Podcasts about africa speaks

Cindy Blackman Santana is originally from Ohio, came to the East Coast to study at Berklee and at the Hartt School of Music, moved to New York in the late '80s and has played and recorded with a ton of people across the spectrum of jazz and rock ever since. She's made a slew of albums under her own name, including some featuring saxophonist and longtime friend of Burning Ambulance JD Allen; she toured off and on with Pharoah Sanders; she was the drummer for Spectrum Road, a tribute to Tony Williams Lifetime that featured guitarist Vernon Reid, who's also been on this podcast, plus keyboardist John Medeski, and bassist Jack Bruce. And she's probably best known to a lot of people for being Lenny Kravitz's touring drummer for many, many years, but what some people may not know is that she did not play drums on his records — he plays drums on his records. So part of our interview gets into the question of how you make music your own when you're playing someone else's parts.We also talk about her time working with Pharoah Sanders, and recording with Joe Henderson; we talk about her admiration for Tony Williams, and she gives her analysis of the changes in his style over the course of his career and how those manifested in the changes to his kit; we talk about how to lock in with a bassist, the difference in mindset between playing jazz and rock, and much more. This was a really interesting conversation. Unfortunately, it was cut short. Around 45 minutes in, my internet cut out and took our Zoom call with it. So you'll hear a sudden fade right as we start talking about the 2019 Santana album Africa Speaks, on which Cindy Blackman Santana plays. So what I've done is gone back into my archives and pulled up an interview I did with Carlos Santana when that record came out, and we talk about it, and also about her contributions to the band's music and his feelings about playing with her. I think it's a valuable addendum to this conversation, and I hope you enjoy the whole episode. Thanks as always for listening.

This roundtable will celebrate the much-anticipated publication of Orisanmi Burton's first book, Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt. Order a copy of "Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt" from Bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/a/1039/9780520396326 Speakers Jared A. Ball is a Professor of Communication and Africana Studies at Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD. and author of The Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power (Palgrave, 2020). Ball is also host of the podcast “iMiXWHATiLiKE!”, co-founder of Black Power Media which can be found at BlackPowerMedia.org, and his decades of journalism, media, writing, and political work can be found at imixwhatilike.org. Ball has also been named as one of 2022's Marguerite Casey Foundation's Freedom Scholars. Dhoruba Bin Wahad was a leading member of the New York Black Panther Party, a Field Secretary of the BPP responsible for organizing chapters throughout the East Coast, and a member of the Panther 21. Arrested June 1971, he was framed as part of the illegal FBI Counter Intelligence program (COINTELPRO) and subjected to unfair treatment and torture during his nineteen years in prison. During Dhoruba's incarceration, litigation on his behalf produced over three hundred thousand pages of COINTELPRO documentation, and upon release in 1990 he was able to bring a successful lawsuit against the New York Department of Corrections for all their wrongdoings and criminal activities. Ruth Wilson Gilmore is Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences and Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at the City University of New York Graduate Center. Co-founder of many grassroots organizations, Gilmore is author of Abolition Geography: Essays Toward Liberation (Verso), and Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (University of California Press). Change Everything is forthcoming from Haymarket. She and Paul Gilroy co-edited Stuart Hall: Selected Writings on Race and Difference (Duke University Press). Sarah Haley works in the areas of U.S. gender history, carceral history, Black feminist and queer theory, prison abolition, and feminist historical methods. She is the author of No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity and is working on a book titled Carceral Interior: A Black Feminist Study of American Punishment, 1966-2016. She is an associate professor of gender studies and history at Columbia University and organizes with Scholars for Social Justice. Robin D. G. Kelley is the Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA. His books include, Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression; Race Rebels: Culture Politics and the Black Working Class; Yo' Mama's DisFunktional!: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America; Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times and Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination. Orisanmi Burton is an assistant professor of anthropology at American University. His research employs innovative ethnographic and archival methods to examine historical collisions between Black radical organizations and state repression in the United States. Dr. Burton's work has been published in North American Dialogue, The Black Scholar, American Anthropologist, among other outlets and has received support from the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and The Margarite Casey Foundation, which selected him as a 2021 Freedom Scholar. Dr. Burton's first book, entitled Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt was published by the University of California Press on October 31 2023. Watch the live event recording: https://youtube.com/live/yhsQ3LHsAYU Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

