The last show of the year features selections from 2024's gospel reissue projects and long sets in memory of the late Rodessa Barrett Porter (pictured) (Barrett Sisters) and Sis. Mattie Wood of Suffolk, VA.

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Wil Shelton, (pictured) President & CEO of Wil Power Integrated Marketing. Will orchestrates a network of over 50,000 African-Americans salons and barbershops nationwide, creating authentic touch points that reach more than 30-million across social media networks. Our conversation includes discussion about Wil’s company and the historical, cultural significance, and evolution of Black Barbershops and salons in the Black community.

Brian Behlendorf discusses his career in open technologies, and how they can be used to enhance human liberties. He explains how open-source software (comprising up to 90% of all software) enables collaboration, flexibility, and innovation. The conversation highlights the impact of open-source technology on society, the importance of open data and AI, rebuilding trust in technology, and supporting creative industries. ● 70-90% of the software inside any car, phone, app, or website is pre-existing code not written by the manufacturers of those products. ● Open-source software has a place in the capitalist world as it is often developed by companies and used as a means to build better products. ● Open-source software plays a crucial role in building trustworthy AI and ensuring transparency and accountability. ● Rebuilding trust in technology requires a greater sense of agency and control over the tools we use. ● Sustainability models for creative industries, such as music, need to evolve to adapt to the changing landscape of technology and consumer behavior.

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This episode includes selections from Ella Jenkins, Angelic Gospel Singers & Dixie Hummingbirds, Friendly Gospel Singers of Chicago, New Jersey Mass Choir (pictured), Golden Gate Quartet, Kelly Brothers, Metropolitan Male Ensemble, and others.

Jenny Odell and Discovering Life Beyond the Clock. We'll dig into the ideas behind Saving Time, which gives a sweeping panoramic overview of how the ways we think about time actually shapes our lives. We begin with a critical look at productivity culture and the idea that time is money. Then we'll hear how to begin to disentangle our daily concept of time from its capitalistic and colonialist roots in order to liberate and expand our relationship to time.

Josephine Bolling McCall-The Lynching of Elmore McCall. For decades, Elmore Bolling’s family believed myths perpetuated by white people—and even by Rosa Parks—about why he was killed: that he was involved in a love triangle or that he had insulted his assailant’s wife. Though Josephine Bolling McCall’s father was killed when she was 5 years old, it was not until she was 60 that she discovered an article in the Chicago Defender describing the real reason for her father’s killing: “Enraged whites jealous over the success of a Negro, are believed to be the murderers of Elmore Bolling.”

Caveat Magister, a writer and philosopher, explores psychomagic, which uses symbolically significant actions to engage the deeper psyche. He discusses stepping out of comfort zones, embracing risks, and turning life into art. Caveat provides design principles for this transformation, like giving up control and making meaningful choices, and stresses the role of honesty, vulnerability, and individual expression over corporate structures. ● Design principles for turning life into art include giving up control, creating conditions for interesting things to happen, and making meaningful choices. ● Honesty and vulnerability are important in creating psychomagical experiences. ● Finding community can be challenging, but engaging in ritual acts in public and seeking out like-minded individuals can help. ● Embracing individual expression and intrinsic motivation is key to incorporating psychomagical experiences into daily life.

Program information coming soon.