathy Hochul froze the Seneca Nation's bank accounts, forcing the Nation to pay nearly $600 million — most of it flowing to Buffalo Bills owner Terry Pegula for a new stadium — and that her promised reforms to the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act never materialized before she left office. Kane then turns to the Seneca Nation's own tribal elections, where outgoing president J.C. Seneca is proposing to split an escrow account built from slot revenue: keep half, keep paying the other half to the state in pursuit of mobile gaming rights. Kane's position is that the arrangement is legally unnecessary and financially indefensible in a nation where 30% of the population lives below the poverty line.","tags":["Elections & Government","Economic Justice","History"],"et":"Haaland stood aside while Hochul froze Seneca bank accounts"},{"id":"121664","t":"Latino Media Collective","d":1787936400,"len":"1:00:03","days":7,"cat":"3","sho":"latinomedia","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260828_130000latinomedia.mp3","desc":"Lorenzo Salgado Araujo's son Ronaldo told a press conference his father ran from two unmarked cars because he thought someone was stealing his work tools — not to evade ICE. Had the agents shown any law enforcement emblem, Ronaldo said, \"he would have complied.\" Host Oscar Fernandez of the Latino Media Collective spent the hour on the July 2025 ICE shooting deaths of Araujo in Houston's Magnolia Park neighborhood and Juan Sebastian Durán Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine. Guests Egberto Willis, host of a Houston Pacifica program, and freelance writer Arturo Dominguez walked through video evidence they say contradicts the official account given by U.S. Attorney Aaron Reitz, then described protests and competing responses from the Houston mayor and Harris County DA. Journalist Laura Jadid, heard in a clip, described receiving a tentative ICE job offer — including a final position as a deportation officer — without completing a background check or signing a domestic violence waiver. The ex-wife of David Briette, the ICE agent identified in the Maine shooting, said in audio that Briette asked her to lie about his character and that she had witnessed abuse directed at both her and their daughter.","tags":["Immigration","Policing & Prisons","Latin America"],"et":"Ronaldo said his father ran to protect his work tools"},{"id":"121662","t":"Community Watch & Comment - Friday / The Local Station Board Show (Last Frid","d":1787929200,"len":"1:00:03","days":7,"cat":"8","sho":"comcomfri","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260828_110000comcomfri.mp3","desc":"Dr. Ron Daniels called in live from the National Mall on the anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington — standing, he said, where he had also stood as a young activist 63 years earlier. He was there for a new march organized by the National Action Group with Al Sharpton, and reported buses arriving from Houston, New York, and elsewhere. A councilman-at-large made a pitch for DC statehood, and Black Women Wins drew a strong response from the crowd.\n\nHost Ryan Pinchback and co-host Chipp Jones then opened the phones. An 86-year-old who had been present at the 1963 march called in, as did a listener who argued the current march suffered from poor publicity. Another caller invoked Lenin's *Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder* to challenge what he called a purist streak in today's left that dismisses voting and elections.","tags":["Black Liberation","Racial Justice","Elections & Government","DC & Local","History"],"et":"Ron Daniels called live from the National Mall"},{"id":"121660","t":"#Climate Friday","d":1787922000,"len":"1:00:03","days":7,"cat":"7","sho":"thinkclimafrida","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260828_090000thinkclimafrida.mp3","desc":"Heather McTeer Toney tells host Brittany Bell-Serrat that petrochemical pollution is \"if not already, the number one driver of increased emissions.\" Toney — former mayor of Greenville, Mississippi, former EPA Region 4 Administrator, and now Executive Director of Beyond Petrochemicals — describes how her organization works in Louisiana, Texas, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia by following communities that identify themselves as overburdened, rather than \"parachuting in.\" She was serving as mayor during Hurricane Katrina and watched displaced residents arrive in Greenville, and that experience shapes her argument that race and economic inequality cannot be separated from climate response.\n\nThe conversation moves through Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, the HBCU Climate Change Consortium, and Black churches as entry points for broadening climate organizing. Toney also addresses the deaths of Nolan Wells and Tayshia Fortune and, as the mother of two Black sons, the need to break \"the repetition of the behavior\".","tags":["Climate & Environment","Black Liberation","Racial Justice","Economic Justice"],"et":"Heather McTeer Toney on petrochemicals as the top emissions driver"},{"id":"121659","t":"Democracy Now!","d":1787918400,"len":"0:54:12","days":7,"cat":"7","sho":"democragoodman","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260828_080000democragoodman.mp3","desc":null},{"id":"121653","t":"#UMustLearn","d":1787868000,"len":"1:00:03","days":6,"cat":"3","sho":"umustlearn","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260827_180000umustlearn.mp3","desc":"Toussaint L'Ouverture was lured to a meeting under a false promise of safety, captured, and left to die — and a lieutenant \"a little over 20\" finished the revolution and declared Haitian independence in 1804. Dr. Daryl Howard opens *#YouMustLearn* with that account before welcoming Baba Ayize and Dr. Azoma Miller, a professor of African American Studies at Ohio University, to discuss a Black August webinar they are co-hosting through the Asen of Kemet, an African-centered fraternity founded at Morehouse as an alternative to the Divine Nine. The two argue that George Jackson, Assata Shakur, and Fred Hampton are largely absent from mainstream education. Ongoing efforts to remove exhibits about George Washington enslaving Africans at his Philadelphia house, they contend, make erasure active, not passive.\n\nThat conversation about what gets left out gives way to a look at what Words, Beats & Life is building on the ground. Mwiza Munthali, executive director of the nearly 25-year-old hip-hop nonprofit, describes their upcoming Game Day — a free intergenerational event built around chess, checkers, dominoes, Uno, spades, mahjong, and video games. This summer was the first since 2020 when young people in their programs told staff they had made friends with kids from other neighborhoods they had never met.","tags":["Black Liberation","History","Education","Caribbean","Youth"],"et":"Toussaint betrayed, and who finished the revolution"},{"id":"121652","t":"Unionism Drives Community","d":1787864400,"len":"1:00:03","days":6,"cat":"3","sho":"unionismdrivescommunit","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260827_170000unionismdrivescommunit.mp3","desc":"Ryan Marshall, organizer and Joint Apprenticeship Training Committee member of Ironworkers Local 5, opens with a striking promise: members who work thirty years can retire on a pension that pays more than their working wage, plus an annuity that may reach $1 million. The union's four-year apprenticeship requires only seventh-grade math and no high school diploma. Marshall's own credits include the Frederick Douglass Bridge, the Wharf, and the upcoming Commander Stadium. He also describes a federal Department of Labor investigation into a job site where non-union ironworkers were misclassified as independent contractors — a problem he says affects 23 percent of construction workers in Washington, D.C.