(ICYMI) Tonight’s Full Circle, Sentient Shiloh B’s Women’s Music Mixtape. These musicians provide the soundtrack for women’s rights, beauty, love, freedom dreams and calls for collective liberation. Dolly Parton starts off the mix and is followed by Eurythmics featuring Aretha Franklin and ends with Queen Latifah’s Ladies First. The second segment begins with Cecile McLorin Salvant singing Ida Cox’s song Wild Women Don’t Have the Blues, next I play Whitney Houston singing Chaka Khan’s song I’m Every Woman, and ends this segment with Chaka Khan singing Woman Like Me and Skip the Needle’s Liberation. Next is Janelle Monae’s Django Jane and Ariana Grande’s God is Woman.  The final segment includes the following three songs: Where Do We Go, Solange,  Beautiful, Christina Aguilera and ends with Scars to Your Beautiful by Alessia Cara.

Full Circle 03 - 24 - 2023 Womans Music Mixtape

Tonight on Full Circle we will be talking about the Antioch Police text message scandal and investigation. On tonight’s show we’ll hear community response as people speak out at a recent city council meeting. We also hear the reflections of city council member and Mayor Pro Tem Tamisha Torres-Walker and Mayor Lamar Thorpe. And we will be asking for your support in honor of kpfa’s 74th birthday

Full Circle 04-14-2023 Antioch Police Text Message Scandal

Late post ICYMI, Full Circle 04-21-23, check out these special music selections for Earth Day. These selections were put together and introduced by Mrs. M. The earth has been designated as female, so consequently we consider her nurturing and bountiful, never the less, we know she also has a tumultuous side. Additionally some of her inhabitants have failed to give her proper respect and so our beloved planet is suffering her own timely demise, and thus, the world being of her inhabitants is threatened. Tonight we will have some songs that salute Mother Earth and urge her inhabitant to give her better care. We'll also have some songs created by earths mortal inhabitants that reflect some of the manifestations we experience from her base, as well as the human feelings and emotions that are artistically linked to her elements. WE LOVE YOU MAMA!!!

Full Circle 04 - 21 - 23 Music For Earth Day

Tonight on Full Circle we give a shout out to dad’s and the LGBTQIA+ community. On tonight’s show we’ll hear stories and commentary about dad’s. In honor of pride month, we’ll hear a short introduction and some kpfa history from our own Channa Wilson. Also we’ll her a tribute to berkeley activist and educator, Mel Martynn (Mar-teen)

Full Circle 06-09-2023 Shout Out To Dads and The LGBTQIA+ Community

(LATE POST) On last weeks Full Circle show we heard from 4 phenomenal people who use and advocate ecological farming and/or gardening. Kanchan Dawn Hunter from Spiral Gardens in Berkeley, CA; Kelly Carlisle from Acta Non Verba in Oakland, CA, Marissa Lamagna, Bay Area Green Tours, based in Berkeley CA; and Dennis Hutson’s Allenworth Farm in California’s Central Valley. Be sure to tune in Tonight at 7pm as Full Circle brings you sounds from Pride In The Park, hosted by Rainbow Community Center of Contra Costa

Full Circle 06 - 16 - 2023 BIPOC Farming

(ICYMI) Full Circle and First Voice Media were out at the 16th Annual BH Brilliant Minds Juneteenth Celebration. We spoke to many different community folks and representatives of community organizations. Included in the show was John Burris, Civil Rights Attorney and Jeralynn Blueford of the Allan Blueford Foundation. Be sure to check out videos from the livestream on the First Voice Media Facebook page.

Full Circle 07-21-2023 West Oakland Juneteenth

This week on Full Circle we will take it to “The Rock”,  Alcatraz,as Indigenous people gather for the annual No Thanks Given Sunrise Gathering. On tonight’s show, we’ll hear some voices from the island as thousands of people honored/memorialized and mourned the day. We’ll also be joined by our special guest you met a couple weeks ago, Palestinian American activists and organizer, Layla Darwish. She will reflect on some of the speeches from Alcatraz and the past few days' news with me and offer some Palestinian resistance songs for us to share in and enjoy .

Full Circle 11-24-2023 Indigenous Peoples Day of Thanks Giving and Palestinian Solidarity

This week on Full Circle we will check out sounds from the 2023 Memorial Walk for Justice for Timothy Charles Lee. A young Black/Indigenous gay man who was found hanging in a fig tree near the Concord BART station  in 1985. On tonight’s show, we’ll hear some voices from the Memorial event. Including Richmond City Council District 1 Representative Melvin Willis, Antioch Mayor, Lamar Thorpe and community representatives from Rainbow Community Center, Concord Community Alliance and Reimagine Antioch.

Full Circle 12-01-2023 Memorial Walk For Timothy Charles Lee 2023

This week on Full Circle, we continue to keep our eyes and ears on Palestine. On tonight’s show, we’ll hear from Dr Jess Ghannam a Palestinian American doctor who spent 25 years working in Gaza. We’ll also hear from Professor Hatem Bazian of UC Berkeley. They both spoke at the West Coast March on Washington. To close out the show, we’ll hear from JR Valrey and the Block Report, he spoke with Alameda County District Attorney, Pamela Price.

Full Circle 01-26-20 The West Coast March on Washington and an Interview with DA Pamela Price

Tonight on Full Circle we will be in conversation with two of the 
musicians from the upcoming John Coltrane tribute concert. We’ll talk to upright bassist & bandleader Dewayne Oakley. And vocalist Bryant “Mr. B” Bolling. We’ll also hear live music from our guests who are inspired by John Coltrane. All that, and we’ll be asking for your support for this important media outlet, KPFA.

Full Circle 09-20-2024 Tribute To John Coltrane

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