Episode Guide

Upcoming Episodes

May 2009

Past Episodes

April 2009 - The Black Hour 'goes green'

Guests: Nehanda Imara, community organizer with Communities for a Better Environment (CBE); Virtuous, rapper; Baby Champ, the "Scraper Bike King", entrepreneur and rapper; Mark Hall, Oakland Parks and Recreation Capitol Projects; Bhret Skipper, Berkeley City College recycling intern.

March 2009 - African Women's Herstory Month
San Francisco Bay View newspaper, Wanda Sabir
Guests: Malika Ubaka, performing artist; Wanda Sabir, College of Alameda English professor and San Francisco Bay View newspaper Arts Editor

February 2009 - Black Ourstory Month

Guests: Minister Keith Muhammad, Nation of Islam Oakland Mosque 26B; Dedoceo Habi, activist, filmmaker; Ryan Nicole Peters, poet and performing artist

January 2009 - Remembering Oscar Grant III

Guests: Jumoke Hinton Hodge, Oakland Unified School Board Member; Charles Johnson, Wake Yo Game Up

Season 2 - Fall 2008

December 2008
Guests: Keith Carson, Alameda County Supervisor, Fiyawata (Ambessa Negus and Zakiya Harris); Hip Hop dub duo and educators.

November 2008
Guest: Dr. Karolyn Van Puten, president, Laney College Academic Senate, Psychology Dept. Chair

October 2008
Guests: Troy Nkrumah, National Hip Hop Political Convention; Dr. Elnora Webb, vice-president of instruction, Laney College


September 2008
Guests: Mary King, assistant general manager AC Transit; Jason "Shake 9169" Anderson, Outmack Yourself Entertainment

August 2008 - No Episode due to budget issues

July 2008
Guests: Dr. Carole Ward Allen, BART director; Baayan Bakari, filmmaker and educator

June 2008
Guests: Dr. Mujahidun Sumchai, African American Studies professor, Laney College; Ise Lyfe

May 2008
Marlene C. Hurd, Andrea 'Drea Mos' Spearman, Jacquinn Scales and Reginald 'Brother Reggie' James
Guests: Marlene C. Hurd, president, Black Caucus of the California Student Association of Community Colleges (CalSACC); Jacquinn Scales, writer and speaker, Harambee News

April 2008
The Black Hour Internet Radio Show, Laney BSU members Deborah Jones, Andrea 'Drea Mos' Spearman and President L. Davis
Guests: President L. Davis and Deborah "Jamaican Queen" Jones, Laney Black Student Union (Laney BSU)

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