The legendary thinker and radical historian Robin DG Kelley joins us to discuss the importance of the radical imagination and the history of workers' writing. Kelley is author of many books on the history of labour and anti-racist struggles, and about luminary proletarian creative figures. These include: Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class, and Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times. In this conversation, Kelley explains how, in the face of corporate and capitalist power, which has never failed to mobilize racism, working people have consistently turned to the written word as a tool of solidarity and a means to demand a different future. In an age of digital capitalism where corporations like Amazon dominate the market for books, films and other "content," reclaiming the power to create and share works of the imagination are more important than ever. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Kelley * http://www.beacon.org/Freedom-Dreams-P1855.aspx The Workers' Speculative Society is a research podcast about the world Amazon is building and the workers, writers and communities that are demanding a different future. It is part of the Worker as Futurist Project, which supports rank-and-file Amazon workers to write speculative fiction about "The World After Amazon. It is hosted by Xenia Benivolski, Max Haiven, Sarah Olutola, and Graeme Webb and is an initiative of RiVAL: The ReImagining Value Action Lab, with support from the Social Sciences a Humanities Research Council of Canada. Editing and theme music by Robert Steenkamer. * https://soundcloud.com/reimaginevalue/sets/the-workers-speculative * http://workersspeculativesociety.org * http://reimaginingvalue.ca

'This Week on Africa On The Move' presents; " Africa Speaks to the Big Bad Wolf!" Join us on Sunday, May 7, 2023, at 7 PM EST US, by dialing in at: 1 (323) 679-0841, or go online at:  www.blogtalkradio.com/africa-on-the-move

To hear the rest of the conversation, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Direct link to the Patreon portion of this broadcast's discussion - https://www.patreon.com/posts/norman-barbara-d-80188734 Norman Finkelstein, Barbara Smith and Robin D.G. Kelley debate identity politics. First Barbara and Robin go over the College Board's revision of its curriculum for its Advanced Placement African American Studies course. These revisions happened just weeks after Florida's Republican Governor Ron DeSantis threatened to ban the class in Florida schools. Then Norman joins the discussion. Norman G. Finkelstein received his PhD from the Princeton University Politics Department in 1987. He is the author of many books that have been translated into 60 foreign editions, including THE HOLOCAUST INDUSTRY: Reflections on the exploitation of Jewish suffering, and GAZA: An inquest into its martyrdom. In the year 2020, Norman Finkelstein was named the fifth most influential political scientist in the world. Link to purchase Norman's book: https://www.sublationmedia.com/books/i'll-burn-that-bridge-when-i-get-to-it Barbara Smith is an author, activist, and independent scholar who has played a groundbreaking role in opening up a national cultural and political dialogue about the intersections of race, class, sexuality, and gender. She was among the first to define an African American women's literary tradition and to build Black women's studies and Black feminism in the United States. She has been politically active in many movements for social justice since the 1960s. She has edited three major collections about Black women: Conditions: Five, The Black Women's Issue (with Lorraine Bethel, 1979); All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies (with Gloria T. Hull and Patricia Bell Scott, 1982); and Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology, 1983 She was cofounder and publisher until 1995 of Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, the first U. S. publisher for women of color to reach a wide national audience. She is the 2022-23—Hess Scholar-in-Residence, Brooklyn College. Link to "There's a Lot More That Needs to Be Done" an interview with Barbara Smith: https://www.thedriftmag.com/theres-a-lot-more-that-needs-to-be-done/ Robin D. G. Kelley is the Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA. His books include, Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original; Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression; Race Rebels: Culture Politics and the Black Working Class; Yo' Mama's DisFunktional!: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America; Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times and Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination. His essays have appeared in several publications, including The Nation, Monthly Review, New York Times, American Historical Review, American Quarterly, Social Text, Metropolis, Black Music Research Journal, and The Boston Review, for which he also serves as Contributing Editor. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media and to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/tWby973p Follow Katie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kthalps

