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7:08 – Prof. Michael Veel is a professor of Music and African American Studies Departments at Yale University, and author of Fela: The Life and Times of a Musical Icon. 7:34 – Turha Ak (@CRCPOCC) is a field marshal with the Community Ready Corps, and discusses the upcoming events connected to Black Solidarity Week. And KPFA host … Continued
Congressmember Karen Bass represents California’s 37th congressional district, which includes parts of Los Angeles. She sits on the House Judiciary Committee and Foreign Affairs Committee. She recently grilled Attorney Jeff Sessions about the FBI report on “black identity extremists.” Yahfeuh Balogun co-founded both the Huey P. Newton Gun Club and Guerilla Mainframe, a … Continued
Guests: Congressmember Jackie Speier represents California’s 14th Congressional district, which includes the southern end of San Francisco through San Mateo. Brian Copeland, radio and tv personality, actor, comedian and playwright is in the Bay Area currently, and has some upcoming events: The Waiting Period (solo show)Thurs, March 1 @ 7pm at Aragon High School … Continued
Cat Brooks speaks with University of Texas professor and historian Dr. Jacqueline Jones about her book on Lucy Parsons. The text, Goddess of Anarchy covers the life of 19th-century radical black anarchist and labor activist Lucy Parsons. Meera Nabulsi reports on the protests that occurred on the birthday of Ahed Tamimi, a Palestinian teenager who has been detained … Continued
Guests: 7:35 Doug Henwood [@DougHenwood], host of Behind the News, publisher of lbo-news.com, author of many books, including Wall Street: How It Works, and For Whom. 8:08 Kali Akuno [@KaliAkuno], is a Jackson, MS -based organizer, educator, writer, and editor of Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi.
7am – In February, UpFront is presenting a new series, The Unsung Heroes: Celebrating Black History Month. Today we continue the series speaking to Harry Nii Koney Odamtten Assistant Professor of African and Atlantic History at Santa Clara University, about Pan Africanist Kwame Nkrumah, the first prime minister and president of Ghana after British colonial rule. … Continued
7:33 – Supervisor Jane Kim, represents District 6, in San Francisco (Tenderloin, South of Market, Mid-Market/Civic Center, South Beach, Mission Bay, Rincon Hill, and Treasure Island/Yerba Buena Island neighborhoods. She is the chair of the Government Audit and Oversight Committee and also sits on the Budget & Finance Committee.
Greg Mello, the Executive Director of the Los Alamos Study Group speaks with UpFront about standing president Trump’s new nuclear policy proposal and the dangers it presents. Storied activist and whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers. He also drafted nuclear war plans as a RAND consultant during the Kennedy era. His new book is The … Continued
As part of UpFront’s monthlong coverage of notable black figures who have had a significant impact on black history but are less broadly known, we hear from Melvin Dickson. Melvin was a member of the Black Panther Part and has worked over the last decades to preserve the organizations legacy. Our guest is Chin Jou, lecturer … Continued
0:08 – Monday news roundup with Cat and Brian 0:34 – David Cay Johnston, a Pulitzer-prize winning investigative journalist who’s been covering Donald Trump for nearly three decades joins Cat and Brian to discuss our current administration. He recently founded the news outlet dcreport.org. He talks about his new book Even Worse Than You Think: What the … Continued