\n\nHost Renee Bowser closes with news from a different front: an arbitrator ruled in favor of Washington Post opinion journalist Karen Attia, finding she did not commit gross misconduct and rejecting the Post's attempt to hold her responsible for threats made against her by outside actors.","tags":["Labor & Unions","DC & Local","Economic Justice"],"et":"The pension that pays more than the job"},{"id":"121650","t":"Short Money: Dissecting Racial Capitalism","d":1787853600,"len":"1:00:06","days":6,"cat":"3","sho":"shortmoneydissectiracialcapitali","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260827_140000shortmoneydissectiracialcapitali.mp3","desc":"When Olinka Greene and Geechee Yaw gave a Juneteenth talk at Jefferson City Correctional Center in Missouri, they spoke about the 1878 Great Fireburn of St. Croix — the uprising in which women burned down plantations while chanting \"more fire.\" The phrase spread through the prison population so fast that administrators held a formal meeting, banned inmates from saying or writing it, and barred both speakers from returning. The two had arrived to find over 100 inmates who'd decorated the gymnasium with a hand-drawn Black historical timeline stretching from ancient Egypt to the present, including a freehand poster-board map of all the continents drawn by one of the prisoners. The prison's NAACP chapter, Greene and Yaw said, was more politically radical than most chapters outside prison walls.\n\nIn the days after the event, the wing most prone to daily fights stopped fighting. Host Jon Jeter, a former Washington Post foreign correspondent and author of *Flatbroke and the Free Market*, draws out these details across the hour.","tags":["Black Liberation","Racial Justice","Policing & Prisons","Caribbean","History"],"et":"More fire\" banned after Juneteenth talk at Jefferson City"},{"id":"121649","t":"The Labor Heritage Power Hour","d":1787850000,"len":"0:59:14","days":6,"cat":"3","sho":"dcpolitebarras","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260827_130000dcpolitebarras.mp3","desc":"David Sherba's factory in Brunswick, Ohio, has built between 4,000 and 5,000 Scabby the Rats since the first one was made on May 4, 1992. Host Chris Garlock visits Inflatable Images to hear how the process shifted from hand-airbrushing — three or four days per rat — to digital printing and computer patterning.\n\nCarmen Rodriguez interviews historian Eladio Bobadilla about his book *Dangerous Migration*, which documents how the UFW under Cesar Chavez turned undocumented workers over to the Border Patrol and ran its own border enforcement operation. Bobadilla connects the fear-based narratives used against immigrants today to a pattern reaching back to Benjamin Franklin's warnings about Germans. Rounding out the hour, labor arts news briefs cover the Boston Symphony Orchestra's unanimous vote to authorize its first strike in 145 years, a unionization drive in the newsroom of the Illinois Daily Herald, and a tentative agreement that narrowly averted a strike by SEIU members at the Cleveland Public Library.","tags":["Labor & Unions","Immigration","History","Arts & Literature"],"et":"Where Scabby the Rat is made"},{"id":"121647","t":"Code Pink Radio","d":1787842800,"len":"1:00:04","days":6,"cat":"9","sho":"codepinkwomepeac","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260827_110000codepinkwomepeac.mp3","desc":"Flávio Bolsonaro announced his presidential candidacy standing next to Netanyahu in Israel — while his father Jair remains under house arrest. Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Code Pink and just back from Brazil, reports on that scene and explains how Lula's Bolsa Família program now reaches roughly 1 in 4 Brazilian families. The conversation turns from Brazil to Gaza, where Code Pink Palestine campaigner Janine brings birth-rate data: 57,000 births in 2022, dropping to 38,000 in 2024, then falling another 67% across a six-month span. Those figures anchor a new petition pressing the Center for Reproductive Rights to address Israel's impact on Palestinian women.\n\nHost Marcie Winograd and Benjamin also take up Section 1217 of the NDAA, the Flock camera surveillance backlash spreading across roughly 57 municipalities, and a quiz identifying which think tanks are tied to the U.S.-Israel lobby.","tags":["Palestine","Latin America","Women & Gender","Policing & Prisons"],"et":"Flávio Bolsonaro declared candidacy next to Netanyahu in Israel"},{"id":"121646","t":"The Collision: Sports and Politics","d":1787839201,"len":"1:00:02","days":6,"cat":"3","sho":"collision","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260827_100001collision.mp3","desc":"Chuck Modiano calls Caitlin Clark not just not the WNBA MVP — not even a top-10 player. Her league-record rookie turnovers, a 3-point percentage ranking 32nd despite the third-most attempts, and a stat her supporters cite — \"points created\" — that appears nowhere among basketballreference.com's 94 statistics. August 27 marks ten years since Colin Kaepernick knelt, and Modiano traces that protest back through the back-to-back killings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile. He connects Len Bias's 1986 overdose to the Drug Abuse Act, the crack possession mandatory minimums it introduced, and the crack-powder cocaine sentencing disparity that followed. Callers push into athlete economic power — one citing Junior Bridgeman's $1.4 billion estate built on fast-food franchises after his Milwaukee Bucks career — and into Kaepernick's Know Your Rights organization financing over 150 private autopsies for families seeking transparency in police-related deaths.","tags":["Sports","Black Liberation","Policing & Prisons","Racial Justice"],"et":"Caitlin Clark not a top-10 player, Modiano argues"},{"id":"121645","t":"On The Margin","d":1787835600,"len":"1:00:06","days":6,"cat":"3","sho":"empamon","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260827_090000empamon.mp3","desc":"Véronique Tadjo traveled to Rwanda in 1998 with eleven other African writers on a project called \"Rwanda: Writing as a Duty to Memory.\" The trip took four years to arrange because the Rwandan government had to be persuaded to accept the group. What shook her most wasn't the scale of the genocide but how ordinary the survivors looked — people she might have known at home. E. Ethelbert Miller also asks about her novel *In the Company of Men*, in which the Ebola virus speaks as its own character. Tadjo argues that deforestation and illegal gold mining are pushing animals closer to human settlements, fueling outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of Congo.