Meet some of my Radio Justice LA colleagues and fellow broadcasters: Xalli Algo and Hector Marquez of Ni Santas, Ni Pasivas; Adam Rice of Music To Resist By; Fernando Velazquez of El Sur en El Norte; and RJLA Visionary CEO Leslie Radford.

From hard-hitting news to music, talk radio y programas en espanol, the goal of Radio Justice is to provide media to inform and empower local communities, and to promote and advocate for social justice. Radio Justice LA at RadioJustice.org Power for the All Oppressed People!

My fellow UCLA alumnae, Althea Moses, shares from her International Bestseller Irresistibly Fit the story of coming to America and her journey to become a record-breaking Olympian. When Althea first placed her feet on the track and runway, no one expected the skinny, disadvantaged, and ambitious teenager to become a triple-jump Olympian. Irresistibly Fit is not only a mini-memoir but also a mind, spirit and physical training guide.

Conversation Piece on the scene…hear from Lead Organizer, Sergio Vargas of Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE), and from tenants Jenise Dixon and Maria Luz Ortiz (Danny Acevedo Interpreter)…all of them and more spoke at the press conference in Downtown Los Angeles City Hall to get the Tenant Anti-Harassment Ordinance passed bringing justice to renters who experience daily harassment from their landlords. acceaction.org

Radio Justice Community Calendar spotlight on Women & Money with some startling statistics.

Sha Givens with her Butterfly Project, I Can Fly International, discusses how she rescues girls in East Africa who are victims of child marriage, female genital mutilation, tribal war and poverty. Hear how & why she does it.

I Can Fly International Butterfly Project organization provides quality education, rescue programs, shelter and meals for women and children who face adversity every day of their lives in Eastern Africa.

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Hear Ashanti Daniel's story: Registered Nurse, BSN who went from being a perfect picture of health to using a wheelchair. After a 9 month search of an answer, She discovers how she was blindsided with a diagnosis of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME). Learn about ME this week on Conversation Piece for ME Awareness Month.

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One of my UCLA Alums Michael Buttler talks about generational wealth through homeownership, but first Stasi Cusack-Mercedez with Downtown Women’s Action Coalition of LACAN to tell us about LACAN Culture Hour and the upcoming Freedom Singers concert series on Thursdays at 5pm & 6pm on Zoom and Facebook live. Go to Los Angeles Community Action Network on Facebook for details.

For info about LACAN check out Cangress.org

When Councilmember Mitch O'Farrell turned the water and electricity turned off, the unhoused built showers, and drinking water sources to compensate for ones that O’Farrell had taken away from them.

They had constructed a community kitchen that was opened to all housed and unhoused residents and regularly prepared meals for both. Does that sound like community blight to you?

Meet the people who lived at Echo Park Lake before the city moved them out: Monica of Echo Park Lake, and Ayman and Wallstreet of Echo Park Rise Up. Thanks to General Dogon of Los Angeles Community Action Network (LACAN) Cangress.org

CEO Les Higgins of Triangle Christian Services whose single goal is to “Keep Families Together” and to do their part in making the world a better place for all. Founded by the late Rev Dr. Frank Higgins, Sr. Pastor Les continues the legacy of his father, as they serve the community through Your Pathway Home the Women’s and Children’s Shelter, Family Preservation Network and Food and Clothing Distribution. January Dove, one of the shelter’s guest, will share her journey of struggle, resiliency, of fear to safety to hope to keeping her family together on finding her pathway home...Real People, Real Families, Real Lives.

For more information about Your Pathway Home and Triangle Christian Services and how to support with donations or in-kind services go to TriangleFamily.org.

Thandisizwe Chimurenga award-winning, freelance journalist based in Los Angeles, and author of “No Doubt: The Murder(s) of Oscar Grant,” and “Reparations ... Not Yet: A Case for Reparations and Why We Must Wait.” She came to journalism through activism, understanding how powerful media can be for destroying or building grassroots, revolutionary change. Hear Her Story...

How to Pay for College with my UCLA fellow alumni Benny Blaydes of Santa Monica College, and hear from two scholarship recipients (Marcelo Clark & Oladapo Sangokoya) of the Benny C. Blaydes UCLA Black Alumni (UBAA) Scholarship.

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