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KRUI News staff delivers your weekday news, courtesy of Sameer Ali with some backup banter from KRUI's Programming Director, Zoe.

Featuring: the presidential impeachment inquiry, Brexit, Greta Thunberg, a lost continent, and more.

Seven stories including many tragedies, a dancing plague, and a trip (perhaps a race?) around the world.

Part 2 of US Presidential incumbent deaths includes a man who witnessed it all, affairs, conspiracy theories, and hidden sicknesses.

Eight US Presidents died during their time in office. Some were killed, others contracted sicknesses, and one might have been poisoned? Listen to part one of this two-part series to hear about presidential assassinations, a 20-inch long incision, cherries & milk, and a body exhumation.

In this episode we discuss musical performances and global health initiatives with Bonnie McConnell. Her article “Performing ‘Participation’: Kanyelang Musicians and Global Health in the Gambia” can be found in the Summer 2017 issue of the journal, Ethnomusicology.

This week's news includes tensions between Iran and the United States, the death of Mohamed Morsi, the Juneteenth Congressional hearings on reparations, statistics on the global migrant crisis, and much more.

This week's episode has a special release date of June 19th. Why? This date marks the official date of slaves' liberation in the United States. Today's episode, describing Kwanzaa and some other Black history facts, released on January 20, 2019. To honor Juneteenth, it's being released early, on this special day.

Protests in Sudan and Hong Kong, violence in Memphis, Yemen, and Oman, some changes to leadership in the United States, and new legislation being passed across the country and the world. This week was a newsworthy week!

TW: wars, massacres, rape

The Vietnam War's My Lai massacre is known by many Americans, although known by fewer of the younger generations. However, not many have heard of a similar massacre that occurred years earlier, during the Korean War: No Gun Ri.

Ron Stallworth, a Black man who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan, talks about his experiences in the KRUI studio.