First Things First With Dominique DiPrima

Kenrick Gibson is the Chief Officer of Open Arms Food Pantry and Resource Center in the Chesterfield Square of South LA, providing food pantry and diaper bank support to LA City, County and U.S military families weekly. On this pod we focus on the art of giving and the culture for change. You're invited to his Black History Month Festival and Giveaway on Saturday February 21 at the La Brea Tar Pit...

Dominique takes on the thinking behind the massive, proposed budget cuts and layoffs that are currently on the table for the country's biggest school district. Also in the convo: the new film by RZA, the Pan African Film Festival, Cuba's energy crisis and receives an update of the Altadena recovery outlook from the fires of 2025 from Michelle White of Neighborhood Survants. https://www.instagram.c...

Dr. Rickey Vincent is a scholar, educator, radio host and author. He obtained his Ph. D. in Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley in 2008, and lectures on black music history, black power and social movements, the cultural politics of Hip Hop, and issues of African American culture and globalization. On this podcast we look at the irony that soul music is sampled, covered, used for marketing and revered w...

Dr. Charles H.F. Davis III is a third-generation educator, organizer, and artist committed to the lives, love, and liberation of everyday Black people. He is a faculty member in the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education at the University of Michigan and one of the founders of Scholars 4 Black Lives. On this pod we look at the history of Black history, the legacy of Rev. Jesse...

On this podcast Dominique reflects on her own experiences with the Reverend Jesse Jackson, from his collaboration with her father, the late Amiri Baraka to her organizing with Hip Hop for Jesse Jackson which included a benefit concert with M.C. Hammer during his presidential campaigns. https://www.instagram.com/diprimaradio/

On Messy Mondays we talk relationships, situationships and the rules of love's road. Miles Low is a rap artist, radio host and production coordinator. He's single, has no kids and has never been married...But the gworls are trying. On this pod we Miles perspective on dating love and romance in 2026. https://www.instagram.com/mileslowmusic/ https://www.instagram.com/diprimaradio/

It's a Mindful Monday and Saharah Ali takes us through a guided mediation, affirmation and astrological forecast. Saharah Ali is a yoga teacher, sound bath specialist, astrologer, numerologist, life coach and yoga teacher. Later in the hour we open the phone lines for everything from the conspicuous consumption of celebrities to Councilwoman Nithya Raman jumping into the mayor's race. https://saha...

On this podcast we unbox the twelve kinds of crazy that are LA Police Commission meetings., examine conservative District Attorney Nathan Hochman's record on holding cops accountable, look at BLM Los Angeles's campaign to get LAPD Chief Jim McDonell fired and share a sneak peek inside a Black Lives Matter Grassroots World Premiere exclusive at the Pan African Film Festival. https://www.instagram.c...

Golda Kesse is the Director and Star of the film Adinkra. She is a British-Ghanian creator whose work explores identity, memory and ancestral inheritance blending contemporary storytelling with African philosophy. https://paff2026.eventive.org/films/6955e8cdff9b572544e4cd87 https://www.instagram.com/diprimaradio/ https://www.paff.org/

#freedmenfriday On this episode we focus on the harms and badges of enslavement and Jim Crow and the much-praised U.S. Supreme Court ruling Brown vs. The Board of Education. Dr. Nina Gilbert is a first -time film director and a longtime educator. She is a Professor of Education at Morehouse College. Her film, now screening at the Pan African Film Festival is Belonging Beyond Brown. https://belongi...

On this Friday the 13th podcast we tackle things like - why we ain't afraid of lucky 13, how to make LA's city charter less anti-Black, how the Kaiser strike might save your life and what to do for Black Love Day. Sherri Bell is a labor activist, a mom and a KBLA contributor. https://www.instagram.com/sherri_de_la_ghetto/ https://lablackworkercenter.org/reform-the-charter-restore-our-jobs/ https:/...

Is Liberation Theology still a force? What does Christian nationalism mean to the Black church? What is the role of our pastors and spiritual leaders in dark times? How do we lean on faith when religion is political? Dr. Tabatha Jones Jolivet is an abolitionist, educator, minister and scholar. She is the co-author of White Jesus: The Architecture of Racism in Religion and Education. https://blmgra...

