Celeste Carey interviews Enola Aird, founder of the intra-racial healing organization, Community Healing Network. They discuss how Black people throughout the African Diaspora can destroy the poisonous dehumanizing lie of Black inferiority. Enola and other community activists constructed a multifacted approach to reclaim and assert the accomplishments, wisdom and beauty that is the true heritage of people of the African Diaspora.

Learn more at: http://www.communityhealingnet.org/ 

This week is an overview of the music featured on the show. Starting Nov. we will feature specific artists individually, focusing on music by them and their influences.

Host Rabia Yeaman speaks with NPR contributor Sarah Vowell about her latest book, The Wordy Shipmates, which features a history of the Puritans refracted through Vowell unique lens.

DO YOU MISS FUNK MUSIC ??  WE SURE DO ! 

SO MONDAY EVENING WE ARE GOING TO PLAY 3 HOURS AS WE CELEBRATE, FINALLY, THE END OF THE GEORGE W BUSH ERA WITH FUNK MUSIC !

PUT THIS TOGETHER WITH THE MEMBERSHIP DRIVE, AND WE'VE GOT "STRATEGERY" !!

Reggae Bob !

Host Dr. Helen Caldicott interviews Australian catholic author and historian Paul Collins, who resigned from the priesthood in 2002 following a dispute about his book, "Papal Power." He discusses his "environmental conversion."

Judith Mowry and John Canda, of the Restorative Listening Project, share their experiences and insight on healing the harm of gentrification in Portland.  John and Judith also traveled to Washington, D.C. to attend the Race and Reconciliation Conference hosted by Janet Langhart Cohen and  her husband, former Secretary of Defense William Cohen, where they presented on the Restorative Listening project. Hosted by Celeste Carey