Edward Baptist on The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism. From intimate slave narratives & other sources, the book shows how the expansion of slavery drove the evolution & modernization of the US, making the South a cotton empire, and the US a global capitalist power. Slave owners extracted continual increases in production from enslaved African Americans thorough continuous, brutal torture, to give the US control of the world cotton market.

It's Carnival Time! UpFront Soul takes you to the streets as the Mardi Gras parade rolls by. We'll bring you big noise from brass bands and watch the Mardi Gras Indians march. Get out your beads, cut yourself a slice of king cake, and join the parade!

It's Carnival Time! UpFront Soul takes you to the streets as the Mardi Gras parade rolls by. We'll bring you big noise from brass bands and watch the Mardi Gras Indians march. Get out your beads, cut yourself a slice of king cake, and join the parade!

This week on Sea Change Radio, we take a dip into the archives to learn about two companies trying to get seafood to the market in unusual new ways. First, we speak with Daniel Russek, the founder and CEO of Atarraya, as he describes his companys Shrimpbox technology: an innovative approach to shrimp farming. Then, we hear from Shannon Consentino-Roush, the former Chief Strategy Officer at Finless Foods, a California-based startup that is hoping to bring cell-cultured seafood alternatives to your dinner plate.

Golden oldies (60s, 70s, 80s, 90s)

Langston Hughes reads a story of Black family values; Alice Walker’s birthday and notable February events are celebrated in the “Rainbow Rewind”; Uganda drops its first “Kill the Gays” case after destroying the defendant, new research debunks an advantage for trans female athletes, decreasing worldwide trans homicides remain alarming, a U.S. appeals court flunks a pronoun-adverse Maryland teacher, at least 44 queer Olympians compete in Italy’s Winter Games, and Melbourne’s Midsumma Parade celebrates Pride. Those stories and more this week when you discover “This Way Out”.

EVERGREEN. Contact: sean@armedia.ca The Mix Sessions is a journey through hypnotic rhythms and soulful deep house groove. Featuring slush, atmospheric textures. TRACKLIST 01. Fred Everything - Mercyless (Fred Everything & Oliver Desmet Remix) 02. Fideles - Panorama 03. Murr - Dive Into The Deepest (Stone Owl Remix) 04. Patlac - Passenger 05. David Penn - Down Wid Da 06. Audiojack - Opposite Forces 07. Paolo Rocco - Move Body, Move Forward 08. Helly Larson - Go Your Way 09. Mattei & Omich - Trust It 10. Anthony Mea - Night Life

EVERGREEN. Contact: sean@armedia.ca Trip Hop Radio is a sonic escape into a world of dreamy beats and introspective melodies, featuring an eclectic blend of trip hop, chillout, and downtempo grooves. Updated weekly. TRACKLIST 01. Bastelbande - Shelter Syndrome 02. Smoke City - Underwater Love 03. Sneaker Pimps - 6 Underground 04. Tricky - Overcome 05. Sean Savage - The Marquee Mile 06. Beatowls - Please Lie To Me 07. Tor - Sunyata 08. Gruve Collective - Hopeless Hope 09. Everything But The Girl - Low Tide Of The Night 10. KROY - Days 11. DJ Sneak - Six Days (Machinedrum Remix) 12. Royksopp - Sparks

1. On the Occasion of Wet Snow - Pseudo Intellectuals ft. Definition 2. Listen To Dis - DJ Tekwun 3. A Tribute - Davon [cuts by Minus Nine] 4. Mr. Trice - Obie Trice 5. The Brighter Side - Odell Lancaster & Flxtch 6. Hip Hop Radio remix (inSTEMental) - Phonk Sycke 7. HipHop Remedy - The Hashassins 8. Sale Sucio - Deil 9. Stache Box Villian Pt. 2 - Villain Park 10. True Story 3 - Phat Kat aka Ronnie Euro ft. DJ Dez 11. From The Beginning Again - KRS-One 12. Ruthless - Peebs The Prophet ft. Awon 13. Dynamite Soul (Lip Service remix) - the Artifacts ft. Mad Skillz (cut by Roc Raida) 14. The Vibe - Xross Breed 15. Life Begins - Legal the Lifesaver 16. Here We Go (SK remix) - Guru ft. KrumbSnatcha and Jeru the Damaja 17. I Wish - Pete Rock

Sherri Mitchell (Wena'hamu'gwasit) is both a lawyer and an indigenous rights activist. She also works to preserve and revitalize the worldview and rituals of her Penobscot people, whose territory is in the US state of Maine. Her indigenous name means She Who Brings the Light. She authored the book Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change. This is the talk she gave at an event in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, emceed by OISE scholar Angela Miles.  It was titled: Web of Life: Re-Aligning with the Value of Life, an Indigenous Perspective. [More info on this speaker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherri_Mitchell ]

The Appalachian Sunday Morning is a two hour all Gospel Music Radio program with radio station & program host Danny Hensley. The program is recorded live each Sunday morning while being broadcast on 91.7 FM Community radio and streamed world wide on www.sbbradio.org. This program is uploaded to SoundCloud, RSS.com, radio4all, Podbean and iTunes to mention a few.

