Reclaiming the Narrative

Local Lawmakers Consider Ways of Curbing Joyriding

Local Organizations Mark Earth Day By Renewing Call for Climate Justice

Excited Delirium: Arjun Byju on the History of an Invented Disease Used to Justify Police Use of Force

Buffalo Museum Exhibit Explores History of One of the World's Most Iconic Instruments, from Medieval to Metal

Warp and Weft: "MMXX Strange Times"

Produced by Darien Lamen for WXIR 100.9 FM and rebroadcast on WAYO 104.3 FM in Rochester NY. With Co-Host Vanessa Ryland-Buntley; Reporters Laura Smith and Mary Lawrence; Arts & Culture Reporter Abi Clark. Special thanks to Mara Ahmed and Noelle Evans of the Warp & Weft.

Original air date: 4/23/21

Arjun Byju discusses his new article "Excited Delirium: How Cops Invented a Disease" with Reclaiming the Narrative's Darien Lamen.

Available at: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/04/excited-delirium-how-cops-invented-a-disease/

Original air date: 4/23/21

Progressive Groups Unveil Their NYS Legislative Priorities for 2021 in Compassionate NY Agenda

Inequality Index: Rochester PAB Calls for $5 Million Budget

RIT Students Use Data Visualizations to Tell Stories About Crime, Policing, Parks and More

RCSD Students Get Up On Their Soapboxes as Part of Districtwide Speech Showcase

Warp & Weft: The Consolation of Isolation

Original air date: 4/16/21

Produced by Darien Lamen for WXIR 100.9FM and rebroadcast on WAYO 104.3 in Rochester NY. With Co-Host Vanessa Ryland Buntley, reporters Laura Smith and Mary Lawrence, feature contributor Abi Clark. Special thanks to Mara Ahmed and Allyson Perkins.

Reclaiming the Narrative teams up with RIT's Spring 2021 Data Journalism class, to bring you data visualizations exploring local crime rates, energy subsidies, and more. Producer Darien Lamen recently spoke with the class's professor, Hinda Mandell, to find out more about the goals of this initiative.

Original air date: 4/16/21

For the past 5 years, the "Medieval to Metal'' exhibition has been featured at 15 museums across the US. Through the end of summer, this traveling installation will be on display at the Buffalo Museum of Science. On this week's edition of Art Blooms, arts reporter Abi Clark takes a look at a collection that tells the story of one of the world's most iconic instruments, the guitar.

Original air date: 4/9/21

Leslie Hannon speaks with Rajesh Barnabas about the history of the Rochester Indymedia Collective, and how instant publishing and collective news production transformed Rochester during the 2000s.

Original air date: 4/9/21

Progressives Welcome NYS Budget Support for People in Need

Syracuse University Report Examines Lack of IRS Oversight on Wealthiest

Art Blooms: Buffalo Exhibit Explore Evolution of Guitar from Medieval to Metal

Grassroots Media Spotlight: Rajesh Barnabas of Rochester Indymedia

Warp & Weft: It's All About the Touch

Produced for WXIR 100.9FM and rebroadcast on WAYO 104.3 in Rochester NY by Darien Lamen with Co-Host Vanessa Ryland-Buntley,

reporters Laura Smith and Jason Taylor, features contributor Leslie Hannon, and arts reporter Abi Clark. Special thanks to Mara Ahmed and Roberta Schwartz of the Warp & Weft.

Original air date 4/9/21

Feature contributor Leslie Hannon brings us a series of interviews exploring grassroots and independent news media in Upstate New York and beyond.

Hannon recently spoke with Joan Coles Howard, the last editor of the Frederick Douglass Voice newspaper, and the daughter of the paper's founder, Howard W Coles. The Voice was founded in the 1930s, making it the longest running Black-owned paper in Rochester's history. In this interview, Coles Howard explains that its mission was to bring all kinds of news--including, importantly, good news--to Rochester's Black community.

Issues of the Frederick Douglass Voice newspaper are available in the Howard W Coles Archive of the Rochester Museum and Science Center.

Original air date: 3/26/21

Reporter Laura Smith looks at the last minute push to fund pandemic relief for undocumented and other "excluded" workers in New York State.

Original broadcast date 4/2/21

Advocates Call on NYS to Fund Undocumented, Other Excluded Workers

Rochester Labor Council Hosts Forum on Law Enforcement's Relationship to the Labor Movement

New Report Takes Critical Look at Rochester's Budgeting Priorities

Art Blooms: Ground and Sky Poetry

Warp & Weft: Risk by Luticha Doucette

Produced by Darien Lamen for WXIR 100.9FM and rebroadcast on WAYO 104.3FM in Rochester NY. With co-host Vanessa Ryland-Buntley, reporters Laura Smith, Jason Taylor, and Abi Clark. Special thanks to Mara Ahmed and Luticha Doucette.

Original broadcast date: 4/2/21