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Africa World Now ProjectADIFF DC Aug. 2, 2024 on Latino Media Collective @ WPFWADIFF DC Aug. 2, 2024 on Latino Media Collective @ WPFW ADIFF DC 2024 film NEGRITA is featured on WPFW'S Latino Media Collective. Guests include Magdalena Albizu the director and producer of NEGRITA and Eddie Bailey producer and editor of NEGRITA and CEO of the Savoy Media Group. NEGRITA is a documentary about the Afro-Latina identity and experience in the United States. In their own words, empowered, self-affirming educated Afro-Latinas, located around the United States, share their experiences of living with a changing, often contested identity in a racialized society and how it affects their personal and professional lives. Originally broadcast on WPFW 89.3FM...
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Africa World Now ProjectADIFF DC Aug. 1, 2024 on #UMustLearn @ WPFWADIFF DC Aug. 1, 2024 on #UMustLearn @ WPFW ADIFF DC 2024 film ONE PERSON, ONE VOTE? is featured on WPFW'S We The People guest Maximina Juson the director of ONE PERSON, ONE VOTE? ONE PERSON, ONE VOTE?--Throughout American history, the Electoral College has dramatically impacted American politics and society, particularly with respect to vote erasure of the minority party vote. Featuring commentary by scholars Dr. Jelani Cobb, Dr. Carol Anderson, and Dr. Paul Finkelman, cameo performances by Kelly McCreary, Boise Holmes, Tyee Tilghman, Veralyn Jones, Peter Jerrod Macon and stunning animation by Pierre Bennu. Originally broadcast on WPFW 89.3FM, Washington, DC. Tune...
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Africa World Now ProjectADIFF DC Jul. 31, 2024 on We The People @ WPFWADIFF DC Jul. 31, 2024 on We The People @ WPFW ADIFF DC 2024 film THE WALL STREET BOY, KIPKEMBOI is featured on WPFW'S We The People. Guests include Charles Uwagbai the director of THE WALL STREET BOY, KIPKEMBOI and Diarah N'Dow Spech Co-Founder and Co-Director of African Diaspora International Film Festival. THE WALL STREET BOY, KIPKEMBOI--With his life in jeopardy and jail almost a certainty, one question remains, how could a farm boy bring down the global financial system and how far is the international world order willing to go to silence his story? The Wall Street Boy, Kipkemboi tells the story of...
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Africa World Now ProjectADIFF DC Jul. 30, 2024 on Voices with Vision @ WPFWADIFF DC Jul. 30, 2024 on Voices with Vision @ WPFW ADIFF DC 2024 film CLAUDE MCKAY: HARLEM TO MARSEILLE is featured on WPFW'S Voices with Vision. Guests include Matthieu Verdeil the director of CLAUDE MCKAY: HARLEM TO MARSEILLE and Diarah N'Dow Spech Co-Founder and Co-Director of African Diaspora International Film Festival. CLAUDE MCKAY: HARLEM TO MARSEILLE--Rebellious figure of the Harlem Renaissance, precursor of literature and of the black cause, this unclassifiable author wandered for more than 10 years in Europe, frequenting the artistic and political avant-gardes. Originally broadcast on WPFW 89.3FM, Washington, DC. Tune into Voices with Vision live on WPFW 89.3 FM in the...
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Monday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - May 20A look at some of the best work this year from the WPFW News Department, including the threat of weaponized artificial intelligence. Plus, what teachers can and cannot say in the classroom about race. All that and more!
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Monday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - January 24Today on the show: In the COVID wars, teachers and nurses are concerned about staffing levels and their workplaces. Poet Sonia Sanchez and the birth of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s. The case for voting rights protection did not begin, nor did it end, with the Senate vote last week -- so we celebrate Fannie Lou Hamer. All that, and more!
2022-01-2453 minMonday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - January 17Today on the show: A Christian pastor warns Christian white nationalism is tearing the nation at its seams. On this holiday celebrating his birth, we remember the radical voice of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. We check the radical history of the great March on Washington. All that, and more!
2022-01-1855 minMonday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - January 10Today on the show: On top of COVID, anxiety, stress and grief among children. The faith community on the “watch” for freedom. The untold stories of enslaved Native Americans. How data privacy can be a weapon against extremism. And a Soul Music treasure found in a D.C. basement. All that, and more!
2022-01-1156 minMonday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - January 3Today on the show: We take a Monday-Morning look at the January 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection as that anniversary approaches this week. A freshman Congress-member’s lament about some of her colleagues who supported the insurrectionists. A new Black internet portal has picked a fight with the industry’s giants. Original words and song from D.C.’s Gala Hispanic Theater. And the Texas immigration system is rife with civil rights violations against arrestees. All that, and more!
