Africa Today – December 23, 2019
A weekly news program providing information and analysis about Africa and the African Diaspora, hosted by Walter Turner.
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A Rude Awakening – December 23, 2019
An in-depth look at community affairs on a local, national and international level, with interviews and commentary. Hosted by Sabrina Jacobs.
Nick Tosches (1949-2019) in conversation with Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff, recorded October 19, 1994.Nick Tosches, who died on October 20th, 2019, three days shy of his 70th birthday, was the quintessential professional w riter. He wrote everything from record reviews to biographies to essays to novels. His career, which began as a rock journalist for Creem and Rolling Stone magazines, eventually took him into biographies of Jerry Lee Lewis and Dean Martin, various works of non-fiction, novels, poetry and journalistic essays.
Dr Ella Henry on Maori resistance and Peggy McIntosh on White Privilege
Today at 1pm on KPFA’s Women’s Magazine Fuifuilupe Niumeitolu talks to Dr. Ella Henry, a Maori scholar and community leader from New Zealand, about her work with her tribe to get the New Zealand government to return their ancestral homelands, the complications and the grief and losses that the colonial violence created for the Maori … Continued
FEATURING PROF. JIM DEMPSEY – The New York Times as part of its Privacy Project has published an explosive investigative account of how cellphone location data farmed by private companies through innocuous apps can be used to track our every move. Companies are gathering and storing this data, asking the public to trust that it … Continued
Protesters for immigrant rights demonstrated outside the Democratic debate Thursday in Los Angeles, displaying a banner that read “Migrant Justice on Day One” and demanding a moratorium on deportations and immigrant worker protections. We look at how the candidates responded, with Erika Andiola, chief advocacy officer for RAICES, the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and … Continued
Exploration – December 6, 2019
A syndicated hour long radio program on science, technology, politics, and the environment, hosted by Dr. Michio Kaku.
On today’s show, I will be in conversation w/political satirist and activist Randy Credico on some things Roger Stone and most things Assange related.
Avotcja hosts a Jim Pepper tribute on The Hear & Now, 10 p.m., Thursday, November 28
In what has become an annual alternative Thanksgiving holiday tradition, guest host Avotcja fills in for Derk Richardson and programs a deep homage to Jim Pepper (June 18, 1941 – February 10, 1992), the late Native American saxophonist and composer of the classic “Witchi Tai-To.”
KPFA’s Impeachment Watch continues this week with a special Pacifica national broadcast of the House Intelligence Committee’s open hearings as part of the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.