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Who’s In Danger Report

The following report, titled Who’s In Danger? Race, Poverty and Chemical Disasters, produced in May 2014 by the Environmental Justice and Health Alliance for Chemical Policy Reform, provides what they describe as “a demographic analysis of chemical disaster vulnerability zones” and provides in-depth analysis of the correlation between communities of color and industrial sites that are plagued with toxic waste and other environmental determinants of human disease. The report features background and history of environmental justice efforts, followed by several community stories and a demographic analysis of vulnerability zones from industry findings and national studies, concluding with solutions and recommendations. To read the full report, click below:

Whos In Danger Report

Audio and Radio Broadcasts

The R-Evolution Is Black Love: A New Podcast from Sis. Tomiko on Hand Radio

Sis. Tomiko is back on the airwaves with her new podcast “Th R-Evolution is Black Love”. Following up on the legacy of Africa500, this new show airs on Hand Radio (https://handradio.org) every Wednesday at 3 PM Eastern Time (United States).

September 18, 2024: A Special Tribute to Maze Founder and Leader Frankie Beverly

“We broke into our regular programming” for a special tribute to Maze founder and leader Frankie Beverly, said Sis. Tomiko (Baltimore, Maryland), host of The R-evolution Is Black Love (Wednesdays at 3:00 PM Eastern Time, HandRadio, https://handradio.org).

New Ancestor Frankie Beverly transitioned to the Honored Ancestors on September 10 at the age of 77.

Sis. Tomiko included several special guests on her show:

Queen Coco from Kasual Konvo, heard on HandRadio
DJ Boscoe (North Carolina and New York City), also from Kasual Konvo
DJ Reezey (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) aka Rashaun Williams of the Philadelphia Reparations Task Force
Bro. Richard Good (Baltimore, Maryland), founder and CEO of HandRadio

Friday, September 20 is White Out Day for Frankie Beverly. Pop-up block parties for Frankie Beverly are happening on September 20 and later in cities such as Philadelphia, Alabama, New Orleans, etc.

Excerpts of songs by Maze featuring Frankie Beverly were played during the show.

The panel discussed Frankie Beverly’s importance to the Black Community, vibrations from his music that inspired feelings of togetherness and community, and the resultant role of Frankie Beverly as an institution, bringing the “Village Vibe” and “cookout music” that brought the people out to be with each other in a sense of community, demonstrating the power of music to heal and build a people.

The guests spoke of several Philadelphia music artists who embodied the spirit of “raw love” as Philly’s native son Frankie Beverly did, as well as his connection to Philadelphia predecessors, contemporaries and successors such as McFadden & Whitehead, Kindred the Family Soul, Kenny Gamble, Jill Scott, Erykah Badu and other artists with Philly roots.

DJ Boscoe said: “Music can build and music can also destroy.” Gil Scott-Heron, Public Enemy, Def Jeff and others who brought positive messages in music were often silenced by our enemies.

Queen Coco stated that much of the “old school” music from artists such as Marvin Gaye and Frankie Beverly that embodied love has been largely silenced today; today’s messages, through the lyrics, speak of doing anything for money and self-promotion; there is a harmful effect of those messages on people internally. Bro. Richard noted that the record executives and labels are funding the promotion of these negative messages, using our young struggling artists who are trying to make a living to spread them.

The guests spoke of the infiltration of our community with negative music that is devoid of love and filled with imagery of killing and the effect it has on our children; some of us refuse to let them take the love out of the music, including DJs who refuse to play negative music in their sets. Frankie Beverly accepted the assignment from the Most High to spread the message of love to the people.

DJ Reezey pointed out that radio stations are paid by sponsors to play specific songs on the radio and thus control what DJs play on their stations; similarly, artists are required to write and perform certain songs for their albums and the artists allow this because they need the money to provide for themselves and their families. Many of the popular artists do not even control their own names. Frankie Beverly did not succumb to this control. He did not cede control of his name or his creativity, and sacrificed material gains and mainstream accolades for this. Sis. Tomiko noted that we must decide who we want to be, how we want to do what we do and who we want to speak to in these things, unapologetically.

DJ Reezey stated that we need more institutions that favor the Most High and understand who we are as God’s true children. Our enemies took our birthright, know who we are better than we do and swapped their legacy for ours. “We need to starve the beast.”

DJ Boscoe referenced fasting and purging the disease to help him deal with and ultimately overcome his own health challenges, and how it relates to our need to fast and purge our community of the diseased mindset that has too often infiltrated our institutions, such as our culture as expressed in music.

Sis. Tomiko noted that artists create and bring the message, and DJs are the “curators of our musical lives.”

