The Root and Roots Show: Recent Episodes
The Root and Roots Show
Your host Greg Rasheed will play roots music from such genres as blues, country, gospel, jazz and soul, exploring its rich traditions. The root aspect of the show will involve talking about various issues in the world of sports as well as issues that take root in your life. It's a musical sports bar to enjoy and participate in.
The story of Sha Tayshia, an African American girl, who during tryouts for her baseball team becomes inspired by the story of the 19th century Philadelphia Dolly Vardens.
Music from Dr. Lonnie Smith, Archie Shepp, Jason Moran, Poppy Ajudha, Ezra Collective and others.
Gospel music evolved in often surprising directions during the post-Civil Rights era. Claudrena N. Harold's in-depth look at late-century gospel focuses on musicians like Yolanda Adams, Andraé Crouch, the Clark Sisters, Al Green, Take 6, and the Winans, and on the network of black record shops, churches, and businesses that nurtured the music. Harold details the creative shifts, sonic innovations, theological tensions, and political assertions that transformed the music, and revisits the debates within the community over groundbreaking recordings and gospel's incorporation of rhythm and blues, funk, hip-hop, and other popular forms. At the same time, she details how sociopolitical and cultural developments like the Black Power Movement and the emergence of the Christian Right shaped both the art and attitudes of African American performers.
Weaving insightful analysis into a collective biography of gospel icons, When Sunday Comes explores the music's essential place as an outlet for African Americans to express their spiritual and cultural selves.
The Black Girls Hockey Club focuses on making hockey more inclusive for our family, friends and allies
Among Golden Age Hollywood film stars of European heritage known for playing characters from the East--Chinese, Southeast Asians, Indians and Middle Easterners--Anglo-Indian actor Boris Karloff had deep roots there. Based on extensive new research, this biography and career study of Karloff's "eastern" films provides a critical examination of 41 features, including many overlooked early roles, and offers fresh perspective on a cinematic luminary so often labeled a "horror icon." Films include The Lightning Raider (1919), 14 silent films from the 1920s, The Unholy Night (1929), The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932), The Mummy (1932), John Ford's The Lost Patrol (1934), the Mr. Wong series (1938-1940), Targets (1968), and Isle of the Snake People (1971), one of six titles released posthumously.
The Dizzy and Daffy Dean Barnstorming Tour: Race, Media, and America’s National Pastime examines for the first time the full barnstorming series in its original and uncensored splendor. Phil S. Dixon profiles not only the men who were part of the Deans’ All-Star teams but also the men who played against them, including some of baseball’s most monumental African-American players. Dixon highlights how the contributions during the tour of Negro League stars such as Satchel Paige, Chet Brewer, Charlie Beverly, and Andy Cooper were glossed over by sports writers of the day and grants them their rightful due in this significant slice of sports history.
The Dizzy and Daffy Dean Barnstorming Tour gives careful consideration to the social implications of the tour and the media’s biased coverage of the games, providing a unique window for viewing racism in American sports history. It is more than a baseball story—it is an American story
As the ubiquitous Jamaican musician Bob Marley once famously sang, "half the story has never been told." This rings particularly true for the little-known women in Jamaican music who comprise significantly less than half of the Caribbean nation's musical landscape. This book covers the female contribution to Jamaican music and its subgenres through dozens of interviews with vocalists, instrumentalists, bandleaders, producers, deejays and supporters of the arts. Relegated to marginalized spaces, these pioneering women fought for their claim to the spotlight amid oppressive conditions to help create and shape Jamaica's musical heritage.
For generations, historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have been essential institutions for the African American community. Their nurturing environments not only provided educational advancement but also catalyzed the Black freedom struggle, forever altering the political destiny of the United States. In this book, Jelani M. Favors offers a history of HBCUs from the 1837 founding of Cheyney State University to the present, told through the lens of how they fostered student activism.
Favors chronicles the development and significance of HBCUs through stories from institutions such as Cheyney State University, Tougaloo College, Bennett College, Alabama State University, Jackson State University, Southern University, and North Carolina A&T. He demonstrates how HBCUs became a refuge during the oppression of the Jim Crow era and illustrates the central role their campus communities played during the civil rights and Black Power movements. Throughout this definitive history of how HBCUs became a vital seedbed for politicians, community leaders, reformers, and activists, Favors emphasizes what he calls an unwritten "second curriculum" at HBCUs, one that offered students a grounding in idealism, racial consciousness, and cultural nationalism.
I will be interviewing Tim Brooks, the author of The Black Face Minstrel Show in Mass Media.
