The Bigger Picture Not A Selfie

WKCR-FM · Black Siren Radio (7/13/20)

Jumping the hour off with NoName’s Song 32, this experimental episode elides a linear narrative to crack open a conversation about race that doesn’t center white fragility. Vince Pierce, an Open Doors Reality Poet joins the show to discuss #NursingHomeLivesMatter, and surviving the pandemic as a quadraplegic Black man in Coler-the only occupied nursing home where New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio assigned COVID-19 patients. Coler CEO Robert Hughes’ failure to address the nightmarish conditions at Coler is why Vince started the Voices of Coler petition to demand his resignation.

Excerpts of Tupac Shakur’s speech to the Malcolm X Grassroots dinner prompt us to consider who organized Black revolutionaries leave behind, who’s responsible to educate and to what end. Dj Roger Smith drops knowledge about the challenges of nightlife workers during COVID, Joyce McMillan and Angeline Montauban discuss #AbolishACS, a Lyrical Report, a new segment “Blueprint” by Amiri and more on this week’s Black Siren Radio with Maurice, Khadijah and Amiri.