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Michelle 4X and Harold Muhammad

Imam Abdul Rahman Sultan:

The first Imam of the Nation Of Islam.is the Arabic and Islamic Civilizations instructor at Muhammad University of Islam in Chicago and great-grandson of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, leader and patriarch of the Nation of Islam.He was recently appointed to the position of Imam by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan.James Mtume has done something unique in the music business: he has had a successful career while preserving his integrity. A successful session man, songwriter, bandleader, and producer, Mtume has produce Mary J. Blige. Mtume, the son of jazz saxophonist Jimmy Heath, first made in-roads into the music business in the early '70s when he moved from the city of brotherly love to New York. There he met and played with greats such as Freddie Hubbard and Sonnie Rollins, before being asked to join Miles Davis' touring group as a percussionist.

The Divas of Culture:

Michelle Materre and Aisha Karefa-Smart Interview:

 

Chicana filmmaker Cristina Ibarra takes a sideways look at the U.S./Mexico border to reveal new angles of our American landscape. Her production company, Undocumented Films, is developing films such Las Marthas, a documentary about Mexican American debutantes dressed in colonial gowns for George Washington’s birthday, and her indie feature, Love & Monster Trucks, about an 18-year-old Chicana artist eager to escape her 4x4 truck-obsessed familia.  The PBS series Independent Lens will broadcast Las Marthas this coming February.  She is a Rockefeller, NYFA and Creative Capital fellow.  Cristina is a founding member of the self-distribution collective SubCine.com and a member of the National Association of Latino Independent Producers

Jojopahmaria Nsoroma returns for the fourth of a six-part series on the Age of Illumination – the post-modern evolution of humanity.  In this segment, Jojopah continues to discuss the elemental Love Postures and primal Fear Postures.  She’ll provide insights on how loving and authentic relationships emerge from personal sovereignty and vulnerability, which comes from a willingness to feel deeply and experience “not knowing.”  

Talibah Newman is Texas raised, NYC grown, and International bound. She is wrapping up her graduate studies at Columbia University's School of the Arts for Directing and is currently in post production on her thesis film, “Sweet Honey Chile”. She is currently working on her debut feature script and a television pilot titled, "Ivy". Her latest film, “Busted on Brigham Lane,” can be seen on HBO.

With Your Host:

Rudolph Muhammad

Shango Blake The Hip-Hop Principal interviews:

This week on T.R.U. SKOOL: Destroying The School to Prison Pipeline within Communities of Color

 Join us this week on TRU SKOOL, with your host Shango Blake, for our talk with Hip Hop Artist, Activist, and Educator Maurice Williams aka MoeSlinga: MoeSlinga will tell us his story about the challenges growing up in Far Rockaway Queens, his experiences as a student within in NYC Board of Education, The trails of being incarcerated, How he went from being a prisoner to earning his Master Degree, and what we must do to break the school to prison pipeline. In addition, we will talk to MoeSlinga about how he is currently using his artistry to educate and uplift his community.

New Engineer Yvette

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Queen Nzingha

Interviews: Sundan Muhammad 

Youth Creation Community Outreach 

Founded in 1999 by husband and wife, Reamer and Sudan Muhammad. As a way of serving the community, they would visit shelters for the homeless and serve soup, sandwiches, juice, and donated shoes and clothing. In 2004, Bedside Harp was added to their program where Indigo Bleu, Sudan's eldest daughter would play in hospitals and nursing homes to aid in healing the sick.The harp is a healing instrument that repairs damaged cells in the body.In Feb

Monett Hereford, mother of slain daughter Edwinta Hereford, speaks with the Unlawful Captives Team.  May 16, 2010Edwinta’s nuded body was tossed on the 105 Freeway (Los Angeles, CA.) near the Garfield Avenue exit. Edwinta was 19 years old. An arrest has not been made yet. Monett shares her and family pain and scars left from this horrible murder of her daughter.

Muhammad Abduallah 

Tackles the hard hittinf issues that plague the Latino and Black Diaspora!!!!!! With Solutions from the Nation Of Islam under the Leadership of The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan....

Muhammad Abdullah 

 

Monica Carrillo Zegarra, comunicadora social de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Perú, con estudios de Análisis Político Internacional (UARM)y Derecho Internacional (Oxford). Fundadora de LUNDU organización afroperuana que promueve paradigmas positivos sobre afroperuanos en los medios de comunicación y la lucha contra el racismo, sexismo, violencia de género. Ha "tocado la campana" en NASDAQ Bolsa de Valores de Nueva York, donde brindó un discurso por el Dia Internacional de la Mujer. Ha sido keynote con el actor Richard Gere por los derechos de las mujeres. Su vida está documentada en el "Mapa Humano" de Google Earth donde está destacada líder peruana, Ha sido imagen de la campaña "Every Human Has Rights" de la organización The Elders, fundada por Nelson Mandela. La Universidad Rutger la reconoció en el 2010 entre 16 mujeres del mundo que viven en situaciones de riesgo por la defensa de los derechos Humanos. Su trabajo ha sido documentado por MTV Europa, PBS y ha merecido artículos de cadenas como CNN, Aljazeera, Univisión. Ha publicado el libro de poesía UNICROMA y el disco del mismo nombre. El análisis de su poesía es motivo de conferencias académicas y tesis de maestría y doctorado en universidades de Perú, Chile, Argentina e Italia y ha sido traducida al catalán y alemán. Ha sido co-redactora de la Declaración Mundial de Jóvenes contra el Racismo de la Conferencia Mundial contra el Racismo de la ONU (2001) y participado como líder política y conferencista en más de 20 países.

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