Podcast appearances and mentions of Meklit Hadero

What if the way we support artists is broken, but the answers have been with us all along? Today on Next Economy Now, we're joined by Ethiopian-American vocalist, composer, and cultural activist Meklit Hadero to explore how migration shapes music, why the traditional music industry is collapsing, and how collective economic models could be the key to artists' survival. For full show notes, visit: https://www.lifteconomy.com/blog/meklit-hadero/Send us a textA new cohort of the Next Economy MBA begins March 25th – join us! This nine-month learning journey is designed to provide emerging leaders of the Next Economy with the skills they need to help their organizations thrive.Learn more and sign up for a free intro with one of our facilitators: https://www.lifteconomy.com/mba.Special Offer for NEN Listeners: Use code PODCASTMBA to save 10% on tuition.Support the show

Grab your passport and get ready to dazzle French crowds with your voice, just as this week's guest, Ethio-Jazz Singer-Songwriter Meklit Hadero did! This revelation leads to some very fun parallel-lives moments with JV and Meklit, who both went to France between their jr. and sr. years of H.S.— though Meklit's experience was decidedly more cosmopolitan!

In episode 1741, Jack and guest co-host Andrew Ti are joined by musician and host of Movement, Meklit Hadero, to discuss… The Real Story Of What's Happening In Springfield, Ohio, Trump Supporters Claim That Harris Cheated In The Debate Thanks To Her Earrings and more! The Real Story Of What's Happening In Springfield, Ohio Viral Simpsons Tweet: "They're Eating The Pets In Springfield" Explosion of newcomers in dying Ohio city boosts its economy after decades of shrinking population - but not everyone's happy about it Here's What To Know About The Gang Crisis In Haiti—As U.S. Preps For Potential Influx Of Refugees ‘Should never have come to this': What's next as Henry steps down in Haiti? 'A criminal economy' How US arms fuel deadly gang violence in Haiti No Evidence Haitian Immigrants Are Eating Ducks, Geese or Pets in Springfield, Ohio Ohio city with Haitian migrant influx thrust into political spotlight Ohio city facing ‘significant' housing crisis due to migrant influx Trump Supporters Claim That Harris Cheated In The Debate Thanks To Her Earrings What Are Nova H1 Audio Earrings? Kamala Harris Conspiracy Spreads Online LISTEN: Tezeta by Mulatu AstatkeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Art is a form of self-expression. A lot of people say that, but for tap dance virtuoso Gerson Lanza it was literally true. Plus a teaser of what's to come on the new season of Movement with Meklit Hadero. Look out for new episodes through the summer and fall. Learn more about Movement at https://www.movementstories.com/

On this episode of Rightnowish, we're passing the mic to our friends at Immigrantly podcast. Host Saadia Khan and her guests examine traditional narratives Americans hold about immigrants and people of color. Through the process, they carefully unravel the nuance and depth of the immigrant experience. Immigrantly explores the everyday miraculousness of immigrant life, like love, food, faith, friendship and creativity through first-person accounts. Immigrantly's guest for this episode is Meklit Hadero. She is a vocalist, songwriter, composer and former refugee who is known for her innovative Ethio-Jazz vocals and lively stage presence. Her music blends together folk, jazz, Eastern African influences, and what Hadero calls "everyday sounds." She has performed worldwide, and just released a new EP called "Ethio Blue." Her album “When the People Move, the Music Moves Too,” was named among the best records of the year by Bandcamp and the Sunday Times UK. She is a National Geographic Explorer, a TED Senior Fellow, and a former Artist-in-Residence at Harvard University. Hadero is also the co-founder, co-producer, and host of Movement, a podcast, radio series and live show that celebrates songs and stories of immigrant musicians.

In episode 1638, Jack and Miles are joined by Ethio-American vocalist, songwriter, and composer, Meklit Hadero, to discuss… Meet Mark Robinson The GOP Candidate For NC Governor, The VA Just Backtracked On Their Plans To Ban A Controversial WWII Photo, Making Hospitals More Musical Could Save Lives--Study Finds and more! Mark Robinson, the North Carolina GOP nominee for governor, is off the rails even by MAGA standards The VA Just Backtracked On Their Plans To Ban A Controversial WWII Photo Kissing Sailor Photograph Couple Identified As George Mendonsa and Greta Zimmer Friedman According To New Book Science debunks WWII "Kiss" photo couple's claim to fame WWII's most iconic kiss wasn't romantic — it was terrifying #MeToo Graffiti Scrubbed From Sarasota V-J Day Kissing Statue Fact Check: About That So-Called Ban on Iconic 'V-J Day in Times Square' Photo in VA Offices 'Replete with Misconduct': Internal VA Investigation Finds Inappropriate Sexual Conduct in VA's Anti-Harassment Office Annoying hospital beeps are causing hundreds of deaths a year The Hospital Is Too Damn Loud Making Alarms More Musical Can Save Lives How one musician is reimagining hospital sounds Anatomy of a beep: A medical device giant and an avant-garde musician set out to redesign a heart monitor's chirps To Reduce Hospital Noise, Researchers Create Alarms That Whistle and Sing LISTEN: Ethio Blue by Meklit HaderoSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Place invariably has a profound impact on the art we make. Immigration melds cultures and creative output, a phenomenon embodied by musical cross pollination. Movement, which began its second season this year, explores the lives and works of immigrant musicians. It's a subject that is near and dear to the podcast's host, Meklit Hadero, whose music marries influences from her American home and Ethiopian birthplace. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For Palestinians in the diaspora, staying connected to their ancestral home and making sense of the politics in the region has long been a challenge. Meklit Hadero, host of “Movement,” a series on music and migration, spoke with Clarissa Bitar, a Palestinian American who found that a musical instrument could bridge history and great distance.

