Hezekiah Watkins, a life long Jackson, Mississippi resident and civil rights activist shares his incredible story as the youngest Freedom Rider in Jackson's history. As a 13 years boy he was arrested and placed on death row. His crime....well that's why you're here. Tell us what you think.

At the time of the interview, this was 2015, he was looking for someone to help him write his story. While we were not able to hook him up with any one he did fortunately get the book written. Check it out here.

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Time for our WBAI 99.5 FM New York City Call In Show every Saturday night from 6-8pm ET. You can tune in live every Saturday night 6-8pm ET right here at WBAI.org

This week on the show had special guest Linqua Franqa talking about her song Wurk and her album Bellringer.

Wurk is included in the podcast with permission from Linqua Franqa

Segment breaks are wonky do to copyrighted music bumpers being edited out. Sorry, thems the rules.

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In this episode we talk with Beverly McNeill, President of the Stagville Foundation and take a walking tour through the slave quarters being maintained on the Historic Stagville Plantation.

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Stephanie Cobert, Managing Director of Historic Stagville takes time to sit down with us to talk about the largest plantation in North Carolina history and their mission to keep the history alive.

I highly suggest a visit to the plantation grounds and experience for yourself what this walk into American history is like. For more information on Historic Stagville visit their website here

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Navin Nayek of The Center for American Progress joins us to discuss the provisions in the Build Back Better plan that have the votes both in the House and Senate, and just need to be packaged and presented in order to become law.

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Sarah Burris of RawStory joins us to discuss several stories that broke this week, and several others that will probably break soon.

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As much of the country digs out from under a massive snowstorm, we discuss breaking news on Covid, the 1/6 committee and seemingly endless stream of Trump family crimes. That and more on tonight’s #RickShow 

Our guests tonight are:

Navin Nayek of The Center for American Progress

Journalist Sarah Burris of RawStory

ER Physician Keith Pochick

Former GOP Congressman Bob Ney

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As much of the country digs out from under a massive snowstorm, we discuss breaking news on Covid, the 1/6 committee and seemingly endless stream of Trump family crimes. That and more on tonight’s #RickShow 

Our guests tonight are:

Navin Nayek of The Center for American Progress

Journalist Sarah Burris of RawStory

ER Physician Keith Pochick

Former GOP Congressman Bob Ney

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As much of the country digs out from under a massive snowstorm, we discuss breaking news on Covid, the 1/6 committee and seemingly endless stream of Trump family crimes. That and more on tonight’s #RickShow 

Our guests tonight are:

Navin Nayek of The Center for American Progress

Journalist Sarah Burris of RawStory

ER Physician Keith Pochick

Former GOP Congressman Bob Ney

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The Rick Smith Show streams live every weeknight from 9p-11p EST on YouTube & Twitch TV, and the show runs every night in prime time on Free Speech TV starting in January 2022. 

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In this episode we take you to the Rosa Parks Museum on the campus of Troy University in Montgomery, AL where we talk with Dr. Felicia Bell, Managing Director of the Rosa Parks Museum and Ricky Brown, Rosa Parks Museum Curator.

These interviews were record in August of 2015 and gives a detailed history of the Montgomery Bus Boycott & How the museum was fortunate to get a hold of the historical documents.

These interviews and the tour were incredible and I suggest everyone visit the museum, even if it is virtual.

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Tim Hogan, Executive Editor at Heartland Signal joins us to discuss the firehose of GOP misinformation and those who spread it. Few of these superspreaders can hold a candle to Wisconsin GOP Senator Ron Johnson.

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