2022-01-0359 minMonday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - Year-In-ReviewToday on the show: Criminal charges against Donald Trump? Living with nature, for better health. 2021 was a breakthrough year for reparations. Remembering the “Blood of Emmett Till.” And a conversation with our future? We chat with Monday Morning QB’s young reporters. All that, and more!
2021-12-2759 minMonday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - December 20Today on the show: A salute to revolutionary Black author bell hooks. Would you believe? Yet another lawsuit against the Black-led D.C. Metropolitan Police Department brought by Black women. Hundreds forcefully evicted from homeless encampments just in time for winter. The Biden administration’s asylum policy is looking more and more like the Trump administration asylum policy that preceded it. And can diplomacy be revived with Iran? All that, and more!
2021-12-2057 minMonday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - December 13Today on the show: There’s a huge undercount of Black joblessness, and that’s a problem. Meanwhile, millions of people walked off their jobs this year. A “shadow” immigration system in Europe. And remembering the poet laureate of Hip-Hop and a civil rights icon. All that, and more!
2021-12-1357 minMonday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - December 6Today on the show: The infrastructure legislation and its impact. Quietly Latin America is removing its shackles imposed by the U.S. Pandemic-panic pushed gun sales. And what do folks on the street want from the Biden administration, this holiday season? All that, and more!
2021-12-0656 minMonday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - November 29Today on the show: It took two months to arrest them, but only hours of deliberation for a jury to convict the killers of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia. A poet reminds us that brutality against Black people happens a lot Down South. In South Africa, where their own scientists first discovered the Omicron Variant of COVID19, people complain of punishment instead of praise for their quick scientific discovery. And it’s hard to tell the punitive Biden immigration policy from the punitive, old Trump policy. All that, and more!
2021-11-2958 minMonday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - November 22Today on the show: Kyle Rittenhouse, the new American folk hero. Fewer protections of voter rights today than in the 1960s. Book-banning is spreading all over the country. All that, and more!
2021-11-2258 minMonday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - November 8Today on the show: Vaccine apartheid affects much of the world. The political showdown continues in Sudan. Life without parole challenged in a Pennsylvania court. In a Washington, DC court, Black female police officers with 200 years combined service sue the District for discrimination. And indigenous voices on climate change. All that, and more!
2021-11-0856 minMonday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - November 1Today on the show: Yet another water crisis, in yet another mostly Black Michigan town. We’ve learned there’s a whole lot we haven’t yet learned about the insurrection on January 6th. A fight to reclaim a slave burial ground wins a court victory in Bethesda. All that, and more!
2021-11-0159 minMonday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - October 25Today on the show: Avoiding the consequences of the “debt bomb." A retired Black Army colonel now advocates non-violent conflict resolution. A New Mexico town works to address crime nonviolently. And more and more White extremists fear they will be replaced. All that, and more!
2021-10-2557 minMonday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - October 18Today on the show: A new book from Chris Hedges; Black theater with Robert Hooks; revisiting the Critical Race Theory debate; and an archive piece navigating the uses of humor in politics. All that, and more!
2021-10-1859 minMonday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - September 27Today on the show: COVID, robots, and job displacement. The indelible impact of the 10-year-old Occupy movement. The Latino struggle takes center stage -- it's Hispanic Heritage Month. 60 years since the student surge in Civil Rights leadership. And remembering Melvin and Melvin. All that, and more!
2021-09-2759 minMonday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - September 20Today on the show: A virtual, rather than a celebratory Congressional Black Caucus anniversary last week. Disabled voters in Texas sue to block new voting restrictions. D.C. residents react to police violence. Grassroots efforts to restore unemployment benefits. And the pleasant intersection of baseball and poetry. All that, and more!
2021-09-2059 minMonday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - September 13Today on the show: The largest Confederate statue in the country has come down. Federal unemployment benefits have come down. Disasters caused by those supposed to be delivering aid? And a huge, worldwide anti-racism conference which 9/11 made us all but forget. All that, and more!
2021-09-1359 minMonday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - August 30Today on the show: Afghan evacuations continue as the deadline approaches with more attacks and deaths outside the Kabul airport safe perimeter. The suffering in Haiti, a massive earthquake, a deadly tropical storm: will relief efforts be effective? The Blood of Emmett Till, recalling yesterday’s 66th anniversary of that gruesome murder. All that, and more!
2021-08-301h 00Monday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - August 23Today on the show: The Supreme Court reinstates the Trump-era policy expelling asylum seekers on the Southern border. How to react to the new refugee crisis caused by the fall of the Afghan government. A record number, more than 93,00 drug overdoses last year and Black people are suffering disproportionately. Climate warming means “code red for humanity.” And 58 years after the great March on Washington, why are civil rights groups planning to march again this weekend? All that, and more!