Show notes: The incredible Robin D. G. Kelley schools us on what true reparations could look like - and how to use our collective power to envision a better future. Recorded in Los Angeles with a live audience. See the video HERE! Guest: Robin D. G. Kelley Robin Kelley is a leading historian, author, and thinker of our time - or any time. His groundbreaking book Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination offers inspiring visions for a bold Black future. He breaks down why we need to imagine a radically different world in the fight for reparations. Filmed with a live audience at the Greenway Court Theatre in Los Angeles. Check out the VIDEO of this episode!Highlights of Episode:[7:59] Freedom Dreams is invitation to engage in struggle, make mistakes, learn from past movements[10:10] The global nature of racism and oppression, seeing reparations more broadly[13:12] Role of artists as truth-tellers[24:39] Robin's bold possibilities for reparations[26:20] Why we need to transform society; link between Black and Indigenous reparations[32:42] Tony's tribute to our mothers[45:42] Why we can't ever get equality under capitalism Some key reparations movements and pioneers from the past:The Black ManifestoN'COBRAProvisional Government Of The Republic Of New Afrika"Queen Mother" Audley MooreCallie HouseSelected books by Robin Kelley:Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (20th anniv. edition)Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary TimesThelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American OriginalYo' Mama's DisFunktional: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban AmericaRace Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working ClassHammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great DepressionRobin highlights the critical role of artists in the struggle for Black liberation:Aja Monet - Dynamic young poet who wrote the new foreword to Freedom Dreams"Who'll Pay Reparations On My Soul" by Gil Scott-Heron - Groundbreaking musician, poet, author, and activistSekou Sindiata - Brilliant poet who made profound impact on Freedom DreamsContact Tony & AdamSubscribe

What is wrong with wokeism? Mark Goldblatt explains. Links from the show:* I Feel, Therefore I Am: The Triumph of Woke Subjectivism* Chad O. Jackson on Inside the War Room* Connect with Mark* Subscribe to the newsletterAbout my guest:Mark Goldblatt is a novelist, columnist and book reviewer as well as a college professor at Fashion Institute of Technology of the State University of New York.His controversial first novel, Africa Speaks, a satire of black urban culture, was published in 2002 by The Permanent Press. His second novel, Sloth, a comedic take on postmodernism, was published in June 2010 by Greenpoint Press.Goldblatt is perhaps best known as a political commentator. He has written hundreds of opinion pieces for a combination of the New York Post, the New York Times, USA Today, the Daily News, Newsday, National Review Online and the American Spectator Online. He has been a guest on the Catherine Crier Show on Court TV and done dozens of radio interviews for stations across the country and in England. His integrity has been called into question by the Village Voice - which should count for something.Goldblatt's book reviews have appeared in The Common Review, Commentary, Reason Magazine, and the Webzine Ducts. His academic articles have appeared in Philosophy Now, Academic Questions, Sewanee Theological Review, English Renaissance Prose, Issues in Developmental Education 1999, the Encyclopedia of Tudor England and the Dictionary of Literary Biography. Get full access to Dispatches from the War Room at dispatchesfromthewarroom.substack.com/subscribe

In this conversation, Dr. Kyama Mugambi of Africa Theological Network Press speaks on the issues around Africa and Christian publishing. This episode is originally published on Africa Speaks YouTube Channel. Learn more about Africa Speaks: https://zurl.co/xyRv

In this conversation, Dr Kyama Mugambi of Africa Theological Network Press debunks some of the myths around Christian publishing in Africa. This episode originally appeared on the Africa Speaks YouTube channel. Learn more about Africa Speaks: https://zurl.co/xyRv

In this conversation, Dr Kyama Mugambi of Africa Theological Network Press shares some wisdom on how to improve the quality of content and encourage key African leaders to publish their voices. This episode originally appeared on the Africa Speaks YouTube channel. Learn more about Africa Speaks: https://zurl.co/xyRv

In this conversation, Dr Kyama Mugambi of Africa Theological Network Press discusses the future of ATNP and its vision for Africa. This episode originally appeared on the Africa Speaks YouTube channel. Learn more about Africa Speaks: https://zurl.co/xyRv

In this conversation, Dr Kyama Mugambi of Africa Theological Network Press shares on the future of Christianity and Publishing in Africa. This episode originally appeared on Africa Speaks YouTube channel. Learn more about Africa Speaks: https://zurl.co/xyRv

