This edition of Making Contact is Part I of our special series examining how immigrants are responding and participating in elections and politics today. From Dreamers in Arizona to Muslims in Michigan, we’ll meet immigrant communities upholding democracy. We’ll also have a conversation with author of the “Fight to Vote,” Michael Waldman about how immigrants … Continued
Rickey Vincent celebrates the life and work of the artist known as Prince Tune in Today Friday, April 22 at 11am and 10pm with Rickey Vincent
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Bay Area alto saxophonist Steven Lugerner brings his Jacknife band, with pianist Larry Willis, trumpeter JJ Kirkpatrick, drummer Michael Mitchell, and bassist Josh Thurston-Milgrom into the KPFA performance studio to play pieces from the album “Jacknife: The Music of Jackie McLean.“ Tony Ferro engineers the live radio concert. In the second hour, violinist Mads Tolling … Continued
KPFA DJs Greg Bridges, Rickey Vincent, Gary Baca and Will Nichols on Prince.
KPFA DJ’s Rickey Vincent, Greg Bridges and Last Will sit down with Kris Welch to talk about the legendary performer and artist, Prince.
In the past couple years, there has been a small flood of books warning that technology is moving us towards an economy with many many fewer paying jobs. Most writers tackle this as an economic problem; this hour, we tackle it as a political one – one that requires a re-examination of what it means … Continued
Today on Flashpoints: We celebrate the 420 cannabis revolution toward legalization and distribution, Is the new Pulitzer-prize winning play, about Alexander Hamilton, a theatrical cleansing of early an early American racism? And we rebroadcast our interview with Beverly Bell of Other Worlds on the continuing violence against activist indigenous communities in Honduras
Creative destruction is the hallmark of capitalism, as the economist Joseph Schumpeter argued. But the destructive side is often overlooked. Francesca Ammon discusses the enormous wave of demolition that accompanied the postwar boom — transforming the rural, urban and suburban landscape, and displacing the residents of scores of communities around the United States. Resources: Francesca … Continued
In a true win for California’s unionized teachers, the Appeals Court last week unanimously rejected another well-funded attempt to strip rights to due process in hiring and firing. We talk with David Bacon, about this and other labor news. AND: How has the Tenderloin, alone of S.F.’s neighborhoods, avoided gentrification? We talk with Randy Shaw. … Continued
With Azi Paybarah, reporter for Politico New York. He has covered politics for The New York Observer, WNYC, The New York Sun and the New York Press. And Ruth Conniff, Editor in Cheif of The Progressive Magazine. Then, David Rosen, author of Sin, Sex & Subversion: How What Was Taboo in 1950s New York Became America’s New Normal. … Continued
