Black Whole Radio

Host: Lesa Marie Belle

 

Inspring Gospel Music. Comtemporary and Traditional

BED TIME HORROR STORIES:

"THEIR EFFECT ON THE ADULT MIND"

"An Analysis of Grimm's Fairy Tales"

Michelle 4X and Harold Muhammad

With Special Guest:

Tracyann Williams is the Director of Academic Advising in the School of Undergraduate Studies at The New School. She is also an Instructor of Literature, offering courses since 1998 in African American studies, gender studies, and literature. She also taught Composition and Literature at LaGuardia College/CUNY for several years. She has received numerous awards and recognition including the Distinguished University Teaching Award from The New School in 2004 and a Helena Rubenstein Foundation fellowship. Her current research focuses on mixed race women in modern fictions.

The Divas of Culture: Michelle Materre and Aisha Karefa-Smart speak with,

 

 

Calypso Rose an exuberant and inspiring ambassador for the Caribbean, is the uncontested and much decorated diva of Calypso music. With more than 800 recorded songs, she continues to be a pioneer and champion of women’s rights, as she travels the world making music. French-Cameroonian filmmaker Pascale Obolo spends four years with Calypso Rose on a very personal journey. Traveling to Paris, New York, Trinidad and Tobago and to her ancestral home in Africa, we learn more about Calypso Rose in each place, and the many faces and facets of her life. The daughter of an illiterate Trinidadian fisherman, Calypso Rose was one of ten children, who at the age of 9 was sent to live with relatives in Tobago. At 15 she wrote her first song and launched  her career. 

Jojopahmaria Nsoroma returns for the third of a six-part series on the Age of Illumination – the post-modern evolution of humanity. 

Crystal Renée Emery’s professional background spans more than 30 years of experience in the entertainment industry as a producer, writer, and director. 

Talibah Newman wrapping up her graduate studies at Columbia University's School of the Arts for Directing. 

SABRINA SCHMIDT GORDON has been committed to cultural and social issue documentary filmmaking for over a decade. 

Our Rhineland follows two mixed-race sisters during the Third Reich era. Written & directed by Faren Humes.

With Your Host:

Rudolph Muhammad

Join us this week on TRU SKOOL,  with your host Shango Blake, for our Pt.2 talk with Dr. Bessie W. Blake: Educator, Author, and Lecturer Dr. Blake was recently invited to be a guest of Congress; which honored the 100th anniversary of the birth of Rosa Parks, The Mother of The Civil Rights Movement by unveiling a statue of Mrs. Parks and placing it in the Statuary of the Capitol. We will be discussing the importance of Adult Education Programs, and developing the next generations of authors within our community.

Dr. Bessie W, . Blake, author and winner of USA Book News’ 2007 Best Book Award for Speak to the Mountain, is an internationally known educator.  She started her professional career in the NYC public school system teaching English at middles schools in Corona and Springfield Gardens, Queens.  Her interest in alternative modes of learning led her to serve three years as an instructor at Muhammad University of Islam in Harlem.  Inspired by her work with parents, she earned her doctorate in curriculum and teaching and enjoyed a twenty-year tenure as Academic Dean, of the School of New Resources, an adult degree program at the College of New Rochelle

Host: 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 February of 2012, they launched a Youth Creation Community Outreach Magazine, designed to focus on the positive achievemnts of people in the community, recognize Pioneers who have paved the way for us and aid the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan by displaying Islam and civilization throughout their magazine.

With Your Host:

Jason X

El Presidente Hugo Chebez

(Revoluntionaray? Dictator? or Hero?)

The "Time For Truth" Team

with Special Guest

Abel Muhammad, the Latino Representative of the Nation Of Islam.

Do an in-depth analysis into the life and times of:

Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías was the President of Venezuela from 1999 until his death in 2013. He was formerly the leader of the Fifth Republic Movement political party from its foundation in 1997.

Muhammad Abdullah

LaShawn Allen-Muhammad, CEO, The Entrepreneurs of New York. Will Host A Tribute To Honor The Memory of  Lou Myers: Actor Lou Myers, best known for his role as ornery restaurant owner Mr. Gaines on the television series "A Different World," has died at age 76. A native of Chesapeake, W.Va., Myers had returned to the state and lived in the Charleston area. His TV credits included "NYPD Blue," ''E.R.," ''The Cosby Show," ''Touched by an Angel," and more. He also appeared in a number of films, including "Tin Cup," ''How Stella Got Her Groove Back," ''Wedding Planner" and more.   "A Different World" ran from 1987-93 and originally starred Lisa Bonet from "Cosby" fame. Myers said he owed his introduction to Hollywood to Bill Cosby.     Myers also appeared on Broadway including "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" African American Style and "Oprah Winfrey's The Color Purple." In 2005, the Appalachian Education Initiative listed Myers as one of 50 "Outstanding Creative Artists" from the state of West Virginia and featured him in their coffee table book Art & Soul. He began singing jazz and blues with the touring company of "Negro Music in Vogue,. His Cabaret show has been acclaimed in Berlin, Paris, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and New York, as well as Los Angeles. Myers was chairman of Global Business Incubation that helps urban small businesses and chairman of the Lou Myers Scenario Motion Picture Institute/Theatre. He won a NAACP "Best Actor" award for playing the Stool Pigeon in "King Hedley II," a play by August Wilson.