Farah Jasmine Griffin in conversation with Robin D.G. Kelley, discussing her new book "Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature," published by W.W. Norton & Co. This event was originally broadcast via Zoom and hosted by Josiah Luis Alderete. You can purchase copies of "Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature" directly from City Lights here: https://citylights.com/new-nonfiction-in-hardcover/read-until-you-understand/ Farah Jasmine Griffin is a professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of "Who Set You Flowin'?": The African-American Migration Narrative, and the coeditor of "A Stranger in the Village: Two Centuries of African-American Travel Writing." She has been the recipient of fellowships from the Ford Foundation and the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College. She lives in Philadelphia. Robin D.G. Kelley is a scholar history of social movements in the U.S., the African Diaspora, and Africa; black intellectuals; music and visual culture; Surrealism, Marxism, among other things. His essays have appeared in a wide variety of professional journals as well as general publications, including the Journal of American History, American Historical Review, The Nation, Monthly Review, New York Times, Color Lines, Counterpunch, Souls, Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noir, Social Text ,The Black Scholar, Journal of Palestine Studies, and Boston Review, for which he serves as Contributing Editor. He is the author of "Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times" (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012); "Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original" (The Free Press, 2009); "Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination" (Beacon Press, 2002); with Howard Zinn and Dana Frank, "Three Strikes: The Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century" (Beacon Press, 2001); "Yo' Mama's Disfunktional!: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America"(Boston: Beacon Press, 1997); "Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class" (New York: The Free Press, 1994); "Into the Fire: African Americans Since 1970" (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996) [Vol. 10 of the Young Oxford History of African Americans series]; "Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression" (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1990). This event was made possible by support from the City Lights Foundation: citylights.com/foundation

The world was a very different place when Robin DG Kelley's renowned book Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination was first published in 2002. As the reality of post-9/11 America and the war on terror hardened into a dystopian, jingoistic consensus, and as the global economy careened towards impending catastrophe, the possibility of a future in which peace, justice, and equality reigned had all but disappeared. And yet, as people in the darkest of times throughout human history have done, many still had the audacity to dream of—and fight for—something better. Now, 20 years later, as we face the reality that unchecked capitalist pillage, endless war, and climate catastrophe have put humanity on a path to mutually assured destruction, the future seems bleaker than ever, and the possibility of averting disaster feels more unattainable than ever. How do we confront the enormity of all this devastation and still keep fighting? How can we keep hope alive that we can save ourselves, humanity, and the planet when the world around us gives us so little cause for hope? As we continue the impossible struggle for a better world, how do we deal with constant failure without succumbing to defeat?In this special interview, TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez and Kelley grapple with these questions and discuss the continued necessity of freedom dreaming—and fighting like hell—in the face of catastrophe. Robin DG Kelley is currently the Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in US History in the Department of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research has explored the history of social movements in the US, the African diaspora, and Africa; Black intellectuals; music and visual culture; surrealism, and Marxism, among other vital topics. His essays have been published in general publications and academic journals across the board, including the Journal of American History, American Historical Review, The Nation, Monthly Review, New York Times, Color Lines, Social Text ,The Black Scholar, Journal of Palestine Studies, and Boston Review. He has authored and edited numerous influential books, including Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times; Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original; Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination; Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class; and Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression.Read the transcript of this interview: https://therealnews.com/robin-dg-kelley-on-fighting-for-freedom-in-the-darkness-of-capitalist-dystopia

Now in his 70s, revered guitarist Carlos Santana is opening up about his decadeslong career and sharing the inspiration behind his band's recent album “Africa Speaks,” which Santana describes as “mystical medicine to heal a crooked world.” The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee says he believes in the power of music and wants to remind people to find compassion in their lives. In a powerful and poignant moment, Santana opens up to host Giselle Fernandez about being sexually abused at age 10 and explains that it took over 40 years — and the guiding voice of one of his angels — to speak up about the experience in order to reduce his shame, pain and anger. Santana's experiences have made him particularly concerned about the welfare of children, with his Milagro Foundation and Carlos Santana Arts Academy — both in Southern California — serving youth and providing them with arts programs.

Theo Malele from the Taxi Alliance joins Africa Melane to explain the reasons behind th planned taxi strike. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Carlos Santana, along with his wife and drummer, Cindy Blackman got together with Rick Rubin to discuss the 2019 album they recorded together, Africa Speaks, and also to talk about Santana's early days in San Francisco. They discuss how Santana found his unique playing style, his friendship with Miles Davis and more. Subscribe to Broken Record's YouTube channel to hear old and new interviews, often with bonus content: https://www.youtube.com/brokenrecordpodcast You can also check out past episodes here: https://brokenrecordpodcast.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

