DJ Kristyles and DJ Lily Jade live at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for the NABJ Conference

DJ Kristyles and guest co-host DJ Lily Jade are live at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for the "Welcome to Cleveland" party at the National Association of Black Journalists convention! Join them as they talk to movers and shakers in the Black community, including Cleveland Council President Blaine Griffin, CBS Cleveland's Tiffany Tucker, FOX Cleveland's Jennifer Jordan and more!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
This is WOVU Studios, the number one DJ and the
game Well what two three?

Speaker 2 (00:10):
You're in the mags with DJ and Chrys Styles.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
Not a five point not FM.

Speaker 4 (00:15):
Right there, Live at the Rock and Roll Hall of
Thame n a BJ twenty twenty five fifty year anniversary.
I'm here with my co host, here, the lovely DJ
Lily J.

Speaker 5 (00:27):
What's up?

Speaker 6 (00:27):
What's up?

Speaker 5 (00:28):
What's up? Everybody? DJ Lily J? And here with y'all
live Rock Hall NABJ. We're gonna have fun and I
celebrate fifty years.

Speaker 4 (00:39):
But listen, yeah, yeah, but we're not going to celebrate
you on your laptop. That's not what we're not going
to do. No, cut that thing down.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
Were freestyle in this state.

Speaker 5 (00:49):
We freestyling.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
Yes, that's all the action.

Speaker 7 (00:52):
Whatever you say.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
All right, We've got special guests here today.

Speaker 7 (00:57):
Oh yes we do.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
We got the president.

Speaker 4 (01:01):
No, he's our president and president right now right now,
we'll we'll recognize non descripts right now. Yea yeah, I mean,
but the president of Cleveland City Council, President Blaine Griffin,
is in the building.

Speaker 8 (01:14):
Hey, what's up everybody? What's up? Lily J?

Speaker 3 (01:18):
How she's stuck because she don't got the laptop.

Speaker 8 (01:21):
She rolling.

Speaker 9 (01:23):
Lapto.

Speaker 5 (01:23):
Oh you want me to go without the laptop because clearly,
clearly you want us to go how it goes.

Speaker 6 (01:30):
So we're gonna go.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
I love it. Little technical difficulties, but we'll get busy.

Speaker 4 (01:38):
Oh yeah, so how you fifty years in ABJ here
in the city of cliff Cleveland has some some great
things that happen, uh, monumentum things when it comes in
like these conferences, and seems like he always lands on Cleveland, right,
That's why I know we're special.

Speaker 5 (01:54):
We always get the big things.

Speaker 10 (01:55):
We can get the baby planning.

Speaker 8 (01:58):
This well, I mean, I want to tell you man.
You know, first of all, I want to give a
shout out to the NABJ for choosing Cleveland, because you know,
they didn't have to come to choose this location to
tell black stories, which is what's so important about this
whole conference. How do you tell black stories, how do
you tell the black perspective, how do you make sure

(02:19):
that African American culture is represented in the media. And
you know the fact that they chose this location, the
place where we elected the first black mayor of a
major city, the place where Jesse owens. You know, put
racism on its back by winning for gold medals the
place where we actually had so much black excellence. Man,

(02:42):
it's just phenomenal calling posts. I mean, just to be
able to tell, you know, William O. Walker's story. And
I hope that everybody takes out of here, not just
the fact that we're coming here to have a good
time and a party, but how do we make sure
that we send a message to America that black stories
are important because the fourth of State is under attack. Yes,

(03:04):
and the fact that we got people like Lily Ja
that we're trying to bring up in the next generation
is just phenomenal. So I'm ecstatic. Man, it's way past
my bedtime.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
Right there. I don't say that.

Speaker 5 (03:21):
It's past my bedtime too. School hasn't even started, but
I need I have a sleep sleep schedule.

Speaker 3 (03:28):
No, do they still do that now?

Speaker 4 (03:31):
They still have like two weeks before school started to
get back to your sleep schedule.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
No.

Speaker 5 (03:35):
I'm always on my sleep schedule no matter what. I
need to be asleep at ten o'clock, exceptions for eleven.
But I need to be asleep at ten o'clock because
I wake I wake up like at six o'clock in
the morning, and if that gets messed up, my day
will not go as I haven't planned. So I need
to be asleep ten o'clock at the dot, so I.

Speaker 10 (03:59):
Can't wake up.

Speaker 3 (04:01):
Last time I went to sleep at ten o'clock. Oh wow,
well then I don't.

Speaker 8 (04:07):
To my point. You know what they say with babies
and older people, we see a kindred speaker.