From the podcast, Movement, we spotlight the story of a self proclaimed “drunk drag queen,” and the music that saved them. Plus, we go on an adventure underwater to visit a secret kingdom for seahorses. STORIES Movement From the podcast, Movement, we spotlight the story of a self proclaimed” drunk drag queen,” and the music that saved them. Produced by Meklit Hadero and Ian Coss. The Movement show was co-created by Julie Caine. You can find all of San Cha's music and projects at churchofsancha.com. If you want to find more stories at the crossroads of music and migration, search for “Movement with Meklit Hadero,” wherever you listen! Movement is supported by The Mellon Foundation and National Geographic Society, and distributed by PRX. Under Pressure After traumatic experiences underwater, a diver falls in love with the ocean again by building a secret kingdom for seahorses. BIG thanks to Roger Hanson. Roger's writing a children's book, called “A Seahorse of a Different Color,” about a unique seahorse who was born different. It comes out in June. Roger has previously been covered by the LA Times and Spectrum Channel 1, which called him the “world's foremost expert on the Pacific Seahorse.” Seahorse Update: In September, pregnant Deep Blue stopped showing up. Roger thinks he was eaten by an octopus. He's moved any remaining octopuses in the area and resettled them elsewhere. Produced by Liz Mak, original score by Leon Moriomoto Artwork by Teo Ducot Season 14 Episode 52

Today, a family tradition keeps flamenco alive in the Bay Area. We're honoring the memory of flamenco performer Carolina Lugo. Then, we hear from a singer who shares stories of global migration through music. And, readings from our Bay Poets and New Arrivals reading series.

Today, longtime Presents producer Ian Coss shares a new project with a simple premise. If you want to talk about music today, you need to talk about migration – the movement of people around this earth. “Movement with Meklit Hadero” is a podcast that lives at that intersection: stories of music and migration, remixed.

When we find ourselves with no one to lean on, how do we make meaningful connections with people? In this episode, Celeste The Therapist and Meklit Hadero, Ethio-American vocalist, songwriter and composer, talk about music and how it brings people together. This episode also discusses the power of community as a healing modality. Music encompasses harmonies, rhythms, and tunes. When people share music together, their systems also align and synchronize with each other. This episode shows how interpersonal connections can make us feel more grounded and better. Tune in now and subscribe to discover more. https://www.celestethetherapist.com/episode442  

Meklit Hadero is an Ethiopian-American vocalist, songwriter, composer and former refugee, known for her electric stage presence, innovative sound and vibrant cultural activism. Meklit hosts Movement, a transmedia storytelling initiative that lives at the intersection of migration and music.Meklit's performances have taken her to renowned stages across four continents. Her last album topped world music charts across the US and Europe, and was named amongst the best of the year by Bandcamp and The Sunday Times UK. Most meaningfully to her, Meklit is a star in her home country of Ethiopia, after the music video for her song Kemekem and her TED Talk went viral there, the latter garnering over 1.3 million views.Meklit has collaborated with renowned artists such as Kronos Quartet, Andrew Bird, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, and the late creator of funk music, Pee Wee Ellis. She is currently signed to Smithsonian Folkways, with two records set for release in 2024.---Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, Nun With a Musical Gift, Dies at 99---If you like this advice from Meklit, check out this episode with Abigail Bengson!---Become a Best Advice Show patron to help ensure the sustainability of this show. Thank you!---We live @ https://bestadvice.show/ and on IG @bestadviceshow

On the podcast “Movement," Meklit Hadero interviews musicians with roots around the world about how their histories and personal lives get translated into song. For this special Thanksgiving Day broadcast of The World, we share stories from “Movement," related to family and "found family.”  ___Our reporting is independent, inclusive and in-depth. Best of all, it's listener supported. Will you give today to support theThe World? 

On this week's episode of "Sights & Sounds," singer Meklit Hadero gives her arts and culture suggestions happening in the Bay Area.

In episode 1575, Jack and Miles are joined by musician and host of Movement, Meklit Hadero, to discuss… Joe Biden Isn't The First President To Create Policies Because Of Movies That Freaked Him Out, Genocidal Rhetoric Is So Mainstream Now, Mariah Carey Ushers In Christmas Season With Another Weird-Ass Video and more! Joe Biden Isn't The First President To Create Policies Because Of Movies That Freaked Him Out Biden reveals the first time he heard a deepfake of his voice and asks 'when the hell did I say that?' President compares AI to science fiction as new 'czar' Kamala laughs Hollywood Minute: Deep-Fake 'Putin' and 'Biden' rock out with Limp Bizkit Joe Biden Grew More Worried About AI After Watching ‘Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning,' Says White House Deputy Is Donald Trump's Border Wall Policy Based On Half-Remembered Bits Of 'Sicario 2'? How Two Sci-Fi Writers Fueled a U.S. President's Wild Quest to Weaponize Space Reagan and Gorbachev Agreed to Pause the Cold War in Case of an Alien Invasion How Sci-Fi Like WarGames Led to Real Policy During the Reagan Administration Star Wars, all over again Ramaswamy calls for Israel to kill all Hamas leaders in a similar way to the ‘Red Wedding' in ‘Game of Thrones' Piers Morgan Confronts Vivek Ramaswamy on ‘Medieval Barbarism' of His Proposal to Put Hamas Heads on Spikes Mariah Carey Ushers In Christmas Season With Another Weird-Ass Video Mariah Carey Declares 'It's Time' as She's Defrosted for Christmas Mariah Carey goes mega-viral with TikTok video “defrosting” for Christmas Starbucks Holiday Cups and Menu are Back on November 2 LISTEN: Soleil Soleil by Meklit HaderoSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In episode 323, the girls are joined by musician and podcast host Meklit Hadero. They talk about Meklit's upbringing all over the world, her passion to become a musician, her new podcast Movement, the importance of sharing peoples stories from all over the world, and more! Listen to Movement and also check out the most recent episode with Palestinian musician Clarissa Bitar. Follow Meklit on Instagram at @MeklitMusic. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Meklit Hadero is an Ethio-jazz musician and the creator of Movement, a multimedia project about self-expression through art which includes a podcast she herself hosts. Danielle and Meklit have an enlightening conversation about the importance of using our gifts to tell our stories.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sasami's latest album, “Squeeze,” is a musical concoction of different genres and influences — including her family's multicultural heritage as zainichi Koreans. Meklit Hadero, host of “Movement,” our series on music and migration, speaks with Sasami about her family history and upbringing. 

Movement: A Conversation with Jesus Diaz: Meklit Hadero is a singer and composer and the host of a new podcast called Movement, which tells the story of global migrations through music. In this shared episode, Meklit speaks with Cuban-American percussionist Jesus Díaz about his journey from playing homemade drums in Havana to performing on the biggest stages in the world Diaz. Produced by Ian Coss and Meklit Hadero. #cuba #jesusdiaz #meklithadero #iancross #afromusic #storyteller #afropopworldwide #worldmusicproductions #habana #percussion #boleros #rumba

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In our latest installment of “Movement,” our series on music and migration, Meklit Hadero speaks with Belgian artists Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul, who are trying to start difficult conversations through music.

