Introducing WFPL's Newest Podcast, Strange Fruit: Musings on Politics, Pop...
This week we launch our newest podcast, Strange Fruit: Musings on Politics, Pop Culture, and Black Gay Life.
View ArticleStrange Fruit: LGBT History Month
October is LGBT History Month, and this past week was Pride Week at UofL. So this week, we talked to some of our favorite people about notable moments in LGBTQ history, and what festivities took place...
View ArticleStrange Fruit: HIV in Our Community
The Louisville AIDS Walk is this Sunday, and for many, it's a time of solidarity and celebration. But AIDS activism in Louisville faces a big challenge: apathy. There are more people living with HIV...
View ArticleStrange Fruit: The i-Word & the Election; Musician Teneia Sanders
The immigration portion of the second presidential debate got attention for what the candidates said, but also, for how they said it. Undocumented? Illegal? It made us wonder: How much do words...
View ArticleStrange Fruit: Going Home Gay for the Holidays
It's a story we heard several times during WFPL's Defining Fairness series: a young person leaves his or her rural town for college in a bigger city, meets other LGBTQ folks, and comes out! But for...
View ArticleThe Rev. Bojangles Blanchard: Hopeful Sit-In, Arrest Inspire Calls for Change...
The Rev. Maurice "Bojangles" Blanchard spent Tuesday evening in jail.The charge? He and his partner, Dominique James, asked for a marriage license — and were denied — at the Jefferson County Clerk's...
View ArticleStrange Fruit: What's Going on with Fourth Street Live and Jason Osborne?
This week, former Louisville Cardinals basketball player Jason Osborne was arrested after an incident at Fourth Street Live—which led to concern from Louisville's African-American leaders about...
View ArticleStrange Fruit: Urmi Basu of New Light India; Kaitlyn Hunt, Statutory Rape &...
Activism runs in Urmi Basu's family; her grandfather was a doctor who set up a school for dalit children (India's untouchable caste) in his own home. Urmi says her family "always challenged...
View Article'Book of Matt' Author Stephen Jimenez Speaks Tonight at Carmichael's
Author Stephen Jimenez will speak with Jaison Gardner, co-host of WFPL's Strange Fruit, tonight at Carmichael's bookstore.
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