Patti’s guests today are:

- Daryl Ritchie of The Saints, a volunteer organization that serves Chicago and suburbs with ushers for the performing arts

- Former federal prosecutor Michael J. Stern

Joan’s guests today are:

- David Kidwell, Injustice Watch Judicial Guide

- Spencer Critchley, author of Patriots of Two Nations and host of the Dastardly Cleverness in the Service of Good podcast

- Illinois Congressman Danny Davis (7th District)

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Guest

Keith Semple

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Judge Jill Rose Quinn - SCOTUS and presidential immunity, anti-trans legislation in the wake of Nex Benedict, IL

Jai Rodriguez - Big Gay Cabaret at Mercury Theater

Giselle Gutierrez - Mrs. Doubtfire

Al gave us the right number so we actually have Ronnie Marmo on today!

Featured Co-host: Francesca Royster

Guest:Willa Taylor

Francesca’s Black Country Music: Listening for Revolutions and Choosing Family: The Shifting Image of an Icon are the newest books and are referenced later in this rundown,

Francesca T. Royster is a Professor of the English at DePaul University in Chicago, and received her PhD from University of California, Berkeley in English Literature in 1995. At DePaul she teaches courses on African American Literature, Queer Writers of Color and Writing About Music. She’s written scholarly work on Shakespeare, Black Lesbian Country music fans, Prince, and Fela Kuti on Broadway among other topics. Her recent special issue of the Journal of Popular Music Studies, on the futures of Country Music, Uncharted Country,” co-edited with Nadine Hubbs, won the 2021 Ruth Solie Award from the American Musicological Society. Her creative work has appeared in Feminist Studies, Slag Glass City, LA Review of Books, The Huffington Post, The Windy City Times, Chicago Literati and The Oxford American. Her books include Becoming Cleopatra: The Shifting Image of an Icon (Palgrave MacMillan, 2003), Sounding Like a No-No: Queer Sounds and Eccentric Acts in the Post-Soul Era (University of Michigan Press, 2013), Black Country Music: Listening for Revolutions (University of Texas Press, 2022), and Choosing Family: A Memoir of Queer Motherhood and Black Resistance (Abrams/ Overlook Press, 2023). Her book, Black Country Music: Listening for Revolutions was recently awarded the 2023 Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award, from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, the 2023 ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research from the Association for Recorded Sound Collections and the 2023 Judy Tsou Critical Race Studies Award, from The American Musicological Society.

Her newest book in process is Listening for My Mother: Travels in Music from Chicago to Bahia, a combination of memoir, travel writing and cultural history about mourning and healing in Women's Music in the Black Diaspora

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