Momma Nikki speaks and sings about a complicated relationship with their father, who immigrated to the US from Haiti. The story was recorded live on stage at the Meany Center for the Performing arts at the University of Washington. More about Momma Nikki: https://www.mommanikki.com/ More about Movement: https://www.mommanikki.com/ More about Meklit Hadero: https://www.meklitmusic.com/

"Movement" host Meklit Hadero speaks with Sudanese American MC Oddisee about his new album, "To What End," which grew out of a period of intense self-doubt.

My guest today is Meklit Hadero, the Ethiopian-born, San Francisco-based artist. She is best known for her innovative Ethio-Jazz vocals and electric performance style. Even if you were to listen for a few minutes, you'd notice a genre-bending nature to her songs. Her songs weave together jazz, folk, Eastern African influences, and what Meklit calls everyday sounds.  She has performed worldwide, from San Francisco to Cairo to London to Montreal. Her latest, released in 2017, “When the People Move, the Music Moves Too,” was named among the best records of the year by Bandcamp and the Sunday Times UK.  She is a National Geographic Explorer, a TED Senior Fellow, and a 2019 Artist-in-Residence at Harvard University. Meklit is the co-founder, co-producer, and host of Movement, a new radio series telling stories of global migration through music. In our conversation, she shares how she looks to music to express longing, pain, hope, and other facets of the diaspora. Her words reminded me of the importance of heritage and how traditional music from our homelands can be integrated into present movement and music.  Join the conversation: Instagram @immigrantlypod | Twitter @immigrantly_pod |  Please share the love and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts to help more people find us!  Host & Executive Producer: Saadia Khan I Content Writer: Yudi Liu & Saadia Khan I Editorial review: Shei Yu I Sound Designer & Editor: Haziq Ahmed Farid I Immigrantly Theme Music: Simon Hutchinson  Order of Meklit's Tracks during the episode Meklit - Yesterday Is A Tizita Meklit - Sweet and Salty Meklit - This Was Made Here Oddisee - Try Again Dengue Fever - Ethanopium  Xenia Rubinos - Hair Receding Meklit - Float and Fall Additional Links Meklit Hadero: The unexpected beauty of everyday sounds | Ted Dr. Jon Jenkins - Chasing Shadow Words: Exoplanets from Kepler & Beyond

My guest today is Meklit Hadero, the Ethiopian-born, San Francisco-based artist. She is best known for her innovative Ethio-Jazz vocals and electric performance style. Even if you were to listen for a few minutes, you'd notice a genre-bending nature to her songs. Her songs weave together jazz, folk, Eastern African influences, and what Meklit calls everyday sounds.  She has performed worldwide, from San Francisco to Cairo to London to Montreal. Her latest, released in 2017, “When the People Move, the Music Moves Too,” was named among the best records of the year by Bandcamp and the Sunday Times UK.  She is a National Geographic Explorer, a TED Senior Fellow, and a 2019 Artist-in-Residence at Harvard University. Meklit is the co-founder, co-producer, and host of Movement, a new radio series telling stories of global migration through music. In our conversation, she shares how she looks to music to express longing, pain, hope, and other facets of the diaspora. Her words reminded me of the importance of heritage and how traditional music from our homelands can be integrated into present movement and music.  Join the conversation: Instagram @immigrantlypod | Twitter @immigrantly_pod |  Please share the love and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts to help more people find us!  Host & Executive Producer: Saadia Khan I Content Writer: Yudi Liu & Saadia Khan I Editorial review: Shei Yu I Sound Designer & Editor: Haziq Ahmed Farid I Immigrantly Theme Music: Simon Hutchinson  Order of Meklit's Tracks during the episode Meklit - Yesterday Is A Tizita Meklit - Sweet and Salty Meklit - This Was Made Here Oddisee - Try Again Dengue Fever - Ethanopium  Xenia Rubinos - Hair Receding Meklit - Float and Fall Additional Links Meklit Hadero: The unexpected beauty of everyday sounds | Ted Dr. Jon Jenkins - Chasing Shadow Words: Exoplanets from Kepler & Beyond

This episode is part four of The Soul of Music—Overheard's four-part series focusing on music, exploration, and Black history. Our guest this week is Meklit Hadero, a Nat Geo Explorer and Ethio-jazz musician. Meklit is the creative force behind the transmedia storytelling project Movement, which explores the intersection of migration and music. She and fellow Explorer and music producer Jahawi Bertolli talk about migration, the ancient instruments known as rock gongs, and how their music is inspired by nature. For more information on this episode, visit natgeo.com/overheard. Want more? Learn more about Meklit Hadero and the Movement project at her website meklitmusic.com. You can follow her on Twitter or Instagram @meklitmusic.  Learn more about Jahawi Bertolli and his First Rock project on his website jahawi.com. You can follow him on Instagram @jahawibertolli.  Check out the Overheard episode “Ancient Orchestra” to learn more about Jahawi and the sound of rock gongs. And keep listening to songs featured in The Soul of Music as well as a few bonus tracks in this Spotify playlist.  Also explore:  Follow FREEK and his music on instagram @freektv.  The “star sounds” you heard were provided by Jon Jenkins, co-investigator for data analysis for the Kepler Mission. Learn more about the Kepler Mission and star sonification on their webpage.  Learn more about ethio-jazz pioneer Mulatu Astake in this Nat Geo article.  Thinking about traveling to Ethiopia? This Nat Geo travel guide can help you plan your trip. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

National Geographic turns 135 in 2023. In February 2023, to celebrate exploration and commemorate Black History Month, National Geographic's flagship podcast, Overheard, will feature musicians and National Geographic Explorers in conversation on music and exploration. This is just one of many celebrations planned for this milestone anniversary.  Hosted by Overheard producer Khari Douglas, these four episodes (every Tuesday in February) will feature world-famous musicians Rhiannon Giddens, Sampa the Great, Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah (formerly Christian Scott), and Meklit Hadero (also a Nat Geo explorer) in conversation with Nat Geo Explorers Alyea Pierce, Danielle Lee, Justin Dunnavant, and Jahawi Bertolli. The Explorers and artists will discuss how nature, history, and culture influence their work, what music inspires their adventures, and how they address some of the world's most pressing and complicated issues through art and exploration.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Meklit Hadero spoke about her career as a singer, this episode is in collaboration with the NYU Abu Dhabi Arts Center.Meklit Hadero, known simply as Meklit, is an Ethiopian-born American singer and songwriter based in San Francisco, California. She is known for her soulful performing style, and for combining jazz, folk, and East African influences in her music. She sings in her native Amharic, and English. Meklit has released five records to date. The first was a self-produced and released eight-song EP entitled Eight Songs (2008). The second, her first full-length LP, On a Day Like This... released to wide critical acclaim in 2010 was produced by Eric Moffat and Unsound Recording.Created and hosted by Mikey Muhanna, afikra & Bill Bragin, The Arts Center at NYU Abu DhabiEdited by: Ramzi RammanTheme music by: Tarek Yamani https://www.instagram.com/tarek_yamani/About the afikra Conversations:Our long-form interview series features academics, arts, ‎and media experts who are helping document and/or shape the history and culture of the Arab world through their ‎work. Our hope is that by having the guest share their expertise and story, the community still walks away with newfound curiosity - and maybe some good recommendations about new nerdy rabbit holes to dive into headfirst. ‎Following the interview, there is a moderated town-hall-style Q&A with questions coming from the live virtual audience ‎on Zoom.‎ Join the live audience: https://www.afikra.com/rsvp   FollowYoutube - Instagram (@afikra_) - Facebook - Twitter Support www.afikra.com/supportAbout afikra:‎afikra is a movement to convert passive interest in the Arab world to active intellectual curiosity. We aim to collectively reframe the dominant narrative of the region by exploring the histories and cultures of the region- past, present, and future - through conversations driven by curiosity. Read more about us on  afikra.com