2021-08-2359 minMonday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - August 16Today on the show: Civil rights marches for voting rights and black colleges. One West Virginia community blames drug manufacturers for the opioid crisis. The work of prisoners is abused during the pandemic... But the work of our very own young broadcasters is something to take notice of and appreciate. All that, and more!
2021-08-1655 minMonday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - August 9Today on the show: If you thought Republican voter suppression and gerrymandering was bad, sit down, it’s worse than that. The U.S. and China discuss climate diplomacy. A select committee meets to hear about income disparities. All that, and more!
2021-08-1053 minMonday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - August 2Today on the show: The expiration of the pandemic eviction ban means many, many more people will be made homeless. Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, the “Axis of Decolonization” in the West. Terrible losses of life in Indian boarding schools. Balancing our hours on the job. All that, and more!
2021-08-0252 minMonday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - July 26Today on the show: A Congressional Select Committee will look at the January 6th attack starting tomorrow. Despite a COVID surge, the Olympic Games are underway in Tokyo. Don’t get giddy about talk of a global tax to catch wealthy tax cheaters. Workers are being exposed to greater and greater extreme heat on the job. And rich guys are cooling their heels out in space. All that, and more!
2021-07-2656 minMonday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - July 19Today on the show: Democrats from the Texas state legislature vow to camp in Washington to defeat voter suppression legislation back home. A look at the blood spilling in South Africa from an inside perspective. And we look at the political crisis in Haiti. All that, and more!
2021-07-1959 minMonday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - July 12Today on the show: It’s Moral Monday, and non-violent direct action from the Poor People’s Campaign begins today. The evidence mounts -- children are being mistreated in border detention facilities. Should its racial impact be known, before a law is enacted? The Supreme Court does damage to voting rights. And after “an act of Congress” to provide COVID relief for struggling Black farmers, White farmers have blocked them in court. All that, and more!
2021-07-1259 minMonday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - June 28Today on the show: The U.S. Cuban embargo condemned in the United Nations, 184-2. The Child Tax Credit may lift millions of children out of poverty. Voting rights groups urge corporations to cut their ties with ALEC--the American Legislative Exchange Council. All that, and more!
2021-06-2859 minMonday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - June 21Today on the show: Hot enough for you? There’s new evidence that not everyone feels heat the same way. Young men and women in Southeast DC are finding a new route to prosperity--the construction trades. And racial discrimination even in temporary hiring. All that, and more!
2021-06-2158 minMonday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - June 14Joe Biden and the G-7 summit. Cops legally lie to suspects during interrogation. The Pentagon doesn’t tell the true story about the number of civilians it kills in global conflicts. Plus, reparations for past racial oppression, and a fight to teach the truth about race. All that, and more!
2021-06-1459 minMonday Morning QBFriday Evening Fireside - Ep 15Welcome to Friday Evening Fireside, a long-form version of Monday Morning QB. Today's edition features three extended interview cuts: WPFW News Director Askia Muhammad with scholar and activist Phyllis Bennis on Benjamin Netanyahu's political future; reporter Chris Bangert-Drowns with urban policy expert Yonah Freemark on Biden administration plans to shrink the racial wealth gap; and reporter Amara Evering with Shelbi Day, Chief Policy Officer at Family Equality, on LGBTQ rights and religious freedoms at the Supreme Court.
2021-06-131h 05Monday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - June 7Today on the show: The Supreme Court takes up LGBTQ+ rights and family equality. Closing the racial wealth gap. Israel’s prime minister Netanyahu may be following the Trump playbook on handling defeat. New COVID 19 hate crimes legislation. Plus, a local expansion among the national labor organizing revival. All that, and more!
2021-06-0756 minMonday Morning QBFriday Evening Fireside - Ep 14Welcome to Friday Evening Fireside, a long-form version of Monday Morning QB. Today's edition features two extended interview cuts: WPFW News Director Askia Muhammad with scholar and activist Phyllis Bennis on how Israel benefits from conflict in Gaza; and reporter Amara Evering with Dr. Michael Coyle on the concept of carceral logic -- in our politics and in our personal lives.
2021-05-2946 minMonday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - May 24Today on the show: Another ceasefire holds after another bloody shooting war in Gaza. Workers, once seen as expendable, now seen as essential, are still struggling for dignity. As the one year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis cop approaches police forces wrestle with the responsibility of cops to intervene to stop bad conduct. And is detention the only way to deal with migrant children at the border? All that, and more!
2021-05-2449 minMonday Morning QBFriday Evening Fireside - Ep 13Welcome to Friday Evening Fireside, a long-form version of Monday Morning QB. Today's edition features three extended interview cuts: reporter Amara Evering with Dr. Kerith Conron on a wave of anti-trans state legislation; reporter Chris Bangert-Drowns with economist Elise Gould on disappointing jobs numbers; and WPFW News Director Askia Muhammad with civil rights attorney Jim Freeman on how racism enriches America’s wealthiest.
