Conversation Piece w/ Angela Birdsong

What it is!!! I am Angela Birdsong your Conversation Piece host coming from KPFK Studios with the real day to day happenings of urban living locally and worldwide. Black immigrants across the United States are being detained, snatched, disappeared, kidnapped from their families, friends and their communities by ICE, with little media coverage, little public outcry, and very little accountability....

Today on Conversation Piece…A Father’s Day Special as I present to some and introduce others, my father, the late, great Edwin Birdsong. The Conversation Piece show you are about to hear with my father, Edwin Birdsong, was recorded at the Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice for Radio Justice Los Angeles where Radio Justice was housed. It was the day before my father died. The show was schedul...

What it is!! Today on Conversation Piece…local Juneteenth Commemoration celebrations, Monique Noel of Los Angeles Community Action Network tells us how LA CAN will honor Juneteenth with Freedom Now 2026 Gala & Concert on June 19th at the historic Regent Theater in downtown Los Angeles, as well as share with us her journey in community organizing. Later at a recent press conference, Stop LAPD Spyin...

Today on Conversation Piece from 838 East 6th Street in the apartheid state, the center of Downtown Los Angeles known as Skid Row, meet Jade Arellano, Housing Organizer with Los Angeles Community Action Network, LA CAN where the Tenant Rights Committee is building a Slumlord Campaign. The Tenant Rights Committee meets weekly on Thursdays, 2pm at LA CAN, 838 East 6th Street in DTLA Skid Row. For mo...

California’s June 2 primary election is your first chance to shape what shows up on the November ballot. In California’s top-two primary system, the two candidates with the most votes—regardless of party—move forward to the general election. That means every vote matters now, not just in November. Today on Conversation Piece… California Black Power Network (CBPN), Congregations Organized for Proph...

Conversation Piece 10am PT Saturday, March 7 KPFK 90.7 FM / KPFK.org Today on Conversation Piece…from 838 East 6th Street in the apartheid state, the center of Downtown Los Angeles known as Skid Row…a powerful presentation at Los Angeles Community Action Network better known as LA CAN during their monthly Residential Organizing Committee Meeting moderated by LA CAN Lead Organizer, Adam Smith, for...

Today on Conversation Piece…Meet Christopher Ackerly as he tells us his housing journey, from living in an encampment, the lack of housing options, choosing to say yes or no to shelters to becoming a member with Los Angeles Community Action Network, LA CAN. Chris with his neighbors throughout Skid Row are fighting to stay housed in a housing disaster that is out of control in Los Angeles. Chris wi...

Today on Conversation Piece…Meet Coach Rob Silver, who says folks need to know how to edit stress, release emotional weight and live from the present. Contact him at CoachRobSilver@gmail.com. But first let’s hear from the LARSO Campaign, the Los Angeles Rent Stabilization Ordinance with Lena Sullivan of SAJE who is part of the Keep LA Housed Coalition, and from Memphis Paredes of Lincoln Heights N...

Today on Conversation Piece hear the story of Nicholas Burgos, who was murdered by Los Angeles County Deputy Sheriff Dalia Gonzalez while he was hospitalized. Joining us to tell Nicholas' story is his sister Maria Burgos about that fateful day at Harbor UCLA Medical Center when Deputy Gonzales fired 9 shots at Maria’s brother, Nicholas, 7 of the 9 shots hit him. Hear about Nicholas, the big hearte...

Conversation Piece 10am PT Saturday KPFK 90.7 FM / KPFK.org Human rights, economic justice and do not promise something that cannot be delivered. All People’s Health Collective refuses to leave anyone behind and will find solutions that benefit everyone. Today on Conversation Piece…learn about the All People’s Health Collective with Lex Steppling because “People are the healthiest when their funda...

Conversation Piece 10am PT Saturday KPFK 90.7 FM / KPFK.org Today on Conversation Piece…from East 6th Street in the apartheid state, the center of Downtown Los Angeles known as Skid Row…Hear voices, chants and sounds at the O22 Rally & March in Downtown Los Angeles at LA CAN for the National Day of Protest against police brutality. Stop LAPD Spying Coalition hosted the O22 Rally & March, where the...

House Keys NOT Handcuffs! This week on a special Music To Resist By Edition of Conversation Piece, we speak to members of the Western Regional Advocacy Project (WRAP) about the effects of Trump's executive order on homelessness, and it's real effects on housing and criminalization policies region wide. Join our guests Therese Howard of the Housekeys Action Network Denver (HAND), Clayton Shea from...

On Conversation Piece today…Meet my guests: Angie Wilson, the president of the Council of Black Nurses Los Angeles Chapter, and Gwen Woods, who will share why she is a fierce bone marrow advocate and community activist with a personal story about her grandson, Eric Alexander. Did you know that Black patients are less likely to find a bone marrow match due to low representation on the bone marrow r...

