Jazz suites are the main feature for this Thursday’s edition of Strictly Jazz Sounds. Celebrate Black History Month with “Freedom Suite” by Sonny Rollins, “Freedom Now Suite” selections by Max Roach and Terence Blanchard’s Oscar nominated “Malcolm X Jazz Suite” from Spike Lee’s Malcolm X. Opening with Gil Scott-Heron’s “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,” hear […]
The Effect of Systemic Racism
This week, Perpetual Notion Machine explores systemic racism. In light of Black History Month, host Anita Nsubuga discusses the effects of racism, specifically systemic racism on people of color (with emphasis on black Americans) with guest Tiffany Green. Joined by Dr. Tiffany Green, Ph.D, assistant professor from the University of Wisconsin, Population Health Sciences, they […]
Strictly Jazz Sounds Celebrates Black History Month
This week’s jazz offering on Strictly Jazz Sounds celebrates Black History Month through jazz, poetry and spoken word. The show opens with Geri Allen’s version of the Black national anthem, “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” as should every presentation this honored month. Other highlights include Christian McBride’s noted album, The Movement Revisited: A Musical Portrait […]
Harriet Tubman Is Not A Commodity
Less than a month after rioters carrying confederate battle flags stormed the U.S. Capitol, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki announced that the Treasury Department would accelerate plans to replace the likeness of former President and General Andrew Jackson on the twenty dollar bill with abolitionist Harriet Tubman. By reviving the Obama-era plan, which became […]
The Radical Life of Hubert Harrison
Hubert Harrison was an immensely influential but underrecognized Black radical who lived and organized in Harlem at the turn of the twentieth century. As part of our Black History Month programming, today Thursday host Allen Ruff talks to historian and biographer Jeffrey B. Perry about Hubert Harrison’s life, his perspectives on race and class, and […]
Celebrating Black History Month with 100 Black Men of Madison
Today on the show, Wednesday host Ali Muldrow kicks off Black History Month with special guests Dr. Floyd Rose and J.R. Sims from 100 Black Men of Madison, a local nonprofit that seeks to “improve the quality of life within our communities and enhance educational and economic opportunities for all.” They talk about living through […]
