Sojourner Truth Radio

Today on Sojourner Truth:

As the coronavirus pandemic continues unabated, 29,000 Cuban doctors have been on the frontlines fighting the virus in 50 countries. Yet, Cuba's image in the United States is a negative one. Contrast this with countries in the Global South, from the Caribbean to the continent of Africa, there is a different image of Cuba. It is a humanitarian image, providing doctors, nurses and teachers to a wide swath of countries. It is also an artistic image. From music to dance and maintaining traditional African beats and spiritual practices. Cuba is known for its jazz, Afro-beats and more. This weekend, a major online live concert will focus on Cuba. It is billed as an epic gathering of Afro-Cuban musicians and artists influenced by Cuban traditions. Today, we speak with some of the artists performing, including Dayramir Gonzalez and Dionne Warwick.

Yamaha artist Dayramir Gonzalez is a three-time Cubadisco award-winner and the first Cuban national to receive Berklee College of Musics Presidential Scholarship and the 2013 Wayne Shorter Award for most outstanding jazz composer. In 2012, he was a headliner in Carnegie Halls Voices of Latin America Series, invited by Chucho Valdes to represent the young generation of Cuban jazz pianists. His latest album The Grand Concourse was named one of the Top 40 albums of 2018 and received 4.5 stars from Downbeat.

Dionne Warwick is a singer, actress, television host, and former United Nations Global Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization and United States Ambassador of Health. A six-time Grammy Award winner, Warwick has sold over 85 million records worldwide. She is a participating artist in the Concert for Cuba.

We also speak with Bill Martinez, one of the producers of the Concert for Cuba.

For our weekly Earth Watch, our guest is Manitoba, Canada-based Carol Kobliski. She has lived with her family in Nisichawayasihk her whole life. Carol is a survivor of the Churchill River Diversion project which has heavily impacted her family. Today, we discuss the implications of hydropower.

Today on Sojourner Truth:

As the coronavirus pandemic continues unabated, 29,000 Cuban doctors have been on the frontlines fighting the virus in 50 countries. Yet, Cuba's image in the United States is a negative one. Contrast this with countries in the Global South, from the Caribbean to the continent of Africa, there is a different image of Cuba. It is a humanitarian image, providing doctors, nurses and teachers to a wide swath of countries. It is also an artistic image. From music to dance and maintaining traditional African beats and spiritual practices. Cuba is known for its jazz, Afro-beats and more. This weekend, a major online live concert will focus on Cuba. It is billed as an epic gathering of Afro-Cuban musicians and artists influenced by Cuban traditions. Today, we speak with some of the artists performing, including Dayramir Gonzalez and Dionne Warwick.

Yamaha artist Dayramir Gonzalez is a three-time Cubadisco award-winner and the first Cuban national to receive Berklee College of Musics Presidential Scholarship and the 2013 Wayne Shorter Award for most outstanding jazz composer. In 2012, he was a headliner in Carnegie Halls Voices of Latin America Series, invited by Chucho Valdes to represent the young generation of Cuban jazz pianists. His latest album The Grand Concourse was named one of the Top 40 albums of 2018 and received 4.5 stars from Downbeat.

Dionne Warwick is a singer, actress, television host, and former United Nations Global Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization and United States Ambassador of Health. A six-time Grammy Award winner, Warwick has sold over 85 million records worldwide. She is a participating artist in the Concert for Cuba.

We also speak with Bill Martinez, one of the producers of the Concert for Cuba.

For our weekly Earth Watch, our guest is Manitoba, Canada-based Carol Kobliski. She has lived with her family in Nisichawayasihk her whole life. Carol is a survivor of the Churchill River Diversion project which has heavily impacted her family. Today, we discuss the implications of hydropower.

Today on Sojourner Truth:

As the coronavirus pandemic continues unabated, 29,000 Cuban doctors have been on the frontlines fighting the virus in 50 countries. Yet, Cuba's image in the United States is a negative one. Contrast this with countries in the Global South, from the Caribbean to the continent of Africa, there is a different image of Cuba. It is a humanitarian image, providing doctors, nurses and teachers to a wide swath of countries. It is also an artistic image. From music to dance and maintaining traditional African beats and spiritual practices. Cuba is known for its jazz, Afro-beats and more. This weekend, a major online live concert will focus on Cuba. It is billed as an epic gathering of Afro-Cuban musicians and artists influenced by Cuban traditions. Today, we speak with some of the artists performing, including Dayramir Gonzalez and Dionne Warwick.

Yamaha artist Dayramir Gonzalez is a three-time Cubadisco award-winner and the first Cuban national to receive Berklee College of Musics Presidential Scholarship and the 2013 Wayne Shorter Award for most outstanding jazz composer. In 2012, he was a headliner in Carnegie Halls Voices of Latin America Series, invited by Chucho Valdes to represent the young generation of Cuban jazz pianists. His latest album The Grand Concourse was named one of the Top 40 albums of 2018 and received 4.5 stars from Downbeat.

Dionne Warwick is a singer, actress, television host, and former United Nations Global Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization and United States Ambassador of Health. A six-time Grammy Award winner, Warwick has sold over 85 million records worldwide. She is a participating artist in the Concert for Cuba.

We also speak with Bill Martinez, one of the producers of the Concert for Cuba.

For our weekly Earth Watch, our guest is Manitoba, Canada-based Carol Kobliski. She has lived with her family in Nisichawayasihk her whole life. Carol is a survivor of the Churchill River Diversion project which has heavily impacted her family. Today, we discuss the implications of hydropower.

