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This week's two excting guest are: 7:00pm EST: Wayne Dawkins author of City Son: Andrew W. Cooper's Impact on Modern-Day Brooklyn (Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies) Cooper became a journalist, a political columnist, then founder of Trans Urban News Service and the City Sun, a feisty Brooklyn-based weekly that published from 1984 to 1996. Whether the stories were about Mayor Koch or Rev. Al Sharpton, Howard Beach or Crown Heights, Tawana Brawley’s dubious rape allegations, the Daily News Four trial, or Spike Lee‘s filmmaking career, Cooper’s City Sun commanded attention and moved officials and readers to action.Cooper’s leadership also gave Brooklyn–particularly predominantly black central Brooklyn–an identity.  Reference: http://harlemworldmag.com/2012/08/06/hw-pick-city-son-by-wayne-dawkins/#more-59543 8:00 EST pm Dorothy Muhammad: Discusses the role and value of the Muslim women.

Topic: Why Are so many N.Y.C. High School students graduating from H.S.and dropping out of college? The Keys 107(Blogtalkradio.com)Presents T.R.U. SKOOL with your host Shango Blake. Join us this week as we speak with our guest James Blake, Professor at Borough Manhattan Community College, about N.Y.C. Department of Education's failure to properly prepare High School Students for College. The T.R.U. SKOOL movement (Teaching Reading Uniquely/To Reverse Underperformance). “T.R.U. SKOOL is here now let's be clear our impact will be enormous” Shango Blake shares insights and model(s) for educational reform. Dubbed “The Hip Hop Principal” by parents and students, he has taken the powerful and magnetic force known as Hip Hop and channeled it into a tool that gets young urban students excited about education while at the same time building their self-esteem and confidence. This Project also benefitted the students by creating a project-based model for teaching valuable skills and lessons that extended from the classroom into practical application. The result of this was not only a student-created music video that screened at the Tribeca Film Festival, also students learned to use their passion to focus on education, self-respect, and self-determination; They were honored by Southeast Queens, New York City, and nationally for their hard work and accomplishment. The success of the project was unparalleled and combined with other unique teaching methods, projects, and programs, a formerly at-risk school experienced skyrocketing test scores, decreased violence, and students began to realize their own abilities. Through interactive dialogue with his audience, and guests, the mission is to educate ALL AT- RISK communities. http://www.shangoblake.com

State of Black America – the Quest for Economic Independence” With your Hosts: La’Shawn Allen-Muhammad and Malik Green Guest: Dr. Segun Shabaka, New York Chairman of The National Association of Kawaida Organizations (N.A.K.O.), Former Co-Chairman of the Northeast Alliance of African American Farmers (NEASAAF), Board Secretary for the International African Arts Festival (I.A.A.F), , The African Poetry Theatre (A.P.T.), Brooklyn, NY Northeast Alliance in Support of African American Farmers (NEASAAF) Guest: Dr. Maulana Karenga is professor of Africana Studies at California State University, Long Beach. He is also chair of the President's Task Force on Multicultural Education and Campus Diversity at California State University, Long Beach. Dr. Karenga holds two Ph.D.'s; his first in political science with focus on the theory and practice of nationalism (United States International University) and his second in social ethics with a focus on the classical African ethics of ancient Egypt (University of Southern California). He also holds an honorary doctorate of philosophy from the University of Durban-Westville, South Africa.

Host Rafika Soaries welcomes AstroNumerologist Lloyd Strayhorn Topic: How to read a person like a book!   As a kid, LLoyd, had an interest in all things “weird”, “strange” or “interesting” (Or did it have something to do with him being an Aquarius?). Fascinated with the “other world”; the world of astrology and the related sciences, held his time and attention.  Despite a background in sales, real estate, insurance, publishing and even music, he seems to have been the happiest if he could figure out a person’s astrological and or numerical chart.  After long and intensive years of studying and researching both astrology and numerology, LLoyd emerged as an Astro/Numerologist ...perhaps the most renowned authority in this specialized field today! Reference: http://www.numbersandyou.com/

Faith In The Hood HoodRich Magazine Welcomes Kenny Knotie Carter Founder of Fathers alive In The Hood(F.A.I.T.H.) Starts jenga Mentoring Program in Coney Island for young men ages14 to 21. Jenga is a Rights of Passage for Young Men into Manhood. This is one of the reasons why we should have Faith in the Hood!!! Hoodrich Magazine Whats Rich in Your Hood?  "Are you hoodrichish?" "I'm not hood, I not rich, but I am Hoodrichish!" Host: Jr. Strongg Topics include issues dealing with lifestyle, health, entertainment, politics, education and general living in and around the neighborhoods. We will will feature, and deal with issues that are current and are in the communities. Through dialogue we can begin to solve problems abd bridge the divides that keep us apart as people.  Jr. Strongg hails from Trinidad by way of New York. He has over twenty years in the entertainment industry working as a camerman, producer, editor, writer, and entertainer, and musician.

