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Join To Heal DC with Joni Eisenberg & Purvee Kempf (DCHBX) - Monday Jan 12 @ 10am on 89.3 FM and wpfwfm.org.
01/11/2026

Join To Heal DC with Joni Eisenberg & Purvee Kempf (DCHBX) - Monday Jan 12 @ 10am on 89.3 FM and wpfwfm.org.

On Monday, January 19, 9am until midnight, WPFW presents Injustice Anywhere: Honoring the Pan-Africanist MLK and Haiti, ...
01/10/2026

On Monday, January 19, 9am until midnight, WPFW presents Injustice Anywhere: Honoring the Pan-Africanist MLK and Haiti, the First Soverign Black Republic. 

From 9am until noon, we examine the Pan-Africanist legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King.

From noon until midnight, we center Haiti - her history, triumphs, troubles and culture!

That’s Injustice Anywhere: Honoring the Pan-Africanist MLK and Haiti, the First Soverign Black Republic, Monday, January 19, 9am until midnight. 

Listen at 89.3 FM & wpfwfm.org.

WPFW, building a better world one broadcast at a time!

Help us serve you better. Your feedback through this short survey will directly inform WPFW’s programming and community ...
01/10/2026

Help us serve you better. Your feedback through this short survey will directly inform WPFW’s programming and community work. It should take about 10-15 minutes.

Click the link below or for a clickable link in Instagram go to our profile description. Thanks.

https://forms.gle/piGJmuBZwz8v4sMz7

WPFW is proud to be a media partner of the 22nd annual NYC Winter Jazzfest, January 8–13, 2026, transforming Manhattan ...
01/09/2026

WPFW is proud to be a media partner of the 22nd annual NYC Winter Jazzfest, January 8–13, 2026, transforming Manhattan and Brooklyn into a citywide celebration of Black American Music, creative freedom, and collective joy. Spanning six days, 20+ venues, and hundreds of artists, Winter Jazzfest is a rallying point for artists and audiences who believe in music as a force for community and resistance.

Artists include Dee Dee Bridgewater, Arturo O’Farrill, Luke Stewart, Kahil El’Zabar, Samora Pinderhughes, Lakeisha Benjamin, and more!

Details and tickets at https://nycwjf.com/wpfw

Listen to AfricaNow! January 7, 1PM (U.S. Eastern) on WPFW 89.3 FM in the Washington, DC Metropolitan area or visit www....
01/07/2026

Listen to AfricaNow! January 7, 1PM (U.S. Eastern) on WPFW 89.3 FM in the Washington, DC Metropolitan area or visit www.wpfwfm.org featuring Sudan: Darfur & Civic Society Mobilization During Conflict with Niemat Ahmadi, President and Founder Darfur Women Action Group (DWAG). 

Support AfricaNow! and your community station WPFW.  Donate online: visit https://pledge.wpfwfm.org/index.php and then on Step 1: Contribution scroll down to AfricaNow! to make your donation to the show. You can also text to donate by simply texting WPFWFM, not case sensitive, to 801801 and then follow the instructions. Or on our CashApp, which is $WPFWFM write it is for AfricaNow! and include your email address. Thank you.

Building Bridges radio: Building Working-Class Power-Capitalism Isn't Working - Monday, Jan 5, 2026 @ 7PM - WPFW 89.3 FM...
01/04/2026

Building Bridges radio: Building Working-Class Power-Capitalism Isn't Working - Monday, Jan 5, 2026 @ 7PM - WPFW 89.3 FM & wpfwfm.org.

TODAY! 1PM. WHITE HOUSE!!!
01/03/2026

TODAY! 1PM. WHITE HOUSE!!!

Happy Holidays from the WPFW programmers & staff! Join us for a special day of programming on New Year's day, Jan 1, 202...
12/31/2025

Happy Holidays from the WPFW programmers & staff! Join us for a special day of programming on New Year's day, Jan 1, 2026 -- "NEW YEAR, NEW JAZZ"

The New Year on WPFW will be celebrated in sonic bliss as some of your favorite jazz programmers present the 2025 edition of New Year/New Jazz, our annual survey of the Jazz-Year-In-Review on Thursday, January 1, from 5:00am until Midnight!
There will be delightful & potent mixes of favorite 2025 jazz releases; an honoring of jazz ancestors passing in 2025; and lots of spinning of music from favorite 2025 DMV live jazz performances.

That’s January 1st, New Year/New Jazz on WPFW, your station for Jazz & Justice. Don’t sleep!

Listen to AfricaNow! December 31, 1PM (U.S. Eastern) on WPFW 89.3 FM in the Washington, DC Metropolitan area or visit ww...
12/30/2025

Listen to AfricaNow! December 31, 1PM (U.S. Eastern) on WPFW 89.3 FM in the Washington, DC Metropolitan area or visit www.wpfwfm.org featuring Self-Naming As Resistance.  AfricaNow! goes into its archives to commemorate the January 5 birthday of novelist, essayist, playwright, journalist, editor, academic and social activist Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o.  In the discussion the late Dr. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, and the late poet, playwright and literary critic Dr. Mĩcere Gĩthae Mũgo, focus on the politics of memory and the effects of name imposition on the psyche of colonized people and the politics of renaming and self-naming as continued forms of resistance to colonial imposition.

Support AfricaNow! and your community station WPFW.  Donate online: visit https://pledge.wpfwfm.org/index.php and then on Step 1: Contribution scroll down to AfricaNow! to make your donation to the show. You can also text to donate by simply texting WPFWFM (not case sensitive) to 801801 and then follow the instructions. Or on our CashApp, which is $WPFWFM write it is for AfricaNow! and include your email address. Thank you.

Help us serve you better. Your feedback through this short survey will directly inform WPFW’s programming and community ...
12/30/2025

Help us serve you better. Your feedback through this short survey will directly inform WPFW’s programming and community work. It should take about 10-15 minutes.

Click the link below or for a clickable link in Instagram go to our profile description. Thanks.

https://forms.gle/piGJmuBZwz8v4sMz7

Happy Holidays!

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