YWCA Utah's Liz Owens checks in for week 3 of the nonprofit's 21-Day Racial Equity and Social Justice Challenge. Dr. David Derezotes of Utah Peace & Conflict Studies talks about our current infodemic with Professors Sara Yeo and Ben Lyons.
Better Days 2020's Katherine Kitterman invites you to spend your summer as a #CivicSeason. #Songsofsummer adds Hamilton, Little Jackie to the playlist.
Call 385-800-1889 to dedicate a song to someone in your life, a nonprofit or cause you support, or just shout out musical inspiration to the community. Then tune in weeknights at 6 to hear listeners' #songsofsummer during the RadioACTive Summer Break.
Chief Mission Impact Officer Saundra Stokes on week 2 of YWCA Utah's 21-Day Racial Equity and Social Justice Challenge.
NeighborWorks Salt Lake's Maria Garciaz on housing, evictions and rent relief. Equality Utah's Troy Williams on Stonewall Anniversary. Plus, more #songsofsummer from our guests.
Betty Sawyer of @OgdenNAACPofficial gets ready to "march on for voting rights." UoU's Dr. Edmund Fong defines critical race theory. More #songsofsummer.
#Songsofsummer with Nick Burns. The Neighborhood Hive SLC launches. Wildlife pets and fireworks grounded.
RadioACTive: May 20, 2021
RadioACTive spent an hour with Felecia Maxfield Barrett of the Utah Council for Citizen Diplomacy to share the nonprofit's lecture series, 'Racism and the Rise of Nationalism, An Exploration of Racism, The U.S. and Beyond'. Featuring original Freedom Rider Charles Person and Humanity in Action's Judith Goldstein.
RadioACTive: May 19, 2021
Utah poet and writer Katharine Coles on her new book, The Stranger I Become: On Walking, Looking, and Writing.
Activist Darlene McDonald with an update on critical race theory and the Utah Legislature.
Plus, The Road Home's Alicia Gleed, who shares a view from the frontlines, as well as ways you can help unsheltered members of our community.
RadioACTive: May 18, 2021
As we near the one-year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd, #RoundtableTuesday takes stock with educator Kamaal S. Ahmad and Darlene McDonald of the Salt Lake City Racial Equity in Policing Commission.
Also on the show:
-- Gaza through the eyes of artist Noor Al Saqqa
-- Adhal Awan and Nabin Pokhrel, new Americans in Utah, share their stories
-- Music from Shea Freedom, who's organizing Juneteenth: A Celebration of Black Voices on June 20
Enjoy!
RadioACTive: May 17, 2021
Immigration update with Yael Schacher of Refugees International, plus SimpleCitizen launches UtahDACA.com with tools and resources for undocumented immigrants and Dreamers.
Also on the show:
-- Catherine Weller of League of Women Voters of Utah with a preview of the Utah Legislature's interim and special session agendas this week
-- Local Voices: 20 years of Equality Utah with Troy Williams of Equality Utah and Angela Brown of Craft Lake City
-- Author Sadie Hoagland, a native of SLC, on her new book, Strange Children, which hits bookshelves this week.
Enjoy!
RadioACTive: May 13, 2021
Is code colorblind? RadioACTive presents Tanner Humanities Center Director Erika George in virtual conversation with Ruha Benjamin, author of Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code.
Plus, Alliance for a Better Utah says ending COVID-related extended unemployment benefits in Utah is premature.
RadioACTive: May 12, 2021
Green enough? RadioACTive explores the first 100 days of the Biden Administration with Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, HEAL Utah Utah Chapter Sierra Club.
Amos N Guiora of the S.J. Quinney College of Law - University of Utah checks in from Jerusalem.
Sim Gill of the Salt Lake County District Attorney's Office on Utah’s new lethal force law, clean slate initiatives and bail reform.
Sneak peek of the Living Traditions Festival this weekend at Washington Square in downtown SLC.
Tried buying a house or renting an apartment lately? The #RoundtableTuesday team tackles the high cost of living, a surging Utah economy and what it means for everybody. #COVIDdiaries wraps with a look at unsheltered members of our community and the organizations helping them. #3QuickPicks on housing and the sharing economy from The County Library.