State Bankruptcy  If the state or municpalities goes bankrupt, Will there be any Pensions?  Black Leroy interviews Rev. Shirley Moore to discuss in lentgh the possibillities of losing our pensions if the state or municipatilties goes bankrupt.

Hosted By Rudolph Muhammad Chief of the Beford Stuyvesant Volunteer Ambulance Corp, Brooklyn, NY RN and Disaster Prepareness Expert Will you, your family and your commmunity be prepared? Will you survive? How to do you increase the odds in any disaster?

Unlawful Captives presents:Abdul Akbar Muhammad Topic: International Affairs: Hosted By: Sistar Cassandra and Jason X Abdul Akbar Muhammad, International Representative of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam. Brother Akbar is a Historian and world traveler who has spent over 40 years studying the teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. Akbar has been doing the work since 1978. He accepted the responsibility to assist Minister Farrakhan to rebuild the Nation of Islam and in 1984 gained his stature at home and abroad as the International Representative of the NOI.  Akbar has been one of the key organizers of many of the NOI’s Saviours’ Day conventions; in October 1994, he organized the NOI’s first International Saviours’ Day Convention in Accra, Ghana, bringing over nineteen hundred travelers from America to Africa.  In addition, he planned and organized Minister Farrakhan’s international tours to Africa, Europe, Asia, and the Caribbean while building relationships with presidents, heads of state, and leaders of many of the countries they visited. Akbar has traveled to one hundred and twenty-eight countries around the world—including thirty-eight African nations-and has lived in Ghana, Africa for over a decade.  Reference: http://www.worldwideinfoforum.com/forums/akbar_muhammad_a_foreign_di.html

Guest: Dr Kintu speaks on-- Susan Rice BY THE TIME Susan Rice withdrew her name from the running for secretary of state earlier this month, she had emerged in the media as one of Washington’s most nefarious personalities. After Republican Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham denounced the American ambassador to the United Nations for “misleading” the American people over the September 11 attack on the consulate in Benghazi, Libya, she was accused of, among other things, having a “personality ‘disorder,’” of harboring a “breathless” confidence in African strongmen, of being a “headmistress,” of having “sharp elbows,” of having a voice “always right on the edge of a screech,” of being an interventionist, of not intervening when it mattered. Find out the Real story behind Susan Rice!!! Reference: http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/magazine/111353/susan-rice-isnt-going-quietly#

Guest: Kevin Todd Porter, Author of Book: Angry Little Men: HyperMasculinity, Academic Disconnect, and Mentoring African American Males. Topic: Why Is There  Such A High National Suspension Rates of Black Boys? The T.R.U. SKOOL movement (Teaching Reading Uniquely/ To Reverse Underperformance). Parents, teachers, school leaders, students, and community leaders “T.R.U. SKOOL is here now let's be clear our impact will be enormous” Shango Blake shares insights and model(s) for educational reform. Dubbed “The Hip Hop Principal” by parents and students, he has taken the powerful and magnetic force known as Hip Hop and channeled it into a tool that gets young urban students excited about education while at the same time building their self-esteem and confidence. This Project also benefitted the students by creating a project-based model for teaching valuable skills and lessons that extended from the classroom into practical application. The result of this was not only a student-created music video that screened at the Tribeca Film Festival, also students learned to use their passion to focus on education, self-respect, and self-determination; They were honored by Southeast Queens, New York City, and nationally for their hard work and accomplishment. The success of the project was unparalleled and combined with other unique teaching methods, projects, and programs, a formerly at-risk school experienced skyrocketing test scores, decreased violence, and students began to realize their own abilities.  Through interactive dialogue with his audience, and guests, the mission is to educate ALL AT- RISK communities. http://www.shangoblake.com