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Do you really know who Christopher Columbus/Cristobal Colon was? Do You Really Know Who You Are Celebrating on Columbus Day? The often untold facts surrounding Christopher Columbus and the things he and his men did are seldom told within mainstream institutions. The scores of Indigenous People’s lives that he and his men took in the name of “conquest” remain one of the biggest secrets kept from schoolbooks within a great many schools. Honoring Christopher Columbus every second Monday of October is a direct slap in the face to those people who were slain. The celebration of Columbus Day is also a slap in the face in respect to Indigenous Cultures, and their struggle for justice and equality. Please join us this episode for an in-depth and candid look into the odious holiday otherwise known as Columbus Day. We are joined by scholar, historian, author and activist, Howard Zinn. This promises to be a most edifying episode. If you cannot tune in LIVE to this episode it will be archived immediately upon completion. Please click here: www.blogtalkradio.com/UNITV-Radio to hear the show LIVE or an Archive.

Please join us Thursday October 1, 2009 at 2:00 PM for an informative discussion with Gursean Singh and Sunmit Singh. Gursean and Sunmit are both members of the Sikh Student Association at the University of Maryland. These two progressive students will be joining us in studio for an in-depth conversation about the Sikh religion and culture. Much like Muslims, Sikhs have been persecuted throughout the Western world. Due to ignorance, prejudice and racism Sikhs have been unjustly and unwarrantedly profiled in a similar fashion that people of African decent have historically been, and continue to be unwarrantedly profiled. Gursean and Sunmit will provide a deep and more contextual insight to the Sikh religion, their history, and their continued struggle for justice. They also will be talking about the Sikh Genocide of 1978-1995. This year marks 25 years since the occupation of Punjab and the Sikh Genocide. If you cannot tune in LIVE to this episode it will be archived immediately upon completion. Please click here: www.blogtalkradio.com/UNITV-Radio to hear the show LIVE or an Archive.

Please tune in this week for a feature dialogue with Social Activist, Journalist, and devoted Pan-African, Mr, Abayomi Azikiwe. Mr. Azikiwe is the editor of the Pan-African News Wire, an electronic international press agency founded in 1998. Azikiwe is also a broadcast journalist and has hosted a number radio programs on five different stations in Detroit and Toronto. Abayomi will be conducting a lecture at the Nyumburu Cultural Center (www.nyumburu.umd.edu) on Wednesday September 23rd 2009 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM. This lecture is free to the public. Azikiwe is an activist with a number of organizations including the Moratorium NOW! Coalition to Stop Foreclosures, Evictions and Utility Shut-offs, the Michigan Emergency Committee Against War & Injustice, he is the board chair of the Michigan Coalition for Human Rights and a co-founder of the Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality. Azikiwe has appeared in documentary films, television and radio programs produced in Italy, Canada, France, Venezuela and the United States. Azikiwe has lectured at a number of universities, community centers and churches in the United States and Canada. He has traveled and conducted field research in South Africa, Namibia and Lesotho. He often appears as a guest commentator on various radio and television programs in the United States and abroad. Please tune in from 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM Thursday, September 17, 2009. If you cannot tune in to this episode it will be archived immediately upon completion.

Please join us today at 3:00 PM for an enlightening and informative discussion with Prof. Gerónimo Alberto Sanchez Garcia and Prof. Alejandro Israel Correa Ortega the Instituto Universitario de Barlovento (IUB) of Venezuela. Founded in 1991. Join us for their in depth and informed perspectives about: the history of African people in Venezuela; the impact of Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution, lead by Hugo Chavez, on African descendants; and learn about advances in Afro-Venezuelan and African studies in the education system. Sanchez and Correa will also discuss in detail plans for a fall 2010 study abroad project, which will help six students from IUB visit the US in spring semester 2010. If you cannot tune in LIVE to this episode it will be archived immediately upon completion. Please click here: www.blogtalkradio.com/UNITV-Radio to hear the show LIVE or an Archive.

The Nyumburu (Freedom House) Cultural Center recently kicked off another semester of empowering and progressive programming this fall 2009 semester. Founded over 36 years ago, Nyumburu has provided programming to the University of Maryland campus community and beyond, centered on a focus of Africa and her Diaspora. This semester will be no different. In this episode we will focus on some key news events and highlight some of the upcoming programs that Nyumburu will sponsor this semester. Please tune in LIVE or on Archive.

In this episode of UNITV RADIO we will interview the Director of the Nyumburu African/Black Cultural Center on the campus of the University of Maryland. His name is Dr. Ronald Zeigler. Dr. Zeigler will share with us his experiences during the US Civil Rights era and how they have impacted his leadership as Director of Nyumburu. He will also share with us his perspectives on the continuing struggle for equality and justice in America today.