KGLP Podcasts

Cities like Gallup along famed Route 66 celebrate its history By Reed Black and Tom Maxedon   Route 66, also known as “The Mother Road,” has hosted travelers across the American West over the last 100 years for a variety of pursuits. Some, purely for exploration and adventure. Others to make a living, or even to entertain audiences. The latter was the case for a famous filmmaker.   “W.D. Griffith,...

The Navajo Nation Museum in Window Rock, Arizona will host the Uranium Film Festival on Thursday, November 13th and Friday, November 14, 2025, from 10am until 7pm. KGLP's Calvin Gleason speaks with one of the organizers, Norman Patrick Brown. The event flyer is available at: https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/648e40c3-d44c-47f5-bec6-8a52b8595c41/UraniumFilmFestRevWinRock1113n111425.png/:/cr=t:0%25,l...

    This podcast includes audio recorded on October 23, 2025, of the Gallup Mayoral and City Council Candidate Forum.     Several of the candidates have submitted written introductions and/or full answers to the questions asked that night, since the event answers were limited to 2 minutes.  Those PDFs are at: https://kglp.org/gallup-candidates-details.     Early voting continues until November 1st...

KGLP's Calvin Gleason and Rachel Kaub speak with attendees at the October 18, 2025 No Kings rallies in Window Rock, Arizona and in Gallup, New Mexico.

KGLP's Strider Brown speaks with Ft. Defiance resident Lenny Foster about his activism, recent communications with Leonard Peltier since his release to home confinement, and more, on the July 28, 2025 Deer Tracks show.

KGLP's Calvin Gleason speaks with some of the protesters at July 17, 2025 "Good Trouble" rally in Gallup, one of many U.S. gatherings that honored the late Representative and Civil Rights figure, John Lewis.

KGLP Station Manager Rachel Kaub speaks with Anna Redsand, Author of Crevice.  In Anna's words: Crevice is a memoir in thirteen related, stand-alone essays, seven of which have been previously published. The stories and reflections tell about the life of a White girl, and later an adult, living within the fissure that lies between Diné (Navajo) and Bilagáana (White) cultures. In that place, I belo...

KGLP Station Manager Rachel Kaub speaks with Rabbi Jeff Glickman, from South Windsor, Connecticut, who, with his wife, Mindy, has supported Public Radio Stations across the U.S.  Their website is: https://www.turntothewonderful.com/

Gallup, NM - On Monday May 12, 2025 Gallup and surrounding area residents met on the sidewalk in front of the GMCS administration offices to ask the school board and elected leaders for transparency and accountability about our children's education, and to oppose the Trump Administration's assault on education. Trump is proposing to Congress that the federal government pull back billions of dollar...

Audio of a few voices from the April 5, 2025 "Hands Off" rally in Gallup, NM, part of a national day of action. " Indivisibles, It’s Sarah Dohl -- one of Indivisible’s co-founders and Chief Campaigns Officer. It’s been 66 days since Trump was sworn in again. And already, we’re further down the road to authoritarianism than we could have imagined. Federal agencies gutted. Thousands of public servan...

KGLP Station Manager Rachel Kaub speaks with Anna Rondon, Project Director for the New Mexico Social Justice & Equity Institute, which opened in Gallup's Rio West Mall on April 3, 2025. More information is available at: https://www.nmsocialjustice.org/ and at https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/648e40c3-d44c-47f5-bec6-8a52b8595c41/NM%20Social%20Justice%20Equity%20Tri-Fold%20and%20Flyer%2020.pdf  

KGLP Station Manager Rachel Kaub speaks with gallupARTS Executive Director Rose Eason about the coming March 29, 2025 launch of Gallup's Virtual New Deal Art Museum. Celebrate the launch of the Gallup New Deal Art Virtual Museum on Saturday March 29, 2025, from 9:00am – 8:00pm with a full day of drop-in events that will include: -New Deal Tea party -Self guided tours of the New Deal Art in the Lib...