At Canada’s National Academy of Dance Education we know that dance is a language through which we can communicate globally. The power of dance as a language allows us to share our history, traditions, culture, stories and celebrations. Canada’s National Academy of Dance Education has been blessed to have met many dance educators from around the world and gained insight into their dance training and experiences from their point of view. The more we know about dance history and cultural influences on styles, the better equipped we are as dance educators to truly present an education in dance to our students. Helping us better understand the dance educator's role in supporting diversity in our dance community is Co-Founder of Africa Speaks and Assistant Lecturer of Dance at Makerere University Dr. Alfdaniels Mabingo. GUEST: Alfdaniels Mabingo is a Ugandan dance researcher, scholar, performer, Afro-optimist and co-founder of AFRIKA SPEAKS. Born and raised in his ancestral village, Mbuukiro, in Uganda, he holds a Ph.D. in Dance Studies from the University of Auckland. He holds an MA in Dance Education from New York University, an MA in Performing Arts and a BA in Dance, both from Makerere University. He has taught dance courses at many renowned Universities throughout the US, New Zealand and Jamaica. Mabingo has published more than 20 peer-reviewed scholarly articles and book chapters. In 2020, his book titled ‘Ubuntu as Dance Pedagogy: Individuality, Community, and Inclusion in Teaching and Learning of Indigenous Dances in Uganda’ was published. Mabingo has received numerous prestigious scholarships and awards including the University of Auckland Doctoral Scholarship and the George Payne award for outstanding academic leadership and excellence at NYU.

On episode 091 of the Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by Robin Kelley. As a historian, Robin provides a long view of the ongoing crises in the US, talking with Paul about how to slow down in this moment and the importance of keeping the big picture in mind. They talk in-depth about issues of racial capitalism, environmental justice, and a culture of care.In their discussion, Paul and Robin call out influences like Thelonious Monk and Cedric Robinson and take time to hear about the three words that guide Robin’s approach to his work: love, study, struggle.Robin D. G. Kelley is the Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA. His books include, Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original (2009); Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times (2012); Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (2002); and Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression (1990).

What happens when the most prolific thought leaders and icons in the wedding and event industry get together for a conversation with the super creative Andy Kushner? You get The Wedding Biz Podcast. It’s Andy’s goal to elevate the wedding and event industry by interviewing top professionals in the industry.  His podcast has been a runaway success with his authentic interview style and iconic guests. He even puts his own spin on things by creating The Next Level where he pulls a couple of main topics from a previous show and invites a former guest to be a co-host and discuss that topic. This unique co-host strategy has enabled Andy to form deeper connections with his co-hosts and grow his audience.  Andy graduated from Boston University with a degree in Business Management. He spent several years at IBM in the corporate world. Eventually, he felt his career was paying the bills, but not feeding his heart. He went back to his original love of music and formed Kushner Entertainment where he designs custom event experiences through bands and music.  Andy has always had a love for the spoken word, and once he discovered podcasting, he knew it was something he wanted to do. Now he is the host of The Wedding Biz, The Next Level, Extraordinary Ordinary People, and he is starting his own podcast network. In my conversation with Andy, we talk about his journey, his love of music and creativity, and how he found his passion with podcasting. Andy has been able to take an event niche like weddings and turn it into amazing stories, life lessons, and a show about business.  Show Notes: [03:19] Andy spent many years at IBM and also has a background in the music business.  [03:45] He majored in music, but at the time computers were starting to get big.  [04:30] Andy worked at IBM, but he missed music. He started a cover dance band to play weddings, and it got big very quickly.  [04:59] Now Andy runs Kushner Entertainment. He has several bands and produces stuff around the world for corporate events, weddings, and all kinds of things that involve music and entertainment.  [05:18] Andy has always been interested in the spoken word and listening to great speakers. He then discovered podcasts and started listening to people like Tim Ferriss, Brian koppelman, Marc Maron, and Howard Stern. [06:18] Andy had a gut feeling that his knowledge of business, music, and events would translate into a great podcast.  [06:52] He decided to niche the event industry down to mostly weddings. There were no shows in that segment who interviewed the icons of the business.  [07:27] There was no one interviewing the icons of the business, and Andy somehow knew that he would be able to get to those people. [07:44] He started interviewing the big hitters, and it started working. He's been doing The Wedding Biz podcast for two years now. [08:25] Andy custom designs the music for events. He has done some glamorous stuff and also a lot of weddings in the DC area. [08:46] He provides a party and a great experience for his customers. [09:09] Andy looks at the podcast business like a business. The best podcasters know how to entertain and engage an audience. [10:40] There is a level of improvisation with playing live music that also applies to podcasting. [12:22] Andy does in depth interviews. He wants to find out who these people are. He still listens and reads the guest.  [14:29] Andy releases his main interviews on Mondays. He also has a second shorter show where he summarizes some of the highlights from the Monday show.  [16:03] His download numbers show that this strategy is working. He also has his prior guests become co-hosts on The Next Level or second show.  [18:44] A podcast is a marketing tool to promote goods and services. Having guests as co-hosts really increases his relationship with them.  [20:50] Podcasting success for Andy is increasing relationships, possible monetization, and he loves doing it.  [21:43] Andy took out a loan to produce his podcast at a certain level, and he does in-person interviews. He did have to cutback on how he worked with various team members. He now spends less, and the show is better than ever. [23:24] Andy felt he could make more money paying someone else to edit.  [24:49] He has a partner for his music business. Andy gets to focus on creative.  [26:05] Andy is interviewing the best people in the world, and he's learning so much about the event industry. [26:32] Pat Flynn suggested that Andy read Rocket Fuel. [28:09] Using PPS for audio editing and production is the system that helps Andy with all of his podcasting obligations. Our system helps keeps him organized, so he can host multiple shows. [31:14] A couple things that Andy learned while podcasting is love the business side as much as the creative from Bryan Rafanelli and putting together a business structure is a creative act from David Starr.  [32:17] There's creativity to how you do your business. It's just perspective that's all. [33:04] Andy's mother was an entrepreneur and worked in the childbirth field. She taught him that anything was possible. His father was an anthropologist. Andy grew up feeling like anything was possible, he could have his own thing, and stand up for himself. [34:52] Andy's big future goal is to build his podcast network where he produces shows for other people in the industry and charges them for that. [35:28] He also has a large amount of valuable content, and his future goals focus around monetization. [36:28] Andy is blown away by Santana's new album Africa Speaks.  [38:19] Darrell's takeaways: his two episodes per week strategy is very unique. He builds a deeper relationship by having a guest be a co-host. He over-invested early on. Over time, he realized he can achieve the same or better results by scaling back. The money didn't roll in as fast as he thought it would. He's worked hard on finding a business partner and a team that allows him to focus on what he does best. Business is a creative act. Links and Resources: Pro Podcast Solutions Kushner Entertainment The Wedding Biz Podcast Andy@theWeddingBiz.Com The Wedding Biz on Instagram The Wedding Biz on Twitter Extraordinary Ordinary People Andy Kushner on LinkedIn Tim Ferriss Brian Koppelman Marc Maron Howard Stern Podfest Podcast Movement Pat Flynn Rocket Fuel Bryan Rafanelli Santana Africa Speaks

