MAKING CONTACT

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

MAKING CONTACT

Is an award winning, 29-minute weekly magazine/documentary-style public affairs program heard on 140 radio stations in the U.S, Canada, Africa, and Ireland. Making Contact is committed to in-depth critical analysis that goes beyond the breaking news.

7:00 am to 7:30 am

Category: Community/Political Affairs

DEMOCRACY NOW!

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

DEMOCRACY NOW!

Democracy Now! is broadcast daily across the United States and Canada as well as in countries around the world. Our program is on Pacifica, NPR, community, college and satellite radio stations; on PBS, public, community and satellite TV; and viewed by millions of people online each day. Our headlines are broadcast in Spanish on radio stations across the U.S., Central and South America, and in Europe.

8:00 am to 9:00 am

Enter The No Fear Zone "Inspiration & Redemption"

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Enter The No Fear Zone "Inspiration & Redemption"

Please listen to Enter The No Fear Zone (Inspiration & Redemption) on Cerebral Radio at 9:30 AM and our ENCORE performance again at 7:00 PM! Redemption postponed is never Redemption denied.

9:30 am *Specials may be longer than 1 hour

Category: Community/Political Affairs/Spiritual

DEMOCRACY NOW!

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

DEMOCRACY NOW!

Democracy Now! is broadcast daily across the United States and Canada as well as in countries around the world. Our program is on Pacifica, NPR, community, college and satellite radio stations; on PBS, public, community and satellite TV; and viewed by millions of people online each day. Our headlines are broadcast in Spanish on radio stations across the U.S., Central and South America, and in Europe.

3:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Category: Community/Political Affairs

Building Bridges

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

Building Bridges

WORKERS OF THE WORLD TUNE IN! Introducing "Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report"
Our beat is the labor front, broadly defined, both geographically and conceptually. We examine the world of work and workers on the job as well as where they live.

5:00 pm to 5:30 pm *Specials may be longer than 1 hour long

Category: Community/Political Affairs

UpFront Soul

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

UpFront Soul

If you want your soul... get it UpFront! Producer and host Sanguine Fromage, WERU DJ since 2005, serves up a weekly blend of funk, soul, and jazz, plus sprinklings of R&B, gospel, and hip-hop. UpFront Soul showcases obscure artists and back-catalogue offerings from more familiar names. You'll find West African funk, funk-enriched jazz, deep soul, and only the best modern music.

10:00 pm to 11:00 pm

Category: Musical

Jazz It UP! With Cerebral!

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

Jazz It Up! With Cerebral!

A genre of American music that originated in New Orleans circa 1900 characterized by strong, prominent meter, improvisation, distinctive tone colors & performance techniques, and dotted or syncopated rhythmic patterns. But Jazz is so much more than that, and Cerebral can prove it!

8:00 PM

Category: Musical

The "Flagship" Cerebral Playlist

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

The "Flagship" Cerebral Playlist

If there is such a thing as "social justice music" you'll find it right here on Cerebral Radio! Join Divadoll as she layers this playlist with the most thought provoking music of our time, you'll find yourself hooked before you know it! Most Cerebral Podcast Series like Power 20 Series will rotate to this fascinating playlist.

12:30 am to 1:30 am

Category: Musical/Community/Political Affairs

Weekend Schedule

Power 20 Series: The Civil Rights Era (Part 1)

Saturday

Power 20 Series Host Gee counts down the most relevant albums and songs through the prism of race, social & judicial injustice, spirituality and many other issues related to the human condition. 

8:00 AM

Category: Musical Podcast

Power 20 Series: The Civil Rights Era (Part 2)

Saturday

Power 20 Series Host Gee counts down the most relevant albums and songs through the prism of race, social & judicial injustice, spirituality and many other issues related to the human condition. 

8:30 AM

Category: Musical Podcast

Power 20 Series: The Civil Rights Era (Part 3)

Saturday

Power 20 Series Host Gee counts down the most relevant albums and songs through the prism of race, social & judicial injustice, spirituality and many other issues related to the human condition. 

9:00 AM

Category: Musical Podcast

Power 20 Series: The Civil Rights Era (Part 4)

Saturday

Power 20 Series Host Gee counts down the most relevant albums and songs through the prism of race, social & judicial injustice, spirituality and many other issues related to the human condition.