AI swarms - self-directing fake persons around us. Dr. Daniel Schroeder Lead Author of the new paper "How malicious AI swarms can threaten democracy". Clips from Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti on Breaking Points "AI Bots Plot Human Downfall On Moltbook Social Media Site". Alex rants on emergent group cognition and the last stand of consciousness.

This week hear records made by Esther Phillips, Roy Acuff, Muddy Waters and Gregory Isaacs early in their careers. There's also a couple of obscure country singers, one so obscure nobody is sure when his record was made. You especially don't want to miss a beautiful bluegrass harmony record by Reno & Smiley, great blues from Matt Anderson and so much more.

When the Story Becomes the Weapon Today, we open with the reality the world keeps trying to rename. On Saturday, Israeli airstrikes across Gaza killed at least thirty two Palestinians—lives added to the more than five hundred already lost during what officials insisted on calling a “ceasefire.” A ceasefire in name only. One that never reached the families sheltering in shattered buildings, never reached the children sleeping under tarps, never reached the wounded waiting for medical care that no longer exists. And then, on Monday, the Rafah crossing to Egypt was partially opened, framed as a gesture of humanitarian relief. But Israel announced it would allow only one hundred and fifty Palestinians to leave each day. As one emergency medic put it, “At this rate, it would take over a year for the twenty thousand awaiting evacuation to leave.” A year for people who do not have a year. A year for people who may not have a week. This is the landscape as Israel’s assault—what many scholars, jurists, and human rights organizations have described as genocide—enters its twenty eighth month. Twenty eight months of siege, bombardment, starvation, displacement, and the systematic destruction of a society. Twenty eight months of a world watching, calculating, debating, and too often doing nothing. But this violence is not sustained by military force alone. It is upheld by political alliances, diplomatic cover, and—perhaps most powerfully—by the stories told about it. Stories that shape public opinion. Stories that justify policy. Stories that turn victims into threats and atrocities into “self defense.” And nowhere has that complicity been clearer than in the Western media ecosystem. One of the most glaring examples is the now debunked New York Times story “Screams Without Words.” Published with dramatic flair and presented as investigative journalism, it claimed to uncover evidence of systematic sexual violence committed by Palestinians on October 7th. The story was immediately amplified by U.S. officials and used to justify the continued flow of weapons, funding, and diplomatic protection for Israel’s actions. It became a talking point, a rallying cry, a moral shield for the slaughter of tens of thousands of Palestinian men, women, and children. But the story wasn’t true. Not partially true. Not misinterpreted. It collapsed under scrutiny—built on unverifiable testimonies, politically motivated sources, and evidence that contradicted the narrative. Internal fact checkers were sidelined. Doubts were ignored. And once the story was out, it spread unchecked: repeated on cable news, cited by politicians, weaponized by commentators, and absorbed by the public as fact. This is how propaganda works today—not through state run newspapers, but through respected institutions that carry the veneer of credibility. And when those institutions fail, the consequences are not abstract. They are measured in lives. While false claims circulated, Gaza was being bombed. Families were being buried under rubble. Hospitals were being destroyed. Children were starving. Entire neighborhoods were being erased. This is not just a media critique. This is about the cost of a lie. Today, we examine how narratives are constructed, how they travel, and how they are used to justify the unjustifiable. We look at the machinery behind the headlines, the politics behind the storytelling, and the human beings erased in the process. Stay with us, as we pull apart the narratives that shield power, as we center the voices long pushed aside, and as we insist on truth in a moment built on distortion. This is This Week in Palestine.

Trailblazing Black Feminist and Canadian Politician Rosemary Brown was also a trained social worker, a columnist, and a women's studies professor. WINGS co-founder Katherine Davenport recorded her address to Canadian women journalists in 1991. Brown died in 2003. In 2009, she was honoured on a Canadian postage stamp for Black History Month. Her warning about backsliding on the matter of equality is even more important today. See Wikipedia entry for more:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary_Brown_(Canadian_politician)