Heartland Labor Forum (Repeat) • February 21, 5:00am – 6:00am
Wage Theft: How Do I Protect Myself?
It’s one of the most common crimes in the U.S. today. Its victims lose more to this kind of theft than robbery, burglary, auto theft, and larceny combined, yet government spends less to protect us from it than all other crimes. What’s the crime? Wage theft, and we’ll have two lawyers to talk about it this week
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Heartland Labor Forum • February 20, 6:00pm – 7:00pm
Wage Theft: How Do I Protect Myself?
It’s one of the most common crimes in the U.S. today. Its victims lose more to this kind of theft than robbery, burglary, auto theft, and larceny combined, yet government spends less to protect us from it than all other crimes. What’s the crime? Wage theft, and we’ll have two lawyers to talk about it this week
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Making Contact: ‘Remember This House’ • February 20, 12:30pm – 1:00pm
Making Contact: ‘Remember This House’
Master filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished, Remember This House. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using Baldwins original words and flood of rich archival material. I Am Not Your Negro is a journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter. It is a film that questions black representation in Hollywood and beyond. And, ultimately, by confronting the deeper connections between the lives and assassination of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., Baldwin and Peck have produced a work that challenges the very definition of what America stands for.
Film Participants include: James Baldwin, Harry Belafonte, Dick Cavett, Marlon Brando, Robert F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and many more
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American Routes • February 19, 7:00pm – 9:00pm
American Routes: Blue Note Records
airs on Wednesday 2/19
We take a deep dive into the vaults of Blue Note Records, the independent label that helped put artists like Thelonious Monk, Art Blakey and Jimmy Smith on the map. Flagbearer of trad jazz, bebop and the cool school, Blue Note is still at it after 79 years and has expanded its wheelhouse to include vocalists like Norah Jones, Ryan Adams and Van Morrison. We talk with producer extraordinaire and Blue Note president Don Was about the label’s past and new directions. And we confab with record maven Michael Cuscuna about digging through Blue Note’s back catalog and giving life to unreleased and out-of-print masterpieces. Plus, we hear from Aaron Neville, Jason Moran and Lonnie Smith about their part in the legendary label’s history. It’s a parade of jazz, old and new, borrowed and blue… and then some!
Artspeak Radio • February 19, 12:00pm – 1:00pm
ARTSPEAK RADIO with Todd Zimmer, Dylan Pyles, Rodrigo Alvarez, & Issac Tapia
Wednesday February 19, 2020, noon - 1pm CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live www. kkfi.org
Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes photographer & Zim's Sauces creator Todd Zimmer, musician/part owner Wise Blood Bookseller Dylan Pyles, and artists/muralists Rodrigo Alvarez & Issac Tapia.
Listen• February 19, 10:00am – 12:00pm
WMM presents Marion Merritt + Ebony Tusks
Mark welcomes Marion Merritt, of Records With Merritt, who joins us as “Guest Producer” to share sonic discoveries and information from her musically-encyclopedic-brain. Marion will play tracks from: Antibalas, Sharon Van Etten, Isobel Campbell, Holy Fuck, Caribou, Khruangbin & Leon Bridges, Monophonics, Brazzos & O.K., Mukhtar Ramadan Idii, of Montreal, Field Music, Les Amazones d'Afrique, Hailu Mergia & The Walias, Sestetto Basso-Valdambrini, and The Heliocentrics. At 11:30 Mark talks with members of the Lawrence, KS. based hip hop trio, EBONY TUSKS who join us live in our 90.1 FM studios to share details about their new single HDF and their upcoming album, Heal Thyself on High Dive Records.
Radio Active Magazine • February 18, 6:00pm – 6:30pm
League of Women Voters Centennial
Friday, Feb. 14, 2020, is the Centennial of the League of Women Voters (LWV), founded Feb. 14, 1920. This episode of Radio Active Magazine celebrates this event with interviews with representatives of four Kansas City Area chapters of the League. The League of Women Voters of Kansas will be represented by their co-President Cille King. The League of Women Voters of Johnson County, Kansas, will be represented by Donna Lauffer, former president and currently head of the Johnson County League's 100th anniversary celebration, and Amber Stenger, incoming co-president and currently head of their Communications Team. Evelyn Maddox is the current President of the Missouri League and a former co-President of the League of Kansas City, Jackson, Clay and Platte Counties.
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Linx Mix • February 18, 10:00am – 12:00pm
The African American Roots of Rock and Roll
Today on Linx Mix, we will be going back in time to see who the real founders of rock & roll were! From Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and Blind Willie McTell, up through Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and Bo Diddley, you'll hear the African American original cuts, before the songs were covered by white musicians to reach larger audiences in North America. A show not to be missed, catch it live or on archive!
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EcoRadio KC • February 17, 6:00pm – 7:00pm
What is Happening to the Waters of the United States?
This week we get an update on the Waters of the United States (WOTUS) Rule that have been changed to weaken our health protections over the past year. Our guests are Elaine Giessel and Debbie Neustadt who both have done great work with the Sierra Club. We'll hear how this rule change muddies our water, stripping many of the intended benefits of the Clean Water Act. Other recent changes to our regulatory protections will be discussed as we find out the state of our water and what we can do to protect it.
