BLACK SIREN RADIO
Tune in Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays to WKCR from 9-10 pm ET (wkcr.org) for a mood board of music interwoven with stories and exclusive interviews stretching a little further than your shelter-in-place hideaway. Reach out and join the movement.
Artwork by Jahmel Reynolds
To be featured, write to Maurice Ivy at mid2113@columbia.edu
FROM THE LATEST EPISODE
“This is our opportunity to re-imagine new forms of coming together”
-J.Khadijah Abdurahman
LISTEN TO THE EPISODE:
On today's episode of Black Siren Radio, we have music, commentary, and an interview with Zenzelè Cooper, who walks us through the history of the Weeksville Heritage Center in Brooklyn, and describes its significance to ongoing struggles for Black liberation.
ABOUT BLACK SIREN RADIO
Djs inhabiting musical radio spaces, radical historians, future-makers cultivating time; reckoning with spin samples and 808s referencing what was, what is, and what will come to be, we reverent radio djs have thrust upon us the duty to educate and remake; to imagine future sound by way of summoning our aural ancestors.
Inspired by WKCR’s 1990 era Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Show launching the careers of underground hip hop artists Jay-Z, Nas and Christopher Wallace, Black Siren Radio births the Emerging Artist Series for young musicians battling the twin pandemics of COVID-19 and police-state murders to offer a place that understands their art as essential. With the support of the academy and the terrestrial possibilities of radio, we pass the mic to the next generation of the underground.
CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PROJECT STREAMS:
WBI INCUBATOR
A platform and funding for novel ideas for alternatives to enterprise video conference software.
WBI PODCAST
Examining the intersection of race, tech, surveillance, gender and disability.
WEEKLY SHOWS ON BLACK SIREN RADIO:
MONDAY’S SHOW
Co-hosts J. Khadijah Abdurahman, Maurice Ivy, and Amiri Tulloch assemble as a multi-generational team to curate a lens that engages specialists in their fields by collecting front-line (wartime) news and keeping a beat on the culture of NYC and beyond. Check out the latest episode:
ADVOCATE OF WORDZ EDITION
Join Advocate of Wordz on Thursday’s show, Check out the latest episode:
FRIDAY’S SHOW
Host Kevin Benoit leads a 10 parts series of Black Siren Radio, Check out the latest episode:
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