9:45 AM

Category: Musical Podcast

Making Contact: Pushout THE CRIMINALIZATION OF BLACK GIRLS IN SCHOOLS

Saturday

Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools is an examination of the experiences of Black girls across the country whose intricate lives are misunderstood, highly judged “by teachers, administrators, and the justice system” and degraded by the very institutions charged with helping them flourish. In her book, Morris shows how, despite obstacles, stigmas, stereotypes, and despair, Black girls still find ways to breathe remarkable dignity into their lives in classrooms, juvenile facilities, and beyond.

10:15 AM

Category: Social Justice Podcast

Black Book Talk August Reads

Saturday 

This month on Black Book Talk our guest is Patricia Heard Hopson retired librarian for Portland Public Schools. We'll talk about the best books we've ever read.

11:00 AM

Caribbean Sounds

Saturday & Sunday

Caribbean music genres are diverse, Some of the styles Cerebral highlights have gained wide popularity outside the Caribbean and some did not. Please enjoy our blend of Caribbean Sounds.

4:30

Category: Musical/Caribbean

The Story of Siwatu Salama Ra

Saturday & Sunday

An environmental activist and young black mother in Detroit may be forced to give birth behind bars, after standing her ground during a frightening encounter. Since she was 15 years old, Siwatu-Salama Ra has fought for environmental justice. She campaigned against the Marathon oil refinery and the Detroit Renewable Power trash incinerator. She represented Detroit at the Paris climate summit. She’s also worked to engage kids and educate young mothers about nutrition. Now, at age 26, Siwatu has been sentenced to a mandatory two years in prison, following an incident in which she brandished her unloaded—and legally registered—handgun while defending her mother and 2-year-old daughter.

5:00 PM

Category: Special Programming

Dr. Ibram X. Kendi-Stamped From The Beginning: The Definitive History Of Racist Ideas In America

Saturday & Sunday

Some Americans cling to the myth that we are living in a post-racial society. Kendi chronicles the story of anti-Black racist ideas and their staggering power over the course of American history. Stamped from the Beginning uses the life stories of five major American intellectuals to offer a window into the contentious debates between assimilationists and segregationists and between racists and antiracists. From Puritan minister Cotton Mather to Thomas Jefferson, from fiery abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison to brilliant scholar W.E.B. Du Bois to legendary anti-prison activist Angela Davis, Kendi shows how and why some of our leading proslavery and pro-civil rights thinkers have challenged or helped cement racist ideas in America.

5:30 PM

Category: Special Programming

Sunday "Cerebral Praise"

Sunday

CEREBRAL PRAISE!

Find the best Gospel hits from yesterday and today on Cerebral Praise. Start giving Him glory while singing along with well-known urban gospel, urban praise, R&B gospel, and Christian Hip Hop artists like, Forever Jones, Smokie Norful, Tasha Cobbs, Israel Houghton, Mary Mary, Lecrae, & Dietrick Haddon. 

4:30 am to 7:00 am

2:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Category: Spiritual/Personal Development

Black Hollywood Live Conversations Marathon

Sunday

Join Black Hollywood Live Conversations hosts as they interview Mara Brock Akil Premieres 'Love Is' & Does Rap Culture Hurt Black Folks?.

4:30 PM

Category: Entertainment Podcast

Black Hollywood Live Conversations Marathon

Sunday

Join Black Hollywood Live Conversations hosts as they interview Iyanla Vanzant as she talks about the pitfalls of life and how to navigate through the darkness. She also discusses our current racial climate in America.

5:10 PM

Category: Entertainment Podcast

Black Hollywood Live Conversations Marathon

Sunday

Join Black Hollywood Live Conversations hosts as they discuss Black Students from Atlanta make History at Harvard & Obama Celebrates Mandela.

5:47 PM

Category: Entertainment Podcast

Making Contact

Is an award winning, 29-minute weekly magazine/documentary-style public affairs program heard on 140 radio stations in the U.S, Canada, Africa, and Ireland. Making Contact is committed to in-depth critical analysis that goes beyond the breaking news.

Sunday 7:00 pm

Category: Community/Political Affairs

Upfront Soul

If you want your soul... get it UpFront! Producer and host Sanguine Fromage, WERU DJ since 2005, serves up a weekly blend of funk, soul, and jazz, plus sprinklings of R&B, gospel, and hip-hop. UpFront Soul showcases obscure artists and back-catalogue offerings from more familiar names. You'll find West African funk, funk-enriched jazz, deep soul, and only the best modern music.

Sunday 10:00 pm to 11:00 pm