2021-05-221h 04Monday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - May 17Today on the show: The Nakba, the day 73 years ago which Palestinians remember as "the catastrophe." The greatest terrorism threat in this country is now posed by white extremists. Efforts to dismantle the pandemic safety net after one disappointing jobs report. And this has been a record year for anti-transgender legislation. All that, and more!
2021-05-1751 minMonday Morning QBFriday Evening Fireside - Ep 12Welcome to Friday Evening Fireside, a long-form version of Monday Morning QB. Today's edition features three extended interview cuts: WPFW News Director Askia Muhammad with tenants rights leader Paulette Matthews on displacement from DC's Barry Farm community; reporter Chris Bangert-Drowns with reporter Alexia Fernandez Campbell on labor rights enforcement problems; and reporter Amara Evering with historian Dr. Samuel Redman on the academic abuse of remains from the 1985 MOVE bombing.
2021-05-151h 06Monday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - May 10Today on the show: Residents of D.C.’s Barry Farm public housing project resist an effort to write them out of the zoning commission’s plans. How to teach school children about systemic racism in the face of a conservative backlash. The shock of mistreatment of the bones of Black children from Philadelphia’s MOVE organization. And we remember a departed colleague. All that, and more!
2021-05-1052 minMonday Morning QBFriday Evening Fireside - Ep 11Welcome to Friday Evening Fireside, a long-form version of Monday Morning QB. Today's edition features three extended interview cuts: reporter Chris Bangert-Downs with activist Pauline Muchina on vaccine access at the WTO; WPFW News Director Askia Muhammad with foreign policy expert Dr. Diana Ohlbaum on President Biden's bloated military budget; and reporter Amara Evering with lawyer and scholar Rebecca Epstein on the adultification of Black girls.
2021-05-0857 minMonday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - May 3Today on the show: Bloated Pentagon spending is racist as well as wasteful. Counting prison inmates in the census where they are incarcerated. The adultification of Black girls who are yet children. And can the World Trade Organization free covid vaccines from U.S. strangulation? All that, and more!
2021-05-0356 minMonday Morning QBFriday Evening Fireside - Ep 10Welcome to Friday Evening Fireside, a long-form version of Monday Morning QB. Today's edition features three extended interview cuts: reporter Amara Evering with Columbus-based organizer Kiara Yakita on the killing of Ma'Khia Bryant; WPFW News Director Askia Muhammad with T.R.I.G.G.E.R. Project CEO Tia Bell on preventing neighborhood violence; and reporter Chris Bangert-Drowns with journalist Harold Meyerson on the historic shift by the United Mine Workers to support a transition to a green economy.
2021-05-0153 minMonday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - April 26Today on the show: Legislators declaring civilian open season on protestors. Violence interrupters call for peace in the streets. Reaction to Derek Chauvin’s conviction in the murder of George Floyd. And tension boils over again when Ma’Khia Bryant is killed by a cop. All that, and more!
2021-04-2659 minMonday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - April 19Today on the show: Ethical police and equitable policing. The showdown over a union at Amazon. A Congressional victory for supporters of reparations. Is there racial bias in facial recognition technology? And an exit from the Afghanistan quagmire? All that, and more!
2021-04-1956 minMonday Morning QBFriday Evening Fireside - Ep 9Welcome to Friday Evening Fireside, a long-form version of Monday Morning QB. Today's edition features three extended interview cuts: reporter Chris Bangert-Drowns with genocide survivor Claude Gatebuke on Rwanda’s long crisis of political repression; and WPFW News Director Askia Muhammad with two conversations: one with musician and WPFW programmer Rusty Hassan on the virtues of live jazz, and another with the Rev. Dr. William Barber on ending the Senate filibuster.
2021-04-191h 12Monday Morning QBMMQB Bonus - BoycottsLast week, News Director Askia Muhammad talked with Imani Countess: Director of the U.S. Africa Bridge Building Project, and a leader of the movement to boycott apartheid South Africa. Their conversation focused on the calls for boycotts against Georgia-based companies, after state Republicans passed a bill restricting the vote.
2021-04-1421 minMonday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - April 12Today on the show: Voter ID laws, the filibuster, and the illusion of democracy. We’re still haunted by genocide. A fond remembrance of a much loved educator and labor leader. And April is Jazz Appreciation Month as well as National Poetry Month, so we celebrate Jazzoetry. All that, and more!
2021-04-1259 minMonday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - April 5Today on the show: Extremism in the military ranks. Boycotts can be a tool to bring about social change. Coronavirus restrictions are easing, and mass shootings are ticking back up. The first ban on the use of solitary confinement. Strong organizing can overcome attempts at voter suppression. And far-right extremism is a problem in the military ranks. All that, and more!