The minstrel show occupies a complex and controversial space in the history of American popular culture. Today considered a shameful relic of America's racist past, it nonetheless offered many black performers of the 19th and early 20th centuries their only opportunity to succeed in a white-dominated entertainment world, where white performers in blackface had by the 1830s established minstrelsy as an enduringly popular national art form.
This book traces the often overlooked history of the "modern" minstrel show through the advent of 20th century mass media--when stars like Al Jolson, Bing Crosby and Mickey Rooney continued a long tradition of affecting black music, dance and theatrical styles for mainly white audiences--to its abrupt end in the 1950s. A companion two-CD reissue of recordings discussed in the book is available from Archeophone Records at archeophone.com.
Winner, Robert Peterson Recognition Award-SABR
This is one of the most important baseball books to be published in a long time, taking a comprehensive look at black participation in the national pastime from 1858 through 1900. It provides team rosters and team histories, player biographies, a list of umpires and games they officiated and information on team managers and team secretaries. Well known organizations like the Washington's Mutuals, Philadelphia Pythians, Chicago Uniques, St. Louis Black Stockings, Cuban Giants and Chicago Unions are documented, as well as lesser known teams like the Wilmington Mutuals, Newton Black Stockings, San Francisco Enterprise, Dallas Black Stockings, Galveston Flyaways, Louisville Brotherhoods and Helena Pastimes.
Player biographies trace their connections between teams across the country. Essays frame the biographies, discussing the social and cultural events that shaped black baseball. Waiters and barbers formed the earliest organized clubs and developed local, regional and national circuits. Some players belonged to both white and colored clubs, and some umpires officiated colored, white and interracial matches. High schools nurtured young players and transformed them into powerhouse teams, like Cincinnati's Vigilant Base Ball Club. A special essay covers visual representations of black baseball and the artists who created them, including colored artists of color who were also baseballists.
James A. Cosby will talk about his book The Devil's Music, Holy Rollers and Hillbillies: How America Gabe Birth to Rock and Roll.
Richard Carlin will discuss his biography on Morris Levy, the cofounder of Birdland and one of the most notorious people in the history of the music industry in the first segment of the show.
In the second segment, Isiah Lavender III, editor of Black and Brown Planets: The Politics of Race in Science Fiction will talk about race and racism in sci fi literature and culture.
Scott Kacsmar of Footbal Outsiders will join me in the first segment to talk about the upcoming college and pro football seasons.
In the second segment it will be a Zydeco party as Grammy award winning Zydeco legend Chubby Carrier talks about his music.
In the first segment of the show Jonathan Hafetz will talk about his book Obama's Guantanamo.
Grammy award winning Zydeco legend Chubby Carrier will appear in the second segment to talk about his music.
Denver icon Tamara Banks will discuss her experiences reporting in some of the most dangerous areas in the world. She will place special emphasis on working to help those from the Nuba Mountains in Sudan, who are trying to escape slavery.
In 2004 I read Firpo W. Carr's book Germany's Black Holocaust: 1890- 1945, and was immediately intrigued. According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, "The fate of black people from 1933 to 1945 in Nazi Germany and in German-occupied territories ranged from isolation to persecution, sterilization, medical experimentation, incarceration, brutality, and murder."
I realized that while much had been written about the Jewish victims, the fate of Africans and African Americans at the hands of the Nazis was less well documented.
I was fascinated by this discovery and set about writing a story that would illuminate this hidden verity. But for many years, the story seemed out of my reach as I struggled to find a connection with the characters.
Luckily for me, early attempts at creating the story coincided with my ongoing personal genealogy research. For some twenty years I've been consumed with investigating my paternal line; specifically my grandfather, Harold McFadden, who was entirely absent from my father's life, thus a mystery to both of us.
When I decided to model Harlan Elliott after my grandfather, all that I had been struggling with came to an end. It was as if I had found the golden key; suddenly the foreign became familiar and the novel unfurled as naturally as a flower in spring. --Bernice L. McFadden
Michael Leahy will talk about his book The Last Innocents: The Collision of the Turbulent Sixties. He will discuss how the sixties social upheaval had an impact on the 1960's era Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team.
Dr. Johnny Smith, co author of Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship of Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali will discuss the evolution of their friendship and eventual split in the first half of the program.
In the second portion of the program, a musical tribute will be given to the late Bernie Worrell.
Historian Mark Puryear will talk about the significance and legacies of two of the finest musical talents out of the DC area, Billy Stewart and Van McCoy.
