It's #RadioSunday and we are back live a direct. #NormanOtisRicmond's #DiasporicMusic is on #BlackPower963FM #BlackPower96Org on worldwide web https://blackpower96.org/ Every week, Sundays 2-4pm, also our past shows are all archived on #UhuruRadio #burningspearcom http://www.theburningspear.com/uhuru-radio/radio-archives/radio-diasporic-music Join us every week or download the show you have missed. Producer/Host Norman (Otis) Richmond aka Jalali provides an All-African mix of music and politics. "Diasporic Music" is made in the West but is not of the West., Co-Host is Mali aka docuvixen, and on the buttons of course is Lisa Watson. Today at 2:30pm we are speaking with ongoing guest via Halifax, #ElJones El Jones is a poet, professor and activist living in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She was born in Wales and grew up in Winnipeg. She was Halifax's Municipal Poet from 2013–2015. Her book, Live From the Afrikan Resistance! published in 2014 by Roseway, an inprint of Fernwood Publishing, is a collection of poems about resisting white colonialism.[4] In 2015, she was a resident at the International Writing Program at University of Iowa.[5] Her work focuses on social justice issues such as feminism, prison abolition, anti-racism, and decolonization.[6] Since 2016, she has co-hosted a radio show called Black Power Hour on CKDU-FM, an educational program which provides information on Black history and culture aimed at incarcerated people.[7] Listeners from prisons call in to rap and read poetry that they have written, providing a voice to people who rarely get a wide audience.[8] She is a contributor to the Halifax Examiner and the Huffington Post Canada[9]. She has taught at Dalhousie University, Acadia University, Nova Scotia Community College, Saint Mary's University and Mount Saint Vincent University.[10] In 2017, she was named the 15th Nancy's Chair in Women's Studies at Mount Saint Vincent University.[11]
