BLAK FRIDAYS follows the proud history of RADIO REDFERN 88.9FM programming a day of BLAK First Nations broadcasting and content every Friday on RADIO SKID ROW 88.9FM.

BLAK FRIDAYS

BABY MUVA BEATS is a radio show we hope our mothers are proud of, this week join 4 Blak BABY MUVAS as they learn radio broadcasting skills, play PHAT beats and give shout outs to their BABIES and their MUVAs.

Lorna, Lizzie and Memarloo are back for another week of BABY MUVA BEATS, introducing radio baby Brooke the BMB crew talk about the coronavirus, the great TP shortage, “unbiased” media, the colonial project, the fake boat and fake circumnavigation and Lorna admits to stealing CD's off her cousins as a teenager, Lizzie kicks off a 'hoedown', Memarloo learns the buttons and Brooke gives a shout out to her Mum via Prince <3

Broadcasted on the 6th of March 2020 on Radio Skid Row 88.9FM.

BABY MUVA BEATS

Merry Christmas to all the MUVAs 

Broadcasted on the 13th of December 2019 on Radio Skid Row 88.9FM

This Week on BMB Brooke takes over with a weekly BLAK news WRAPAROUND with special guest Che Baines talking about IWD, Wetsuweten solidarity actions and Indigenous Fashion while Lorna drops Barkaa's first film clip release and them regular beats.

BABY MUVA BEATS BLAK FRIDAY

Its your girl Lorna with a new show BABY MUVA BEATS, training up her 11 year old nephew to replace her one day starting with curating playlists and getting confident on the mic.

Raymond spills a lot of tea in this episode and spent his summer holidays at Radio Skid Row 88.9FM in 2019.

Originally broadcasted JAN 2019.

BABY MUVA BEATS/ THATS SO RAYMOND.

This Instalment of BMB we focus on LBGTQI solidarity, pre Mardi Gras Parade vibes, the sit in at the National Maritime Museum against the federal governments plans to spend 6.7million "retracing' the endeavour and the Bowraville Murders case updates.

Broadcasted on Radio Skid Row 88.9FM Feb 2020.

A special BABY MUVA BEATS presented by Lorna from her home during quarantine with this weeks Blak WRAPAROUND with Brooke and Nellie Pollard Wharton, featuring First Nations artists and BLAK RHYMES poets.

Thank you to Elaine Crombie, Evelyn Araluen, Alison Whittaker and Luke Patterson. 

Broadcasted on Radio Skid Row 88.9FM on the 3rd of April 2020.

BABY MUVA BEATS QUARANTINA BLAK MUSIC MIXER 1

Our second show done in isolation from our homes, Lorna presents another BabyMUVAbeats curated First Nations Play list, this weeks BLAKWRAPAROUND with Brooke talking about BLAK Techies, gardening and sims porn and everything in-between with Kira and Tamina and I take a look at past content, episode 17 of season 2 of SURVIVAL GUIDE: STILL CONNECTED. 

BMB is on every Friday from 12-4pm.
Broadcasted on Radio Skid Row on the 10.04.2020.

BABY MUVA BEATS QUARANTINA BLAK MUSIC MIXER 2

This week of BMB from home features Brooke with another BLAKWRAPAROUND yarning to Travis De Vries about creating content and gaming while Lorna has a late night yarn to BARKAA, Chloe Quale about the #passtheochrechallenge and her new single dropping, 'For My Tittas' and being a MUVA while creating and working during lockdown.

Originally broadcasted on Radio Skid Row 88.9FM on the 24th of April 2020.

BABY MUVA BEATS QUARANTINA BLAK MUSIC MIXER 3

This week we take a look back at the prophesy from January where Uncle Robbie Thorpe predicted the fall of capitalism mid 2020.

Baby Muva Beats BLAK PROPHESY

This week on BMB, the 9th week in lockdown Lorna Broadcasts from her home and Brooke catches up with BMB Regular sibling in ISO yarns on BLAKWRAPAROUND where they discuss cultural maintenance and practice during COVID-19.

BABY MUVA BEATS originally broadcasted on RADIO SKID ROW 88.9FM, 15/5/2020.

