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Aimée Allen is a NYC-based jazz vocalist and songwriter who has released multiple critically acclaimed jazz albums including 2019's Wings Uncaged, which was named one of Downbeat Magazine's best. For this performance, entitled Strings and Chords, she's joined by two exemplary performers, including internationally recognized bassist Francois Moutin and versatile guitarist Tony Romano. From October 22nd, 2021 it's Amiee Allen Trio: Strings and Chords - Live at the Bop Stop.

On this week’s program a musical salute to The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Exposed, Part 1. The first half of a two-part radio documentary from our friends at SF Public Press, “Exposed,” opens a window into the little-known history of the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. The sprawling abandoned naval base, in San Francisco’s southeast waterfront Bayview neighborhood, is currently the site of the city’s largest real estate development project. The base played a key role in the Cold War nuclear era, when it housed a research institution known as the Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory, which studied the human health effects of radiation. We trace the radioactive contamination found in the shipyard soil today back to its origins, with nuclear bomb testing in the Marshall Islands. We also hear from environmental justice advocates, including one who led a health biomonitoring survey revealing that nearby residents have toxic elements stored in body tissues that match the hazardous chemicals of concern identified at the shipyard.

Part 1. Bobby Rush, Grammy Award winner, reflects upon his extraordinary musical career tracing his family roots from enslavement to freedom in the segregated South. He shares stories of perseverance amid set-backs and ultimate musical success as one of the most recognizable names in Blues music today. Part 1 of a two-part series.

Dominique Daye Hunter is an Afro -Indigenous storyteller, author, bi-poc advocate, and multidisciplinary artist who specializes in poetry and streetwear fashion. Hunter states, “Colonization tells us that we are not of the earth. Colonization says that we are separate and superior to the earth. There's a hierarchy of value amongst living beings, right? And then there's even the concept of what is a living being. In a colonized perspective, a rock is not alive, right? A tree is not alive or doesn't feel things. Why it's so important to remember is because that literally interconnectedness, that turn, we are all related. And in order to maintain a balance in any sort of balance to survive, right? Whether it's individually and community as a whole, as a species, I'm grappling with this right now because even as I'm speaking, I'm hearing the influence of colonization in my voice. Like why did I start out with the individual, right? Why do I only focus on our species, right? So, it's something that's a constant, constant reevaluation and retraining of the way that we see things and the way that we relate to things. And it's so important because we are not superior to the relations, to the two -legged and the four -legged and to the trees and to the rock. So, to, and that kind of goes into kind of going back to colonization, why there's been such an imbalance in our human society, right? Is because not only does the hierarchy separate humans from other beings, but it puts humans into categories, right? Why it's so important is because we've been influenced and operating in this colonized system for so long that it's unsustainable. It's completely unsustainable. And it's miserable, quite frankly”.

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Attending an Occidental Gypsy show is, without question, the most fun you can have in their native Rhode Island. Their unique blend of gypsy jazz, western rhythms and early swing era vocals have brought them international acclaim. Every Occidental Gypsy show is a party, and it’s every bit as enjoyable as the after party. Featuring Brett Feldman on Lead Guitar, Eli Bishop on Fiddle, Jeremy Frantz on Vocals and Rhythm Guitar, Jeff Feldman on Bass, and Jon Chapman on Percussion, and from a March 31st, 2022 performance it’s Occidental Gypsy – Live at the Bop Stop.

This episode includes a long set-in memory of Rev. Quincy Fielding Jr., plus music from the Barrett Sisters, Simmons-Akers Trio, First Church of Deliverance Choir, Harmonizing Four, a track from the forthcoming four-CD survey of the gospel music of Louisville, and more.

Exposed, Part 2. From our friends at San Francisco Public Press, we explore a little-known chapter in San Francisco’s nuclear era: human experiments carried out to assess the health effects of radiation. Scientists from the Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory, located at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, designed and executed at least 24 experiments that involved gathering data from humans — in some cases, injecting test subjects with radioisotopes or having them ingest fluids laced with trace amounts of radioactive materials. Even football players from the San Francisco 49ers were enrolled as test subjects in these so-called tracer studies. We hear from military veterans who were sent on a mysterious mission to spread radioactive substances onto rooftops at an Army base near Pittsburg, Calif., for an experiment the radiation lab played a role in designing. Some recount experiences of witnessing nuclear bomb blasts in the Nevada desert. We also examine a national pattern of human radiation experiments revealed by Eileen Welsome, the author of a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation, who shined a light on similar practices conducted by government facilities, hospitals and other institutions.