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Jaws of Justice Radio • February 17, 9:00am – 10:00am
Inmate’s RAPP and How KC Municipal Court Addresses Domestic Issues
A group of prisoners at the South-Central Correctional Center in Licking MO have started a program called Resistance Against Prison Pipelines, also known as RAPP. Kansas City Missouri municipal court judges Courtney A. Wachal and Martina L. Peterson will be live guests along with Benita Jones, Public Information Officer of the Kansas City Municipal Court to discuss how courts relate to domestic issues.
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Arts Magazine • February 17, 12:00am – 1:00am
Arts Magazine: 59th Annual Mayor’s Prayer Breakfast & Blue Springs City Theatre “Stuart Little”
Mayor's Prayer Breakfast:
Richard Retrum-Chairman of the 2020 Breakfast Committee.
Paul Scianna-Head of the Communications Committee.
Guest speakers Kansas City Chiefs punter Dustin Colquitt.
"Stuart Little"
Vickie Miller-Director
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Global Roots Radio • February 16, 3:00pm – 5:00pm
Tet, music and more!
Tet, Vietnamese lunar new year, was on Jan 25th and we are not too late to celebrate! Megan Bui joins us in conversation and music!
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Every Woman • February 16, 9:00am – 10:00am
Every Woman • Feb. 29, 2020
Join us for this week's Every Woman, as we speak with another wonderful guest!
That's at 3pm Central Time, on 90.1 FM, streaming on kkfi.org or various apps on your phones! And be sure to keep up with Every Woman at our Facebook page which you can find right here!
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Every Woman • Feb. 15, 2020
Join us for this week's Every Woman, as we speak with another wonderful guest!
That's at 3pm Central Time, on 90.1 FM, streaming on kkfi.org or various apps on your phones! And be sure to keep up with Every Woman at our Facebook page which you can find right here!
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Take Two • February 14, 12:32pm – 12:34pm
Take Two: “Les Miserables” (R)
The Jury Prize winner at last year's Cannes Film Festival, "Les Miserables" is NOT based on Victor Hugo's classic novel. It's set in contemporary France in the same place where the action of Hugo's novel unfolded 150 years earlier.
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Freeze Frame • February 14, 10:58am – 11:00am
Freeze Frame: “Downhill” (R), “The Photograph” (PG-13)
“Downhill” is an American remake of “Force Majeure,” a critically acclaimed Swedish film from 2014. Will Farrell and Julia Louis-Dreyfus star in the story of a family on a ski vacation in the Alps. Their marriage is strained to the breaking point when Ferrell’s character engages in an act of cowardice during an avalanche. There are few laughs in this version that seems a bit watered down from the original. Louis-Dreyfus gives a strong, believable performance, though. However, her efforts can’t keep this 85-minute movie from seeming longer than it is. “Downhill” is not a bad film by any means but just doesn’t live up to its potential. It’s a bunny slope version of “Force Majeure.”
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, we’re offered the romantic drama, “The Photograph.” Issa Rae and LaKeith Stanfield star in the story of a romance sparked by a photo that sends a woman on a quest of discovery. Rae plays a museum curator whose path crosses with journalist Stanfield when she seeks answers about her mother’s life. Do these actors have chemistry? You bet. This romance is grounded in reality and manages to avoid many of the pitfalls that commonly haunt romantic dramas. The only drawback is the movie’s extremely slow pace. But the cast is appealing and Robert Glasper’s effective jazz score fits like a glove.
Also opening this week, “Fantasy Island” is a reboot of the old Ricardo Montalban TV series where people’s dreams come true, only this time, it’s a horror movie. Jim Carrey and James Marsden star in “Sonic the Hedgehog,” an action comedy based on the infamous Sega video game. Zooey Deutch stars in “Buffaloed,” an unrated indie comedy about a debt collector. “Come as You Are” is about three young men who travel to a brothel for people with special needs.
ListenHeartland Labor Forum (Repeat) • February 14, 5:00am – 6:00am
Union Neutering Through Team Concept
Work teams, team concept, employee involvement are now over 30 years old and not as controversial as they were initially. But despite this, workers still ask, “Are we all on the same team?” “Do teams undercut the union, the grievance procedure?” “Whose interest do they serve?” Join us for a lively discussion of labor and management relations and how team concept affects traditional bargaining.
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Thursday Night Special • February 13, 7:00pm – 8:00pm
Ebony’s Bones
Ebony's Bones is a kitchen table conversation that explores the souls of black folk, as we decolonize and question everything that we've been told to believe.
Tonight's table topic: Black Patriotism
Host Ebony M. Johnson along with Historian and Professor AJ Lowe, discuss the challenges with pride for America and black suppression.
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ListenHeartland Labor Forum • February 13, 6:00pm – 7:00pm
Union Neutering Through Team Concept
Work teams, team concept, employee involvement are now over 30 years old and not as controversial as they were initially. But despite this, workers still ask, “Are we all on the same team?” “Do teams undercut the union, the grievance procedure?” “Whose interest do they serve?” Join us for a lively discussion of labor and management relations and how team concept affects traditional bargaining.
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Cowtown Conversations • February 13, 9:00am – 10:00am
Conversation about Solar Energy with Andy Rondon of Good Energy Solutions
Join us as we have a conversation about solar energy with Andy Rondon of Good Sense Energy Solutions a local solar energy company.
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