\n\nThe conversation reaches back further too. *Lord of the Dance*, her 1988 book, started when she heard a hymn at a London wedding and decided to retell it with a Senufo mask as the central figure.","tags":["Africa","Arts & Literature","Health","Climate & Environment"],"et":"Véronique Tadjo traveled to Rwanda with eleven other African writers"},{"id":"121644","t":"Democracy Now!","d":1787832000,"len":"1:00:06","days":6,"cat":"7","sho":"democragoodman","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260827_080000democragoodman.mp3","desc":null},{"id":"121638","t":"Konbit Lakay","d":1787785200,"len":"0:58:29","days":5,"cat":"3","sho":"konbitlsdayiti","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260826_190000konbitlsdayiti.mp3","desc":"Caroline, a communal representative for the second section of Banga, told interviewer Woody Sanon she personally counted at least 46 bodies after the August 23rd massacre in Kenscoff, Haiti — a figure that excluded victims who died outside homes or went missing. She also told Sanon that local officials had warned police inspector Cadet that Kenscoff was at serious risk before the attack, yet no preventive action was taken. At a recent *Haiti on Our Mind* event at Sankofa, Pan-Africanist writer Jean-Séville Jafrik Afrika argued that the 1779 Battle of Savannah sent African captives — including a 12-year-old Henri Christophe — as cannon fodder, and drew a direct line from that history to Kenyan and Rwandan troops currently deployed to Haiti under UN mandate.\n\nThe programme's news segments move from that context to developments closer to the present: Haiti's under-14 boys soccer team winning the 2026 CFU Challenge Series in Punta Cana; businessman Dimitri Vob's release after more than 300 days in immigration detention; a federal judge's invalidation of the Trump administration's visa ban affecting 75 countries, including Haiti; and ICE's arrest of 1,328 people across Maryland and Virginia in the first two weeks of August. Eugenia Charles hosts.","tags":["Caribbean","Black Liberation","Immigration","Policing & Prisons"],"et":"Banga's representative on the August 23rd killings"},{"id":"121637","t":"New World Order","d":1787781600,"len":"1:00:03","days":5,"cat":"3","sho":"newworldorder","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260826_180000newworldorder.mp3","desc":"Washington DC poet Janari performed \"Overly Good\" live — a firsthand account of being stopped by undercover officers, transported to jail, and sitting in a cell where another detainee begged for water and said he couldn't breathe. Janari then unpacked the difference between \"respected safety\" and enforced safety, drawing on a spider he watched dismantle its own web to recycle materials and build a stronger one by morning. The Pentagon has confirmed the National Guard deployment in DC runs through Inauguration Day 2029. Valentine, a middle school cohort lead with the Black Swan Academy, described how the organization runs school-based campaigns: one cohort targeting the lack of menstrual products at an all-girls school, another challenging a school lunch vendor shared with DC prisons. Youth who testified before DC Council this year named both the National Guard deployment and a youth curfew as their central concerns.","tags":["Policing & Prisons","Youth","DC & Local","Spoken Word"],"et":"Janari stopped by undercover officers, performed it live"},{"id":"121636","t":"All Eyes on DC","d":1787778000,"len":"1:00:03","days":5,"cat":"3","sho":"alleyeondc","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260826_170000alleyeondc.mp3","desc":"When Dr. LaJoy Johnson-Law's daughter A'Bria — born at 23 weeks and one pound six ounces — lost her special education services, Johnson-Law filed a complaint with OSSE and eventually testified before the D.C. Council. That path brought her to her current seat as Ward 8's representative on the D.C. State Board of Education, and she joins host Brother Sam P.K. Collins to explain why she pushed the Board to pass a resolution on real ID access for students. With National Guard, FBI, and other federal law enforcement visible near Ward 8 schools, high schoolers who look older need documentation beyond a school ID. She also breaks down why chronic absenteeism data misleads: lumping excused and unexcused absences together without asking why students are missing school distorts the picture.\n\nThe conversation closes on a more encouraging note. D.C. schools have posted a fourth consecutive year of CAPE standardized test score gains, with double-digit math increases at Savoy Elementary and Gar-Field Elementary.","tags":["DC & Local","Education","Disability","Policing & Prisons"],"et":"A'Bria's lost services led her mother to the state board"},{"id":"121634","t":"Shay Wah Nana","d":1787767200,"len":"1:00:03","days":5,"cat":"3","sho":"shoofee","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260826_140000shoofee.mp3","desc":"Sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln have tried to go overboard after more than 200 days at sea without a single port call. On *The Resistance Report*, Jon Elmer tracks day 1,049 of Israel's genocide in Gaza alongside the widening U.S.-Iran war. Iran's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz has cut tanker traffic from 140 ships per day to a fraction of that, and the American Enterprise Institute puts the cost of rebuilding damaged U.S. bases in the region at more than $5 billion. At least 45 MQ-9 Reaper drones have been shot down, the production line has been halted for more than two years, and the U.S. Air Force is now below 50% drone capacity.\n\nHezbollah has released previously unseen FPV drone strike footage from the battle around Beaufort Castle. The Pacifica Headlines segment reports on the Israeli military's raid on the UNRWA Qalandiya Training Center in occupied East Jerusalem.","tags":["Palestine","Foreign Policy","Veterans"],"et":"USS Abraham Lincoln sailors went overboard after 200 days"},{"id":"121633","t":"AfricaNow!","d":1787763600,"len":"1:00:03","days":5,"cat":"3","sho":"africanunthali","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260826_130000africanunthali.mp3","desc":"Professor Gaye McDougall walked into the December 2022 Geneva launch of the UN Permanent Forum on People of African Descent and found the same room she had first entered decades earlier — when she was the only person from the African diaspora present — now holding 600 to 700 people of African descent from around the world. In this archival conversation on AfricaNow!, hosted by Mwiza Munthali, McDougall explains how George Floyd's murder supplied the final push to get the Forum \"across the goal line\" after Western countries had spent years dragging their feet.