BABY MUVA BEATS 2nd show of MAY in QUARANTINE

This weeks BABY MUVA BEATS revisits its militant roots of passing on the microphone to our young people as they speak about whats important to them, featuring poetry By Ken Weldon and audio and interviews, finishing up with the 'FUTURE SOLD' episode of Survival Guide season 2.

This BABYMUVABEATS was originally broadcasted on Friday the 12th of June 2020.

BABY MUVA BEATS JUNE BLM/SURVIVAL GUIDE rotation  2020

Black Wraparound is back this Friday. Join Brooke as she yarns with Hayden Moon Wiradjuri Brotherboy, activist, PhD candidate and co-founder of Trans Action Warrang. As always they'll be raging about the latest news affecting Blakfullas in Sydney and surrounds, and playing tunes to get you through your Friday.

Blak Wrap Around June 19

Another BABY MUVA BEATS from lockdown recorded in Waterloo.
And broadcasted on Radio Skid Row 88.9FM on FRIDAY the 19th of June 2020.

BABY MUVA BEATS JUNE 2020

This week on Blak Wrap Around we yarn to Georgia about the prison industrial complex and abolition.

Blak Wrap Around June 26

ITS JULY ALREADY!!

Join us this week for more BABY MUVA BEATS with your girl Lorna while she catches up with Kiaya Aboagye who is taking over our Radio Skid Row's socials and posting and presenting images, quotes, music and talking about intersectional blackness and the BLAK OCEANIC.

Make sure you follow us on Instagram and Facebook in JULY to follow Kaiyas work and tune in every week from 1-4pm every Friday to hear these sista girls break down the complexities about the ongoing extraction and erasure of First Nations voices and experiences within the Black Global experience and consciousness.


Broadcasted on Radio Skid Row 88.9FM Friday the 3rd of JULY.

This week was all about BLAK LOVE <3 

Lorna checks in with Kaiya and spoke about black love, self love and epic black love songs.

This BMB was all about the love song requests enjoy.


Broadcasted on RadioSkid Row 88.9FM on Friday the 9th of July 2020

This week on Baby Muva Beats Lorna shares some stories about solidarity and curates a black girl playlist inspired by this weeks catch up with Kaiya Aboagye, talking the black history month social media take over, revisiting BLAk love, self love, blackness transcending race constructs and colonial ideology of oppressed people and of course wakanda.

Broadcasted on Radio Skid Row 88.9FM on Friday the 24th of JULY 2020.

BABY MUVA BEATS JULY BLA(C)K LOVE SELF LOVE

BABYMUVABEATS - Lorna talks to her sister Mary about the latest Redfern/Waterloo community family history project 300 Bloodlines.

1:00- 2:00. I BE MIXING WAT LIKE - Kaiya brings the Black Table Talk sisters, Rarriwuy Hick and Shekara Hartnett to Radio Skid row for a yarn about independent black media and getting ready for NAIDOC week.

2:oo- 3:00. THATS SO RAYMOND- Raymonds after school playlist. SPOOKY SZN.

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Broadcasted on RADIO SKID ROW 88.9FM

BABYMUVABEATS/ I MIX WAT I LIKE/ THATS SO RAYMOND Nov 6 2020

BABYMUVABEATS- Lorna put together a Radio skid row fundraiser playlist celebrating 37 years of broadcasting black and indigenous music.

1:00-2:00. I MIX WAT I LIKE - Kaiya mixes a BLAK GIRL MAJIK PLAYLIST

2:00- 3:00. THATS SO RAYMOND - Raymonds after school playlist.

Please donate to www.startsomegood.com/radioskidrow2020

This BlaK Friday content was broadcasted on Radio Skid Row 88.9FM 23/OCT/2020.

BABYMUVABEATS/ I MIX WAT I LIKE/ THATS SO RAYMOND OCT 23 2020

This week on BABYMUVABEATS BLAk FRIDAYS growth, Kaiya experiments with content making and carving out space on AS ABOVE SO BELOW catching up with blak Mystic sista Shekara Hartnett and Raymond claims the after school slot with a weekly playlist on THATS SO RAYMOND.

Broadcasted on RADIO SKID ROW 88.9FM on the 6th of OCTOBER 2020.

BABYMUVABEATS. BLAK FRIDAY  OCTOBER 6 2020

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