This is a special broadcast announcement seeking your help this holiday season to feed and assist the homeless.

In this day and age, things are hard for everyone, but that does not mean that we are incapable of helping each other. Even if all you can give is 25 cents, you will have helped to feed someone with even less then you. All it takes to become a community that begins to heal itself, is to be willing to believe that what you have to offer can help.

One city at a time, we will come together to raise our brothers and sisters up and out of want. For we need all the members of our community to help us create a better world, and sometimes, that means giving what we can to help, even if what we can give means we may choose to go without for a while so we can assure that someone else can begin.

So this Thanksgiving, let’s turn Words into Food



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Join me this Sunday as we talk about the life and work of Mazisi Kunene and read from the public domain version of: Emperor Shaka the Great - A Zulu Epic.

Mazisi Kunene who has died aged 76, was one of Africa's greatest poets and literary icons.

He was a talented writer whose inspiration was the history of Zulu people, the struggle against apartheid in South Africa and the oral tradition of African literature.

He was as cosmopolitan as he was nationalistic, espousing an African literary and cultural ethos as the likes of Chinua Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiongo and Wole Soyinka.

Kunene's works were originally written in Zulu before they were translated into other languages. He believed that true African literature must be written in African languages. The problem about writing in a foreign language, he said, is that one is not in control of it and its psychology.

He regarded the affirmation of an African aesthetic, especially with regard to poetics, as an important dimension of the freedom of African people, on the continent and in the diasporas, from the degrading stereotypes and literary pretensions of the West.

Kunene stressed that his literary goal is the re-telling of African history in a way he believed would make it relevant and authentic to the non-African.

But he was not only a celebrated writer, he was also a political activist and a staunch supporter and a leader within the military wing of the ANC in the days of apartheid. (excerpt from 'Literary Icon and Anti-Apartheid Campaigner.' NewBlackmagazine. Shola Adenekan. 2009)

Join host Cassandra Tribe as she explores the intricacies of Rhyming in Poetry on the next episode of 15 minutes.

Join Sunday Radio as we present "Leo Tolstoi - Beyond the Art" on Shaman. Every episode of Shaman explores the work of artists whose passionate beliefs are wholly integrated in the motivation and execution of their work. Activists, philosophers, theorists whose creative work served as a vehicle to communicate to the world in hopes of not just defining a wrong, but offering a solution to heal the ills of culture and society.

Rumi, Hafiz, Naomi Shahab Nye, Hariharan and Jagjit Singh are known for their poetry written in the form of the ghazal. Listen and discover the rich history of one of the world's oldest forms of poetry and learn what is takes to write one yourself. Hosted by Cassandra Tribe.

If you think 5-7-5 is all it takes to create a Haiku, think again. The Japanese form of Haiku is a short form of poetry that is subtle, intricate and often misunderstood in the Western World. Join host Cassandra Tribe as Sunday Radio presents "Haiku" on 15 Minutes.

Join host Cassandra Tribe and special guest, Michael Edigio Quigg, as they read from The Letters of Robert Browning and Elisabeth Barrett Barrett (volume 1: 1845-1846)on a special one hour episode of Sunday Radio. Robert Browning and Elisabeth Barrett Barrett (Elisabeth Barrett Browning) are known as much for their individual works as writers as for the nature of their romance. Their marriage had a sense of spiritual kinship and shared artistic purpose that has been an inspiration to all who have come to know their story. Nowhere is this so evident then in the letters they shared during their early courtship and that grew into a powerful union of passion, poetry and commitment.

This book was first published in 1900 by Smith, Elder & Company in England and was edited by Robert Browning.

The letters in this volume cover the beginning of their relationships, courtship and their eventual elopement and secret marriage in 1846. This collection was edited by Robert Browning after Elisabeth’s death in 1861.
Works by Elisabeth Barett Browing include: Sonnets from the Portugese (1850), Casa Guidi Windows (1851) and Aurora Leigh (1857).
Robert Browning is best know for his works: Men and Women (1855) and Dramatis Personae (1864).

This book is available in the public domain.