\n\nMcDougall brought rare standing to that fight: six years as the first UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues, a seat on the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, and a hand in shaping the 2001 Durban Conference. She breaks down the Forum's ten-member composition and its unsettled position between the General Assembly and the Human Rights Council, and she calls its founding resolution \"a blank piece of paper\" — one that leaves members to define their own power on reparations and beyond.","tags":["Black Liberation","Racial Justice","Foreign Policy","Africa"],"et":"Gaye McDougall on the Forum's blank piece of paper"},{"id":"121631","t":"TBD","d":1787756401,"len":"1:00:03","days":5,"cat":"3","sho":"nea","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260826_110001nea.mp3","desc":"At a White House press conference, Ethel L. Payne demanded that President Eisenhower support desegregating interstate travel — and the next day her question was front-page news across the country. Payne was a Chicago Defender journalist whose Montgomery bus boycott coverage included an early observation that civil rights leadership was shifting to men of the cloth, yet she was writing for a Black press white Americans didn't know existed. Biographer James McGrath Morris, author of *Eye on the Struggle*, describes finding her papers in unopened boxes.\n\nThe hour also features what the program identifies as the first interview with Rosa Parks after her 1955 arrest, recorded in 1956. Parks describes paying her fare at the front of the bus, walking around to the rear in the rain, being convicted, and watching the boycott take hold after word spread by telephone and a single newspaper article. Produced by Askia Muhammad for *From the Vault*.","tags":["Black Liberation","Racial Justice","History","Media & Press"],"et":"Ethel Payne demanded Eisenhower desegregate interstate travel"},{"id":"121630","t":"Wake Up, Stay Woke","d":1787752800,"len":"1:00:03","days":5,"cat":"3","sho":"wakeupstaywoke","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260826_100000wakeupstaywoke.mp3","desc":"Louis Romaine returned from Cuba in May with a delegation organized by Dr. Ron Daniels and the Institute of the Black World — a group that sat down with elected officials, everyday Cubans, and the Cuban president. He traces U.S. hostility toward the island back to the 1854 Ostend Manifesto, in which American diplomats secretly urged President Pierce to seize Cuba by force, fearing it would become an independent Black republic like Haiti. A July 20th State Department report labeling Black internationalism a form of foreign subversion, Romaine argues, runs on the same fear of Black self-determination.\n\nWashington, D.C. spoken word artist and boxer Azaira the Poet describes serving 18 months at Clarksburg Correctional Facility as a teenager, taking up boxing after surviving domestic violence, and performing at Howard University for Children's Mental Health Awareness Day. She performs two poems, including \"Trap or Die,\" which moves through gentrification, absent fathers, and postpartum struggles. Host Dr. Ife Williams leads the conversation throughout on Wake Up and Stay Woke.","tags":["Black Liberation","Foreign Policy","Caribbean","Policing & Prisons","Spoken Word"],"et":"A delegation returns from Cuba"},{"id":"121629","t":"What's At Stake","d":1787749200,"len":"1:00:03","days":5,"cat":"3","sho":"whatstake","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260826_090000whatstake.mp3","desc":"Baltimore is sitting on $32 million designated for the city's African community, and the commission deciding how to distribute it includes Dr. Ray Wimbush, a psychologist and reparations scholar who joins this conversation on *What's at Stake*. Host Denise Young is joined by Wimbush, Dr. Denise Wright, and Dayvon Love, director of public policy for Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle, to mark the 25th anniversary of the 2001 Durban Conference — where 18,000 people gathered and the U.S. and Israel walked out. A March 2026 UN General Assembly resolution, led by Ghana's president, declared the transatlantic slave trade the gravest crime against humanity ever committed. Only the U.S., Argentina, and Israel voted against it.\n\nLove details a strategy of taxing university endowments above $2 billion to fund reparations, alongside a planned 2027 Maryland bill that would bar the state from doing business with Sinclair Broadcasting. He also explains why pressuring Congressman Jamie Raskin to move H.R. 40 out of the House Judiciary Committee could force Hakeem Jeffries into a public position on reparations.","tags":["Black Liberation","Racial Justice","Economic Justice","History"],"et":"Baltimore's $32 million waiting for the African community"},{"id":"121628","t":"Democracy Now!","d":1787745600,"len":"1:00:03","days":5,"cat":"7","sho":"democragoodman","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260826_080000democragoodman.mp3","desc":null},{"id":"121622","t":"Liberation on Our Minds","d":1787698800,"len":"1:00:06","days":4,"cat":"3","sho":"liberaonourminds","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260825_190000liberaonourminds.mp3","desc":"We keep us safe\" became a live practice, not just a slogan, at Black Lives Matter Plaza during the George Floyd uprising — where free food, water, street medics, and midnight yoga ran alongside protests. Frankie Sebron and co-host Chuck Moty trace the phrase from that moment to the current federal occupation of DC. Sebron left DC classrooms in 2021 after a decade teaching in public, charter, and Washington County schools, concluding she was \"playing triage\" while kids arrived with needs rooted in systemic failures.\n\nThe episode moves through the organizations that have built mutual aid and accountability infrastructure since then. The DC Safety Squad built filmpolicedc.org to document an alphabet soup of agencies. Court Watch trained at least 500 people to observe arraignments. The Informed Juror Project monitored a carceral system whose lockup lists hit 125 names in a single day. Moty brings something more personal to the conversation: he was kettled with 60 others at a Delaney Hall protest in New Jersey, and plastic handcuffs left his right hand numb for nearly three months. He uses that experience to reason through what indefinite ICE detention does to a person psychologically. The debut episode of *We Keep Us Safe*, part of WPFW's Liberation on My Mind series, aired August 25, 2026.","tags":["Mutual Aid","Policing & Prisons","Immigration","DC & Local"],"et":"Sebron left DC classrooms playing triage for kids"},{"id":"121621","t":"Full Spectrum","d":1787695200,"len":"1:00:06","days":4,"cat":"3","sho":"fullspectru","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260825_180000fullspectru.mp3","desc":"The Amazon River is audible in the background as Anthony Rogers-Wright reports live from COP30 in Belém, Brazil — where the UN and Brazilian government denied Afro-descendants standalone constituency status within the UNFCCC, and more than 1,600 oil and gas lobbyists were on the grounds. From there, David Cobb makes the case that the Democratic Party's move to put South Carolina first in the 2028 presidential primary forces candidates to build real relationships with Black, Latino, Arab American, and Indigenous grassroots organizers rather than route around them through traditional gatekeepers.