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..
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.
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.
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Follow these links to learn more about Raina J. Leon follow these links:
I have copies of my poetry chapbook, Pisco Sourswith 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,
(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.)
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
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
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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
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.
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……
I’M BACK AND I WILL BE PLAYING MUSIC FROM ALL OVER AND SOME GREAT INSPIRATION ARTIST OF OUR TIME
WE GO OVER THE HISTORY OF SOME OF THE SONGS YOU WILL HERE TONIGHT
IT’S ALSO OUR FUND DRIVE AND SHOW’S GOAL TONIGHT IS 500 DOLLARS
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.
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Angelo Quinto leaves behind his mother, Cassandra, his stepfather, Robert, his two younger siblings, Andrei and Isabella, and his close cousin, Miguel.
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.
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Read the newspaper articles about the lynchings in Contra Costa County in 1986 & 87.
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..