Rhymes Media Group

Hello Rhymes Reasons Fam! We have a great program in store for you. Wednesday, January 25th @ 7pm CST, our guest will be  Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Assistant Professor at The New School in New York.

As Assistant Professor of History at The New School, she studies the politics and culture of the modern United States, including issues of gender, race, class, and identity. Her first book, Classroom Wars: Language, Sex, and the Making of Modern Political Culture (Oxford, 2015), explores the roots of the culture wars in American public schools, specifically amid heated battles over sexuality and bilingual education. Her latest research traces the rise of “wellness culture” since the 1950s, asking how and why Americans have increasingly linked food and fitness regimes to the pursuit of self-fulfillment.

These scholarly pursuits are closely linked to her wellness activism as co-founder of HealthClass2.0, an experiential health education program that bridges a wellness gap in public school education and connects university mentors with K-12 students. She is also a Premiere Leader of intenSati, an innovative mind-body practice, which she teaches at Equinox Fitness and privately.

Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Slate, and The Huffington Post, and she writes a biweekly “fitness history” column for Well+Good and am a co-host of the Past Present Podcast. She's been featured as an expert historian on venues such as Brian Lehrer TV, The History Channel, and in The Atlantic. Her work in wellness has been covered by many publications including The Guardian, Well+Good, Univision, and Fox 5 NY. She received a BA from Columbia College and a MA and Ph.D. from Stanford University, all in History. She lives and works in New York City.

So be sure to tune-in Rhymes Reasons Fam.

Hello Rhymes Media Group Listeners! Life In The Electric Chair won't be a solo affair January 17th @ 12pm CST. Edward Rhymes will be talking with a fellow-EDSer Katy Cummins-Bakko. Will be sharing our war stories about the trials & tribulations of living with Ehlers Danlos Syndrome - as well as having a child with the disease - and the advantages of medical cannabis. Listen to us discuss a disease that usually takes over a decade for sufferers to find a diagnosis. Be sure to tune in... see you there; see you then.

Hello RMG Listeners! We have a brand new program for you: #IndependentMediaMonday. Our first guest will be Niko Georgiades of the independent media news site Unicorn Riot. Dr. Rhymes will be discussing with Niko, Unicorn Riot's extensive coverage of the #NODAPL movement & the water protectors at Standing Rock; the state and need of independent & alternative media and so much more. Be sure to tune in @ 12pm CST and hear insightful dialogue and educational discourse. See you there; see you then.

Hello Rhymes Reasons Fam! We have a return guest on Rhymes Reasons, former CIA analyst and counterterrorism operations officer, John Kiriakou. John blew the whistle on torture by revealing in an ABC News interview that the agency waterboarded detainees. I will be discussing with John the foreig policy landscape as Donald Trump takes office and what to make of CIA allegations of the Kremlin's tampering with the 2016 US Presidential Election.

Kiriakou is a co-author of The Reluctant Spy: My Secret Life in the CIA’s War on Terror, and is an associate fellow with the Institute for Policy Studies, and blogger for Huffington Post. He received a First Amendment Award from the PEN Center USA. He newest book, Doing Time Like a Spy, will be released April 2017. Tune in for this informative and engaging interview with one of my personal heroes @ 12pm CST, Wednesday, January 11th. See you there, see you then.

We're back ladies and gentleman to give you our picks for the NFL playoffs, NFL individual season awards and the college football championship between Alabama & Clemson. Join us @ 11am CST to hear Eddie & Eze give you their no-holds-barred analysis of the NFL playoff landscape and college football's title game. You can also join us on Facebook Live as well. See you there, see you then.

Friday December 16, 2016 at 6pm CST, on Rhymes Reasons, Dr. Rhymes will be talking with long time human rights activist, journalist and organizer Mel Reeves. Mel has been involved in numerous struggles for peoples rights including organizing against police violence, anti racism work, supporting labor and the rights of the oppressed in this country and around the world. Please join us for, what I am sure will be, an interesting and fruitful hour of discussion. Don't miss it. Once again, the date: Friday, December 16, 2016; the time: 6pm Central Standard Time. See you there, see you then.

Dr Edward Rhymes talks about his healthcare; Obama vs. Trump Cabinet picks; the willful ignorance of white "allies" when it comes to racism in America and the need for people to believe that the inertia of humiliation and despair can be broken. Listen in for informative & challenging talk.

Hello Everyone, we have a wonderful program in store for you on Friday December 9, 2016 @ 6pm CST. Dr. Rhymes will be interviewing Andrea Morisette Grazzini of Me to We Racial Healing. Andrea is founder and curator of Me to We Racial Healing, the multi-race, multi-ethnic effort focused on solutions and responsive support for relational change efforts. It developed what is believed to be the largest #BuyBlack store locator map to support consumers access to black-owned businesses, with an accompanying curated online catalog. It created what is believed to be the largest map of post-U.SElection 2016 verified hate incidents.Join us a we address the issues racism, white privilege, white supremacy and how we move forward as a nation and society in light of recent events. Remember the day & date: Friday, December 9, 2016; remember the time: 6pm Central Standard Time. See you there... see you then.

We’ve just celebrated Thanksgiving and the focus was far from the state of the American worker, and by extension, the state of American families. It’s a very unpopular phrase among the right-leaning populace, but the situation can’t be called anything short of class warfare. When the jobs now being produced in this economy are paying less and are far more transitory than the jobs that were lost; when 1 in 6 Americans are dependent upon food stamps for their daily bread — and another 1 in 2 will be at some point in time — it’s a war alright, and the casualties are piling up. Dr. Rhymes, in this Rhymes Reasons episode, will be discussing the new nomadic nature of employment, stagnant wages and the American worker, food insecurity & poverty. Join us November 25th @ 6pm Central Standard Time on BlogTalk Radio & Facebook Live as well.. See you there; see you then.

This Wednesday, November 16th at 11:30 am, on a SPECIAL Rhymes Reasons, we will be interviewing the editor in chief of Mint Press News, Mnar Muhawesh. Dr. Rhymes will be discussing with the Mint Press News editor, the epic curveball, which most of the media talking-heads got wrong: a Trump win on Tuesday. We will also talk about her views in regard to the impact that a Trump presidency will have on Palestine, Israel & the region – as well as domestic policy. Mnar happens to be a good friend of mine and my fearless leader as a political analyst at Mint Press News. This will be a post-election analysis that you do not want to miss.

Mnar Muhawesh is founder, CEO and editor in chief of Mint Press News, and is also a regular speaker on responsible journalism, sexism, Zionism, neoconservativism within the media and journalism start-ups. She started her career as an independent multimedia journalist covering Midwest and national politics while focusing on civil liberties and social justice issues posting her reporting and exclusive interviews on her blog Mint Press, which she later turned Mint Press into the global news source it is today. In 2009, Muhawesh also became the first American woman to wear the hijab to anchor/report the news in American media.

So join us for real talk and scintillating conversation on Wednesday November 16th at 11:30 A.M. Central Standard Time. See you there... see you then.