Aaron John Gulyas, author of Conspiracy Theories:The Roots, Themes and Prpagation of Paranoid Political and Cultural Narratives will talk about the origins of conspiracies and how they influence everyone.
Michael Fallon will discuss his book Dodgerland and the city of Los Angeles and the various characters who intersected with each other in the late seventies, especially the 1977 - 78 LA Dodgers.
Washington DC's special party music, go go, will explored and played, featuring music by Chuck Brown, EU, Little Benny, Trouble Funk, Rare Essence, and many others both old and new.
Krister Swanson, author of Baseball's Power Shift, will discuss the labor movement history in major league baseball. Plus a continuation of music honoring Prince.
Robert B. Ross will discuss his book The Great Baseball Revolt:The Rise and Fall of the 1890 Players League
Yahoo Sports baseball columnist Jeff Passan will talk about his new book The Arm: Inside the Billion Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports.
C.Richard King will discuss his new book Redskins: Insult and Brand. He will examine the history of the Washington football team's name, the evolution of the term "redskin" and the various ways the name has been both supported and opposed.
Douglas M. Branson will discuss his book Greatness in the Shadows:Larry Doby and the Integration of the American League. In the second segment, there will be a musical tribute to legendary saxophonist Gato Barbieri and Phife Dawg of a Tribe Called Quest.
Baseball historian Gary Cieradkowski returns to the show to talk about baseball's forgotten heroes. He will also talk about the work he is doing with the Leon Day Foundation.
The one and only Mama Kat, Ms JC, the Senior Citizen of the Airways returns to talk about her life and to play the best blues music around. Put on your dancing shoes!!!
I will be interviewing Jim McConnell, author of Bobo Newsom:Baseball's Traveling Man in the first portion of the program.
In the second portion, to celebrate Women's History Month, I will be playing the music of blues women performers.
Sam Miller, co editor of The Basrball Prospectus 2016 will give his views on the upcoming season from the angle of analytics. What team will be a surprise contender this year? What player will show the most improvement? Who will be in the World Series?
Issac Weishaupt of illuminatiwatcher.com will talk about the unseen forces behind the entertainment industry.
Ryan Ellett, author of the Encyclopedia of Black Radio in the United States, 1921-1935, will discuss the early history and impact of African Americans on radio.
Elaine Frantz-Parsons, author of Ku-Klux: The Birth of the Klan during Reconstruction, will talk about how the Klan was created to instill racial terror using images and language from northern forms such as minstrelsy, burlesque and business clture.
Dick Lehr, author of The Birth of a Nation, will discuss how Monroe Trotter, civil rights activist, and DW Griffith, filmmaker fought over Griffin's 1915 film that depicted the Civil War and Reconstruction era in a racist manner, making the KKK as heroes and African Americans as villians.
Richard Gonsalves is one of the foremost authorities and statiticians on professional kicking. A student of the game since 1970, he has met virtually every placekicker and punter inthe NFL, as well as kickers from the 20's - 60's. He will discuss his book Placekicking in the NFL: A History and Analysis.
Paul Marco, host of The World Beyond Belief show, will talk about the current political situation and the role of the New World Order leadership to seduce people to follow their instructions.
Jazz music from artists new and old will be played. Cecile McLorin Salvant, Kamasi Washington, Walter Beasley, Ahmed Jamal and others will soothe your heart, mind and soul.
A member of the Flint Water Scandal group will talk about the current situation in Flint, Michigan.
In the second portion of the show, new music from the blues, gospel, jazz and soul genres will be played.
H Soul Watson is a Denver community activist and media personality, currently on a hunger strike in protest of police brutality in Denver and coruption in the Denver government.
In the second portion of the show, I will be playing slow jams.
A current NFL player will talk about his book NFL Confidential. Using the alias of Johnny Anonymous, he will dicuss the issues of race, gays, concussions, drugs and other issues that the NFL tries to hide from.
The music of Clarence "Blowfly" Reid will be remembered in the second part of the program.
Carl A. Zimring will inform listeners about his new book, Clean and White: A History of Environmenta lRacism in the United States, in the first half of the sow..
In the second half, the passing of group member Nicholas Caldwell will remembered with music from The Whispers.
In the first hour, Dayna Bowen Matthew will discuss her new book, Just Medicine: A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care. Matthew advocates for an empirically based overhaul of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
In the second hour Sonja D. Williams will talk about her biography on Richard Durham, activist, radio pioneer and writer. The book is titled Word Warrior: Richard Durham, Radio and Freedom
We lost to begin 2016 two women who worked tiressly in their respected fields, singer Natalie Cole and activist Dr. Francis Cress Welsing. The music of Natalie Cole and the words of Dr. Cress Welsing will be heard to honor them.
