Part One is about redlining, racial covenants and other racist legal practices that have and continue to support segregation. This program focuses on Chicago but these practices were and are common nationwide.

The program features:

Ghian Foreman is the president and CEO of the Emerald South Economic Development Collaborative, which generates community wealth and amplifies local culture through shared pride, power, and investment for Chicago’s mid-South Side.

 Natalie Y. Moore is an award-winning journalist based in Chicago, whose reporting tackles race, housing, economic development, food injustice and violence. She is the author of the acclaimed book The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation.

 Tonika Johnson is a photographer, social justice artist and life-long resident of Chicago’s South Side neighborhood of Englewood. She is also co-founder of the Englewood Arts Collective and Resident Association of Greater Englewood, which seek to reframe the narrative of South Side communities, and mobilize people and resources for positive change.

June Jordan reading Requiem for the Champ from her book Technical Difficulties

 The program includes a reading of Affirmation, a poem by Assata Shakur; an excerpt from Lorraine Hannesberry's A RAISIN IN THE SUN; and music by Jamie Branch, Otis Brown, Mike Reed, Tomeka Reid, Nicole Mitchell and Erwin Helfer.

Part 1: Good Fences Make Good Neighbors -- or do they? Redlining

Interview recorded at KZSU 90.1 FM (Stanford) on Oct 1, 2018

Stanford Lecturer + Arabology radio host Dr. Ramzi Salti interviews Erin Palmquist, Director/Producer/Cinematographer for the award winning documentary "From Baghdad to the Bay."  
This critically acclaimed film follows the journey of Ghazwan Alsharif, an Iraqi refugee and former translator for the US military who was wrongfully accused of being a double agent and ostracized from his family and country as he struggles to rebuild his life in the United States while coming out as an openly gay man.
The film is screening at the Arab Film Festival in San Francisco on Oct 17th and in Oakland on October 19th.
For more screenings + info please visit www.frombaghdadtothebay.com

Interview with Erin Palmquist, Director of "From Baghdad to the Bay"

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Queer in Your Ear Productions is Emily Charles and Mary Salome, graduates of the KPFA Affirmative Action training program (now called First Voice). These are some of the programs we produced between 1992 & 2006, as well as some newer shows.

Part 1: Good Fences Make Good Neighbors -- or do they? Redlining

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