April 2015 e - Newsletter
Interim Program Director
Mario Murillo


Dear WBAI Family,

 

After several months of meeting with a wide array of people both within and outside of WBAI, I'm pleased to say that another round of programming schedule shifts are upon us.  

 

Starting, in April, we'll begin to see some notable changes in the sound of our mornings with the Monday and Tuesday Talkback slots. On Monday, veteran civil rights activist Ron Daniels, aka "The Professor", will take over the airwaves from 10:00am to noon with "Vantage Point." On Tuesdays, attorney, author and activist Gloria J. Brown Marshall will offer a critical look at our judicial system. Both new hosts will join the daily Talkback line-up that already includes John McDonagh and Malachy McCourt on Wednesdays (Talk-Mac), and John Kane on Thursdays (Let's Talk). 

 

Peter Bochan, host of All Mixed Up  will now be heard on Monday nights from 10:00pm to midnight, kicking off the week long WBAI Evening Music Strip which already includes World of Jazz with Dwight Brewster on Tuesdays, and Underground Railroad with J Smooth on Fridays.  Joining this diverse musical line-up will be Rebel D�az on Wednesday nights, who'll bring an edgy, Afro-Latino hip-hop feel to the WBAI airwaves starting on April 8th.  

 

Meanwhile, on Thursdays, we'll present a new idea we're calling "Musical Chairs," a rotating space for music specials by a wide array of in-house and invited guest hosts from outside. On Thursday, April 16th, a special look at Black Radio and the Music Industry, will be hosted and produced by legendary radio personality Bob Law. This new musical line-up will showcase the wide range of artists and musicians that make up the NYC music scene, and will allow us to air live events in the very near future.  

 

For those up at 5am on Sundays, we have added Live With Dharma Punx hosted by Josh Korda. If you aren't up that early you can listen to the show and all WBAI shows on our newly designed, more user friendly Archives. Josh's talks address "...an authentic spiritual practice. To be authentic we need to be willing to express our dissatisfaction with society's oppressive systems and capitalist propaganda, responding in our own way."

 

Exciting additions to the program line-up also include the Reverend Billy Gospel Show. Reverend Billy will be making his WBAI debut on Wednesday, April 15th from 2:00 to 3:00pm, as part of the afternoon arts strip.

 

As a result of the changes in the schedule, a number of programs are being displaced, at least temporarily. In the coming weeks and months, we will be working out ways to reconfigure some of these programs. Perhaps finding new time slots for them, and also developing alternative ways to get them to you in other platforms such as podcasts and other on-demand tools.

 

As is typical of community radio, this is a work in progress. Your input and suggestions are always welcome. So feel free to make contact.

 

And keep on supporting your radio station, WBAI!

 

Looking forward, always,

Mario A. Murillo, Interim Program Director

 

Host Highlights
 
David Kenney of  Everything Old is New Again received MAC's (Manhattan Association of Cabarets  )Board of Directors Award on March 26th at BB King's Blues Club, NYC.

Congratulations to Daulton Anderson, host of High Praize, who has won the Stellar 2015 "Reach Award" Gospel Announcer of the Year.
Michael Smith of Law and Disorder is being honored as a Champion of Justice  by the New York City chapter of the National Lawyers Guild on May 29th at Riverside Church.  The book that he co-authored with Michael Ratner called "Who Killed Che?  How the CIA Got Away With Murder" was translated into Spanish by a Cuban publisher and featured in February at the 24th Annual Havana International Book Fair.  

Liz Hill is the producer of First Voices Indigenous Radio with Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse. She is Executive Director/CEO of Ala Kukui Hana Retreat in Hana, Maui, Hawai'i. She also has a public relations firm with clients across the U.S. and serves as publicist, booking agent and manager for Mohawk blues singer-songwriter and guitarist Jimmy Wolf.
Events @ WBAI

WBAI partners with BRIC- Brooklyn Independent Media for a live broadcast of their next town hall.  Big Money & Politics: Can Your Voice Count? airs on Wednesday, April 8 at 7pm. This town hall will take a look at the inequality created when wealth holds the power to make policies that affect us all.


WBAI will air the Opening Reparations Rally speakers live from Mother AME Zion Church in Harlem on Thursday, April 9, from 7-10pm and the Concluding Reparations Rally from the First AME Zion Church in Brooklyn on Sunday, April 11, from 7-10pm.

WBAI Online + On-air Community Calendars 
WBAI publishes an online calendar of events and call-to-action announcements that we think might be of interest to our listeners and members. As a community service, we also offer the on-air Community Bulletin Board to help organizations publicize their events to the community at large.
Submit both web and on-air announcements using the online form HERE.
In Memoriam
Dr. Ben

WBAI mourns the passing of Dr. Yosef Alfredo Antonio Ben-Jochannan (Dr. Ben)
.

 

To some, Mr. Ben-Jochannan was a sage, a self-taught scholar who dedicated his life to uncovering the suppressed history of a people, challenging narratives that had written Africa out of world history.

 

In the 1960s, Mr. Ben-Jochannan emerged as prominent figure in Harlem, pushing his anticolonial message to its limit, claiming that the very foundations of Western civilization, including Greek philosophy, Judaism and Christianity, were African in origin.  

 

He regularly lectured to crowded auditoriums; he was a disciple of Marcus Garvey and a confidant of Malcolm X, and he appeared on stages with Amiri Baraka, Al Sharpton, James Brown and Louis Farrakhan.

 

"He is a kind of godfather to all of us in African and Afro-American studies," Cornel West, the author and activist, said. "I salute him. I was blessed to study at his feet."

 

Intern + Volunteer @ WBAI


Applications are accepted on a rolling basis for credit and non-credit internships in the following areas: marketing, accounting, event planning, social networking, program and news production, web management and graphic design. Email a resume HERE

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Samantha Pfleger



WBAI INTERN OF THE MONTH:
SAMANTHA  PFLEGER 
Samantha grew up in the Seattle area and moved to New York City to attend NYU. She will be graduating this May with a degree in Economics. She is passionate about music and loves to travel and hopefully, will be able to incorporate either of those into a future in radio.



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