Apprenticeship program at KPFA
What can we say y’all were bold, proud, articulate and more importantly AUDACIOUS!!! We were so blessed to be able to get to meet and work with some of the coolest people on the planet. Good luck out in the world and congratulations on your graduation. It has been my pleasure to travel this road for 2 years with you…. Radio Shaq, K.C, Shanice Smith ,Eric DatboyMedia, Chana Wilson and Theodora
Welcome to Full Circle, your Cultural Affairs radio magazine produced by members and Graduates of the First Voice Apprenticeship Program. Tonight we have a special broadcast for you, as we take a first look into the new proposed Pacifica bylaws amendments and have a friendly debate on some of the aspects of the proposed changes. That’s tonight on Full Circle. I am your host. Freewillin Franklin. Coming to you from downtown Antioch. Bay Miwok territory. Keep it locked right here to k-p-f-a..
Links and information
To learn more about the yes vote side of the debate, check out the New Day Pacifica Website.
Follow these links to read more about the No vote side of the debate.
Welcome to Full Circle, your Cultural Affairs radio magazine produced by members and Graduates of the First Voice Apprenticeship Program. On tonight’s show, we”ll hear a special interview with an extraordinary woman
Tonight we will spend the hour with Reverend Wanda Johnson, the mother of Oscar Grant, a young man who was senselessly murdered at the Fruitvale BART station January 1ST 2009. This conversation was produced and conducted by First Voice Graduate Thresa Adams.
Follow the Love Not Blood Campaign online by visiting the Love Not Blood website or on Facebook.
Follow the Oscar Grant Foundation onFacebook or online at OscarGrantFoundation.orgFollow the Oscar Grant Foundation onFacebook or online at OscarGrantFoundation.org
Welcome to Full Circle, your cultural affairs radio magazine produced by members of the First Voice Apprenticeship Program. Tonight we’re honoring and celebrating Sistah Poets – talented creative women writers and performers. On tonight’s show we”ll hear from Raina J. León, phD, A Black and Afro-Boricuan Philadelphian, educator, writer coach who lived for many years in the Chochenyo Ohlone territory of Berkeley and our very own graduate of the KPFA Apprenticeship, Ananda Esteva, poet, writer, and teacher, Ananda Esteva. Finally, again we celebrate and honor another graduate writer and poet of the KPFA Apprenticeship, Zakiyyah G.E. Capehart-Bolling, author of Ghana On My Mind, a reflective collection of poetry and prose of her trip to Ghana.
LINKS:
Follow these links to learn more about Raina J. Leon follow these links:
https://storyjoy-inc.teachable.com [classes]
https://www.thespeakeasyproject.net/accountability [Write Side by Side workshop. Next one this summer! ]
https://www.instagram.com/rainaleon
Follow these links for Ananda Esteva:
Contact info for getting copies of books directly through me
I have copies of my poetry chapbook, Pisco Sours with Civil Defense Press
My action packed novel, The Wanderings of Chela Coatlicue from Transgress Press available through Ananda directly via escritora.ananda@gmail.com, Transgress Press,
Molotov Mouths Anthology Explosive New Writing is available on Amazon.com
And an anthology by Manic D Press, It’s All Good; How Do You Like It Here NOW?
Watch a video of Ananda reading a poem in the KPFA performance room
Ananda’s Facebook for her novel, The Wanderings of Chela Coatlicue and current events
Follow Zakiyyah GE Capehart-Bolling on Facebook.
ACTIONS
Get information on the protest in Danville for Tyrell Wilson at the Together We Stand Facebook page
National Day of Action Against Anti-AAPI Terrorism
(Saturday, March 27, San Francisco. 11am: Vigil at St. Mary’s Square. 12pm: March from St. Mary’s Square to Union Square. Speeches and martial arts demo at Union Square.)
ALLY/COLLABORATOR TRAININGBystander Intervention Training (free, recurring)
Welcome to Full Circle, your Cultural Affairs radio magazine produced by members and Graduates of the First Voice Apprenticeship Program. On tonight’s show, we bring you another two-part show. We’ll get a history lesson brought to you by Graduate Apprentice Theodora Adkins and her second installment of Bring It Forward this time focusing on Marcus Garvey. Will also take it back to Antioch CA where East Contra Costa County black clergy political leaders and a multicultural coalition of citizens have United against hate speech coming from local blog east County Today. All that tonight on Full Circle. I am your host, Freewillin Franklin. Coming to you from downtown Antioch. Bay Miwok territory. Keep it locked right here to k-p-f-a
Read the open letter sent to East County Today by Black organizations, political leaders and clergy on East County North Star News
Check out East County North Star on Facebook
Check out Antioch City Councilwoman Tamisha Torres Walker and Frank Sterling appearing on KPFA’s Hard Knock Radio addressing the East County Today hate speech and Antioch police reforms.
