A Special Programming Note
Posted by Staff in Programming Notes on October 3rd, 2009
The Michael Eric Dyson Show has been canceled, but the candid, insightful information, with diverse voices and perspectives must still be heard.
The African-American Public Radio Consortium has partnered with National Public Radio talent to launch a new project, UpFront with Tony Cox. You can find it on AAPRC/NPR stations and online at UpFrontNews.org.
Tune in!
Was Wilson Outburst a Case of “Black Exceptionalism”?…and Curt Menefee on his Fox NFL Sunday Show;
Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., points as President Barack Obama Wilson addresses Congress. Photo: AP
Congressman Joe Wilson, in the last 48 hours, has gone from a relative unknown to a symbol of the partisanship evident in Congress and around the country.
Whether by design or not… and despite his apology to colleagues and to the President, Wilson’s outburst during Wednesday night’s speech has drawn attention far and wide.
One of our guests calls it a case of Black Exceptionalism. We’ll hear a variety of opinion on whether race did indeed play a role in that unprecedented breach of etiquette toward a President speaking before a joint session of Congress.
Curt Menefee of Fox NFL Sunday. Photo: Fox Sports
Later in the show…the MC, the ringmaster of the occasional three-ring circus known as Fox NFL Sunday. Curt Menefee joins me to talk about the craziness, and sometimes downright silliness, on the set with he, Terry Bradshaw, Jimmy Johnson, Michael Strahan and Howie Long. We’ll look ahead at the first Sunday of the National Football League’s regular season, too.
Jesse Owens’ Daughter and Granddaughter Revisit 1936 Berlin
Tony Cox, in for Michael as the guest host of the program, talks with the granddaughter — and then a surprise, the daughter – of one of the iconic black athletes of all time.
Jesse Owens.
Marlene Dortch with a painting of her father, Jesse Owens. Photo: AP
Marlene Dortch will be in Berlin this weekend, in the very stadium where granddad stuck it to Adolf Hitler.
Jesse Owens takes in the US national anthem after winning one of his four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics. Photo: AP
It was the 1936 Olympics and the Nazi leader was spreading the word about the superiority of the Aryan race. Then this African American comes and whups everybody, winning four gold medals in a stadium built to celebrate the Third Reich.
Tony asks Marlene Dortch about her emotions and what she expects when she hands out the medals for Long Jump on Saturday. Marlene’s mother than joins the conversation to tell her daughter what it’s going to be like walking into that stadium for the first time.
Also on the show…we keep the focus on Africa after Hillary Clinton’s visit there. The United Nations warns of Agrarian colonialism with all those Chinese, Indian, European and American companies buying up land. And what can the US seriously do to settle things down in Congo?
All that on this edition of the program.
Why Don’t Black Folks Visit the Big Parks?
Park Ranger Shelton Johnson.
Park Ranger Shelton Johnson's Yosemite National Park. Photo: NPS
Relatively speaking, it ain’t very many.
Tony talks to the lone black ranger, that is, the only African American park ranger at Yosemite National Park, about why blacks don’t do the parks and how he’s trying to change that.
Meantime, there’s the African American president hearing from more than one talk show that he’s a racist.
Glenn Beck goes so far as to say that President Obama is framing an agenda that allows for Mr. Obama’s own brand of social justice.
You’ll hear from journalist Clarence Page about Beck’s use of the race card.
Later in the show, how did the live event, Woodstock, ultimately affect the music industry? You may be surprised.
Politics and Long, Long Hours in the Obama White House
Posted by Staff in As Heard On-Air on August 17th, 2009
White House staffers gather around the President and Vice President in the midst of another long day. (White House photo)
Tony Cox in for Michael today.
What’s it like for West Wing staffers in the Barack Obama Administration? Birds chirping and lemonade like a day at the beach? Well, the waves do crash, and sometimes it’s tough to find traction, but one of our guests today says it’s really anything but a day at the beach.
It’s cramped.
The hours are long.
Tempers flare.
And families are often a distant memory.
Michael Shear of the Washington Post is with Tony to talk about the grind that extends from before dawn ’til well after dusk…and on the weekends too.
Also, the political roundtable today features former Vice President Dick Cheney and George W. Bush aide, Ron Christie, along with politics watcher and Princeton professor, Melissa Harris Lacewell. They’ll talk about disruptions in regional town hall meetings and Dick Cheney’s apparent disappointment with the last years of the Bush administration.
Sports And Technology With Tony Cox
Posted by Staff in As Heard On-Air on August 14th, 2009
Special Guest Host, Tony Cox is filling in for Michael Eric Dyson.