Friday, September 20, White Our Day for Frankie Beverly, is the day to wear white in his honor and pump Frankie Beverly’s music all day and, as DJ Boscoe said, “move the planet out of its orbit.”

Sis. Tomiko closed out the program by noting that Frankie Beverly’s ultimate message may have been to love yourself, start the internal revolution and the larger revolution will occur, and that will be the Golden Time Of Day.

The R-evolution Is Black Love is heard every Wednesday at 3:00 PM Eastern Time (United States) on HandRadio (https://handradio.org). The show can be listened to below:

August 28, 2024: Health Food Proprietor Coy Dunston of Secrets of Nature (Washington, DC)

The Wednesday, August 28 edition of “The R-Evolution Is Black Love” features Baba Coy Dunston, proprietor of Secrets of Nature in Washington, DC. Sis. Tomiko, host of “The R-Evolution Is Black Love”, interviewed him at his location about his introduction to healthy foods and the struggles he has endured to continue to promote healthy choices for the people. The program airs at 3:00 PM Wednesday, August 28. “The R-Evolution Is Black Love” can be heard every Wednesday at 3:00 PM on HANDRadio, https://handradio.org.

Following is a brief profile for the August 28 program:

Understanding the dire need for healthy food options, Coy Dunston, 76, opened up his shop in 1980 with the mission to save lives.

His passion for nutrition started in 1980, as a recent graduate of Antioch Law (now University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law).

“I took a break to go home just to see my mother,” said Dunston, who was born and raised in Louisburg, North Carolina. “She was complaining about itching and had gone to the doctor.”

Days later she was diagnosed with cancer at Duke University Hospital and was released for denying chemotherapy treatments.

“I felt an obligation to do something, I wasn’t going to wait for her to die. I started researching,” Dunston shared. “One day on the drive to D.C., I stopped to fill up my gas in Richmond. There was a guy there distributing an informational pamphlet about reversing disease and how to get well.”

Intrigued, Dunston attended the meeting advertised after seeing the words “Nature’s sunshine” on the paper. He was determined to learn more about the organization’s methods.

“I thought ‘Wow, this has to be a message to me.’ I was flabbergasted; I had not heard of anything they were talking about. I immediately got involved. My mother and I started fasting, taking the herbs and doing the things you are supposed to do,” he said. “She lived for 10 years after that. That’s how I got involved in this business.”

Proven successful in this new lifestyle, Dunston set out on a fast track to educating the masses on healthy options, starting “Yours Naturally” on 16th and K streets NW with the knowledge needed to provide treatments to cure illnesses and ailments. He promoted a strict regimen of “no dairy, no sugar, no meat.”

“But the question was ‘where are you going to get that,’” said Dunston. “This was the 1980s, no one was selling vegetarian food like that back then.”

“I was there about 10 years and around the eighth year I moved around the corner to The Washington Post’s building where I saw an opportunity to open up a kitchen, my first kitchen,” he continued.

The meals created were served lovingly and filled with natural nourishment — a stark difference from Dunston’s diet while being raised as the son of a sharecropper.

After the broadcast, the program can be listened to below:

The video of Sis. Tomiko’s interview with Baba Dunston should be available for viewing at this link:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/2xttw7qaakpt06jsyqzhe/Revolution-is-Black-Love-Secrets-of-Nature-video.mp4?rlkey=fnhmg8vo738le6yd7ha3cye1h&st=ao8x5swq&dl=0

August 14 and August 21, 2024: Breaking Generational Curses Continues with Grandmother Walks On Water

The August 14 and August 21 editions of The R-Evolution Is Black Love feature Special Guest Grandmother Walks On Water, who talks with show host Sis. Tomiko about their continuing series on Generational Curses.

Listen to the August 14 show here:

Listen to the August 21 show here:

July 31, 2024: Breaking Generational Curses, Part 2, with Special Guest Dr. Dana Reynolds

The first two shows, airing on July 24 and July 31, began the “Breaking Generational Curses” Series, and featured Special Guest Dr. Dana Reynolds, Founder of Mount Meru Holistic Earth in New Jersey.

To listen to the July 31 show, click below:

To check out archived editions of Africa 400 and Africa 500, go to our Africa 500 Archives Page.

Video and Presentations

Making African Liberation Day Real: Forging True Pan-Afrikan Unity through Cooperative Coalitions

Bro. Cliff of KUUMBAReport, the Sixth Region Diaspora Caucus (http://www.srdcinternational.org) and the Pan African Federalist Movement (https://www.cbpm.org/pafmnoram) discusses the need for building real Pan-Afrikan Unity through Cooperative Coalitions in support of the May 23-25, 2020 African Liberation Day Virtual Events: