WBCA Podcasts

Observations From The Trenches

Host Larry Higginbottom explains how Boomers have not taught younger generations that America is a white man's country, how youth have adopted disastrous behaviors due to the failure of older generations to teach them the reality of our society, how black youth have been fooled into thinking they are free when they are not, & more. 

Words On Film

Today on "Words On Film", Dan Burke reviews "Never Let Go", "Speak No Evil", "Seeking Mavis Beacon", "¡Casa Bonita Mi Amor!", and "Linda Perry: Let It Die Here". Mr. Burke also gives a spoken-word preview of movies subject to being released into theaters for the week of September 23rd - 27th, 2024.

Observation Room Boston: Raber Umphenour

Raber Umphenour is a filmmaker, community leader, co-founder of the Midway Artist Collective, and founder of the Museum of Scenographic Design. Hear us speak about artist space, the creative process, and all that went into SCENOGRAPHERS, featuring the work of designers John Conklin and Franco Colavecchia!

SCENOGRAPHERS is on view from 8 AM to 8 PM through September 22 at Midway Gallery, 15 Channel Center Street, Boston.

ORB (Observation Room Boston) is a new show where we speak to artists and organizers about spaces & places in Boston and beyond. Stay tuned for more!

 

Boston Neighorhood Network News

The Boston waterfront area hosts the Local Food Festival, a place for local farmers and chefs to share their culinary efforts with the city and share why it's a good idea to shop local when it comes to something as essential to humankind as food. The residents of Roxbury throw their yearly gathering around their community's "Eternal Presence" sculpture (colloqually known as the big head festival) to help the artwork live up to its name by waxing and polishing it, celebrating its history and its sculptor John Woodrow Wilson, and sharing with each other what it means to them both as individuals and as a whole neighborhood. Even though it's still 2 years ahead of us, Boston is anxious to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution given how much of a huge part this city had played in the revolution itself. Travis Niles, Senior Manager of non-profit organization Rare Conservation, talks about how Rare's Shine Program aims to make it easier for low income citizens to participate in combatting the climate crisis with a push for clean energy.

Observations From The Trenches

Was MLK right? Host Larry Higginbottom expresses his views on integration, how ADOS have built this country and have gotten nothing back for it, the Kerner Report of 1968 and 2018, how MLK's incentive for collective uplift achieved the opposite, & more.

Talk Of The Neighborhoods

The Other Page Radio

Haywood Fennell speaks to organizer and author Devon McNeil about how to change your life and mindset for the better. Devon shares his story of becoming a community leader and role model after 20 years of incarceration. Devon McNeil is the founder of Not On My Watch Mentoring, and also provides jobs and financial literacy education to youth in Boston.

Life Matters

Host Brendan O'Connell invites guest Teresa Larkin (Co-Chairwoman, Pregnancy Care Alliance of MA) to discuss deceptive advertising of pregnancy care centers, the Pregnancy Care Alliance of MA and its mission, tax payer funded campaigns against pregnancy centers in MA, abortion pill side effects and reversal, & more.

Bostonian Rap

Host Rachel Miselman discusses the latest in Boston's politics: Recent public confrontations between Catherine Vitale and Senator Shawn Dooley, and the recent incident at a local Pro-Israel rally involving demonstrator Scott Hayes and Newton resident Caleb Gannon.

Life Matters

Host Brendan O'Connell speaks to John Jakubczyk, President of Arizona Right to Life. They discuss what's gone on in Arizona since the 2022 Dobbs decision.

Never Give Up "Where Giving Up Is Not An Option"

Host Rochelle Jones discusses with her guest, Pastor James L. Funches from the Blessed Hope Tabernacle, things such as the story of Naomi and Ruth, how to finish what you've started, and how to differentiate signs of the enemy from signs of god in these confusing times.

City Talk with Ken Meyer (Jack Fox)

Ken Meyer interviews Jack Fox!

Boston Neighborhood Network News

Boston honors the lives lost on September 11th at the Garden of Remembrance in Boston Common, and locals reflect on how that day has affected our country. Roxbury Community College and DoorDash partner to fund the Rox Box food pantry, a service fighting food insecurity in Boston. BPS Sundays gives Boston students access to local institutions, and will be extended through the end of the year. The annual Greek Festival in Brookline brings together Boston's Greek community for a day of food, dance, and culture. An interview with John Cruz III and Justin Cruz of Cruz Companies, a community-centered developer and one of Boston's first black-owned construction companies.

The Tape Deck Hour

Host Michael Reyes welcomes men's mental health advocate Michael Bastien onto his show to discuss topics of psychological health, self help, self healing, spirituality, masculine vulnerability, the black, haitian, and hispanic communities of northeastern Massachusetts, and Bastien's non-profit men's mental health organization: Brothers In Arms.

The Other Page Radio

Host Haywood Fennell invites Guests Bob Edwards & Bright Mailosi to discuss Whittier St. Health Center and the services it provides, health in the African American community, Whittier's re-entry program, its kidney disease research and clinical trial for people of African ancestry, & more.

Cooking In The Dark

Join Dale and Cheryl for a delicious breakfast of scrambled eggs,
bacon, and hash-brown potatoes!

Talk Of The Neighborhoods

This week on Talk of the Neighborhoods, it is an all 'Southie' show with state senator Nick Collins (D -1st Suffolk) joining us to talk about the latest from Beacon Hill. Then Dist. 2 City Councilor Ed Flynn joins Joe to talk about the latest from City Hall.

Observations From The Trenches

Host Larry Higginbottom shares his critical view of immigration into the United States.

Black Teachers Matter

Host Sharon Hinton discusses recent school shootings, the staggering amount of school shootings in the US, mass shootings in MA, reasons that lead to school shootings, and more.

Words On Film

Today on "Words On Film", Dan Burke reviews "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice", "The Front Room", "1992", "Between the Temples", and "Good One". Mr. Burke also runs down the list of movies subject to being released into theaters for the week of September 9th - 13th, 2024.