What was the worst year to be alive on planet Earth?   We make the case for 536 AD, which set off a cascade of catastrophes that is almost too horrible to imagine. A supervolcano. The disappearance of shadows. A failure of bread. Plague rats. Using evidence painstakingly gathered around the world - from Mongolian tree rings to Greenlandic ice cores to Mayan artifacts - we paint a portrait of what scientists and historians think went wrong, and what we think it felt like to be there in real time. (Spoiler: not so hot.)  We hear a hymn for the dead from the ancient kingdom of Axum, the closest we can get to the sound of grief from a millennium and a half ago. The horrors of 536 make us wonder about the parallels and perpendiculars with our own time: does it make you feel any better knowing that your suffering is part of a global crisis? Or does it just make things worse?"Thanks to reporter Ann Gibbons whose Science article "Eruption made 536 ‘the worst year to be alive" got us interested in the first place. In case you want to learn more about 536, here are some other sources: Timothy P. Newfield, “The Climate Downturn of 536-50” in the Palgrave Handbook on Climate HistoryDallas Abbott et al., “What caused terrestrial dust loading and climate downturns between A.D. 533 and 540?”Joel Gunn and Alesio Ciarini (editors), “The A.D. 536 Crisis: A 21st Century Perspective”Antti Arjava, “The Mystery Cloud of 536 CE in the Mediterranean Sources” And for more on the composer Yared, watch Meklit Hadero's TED talk “The Unexpected Beauty of Everyday Sounds” Credits: This episode was reported by Latif Nasser and Lulu Miller, and produced by Simon Adler.  With sound and music from Simon Adler and Jeremy Bloom. Special Thanks: Thanks to Joel Gunn, Dallas Abbott, Mathias Nordvig, Emma Rigby, Robert Dull, Daniel Yacob, Kay Shelemey, Jacke Phillips, Meklit Hadero, and Joan Aruz. Support Radiolab by becoming a member today at Radiolab.org/donate.  Radiolab is on YouTube! Catch up with new episodes and hear classics from our archive. Plus, find other cool things we did in the past — like miniseries, music videos, short films and animations, behind-the-scenes features, Radiolab live shows, and more. Take a look, explore and subscribe!

Dré, Lauren, and Aidan ask, What is language? What are the benefits and limitations of language? Why is nonverbal communication important? How does language shape the way we think and experience the world? And more. Website & Newsletter | https://commonscientists.com Support Us | https://patreon.com/commonscientists REFERENCES Language | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language Ludwig Wittgenstein | https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/wittgenstein/ Temple Grandin | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Grandin Autism | https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/autism-spectrum-disorder/symptoms-causes/syc-20352928 Left vs Right Brain | https://www.healthline.com/health/left-brain-vs-right-brain Limitations of language | Michael Eriksson | http://www.aswedeingermany.de/50LanguageAndWriting/50TheLimitationsOfLanguage.html Nonverbal communication | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonverbal_communication Steven Pinker | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Pinker In the land of invented languages | Arika Okrent | http://inthelandofinventedlanguages.com/ DuoLingo | Free Language Courses for English Speakers | https://www.duolingo.com/courses Arrival (film) | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrival_(film) Sapir-Worf Hypothesis / Linguistic Relativity | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity ASCII | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII Mathematical universe hypothesis | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_universe_hypothesis Semantics v syntax | https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-fiction/semantics-vs-syntax-vs-pragmatics-grammar-rules Ethio-Jazz Ted talk | Meklit Hadero | https://www.ted.com/talks/meklit_hadero_the_unexpected_beauty_of_everyday_sounds?language=en Onomatopoeia | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onomatopoeia Mellifluous | https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mellifluous How language shapes the way we think | Lera Boroditsky | https://www.ted.com/talks/lera_boroditsky_how_language_shapes_the_way_we_think?language=en Broca's and Wernicke's Aphasia | https://memory.ucsf.edu/symptoms/speech-language Schrödinger's cat | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger's_cat Dictionary of obscure sorrows | https://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/ PODCAST INFO Podcast Website | https://commonscientists.com/common-science/ Apple Podcasts | https://apple.co/2KDjQCK Spotify | https://spoti.fi/3pTK821 TAGS #Storytelling #Science #Society #Culture #Learning

As part of "Movement,” an ongoing series from The World about the lives and work of immigrant musicians, Ethiopian American musician Meklit Hadero recounts conversations with fellow musicians in Ethiopia about the unifying role of music and culture amid the conflict in Tigray.

“Movement,” a one-hour special from The World, brings you stories of global migration through music. Together, host Marco Werman and Ethiopian American singer Meklit Hadero blend song and narrative in a meditation on what it means to be American. We follow an undocumented singer in San Francisco on a long-awaited trip back to Mexico, reflect on the experience of exile with a Syrian DJ and hear a Sudanese American artist play his first-ever show in Sudan — all guided by Hadero as she reflects on her own American story.