Legendary guitarist Carlos Santana gives Kyle Meredith a call to reminisce on the original Woodstock, his 1969 debut album, and his 1999 comeback record, Supernatural, particularly its gigantic hit single "Smooth". He also discusses his new album, Africa Speaks, namely how Rick Rubin helped bring the concept to life, giving Spanish vocalist Buika the reins to sing, and what African music means in today's political environment. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Today's guest is a certified rock n roll legend. Carlos Santana has done it all but he still has things he wants to knock off his bucket-list, which we discuss. We also talk about his new album, Africa Speaks, and the legendary producer who helped him create it. Of course, we discuss the 20th anniversary of his monster album, Supernatural, and the 50th of Woodstock, where he played high on hallucinogens.  Al Beck brings in the rock news with stories about Metallica, Led Zeppelin, White Stripes and another band celebrating its 50th anniversary. A special bonus for you today is a quick interview I did with the Atlanta band, Like Machines. We talk about the name of the band, what they were called before and more.  Thanks for listening! 5 star ratings and reviews are always appreciated. For feed back - 248-586-2988. -Meltdown- https://www.santana.com/ https://www.likemachinesmusic.com/ https://wrif.com/podcasts/talkin-rock-with-meltdown/ https://twitter.com/MeltdownWRIF https://twitter.com/AlBeckRadio

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Independent artist Laura Davis and Droematic's personal friend Reese joins the show to co-host with him.  Laura provides basic guitar tutorials for younger and beginning guitarists, on how to start with basic string sets, and how you can still be a successful guitarist without having to being able to read music.  The topic then shifts to a review of the Carlos Santana album, "Africa Speaks. Laura also talks about the time  she met Steven Tyler and how they rocked out with her younger sister.

