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November 3, 2010 | 2:34 PM | By

The Kojo Nnamdi Show is at The Arc, tonight.

As I mentioned yesterday, The Kojo Nnamdi Show will be in Southeast D.C. this evening, hosting another “Kojo in Your Community” event, at The Arc. Doors open in three hours.

If you read this blog, you’ll probably be very interested in the topics they will be discussing– including the employment gap, how Ward Eight is changing (organic groceries! art galleries!), plus gentrification. The event is free and metro-accessible (Green Line: Southern Avenue Station). The show will air tomorrow, so if you can’t make it tonight, you won’t miss it entirely…but wouldn’t it be much cooler to ask Kojo questions, in person?

FILED UNDER: Delightful City, Gentrification, Kojo, WAMU
November 2, 2010 | 5:59 PM | By

Kojo in Southeast, tomorrow!

Need plans for tomorrow night? How about some Kojo?

WAMU’s Kojo Nnamdi will be hosting a “Kojo in Your Community” event tomorrow, at The Arc in Southeast D.C. Come hang out with the man whom the Washington Post calls “Maybe the best interviewer in town”. The Arc will be open at 5:30 and the event goes until 8pm. I’ve been told that plenty of parking is available.

Address: 1901 Mississippi Avenue Southeast

Metro: Green Line- Southern Avenue Station.

FILED UNDER: Media, Delightful City, Kojo, WAMU
September 21, 2010 | 2:31 PM | By

Enjoy The Kojo Nnamdi Show LIVE, tonight!

WAMU is doing something neat tonight in Silver Spring, and since so many of you love Kojo Nnamdi, I thought I’d let you know:

Join us for a lively and open dialogue about the issues of the day at one of our six Kojo In Your Community events this year…The live broadcasts are taped on location in D.C., Maryland, and Virginia and aired on WAMU 88.5′s The Kojo Nnamdi Show.

Here’s where to go:

Silver Spring Civic Building and Veterans Plaza
One Veterans Place, Silver Spring, MD 20910
(On Ellsworth Drive between Fenton and Cedar Streets)

Doors swing open at 5:45 p.m. The event starts at 6:30 and should go for about two hours. They’re going to live blog it, too, if you’d like to follow along, otherwise, tune in to 88.5 FM tomorrow to hear the complete program.

FILED UNDER: Media, Kojo, WAMU
September 20, 2010 | 10:34 AM | By

WaPo distorts our Kojo – updated

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WAMU 88.5's Kojo Nnamdi, last Fall, Busboys and Poets

So yesterday, the Twitterz were burning up with a link to an opinion piece that WAMU’s Kojo Nnamdi had written for The Washington Post. It’s a great read– except for one problem. The title. WaPo called it, “For D.C., Vince Gray’s election is a bold step backward”…but that’s not what Kojo wrote:

The District today is becoming more racially, ethnically and culturally diverse than it has been in my 41 years here. The tax base is expanding, something every mayor in every city finds desirable. But this also means more affluent residents are displacing poorer residents. And with our city’s troubled racial history,gentrification can be socially and politically volatile.

That volatility has resulted in Mayor Adrian Fenty’s ouster. Vincent Gray, a decent and thoughtful man, benefited from black voters’ anger at Fenty, a result of four years of real and perceived slights by the mayor toward his black constituents. But that anger has propelled us into a future that concerns me. While the past should inform the future, it shouldn’t handcuff it…

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FILED UNDER: Media, Kojo, Politics, Vince Gray, Washington Post