Voices of the Middle East and North Africa – July 4, 2024
The richly diverse and fascinating world of culture and politics of the Middle East and North Africa, co-hosted by Khalil and Malihe.
The richly diverse and fascinating world of culture and politics of the Middle East and North Africa, co-hosted by Khalil and Malihe.
Guest: Greg King is an award-winning journalist and activist credited with spearheading the movement to protect Headwaters Forest, in Humboldt County, California. He is the author of The Ghost Forest: Racists, Radicals, and Real Estate in the California Redwoods
Democracy Now! is a daily national independent award-winning news program, hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. This hour rebroadcasts the 6am hour. For daily episode descriptions, see Democracy Now! (6am).
We spend the hour with Robert Jones Jr, who recently retired his well-known social media handle Son of Baldwin. He discusses his debut novel, The Prophets, which is about two men who are in love, enslaved on the same Mississippi plantation. We talk about how the relationship between colonialism, Western imperialism, and christian hegemony built up … Continued
00:08 Vincent Bevins, formerly Brazil correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, and southeast Asia correspondent for the Washington Post, both of which jobs gave him a front-row seat to recent social upheavals. His new book is If We Burn: the mass protest decade and the missing revolution.
On today’s show: “What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?”: James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass’s Historic Speech Hope and Resistance: Voices of a People’s History of the United States in the 21st Century
A Historical Assessment of How the Major Political Parties Have Become Hollow Shells We begin with an historical assessment of how the major political parties have become hollow shells locked in a polarized struggle for power, with personalities dominating our politics rather than parties and platforms. With increasing talk of the Democrats having an open … Continued
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A mix of jazz, folk, blues and more with Joel Sachs.
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Enjoy sensuous bedroom soul, sexy Smooth Jazz, and scintillating social commentary with Bay Area native and longtime Classic Soul radio taste-maker and Smooth Jazz connoisseur Al Glenn. Have some before this tasty Midnight snack is all gone!
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