Nato burning Korans… Really? Yes really! Also the war on women continues … A Virgina bill will rape women before giving an abortion. BOOM! Tune in…

In These Streets with Kendrea Mekkah

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Things you should do In These Streets of Charlotte this week…

· Touch 1 Tue hosted by C. P. Maze

Visit: ConcreteGeneration.com for more on c.p. maze and other concrete generation artists.

· Touch 1 Thurs hosted by Jay Cee

there is always a hot band and you can find out all the info at www.touch1productions.com and on Jay C’s new Radio Show – THURS 7PM WGIV 103.3 FM or stream it like me on www.wgivcharlotte.com

· Check out the in these streets profile on Bluz posted Jan 30 and request his new song “I want You.” It’s hot and it made me hot so you want that in your quiet storm heavy rotation.

· Thursday there is a new event for all the old school Hip Hop heads called Radio Rehab. Sadly I think it’s the only place doing hip hop in NoDa right now - blame it on the gentrification. If you miss the days of Fat City and love real hip hop the place to be on Thursday is the Neighborhood Theater DOORS OPEN 9pm Hosted by Bluz, the Mighty DR & DJ SKILLZ If you sat Nikki Minaj’ live exorcism on Grammy’s the art God’s have approved this as penance.

I did not watch the Republican debate on Monday, because I thought the racial undertones would be more than I could bear on Martin Luther King Day. Now that I have watched the entire debate, I have issues! I am not surprised by the performance or pandering of Republican candidates. I am disappointed in the audience response that reinforces all the worst in America. Cosigning what I know to be true… Improving the economy for middle class and poor in this country are at the bottom of the Republican candidates agenda. Their time is spent twisting facts, blocking every bill that might help those that need it most and of course attacking President Obama.

• The article by Jay Rosen that inspired my podcast here is a link to the article and talkI think you will be very empowered by it.
• “I am not a scientist. I am a journalist. I did not gather with indifference all the facts and arrange them patiently for permanent preservation and laboratory analysis. I did not want to preserve, I wanted to destroy the facts. My purpose was [to] see if the shameful facts, spread out in all their shame, would not burn through our civic shamelessness and set fire to American pride. That was the journalism of it. I wanted to move and to convince.” ~ quote from a book published in 1902,The Shame of the Citieswhich is a collection of muckraking reports.
• ·Sign the Mumia Abu Jamal Petition
• ·Recent article on Mumia Abu Jamal’s Case