\n\nThe Black Alliance for Peace's push to shift the movement's framing from environmental justice to environmental liberation runs through the same terrain. So does the Battle of Blair Mountain, which surfaces as a model of multiracial labor solidarity, and the proliferation of data centers, examined as an organizing issue pulling together communities across racial and political lines.","tags":["Climate & Environment","Black Liberation","Labor & Unions","Elections & Government","Technology & AI"],"et":"Afro-descendants denied constituency status at COP30 in Belém"},{"id":"121620","t":"Black Agenda Radio","d":1787691601,"len":"0:59:56","days":4,"cat":"7","sho":"blackagendareportradio","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260825_170001blackagendareportradio.mp3","desc":"Seven detentions in a single Friday. That is what Guerline Joseph, founder and executive director of the Haitian Bridge Alliance, reported after the Supreme Court upheld the end of Temporary Protected Status for Haitians on June 25th — followed by 600 calls to the Alliance's hotline in two weeks. Residents in Springfield, Ohio are receiving letters offering a choice between deportation and an ankle monitor. Joseph identifies Senate Bill S.4814 as the only remaining legislative remedy and notes that 80 percent of affected Haitians work in healthcare.\n\nBlack Agenda Report host Margaret Kimberley turns from that crisis to Gerald Pereira, chairperson of the Organization for the Victory of the People in Guyana, who traces how the U.S.-led Shield of the Americas coalition has resulted in fishing boats being bombed in the Caribbean, killing two brothers from Trinidad. Pereira also details how the U.S. Defense Department has purchased a bauxite mine in Guyana and pressured the government to expel Cuba's medical brigade, whose doctors had been treating patients in remote jungle communities where no local physicians would go.","tags":["Immigration","Caribbean","Foreign Policy","Black Liberation"],"et":"Seven detentions in one Friday, Guerline Joseph reported"},{"id":"121619","t":"Something to Say","d":1787684400,"len":"1:59:55","days":4,"cat":"3","sho":"somethisay","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260825_150000somethisay.mp3","desc":"Nathan Richardson has spent 14 years voicing Frederick Douglass for the National Park Service at Cedar Hill in Anacostia — and on *Something to Say* (WPFW 89.3 FM), he delivers a sustained passage from Douglass's 1852 \"What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?\" address live on air. Richardson tells host Patrick Washington he first recognized Douglass as a spoken word poet by hearing \"the iambic pentameter leap off the page.\" The first hour also features Avery Drummer (stage name Sienna B. Faroozi), who reads from her poetry collection *Blue Manitarian* and from her essay in *Triumph in the Trenches Volume 3*, a survival guide for Black professionals, where she writes about being undiagnosed and neurodivergent while attending Spelman. Co-host Mazi Mutafa takes the second hour, speaking with the Cooperative Opportunity Project's Gary about CommunityCon, scheduled for September 19 in Bowie, Maryland. Lydia Curtis of Siddiqui Educational Safari describes a recent trip that brought five D.C. youth to Cartagena and Medellín to meet with the Afro-Colombian Rosa Parks Foundation, and she is now recruiting a cast for a 15-minute street theater piece about union-busting dancers, to be performed October 24 in Columbia Heights.","tags":["Spoken Word","Black Liberation","DC & Local","Arts & Literature"],"et":"Nathan Richardson voicing Douglass at Cedar Hill for 14 years"},{"id":"121618","t":"Capitalism, Race & Democracy","d":1787680800,"len":"1:00:03","days":4,"cat":"7","sho":"covidraceampdemocr","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260825_140000covidraceampdemocr.mp3","desc":"Mike Viaggianti, President of ILWU Local 10, stood outside a Contra Costa County courthouse as ten picketers from the C&H Sugar Refinery strike faced charges inside. He told *Capitalism, Race, and Democracy* host Thomas O'Rourke that sheriff's deputies attacked workers \"from behind\" as they were leaving the facility. Filmmaker and activist Boots Riley, who attended the same hearing, argues the strike matters because workers were visibly keeping scabs out — making the mechanics of class power legible to people who have never seen a real strike. Then Dr. Robin Cooper, chair of the Teamsters National Black Caucus, describes a convention in New Orleans where microphones were cut off to prevent the meeting from starting. A male-dominated board attempted to remove her from her seat. Members' five-year-old demands for financial transparency kept getting scheduled for Saturday night — when, she says, most attendees have already left.","tags":["Labor & Unions","Racial Justice","Black Liberation"],"et":"Viaggianti says deputies attacked C&H strikers from behind"},{"id":"121617","t":"Project Censored","d":1787677200,"len":"1:00:03","days":4,"cat":"7","sho":"projcen","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260825_130000projcen.mp3","desc":"Abby Martin and Mike Preisner got inside weapons contractor conferences and boarded a RIMPAC warship in the Pacific to make *Earth's Greatest Enemy*, a grassroots-funded documentary identifying the Pentagon as the world's largest polluter. Martin, co-winner of the 18th annual Izzy Award, tells hosts Mickey Huff and Eleanor Goldfield that corporate media won't touch the story because it requires questioning the premise of U.S. military force.\n\nThat reluctance has a long history. Media scholar Victor Pickard, C. Edwin Baker Professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication, traces how the U.S. handed public airwaves to CBS and NBC in the early 1930s and stripped the Fairness Doctrine in 1987. The U.S. now spends $1.59 per capita on public media — a figure Pickard says has effectively dropped to zero after recent federal cuts. He also flags the Nexstar-Tegna merger, which FCC chair Brendan Carr is greenlighting despite a 39% ownership cap, as an instance of the current administration not changing media law but ignoring it.","tags":["Climate & Environment","Foreign Policy","Media & Press","Elections & Government"],"et":"Abby Martin boarded a RIMPAC warship to film Pentagon pollution"},{"id":"121615","t":"Community Watch & Comment - Tuesday","d":1787670000,"len":"1:00:03","days":4,"cat":"8","sho":"comcomb","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260825_110000comcomb.mp3","desc":"Khari Garvin, former Biden administration Head Start director, calls the Trump administration's proposed rewrite of the program's performance standards \"a carcass\" — a document shrunk from 122 pages to roughly a dozen. Garvin details what disappears: infant-to-teacher ratios rising from 1-to-4 to as high as 1-to-11 in some states, health and dental screenings made optional, pay parity requirements removed, and English-only instruction mandated. National Head Start Association Deputy Director Tommy Sheridan notes the public comment period runs until October 6th. Host David Rabin then turns to Lindsay Kashgarian, Program Director at the Institute for Policy Studies, whose organization's blueprint *Forging a Democracy That Works for All* documents that the United States' 977 billionaires now hold over $9 trillion in wealth — a 32% increase in a single year. Kashgarian's proposals include an annual federal wealth tax on fortunes above $50 million, taxing investment income at least at the same rate as wages, and cutting the Pentagon budget in half — moves she says would, in year one alone, erase all medical debt and all private student loan debt in the country.","tags":["Education","Health","Economic Justice","Elections & Government"],"et":"Head Start under the Trump administration"},{"id":"121614","t":"Crossroads","d":1787666400,"len":"1:00:03","days":4,"cat":"3","sho":"roachbrown","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260825_100000roachbrown.mp3","desc":"Marlo Hargrove built Baltimore's FACE Program — Freedom Advocates Celebrating Ex-Offenders — over 26 years without a single grant, charging residents roughly half what comparable programs charge. He conceived the model while serving six months in a treatment program, after cycling in and out of trouble from age 13 to 30, having lost both parents before he was a teenager. He tells host Roach Brown that he recently named one of his houses after a deceased mutual friend, and describes how the program connects residents with employment, food banks, and wraparound services.