La leyenda de la guitarra, Salón de la Fama del Rock and Roll, Carlos Santana, visita por primera vez Zona Pop para hablar de su más reciente producción discográfica, "Africa Speaks". Santana cuenta a Marysabel Huston y Javier Merino, por qué volteó la mirada a la cuna de la civilización para esta producción y también recuerda lo que significó -no solo para él, sino para la industria,- el Festival de Woodstock, que se llevó a cabo hace medio siglo. Support the show.

Carlos Santana is having a big year: the 50th anniversary of Woodstock, the 20th anniversary of Supernatural, and now a new album featuring Spanish vocalist Buika, Africa Speaks.

08-12-2018. Bishop JB Masinde's sermon The Good News

The conceptual and practical use of racial capitalism by many young activists who were shocked and ignited by their exposure to the events that spurred Ferguson, the uprising in Baltimore, continual state violence at the hands of a hyper militarized police force…and the many reflective actions produced in settler colony seeking to still become a nation-state…has taken on a life that I would argue is less a tool of analysis, but simply a catch phrase. The work to bridge the gap in intellectual engagement and the work it necessitates once understood, is still wide. However, this work is not something that Africana thinkers and activist have shied away from. The long tradition of radical thought and revolutionary practice is found in the cultural membrane of African peoples wherever they are found. The struggle—internal and external—to express and evolve ones' full humanity is the eternal beacon that motivates Africana social, economic, political, and cultural life—whether consciously or unconsciously. So, what is racial capitalism? What did Cedric Robinson mean when he highlighted and explored the development of racial capitalism? Cedric Robinson challenged the Marxist idea that capitalism was a revolutionary negation of feudalism. Instead capitalism emerged within the European feudal order and flowered in the cultural soil of a Western civilization already thoroughly infused with racialism. Capitalism and racism, in other words, did not break from the old order but rather evolved from it to produce a modern world system of “racial capitalism” dependent on slavery, violence, imperialism, and genocide. In addition to this, Robinson was acutely aware of Du Bois's articulation of racial capitalism in his work Black Reconstruction, where he wrote that “The giant forces of water and of steam were harnessed to do the world's work, and the black workers of America bent at the bottom of a growing pyramid of commerce and industry; and they not only could not be spared, if this new economic organization was to expand, but rather they became the cause of new political demands and alignments, of new dreams of power and visions of empire, Today, we will take a deep dive in expanding and solidifying our understanding of racial capitalism in the context of this temporal space we call…right now…with Robin D.G. Kelley. Robin D. G. Kelley is Distinguished Professor of History and Black Studies & Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA, and current Chair of the Department of African American Studies. He is author of a number of books, which include Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times; Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression; Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original; Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class; His latest book project is tentatively titled, The Education of Ms. Grace Halsell: An Intimate History of the American Century. Our show was produced today in solidarity with the native, indigenous, and Afro-descended communities at Standing Rock; Venezuela; Cooperation Jackson in Jackson, Mississippi; Brazil; the Avalon Village in Detroit; Colombia; Kenya; Palestine; South Africa; and Ghana; and other places who are fighting for the protection of our land for the benefit of all people. Enjoy! Image: Johana Londono

