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MEC Radio Show (5/22)
May 22, 2022 at 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Sunday, May 22, 2022
Time: 6:00 pm – 6:30 pm
With host and producer DJ Kenny Spears
WMEC Radio presents The Freestyle Frenzy with host DJ Kenny Spears. Every Sunday evening, enjoy a half-hour of your favorite classic hits to the latest vibes of R&B, Disco Classics, hip-hop, and more!
Sunday, May 22, 2022
Time: 6:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Interview with Negus Adeyemi
With host and producer Hermina Marcellin,
Caribbean Research Center at Medgar Evers College
About the Episode
In this rebroadcast, host Hermina Marcellin interviews Negus Adeyemi, an African-Caribbean-American writer, poet, author, and entrepreneur. Marcellin and Adeyemi discuss poetry and his company, Adeyemi Artistry. Adeyemi’s educational background propelled him to venture as an entrepreneur, creating his poetic greeting cards. He has written and self-published four poetry books, L.O.V.E. (Letting Out Vast Emotions) (June 2009); Mind Of A Mature Lion (January 2011); Soularadiance (April 2014); and Gemineye (May 2017). His latest book Crownshockra was released in April 2021.
About the Guest
Negus Adeyemi is an African-Caribbean-American writer born in Brooklyn to parents from Barbados. Although raised in New Jersey, Adeyemi moved back to Brooklyn as a young adult. With the fortune of having a father who is a calypsonian and folk musician, Adeyemi grew up around storytelling and performing. However, it wasn’t until after he graduated from the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering that he began to write poetry seriously. Negus is passionate about his culture and heritage and displays that passion and many emotions in his poems. Exuberant with these emotions, he is ardent in writing poems about the cultivation and edification of his people, using a plethora of ways and topics for people to relate and connect with his messages. As a poet, his goal is to express himself to enlighten, heal, uplift, guide, and augment the hue man spirit. Negus is much more than just a writer; he is also a father, husband, electrical engineer, teaching artist, and owner of Adeyemi Artistry Incorporated. He has performed his poetry at many different venues throughout his poetic journey, including various universities, colleges, prisons, churches, libraries, bookstores, festivals, fundraisers, and other events throughout North America. Adeyemi released his own line of poetic greeting cards in February 2018. You can find his greeting cards and books on his website: www.adeyemiartistry.com
Watch past episodes of Caribbean Focus here.
Writers on Writing
Sunday, May 22, 2022
Time: 7:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Interview with Dr. Obery M. Hendricks
With host Dr. Brenda M. Greene, Executive Director of the Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College
About the Episode
Dr. Brenda M. Greene interviews Dr. Obery M. Hendricks, author of Christians Against Christianity: How Right-Wing Evangelicals Are Destroying Our Nation and Our Faith (Beacon Press 2021). In this rebroadcast, Drs. Greene and Hendricks discuss his motivation for writing the text and his fiction and scholarship on radical interpretations of the Bible. Hendricks’s anger and frustration with the rise of Donald Trump and his un-Christian behavior constitute the content of this book. Hendricks carefully examines Evangelical Christians’ beliefs on abortion, immigration, homosexuality and marriage equality, capitalism, and the NRA, then provides quotes in the Bible that contradict these right-wing views. This text will appeal to a cross-range of readers. Hendricks’s text is the latest in his critical interpretation of the intersection of race, politics, and religion. Greene and Hendricks close the discussion by exploring what the public and religious leaders can do to change the tide of the ideology perpetuated by the Evangelical right.
About the Guest
A lifelong social activist, Dr. Obery M. Hendricks is one of the foremost commentators on the intersection of religion and political economy in America. He is the most widely read and perhaps the most influential African American biblical scholar writing today. His recent book, Christians Against Christianity: How Right-Wing Evangelicals Are Destroying Our Nation and Our Faith (Beacon Press, 2021), has gathered wide acclaim. Cornel West calls him “One of the last few grand prophetic intellectuals.” Hendricks’s award-winning book, The Politics of Jesus: Rediscovering the True Revolutionary Nature of Jesus’ Teachings and How They Have Been Corrupted (Doubleday, 2006), was declared “essential reading for Americans” by the Washington Post. A former Wall Street investment executive and past president of Payne Theological Seminary, Hendricks is currently a visiting scholar at Columbia University in the Department of Religion and the Department of African American and African Diasporic Studies; a visiting professor at Union Theological Seminary; and emeritus professor of Biblical Interpretation at New York Theological Seminary
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Jazz on the JNote
Sunday, May 22, 2022
Time: 7:30 pm – 8:00 pm
With host and producer Stephanie Jeannot
About the Episode
Tune in to Jazz on the JNote with host Stephanie Jeannot for some of your favorite jazz music!
Click here to hear past episodes of Jazz on the JNote with Stephanie Jeannot.