On June 15, 2024 KCSM Radio Station Manager Dr. Robert A. Franklin joined KCSM On-Air Host Leslie Stoval at the Tiburon Juneteenth Freedom Celebration. It was a great afternoon with Harold Jones, regarded as the finest drummer in the world and his 18-piece big band The Bossmen kicking off the festivities. Former Vice Mayor Noah Griffin read poetry with noted poet, activist, educator, orator and consultant Amber Allen-Pierson. There were games and face-painting for the kids, Swahili Spot providing Tanzanian food along with downtown Tiburon restaurants such as Sam's, Bungalow Kitchen, Malibu Farms, Waypoint Pizza, Servino, Salt & Pepper, Caviar Co and an Ethiopian coffee ceremony.We hope you will consider participating in this event next year!

Vocalist Maud Hixson is a cool, swinging Minnesota gal whose clear sound and unencumbered delivery lets her virtuosity sneak up on you, in contrast to so many jazz singers today who make sure you hear their vocal chops at hello.Maud Hixson grew up listening to the Great American Standards of the 1930’s, ‘40s and ‘50s and only discovered the work of Sir Richard Rodney Bennett when he reached out to compliment her recording of one of his favorite songs. A friendship developed and now Maud celebrates this long association with her latest CD, Permanent Moonlight, Songs of Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, which recently won a Bistro Award.

Guest: Arif Khatib, Founder, Multi-Ethnic Sports Hall of Fame talks about the Pamela Price Tribute event that the Multi-Ethnic Sports Hall of Fame is putting on this August 3rd. Also Georgia Dunn, Cartoonist talks about her popular comic strip "Breaking Cat News!"

This week and next we present a very special edition of The Jazz Legacy — "Denny Zeitlin: A 60 Year Recording Retrospective”. With Denny, the great pianist/composer, both curating all of the music, and joining us in the studio to tell the story of his extraordinary recording career. In Part 1 Denny takes us from his very first recordings as a leader for Columbia Records in 1964, through various acoustic and electric endeavors, up to 1994. Hear him with Jeremy Steig, Cecil McBee, Freddie Waits, Mel Graves, George Marsh, Charlie Haden, David Friesen and more. Hope you can join us.

This week features the songs of one of R&B's greatest songwriters: Rudy Toombs. This underrated cat wrote some of the most fabulous drinking songs of all-time for Amos Milburn, The Clovers, The Five Keys and a young Johnny "Guitar" Watson. Beyond drinking songs, Toombs wrote some mega-hits for Ruth Brown, Varetta Dillard and Little Willie John, just to name a few. Matt The Cat gives you the story behind the story of one of early rock n' roll's greatest cleffers.

A classic encore edition of Gospel Memories featuring great gospel music recordings.

Family Matters: How Communities Support Trans Kids in Conservative States. In 2023, Kirin Clawson’s endocrinologist placed a puberty-blocking implant in her arm, a medical intervention that is associated with improved mental health for many trans kids with gender dysphoria. In February, Indiana joined several other conservative states banning this treatment for minors. In the first of a 2-part series, we hear from the Clawsons how the ban has impacted their family. And, we hear from psychologist, Dr. Myeshia Price about how all adults in the lives of children can support gender diverse youth, despite increasing discriminatory anti-trans laws aimed at kids.

Mark Lakeman, founder of the City Repair Project with a background in Architecture and Planning, discusses the concept of urban placemaking and the importance of creating sustainable public places. He shares stories of projects his organization has done, such as transforming street intersections into public squares and building outdoor learning environments. Mark emphasizes the need for individuals to act and not wait for permission to make positive changes in their communities. He encourages people to challenge the dominant paradigms and care for everyone around them, ultimately creating a culture of resilience and collaboration.

Julia Wright, daughter of Richard Wright, renowned American author of novels, short stories and non-fiction. Julia, the eldest daughter of the great black literary lion, Richard Wright, has been a strong presence in peoples’ movements on three continents for generations. She helped open up the famed international section of the Black Panther Party in Algiers, Algeria. When the Cleaver family left Algiers some years later, they found refuge with Julia and her family in Paris, France, and Julia founded the French branch of our support movement in 1995. A steady presence, a sister with open arms and heart when her people are in need. Not just a proud daughter of a pioneering writer and activist, but an activist and writer in her own right.Julia knows something about repression. You could say it’s in her bones. Like millions of Black Americans, her father was the fruit of Africans and Native peoples. Her mother, Ellen Poplar Wright, was a Jewish survivor of the global genocidal Hitler regime. Thus, in that one woman, we see the crystallization of three inhuman genocidal assaults, the centuries-long war against Africans, the winnowing thrashings of Native indigenous peoples from almost all of what we call the United States, and the anti-Jewish pogroms in Germany, in Nazi-occupied Europe.