*PRE-RECORDED*
Originally aired on October 12, 2023, on KPFK-90.7 FM (Pacifica) in Los Angeles.
Lynnee Denise – DJ, scholar, artist and daughter of Black Los Angeles – has written a new biography of the blues artist popularly known as Big Mama Thornton. Thru 13 essays and an epilogue Denise gives us a queer, Black “biography in essays” about the performer who gave us “Hound Dog,” and “Ball and Chain,” before Elvis Presley and Janis Joplin, and a few other songs that changed the course of American music. By honoring her given name of Willie Mae Thornton, Denise takes us on a journey of reclamation and respect.
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Thandisizwe Chimurenga is a New Afrikan Revolutionary Nationalist, a longtime activist, and an independent grassroots journalist based in South Central Los Angeles, CA.
She is the creator of “Rootwork: Getting Down to the Roots,” a broadcast of Interviews, News and Analysis of people, ideas and concepts that aims to dig deeper than mainstream colonial media, currently airing on KPFK 90.7 FM (Pacifica-Los Angeles) and the Black Power Media platform.
A co-founder of Black August Los Angeles and a member of the editorial committee of the ReBuild Collective, Chimurenga is the author of No Doubt: The Murder(s) of Oscar Grant; Reparations … Not Yet: Reparations and Why We Must Wait; Some Of Us Are Brave: Interviews and Conversations with Sistas on Life, Art and Struggle (Volumes 1 and 2); and the co-author of What We Stood For by Deborah Jones.
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