This special episode of The World, called “Movement,” tells stories of global migration through music. Co-hosted by The World’s host Marco Werman and Ethiopian American singer Meklit Hadero, the show blends song and narrative in a meditation on what it means to be American. We follow an undocumented singer in San Francisco on a long-awaited trip back to Mexico, reflect on the experience of exile with a Syrian DJ, and hear a Sudanese American artist play his first ever show in Sudan — all guided by Hadero as she reflects on her own American story. “Movement,” which is also a podcast and live show, is created and produced by Hadero, along with producer Ian Coss and editor Julie Caine. --- Be a superhero and help keep The World spinning! Our coverage wouldn’t be possible without incredible individuals working behind the scenes. Donate today to support the work of our superhero staff and help keep our coverage free and open to all. Donate $100 or pledge $8.33/month to receive an invite to a virtual party with Marco Werman and The World team! Visit theworld.org/WhoWeAre to make your contribution and learn more about the superheroes behind The World's compelling stories! Thank you for your support.

San Francisco-based Ethio-American singer, composer, songwriter and bandleader Meklit Hadero, is a TED Senior Fellow, National Geographic Explorer, and co-founder of the visionary pan-African Nile Project ensemble. With a sound that merges Addis Ababa, Los Angeles, New Orleans and San Francisco, Meklit’s approach as bandleader sees two percussionists, groovy sax and bass. Singing in both English and Amharic, she delivers Ethio-roots-jazz with a heavy dose of pop and soul that makes bodies move. Meklit and her band play in-studio. - Caryn Havlik Watch the session here:  From her TED Talk, "The unexpected beauty of everyday sounds":

We kick off the New Year with the choreographer and visionary, Bianca Cabrera as she leads us into her imagined world where modern dance has subcultures like rock genres, art is a for profit business, and your work can live beyond a single performance. Also, tune in to hear my personal new year’s resolutions and why sacrificing your happiness for your goals is a losing game.​Click here to take the free quiz so you can Discover Your Creative DNA type.​Other Episodes You May Like:​E43 The Risky Playground of Creative Collaboration with choreographer, Erika Chong ShuchE13 Audience Alchemy: How to Take Your Crowd With You with vocalist and cultural instigator, Meklit Hadero

When we focus so much on achievement and success, it's easy to lose sight of joy. This hour, TED speakers search for joy in unexpected places, and explain why it's crucial to a fulfilling life. Speakers include inventor Simone Giertz, designer Ingrid Fetell Lee, journalist David Baron, and musician Meklit Hadero.

How do you show up for your audience? Performing art is a co-creation between you and your audience. . . which can be invigorating when you feel connected, but can be hard if you’re not. In this episode with guest composer, vocalist and cultural instigator, Meklit Hadero, you’ll learn from her extensive touring experience on how to connect with your audience, how to pick your collaborators, maintain your artistic vision and more! Holly will also share The Watermill exercise which helps you calm nervousness and keep the wheel between you and your audience turning. This episode examines your partnership with your audience so you can feel more at ease and confidence leading the room. Find out more about Performers & Creators Lab >>Meklit is a San Francisco based Ethio-Jazz singer-songwriter and cultural activist. Meklit’s 2017 album “When the People Move, the Music Moves Too” is a love letter to the Ethiopian Diaspora, originally commissioned by the MAP Fund and released on Six Degrees Records. The album reached #4 on the iTunes World Charts and was named amongst the Best Soul Albums of 2017 by Bandcamp. Meklit is a TED Senior Fellow and her TED Talk “The Unexpected Beauty of Everyday Sounds” has been watched by more than 1.2 million people. She has toured extensively across the US, UK, and East Africa and her music videos air daily on Ethiopian national television. She been an artist-in-residence at NYU and Purdue. She sang alongside Angelique Kidjo and Anoushka Shankar as a featured singer in the UN Women Theme Song, and works with Brighter Sound Manchester on developing women songwriters across the UK. Meklit sits on the Board of YBCA and holds a BA from Yale University. Find out more at meklitmusic.comAbout Your Host, Holly ShawHolly Shaw, CHT is a performance coach, creativity researcher and stand up comedian. Growing up in Indianapolis, IN she convinced her parents she needed to go to Chicago to get her own agent when she was 14 years old and has spent a lifetime in film, T.V. and on professional stages all over the world as an actor, dancer, and director.Now she shares her passion for the problems that artists face as a Creativity Coach and a Certified Hypnotherapist and has helped hundreds of artists, from Emmy award winning and Grammy nominated artists to world class choreographers overcome their anxiety, stage fright, impostor syndrome, and creative blocks so that they can create original work and totally kill it onstage again and again without feeling like they're selling out or losing their sanity.In 2016, Shaw wrote and released her book, The Creative Formula: Compose, Choreograph, and Capture Your Masterpiece which has become an Amazon bestseller. In 2018 she launched the Performers & Creators Lab podcast which was named one of 2019's most outstanding podcasts by Databird Research. She teaches regularly at the SAG/AFTRA offices in L.A. and SF and runs creative laboratory workshops like the Comedy Lab Open Mic once a month at Monaghan's on the Hill in Oakland. Follow her on Instagram @hollyshawspritely

The San Francisco Bay Area is a unique cultural space that has given birth to some of the most iconic countercultural American music. It is a place where identities can be fluid and hyphenated, where new voices emerge to speak to their times. Two very different Bay Area artists, Meklit Hadero and Zena Carlota, use their music to explore what it means to live on two sides of a hyphen: African-American, black-artist, Ethiopian-American, female-musician, to name a few. Produced by Lisa Bartfai About the producer: Lisa Bartfai is a freelance radio journalist, writer and translator based in Brunswick, ME. As a senior producer at award-winning Blunt Youth Radio, Lisa shares her love of radio with the next generation of noisemakers. Follow Afropop Worldwide on Facebook at www.facebook.com/afropop, on Instagram @afropopworldwide and on Twitter @afropopww. Subscribe to the Afropop Worldwide newsletter at www.afropop.org/newsletter/ S2:E3 Distributed 10/3/2017

  When you're from an immigrant community, becoming a successful musician isn't an easy journey. We meet 3 dope diaspora musicians: Meklit Hadero, Oddisee, and AlSarah - each with their own struggle that comes with belonging to two identities- African, and American. For more about the featured artists check them out!   Alsarah and the Nubatones Odissee Meklit Hadero Episode art by: @neemascribbles

Nata in Etiopia, e a due anni arrivata negli Usa, dove i suoi sono stati accolti come rifugiati, Meklit Hadero, in arte semplicemente Meklit, è una talentuosa cantante con una carriera ricca di interessanti esperienze pop e world. Il suo nuovo album When The People Move The Music Moves Too, da poco pubblicato dalla Six Degrees, è una produzione elaborata e vivace, che mescola brillantemente musica del Corno d'Africa, jazz e canzone, e che spicca per originalità nel panorama ormai amplissimo a livello internazionale di proposte in debito con la musica etiopica moderna. A cura di Marcello Lorrai