Speaker 4 (04:12):
I don't know I happened right now. I'd just climbing.
So today was the Today's the kickoff. We hear that
rokro Hall of Fame here? What other because I know
you guys probably have that idea. What is the new
improvement to have here in the Rocker Hall of Fame
that you know of?

Speaker 8 (04:28):
Well, I mean improvements, man. I mean they got a
lot of great things here, and you know, all of
the renovations are great, but the fact that they keep
on bringing some of the artists that are here, yes,
some of the young artists. And let's face it, you know,
journalism is a form of art, you know what I mean?
I tell everybody. A lot of people don't know this,

(04:49):
but my degree was in communications. Part of it was
because you know, some people graduated from college summa cum
Latti I graduated college. Thank God almighty.

Speaker 3 (05:01):
Yeah, yeah, so yeah.

Speaker 8 (05:02):
At the end of the day, I had a communications
degree because I learned how to communicate. I may not
have been good with math, I may not have been
good with the King's English, but at the end of
the day, I got a degree because of exactly what
all of these thousands of people are coming into our
city today. Journalism and to be able to tell black
stories from a black perspective. It's just so important.

Speaker 5 (05:24):
It is, it is really important.

Speaker 3 (05:27):
I'll tell you what.

Speaker 4 (05:28):
One of the questions I asked I've been I was
on the floor all day today at the convention Center
asking questions, at some.

Speaker 3 (05:34):
Point or when, at this point, are.

Speaker 4 (05:37):
We going to own the media black people, We're going
to own our own media, not just the company itself,
not just the hiring itself, but also the distribution of
that content. We have yet to have that platform. Yeah,
we got some building one, We've got something that's building up,
you know, but when is that going to come to fruition?

Speaker 8 (05:56):
Well a couple of things. First of all, you're doing
it now right WVU. That's five point nine is killing
the game. This is what it's all about.

Speaker 11 (06:03):
It.

Speaker 8 (06:03):
I want to give a shout out to my man
Darvy of Murrell, who just basically knows what he's doing.
And then to be able to have historical context that
we have in Cleveland, like the calling Post which was
rammed by W. O. Walker, which at the time was
one of the most powerful individuals in the city of Cleveland.
You couldn't be a mayor, you couldn't be a judge,

(06:24):
you couldn't be anything unless you came to black media.
And that's whether you were white or black. You understand
what I'm saying. So to be able to have black voices,
being able to tell Black stories is important. And in
the age where di is under attack, the fourth the
state is under attack. People have made politicians a bad word.
And at the end of the day, we've had so

(06:47):
much outward migration that we forget about the greatness of
black communication. How do we talk the swag that we have,
the way that we carry ourselves, the way that we
communicate with each other, the way that we embrace each other,
the way that the D nine I'm gonna make a
side five, you know, or you know, we got to
make sure that we be able to tell people when

(07:08):
we speak people understand in our own tone, in our
own language. And that's why I'm so proud of my girl,
Lily jade Man, who is basically set in the mode
for the next generation.

Speaker 5 (07:19):
Well, that brings it to my question, what advice would
you give to young journalists like me?

Speaker 8 (07:26):
What I would tell you is to be yourself. Okay,
be yourself. First of all, you have to be authentic.
People like authenticity. You know, you may not like our president,
but the reason that a lot of people gravitate to
him is because he's authentic. He's in myself okay, good, bad,
or indifferent. So first of all, I would say, be authentic.

(07:48):
The second thing I would say is hone your craft.
You know, I was a basketball player. When I was younger.
I would shovel the snow off of the foul line
just so that I could take a hundred free throws
every day. Your dad used to do.

Speaker 3 (08:03):
That, That's why he was guns.

Speaker 8 (08:05):
So when you dedicate yourself to something, you dedicate yourself
to your craft. Learn everything you know about the craft,
learn the back office, the production, how people make money
off of it. But then also create, be creative and
learn your art and your artistic your art and your creativity.
But I would tell you what's more important than anything.

(08:27):
Most people don't care what you know unless they know
that you care. And one of my biggest best classes
when I was in school was called Aristotle's Rhetorical Theory,
and it talked about eat those pathos and logos. When
you have empathy, when you really feel the stories that
you're telling, when you have pathos, when you really, you know,

(08:48):
have a passion to try to defend and stand up
for the stories that you know and that you understand,
and when you have logos, when you have the thought
process and the logic and the the you know, the
stateidious to be able to understand, how to be able
to attack the system. You know, we're still in the

(09:09):
new Jane and Jim Crow, and we can't fool ourselves
about that. And that's why we got to really do
better by teaching young journalists how to be able to
think and be critical thinkers and not just be trained,
but be critical thinkers.

Speaker 5 (09:26):
That's really that's good advice right there, that that really
is some good I.