2021-04-0559 minMonday Morning QBFriday Evening Fireside - Ep 8Welcome to Friday Evening Fireside, a long-form version of Monday Morning QB. Today's edition features three extended interview cuts: reporter Amara Evering with Aunna Dennis, Executive Director of Common Cause Georgia, on a wave of voter suppression bills; reporter Chris Bangert-Drowns with economist Sarah Anderson on inequality and policy tools to fix it; and WPFW News Director Askia Muhammad with civil rights activist Becky Monroe on hate crimes.
2021-04-031h 07Monday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - March 29Today on the show: In-your-face voter suppression in Georgia. Fighting back against hate crimes. Wealth tax and pay inequality. And the successful fight to eliminate the death penalty in Virginia. All that, and more!
2021-03-2959 minMonday Morning QBFriday Evening Fireside - Ep 7Welcome to Friday Evening Fireside, a long-form version of Monday Morning QB. Today's edition features three extended interview cuts. Reporter Amara Evering talks with Navajo Nation Poet Laureate Dr. Laura Tohe on the significance of confirming the US’s first Native cabinet secretary. WPFW News Director and Monday Morning QB Host Askia Muhammad discusses decades of discrimination against Black farmers with former USDA employee and labor leader Lawrence Lucas; and a novel reparations plan with Evanston Alderman Robin Rue Simmons.
2021-03-271h 03Monday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - March 22Today on the show: Trump’s Supreme Court could rewrite our legal future. A small town takes a big step toward reparative justice for Black residents. Black farmers will get paid in the Biden pandemic relief package, but don’t celebrate too soon. A campaign urges a national moratorium on utility shut-offs during the pandemic. And the first Native American Interior Secretary will now oversee this country’s trail of broken treaties. All that, and more!
2021-03-2259 minMonday Morning QBFriday Evening Fireside - Ep 6Welcome to Friday Evening Fireside, a long-form version of Monday Morning QB. Today's edition features two extended interview cuts: reporter Amara Evering with activist, writer, and media strategist Raquel Willis about the exclusion of trans women from mainstream feminist discourse; and reporter Chris Bangert-Drowns with Africa expert Temi Ibirogba about the economics of kidnappings in Nigeria and the broader question of closing civic space on the continent.
2021-03-201h 01Monday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - March 15Today on the show: Women’s History Month features! Kidnapping and education in Nigeria. Women command in the military and police forces. Legislation affecting trans-gender women. And women cheerleaders, working hard for little pay. All that, and more!
2021-03-1559 minMonday Morning QBFriday Evening Fireside - Ep 5Welcome to Friday Evening Fireside, a long-form version of Monday Morning QB. Today's edition features two extended interview cuts: reporter Amara Evering with immigration lawyer Linda Brandmiller on Biden's child migrant policy; and reporter Chris Bangert-Drowns with former Solidcore fitness trainers and labor organizers Rachel Hornstein and Emily Collinson on building a union during the pandemic.
2021-03-0854 minMonday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - March 1Today on the show: QAnon conspiracists are awaiting yet another Trump reach for the presidency, on March 4th. The detention of migrant children continues. COVID-19 is spreading rapidly among prisons in this country. Fitness trainers are organizing in the District. And happy birthday, WPFW. All that, and more!
2021-03-0146 minMonday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - February 22Today on the show: Deep in the heart of Texas. Anti-Asian violence in the wake of COVID. Holding Donald J. Trump liable for his many misdeeds. Eliminating immunity for bad cops. And reparations for the descendants of enslaved Africans is one step closer. All that, and more!
2021-02-2251 minMonday Morning QBFriday Evening Fireside - Ep 4Welcome to Friday Evening Fireside, a long-form version of Monday Morning QB. Today's edition features three extended interview cuts: reporter Amara Evering with Haitian Bridge Alliance Executive Director Guerline Jozef on Biden immigration policy; News Director Askia Muhammad with journalist John Nichols on last week's historic Senate impeachment trial; and reporter Chris Bangert-Drowns with writer and activist Phyllis Bennis on developments in diplomacy with Iran.
2021-02-211h 16Monday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - February 15Today on the show: A look back at the impeachment acquittal of Donald Trump. Can the U.S. restore the fractured relationship with Iran? Haitians are being deported, despite a promise to end all deportations. And remembering giants of the labor movement. All that, and more!
2021-02-1649 minMonday Morning QBFriday Evening Fireside - Ep 3Welcome to Friday Evening Fireside, a long-form version of Monday Morning QB. Today's edition features three extended interview cuts: reporter Amara Evering with Genocide Watch President Gregory Stanton on the QAnon conspiracy theory; News Director Askia Muhammad with columnist Kali Holloway on an abolitionist perspective to the Capitol riot; and reporter Chris Bangert-Drowns with Rohingya human rights activist Raiss Tinmaung on the coup in Myanmar.
