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Host Larry Lisk marks 25 years of bringing the blues to WMNF 88.5FM
Congratulations to Mo’ Blues Monday Host Larry Lisk who recently marked 25 years of playing the blues on WMNF radio. A celebrated mainstay of the Tampa blues scene, Larry is co-founder of the Suncoast Blues...
Heather McGhee, a distinguished Senior Fellow at the Public-Policy Center DEMOS deliver a speech which asks “Who is an American?” Has U.S. Democracy become as Unequal as our Economy? Perhaps the question to ask is:...
Ahmed White: Under the Iron Heel: The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers In 1917, the Industrial Workers of the World was rapidly gaining strength and members. Within a decade, this radical union...
The voice of recording Artist, Jill Scott, kicks off the program with a protest version of “The Star-Spangled-Banner” which exclaims the U.S. is ‘Not the land of the free, but the home of the slave’....
Episode 16, June 19, 2023: Commemoration of Juneteenth History at WMNF 88.5 FM
In 2021, Juneteenth became a federal holiday remembered as an end to the institutional chattel slavery in Galveston, Texas(1865). Union General Gordon Granger and his troops traveled to Galveston, Texas to announce General Order No.3...
The Long-Building War On Democracy
David Neiwert The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right’s Assault On American Democracy From a smattering of ominous right-wing compounds in the Pacific Northwest in the 1970s, to the shocking January 6, 2021 insurrection at...
JUNETEENTH and The Quest for Freedom
The real celebration of freedom in the U.S. is June 19. Today, a look at Congressional efforts to end the “Punishment Loophole” in the 13th amendment of the U.S. constitution, the search for ancestors and...
On the latest episode of “The Skinny” on WMNF Tampa 88.5-FM, we’re joined by Raegan Miller, from the Florida Freedom to Read Project, a group formed this year to fight book bans in Florida. In...
Anti-LGBT politics raging across the state of Florida, the nation and the world how are threatened communities to navigate vague laws? People are defying the law as courts weigh in while others are leaving what...
Destructive Colonial Capitalism
Life Malcolm visits the forum for a wide-ranging discussion around local, national and international politics and policies. Callers joined in to discuss a historical landmark, Jackson House, in Tampa and the struggle to restore it...
Episode 13, 05.16.2023, Entrepreneurship -Interview with Arbra Tawwab A Black Business Owners of Wellness Retreat/ ABNB in Lutz, Florida.
Episode 12, 05.09.2023-Interview with Dr. Carolyn Collins as the Chair of the Jackson House Foundation to Replicate/Preserve the Historical Jackson Rooming House Building at Its Original Site.
