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We had a good, honest, and real discussion today on the Wake Up Club with myself, DJ Sight, Tariq, and listeners a.k.a. Frontliners. We talked about the violence affecting our community. The reason we opened the discussion is the video of the little girl in the middle of a shooting in a corner store. Along […]
Just a quick heads up about the extra RPD patrols in the City of Rochester starting this weekend. If you didn’t already know the Rochester Police Department will be on foot and on bikes in certain city neighborhoods. The areas the RPD will target are the neighborhoods that have higher incidents of crime. They will […]
Over the weekend I watched the Judas and The Black Messiah movie which is a fantastic film. Now I knew the history before I watched the movie and my only thought was please get this right. The director Shaka King did exactly that. Whether you call them messiahs, leaders, disciples, or messengers our black ancestors […]
We have been talking a lot about Trump and his resistance to conceding. He has gone to different extremes and tactics to overturn votes in states he lost. Because of these actions, he is undermining the democracy of this country. This is dangerous for a multitude of reasons. However, I would like to focus on […]
Fact Check. We received some texts on our Frontline about the warning message from the NAACP. So I did a quick fact check to see if the warning message was real and it is not real. The NAACP released a statement saying it was false and they also posted a video from their verified Twitter […]
Twitter is updating its policies to ban links. Making it harder for users to spread hate speech and violent content. Twitter already had rules in place barring hateful conduct and violence in tweets, but the policy didn’t extend to linked content. So users could effectively skirt Twitter’s policies by linking to content that would otherwise […]
The city is offering grants to businesses that suffered damage and lost merchandise because of the rioting over the weekend. There are 86 local businesses that have been affected in the Rochester area and are eligible for the grant. City officials said some of the businesses hardest hit were in Goodman Plaza and in the […]
Investigations have begun to see if undercover extremists are sneaking into the peaceful demonstrations against police brutality and instigating the violence that has followed. Officials are also wary of misinformation campaigns on social media, similar to the ones made by Russia in the 2016 Presidential Election. One way they examine these cases is by looking into […]
The new Rochester City School District Superintendent, Lesli Myers-Small, announced a support system to help students and families. The district is providing social-emotional support. Myers-Small said in a letter to families, “While I am always humbled and inspired by our students’ strength and resilience, I also understand that now more than ever, we must provide […]
Mayor Lovely Warren has posted a lengthy Facebook post to critique the activity and behavior of some Rochester residents over the long, memorial weekend. The Mayor wrote, “You must like what people say about our community. Calling us fools and spewing hateful rhetoric and other names. It breaks my heart to constantly hear…lock them up, […]