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Today we started out with guests, devorah major, former poet laureate for San Francisco, and Kim McMillon, publicist for the Josephine Miles, Pen Oakland Awards, Dec. 6, 1-5, at the Rockridge Branch of the Oakland Public Library. Other guests included John Handy, musician, scholar, and composer, Peter Fitzsimmons, Executive Director, Jazz Heritage Center, Raja Rahim, jazz vocalist, Lewis Watts, photographer and historian. They spoke about the opening of the Harlem West exhibit at the Heritage Center and the accompanying exhibit next door on the Plush Room Gallery, Dec. 6, 1-6 p.m. They were followed on the air by Professor Manu Ampim, who will deliver the keynote address at the Western Regional Conference for the Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations. The theme this year is: "Fearlessly Forward As We Build for Eternity." An interview with Boots Riley of the Coup, closed out this mornings show. Like all great conversations, it got good after we went off the air and stopped streaming. Th