The first half of the show will be devoted to the history of the many Chrstmas traditions. Why do you place a tree in your house? Why does is it celebrated on December 25? Why are lights strung up?
In the second half, Koysta Kennedy of Sports Illustrated will talk about his new book, Super Bowl Gold:50 years of the Big Game.
Wayne Coffey talks about the leadership lessons he learned co-authoring the book Above the Line with Urban Meyer, head football coach of The Ohio State University.
Historian Bill Doggett will talk about the role entertainment played as a survival mechinism for African Americans before and after the Civil War.
William J Plott will discuss his new book The Negro Southern League: A Baseball History,1920 - 1951.
Former professional football player and author Ted Kluck will talk about his book Three-Week Professionals:Inside the 1987 NFL Players Strike.
Sven Beckert will talk in the first hour about his book Empire of Cotton: A Golbal History. He will explain how capitalism grew as a result of the production of cotton.
In the second hour, Michelle Freeman, President of the Leon Day Foundation will discuss the work of the foundation and the legacy of the great Negro League baseball player Leon Day.
Professor of English at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, Moustafa Bayoumi will discuss his book This Muslim American Life: Dispatches from the War on Terror.
In the first segment Harlow Unger will talk about his book on Henry Clay: America's Greatest Statesman. In the second segment, the music of the genius Allen Toussaint will be played as I honor his life and legacy.
In the first half, Bijan Bayne will discuss his biography on basketball's first superstar, the great Elgin Baylor. In the second hour, social justice activist Bill Fletcher Jr will talk about the union movement in America.
Historian James P. Leary will discuss the music from the new box set he compiled, Folksongs of Another America: Field Recordings from the Upper Midwest, 1937 - 1946. The recordings were captured by folklorists Sidney Robertson, Alan Lomax and Helene Stratman-Thomas.
Justin Gifford, author of Street Poison: The Biography of Iceberg Slim will talk about the life and legacy of Robert Beck aka Iceberg Slim.
Manfred Berg will talk about his book Popular Justice: A History of Lynching in America.
In the second hour, Matthew Collier from The Hockey Prospectus will preview the 2015 - 2016 National Hockey League season.
Scott Kacsmar of the Football Outsiders will talk about the surprises and disappointments in the current NFL season. He will also look at the current NCAA college football season.
Cesar Brioso, author of Havana Baseball: Spring Training, Jackie Robinson and the Cuban League will talk about the history of Cuban baseball.
Adriana N. Helbig, Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Pittsburgh, will talk about her bookHip Hop Ukraine: Music, Race, and African migration.
Poet, author, social commentator, activist, Ishmael Reed will talk about his new book The Complete Muhammad Ali. Unlike other books on Ali, Reed does not sugar his life but shows Ali as a human with faults. Reed interviewed Ali's family members, ex wifes, members of the Nation of Islam and many others to flesh out the complete story of Muhammad Ali.
Robert Cohen will talk about his new book The 50 Greatest Dynamic Duos in Sports History. What is your favorite? Do you agree with the author's chocies?
In the first segment Mark Armour and Daniel Levitt will talk about the current pennant races as well as their book In Pursuit of Pennants.
In the second segment, jazz pianist Matthew Shipp will appear to talk about his music. Cuts from his latest CD will be played
Christopher B. Doob, professor emertitus of sociology at Southern Connecticut State University will discuss his new book The Anatomy of Competition in Sports in the first segment.
In the second segment, the upcoming NFL season will be previewed.
Dr. Stephaine Rose will talk about her new e-book, Recovering from Racism:A Guidebook for Beginning Conversations.
Legendary human rights activist and union organizer Bill Fletcher Jr will talk about his life as an organizer for social justice and what he thinlks of protests in 2015.
John Potash,author of Drugs as Weapons Against Us, will talk about how corporate entities and the government have used drugs and other means to control the left in this country.
Clair Schulz will talk about his book Tuning in The Great Gildersleeve: The Episodes and Cast of Radio's First Spinoff Show, 1941 - 1957. Full broadcast of this show and others will be featured.
Two hours of the best slow jams in the universe, featuring the Delfonics, Kem, Frankie Beverely and Maze, Babyface, and much much more.
