(Airdate 7/17/25) Melina Abdullah is Professor and former Chair of Pan-African Studies at California State University, Los Angeles. She earned her Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of Southern California in Political Science and her B.A. from Howard University in African American Studies. She is the Director of Black Lives Matter Grassroots and a lead organizer with BLMLA. On this podcast we look at Black Lives Matters 12th anniversary, the growing number of chapters, the case of the police killing of Jabari Peoples, Wakeisha's Law, AB7 and satying courageous in troubling times.

https://www.instagram.com/blmgrassroots/
https://www.instagram.com/docmellymel/
https://www.instagram.com/diprimaradio/

(Airdate 7/17/25) Could Mayor Karen Bass win again in 2026? Can we save Cali's high-speed rail? Is Governor Newsom's trolling a petty level up? Is Megan the Stallion finally equally yoked? Does anyone care about the ESPYS? How do we stay fearless in the face of fascism and fear? Dominique & the KBLA delegation have words.

https://www.instagram.com/diprimaradio/
https://www.instagram.com/mileslowmusic/

Dr. Jerry P. Abraham, MD MPH CMQ, is President of the Los Angeles County Medical Association LACMA and currently serves as the Director of Integration & Public Health at Kedren Community Health Center, a Federally Qualified Health Center FQHC, Acute Psychiatric Hospital APH, and Historically Black Institution HBI in South Los Angeles. Dr. Abraham is also Assistant Professor of Family & Community Medicine and Psychiatry at the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science CDU, the nation’s 4th Historically Black Medical School HBMS located in South LA, and serves as the Director of the joint-initiative: the CDU-KEDREN Mobile Street Medicine Program.

https://www.kedren.org/
https://www.cdrewu.edu/
https://www.dominiquediprima.com/

Sun Goddess Beauty Center and its owner Patrice Harris are in the Wealth Building Wednesday spotlight. The convo ranges from natural hair to toxic beauty chemicals to how to transition to a healthy head of hair. Later in the podcast we try to understand the Whitehouse crisis prompted by the suppression of the Epstein Files.

https://www.instagram.com/sun_goddess_beauty_center_/
https://www.instagram.com/diprimaradio/

On this podcast we cover the fight to save Measure J in the LA County Board of Supervisors, why police car chases should be forever banned, why 2000 National Guard members are leaving L.A and we get distracted by SZA and Nicky Minaj beefing on Twitter.

https://www.instagram.com/diprimaradio/
https://www.instagram.com/mileslowmusic/
https://www.instagram.com/kbla1580/

Paul Wallace, MD, MPA, is a highly respected celebrity cosmetic dermatologist providing medical dermatology services in Ladera Heights at Wallace Skin & Body Institute. After earning his undergraduate degree from UC Berkeley, Dr. Wallace went on to Harvard Medical School, earned a master’s in Public Administration from the University of Missouri, and studied urban and rural medicine at Oklahoma University. Dr. Wallace later pursued his residency training in Dermatology and completed a Fellowship in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the Charles Drew/Martin Luther King, Jr. Medical Center in Los Angeles.

https://www.wallaceskinandbodyinstitute.com/
https://www.instagram.com/wallaceskinandbody/
https://www.instagram.com/diprimaradio/

The phone lines are heating up and the talking points are getting torched. The Trump DOJ just rescinded bond hearings for millions of migrants and they will go straight to detention instead. That will cost billions. How is this creating more jobs, opportunity and space for American citizens? Who is profiting from ICE private prisons? Where will the new low cost labor come from? On this pod Dominique & the delegation take a hard look at this and other issues.

 https://www.instagram.com/diprimaradio/

Derek Steele is the Executive Director of the Social Justice Learning Institute (SJLI), an organization dedicated to improving the education, health, and well-being of youth and communities of color. Steele, a former engineer who transitioned into the field of health equity advocacy, has been at SJLI for more than a decade. He is a member of the Care First Community Investment Board and sits on the Measure G Implementation Task Force. On this podcast we look at how the hasty campaign for Measure G left LA's Measure J vulnerable and what we can do to save it. (Call into the Board of Supervisor's meeting at (877) 226-8163 code: 1336503)

https://measureg.lacounty.gov/
https://lindseyhorvath.lacounty.gov/reaffirm-measure-j/
https://www.dominiquediprima.com/

A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr. is a music historian, pianist, composer, and Professor Emeritus of Music at the University of Pennsylvania. A widely-published writer, he’s the author of Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop, and The Amazing Bud Powell: Black Genius, Jazz History and the Challenge of Bebop. He is a producer, label head and leader of the band Dr. Guy's Musiqology. On this podcast we look forward with new artist "Bridge" and looking back as we learn about musicians who have recently passed.

https://www.instagram.com/musiqologymediagroup/
https://www.instagram.com/diprimaradio/
https://www.guthrieramsey.com/music

Yoga instructor, meditation teacher, astrologer and life coach Saharah Ali unpacks Uranus in Gemini encouraging us to "listen with a soft heart." Black Lives Matter Grassroots, Flint Chapter leadership team is in the building. DeWan Robinson, President and Chairman Hubert N. Roberts join us in studio to share their celebration of twelve years of activism and share the mission and methodology of their Michigan chapter one of fifty-one now active nationally and even internationally.

https://blmgrassroots.org/media/
https://www.instagram.com/diprimaradio/
https://saharahali.com/