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12/21/2025

It’s time for our annual Christmas and Calloway show!

Please join us this (Sunday) morning as we ring in the holidays and celebrate the 109th anniversary of Cab Calloway’s birth.

Santa Claus and Minnie the Moocher will be there, I hope you can come, too.

Tune in to WRFG-Atlanta 89.3FM from 7:00 to 9:00 AM EST for a jumpin’ holiday cruise down Route 66.

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12/20/2025

Tomorrow on Plain Old Horizons on WRFG-FM: Mighty Joe Hamm is full of surprises. Recently, he asked me if I'd want to do a world music show and invite Katie Cool, another WRFG radio host, to join us. So, I had to pull out some Celia Cruz, some Toto Puente and Nat King Cole singing in Spanish from his years of entertaining in Cuba, pre-revolution, and start listening early because that show is later in the New Year. Tomorrow, though, I need to play a song that I liked from these artists these past few days. Of course, I listened to Joe Ely records this week. I've got one of his songs, too. Mostly though, it's vintage rhythm and blues with an Americana undercurrent. Mighty Joe Hamm, of course, will be bringing the music he has been listening to recently and together we will provide an interesting variety of music for your Sunday. This is also our last show of the year with our next show on January 4, 2026. Tune in tomorrow at 11 am on WRFG-FM, 89.3 on your radio dial or wrfg.org for live streaming. Thank you for listening and thank you for your support.

12/20/2025

Come hear Rovics’ powerful songs of protest songs this afternoon in the Harlon Joye Community Room at 3pm. For tickets and more information visit www.wrfg.org.

12/20/2025

Come hear Rovics’ powerful songs of protest songs on December 20th in the Harlon Joye Community Room at 3pm. For tickets and more information visit www.wrfg.org.

12/19/2025

Democracy Now! (Friday, December 19, 2025) The Trump administration on Thursday announced new measures to target hospitals and doctors providing care to trans youth. Under the new rules unveiled by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Dr. Mehmet Oz, who leads Medicaid and Medicare, the government would strip federal funding for any hospitals that provide pediatric gender-affirming care. The new rules were announced a day after the House of Representatives narrowly approved a bill that aims to criminalize providing gender-affirming medical care for any transgender person under 18 and subject providers to hefty fines and prison time.

“This is a drastic departure from any concern about science, concern about parents and their rights,” says Chase Strangio, co-director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s LGBTQ & HIV Project. “It is putting hospitals in an impossible situation, and just another example of this administration undermining and threatening all of our health and welfare.”

We also speak with Dr. Jeffrey Birnbaum, a pediatrician and adolescent medicine specialist who works with transgender youth in New York City. He says the families he works with are “terrified right now,” but vows to continue his work. “I refuse to stop providing this care, knowing that I could potentially face 10 years in prison and a felony charge. I’m willing to go down that route, if necessary.”

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12/16/2025

Democracy Now! (Tuesday, December 16, 2025) The two victims in Saturday’s mass shooting at Brown University have been identified: freshman Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov and sophomore Ella Cook. We speak to another sophomore, Zoe Weissman, who came to Brown from Parkland, Florida, where she was a student at the middle school adjacent to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School during the mass shooting that occurred there in 2018. “Because I’ve already processed all the grief and the sadness before,” says Weissman about surviving a second school shooting in her young life, “my most predominant emotion right now is, honestly, anger … because we are the only country where this happens, and … the only country that has more guns than people.”

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Listen to Democracy Now! weekdays at 5:00 p.m. on WRFG 89.3FM and WRFG.ORG. We're Atlanta's independent community radio station for progressive information and handpicked quality music.

To learn how you can support WRFG's mission, please go to WRFG.ORG.

12/16/2025