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FAQs about THE WIRE 98.5:How many episodes does THE WIRE 98.5 have?The podcast currently has 149 episodes available.
June 26, 2017Exclusive: Haitian Activists Theova Milfort talks to the Wire on Flag DayMake no mistake about it. Theova Milfort is willing to die for what he believes in.#HaitianFlagDay...more28minPlay
June 22, 2017Minneapolis Top Radio Personality Freddie Bell discusses the latest video released in the Philando Casitle murder.Freddie Bell is the General Manager of KMOJ 89.9 in Minneapolis-St. Paul. Freddie is also the host of the Morning Show. For more information about one of the nation's best community radio stations visit http://kmojfm.com.On July 6, 2016, Philando Castile was fatally shot by Jeronimo Yanez, a St. Anthony, Minnesota, police officer, after being pulled over in Falcon Heights, a suburb of St. Paul. Castile was in a car with his girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds, and her four-year-old daughter when he was pulled over by Yanez and another officer.On November 16, 2016, John Choi, the Ramsey County Attorney, announced that Yanez was being charged with three felonies: one count of second-degree manslaughter and two counts of dangerous discharge of a firearm. Choi said, "I would submit that no reasonable officer knowing, seeing, and hearing what Officer Yanez did at the time would have used deadly force under these circumstances."Yanez was acquitted of all charges on June 16, 2017.The same day, he was fired by the City of St. Anthony...more16minPlay
June 20, 2017Rev. Ronald Myers of the National Juneteenth Observance Foundation discusses the push to make Juneteenth a National Holiday!The New York Times says, “There aren't many doctors like Ronald Myers, a jazz-playing, Baptist-preaching family practitioner whose dream has always been to practice medicine in the kind of place most other doctors wouldn't even stop for a tank of gas.” http://nationaljuneteenth.com/...more12minPlay
May 22, 2017Blackout: My 40 Years in the Music BusinessEnjoy this up close and personal interview with Paul Porter, the Author of the New Book "Blackout: My 40 Years in the Music Business" Blackout is a ride through my whirlwind of media jobs, working for and with some of the music industry’s most colorful, well-known and scandalous players. Blackout is an explosive look at the corruption that is running rampant in the industry. And Blackout is an inside account of how corporations erased Black identity from Black radio and mainstream Black music — and why I chose to fight back. https://blackoutthebook.com/products/blackout-my-40-years-in-the-music-business...more30minPlay
March 19, 2017Dr. Amy Galpin, Curator of the Cornell Fine Arts MuseumDr. Amy Galpin Curator of the Cornell Fine Arts Museum recently dropped by 98.5 The Wire to talk about the exhibits The Black Figure in the European Imaginary, AfroFantastic: Black Imagination and Agency in the American Experience & the upcoming performance by Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz....more17minPlay
March 13, 2017Paul Porter talks to Roz McCarthy the Founder of Minorities 4 Medical MarijuanaPaul Porter talks to Roz McCarthy the Founder of Minorities 4 Medical Marijuana...more12minPlay
March 08, 2017Our conversation with Attorney Alexandria Gordon who was raised in the heart of the Pine Hills communityUpclose with Pine Hills very own Attorney Alexandria Gordon...more18minPlay
FAQs about THE WIRE 98.5:How many episodes does THE WIRE 98.5 have?The podcast currently has 149 episodes available.