\n\nThe conversation opens out from there. A live call from a public defender in Prince George's County brings a specific case into the room: her client lost custody of her children while incarcerated and, as a result, cannot access family housing programs.","tags":["Policing & Prisons","Mutual Aid","Housing"],"et":"Marlo Hargrove built Baltimore's FACE Program without a single grant"},{"id":"121613","t":"Voices With Vision","d":1787662800,"len":"1:00:03","days":4,"cat":"3","sho":"voiceswdiocoop","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260825_090000voiceswdiocoop.mp3","desc":"Mumia Abu-Jamal, recording from prison, describes spending 28 years on death row in solitary confinement, then 8 additional years in \"the hole\" for refusing to cut his hair, and watching men smear themselves with feces and howl for hours. Hosts Nefre Freeman and Brother Craig present his commentary as the closing installment of their station's Black August series.\n\nHuman rights lawyer Roger Wareham of the December 12th Movement explains how his organization spent more than a decade learning parliamentary tactics from Cuban diplomats to lobby the United Nations — work that produced the 2001 Durban Declaration, the first international document to name the transatlantic slave trade a crime against humanity and affirm that reparations are owed. A March 2026 UN resolution strengthened that language, passing 123 to 3, with the United States, Israel, and Argentina casting the only dissenting votes. The episode closes with voices from Pan-African Community Action's People's Community Health Walk, which ran from Anacostia Park to the RISE Demonstration Center and offered blood pressure screenings, produce from a Hyattsville farm, hygiene kits, and a presentation on reading lab results.","tags":["Black Liberation","Policing & Prisons","Racial Justice","Health","Foreign Policy"],"et":"Mumia Abu-Jamal spent 28 years on death row"},{"id":"121612","t":"Democracy Now!","d":1787659200,"len":"1:00:03","days":4,"cat":"7","sho":"democragoodman","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260825_080000democragoodman.mp3","desc":null},{"id":"121606","t":"Building Bridges","d":1787612400,"len":"1:00:03","days":3,"cat":"7","sho":"buildingbridges","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260824_190000buildingbridges.mp3","desc":"Abdul Akalimat — Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, also known as Gerald McWorther — opens with a pointed self-criticism: \"we've become our own audience.\" Black Studies, he argues, has delinked from the Black community and failed to standardize its curriculum. James Counts Early, who spent 32 years at the Smithsonian including as Assistant Secretary for Education and Public Service, joins him in pressing the point further. The current attacks on Black Studies, DEI, and affirmative action are not, in their reading, isolated culture-war skirmishes but a coordinated effort to dismantle liberal capitalist democracy itself.\n\nEarly traces that project to what Marco Rubio called Europe's interrupted \"civilizing mission,\" and draws on Du Bois's 1953 revision of his own race thesis to insist that race and class must be read together. Any Black liberation politics disconnected from broader working-class struggle is, in Akalimat's word, \"fantasy.\" Host Mimi Rosenberg presses both guests on what a genuine multiracial democracy would require — and it is that question that pulls the conversation back, finally, to where Akalimat began.","tags":["Black Liberation","Racial Justice","Education","Economic Justice"],"et":"Akalimat says Black Studies has delinked from the community"},{"id":"121605","t":"Inside Out Collective","d":1787608800,"len":"1:00:03","days":3,"cat":"3","sho":"lmpab","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260824_180000lmpab.mp3","desc":"Marsha P. Johnson remembered \"I Heard It Through the Grapevine\" playing on the jukebox at Stonewall the night the riots began. Host Cory Bae (Sweet Cory Bae) builds that recollection into the centerpiece of this installment of Suge's Line Radio, drawing on Tourmaline's book about Johnson's life to frame the Stonewall uprising as days of resistance by gender-marginalized people subjected to laws requiring clothing that matched their assigned gender at birth. Johnson — queer activist, costume designer, and co-founder of Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR) — appears on the cover of Earth, Wind & Fire's *Touch the World*, which is why the show opens with two singles from that album.\n\nFrom there, Bae covers the origins of Black Music Month, signed into law by President Jimmy Carter, and recent accounts of police aggression at Pride celebrations in Sherelle Parker's Philadelphia.","tags":["LGBTQ","Black Liberation","Soul & R&B","History"],"et":"Marsha P. Johnson heard the jukebox at Stonewall"},{"id":"121604","t":"To The East","d":1787605201,"len":"1:00:03","days":3,"cat":"3","sho":"east","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260824_170001east.mp3","desc":"White people did not exist on planet Earth until 1681.\" That's the claim Dr. Jacqueline Battalora makes in a lecture host Ambrose Lane Jr. plays on this episode of To The East, tracing the word \"white\" to Maryland and Virginia colonial anti-miscegenation laws. The 1664 Maryland statute accidentally encouraged the interracial marriages it meant to stop; the corrected 1681 law is where \"white\" first enters colonial statute. A Black history segment covers the week of August 24th, from Edith Sampson's 1950 appointment as the first African American U.N. representative to the 1983 March on Washington. Valerie Watts, editor of HWRE Lifestyle Magazine, then discusses her October 23rd national livestream symposium at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, focused on the Black church's role in economic empowerment, property ownership, and political power.","tags":["Black Liberation","History","Economic Justice","Faith & Spirituality"],"et":"Dr. Battalora traced \"white\" to the 1681 Maryland law"},{"id":"121602","t":"To Your Health","d":1787594401,"len":"1:00:03","days":3,"cat":"11","sho":"tohealth","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260824_140001tohealth.mp3","desc":"Elderly residents of Harvard Towers — near 16th and Harvard — had barely left their apartments. Dr. Theodore Watkins, a surgeon turned holistic-medicine practitioner, got them walking to the