Nata in Etiopia, e a due anni arrivata negli Usa, dove i suoi sono stati accolti come rifugiati, Meklit Hadero, in arte semplicemente Meklit, è una talentuosa cantante con una carriera ricca di interessanti esperienze pop e world. Il suo nuovo album When The People Move The Music Moves Too, da poco pubblicato dalla Six Degrees, è una produzione elaborata e vivace, che mescola brillantemente musica del Corno d'Africa, jazz e canzone, e che spicca per originalità nel panorama ormai amplissimo a livello internazionale di proposte in debito con la musica etiopica moderna. A cura di Marcello Lorrai

Nata in Etiopia, e a due anni arrivata negli Usa, dove i suoi sono stati accolti come rifugiati, Meklit Hadero, in arte semplicemente Meklit, è una talentuosa cantante con una carriera ricca di interessanti esperienze pop e world. Il suo nuovo album When The People Move The Music Moves Too, da poco pubblicato dalla Six Degrees, è una produzione elaborata e vivace, che mescola brillantemente musica del Corno d'Africa, jazz e canzone, e che spicca per originalità nel panorama ormai amplissimo a livello internazionale di proposte in debito con la musica etiopica moderna. A cura di Marcello Lorrai

Meklit Hadero was just 2 when she, her two older sisters and parents fled to the U.S. from Ethiopia to escape the violence that followed the country's 1974 revolution. They settled in Iowa before moving to Brooklyn, New York where Meklit sang in choirs and was introduced to the music of Billie Holiday. She continued singing while attending Yale University, earning a degree in political science. But music remained an important part of her life. Meklit eventually settled in San Francisco, developing and performing her own sound - a combination of jazz, folk and East African influences; what she describes as, "music coming from in-between spaces." You can't afford to miss this conversation with the talented, passionate, committed artist and activist, MeklitHardero.

This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay! 1. Tammy Robinson, Ed.D., Dean, Global Learning Programs and Services at Skyline College joins us to talk about the Mandela Scholars arriving June 16.  2. Rotimi, musican, joins us to talk about his band GBADUNN's upcoming concert, "Africa in Style," tomorrow, June 15, 7-10 p.m. at Kingston 11 in downtown Oakland. We play music by: Meklit & Quinn, Meklit Hadero, Sowethu Gospel Choir and close with Michael White: "The Land of Spirit and Light" parts 1-3.   

Oakland poet and playwright Chinaka Hodge on the power of voice. The new Ethiopian jazz sound of Meklit Hadero's latest album.

En prenant exemple sur le chant des oiseaux, la cadence naturelle du langage empathique et même un couvercle de casserole, la chanteuse et compositrice Meklit Hadero montre que les sons de tous les jours, même le silence, produisent de la musique. « Le monde est empli d'expressions musicales, » dit-elle. « Nous sommes déjà immergés ».

Using examples from birdsong, the natural lilt of emphatic language and even a cooking pan lid, singer-songwriter and TED Fellow Meklit Hadero shows how the everyday soundscape, even silence, makes music. "The world is alive with musical expression," she says. "We are already immersed."

Usando ejemplos del canto de los pájaros, la cadencia natural del lenguaje enfático e incluso la tapa de una olla, la cantautora Meklit Hadero muestra cómo el paisaje sonoro de todos los días, e incluso el silencio, compone música. "El mundo está lleno de expresión musical", dice. "Ya estamos inmersos".

Usando como exemplo o canto dos pássaros, a melodia natural da linguagem enfática, e até uma tampa de panela, a cantora e compositora Meklit Hadero mostra como a paisagem sonora, até mesmo o silêncio, produz música. "O mundo vibra com expressão musical", ela diz, e "todos estamos imersos nele".

가수 겸 작곡가인 맥클릿 하데로는 새소리와 강세 언어 자체의 경쾌하고 활발한 톤, 심지어는 냄비뚜껑에서 나는 소리를 예로 들며, 일상에서 울려 퍼지는 소리나 침묵조차 어떻게 음악적으로 승화되는지 보여줍니다. 맥클릿은 "온 세상은 음악적 요소로 꿈틀대고 있다"라고 말하며, 우리는 이미 이러한 환경에 둘러싸여 있다고 전합니다.

(Originally aired April, 2014) It took Meklit Hadero a while to realize she could be a singer, and a while longer to start recording, but man, has she made up the distance. Over the last few years she's released a series of impeccably produced albums showcasing her own craftily written songs as well as some pretty beguiling cover versions, moving seamlessly from jazz to soul to hip-hop, indie rock, folk and even a little country. Her supple, spirited vocals invite comparisons to Joni Mitchell, Nina Simone, Nora Jones and Joan Armatrading. But she has a sound all her own, drawing on musical influences in all the aforementioned genres as well as the Ethiopian pop she heard growing up and the North/East African music she's been exposed to in her work on The Nile Project, which she co-founded. Meklit and I surveyed her discography, including her new album We Are Alive, while talking about her life and career, her exuberant approach to performance and the way creativity takes its own good time.

This morning we feature interviews with directors featured in the 13th Annual SF Doc Fest June 5-19, 2014, www.sfindie.com or (415) 552-5580 adv. tickets: N'Jeri Eaton, producer and Mario Furloni, director's "First Friday," Ryan Murdock's "Bronx Obama," and Kevin Gordon's "True Son." We close with a prerecorded interview with director, Chris Mason Johnson, "Test." Test opens theatrically in the Bay Area June 6, 2014. Music: Amikaeyla's Hambone and Dreamer; Meklit Hadero's "Call" and Meklit and Quinn's "This Must Be the Place."

It took Meklit Hadero a while to realize she could be a singer, and a while longer to start recording, but man, has she made up the distance. Over the last few years she's released a series of impeccably produced albums showcasing her own craftily written songs as well as some pretty beguiling cover versions, moving seamlessly from jazz to soul to hip-hop, indie rock, folk and even a little country. Her supple, spirited vocals invite comparisons to Joni Mitchell, Nina Simone, Nora Jones and Joan Armatrading. But she has a sound all her own, drawing on musical influences in all the aforementioned genres as well as the Ethiopian pop she heard growing up and the North/East African music she's been exposed to in her work on The Nile Project, which she co-founded. Meklit and I surveyed her discography, including her new album We Are Alive, while talking about her life and career, her exuberant approach to performance and the way creativity takes its own good time.

