Backpacking America

Appearing on this episode of BPA Professor Compton Chair of the Africana & Latino Studies Department at SUNY Oneonta. We discuss contradictions with the campus diversity mission and we discuss issues that equally concern students and faculty alike.

In this live episode of BPA I talk about the Mass Detention of undocumented immigrants, and how their treatment follows the Risk Assessment for Genocide outlines by the United Nations. I then proceed to discuss SUCO's use of funding to satisfy investor needs, rather than student, faculty, and manual workers needs.

Professor Torsyan is a Media Studies Professor at SUNY Oneonta who also used to live in the former Soviet Republic of Armenia. Join us for a thoughtful conversation on misconceptions of Soviet life.

Dr. Ashford is a Professor of African & Latino Studies at SUNY Oneonta. In this episode of Backpacking America we discuss the intersections of race and class by analyzing the Tulsa Massacre of 1921 and the Battle of Blair Mountain of 1921.

David Fayemiwo and myself talk about rap, music, and Davids upcoming album in our Advanced Audio class.

Brendo and myself talk about bands, upcoming shows, and all of the music that's in store for Oneonta during the Spring 2020 semester.

Myself and Mike discuss the lead up to the Iowa Caucus, a brief history of Pirate Radio, and Independent media.

In this live episode I discuss Bernie's 2020 platform, the controversy surrounding Kobe Bryant's complicated past and death, criticisms of the media, and addressing how the coronavirus is being over exagerated and is leading to racist actions being taken against Chinese culture and the Chinese people.

Myself and my roommate Mike talk about what living in a SUNY Dorm was like.

The live episode of Backpacking America, hosted by WONY 90.9 FM! In this episode I discuss Pineapple Pizza, the DMV and how the unity previously found there is threatened, the Gun rights rally in Richmond, Virginia, and another instance of Homophobia in Oneonta, NY