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Tonight Full Circle celebrates the West Oakland Juneteenth Celebration organized by B-H Brilliant Minds Project. On tonight’s show we'll hear interviews with community organizations that were recipients of the Huey P. Newton Trail Blazer and Legacy Award. We’ll also speak with Barbara Howard the founder of the B-H Brilliant Minds West Oakland Juneteenth celebration and her plans to pass the torch to the next generation of leaders. And we will also hear from some of those young folks. All that tonight on Full Circle.

Tonight Full Circle celebrates the West Oakland Juneteenth Celebration organized by B-H Brilliant Minds Project. On tonight’s show we'll hear interviews with community organizations that were recipients of the Huey P. Newton Trail Blazer and Legacy Award. We’ll also speak with Barbara Howard the founder of the B-H Brilliant Minds West Oakland Juneteenth celebration and her plans to pass the torch to the next generation of leaders. And we will also hear from some of those young folks. All that tonight on Full Circle.

Tonight Full Circle celebrates the West Oakland Juneteenth Celebration organized by B-H Brilliant Minds Project. On tonight’s show we'll hear interviews with community organizations that were recipients of the Huey P. Newton Trail Blazer and Legacy Award. We’ll also speak with Barbara Howard the founder of the B-H Brilliant Minds West Oakland Juneteenth celebration and her plans to pass the torch to the next generation of leaders. And we will also hear from some of those young folks. All that tonight on Full Circle.

Happy Pride month people, as the month comes near its end there are festivities planned around the bay area. On tonight’s show we'll hear an interview with the Executive Director of the Rainbow Community Center of Concord, Kiku Johnson. Kiku will share his story about growing up and coming out. He’ll also bring us important information about Rainbow Community Center, And he will share some of the music he loves. That’s tonight on Full Circle.

Tonight on Full Circle we bring you voices from the community. On tonight’s show we’ll get some news on an upcoming event in support of Leonard Peltier at Santa Cruz Barrios Unidos, folks from the Apprenticeship Program and the La Onda crew will be there. We’ll also hear some voices from the Interrupt Violence Vigil held in Antioch Sunday June 6th. And we’ll hear from youth activists as they speak with our own Joy Moore and Ms. M at an Environmentalist Community Convening of Youth hosted by Moving South Berkeley Forward. All that tonight on Full Circle.

Tonight on Full Circle we bring you sounds from the Eastside Arts Alliance 22nd Annual Malcolm X Jazz Arts Festival. On tonight’s show we’ll hear interviews recorded at the festival by First Voice apprentices, including Uncle Bobby aka Cephus Johnson. We’ll also hear some live music performances recorded at the festival and we’ll hear from the man of the hour himself, Malcom X in a short clip from his 1964 speech the Ballot or the Bullet.

Tonight on Full Circle we bring you vital information beneficial to our communities. On tonight’s show we’ll hear. From S.L.A.P. -Schools and Labor Against Privatization as teachers, labor leaders and parents occupy an Oakland school set for closure. We’ll also hear from first voice graduate, Josiah Luis Alderete and his bookstore Hermana Tan Khan Cao as they embark on a new mission, In The Mission as co-owners of a new bookstore. Medicine For Nightmares. Then we will close the show with Ray Bacasegua Valdez whose art is showing in the Medicine For Nightmares art gallery.

Tonight on Full Circle, As time moves forward to the end of this May 2022, we at First Voice honor and share memories of our community who have Asian and Pacific Islander roots. Tonight we share just some of the stories our API colleagues have produced. We’ll hear about a storytelling group, The Farm Workers movement, John Trudell, services for youth and services for the departed. All that and more, plus some wonderful music please stay tuned.

Tonight on Full Circle we continue with the spring fund drive and continue to bring you valuable information beneficial to our communities. Yessssssss!!! On tonight’s show we’ll hear three different interviews from three First Voice Graduate Apprentices. One.. Is me, I’ll be Speaking with Kelly Ferguson of Rainbow Community Center in Concord. Two.. We’ll hear from Joy Moore as she speaks with Liz Carlisle on using indigenous regenerative gardening and social justice. Three.. Our own Ms. M will speak with Gracie Jones of East Bay Community Law Center. And of course. We will be asking for your support tonight as part of our spring fund drive.

Greetings Full Circle listeners.Our crew wants to express our apologies for the technical difficulties we experienced during our last show on KPFA Radio. It was Friday the 13th in full effect. We have made the corrections to the archive on the KPFA website. And although our post is late and some of the events have passed, we want to be sure and share this great show produced by First Voice Graduate, Sharon Peterson, uninterrupted by nefarious computer technology… So.. ICYMI. Last Friday on Full Circle, we featured some great classical music from not-the-usual suspects, but from composers and musicians of African descent…Also be sure and tune in tomorrow night 7pm to kpfa.org to hear from community organizations. The Rainbow Community Center of Concord, East Bay Community Law Center and we also speak with Liz Carlisle on Community Gardening (First People’s ancestral methods) regenerative gardening and social justice..