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This podcast tracks the audio archives for the “Urban Connections” show. Urban Connections conducts guest interviews covering issues affecting our local, national, international and global communities from a Black perspective.

Food Fight! continues…James Gustav Speth, author America the Possible: A Manifesto for A New Economy

James Gustave Speth is a professor at Vermont Law School and a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Demos, a nonpartisan public policy research and advocacy organization. A former dean of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, he also co-founded the Natural Resources Defense Council, was founder and president of...

09/27/2014

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Lloyd C. Daniel, political and economic philosopher and theorist, discusses the Israeli occupation of Palestine

Lloyd C. Daniel, discusses the Israeli occupation of Palestine among other items, on Urban Connections, "broadcasting LIVE from Liberated Territory". An excerpt from Lloyd Daniel's work has been recently published by Lexington Press in London. Lexington published a transcript of Lloyd's speech "The 2nd Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Lloyd...

09/06/2014

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Food Fight! Makani Themba, ED, The Praxis Project, advocacy to advance health justice.

Makani Themba is executive director of The Praxis Project, a nonprofit organization helping communities use media and policy advocacy to advance health justice. Under her leadership, The Praxis Project has raised more than $20 million for advocacy organizations working in communities of color nationwide. Makani was previously director of the Transnational...

08/30/2014

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Food Fight! In Memoriam: Charity Hicks, Detroit human rights activist

Charity Hicks, guest on Urban Connections Food Fight! broadcast, February 22, 2014, a beloved Detroit community leader and commons advocate, died July 8 from injuries sustained after being struck by a hit-and-run driver in Manhattan, New York City. Today Urban Connections will rebroadcast segments of our February conversation with Charity. Charity...

07/25/2014

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Local playwrights Cynthia Hardeman, Michelle T. Johnson and Teresa Leggard share insights and experience

Today on Urban Connections local playwrights Cynthia Hardiman, Michelle T. Johnson and Teresa Leggard talk about their upcoming Fringe production and their experiences as Black Women playwrights. Cynthia Hardeman is a family services advocate by day and playwright by night. She is the recent winner of Kansas City’s 2013 Project Playwright...

07/19/2014

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Food Fight! continues…Eric Holt-Giménez, Executive Director of Food First

Eric Holt-Giménez has been Executive Director of Food First since 2006. He is the editor of the Food First book Food Movements Unite! Strategies to Transform Our Food Systems; co-author of Food Rebellions! Crisis and the Hunger for Justice with Raj Patel and Annie Shattuck; and author of the book...

06/27/2014

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Teresa Leggard, writer, editor, poet and playwright

Teresa Leggard is a writer, editor, poet and playwright. She’s also a member of The Writers Place, Kansas City’s own literary community center. Her upcoming plays “The Birthday” and “To Bed” will be staged at the KC Fringe Festival this July, as part of the productions Girl on Girl and...

06/22/2014

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Shicagolyn Scroggins of Stand With Women/Organizing for Action discusses women living “Paycheck to Paycheck”

Shicagolyn Scroggins of Stand With Women/Organizing for Action discusses women living "Paycheck to Paycheck". From Maria Shriver`s groundbreaking multi-platform "The Shriver report: A Woman`s Nation Pushes Back from the Brink"- in partnership with the Center for American Progress comes on HBO Documentary film about the story of our time, told through...

06/14/2014

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