Why you should be listening to WVON
So you are driving or flipping the dial. You click on WVON and this is what you hear: black Chicago talking, thinking, laughing, wondering, sharing. Black Chicago alive as can be.
It’s what ethnic radio does so well. It connects, translates, and transforms.
Here’s is a piece about it from In These Times. Read the whole story and you will appreciate what ethnic radio can and should do.
On Air With Black America
Chicago’s only black-owned talk radio station gives voice to a complex people still struggling to be heard.
By Salim Muwakkil
Callers’ mistrust of white America is deep; some of it can be attributed to many listeners’ familial links to the South and its tradition of overt and and brutal racism.
Good evening, you’re talking to Salim Muwakkil on 1690 WVON. What’s on your mind?” I ask.
“The election of Barack Obama is the worst thing to ever happen to black people in America,” the caller snarls. “He’s a perfect Trojan Horse for American imperialism and corporate control. What do you think?”
That kind of question is typical fare on The Salim Muwakkil Show, broadcast every Saturday night by Chicago’s only black-owned radio station. These days, one year after the nation’s first black president took office, callers make it clear that African-Americans are divided sharply on Obama’s performance.
http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/5443/
Also, thanks to the Garfield-Lawndale Voice I know that the Regal Theatre is open again. And thanks too to Lou Ransom for his column in the Defender for his take on what happened with the election for the Cook County President’s job.
If you come across other stories that you want to pass on like these, let me know.
Stephen
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