I will be playing two hours of music to honor the life of Linard "Scotty" Scott, host of Origins/Orgy in Rhythm on KUVO 89.3 FM in Denver, Colorado. As Scotty described his show every Sunday " Origins: Orgy In Rhythm “traces the roots and explores the rich heritage of Black Music; it is a soulful journey and a joyous celebration that takes us from Harlem to Dar es Salaam, from Trenchtown to Motown, from Ragtime to No Time; from Bebop thru Doo Wop to Hip Hop and other expressions and destinations. In it’s myriad manifestations, Black Music from Ancient to the Future!"
Sarah L. Trembanis will talk about her book The Set-Up Men: Race, Culture and Resistance in Black Baseball.
Joe Pessah will talk about his book The Game: Inside the Secret World of Major League Baseball's Power Brokers.
Joseph Whelan will talk about his book Their Last Full Measure: The Final Days of the Civil War.
Author, social critic, lecturer, blogger and host of The Chauncey DeVega Show will grace the show to talk about racial issues as well as pop cultutre topics. DeVega is the founder of the blog site We are Respectable Negroes.
Travis Sawchick will talk about his book Big Data Baseball, concerning how the Pittsburgh Pirates ended their 20 game losing streak and became contenders.
Andrew Paul Mele will also appear to discuss the 1953 Brooklyn Dodgers, which is the basis of his book Tearin' Up the Pea Patch.
The legendary Mama Kat, formerly of KUVO 89.3 FM in Colorado, returns to the airwaves for a night of partying.
In the first part of the show, Benjamin Hedin will talk about his timely book, In Search of the Movement: The Struggle for Civil Rights Then and Now.
In the second part of the show, Sr. Stephany Rose, author of Abolishing White Maculinity from Mark Twain to Hip Hop:Crisis in Whiteness will talk about white supremacy in the aftermath of the Charleston chrurch murders.
Matt Lupica, author of The Baseball Stadium Insider, will give a dissection of all 30 mlb parks, their legendary players and famous moments.
James R. Walker will discuss his book Crack of the Bat, about the history of baseball broadcasts on the radio.
Kevin L. Mitchell will also be on board to talk about his book Last Train to Cooperstown.
In the first segment, David Hubler will talk about his book The Nats and the Grays about baseball in World War II Washington, DC as seen by two baseball teams, the Washington Nationals of the segregationist major leagues and the Homestead Grays of the Negro Baseball League and how it led to integration of the major leagues.
In the second segment, Chris Heyde, Deputy Director of the Animal Welfare Institute will discuss the abuse of dogs in South Korea.
Time to turn the lights down low and snuggle up to that special someone as the show will feature two hours of slow jams. In between the music, Ytasha Womack, author of Afrofuturism, will talk about her new project.
Robert Fitts will talk about his book Mashi: The Unfulfilled Baseball Dreams of Masanori Murakami,the First Japanese Major Leaguer.
Also I will do a musical tribute to Mel Waiters.
Bernard A. Drew will discuss his book Black Stereotypes in Popular Series Fiction, 1851 - 1955. Drew will talk about the forgotten writers who became famous in the Jim Crow era by writing stereotypical stories about African Americans.
In the second hour of the program, Paul Marko, host of The World Beyond Belief, returns to discuss further the bankers' control of the world and offers solutions to end that rule of the bankers.
In the fist segment Gary Cieradkowski will talk about his book The League of Outsider Baseball. He will examine the forgotten legends of baseball history.
The second segment will feature Paul Marco, the host of The World Beyond Belief. He will look at the issue of false flags, the Baltimore uprising, race and the unseen government.
Jason Black aka The Black Authority will talk about his documentary 7 A.M, which is about Black economic empowerment and also discuss the current situation of police brutality in the Black community.
Susan O' Brien, author of The Gluten-Free Vegetarian Family Cookbook, will talk about her book and offer recipes for you and your family.
The authors of In Pursuit of Pennants will talk about how major league teams try to create a championship team.
In the first hour of the show, Linda Haywood will discuss the book African Americans in US Foreign Policy.
The second half of the show is devoted to a open dialogue about the current situation in Baltimore with my guest Dr, Stephany Rose.
Douglas Perry will discuss his book on Eliot Ness: The Rise and Fall of an American Hero. Learn the true story of the inspiration for The Untouchables television series and movie.
The first segment of the show will be devoted to boxing and mma. The first guest will be Theresa Runstedtler, author of Jack Johnson:Rebel Sojourner. The second guest will be Jonathan Gottischall, author of The Professor in the Cage. Both guests will also give there insights into the upcoming Mayweather - Pacquio fight on May 2.
