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ToHealDC 10am Mon July14: STANDING UP to Support Immigrant Communities in the DMV🌟a Salute to Arturo Griffiths, a hero f...
07/14/2025

ToHealDC 10am Mon July14: STANDING UP to Support Immigrant Communities in the DMV🌟a Salute to Arturo Griffiths, a hero for the people

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Building Bridges radio, WPFW 89.3 FM DC & wpfwfm.org, Mon. July 14, 2025 * 7 PM: Immigrant Workers “Immigrant Workers Es...
07/13/2025

Building Bridges radio, WPFW 89.3 FM DC & wpfwfm.org, Mon. July 14, 2025 * 7 PM: Immigrant Workers “Immigrant Workers Essential, United, Unyielding.”

Listen to AfricaNow! July 9, 1:00PM (U.S. Eastern) on WPFW 89.3 FM in the Washington, DC Metropolitan area or at www.wpf...
07/09/2025

Listen to AfricaNow! July 9, 1:00PM (U.S. Eastern) on WPFW 89.3 FM in the Washington, DC Metropolitan area or at www.wpfwfm.org featuring--Protests in Kenya Dissected with Valentine Githae a member of the recently formed organization 625 Movement and musician/activist GT Kariuki, and both are part Kenya's Gen Z Movement in the Kenyan Diaspora.  The conversation focuses on topics such as the genesis of the demonstrations, the demands, police brutality, the political class's credibility deficit, the struggle for a more just and accountable government, economic problems and more. 

Support AfricaNow! and your community station WPFW.  Donate online: visit https://pledge.wpfwfm.org/index.php and then on Step 1: Contribution scroll down to AfricaNow! to make your donation to the show. You can also text to donate by simply texting WPFWFM (not case sensitive) to 801801 and then follow the instructions. Or on our CashApp, which is $WPFWFM write it is for AfricaNow! and include your email address. Thank you.

Building Bridges radio, WPFW 89.3 FM DC, Streaming WPFWFM.org: Mon., July 7, 2025 * 7 PM: BDS Histadrut; Israel's Killin...
07/07/2025

Building Bridges radio, WPFW 89.3 FM DC, Streaming WPFWFM.org: Mon., July 7, 2025 * 7 PM: BDS Histadrut; Israel's Killing Palestinian Journalists

Brother AH's Collectors Next Generation in SoundMondays 8pm to 10pm89.3 FM and wpfwfm.orgJuly 2025 Hosting ScheduleJuly ...
07/05/2025

Brother AH's Collectors Next Generation in Sound
Mondays 8pm to 10pm
89.3 FM and wpfwfm.org

July 2025 Hosting Schedule

July 7 Black Ink
July 14 Brother Craig
Jult 21 Brother Craig
Julet 28 Herb Taylor

“This Fourth of July is yours, not mine,” ⬇️Douglass declared to his Rochester audience.“You may rejoice, I must mourn.”...
07/05/2025

“This Fourth of July is yours, not mine,” ⬇️

Douglass declared to his Rochester audience.

“You may rejoice, I must mourn.”

The speech was a turning point in abolitionist rhetoric, for sure.

And since delivering the address almost 200 years ago, Douglass’ words still ring with chilling relevance.

In the age of the prison industrial complex, and especially as we see the expansion of the PIC's immigrant detention arm, his questions remain disturbingly timely.

This weekend, Americans celebrate freedom and independence, as an increasingly openly fascist state opts to trade constitutional rights for jail time.

Douglass' speech invites us not only to reflect, but to interrogate who's still excluded from the promises of democracy and how we can fight to expand those freedoms.

When we take a page from his speech, we're reminded that

true freedom--true patriotism--lies in the unwavering demand for justice,

not in mere celebrations on government holidays.
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Absolute giants of the culture, these two ⬇️Today, we’re proud to bring you “The Poetic Genius of Sekou Sundiata and the...
07/04/2025

Absolute giants of the culture, these two ⬇️

Today, we’re proud to bring you “The Poetic Genius of Sekou Sundiata and the Musical Innovation of Sly Stone”-- a full day of programming, from 9am to 7pm, that’s guaranteed to bring you the medicine you did know you needed in these trying times.