KGLP Station Manager Rachel Kaub speaks with Ken Collins, Executive Director of Gallup's Hozho Center for Personal Enhancement (https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/648e40c3-d44c-47f5-bec6-8a52b8595c41/HozhoCtrHousing2024wTriFold.pdf) and two clients now living at the new Hozho Recovery Home in Gamerco, the latter holding a Grand Opening on March 3, 2025 - the Flyer is available at: https://img1.wsimg...

KGLP Station Manager Rachel Kaub speaks with Val Wenglar, Executive Director of Gallup Community Health, about the upcoming December 14, 2024 day of Cervical and Breast cancer screenings, STI and HIV testing, plus COVID and FLU vaccines. PAP-apalooza Cervical and Breast Cancer Screening Day, plus testing and vaccines.   Gallup Community Health is partnering with the Navajo Nation Breast & Cerv...

KGLP Station Manager Rachel Kaub speaks with Dr. Christopher Dyer about plans for a Conference on Climate Change Disaster Resilience and Adaptations for the Indigenous and Rural Southwest. Press Release on November 21 and 22, 2024 Conference on Climate Change Emergency Response planned at UNM-Gallup (New Mexico): https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/648e40c3-d44c-47f5-bec6-8a52b8595c41/Climate%20Rever...

KGLP Station Manager Rachel Kaub speaks with representatives of the Santa Fe Recovery Center, which plans to offer walk-in support for patients starting on November 7, 2024. From their press release, now posted at KGLP.org's "PSA's and Events" page, i.e.,  https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/648e40c3-d44c-47f5-bec6-8a52b8595c41/SF%20Crisis%20Ctr%20DropIn%20starts%20110724.pdf Gallup, NM – October 23,...

Selected Audio recorded October 26, 2024 at Window Rock Tribal Park, in Window Rock, Arizona, the capitol of the Navajo Nation, during a Harris/Walz "Early Vote Celebration" themed campaign rally, focusing on the importance of the Native American vote. From a Navajo Nation press release: WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – The Navajo Nation President welcomes Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to the Navajo Nation capital...

KGLP Station Manager Rachel Kaub speaks with New Mexico's Secretary of State, Maggie Toulouse OIiver, about Election Integrity, AI and Deepfakes, disinformation, and the discerning voter, as we approach the November 5, 2024 election, including State, Federal, and regional or local offices and issues. A voter toolkit, including tips on recognizing disinformation, AI, deepfakes, and more, may be fou...

KGLP Station Manager Rachel Kaub speaks with representatives of several recovery programs in Northwestern New Mexico.  The Strong Fathers program has the goal of increasing the economic stability of fathers and their families, promote positive parenting, and increase healthy relationships and co-parenting in Native communities.  For more information, you may e-mail stronfathers21@gmail.com, or you...

On August 25, 2024, in Gallup, New Mexico, Professor Wade Campbell (Boston University) talked about “Fortresses and Foodways: Research in Dinétah” The Indigenous food sovereignty movement advocates for the reclamation of ancestral foods in Native communities like the Navajo Nation. What can archaeological research offer to these discussions? This talk shares the results of a recent project that an...

KGLP Station Manager Rachel Kaub speaks with Linda Farnes <homelessstoriesproject@gmail.com>, of the Gallup Burrito Project, a community outreach program that provides meals, toiletries, clothing, showers, and haircuts to members of our community living without basic resources. Our goal is to restore dignity and self-respect to those living unsheltered, and to help those who have forgotten,...

KGLP Station Manager Rachel Kaub speaks with representatives of the Navajo Nation Special Diabetes Program, including staff from the Crownpoint, NM, Wellness Center.

KGLP Station Manager Rachel Kaub speaks with Gloria Dee and Thomalisa Yazzie of Capacity Builders, Inc., a non-profit organization working with the Drug Enforcement Administration to hold a Family Summit in Shiprock, New Mexico starting at 8 a.m. on both June 25 and June 26, 2024. The Capacity Builders website is: https://capacitybuilders.info/ Flyers for the summit and resource fair are available...