The last half of the show will feature Ramona Africa of MOVE with an update on the status of Mumia Abu Jamal.
Get the latest info and tips on the upcoming NFL draft. Who do you think your favorite team should choose as their first pick?
Harriet Brown will talk about her book on the nation's obsession with weight. The book is Body of Truth.
The editor of All About Skin: Short Fiction by Women of Color, Jina Ortiz will discuss the anthology and the problems being a woman of color writing fiction.
Robert Scheer will discuss his latest book They Know Everything About You: How Data-Collecting Corporations and Snooping Government Agencies Are Destroying Democracy.
Bob Marovich will talk about his book A City Called Heaven: Chicago and the Birth of Gospel Music.
Jeff Goldberg will discuss his book Unrivaled: UConn, Tennessee, and the 12 Years that Transcended Women's Basketball.
Mort Zachter, author of Gil Hodges: A hall of Fame Life will talk about the All Star firstbaseman and manager Gil Hodges, from his days as a Brooklyn Dodgers to managing the New York Mets.
In the second hour, John C Skipper will talk about his book Showdown at the 1964 Democratic Convention. The cast of principal players at the 1964 convention include LBJ, Fannie Lou Hamer, Miss state Democratic party members and the Miss Freedom Democratic Party.
Victor Svorinich, author of Listen to This:Miles Davis and Bitches Brew will talk about the legacy of this monumental piece of music that changed jazz.
In the second half of the show, gospel music sax player Phil French will talk about his music.
Scott Ellsworth will talk about this book The Secret Game, about a basketball game played between black and white college students in Jim Crow North Carolina in the fourties.
Legendary and pioneering sports host and journalist Ann Liguori will talk about her years of interviewing sports legends such as Hank Aaron, Wilt Chamberlain, Brett Favre, Pete Rose, Tiger Woods and others as while as discuss her foundation.
Scott Simkus will talk in the first half of the program about how Black baseball players performed under pressure during the dawn of the integration of baseball.
Rick Swaine will discuss his book The Intergration of Major League Baseball in the second half.
In honor of Women's History Month, I will be playing classic blues from such artists as Bessie Smith, Big Mama Thornton and others.
Dr. Katrina D. Thompson will discuss the origins of American entertainment from her book Ring Shout, Wheel About: The Racial Politics of Music and Dance in North American Slavery.
In the first segment, John C. Skipper will talk about his new biography on Frank Robinson, Hall of Fame baseball player. In the second segment, Roland Lazenby will talk about the second half of the NBA season.
Bob Katz will talk about his book The Whistle Blower which concerns the life and career of college referee Ed Hightower.
Jerry Haymon, author of Black Family Mafia: St. Louis, The Untold Story will discuss gang life and retemption in St. Louis.
Dr. Mireille Miller-Young will discuss her book A Taste for Brown Sugar:Black Women in ography. Plus slow jams will be played to get your Valentine's Day in full gear with that special someone.
Grammy award winning producer Teri Landi will talk about the history of the gospel group The Soul Stirrers and their years without Sam Cooke as the lead singer but as their producer on SAR Records.
A rep from the Equal Justice Initiative will discuss the group's new report, Lynching in America.
The life and legacy of civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer will be discused by Maegan Parker Brooks, author of A Voice that could Stir an Army.
Ron Pevny, founder and director of the Center for Concious Eldering, and author of Conscious Living, Conscious Aging will talk about how to live a full life as we age. Joia Nuri, human rights activist, will appear in the second half of the show to talk about aging baby boomers.
In the first half of the show Lerone A Martin will discuss his book Preaching on Wax. In the second half, Josh Ruebner returns to give an update on the current situation in Palestine.
In the first half of the show, Carolyn Finney returns to the program to talk about her book Black Faces, White Spaces. The second half features Matthew Collier of the Hockey Prospectus, giving an update of the NHL at the all star break.
Vincent Intondi, Associate Professor of History and founder of the Center for Black Studies at Montgomery College and Director of Research at the Nuclear Studies Institute of the American University in DC will talk about his book African Americans Against the Bomb:Nuclear Weapons, Colonialism and the Black Freedom Movement.
Dr. Katrina D. Thompson, Associate Professor of History at the St. Louis University will talk about the movie Selma, the historical Selma movement and the state of black film.
Nina J. Jablonski will talk about her book, Living Color: The Biological and Social Meaning of Skin Color. Jablonski believes that knowledge of the evolution and social importance of skin color can help eliminate skin-based discrimination and racism.