Make sure you're tuning in right now đź“», because the coverage has been amazing.

For the uninitiated, Sekou Sundiata was a truth-teller with a jazz musician’s ear and a revolutionary’s heart. He infused spoken word with the rhythms of jazz, blues, and the sincerity of gospel.

His pieces on democracy, diaspora, and everyday survival are still as relevant as they are urgent today, especially in a media context devoid of transparency and authenticity.

Sly Stone, the funk visionary behind Sly and the Family Stone, rearranged American music to create something radical and refreshing.

With a multiracial, genre-bending band and a catalog that ranged from joyful anthems to raw social critique, Sly pushed us to imagine a freer, funkier world in the midst of Cold War tensions.
Tune in today from 9am to 7pm EST on 89.3 FM or WPFWFM.org

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As one of our followers pointed out yesterday, the uncanny alignment between the lives of Medgar Evers and Patrice Lumum...
07/03/2025

As one of our followers pointed out yesterday,

the uncanny alignment between the lives of Medgar Evers and Patrice Lumumba reveals a deeper truth about the interconnectedness of Black struggle across cultures and continents.

Even though they were separated by geography, language, and colonizers, these brothers were unified by a shared drive to confront the white supremacist violence that harmed their people so much,

and to realize for their people the right to dignity and self-determination.

Both were born into violently unequal systems, both rose to national prominence by organizing their people against these systems, both were gifted orators whose voices carried messages of liberation,

and both were assassinated at the peak of their influence, cut down by agents of the state.

Their parallel paths teach us a powerful lesson about the global nature of anti-Blackness and the necessity of transnational solidarity.

It was true 100 years ago, and its that much more true today.

Evers and Lumumba remind us that the same systems of imperialism, racial capitalism, and state violence, mutate and manifest differently across the globe,

but are rooted in shared ideologies of European domination.

The thing is, today our capacities to connect, to really see each other across struggles and geographies, is unlike anything the world has ever seen.

The alignment of their lives challenges us to build bridges,

and we have an unprecedented capacity today to bridge the gap between Mississippi and Congo,

to form meaningful bonds of solidarity across countless causes.

Liberation is a human project,

and it's ongoing.
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WPFW 89.3FM 6-7PM July 2, 2025 MEDGAR EVERS: “ SEEDS of FREEDOM” Guests: 🌟SNCC activist + Freedom School teacher—they  h...
07/02/2025

WPFW 89.3FM 6-7PM July 2, 2025 
MEDGAR EVERS: “ SEEDS of FREEDOM” 

Guests: 🌟SNCC activist + Freedom School teacher—they  helped create & perform play abt Medgar 61 yrs ago (1964), shown in Mississippi & NYC🌟DC TEEN (& Co-host) who just played FANNIE LOU HAMMER at Kennedy Center on Juneteenth🌟SNCC 

She-roe JOYCE LADNER, Mississippi native & young Freedom Fighter, mentored by Medgar. 

Host: Joni w teen co-host Zacaria 

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Wednesday, July 2,  noon until midnightFrom Mississippi to the Congo: 100 Years of Lumumba and MedgarWhile Medgar Evers ...
07/02/2025

Wednesday, July 2,  noon until midnight

From Mississippi to the Congo: 100 Years of Lumumba and Medgar

While Medgar Evers and Patrice Lumumba were not personally acquainted, their lives and struggles are often commemorated together due to the parallels in their commitment to fighting for the self-determination and liberation of African people.   WPFW celebrates the centennial of this parallel vision with From Mississippi to the Congo: 100 Years of Lumumba and Medgar, Wednesday, July 2, noon until midnight, on WPFW, building a better world one broadcast at a time! 

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