To keep up to date on planned actions in Danville CA related to the shooting death of Tyrell Wilson, Follow Together We Stand on Facebook
Check out last night’s Apex Express to hear their take on the targeting of Asaian and API folks in Atlanta and around the country. Listen in the archives on kpfa.org
Welcome to Full Circle, your Cultural Affairs radio magazine produced by members and Graduates of the First Voice Apprenticeship Program. Tonight we have a special show for you basically in two parts. First we’ll hear an interview with graduate apprentice Zakiyyah GE Capehart who is launching her first book tomorrow morning; Ghana On My Mind, Reflections of Journeying To The Motherland. Also will get an update on Antioch city politics with Councilwoman of district one, Tamisha Torres-Walker. The city just voted in body cameras and police car dash cams but how will the city pay for these updates to our police department? Councilwoman Torres-Walker will help us break that down. All that and a little bit more tonight on Full Circle I am your host Freewillin Franklin keep a locked right here to K – P – F – AAAA
Links and information
If you want to log into the Ghana On My Mind book launch and Zoom birthday celebration party for Zakiyya, Click on Zoom meeting link https://zoom.us/join enter the meeting ID 718 3247 8944 then enter passcode 6ppJ7r
Also Follow Zakiyyah and Bryant on facebook at Zakiyyah GE Caprehart-Bolling and Bryant Bolling
Stay on top of Antioch city politics and follow Councilwoman Tamisha Torres Walker on Facebook
Watch Councilwoman Torres Walker at a press conference concerning intercommunal gun violence
Watch the Video to the Angelo Quinto tribute song by Aristyles DeLa Gente on Instagram
Read the Change.org petition For Angelo Quinto
Follow Social media for Angelo Quinto and be able to watch the recording of the live stream of the vigil
Welcome to Full Circle, your Cultural Affairs radio magazine produced by members and Graduates of the First Voice Apprenticeship Program. On tonight’s show, we’ll get a community update on the case of Angelo Quinto, a young man who died in police custody after the family says police used the knee on the neck technique in their Antioch home. The family is holding a Birthday Candlelight Vigil to celebrate the Life of Angelo. We also hear Bring It Forward. A special production focusing on the Harlem Renaissance, produced by First Voice Graduate, Theodora Adkins. All that tonight on Full Circle. I am your host, Freewillin Franklin. Coming to you from downtown Antioch. Bay Miwok territory. Keep it locked right here to k-p-f-a.
Links and information
Read the Change.org petition For Angelo Quinto
Follow Social media for Angelo Quinto and be able to watch the live stream of the vigil
Justice For Angelo: Facebook, Instagram
Get Directions to the Antioch City Park for the Candlelight Vigil for Angelo Quinto, 5pm at the corner of 10th and A streets.
GOOD EVENING AND WELCOME TO “FULL CIRCLE,” YOUR CULTURAL AFFAIRS RADIO MAGAZINE, PRODUCED BY MEMBERS OF THE FIRST VOICE APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM. WE ARE BROADCASTING LIVE FROM HUICHIN, OCCUPIED OHLONE TERRITORY, ALSO KNOWN TO SETTLERS AS THE BAY AREA.
ON TONIGHT’S SHOW……
ALL THAT TONIGHT ON FULL CURCLE … I’M YOUR HOST RADIO SHAQ AND IT FEELS GOOD TO BE BACK …….. STAY WITH US
Welcome to Full Circle, your Cultural Affairs radio magazine produced by members and graduates of the First Voice Apprenticeship Program. Broadcasting from Huichin-Occupied Ohlone Territory, also known to settlers as Berkeley, CA. On tonight’s show we will hear excerpts from a press conference on the case of Angelo Quinto, a young man who died from a knee on his neck on what the police are calling a medical emergency in Antioch police custody. Next Antioch Mayor Lamar Thorpe and Vice Mayor Monica E. Wilson discusses bridging the gap, teen dating violence, black history month programming and the fight for police reform. Closing out the show is a tribute to the Lawyer and Reverend Pauli Murray.
Links and Information
Angelo Quinto leaves behind his mother, Cassandra, his stepfather, Robert, his two younger siblings, Andrei and Isabella, and his close cousin, Miguel.
Watch the entire Quinto family press conference here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGUE4aBxtXc&feature=emb_err_woyt
Pauli Murray Tribute
My Name is Pauli Murray (Documentary trailer – Democracy Now)
Pauli Murray College (at Yale College)
Florence Price – Sonata in E Minor: Adagio-Allegro (played by Maria Corley) – YouTube
Welcome to Full Circle, your Cultural Affairs radio magazine produced by members and Graduates of the First Voice Apprenticeship Program. On tonight’s show, we”ll hear pieces produced by past apprentices.Including a look at some dark times in our history when lynching was rampant and I will share a tragic story from my family some listeners may be familiar with. We’ll also hear some thoughts on Harlem history and Billie Holiday. Later we will have a short tribute to one of the original Supremes. All that tonight on Full Circle, I am your host, Freewillin Franklin coming to you from downtown Antioch Bay Miwok territory. Keep it locked right here to KPFA.
Links and information
Read the newspaper articles about the lynchings in Contra Costa County in 1986 & 87.
Associated Press article https://apnews.com/article/6d587bda7517c77cd5c4550ada11f716
LA Times article https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-06-24-mn-21180-story.html
Letters and Politics w/ Mitch Jeserich – YouTube channel
MARY WILSON
Solo – “Someday We’ll Be Together” (1989) – YouTube
“Someday We’ll Be Together” and Fred Hampton, Black Panther Party Leader
Welcome to Full Circle, your Cultural Affairs radio magazine produced by members and Graduates of the First Voice Apprenticeship Program. On tonight’s show, We”ll hear how a decade long tradition in Antioch has gone virtual during these COVID times. And we’ll get an update on truth, reconciliation and reparations from our own Joy Moore with writer and historian, Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz. Later we will bring back an archival interview with renowned poet, author and former KPFA programmer Adam David Miller. All that and more tonight on Full Circle. I am your host, Freewillin Franklin. Coming to you from downtown Antioch… Bay Miwok territory, keep it locked right here to k-p-f-a..
To log into the 11th Annual Black History Arts and Artifacts Virtual Exhibit click on the link. https://www.gracearmsofantioch.org/black-history The event kicks off at noon Saturday Feb.6th
Check out the Turn Up Kids AKA “TUK” on their youtube channel below.
