International radio program interviews Rigsby (Henderson State University)

Edit Public Technologies 11 Mar 2016
(Source. Henderson State University). Dr. Malcolm Rigsby, associate professor of sociology at Henderson State, was interviewed Nov. 5 on the international radio program Prison Focus hosted by KPOO Radio in San Francisco ... Additional interviews will include ... central time. Listen to interview....

Litquake wrapping up with packed Crawl

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 13 Oct 2015
Last year, as Litquake turned 15 and Lit Crawl expanded to Helsinki, co-founder Jack Boulware said, It’s nice to see the DNA of something that spawned so organically in S.F ... Friday, Oct ... San Francisco Poet Laureate Alejandro Murgía and Radio Bilingue/KPOO FM 89.5 Announcer Chelis López lead a tribute to the Uruguayan author Eduardo Galeano, with special guests Carolina De Robertis and KPFA events coordinator Bob Baldock (3 p.m ... ....

Avotcja Jiltonilro to receive Jazz Hero Award

Edit The Examiner 16 Mar 2015
Avotcja Jiltonilro will receive the Bay Area chapter of the Jazz Journalists Association’s annual Jazz Hero Award ... As a poet, radio producer, playwright, multi-instrumentalist, bandleader, and invaluable DJ on KPOO (89.5 FM) and KPFA (94.1 FM), the Emeryville resident is a one-woman cultural force who champions a vast and varied array of artists, including many of the region’s greatest figures in jazz, blues and Latin American music....

Gentrification in San Francisco is supplanting culture, not creating it

Edit The Guardian 15 Feb 2015
Everything was worse before. That’s often the way that gentrifiers dismiss neighborhoods - and their communities - before they arrived ...The Western Addition was a motley collection of crack houses,” it said ... As teenagers we whiled away our Sunday evenings listening to KPOO, a neighborhood radio station that programmed the rap music soundtrack of my childhood – music you’d never have heard on the mainstream radio ... And that’s OK ... ....

The Blues Foundation to Honor Blues Patrons at January Awards Ceremony in Memphis Honorees Include Key Movers

Edit PR Newswire 29 Jan 2015
The 2015 Keeping the Blues Alive Awards recipients are.. 1. CHENANGO BLUES FEST. 2. NOEL HAYES. 3 ... 4 ... Noel Hayes has been a blues patron since he first heard Charlie Musselwhite live in 1977.  As a result of his extensive blues knowledge, in 1985, Noel was asked to play music from his collection on listener-supported KPOO radio and talk about the artists.  He has hosted his own live-streamed show on Wednesday mornings since 2000 ... ....

20th Anniversary AfroSolo Arts Festival Continues with Black Voices Series & Project Empowerment: The Audacity ...

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 27 Aug 2014
The award-winning AfroSolo Arts Festival 2014 closes its 20th anniversary with two events. its seminal Black Voices Series - Our Stories, Our Lives and with Project Empowerment. The Audacity to Succeed - designed to help young Black men and boys successfully transcend youth to adulthood. Ticket prices. Free-$50 ... I ... Program A. ... Program B. ... DJ Lamont is a KPOO FM - San Francisco, CA programmer, renowned disc jockey, and audio storyteller ... II....
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