2021-02-131h 03Monday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - February 8Today on the show: A prison abolitionist faces the question of jail for Capitol insurrectionists. A QAnon Congressmember boasts that stripping her committee assignments “frees” her. Shaping the coronavirus stimulus bill as it makes its way through Congress. Is a White House bust of farmworker leader Cesar Chavez mere window dressing? The resilient Rohingya people of Myanmar. And “banging” on the floor of Congress. All that, and more!
2021-02-0859 minMonday Morning QBFriday Evening Fireside - Ep 2Welcome to Friday Evening Fireside, a long-form version of Monday Morning QB. Today's edition features four extended interview cuts: reporter Chris Bangert-Drowns with economist John Cavanagh on the power of the federal government; News Director Askia Muhammad with psychologist Dr. Ray Winbush and historical expert Anthony Jones on psychiatry and racism; and reporter Amara Evering with Navajo activists Monica Harvey and Ryan Lee on preserving Native life and culture.
2021-02-061h 33Monday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - February 1Today on the show: A South African take on the South African coronavirus variant. The pandemic, Native American elders, and cultural loss. Biden wants to “Buy American” again. Psychiatrists apologize for racism. And a Black History Month remembrance of U Street, D.C.’s Black Broadway. All that, and more!
2021-02-0159 minMonday Morning QBFriday Evening Fireside - Ep 1Welcome to Friday Evening Fireside, a long-form version of Monday Morning QB. Every week, we'll bring you extended interviews from reporting originally aired Monday morning. Today's edition (released belatedly -- future editions WILL drop Friday evening) features two long conversations: one between reporter Amara Evering and criminal legal scholar Kate Levine on police prosecutions; and another between reporter Chris Bangert-Drowns and Gulf States scholar Hussein Ibish on the war in Yemen.
2021-01-311h 28Monday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - January 25Today on the show: Why do cops always seem to get away with crimes against Black civilians? With Trump gone, where do Republicans go from here? Will President Biden finally close the Guantanamo military prison? And we’ve got poems and memories of one of major league baseball’s greatest ever. All that, and more!
2021-01-2559 minMonday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - January 18Today on the show: Preparing for the possibility of more right-wing violence. Left-wing protestors receive harsher treatment than conservatives. The GOP is divided about loyalty to Trumpism. We remember the radical vision of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. And a talk with one of Joe Biden’s high level appointments. All that, and more!
2021-01-181h 00Monday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - January 11Today on the show: Michael Steele on the future of the GOP and the nation. Trump faces increasing calls to resign or be kicked out. A retired Capitol Police officer explains the political bureaucracy tying the hands of cops trying to defend the Capitol. The disproportionate response the treasonous white mob received, compared to peaceful Black demonstrators. And the time is now right for statehood for the District. All that, and more!
2021-01-1159 minMonday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - January 4Today on the show: Georgia, the Electoral College, and the nation’s courts. The future of U.S. foreign policy. And a Black summit with a decided Black Liberation-oriented philosophy. All that, and more!
2021-01-0459 minMonday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - December 28Today on the show, some of our most compelling pieces of the year: Breonna Taylor’s law. The government push to ignore mushrooming white race hate, which was just fine with President Donald Trump. An angry black snap-back. The evolution of science itself in the face of COVID-19. And remembering some of the Souls who crossed over in this most tumultuous year of the 21st Century. All that, and more!
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2020-12-2311 minMonday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - December 21Today on the show: The largest cyberattack in US history becomes part of Trump’s disinformation campaign. That campaign still might include a fascist-type military coup. Supporters of political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal are celebrating a chance to prove his innocence in court. Prisoners are low priority for getting the new coronavirus vaccine. And some interesting items on the wish lists of young adults who still believe or don’t believe in Santa Claus. All that, and more!
2020-12-211h 00Monday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - December 14Today on the show: We talk to Baltimore’s youngest mayor ever. Like it was 160 years ago, the conservative, overt white peoples’ party is pushing a “lost cause” demanding that Trump remain in the White House. Will the federal government make the economic recovery more equitable during this pandemic? Remote learning isn't setting all students back equally. And could the cash bail system be replaced with something worse? All that, and more!
2020-12-1456 minMonday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - December 7Today on the show: Even with a covid vaccine just days from formal approval, suspicions abound in this country. And nearly everyone, especially retail workers, are at the edge of an economic cliff unless Congress approves relief. Ethiopia manages its largest civil conflict in decades. And indigenous sovereignty goes beyond just reclaiming land. All that, and more!
2020-12-0759 minMonday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - November 30Today on the show: Coronavirus vaccines are moving close to being delivered in this country. Healthcare workers, who are themselves in danger, are speaking out about the pandemic. Prison laborers are increasingly being used to fill labor shortages. The Congressional Black Caucus has grown to an all-time high of 59 members; does that mean Black Power has been achieved? Not as long as Neo-Nazi groups like The Base are recruiting for what they see as a coming race war. All that, and more!