Dr. Jared A. Ball is a Professor of Communications on and Africana Studies at Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD. and author of The Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power. Dr. Ball is also host of the podcast “iMiXWHATiLiKE!" https://www.instagram.com/imixwhatilike/ https://www.instagram.com/diprimaradio/

It's a Think Tank Thursday and the question is: How does Councilwoman Nithya Raman's entrance into the LA Mayor's race impact the election, the landscape of LA, Mayor Karen Bass, African American, progressive and you personally? Former Councilman Mike Bonin has one take, Dominique another - what's yours? https://www.instagram.com/diprimaradio/

Today is the heavenly birthday of legendary herbalist and organic chemist Dr. Paul Goss who trained generations of healers and brought natural health to generations of Compton residents, celebrities and followers around the world. Dr. Sharita Yazid is an iridologist, herbalist and wholistic lifestyle consultant in her own right and is also the daughter of Dr. Paul Goss. Her family is celebrating f...

Award-winning journalist, author, and minister, Barbara Ann Reynolds. Reynolds graduated from Ohio State University (OSU) with her B.A. degree in journalism. She has written for Essence, Ebony, the Washington Post and was a columnist for USA Today. On this podcast we do a deep dive on her latest book: The Rise and Fell of the Techno Messiah: Technology and the End Times. AI, spirituality, mental h...

Greg Dulan is a second generation restauranter and community advocate. He and his brother Terry run the Dulan's Corporation including three restaurants a food truck and a catering company. Last year they almost folded after almost 49 years in business. On this podcast we learn the story of the Dulan family and their fight to stay in business as they mark their 50th anniversary in 2026. (If you wan...

Dominique freestyles Black history, the impact of the children of the movement and the Trump administration's quest to erase heroic U.S. stories of resistance and unity and whitewash Black history. https://www.instagram.com/diprimaradio/?hl=enkbla1580

A judge strikes down California's ban on masks for law enforcement but leaves the door open for a do over. Dominique breaks it down. Miles weighs in on J. Cole's new album. Dominique is in her Odeal era...As the artist is in heavy rotation on her streams. https://www.instagram.com/diprimaradio/?hl=enkbla1580

Raymond O. Caldwell is the Artistic Director of the Fountain Theatre in Los Angeles. Now living in Los Angeles, Caldwell has spent the last 16 years in Washington, DC as a director, writer, producer, and educator. Raymond was a faculty member and resident director at Howard University’s Department of Theatre Arts. He was part of the National Arts Strategy Executive Leadership group at Harvard, hol...

Oduduwa Olatunji is the Executive Director of the Pan African Film Festival now in its 32nd year. On this pod we look at what mergers, industry contraction, strikes and the anti-Black and anti DEI environment of our current administration means for the film, television and entertainment industry and the fabled film festival. https://www.instagram.com/paffnow/ https://www.instagram.com/diprimaradio...

Yoga instructor, astrologer and sound bath specialist Saharah Ali leads off the hour with a guided meditation and affirmation. Ms. Ali breaks down the next 65 days of Mercury in Pisces and encourages us to level up to our fullest potential. https://saharahali.com/ Next, we open up the phone lines and unbox the Bad Bunny Super Bowl show, the latest on the Epstein Files, a trailblazing day for sport...

On this podcast we try to figure out why progressive Karen Bass "ally" Nithya Ramen suddenly decided to run for Mayor, the blah race for California Governor and of course, Bad Bunny. Jasmyne Cannick is an award-winning Gen X journalist, a Democratic strategist and a delegate for the LA County Democratic Party. https://www.instagram.com/hellojasmyne/ https://www.instagram.com/diprimaradio/?hl=enkbl...

Bad Bunny, LaRussell, the Superbowl, the President trying to threaten people into naming everything after him, Runoko Rashidi and JA Rogers style Black history and a lot of other things worth talking about are in the freestyle Friday conversation. https://www.instagram.com/mileslowmusic/ https://www.instagram.com/diprimaradio/?hl=enkbla1580

Dewana Little is the Chair of the Asheville Reparations Commission and the Founder of Positive Changes Youth Ministry. Her great grandparents lost their home to "urban renewal" impacting her family's intergenerational wealth. https://www.ashevillenc.gov/department/city-clerk/boards-and-commissions/reparations-commission/ https://www.instagram.com/diprimaradio/?hl=enkbla1580