Griot Session: Providing the service of speaking truth about and for our community using the voice and perspective of the Seasoned Elders, Wise Professionals, and Honored Teachers in support of the Black African Diaspora.
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BLACK HISTORY MONTH SPECIALS - FEBRUARY 2008
Black History Month specials on Pacifica Radio Network and Affiliates stations. Griot Sessions provides a history lesson on Black spies during the Civil War; a look back on the massive Civil Rights Rally in Jena, Louisiana to support the JENA 6; a historical find of the African presence in ancient China—the founder of Tao; A Movement Grows – The Million More March on Washington, D.C. October 16, 2005, brought together in anniversary of the Million Men March, dedicated activists from across the nation, to rededicate to the Movement toward Justice and Equity for African-descended peoples in America. The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan raised the banner of work and vision to keep us moving in our local activities at home. A Movement Grows continued with the National Black Peoples Unity Convention in Gary, Indiana in March 10-12, 2006, charging forward with planning to bolster the growing Movement, unifying under the workers of America with Labor leading the way. The Honorable Richard Hatcher, the Honorable George Brown, and Secretary/Treasurer William Lucy called the convention and we answered.
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Air-date: KPFK January 1, 2008, Tuesday, 7:00-8:00 p.m.
Griot Sessions: Dr Pat Gay on Ritual Legacies 00:58:56
Ritual and Legacies are being gently revealed to Western life. Traditional cultural living is strengthened in legacies of truth that carried forward through ritual. Dr. Pat Gay, psychologist and conjure woman explains why. Join host Grayce Gadson updating the Griot tradition with a Griot Session...
Air-date: KPFK January 2, 2008, Wednesday, 2:00-3:00 p.m.
Griot Sessions: Village Nation on Education Today 00:58:01 In the City of Los Angeles, the State of California and all across the United States, Black Children secondary education assessment scores are consistently at the bottom. An alarm is beginning to be sounded at the top levels of governments. Griot Sessions talks with Black Men who came up with a plan to help their youth regain their self-confidence to learn and succeed.
Featured speakers/guests: Fluke Fluker, Bill Paden
Producer/Host: Grayce Gadson Co-hosts: Claudine Robinson, Sherry Taylor
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WHAT'S NEXT AFTER JENA? (see Newsticker at top for last minute updates)
The young teenager at the center of one of the largest Civil Rights rally’s in U.S. history, is back in jail. Mychal Bell was sentenced to 18 months in jail on 2 counts of simple battery and 2 counts of criminal destruction of property, charges incurred prior to the incident that sparked the mass protest in Jena, Louisiana on September 20 this year.
La Salle Parish Louisiana District Judge J. P. Mauffrey indicated that he desired Mychal Bell back into jail, when Bell was handcuffed as he appeared for a hearing on October 2, charging Bell had broken probation by participating in a fight on December 4, 2006. Most Black citizens and other observers note this teenage fight was spurred by noose incidents at their high school during the preceding months. On October 2, Bell’s parents had to post an additional $5,000 bond.
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Listen for JENA 6 updates every Friday 12:30-1:00 PST on the Mid-Day News on KPFK 90.7 FM, L.A. featuring coverage on Jena 6 by reporter Grayce Gadson
9/26 AFTER JENA
Brave and brilliant. How else to describe those who rallied in Jena last Thursday? Well, let's add dedicated and committed. Already the commitment by some is to go back to help - now. Griot Sessions will post plans as they're formed right here. We'll also blend those plans into ColorOfChange.org, DJ Michael Baisden's support and any others leading the way to keep the Jena 6 issue alive.
Joining the BACK TO JENA effort? What's your idea? Go to:
9/16 GRIOT SESSIONS team member Grayce Gadson will be in Jena, Louisiana to support the JENA 6 on September 20, 2007 and witness the event through video and audio recording for Griot Sessions.
GRIOT SESSIONS team member Claudine Robinson will be in Little Rock, Arkansas to witness the 50 year anniversary of teenagers standing for their rights by integrating American schools. The LITTLE ROCK NINE will gather again in Little Rock, September 23 - 25, 2007. Claudine will witness this event through still photography, and audio recording for Griot Sessions.
The Education Series continues with Session #2 on Village Nation. Today's taping shares details on specific Assemblies of Village Nation as implemented in schools to raise the awareness of and empower Black students to achieve better grades and make their journey into their future. Listen to Fluke Fluker, Andre Chevalier, and Bill Paden, founders of Village Nation.
Andre Chevalier, Bill Paden, Fluke Fluker at Cleveland High School, Reseda, CA
JULY 15, 2007 Sunday, 9-10 am PST, 11am CST RITUAL LEGACIES
A Griot Session with Dr. Patricia Gay
As children of humanity, children of Africa, children of God or whatever we conceive It to be, we have an inner knowingness of how to obtain truth, at least enough so to help us through each day. And we have among us students of practices that help us to heal…
Pat is a psychologist and the granddaughter of a Southern conjure woman who worked with a spider spirit guide. Learning the art and practice of divination, ritual, and conjuring at her grandmother’s feet, she watched miraculous healing and heard nature speak. She began conjuring as a child, and has been a healer for decades. Pat has also studied with Malidoma Somé, a Shaman from Burkina Faso, West Africa.
“As a child I learned to listen to nature spirits, animate and inanimate, and to be guided by their deep love, desire to guide, and powerful potential to make lasting change. I knew intuitively that the entire universe was alive, communicating, and that I was apart of this divine, pulsating, beautiful web with the Divine. And because I had not been trained differently as a child, it was easy for me to trust my authentic indigenous African soul and hear the call of God and the sweet voices of my ancestors. As a result, it was natural to accept sacred communication and guidance from the natural and spiritual realms. I was called as a young child to hear and to heal, to see and to serve.”
Pat offers spiritual practices that are grounded in ancient African spiritual tradition and heritage, yet designed for healing and guidance in the modern world.
Finally, Dr. Pat Gay, hits the airwaves on KPFK. This is a special beginning… JOIN US ON “GRIOT SESSIONS”, as we air an Inaugural Program showcasing the wisdom and deeds of a people…
Guest:
Dr. Pat Gay Psychologist African spiritual arts and healing studied under Malidoma Somé, Modern Conjure Women
TBD on Radio Schedule page? Scheduling changes for 2007 is ongoing. Check out the "What's New" page.
Jewel Diamond Taylor, Sherry Taylor, Pearl Jr. and Claudine Robinson are joining the airwaves of KPFK and "Griot Sessions" as producers/hosts. Incredible voices for our community.
Jewel Diamond Taylor, the Self-Esteem Doctor
Jewel Diamond Taylor, the Self-Esteem Doctor
GRIOT SESSIONS Programming Team will be talking with:
Jewel Diamond Taylor, the Self-Esteem Doctor