According to www.laptopical.com, Sony has recently released the VAIO W series, which comes with 10.1″ of non-lopsided proportioned laptop display. At $499 this is a true netbook, and leaves Apple with a monopoly on the “we don’t do netbooks” market.
If you’re thinking at all about buying a computer or laptop in the near future… you will definitely want to get advice from WEAA’s technology guru Mario Armstrong, before you run out to the store and buy one. He’s our guest on the first part of the show.
Then, do you have questions and thoughts on how someone can come out of prison and go pro? You know, how can a one-time star quarterback in the NFL go off to prison for being accused of abusing, and even killing dogs, and then come back to try to regain his torch… Well we called on Bill Rhoden and Kurt Streeter of the New York and LA Times respectively. They’ve got some insights on Michael Vick, once the highest paid player in the NFL and his chances of making it with his new team the Philadelphia Eagles.
Plus they’ve got thoughts on Tiger Woods… who hopes to get within an arm’s length of the great Jack Nicklaus with a win this weekend.
Stay with me…. Mario Armstrong… Bill Rhoden and Kurt Streeter…
All of us on today’s Michael Eric Dyson Show, with guest host Tony Cox..
Rape! The Weapon Of Mass Destruction In The Congo
Posted by Staff in As Heard On-Air on August 13th, 2009
The guest host for The Michael Eric Dyson Show is Tony Cox.
Recently, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton traveled to a place deemed as one of the most dangerous places for a woman to be in Africa-the Eastern Congo. While there, she is seeing first hand the cruelty of violence and sexual assault on woman-during the time of war. Clinton describes her visit as an “incredibly emotional, overwhelming experience.” The USA has announced that it would pledge $17 million dollars “to stop and respond to gender and sexual violence in the [Democratic Republic of the Congo]”
On the program today, we look first at the movement against the atrocities committed toward women in Africa…. and later at the threat of child abduction in America.
First, a former top diplomat for African affairs at the state department joins us to talk about the extraordinary violence aimed at women in Africa, and specifically in the Democratic Republic of Congo… That’s where Secretary of State Clinton highlighted her disgust with the rebel militiamen this week. She even included the Congolese Army soldiers who’ve raped hundreds of thousands of women.
Activist John Prendergast adds his voice to the conversation as well.
Later, we take a look at the consistent problem of child abduction… and provide parents with vital information and preventative measures to possibly avoid having to go through this type of experience with their children. Something parents can do – now – to improve the odds of rescue in the event that something unfortunate does happen.
It involves a cell phone and your action.
A Conversation On Race In The Summer Of 2009?
Posted by Staff in As Heard On-Air on August 12th, 2009
It’s the Michael Eric Dyson Show with guest host Tony Cox.
It is the year 2009 and issues over race have seemed to resurface to the forefront of so many contraversial platforms-including this show. In fact some of the conversations that we have had on race this summer have become pretty insightful on race relations.
So begins a recent piece in the online magazine, The Root, by Sherrilyn Ifill.
The Sotomayor confirmation hearings…. the Henry Louis Gates arrest…. the reverse discrimination appeal of the New Haven firefighters…. and so much more… all combined to bring this race discussion to the forefront of today’s discussion.
I’ll speak with civil rights activist and University of Maryland law professor Ifill today… and follow that up with an author who’s written specifically on the civil rights movement in the north: Seemingly less heroic than the protest movement of the South, but almost certainly tied directly — probably MORE directly – - to the election of President Barack Obama.
She equates one such race conversation in the heat of 2009 with another in 1967 when a southern Senator asked Supreme Court nominee Thurgood Marshall if he was “prejudiced against the white people of the South“.
Hillary Clinton’s Job Evaluation And Motherland Experience
Posted by Staff in As Heard On-Air on August 11th, 2009
It’s the Michael Eric Dyson Show… with guest host Tony Cox.
Africa’s importance has grown significantly in recent years… partly because of all the attention being paid to it by China, India and other countries interested in benefiting from Africa’s resources. The Obama administration wants to restore formal diplomatic ties as well as provide more direct assistance to Somalia in its fight against Islamic insurgents.
President Obama sent Secretary of State – - and former rival – - Hillary Clinton on an 11-day, 7 country trip to Africa which some have called the ‘United States’ new commitment to Somalia.’ We’ll take a deep dive into the rivalry later on in the show. But, before then, we’ll hear from two people who know well-what Hillary Clinton is facing in countries like South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
And…just in case members of the State Department are tuned in to listen to the show-they will have some advice-just for them.
Later in the show a LA Times correspondent, and a State Department watcher joins us to talk about the first 200 – plus days of Hillary Clinton as a chief American diplomat. We’ll take a look at Hillary Clinton’s job performance. Is she performing her job as best as possible? What could and/or should she do better? Is she really the right woman for the job?
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