RadioACTive: May 10, 2021
Thank you, Sue Robbins, for coming back and co-hosting a very special #EverydayPeople edition of the show. After more than three years, the Utah Supreme Court has confirmed the right of transgender Utahns to change their names and gender markers on birth certificates. Sharing their stories: co-plaintiffs Angie Rice and Sean Childers-Gray, attorney Chris Wharton, and Candice Metzler of Transgender Education Advocates - TEA of Utah.
Plus, Pacific Island Knowledge 2 Action Resources on this weekend's Vaccine Clinic & Health Fair, and American Red Cross of Utah with a call for blood and plasma donations.
RadioACTive: May 3, 2021
Barriers that prevent Indigenous People from being found once they go missing with Denae Shanidiin of MMIWhoismissing and Restoring Ancestral Winds, Michelle Brown of the MMIW+ of Utah campaign of PANDOS and Representative Angela Romero. Plus, Campana Libertad at Centro Cívico Mexicano, Vicky Chavez joins the RadioACTive team, and a mural for the late-community activist Margarita Satini.
May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Get insights for you and the community from Mental Healthy F.I.T. and its new See It This Way program, NAMI Utah and Planted Healing. Plus, artist Lamont Joseph White, whose Skiing in Color exhibit opens at Snowbird this week.
RadioACTive: April 16, 2021
Day 5 of Playlists for Activists, featuring KRCL's Punk Rock Farmer and fresh, homegrown music as RadioACTive does Radiothon!
RadioACTive: April 21, 2021
Happy 4-20-and-a-half! Bumped from 4-20 due to breaking news, we share the original #RoundtableTuesday show on the state of cannabis in Zion with Beehive Farmacy, TRUCE and The Divine Assembly.
Plus, #3QuickPicks for 4-20 with The County Library, Park Rx Utah's outdoor challenge for #EarthDay, and new music from The Boys Ranch.
#RoundtableTuesday Community Co-Hosts Tamrika Khvtisiashvili and Risshan Leak tackle the myth of the model minority. #COVIDdiaries passes the mic to Asian Americans in Utah to share their experiences. #3QuickPicks from The County Library highlights books and films by Asian-American writers and filmmakers.
#COVIDdiaries' voices include:
-- Jenny Hong: Korean American, 1st year graduate student at Westminster College, also works at a restaurant and tattoo shop
-- Paul: Korean American who has lived in Utah for 11 years
-- Stephanie Lake: Vietnamese African American, co-founder of Project Black Girl
-- Rosie Nguyen: Vietnamese American, ABC4 Utah Broadcaster/Anchor
-- Chu Chandara Chuon: Cambodian American, dancer, DJ, artist
-- Sim Gill: Salt Lake County District Attorney's Office
-- Cherie Wood: Mayor Cherie Wood, South Salt Lake City
#3QuickPicks with Karen Liu of The County Library
#RoundtableTuesday panel voices include:
-- Edmund Fong, Chair of Ethnic Studies at The University of Utah
-- Emilio Manuel Camu, President of the OCA Asian Pacific Islander American Advocates: Utah Chapter, a sponsor of the Asian Link Project
-- Ze Min Xiao, Director of the Salt Lake County Mayor's Office for New Americans
-- Lehua Kono, External Vice President of the Asian American Student Association [University of Utah]
RadioACTive: April 5, 2021
Practicing consent online and IRL with Jess Burnham and Gabe Archuleta of @YWCA Utah.
Artist Beatrice Thomas on the worldwide premier of Black Benatar's Black Magic Cabaret.
A Reckoning in Boston with Utah Humanities's Josh Wennergren and Venture graduate Brenda Nicholson.
All on another #EverydayPeople edition of the show with Community Co-Host Sue Robbins, who announced she's hanging up her mic to focus on direct advocacy. We are so grateful for her time and talents over the last two years, shining a light on the LGBTQ+ community and lifting voices. Her last show with us will be April 19th.
