Today's program takes shape as a conversation with Spencer Cooper. Spencer is a local small business owner, martial artist, musician, and father. We touch on parenting, fathering, religion, and education. We take a peek at considerations of gender roles in the family, in the courts and in our communities at large. We explore our political climate, our sense of community, and the presence and roles of optimism and pessimism in our contemporary culture through the eyes of Spencer and Jack, as members of a younger generation.
Stuart Kelter interviews Katja Hoyer, a German British historian and journalist who was born in East Germany and moved to the UK as a young adult.. A visiting research fellow at King’s College London and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, she is a columnist for the Washington Post and host of the podcast The New Germany. Hoyer has published two books about the history of Germany. Her first book, Blood and Iron was about the German Empire from 1871 to 1918. Her second book, Beyond the Wall, about the history of East Germany from 1949 to 1990, is the subject of today’s interview.
Last summer I wrote a column praising the United States Senate for finally passing a bill to compensate those in southern New Mexico who suffered illness and death following exposure to the world’s first atomic blast at Trinity site.
I ended the column with this: “That’s the good news. The bad news is that the bill now moves to the House, which seems much more interested in exploring the cocaine-fueled antics of Hunter Biden than doing anything to help the people they serve.” Peter and Walt talk with Don Hancock of the Southwest Research and Information Center about the WIPP nuclear storage site near Carlsbad and the proposed Holtec site. Hancock will rebut arguments made in a previous show by James Conca.
Peter and Walt speak with Peter Simonson, executive director of the New Mexico ACLU, about free speech, school book bans and police reform, among other issues.
Walt and Peter speak with former state Sen. Dede Feldman and Steve Terrell, a former reporter for the Santa Fe New Mexican, about a new report by Common Cause on the influence that the alcohol industry has on the state Legislature.
Ed Long, recent resident to Las Cruces and new board member to Las Cruces community radio, will join Nan Rubin in the studio. Calling in will be Tina Cordova, Paul Pino and Bernice Gutierrez from the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium to report on their recent trip to Washington DC to lobby for compensation.
Our conversation today welcomes Shahid Mustafa and Tameika Hannah to talk about their new KTAL radio show, Black English Vernacular. They give us a peek into how they harness their gifts and skills in their creative process of producing a thoughtful and informative radio show. One of their objectives is to bring forward some of the perspectives of Black people that many listeners may not be aware of. The show brings focus to human history in general, and Black history that's gone unacknowledged in many of our social and academic systems. Their shows have addressed topics like cooperatives, music, literature, art, farming, community building, and our Indigenous people's history. Their recent focus has been the 50th anniversary of the birth of Hip-Hop; including its multi-dimensional influence upon American culture and cultures around the world. We talk about how cyber relationships and communication can distort our sense of reality and community, and how real-time, face to face communication with critical thinking, and genuine respect and compassion, brings us so much more opportunity for positive outcomes.
Black English Vernacular Hip-Hop Around the World They said it couldn’t be done … and by “they” I mean me and just about everyone else who has followed the New Mexico State University football team over the years.
In 2020, when the state was facing a $2 billion budget deficit and all but two games on the NMSU scheduled were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, I wrote my second column calling for the Aggies to drop down to the FCS division in football. |
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