2020-11-3059 minMonday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - November 23Today on the show: D.C. teachers are not ready to return to their classrooms. Can Joe Biden correct the Trump Iran policy and return to diplomacy? Facebook executives face the Senate. And as Nero fiddled while Rome burned, Trump plays golf as the pandemic rages. All that, and more!
2020-11-2359 minMonday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - November 16Today on the show: beyond the Beltway into state legislatures. Beyond the beltway into the new administration’s Middle East thrust. Did pre-election polling almost lull us to sleep concerning the real outcome? Did we snooze when it came to the importance of the Native American vote? As the make-up of elected members of Congress becomes more diverse, are the numbers of their support staff following suit? And a setback to gig workers in California. All that and more!
2020-11-161h 00Monday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - November 9Today on the show: we go live to Georgia for the latest in that battleground state. Businesses in Washington looked like a hurricane was coming. Taking it to the streets, activists celebrated the apparent defeat of Donald Trump, and at the same time are prepared for action to keep the Biden administration accountable. In San Francisco, voters approved an “Overpaid Executives Tax.” And pandemic politics continues to rage over reopening the D.C. Public Schools. All that, and more!
2020-11-1657 minMonday Morning QBPre-Election SpecialToday on the show: voting, voting, and did we say voting? We’ve got reports on disenfranchisement and mass incarceration. The resurgent idea of ranked choice voting. And profiles of those working to predict -- and protect -- election results. All that, and more!
2020-11-0258 minMonday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - October 26Today on the show: voters respond to voter suppression tactics. Far-right extremists on the ballot? The latest human rights struggle in Nigeria. And we look back at the role of women in the historic Million Man March. All that, and more!
2020-10-2651 minMonday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - October 19Today on the show: a new justice soon to be confirmed on the Supreme Court. They're reading a new Riot Act in the District of Columbia. Fires are blazing out of control out West. And contingency plans are being developed in case President Trump loses the election and doesn’t accept the outcome. All that, and more!
2020-10-1949 minMonday Morning QBDefunding Police - A Special ProgramDefunding the police has become a rallying cry of the rekindled Black Lives Matter movement. MMQB reporter Chris Bangert-Drowns spends an hour discussing the past and present of defunding, its impact on local budgets and politics, and how communities can fundamentally reimagine public safety. Featuring the voices of Nicole Lewis, staff writer at The Marshall Project, and Max Rameau, author and organizer with Pan-African Community Action. Originally aired September 16.
2020-10-0753 minMonday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - October 5Today on the show: grand jury manipulation and the shooting of Breonna Taylor. The Electoral College, another form of racial voter suppression? A Moral Monday march protesting the “sins” of the Senate. And supporters of Donald Trump are all-in when it comes to his racism. All that, and more!
2020-10-0557 minMonday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - September 28Today on the show: what’s next in the case of the shooting of Breonna Taylor. The father of Jacob Blake receives death threats for coming to the aid of his son. Imagining a future with a defunded police. Trump's politicizing of public health. And a look back at this generation’s jazz poets. All that, and more!
2020-09-2859 minMonday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - September 21Today on the show: the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. As early voting has begun, voter suppression efforts are already under way. FBI Director Christopher Wray defied the president in testimony before Congress. Sexual violence against women at ICE detention centers. Making polluters pay for the damage they cause to the environment. And combatting ever-present white supremacy in this country. All that, and more!
2020-09-211h 01Monday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - September 14Today on the show: a whistleblower says the Trump administration is interfering with the Department of Homeland Security. Cops and their too-cozy relationship with white supremacists. The complex issues regarding guns in the District. Moral Monday and the Poor People’s Campaign is working to energize low income voters. And we remember the shock of four little girls murdered in Birmingham. All that, and more!
2020-09-1459 minMonday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - August 31Today on the show: a sobering look at the presidential campaign by a former Republican National Committee Chair. The barriers to homeless voting during this pandemic. The battle against mining injustice in Guatemala. And our young staff members reflect on the times in which we live. All that and more!
2020-08-3157 minMonday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - August 24Today on the show: a COVID-19 “die-in” at Georgia Tech. The Biden campaign condemned Women’s March founder Linda Sarsour, angering Muslim Democrats. Not all critiques of Senator Kamala Harris are made equal. An anniversary March on Washington is coming, and we hear the voice of original March architect, A. Philip Randolph. All that and more!
2020-08-2453 minMonday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - August 17Today on the show: Pan Africanism, and Black August, the new Black History Month. Fair Housing and the presidential campaign. Getting it right for our school children this fall. And the voices of Monday Morning QB’s youth contingent. All that and more!
2020-08-171h 00Monday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - August 10Today on the show: The history and implications of children in detention. Is a “people’s vaccine” for coronavirus near? Paradigm shifts in science with Sonia Shah. And making the case for reparations payments to the descendants of slaves. All that and more!
