2:30 PM Pacific Time on Friday
A half-hour radio show providing critical coverage of disability issues and bringing insight into the grassroots disability movement to the general public.
CRIP-HIP-HOP! Pushing Limits’ three part series on disabled Hip-Hop artists. Pushing Limits celebrates May Day and Cinco de Mayo with DJ Quad from a Hip-Hop group, 5th Battalion, of Los Angeles. 5th Battalion founder and producer, DJ Quad, a Latino quadriplegic, talks about the ongoing immigration debate, police harassment, mentoring other disabled hip-hop artists, his … Continued
Pushing Limits hosts Doyle Saylor and Gene Sharee will present a variety of topics and issues. They will describe important upcoming events impacting the disability community. Items to be covered include a rally on workers’ rights, providing information on Workers’ Compensation deregulation in addition to interviewing injured workers. The program will also cover the deYoung … Continued
CRIP-HIP-HOP! PL’s three part series on disabled hip-hop artists kicks off today. The first hip-hop artist on crutches, Preechman, lives in Yonkers, New York. Preechman was born in Haiti and came to the NY for medical treatment for polio. He has shared the stage with DMX, Doug E. Fresh, Slick Rick and many more. He … Continued
Friday March 31, 2006 at 2:30 PM pushing limits will air a program on disability in Iraq. Doyle Saylor and Leah Gardner will co-host the show with guests Sadick Alsidir and Salam Hassan from the Joint Iraqi Development & Unity Foundation. They will discuss a wheel chair project they have developed and how disability is … Continued
Pushing Limits, in celebration of international women’s history month, will interview Corbett Joan O’Toole. O’Toole is a longtime, internationally influential disability rights activist as well as a writer and filmmaker. O’Toole will share her perspective on the history of disabled women in the feminist movement as well as her views on where women fit in … Continued
Pushing Limits’ hosts Adrienne Lauby and Leroy Moore will cover "The Media Looks at Disability". They interview Mitch Jeserich who went from KPFA’s newsroom training to interviewing Colin Powell in a few short years and Charles A. Riley who tried to compete with Oprah with "WE," a lifestyle magazine for and about people with disabilities. … Continued
This program looks at our African heritage and the peoples struggle for freedom and equality in South Africa. Biko Agozino Various parcipants in African burial ground in NYC.
Pushing Limits hosts Leroy Moore and Gerald Sanders will cover the fate of disabled musicians in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The show will highlight three blind blues musicians: Henry Butler, Snooks Eaglin and Bryan Lee by playing their music, reading latest news on their whereabouts, tour dates and how the Hurricane … Continued