In this episode.... we can listen to Pt. 2 of the conversation I had with Fred Moten where we explore the ideas set forth by radical thinkers ranging from anti-colonialist such as Sylvia Wynter and Aimé Césaire to scholar-activists such as W. E. B. Du Bois and Amiri Baraka. You can catch Pt. 1 of our conversation on our SoundCloud archive. Professor Fred Moten is currently Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside, where he teaches courses and conducts research in black studies, performance studies, poetics and literary theory. He is author of number of books including, but not limited to In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition; B. Jenkins; The Feel Trio, A Poetics of the Undercommons; consent not to be a single being; and co-author, with Stefano Harney, of The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study. We then shift our mental energy a bit… In a January 2017 article in the Boston Review, Robin D. G. Kelley asks: So what did Robinson mean by “racial capitalism”? Professor Kelley answers this question, by arguing that: Cedric Robinson, building on the work of another forgotten black radical intellectual, sociologist Oliver Cox, challenged the Marxist idea that capitalism was a revolutionary negation of feudalism. Instead capitalism emerged within the European feudal order and flowered in the cultural soil of a Western civilization already thoroughly infused with racialism. Capitalism and racism, in other words, did not break from the old order but rather evolved from it to produce a modern world system of “racial capitalism” dependent on slavery, violence, imperialism, and genocide. Capitalism was “racial” not because of some conspiracy to divide workers or justify slavery and dispossession, but because racialism had already permeated Western feudal society. The first European proletarians were racial subjects (Irish, Jews, Roma or Gypsies, Slavs, etc.) and they were victims of dispossession, colonialism, and slavery within Europe. Cedric Robinson goes on to suggest that racialization within Europe was very much a colonial process involving invasion, settlement, expropriation, and racial hierarchy. Insisting that modern European nationalism was completely bound up with racialist myths… " What we will hear next, Professor Kelley reflect on race, class, and movements using Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition (Cedric Robinson) in the wake of the emergence of the Movement for Black Lives. Dr. Robin D. G. Kelley is Distinguished Professor of History and Black Studies & Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA, and current Chair of the Department of African American Studies. His work explores the history of social movements in the U.S., the African Diaspora, and Africa; black intellectuals; music; colonialism/imperialism; organized labor; constructions of race; Marxism, nationalism, among other things. He is author of a number of books, which include, but not limited to, Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times; Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression; Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class; and Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination Our show was produced today in solidarity with the native, indigenous, and Afro-descended communities at Standing Rock; Venezuela; Cooperation Jackson in Jackson, Mississippi; Brazil; the Avalon Village in Detroit; Colombia; Kenya; Palestine; South Africa; and Ghana; and other places who are fighting for the protection of our land for the benefit of all people. Enjoy the program. Music:J Dilla-African RhythmsAmiri Baraka-Why's/WiseDe La Soul-Stakes is HighJohn Coltrane-Kulu S MamaRobert Glasper-Somebody Else ft. Emeli Sandé

In this special May Day segment of Rustbelt Abolition Radio, we speak with acclaimed scholar Robin D.G. Kelley to explore the critique of racial capitalism, the history of class struggle across the color line, and the abolitionist horizon. We release this episode on May Day, or International Workers Day, celebrated annually by millions across the world in commemoration of the 1886 Haymarket Square massacre and the ongoing global struggle for a world without capitalist exploitation and racial domination. Robin D.G. Kelley is a professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA. Kelley’s intellectual work spans the far reaching histories of the black freedom movement, African American history, culture, music, and aesthetics, and the politics of the black radical imagination. His books include Africa Speaks, America Answers!: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times and Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, among many others.

Ahadf Soueif, Paul Smith and Robin Kelley discuss how the humanities can solve global challenges In this discussion, Ahdaf Soueif Paul Smith and Robin Kelley discuss the active role of the humanities in addressing contemporary crises, drawing from their own experiences before opening up the discussion and inviting audience questions. This was part of Activist Humanities in the World (www.torch.ox.ac.uk/activist-humanities), a conference partnered by SOAS, TORCH and UVA, and supported by the British Council, bringing together 30 leading scholars from every (peopled) continent to discuss the active role of the humanities in a comparative and connected global context. Ahdaf Soueif is the author of the bestselling The Map of Love (shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1999 and translated into more than 30 languages), as well as the well-loved In the Eye of the Sun and the collection of short stories, I Think of You. Ms Soueif is also a political and cultural commentator. A collection of her essays, Mezzaterra: Fragments from the Common Ground, was published in 2004. Her articles for the Guardian in the UK are also published in the European press, and she writes a weekly column (in Arabic) for the national daily, al-Shorouk, in Egypt. Robin Kelley is the Gary B. Nash Professor of American History at UCLA who has written extensively on social movements, the African diaspora and radical change. His books include the prize-winning, Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original (Free Press, 2009); Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times (Harvard University Press, 2012); Yo’ Mama’s DisFunktional!: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America (Beacon Press, 1997), which was selected one of the top ten books of 1998 by the Village Voice; and Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (Beacon Press, 2002). He also edited (with Earl Lewis), To Make Our World Anew: A History of African Americans (Oxford University Press, 2000), and is currently completing a general survey of African American history co-authored with Tera Hunter and Earl Lewis to be published by Norton. Paul Smith is Director of the British Council in the USA and Cultural Counsellor at the British Embassy in Washington, D.C.. A 30-year veteran of the British Council, the UK's international cultural relations organization, his previous postings include Bangladesh, India, Nigeria, Burma, New Zealand and Chile. Most recently, he led the British Council's offices in Afghanistan and in Egypt. His interests include history, international cultural relations and all the arts, especially drama. He has directed plays, particularly Shakespeare, in various countries and has published numerous articles. He was awarded the OBE by the Queen in 1999.