2020-08-101h 00Monday Morning QBMonday Morning QB - August 3Today on the show: Will there be quick relief for workers in the next coronavirus bill? And what about help preventing evictions? Teachers continue to make their voices heard on school reopening. And four former presidents of the D.C. Bar Association say that Attorney General William Barr should have his license to practice law revoked. All that and more!
2020-08-0559 min
WEE Nation Podcast"Strange Animal - Part 1 of 3" by TAHIRA Productions on WPFW 89.3 FM - Aired May 6, 2020The following is a segment of WEE Nation Radio on WPFW 89.3 FM in Washington, DC. It is part of our storytelling segment and features Teaching Artist and Storyteller TAHIRA from her story, "Strange Animal."
It was part 1 of 3, which aired on May 6, 2020. Uncle Devin's WEE Nation radio airs every Wednesday from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM EST. You can stream it live on the WPFW App, on www.WPFWFM.org or on the Simple Radio or Tune-In Apps.
Visit our website at www.WEENationRadio.com, where you can listen to 24/7 online family-friendly global beats for little feat.
2020-05-0709 min
The Center For Self HealingA Special Episode | Meir is on WPFW Radio in Washington D.C. | Message of the WeekMeir is on WPFW Radio In Washington DC. 89.3FM He talks about many things in the episode and has a great conversation with the show's host. Are you looking for more self healing? Check out our website at Self-healing.org . Go to events for workshops coming up. https://www.meetup.com/Meir-Schneider... https://www.facebook.com/events/70078... https://www.facebook.com/selfhealing/
2019-07-0224 min
America Meditating RadioLona Alias interviews #SisterJenna & #SisterGita on WPFW for #InternationalWomen'sDayLona Alias from WPFW in Washington DC interview Sister Jenna on Phenomenal Women Segment. Bless everyone. www.americameditating.org and www.brahmakumaris.org for more information
2018-03-1059 min
America Meditating RadioWPFW Speaks to Sister Jenna on SyriaWPFW features an archived gripping message by President John F Kennedy on War and Peace at AU, Sister Jenna is interviewed by Gloria Minot on #WPFW on matters in #SYRIA and how we can help. www.americameditating.org www.meditationmuseum.org
2017-04-1123 min
2015 Shows – On The Ground‘CAN’T STOP, WON’T STOP’ – WPFW’S YEAR-END LIVE SPECIAL ON SOCIAL JUSTICE FROM THE NATION’S CAPITAL, DECEMBER 2015‘Can’t Stop, Wont Stop’—WPFW Pacifica’s year-end live special on social activism in the nation’s capital, reviewing 2015 and looking forward to 2016 for such urgent issues and movements, including Black Lives Matter, Climate Justice, and economic Justice. With Gerald Horne, Barbara Arnwine, Dr. Margaret Flowers, Kevin Zeese, Makini Owusu of APPEAL,Tawanda Jones, Sister of Tyrone West slain in Baltimore, and much more—music, poetry, voices of protest from 2015 right here in the belly of the beast of corporate, military and imperialist power.
PART 1
Black Lives Matter and Economic Justice
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2016-01-1300 min
TalksRusty Hassan, Georgetown University Professor of Jazz and WPFW radio host, on "Directions: Jennie C. Jones: Higher Resonance"WPFW 89.3 FM jazz host and Georgetown University adjunct professor Rusty Hassan on Directions: Jennie C. Jones: Higher Resonance
2013-06-1400 min
J-BONE & THE FOUNDATION ROCKERS HI-FI PRESENTWPFW SESSIONS VOLUME IIIYes Massive!!! Here it is!!! A thing called…..WPFW SESSIONS VOLUME III!!!
Yo, everyone, please forgive the delay in getting a new episode out to you. It’s taken a little longer than expected to get through the move and get the studio hooked back up and running right. This episode should be the last one of the “Blasts from the Past”. Starting next week we should be broadcasting the new episodes again. In the meantime, my main partner in crime, Mr. Smoovv Devastation, has been keeping the fire burnin’ with all his new posts. If you have not had a chance t...
2008-07-2958 min
J-BONE & THE FOUNDATION ROCKERS HI-FI PRESENTWPFW SESSIONS VOLUME IIYes Massive!!! Here it is!!! A thing called………WPFW SESSIONS VOLUME II!!!
We’re almost set up to start broadcasting the new mixes, but in the meantime here’s another blast from the past. It’s J-BONE & Smoovv Devastation runnin’ things on the airwaves back in the PFW days. This one’s from back on December the 1st, 2005.
Nice session!!!
Turn it up, sit back, and enjoy!
Until such time,
Stay easy,
J-BONE
Foundation Rockers Hi-Fi
2008-07-0958 min