National Zoo through his \"Walk for Life\" program. On this episode of *To Your Health*, he explains the mechanics in clinical terms: the soleus and gastrocnemius act as a sump pump returning blood to the heart, walking triggers nitric oxide that relaxes arterial walls, and the glucose transporter GLUT4 clears blood sugar without insulin. Watkins argues that pathway points toward reversing diabetes and early-stage Alzheimer's, not merely managing them. Callers press him on neuropathy, hypoglycemia, and a brain parasite linked to a public official. He also cites research showing that breast, colorectal, and prostate cancer survivors who walk regularly can see a 30 to 40 percent reduction in cancer-specific and all-cause mortality.","tags":["Health","Elders & Aging","DC & Local"],"et":"The physiology of walking"},{"id":"121601","t":"Equal Portions","d":1787590800,"len":"1:00:04","days":3,"cat":"3","sho":"equalportion","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260824_130000equalportion.mp3","desc":"Virginia stocked the Potomac, York, James, and Rappahannock rivers with blue catfish in the early 1970s, betting the fish wouldn't survive the Chesapeake Bay's brackish water. That miscalculation produced an estimated 100 million catfish by 2011, with the population still growing. Host Stacia LaMira draws on clips from Straight Arrow News and the Virginia Farm Bureau, where watermen and researchers describe a canceled trophy striped bass season, a 75% yield loss when processing catfish, and dock prices too low to cover costs. Maryland's responses include a 2019 Blue Catfish Initiative Purchasing Program and chef symposiums, and one school-lunch item — a blue catfish sandwich called the \"catty patty,\" named to evoke SpongeBob's Krabby Patty — that students say tastes similar to crab cakes.\n\nA \"Doctor's Orders\" segment covers a 2024 study finding that marigold petal tea produced a 51% reduction in body-weight gain in a rat model, with anti-obesity activity the researchers compared to the drug orlistat. The programme closes with a \"Story of Food\" segment tracing white potato pie — a custard dessert with colonial English roots tied to surplus potato harvests — most associated with Maryland's Eastern Shore, where a lemon-slice version is called a Maryland Sunrise.","tags":["Food & Agriculture","Health","DC & Local"],"et":"Virginia stocked the Potomac with blue catfish and lost control"},{"id":"121599","t":"Make It Plain","d":1787583600,"len":"1:00:06","days":3,"cat":"9","sho":"makeitplai","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260824_110000makeitplai.mp3","desc":"Senator John Tyler Morgan — a former Klansman — described Black suffrage as a load to be rid of \"by burning down the barn to kill the rats.\" DC historian C.R. Gibbs cites Morgan's role in stripping the vote from every DC resident after the Civil War, then traces Josephine Butler's leadership of the DC Statehood Party from 1977 through the 1990s. Walter Fauntroy's statehood bill cleared the House District Committee but never reached the floor. Eleanor Holmes Norton's 1993 bill lost 277 to 153. DC Statehood Party candidate Kamau Freeman adds that Butler's organizing directly stopped a planned expressway through the Brookland neighborhood.\n\nWPFW morning host Brother Jamil will debut a one-man play about his life at the Billie Holiday Theater in Bedford-Stuyvesant on August 29th and 30th.","tags":["DC & Local","Elections & Government","History","Black Liberation"],"et":"How D.C. residents lost the vote"},{"id":"121598","t":"Heal DC","d":1787580000,"len":"1:00:06","days":3,"cat":"3","sho":"tohealdc","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260824_100000tohealdc.mp3","desc":"Josephine Dorothy Butler's school bus was stoned, and her father lost his job for supporting Black children's education. She grew up to co-found the D.C. Statehood Party in 1971 — a history historian C.R. Gibbs brought to host Joni on *Heal DC*. Butler came from a Prince George's County family of tobacco sharecroppers and went on to organize laundry workers, government cafeteria employees, and Veterans Administration workers before being \"disinvited\" from that last job for being too active. Her statehood strategy, as Gibbs traced it, meant traveling state to state on the logic that ratification would require winning over state legislatures. She and fellow Statehood Party founders Julius Hobson and Hilda Mason argued the 1973 Home Rule Act left Congress with veto power over the city's budget, control of its courts, and the ability to tax non-resident workers — what some dismissed as \"home fool\" rather than home rule.\n\nThe episode draws on clips from the Free DC Mixtape and places the broadcast within Black August, noting the 1949 Peekskill riot in which Paul Robeson was burned in effigy ahead of a concert.","tags":["DC & Local","Black Liberation","History","Elections & Government"],"et":"Butler's school bus was stoned for Black education"},{"id":"121597","t":"MALVEAUX!","d":1787576401,"len":"0:59:51","days":3,"cat":"3","sho":"malveaux","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260824_090001malveaux.mp3","desc":"An AI resume-screening bot was up to two-thirds more likely to accept a résumé written on ChatGPT than one written on a rival platform like Gemini or Claude — machine \"homophily,\" Howard Ross and Jake Ross tell Julianne Malveaux, that mirrors the human impulse to hire people like oneself. The pair join MALVEAUX! to discuss the second edition of *Everyday Bias*, which they co-authored. A Zillow algorithm underestimated home values in predominantly Black neighborhoods by training on data shaped by redlining. Cambridge scholar Jason Arday's suicide followed a targeted plagiarism search that combed his work at a scale rarely applied to white male academics — and when the same technology was turned on one critic's wife's dissertation, it found plagiarism there too.\n\nThe conversation also covers the outgroup homogeneity effect in political discourse, the Facebook \"like\" button replacing self-worth with dopamine-driven validation, and what Howard Ross calls the shift from a parent-child power structure to working as peers with his son.","tags":["Technology & AI","Racial Justice","Education","Black Liberation"],"et":"ChatGPT résumés accepted two-thirds more than rival platforms"},{"id":"121596","t":"Democracy Now!","d":1787572800,"len":"1:00:03","days":3,"cat":"7","sho":"democragoodman","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260824_080000democragoodman.mp3","desc":null},{"id":"121569","t":"News Views","d":1787349600,"len":"1:00:03","days":0,"cat":"2","sho":"nusvus","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260821_180000nusvus.mp3","desc":"Garland Nixon says the food shortage on the USS Abraham Lincoln isn't Pentagon incompetence — Iran destroyed the warehouses storing those supplies at the U.S. naval base in Bahrain, and blaming logistics is a way of refusing to say the U.S. lost the war. Callers from Germany, Maryland, and Baltimore push the conversation into military recruitment and the $4 trillion cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Nixon reads from a 2007 Reuters article on Citgo, the Venezuelan state-owned oil company that supplied heating oil at 40 percent below market price