Today on Sojourner Truth:

We continue our coverage of COVID-19, which is spiking across the United States, with California, Texas, Arizona and Florida being hit particularly hard. Los Angeles County has reclosed indoor venues, including beauty salons, bars and gyms. Our guest is Dr. Bita Amani, an Associate Professor at Charles R. Drew University in the Department of Urban Public Health.

The Prime Minister of Barbados, the Honorable Mia Mottley, calls for reparations and invites people to sit out the coronavirus on the island.

Also, Dedrick Asante-Muhammed joins us to explain why he thinks reparations to descendants of slavery in the United States must happen and how. Dedrick Asante-Muhammad is Chief of Race, Wealth and Community at the National Community Reinvestment Coalition.

Lastly, our weekly Earth Minute.

Today on Sojourner Truth:

We continue our coverage of COVID-19, which is spiking across the United States, with California, Texas, Arizona and Florida being hit particularly hard. Los Angeles County has reclosed indoor venues, including beauty salons, bars and gyms. Our guest is Dr. Bita Amani, an Associate Professor at Charles R. Drew University in the Department of Urban Public Health.

The Prime Minister of Barbados, the Honorable Mia Mottley, calls for reparations and invites people to sit out the coronavirus on the island.

Also, Dedrick Asante-Muhammed joins us to explain why he thinks reparations to descendants of slavery in the United States must happen and how. Dedrick Asante-Muhammad is Chief of Race, Wealth and Community at the National Community Reinvestment Coalition.

Lastly, our weekly Earth Minute.

Today on Sojourner Truth:

We continue our coverage of COVID-19, which is spiking across the United States, with California, Texas, Arizona and Florida being hit particularly hard. Los Angeles County has reclosed indoor venues, including beauty salons, bars and gyms. Our guest is Dr. Bita Amani, an Associate Professor at Charles R. Drew University in the Department of Urban Public Health.

The Prime Minister of Barbados, the Honorable Mia Mottley, calls for reparations and invites people to sit out the coronavirus on the island.

Also, Dedrick Asante-Muhammed joins us to explain why he thinks reparations to descendants of slavery in the United States must happen and how. Dedrick Asante-Muhammad is Chief of Race, Wealth and Community at the National Community Reinvestment Coalition.

Lastly, our weekly Earth Minute.

Today on Sojourner Truth:

We continue our coverage of COVID-19, which is spiking across the United States, with California, Texas, Arizona and Florida being hit particularly hard. Los Angeles County has reclosed indoor venues, including beauty salons, bars and gyms. Our guest is Dr. Bita Amani, an Associate Professor at Charles R. Drew University in the Department of Urban Public Health.

The Prime Minister of Barbados, the Honorable Mia Mottley, calls for reparations and invites people to sit out the coronavirus on the island.

Also, Dedrick Asante-Muhammed joins us to explain why he thinks reparations to descendants of slavery in the United States must happen and how. Dedrick Asante-Muhammad is Chief of Race, Wealth and Community at the National Community Reinvestment Coalition.

Lastly, our weekly Earth Minute.

Today on Sojourner Truth:

We continue our coverage of COVID-19, which is spiking across the United States, with California, Texas, Arizona and Florida being hit particularly hard. Los Angeles County has reclosed indoor venues, including beauty salons, bars and gyms. Our guest is Dr. Bita Amani, an Associate Professor at Charles R. Drew University in the Department of Urban Public Health.

The Prime Minister of Barbados, the Honorable Mia Mottley, calls for reparations and invites people to sit out the coronavirus on the island.

Also, Dedrick Asante-Muhammed joins us to explain why he thinks reparations to descendants of slavery in the United States must happen and how. Dedrick Asante-Muhammad is Chief of Race, Wealth and Community at the National Community Reinvestment Coalition.

Lastly, our weekly Earth Minute.

Today, we bring you the fourth and final part of our Sojourner Truth series covering the Mass Poor Peoples Assembly and Moral March on Washington, D.C., a digital justice gathering. It was hosted by the Poor Peoples Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival.

Held on June 20, 2020, the event brought together poor and impacted people from all walks of life, calling for systemic change. Participants also spoke out against the interconnected problems of racism, poverty, militarism and the war economy and environmental destruction. Millions of people in the U.S. and around the world participated in the historic event. The Mass Poor Peoples Assembly and Moral March on Washington, D.C. was organized under the leadership of co-chairs Rev. Dr. William J. Barber and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis.

They relaunched the movement started in 1968 by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. under the banner, Poor Peoples Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. It is a new grassroots, cross-generational and multi-racial fusion movement that brings together all poor and impacted people. Today, you will hear the final hour of audio from the Mass Poor Peoples Assembly and Moral March on Washington, D.C. held on June 20, 2020.

Today, we bring you the fourth and final part of our Sojourner Truth series covering the Mass Poor Peoples Assembly and Moral March on Washington, D.C., a digital justice gathering. It was hosted by the Poor Peoples Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival.

Held on June 20, 2020, the event brought together poor and impacted people from all walks of life, calling for systemic change. Participants also spoke out against the interconnected problems of racism, poverty, militarism and the war economy and environmental destruction. Millions of people in the U.S. and around the world participated in the historic event. The Mass Poor Peoples Assembly and Moral March on Washington, D.C. was organized under the leadership of co-chairs Rev. Dr. William J. Barber and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis.

They relaunched the movement started in 1968 by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. under the banner, Poor Peoples Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. It is a new grassroots, cross-generational and multi-racial fusion movement that brings together all poor and impacted people. Today, you will hear the final hour of audio from the Mass Poor Peoples Assembly and Moral March on Washington, D.C. held on June 20, 2020.