This morning we open with an interview with one of our favorite writers, Michael Warr, who with Luis Rodriquez will be speaking on Art as Healing in a free lecture at the Koret Audiotirum, de Young Museum in San Francisco, 3-4:30 p.m. Visit http://deyoung.famsf.org/deyoung/calendar/conversation-authors-luis-rodriguez-and-michael-warr Michael Warr is author of The Armageddon of Funk, We Are All The Black Boy, and co-editor of Power Lines: A Decade of Poetry From Chicago's Guild Complex, all from Tia Chucha Press.  Valerie Cooper, vocalist/writer, who joins us next to talk about her sneak preview at the African Museum and Library, Oakland, Sept. 14, 2013, 7-9 p.m. Visit http://expressmoments.com We close with a conversation with three writers: The Hon. Claire Mack, former mayor of San Mateo, Rafael Jesus Gonzalez, poet, teacher, humanitarian, and Nadia Lataillade, writer, attorney, and Mrs. Mack's granddaughter. The topic is 100 Authors for Literacy, a free event, Sat., Sept. 21, 2013, at the Martin Luther King Center, 725 Mt. Diablo Ave., San Mateo, CA. http://northcentralneighborhoodassociation.org/100-authors-for-literacy-event.htmlSpecial guests include: Belva Davis and Dr. Joy DeGruy. Music: Michael Warr; Michael White; Meklit Hadero  

We open with an interview with Bay Area playwright and activist, Regina Evans. Ms. Evans speaks to us about her one woman show at DivaFest in San Francisco June 1, 8 p.m. and later in the year the full production is a part of the San Francisco Fringe Festival.  Bio: Regina Y. Evans is a Poet, Playwright and Social Justice Performer. She volunteers as a Modern Day Abolitionist in the fight against Sex Trafficking.  Ms. Evans is a published Writer, and the Author of the poetry books Nonnie and The Butterfly, Unlatched Mosaic, and Nothing Cool About Ten. She is the writer of Echo: A Poetic Journey into Justice, a stage play bringing awareness to the issue of trafficking. Echo has played to sold out performances in Berkeley and San Francisco, Ca. The play caught the notice of President Barack Obama who confirmed his support of the effort through a personal White House phone call in 2011.   http://www.divafest.info/  June 1, 2013, 8 p.m.; Fringe Festival Sept. 6-21, 2013 http://www.sffringe.org/wordpress/52-2/ SF Green Festival which opens in San Francisco with San Francisco Bay Area director, Nancy Kelly's wonderful film, Rebels with a Cause, about the San Francisco Bay Area Green Movement veterans who are central to the preservation of open spaces especially the coastal areas, beginning with the Point Reyes National Seashore, and more recently the Golden Gate Recreation Area.  We close the show with a rebroadcast of artist Mario Chiodo speaking about the completion of Remember Them: Champions for Humanity, which is having its opening reception Friday, May 31, 3 p.m. at the Henry J.Kaiser Memorial Park (19th & Rashidah Muhammad Streets) in Oakland.  Music: Victoria Theodore; Meklit Hadero; Regina Carter; Vjay Iyer

We are joined in the studio for a special broadcast this afternoon to speak to Jenna Kozel, consumer security advocate at Lookout, a security technology company located in San Francisco and Anbu Anbalagapandian, Senior Software Engineer at Lookout, to talk about  Charity:water is a non-profit organization that's been bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations since 2006. Lookout is a company of hackers who create software that protects people and their most sensitive data from mobile threats. Lookout believes in "Hacking for Good" and is committed to supporting charitable projects, like Charity:Water that use technology to have an impact on the world. On Wed., May 22 at 9:00PM, Lookout is hosting a benefit concert for Charity:Water featuring Meklit Hadero. All proceeds will go to a Charity:Water project in Ethiopia. About Melkit Hadero: Born in Ethiopia and raised in San Francisco, Meklit's music influences range wide — from the jazz and soul favorites she grew up on; to the hip-hop and art-rock she loves; to folk traditions from the Americas to East Africa. Named a 2012 TED Senior Fellow, Meklit has served as an artist-in-residence at De Young Museum, New York University and Red Poppy Art House. The event will feature a live set from Meklit and her band, along with a full bar.  

We open with Dr. Zenju Earthlyn Manuel, author, visual artist, drummer, and Zen Buddhist priest, lives in Oakland, CA where she teaches at The East Bay Meditation Center and leads a small practice group in her home. She was ordained by Blanche Hartman and her priest training is being guided by Abbess Kiku Christina Lehnherr. Her book Tell Me Something About Buddhism (Hampton Roads Publishing, 2011) includes a foreword written by Thich Nhat Hanh, with poetry and illustrations by Zenju Earthlyn. She is also the author of the Black Angels Cards. Monica Anderson,  the founder and owner of Sankofa Events Project Management. www.SankofaEvents.com joins us to celebrate the successful Oakland premiere of Shola Lynch's Free Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners, this past Tuesday. Our next guest Mia Pascal is a woman with many talents. She joins us to talk about her 30 minute solo piece,  "Heartbreak Velocity", in two group shows, one at DIVAFest in San Francisco, week 2, May 18, 8 p.m. at the Exit Theatre on Eddy, and the second performance, at The Marsh in Berkeley in its Tell It on Tuesdays solo performances, May 28, 7 (music, 7:30 (show). We close with Meklit Hadero is two parts, with Quinn DeVeaux. The two perform tonight at Davies After Hours Concert bringing an original take on Beethoven's Missa Solemis. Mina Girgis, Executive Dir. and co-founder with Meklit of The Nile Project, close the morning show. It is, as is said, all the way LIVE (smile). Visit thenileproject.org   

Oakland residents on the next "First Friday" Art Murmur event after the shooting, San Francisco musician and Noise Pop performer Meklit Hadero, San Francisco high school band "The Shes," and local musicians Before the Brave.

We open with two songs: Odetta singing Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child followed by Fire from Liz Wright's Salt. The first archived interview with Tim Wise re: Dear White America; Sam Pollard speaks about his film Slavery by Another Name. We interject Sweet Honey in the Rock's Motherless Child between the two interviews. When I cannot find the interview (smile) we are able to enjoy music from Meklit Hadero's Abbay Mado from On a Day like Today; Barbara Hunter's Sarah.