to poor Americans in 23 states before the program ended. He also invokes Jimmy Carter's line that the United States is \"the most warlike nation in the history of the world\" and takes up Israel's reported construction of an execution facility for Palestinians.","tags":["Foreign Policy","Palestine","Economic Justice","Veterans"],"et":"Iran destroyed the warehouses at the Bahrain naval base"},{"id":"121568","t":"Darker Than Blue","d":1787346000,"len":"1:00:03","days":0,"cat":"3","sho":"darkethanblue","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260821_170000darkethanblue.mp3","desc":"Jacqueline Luqman opens *Darker Than Blue* with a pointed challenge: military spending and tax cuts are funded the same way socialist programs are — through government revenue. China's state-owned enterprises returned 574 billion yuan to the government in 2025, a 12-fold increase over a decade, with central SOEs contributing an average of 29.7% of profits. Cuba allocated nearly 100 billion pesos in 2026 to subsidize electricity, medicine, and public transport, under a decades-long U.S. blockade. The academic study *Slavery, Reconstruction, and Bureaucratic Capability in the American South* grounds Luqman's argument that post-Reconstruction white elites built cross-class coalitions to gut tax collection specifically to keep government funds from reaching formerly enslaved people. That racial history, she argues, is the root of \"taxation is theft\" politics still debated today. The episode closes by stacking what Americans pay privately for healthcare, childcare, and college against what a higher income tax rate would replace.","tags":["Black Liberation","Racial Justice","Economic Justice","History"],"et":"China's SOEs returned 574 billion yuan to the government"},{"id":"121566","t":"Resistance Radio with John and Regan","d":1787335200,"len":"1:00:03","days":0,"cat":"7","sho":"letstalknativa","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260821_140000letstalknativa.mp3","desc":"At a county fair in California, John Kane couldn't buy a funnel cake with cash. That detail anchors a longer argument on *Resistance Radio* tracing surveillance from flock cameras debated on the Cattaraugus Territory of the Seneca Nation — where Kane is broadcasting — through RFID chips in enhanced tribal IDs built to satisfy the Department of Homeland Security's Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative. Kane turns to language next, contending that \"sovereignty\" describes governmental power over people and land rather than freedom. The 1924 declaration of Native American citizenship, he argues, was imposed without consent — a point he ties to his film *The Long Hope*.\n\nThe broadcast also covers the Navy's internal discussions about renaming the USS Doris Miller, a carrier under construction honoring the first African American to receive the Navy Cross, under President Trump.","tags":["Technology & AI","Immigration","Black Liberation","History"],"et":"John Kane couldn't buy a funnel cake with cash"},{"id":"121565","t":"Latino Media Collective","d":1787331600,"len":"1:00:03","days":0,"cat":"3","sho":"latinomedia","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260821_130000latinomedia.mp3","desc":"Keiko Fujimori won Peru's presidency by fewer than 50,000 ballots — 50.13% — and Javier Puente, chair and associate professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at Smith College, joins Latino Media Collective host Oscar Fernandez to explain what that razor margin inherits. Puente, author of the NACLA article \"The Return of Fujimorismo,\" traces the ground her father prepared: the 1992 self-coup, the overnight price shocks of Fujishock, and states of emergency that kept Ayacucho under suspended constitutional rights for the entire internal conflict. Keiko then converted three presidential losses into a congressional majority that toppled successive presidents. Puente defines terruqueo — branding leftists, indigenous activists, human rights defenders, and LGBTQ people as Sendero Luminoso sympathizers — as the mechanism that keeps organized opposition off balance. The conversation examines why the grassroots No a Keiko movement, despite blocking her three times, has not built the kind of opposition suited to confronting Fujimorismo in power rather than on the campaign trail.","tags":["Latin America","Elections & Government","Foreign Policy","Media & Press"],"et":"Keiko Fujimori won Peru by fewer than 50,000 ballots"},{"id":"121563","t":"Community Watch & Comment - Friday / The Local Station Board Show (Last Frid","d":1787324400,"len":"1:00:04","days":0,"cat":"8","sho":"comcomfri","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260821_110000comcomfri.mp3","desc":"Police pulled children as young as 6 from an SUV at gunpoint because a Flock camera matched the wrong plate — the alert was tied to a motorcycle from another jurisdiction. The family won nearly $2 million in that lawsuit, and that case anchors Friday's open-phones hour on *Community Watch and Comment* with hosts Brian Pinchback and Chipp Jones. A 45-year-old Black caller invokes James Baldwin to make the point that Flock cameras are simply a newcomer's introduction to what Black drivers have faced their entire lives without any technological pretext.\n\nThe money follows. Silicon Valley venture capitalists have put over a billion dollars into lobbying for these AI-assisted license plate surveillance systems now being installed in communities nationwide, and callers push on what that spending could mean if directed at healthcare or other public needs instead.","tags":["Policing & Prisons","Black Liberation","Technology & AI","Racial Justice"],"et":"Flock camera pulled 6-year-olds from an SUV at gunpoint"},{"id":"121561","t":"#Climate Friday","d":1787317200,"len":"1:00:03","days":0,"cat":"7","sho":"thinkclimafrida","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260821_090000thinkclimafrida.mp3","desc":"A city racial equity assessment found that young people with one police contact are 121 times more likely to have a repeated negative interaction — and that number anchors this conversation on Washington, D.C.'s \"teen takeover\" media narrative. Host Rev Yearwood speaks with Yasmin Salina, co-founder of the Hustlers Guild and sixth-generation Washingtonian building school-to-career pipelines through sports and entertainment, and Nicole Newman, executive director of Critical Exposure. Salina puts the math plainly: it costs over $35,000 a year to incarcerate someone, yet organizations serving hundreds of youth are routinely handed that same figure in grants.\n\nNewman's organization, Critical Exposure, has worked with D.C. youth on campaigns ranging from school facilities funding to mental health resources. The young people themselves are pushing back on the curfew and calling for free transportation, family-sized housing, and year-round workforce development programs modeled on the Summer Youth Employment Program.","tags":["DC & Local","Youth","Policing & Prisons","Racial Justice"],"et":"One police contact makes youth 121 times more likely"},{"id":"121560","t":"Democracy Now!","d":1787313601,"len":"1:00:03","days":0,"cat":"7","sho":"democragoodman","mp3":"https://archive.wpfwfm.org/mp3/wpfw_260821_080001democragoodman.mp3","desc":null}]}