What it is!  Friday,June 6, 2025, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents invaded Los Angeles.  They used administrative civil warrants to arrest students, hotel workers, cooks, landscapers, and construction workers.  Invading schools and workplaces demanding that any Angeleno who wasn’t sufficiently Caucasian produce their papers.  Taking them away in unmarked vans, without judicial process. ...

Today on Conversation Piece...Meet Ronnie Laws and his sister Debra Laws, as you may know about their jazz-soul fusion of music with instrumental songs like Always There and love ballads like Very Special. With early musical roots in their family today you will hear some of theri musical hisotry and legacy from Ronnie Laws' early professional breakthrough when he joined Earth Wind & Fire to Debra'...

During our KPFK Membership Fund Drive, we have a special Black History Edition of Conversation Piece with a speech you may not have heard as much as the I have a Dream speech. This speech was given in Los Angeles on March 16, 1968, less than three weeks before Rev Dr Martin Luther King Junior was assassinated. The setting is a house in the Hollywood Hills with a group of artists who were concerned...

What it is!! A coalition of tenants, housing rights advocates, public interest lawyers and community based organizations formed a coalition called Keep LA Housed with the goal of protecting tenant rights by the of way of strengthening the Tenant Anti-Harassment Ordinance for the City of Los Angeles, improving the Los Angeles Rent Stabilization Ordinance for rent control, and ensuring the Right to...

What it is!! LA CAN’s (Los Angeles Community Action Network) Human Rights Watch Report (“You Have to Move! The Cruel and Ineffective Criminalization of Unhoused People in Los Angeles’) Release - Panel discussion of organizers and some with lived experiences and all on the frontline in the Los Angeles Housing Crisis. Criminalization and harassment of the unhoused. Guests: John Raphling, Human Right...

Conversation Piece 10am PT Saturdays KPFK 90.7 FM / KPFK.org Hear from Pete White, Executive Director & Founder of Los Angeles Community Action Network (LA CAN), about Los Angeles Municipal code 41.18, which bans sleeping, sitting and standing on public sidewalks, and the outrageous resources the LAPD steals from our pockets every year to enforce this code which violates human rights. Find out how...

Hear why James of Soul Saving Productions gives free hair cuts in Downtown Los Angeles in the Skid Row community at LA CAN. Learn more about James at SoulSavingProductions.org. Later on Conversation Piece, a friend Douglas Sandoval shares his story to give hope to do the impossible against all odds, while discovering the importance of family, faith and the belief in himself…as told in his book, Co...

Conversation Piece w/ Angela Birdsong Today’s special guests were the youth and founder of Women’s Leadership Project speaking about the #Standing4BlackGirls rally in Leimert Park October 28th, their Virtual Homegirl Podcast, with limited special premiums of Books, Hand-Painted T-shirts, and a Play. KPFK is in our Fall Membership Fund Drive! A listener supported station where listeners get to vote...

On the next Conversation Piece w/ Angela Birdsong, Saturday 10am PT on KPFK 90.7 FM / KPFK.org... ~Mental Health Crisis should not mean 7 bullets by the police, hear The Nicholas Burgos Story told by his sister, Maria Burgos. For mental health resources, crisis support, helplines and warmlines go to NamiUrbanLA.org under resources. ~South Central Run Club changing the narrative in South Central Lo...

Ethnic Media Services briefing will examine the rise in cases, the new variant, the new boosters, strategies their expert panelists are taking to prevent infections, as well as the phenomenon of paxlovid rebound. This Ethnic Media Services Covid Report aired on KPFK Rebel Alliance News as Covid19 cases are rising once again and several folks I personally know have gotten it, including me! I receiv...

Conversation Piece 10am PT Saturdays KPFK 90.7 FM / KPFK.org My next guests on Conversation Piece will tell a story of serious trauma and amazing deliverance. Nickie V Smith, author and advocate for rape & sexual assault survivors...and she is a survivor also! Her cousin Risa Wheat and friend of my family will join us. Self-Healing For Sexual Abuse Survivors, Inc. a 501c3, helps Sexual Abuse Survi...

Conversation Piece 10am PT Saturday, September 23rd KPFK 90.7 FM / KPFK.org Have you had a DNA Micronutrient work up done by your doctor? Do you know what that is? I didn’t know either and I want to get one! Find out on Conversation Piece w/Angela Birdsong, for Pain Awareness Month with my guest Dr Glenna Tolbert of Tolbert Center for Rehabilitation and Wellness. DrGlennaTolbert.com Conversation P...