We replay a clip from an earlier interview with singer, pastor and actress, Della Reese at the Rrazz Room in San Francisco, Feb. 16-18. We then featured interviews with the founder of SF Indie Festival, Feb. 9-23, Jeff Ross and directors: Damon Russell, whose Snow on Tha Bluff screens Saturday, Feb. 11, 9:30 p.m. and Thursday, Feb. 16.  Visit www.sfindie.com We conclude with a conversation with Maria Breaux about her narrative feature Mother Country, which also screens Feb. 11, 12:30 p.m. and Sunday afternoon, Feb. 12, 5 p.m. Music: Abraham Burton's "Aminah," Paula West's "Rolling Stone," concluding with Meklit Hadero's "Abbay Mado."

Today we are rebroadcasting Kate Raphael's interview with author, Angela Bonavoglia, about her book – Good Catholic Girls: How Women are Leading the Fight to Change the Church.  Then Nina Serrano interviews singer, Meklit Hadero. We end with updates from the Women's Community Calendar.   The post Women's Magazine – December 20, 2010 appeared first on KPFA.

Tim Wise, author, anti-racism advocate. His latest book, "Colorblind: The Rise of Post-Racial Politics from Racial Equity," is the topic of our discussion this morning; Akiba Timoya aka Akiba Onada-Sikwoia is African, Blackfoot, Choctaw, Cherokee and Irish. She is Two-Spirited and has been participating in Native American Ceremony for the past 24 years. She is also a member of the Lucumi community and a child of the Orisha. She and DON 'LITTLE CLOUD' DAVENPORT "I am one of the founders of the Black Native American Association in Oakland, California. I am a Seminole with Creek/Chickasaw, Muskogee and African (Nubian/Sudan) Ancestry and of the Bird Clan. I was born in Jackson, Michigan which was on one of the routes of the Underground Railroad where slaves fled to Canada." They will speak about the first annual Black Native American Pow Wow at CSUH this month, Sept. 17-19. Visit www.bnaa.org for the details. The pre-Pow Wow panel is 6:30-8:30 9/17. The procession starts at 1 PM both Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 18-19. Dan Hoyle, "The Real Americans" is our next guest. "The Real Americans," Hoyle's solo performance has been extended through Nov. 6 at The Marsh Theatre Wednesdays-Saturdays, in San Francisco. Visit www.themmarsh.org We close with artist, Somi, who will be at Cafe de Nord in San Francisco, Sept. 16, and at the Monterey Jazz Festival, Sept. 18, then on to Holland. Somi didn't make it, because she is scheduled for next week, 9/10 at 8:30 AM, so tune in then--Mars is in Retrograde. Yes, blame it on the planet that already speeding, I skipped an entire seven days--wow! Meklit Hadero, Somi's friend came to the rescue with a cut from her latest release I like a lot: "Soleil Soleil." We close with a prerecorded interview with Ernie Silva appearing with "Heavy Like the Weight of a Flame," at La Pena Cultural Center, 3105 Shattuck Avenue, in Berkeley, Sept. 9-10, 8 PM

Begun 21 years ago as a response to a challenge issued by the late writer, Toni Cade Babara, faculty at Medger Evers College in Brooklyn began a commemoration where libations were poured specifically for African ancestors who died along the triangular slave route 500+ years ago. Since then the commemoration has grown and expanded to other regions as the ritual on Coney Island has maintained its central theme while expanding to include ancestors who survived the journey, the cotton fields, forced free labor, segregation, Jim Crow, and even structural racism so that we could have a grounding and firm footing on this land/these lands. We speak to a member of the People of the Sun Middle Passage Collective, Hapte Selassie, educator and WBAI radio DJ, about the ritual: its history and the program this year on Coney Island, West 16th Street," Ancestor Circle," from 12 noon to dusk. Don't forget the spirit of unity--pour at 9 AM PT, 11 AM CT, and 12 noon ET. If you can't pour physical water, hold the ancestors in your heart for a moment of silence. For an article about the 18th Annual visit: http://www.blackstarnews.com/?c=124&a=3371 We open with Meklit Hadero's "Walk Up" from her "On a Day Like This ...".

Regina Carter speaks about her latest CD, "Reverse Thread" and her SFJAZZ date Friday, May 28, 2010, at the Herbst Theatre. Visit www.reginacarter.com We close with a live interview with artist, activist, educator, Meklit Hadero whose first full length CD project "On a Day Like This ..." has its second San Francisco CD release party at BIMBO's 365 Club, Thursday, May 13, 2010. We also remember Lena Horne who made her transition May 9, 2010 with Mahalia Jackson's "Upper Room."

We've all heard about the recent church sex abuse scandals, but there are many more we haven't heard about – notably those cases the victims are women.  Kate Raphael interviews Angela Bonavoglia, author of Good Catholic Girls: How Women Are Leading The Fight to Change the Church.  Nina Serrano and Yvette Hochberg present Flower in her Hair: interview and songs with composer/singer Meklit Hadero; and Kate will talk with Ronit Avni, producer of the award-winning film Budrus, about how girls and women led a Palestinian village in saving their land. The post Women's Magazine – May 3, 2010 appeared first on KPFA.

Happy Birthday Bob Marley! A Belated Happy Birthday Langston Hughes. Happy Birthday also to my brother Fred Batin and friends: Portia Anderson, Raymond Nat Turner, Jamal Ali and all other Aquarians. 8-8:30 AM: Laura Elaine Ellis and Kendra Kimbrough: Black Choreographers Here and Now, opening tonight at Laney College in Oakland and continuing in San Francisco at Dance Mission next weekend. 8:30-9 AM: Ayodele Nzinga and Geoffrey Grier re: The Tenderloin Theatre's Night at the Black Hawk: 2/5-7 & 2/12-14, at the NMTL/CBD Community Center, 134 Golden Gate St., in SF. They are joined by the cast of Ellis Berry's Production of “MOSES,” a dramatic, inspiring and powerful stage play about the life of Harriet Tubman. Starring Yehmanja Houff as Moses, opening at the Malonga Casquelourd Theater 1428 Alice Street in Oakland, Friday, February 13 @ 8:00 p.m., continuing through the weekend, two 8 p.m. performances and a Sunday matinee. Tickets are $20.00 for age 18 and above and$10.00 for youths 17 and below. All youth tickets are sold at the door the night of the performances only. For further information please call Herma Jean Gardere at 510-904-8520. 9:00 AM: A Song for Coretta by Pearl Cleage, directed by Victoria Erville, at Brava for Women in the Arts!, 2789 24th Street, SF, through tomorrow, Feb. 7. Visit www.brava.org 9:30 AM Nefasha Ayer “The World that Travels”: with guests: vocalist, songwriter Meklit Hadero and her cousin, MC, Gabriel Teodros. The ensemble hits tonight, 2/6 and tomorrow, 2/7, 8 p.m. at Brava on the main stage.