Speaker 8 (09:32):
Came to give you my best shot, Lily j my
best shot.

Speaker 5 (09:35):
You know, that's better than our interview. That was better
than our interview on the.

Speaker 4 (09:40):
Trains ninety five point nine FM live here at the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. DJ Lily Jade is
here fun along here with President of the City Council
of Cleveland, Blame g.

Speaker 12 (10:00):
So.

Speaker 3 (10:00):
Tell us, like, let's let's drop the shoulder and let's listen.

Speaker 8 (10:05):
Listen the Brown's going.

Speaker 3 (10:07):
To do this year?

Speaker 8 (10:08):
Man, Hey, the ink is not dry.

Speaker 4 (10:11):
I'm talking about the product on the field.

Speaker 8 (10:14):
I don't care. I just wanted to be downtown Cleveland.
Did you fight them with my guys?

Speaker 13 (10:19):
Man?

Speaker 8 (10:19):
And listen, man, they belong to be in the downtown
Central Business district. They're the Cleveland Browns, not the brook
Park Browns. But let me say this, I think the
Browns are going to have a very good team this year.
I think that Andrew Barry has done a great job
of putting the right ingradients on the are you listen?
And I think that Kevin Stiffanski knows what he's doing.
I think you're going to see a surprise this year.

Speaker 4 (10:40):
I can't believe you said that with a straight face
on me right now. I can't believe he said that
with a straight face, Like, Man, you're good at what
you do.

Speaker 3 (10:49):
At your job, because that is wow.

Speaker 8 (10:56):
Hey, listen, I've learned a long time I don't I
learned a lot time ago. If you can't tell everybody
that your meal is great, then they ain't gonna eat.
So you better tell everybody that great. Even if it ain't,
you better tell them that your meal is I wanted.

Speaker 3 (11:11):
To like full.

Speaker 4 (11:12):
I wanted to full broadcast mode now because I dropped
all lot of things, and so now I'm going to
see the Browns practice and I just come for that
practice frustrated and like, this can't be real.

Speaker 3 (11:24):
This is not this is not a real thing.

Speaker 8 (11:28):
It's training camp. They're distracted, They're distracted, They're.

Speaker 3 (11:33):
Can you live leave the listeners. A little nugget for us.

Speaker 8 (11:38):
If I could tell you a nugget, is that I'm
glad everybody gets a chance to experience our city. And
I'm glad that everybody's gonna come here and have a
good time. I mean, they ain't come to Cleveland to
see the misery index, but I hope that they get
a chance to get out and see neighborhoods. One of
the best things about this journalistic experience that I've watched

(11:58):
with n A BJ is when a group of students,
probably about thirty students came out to Caramel House and
I got to tell them the story of Fairfax Love.
It just drilled down on the neighborhood, just to talk
about how Langston Hughes and Jesse Owens and people that
developed black excellence come from the neighborhoods. Most people go

(12:18):
to other cities and they just stay in the central
business district and they judge cities by staying in the
central business district. Cleveland is a great city, man that
has an enormous amount of talent, has an enormous amount
of gravitas and history, and it's a big city, but
a small town. Everybody, when I ask everybody, what's the
biggest thing you take away? Whether it's been the Republican

(12:41):
National Committee where they came here for a riot and
they left with a block party, or whether it's been
the Calves you know parade, which my girl Isha was
here today, who is Lily Jay's mama coordinated the whole
thing where millions of people came into our city and
it wasn't any problem. And and just the heart that

(13:01):
we have for the city man, you know, Cleveland, That's
what I want to leave a nugget about Cleveland. Man,
don't forget about Oh the food is amazing. Man, Get
a corn beef sandwich, get a Polish boy, and also
come over man and spend your money. We want you
all to spend all your money. We want you all
to leave here dropping a couple of grand We want

(13:22):
you all to make sure that everybody but listen, just
enjoy the city.

Speaker 4 (13:26):
Man.

Speaker 8 (13:26):
The city is great. Or Howard City on the West Side,
West Park, Little Italy, Fairfax, Lee, Harvard. Man, this is
a legendary city.

Speaker 7 (13:36):
Man.

Speaker 8 (13:36):
And once again, man, we set the tone and so
many things with black excellence. Bobby Womack, you know Terrence Howard.
If the new generation know they like Empire and Lucien's Lyon,
he's from here. Uh you know Ozzie Ozzie and uh
you know Ozzie and uh I forget his name her name,
but uh you know Ozzi and those guys from over

(13:58):
in the Fairfax area. Man, you know the old Jays,
you know. Come on, this is a city about the soul.
This is a city of soul. Man. So I'm glad
that everybody get a chance man to come and celebrate
Cleveland and If there's one nugget that I would leave
you is that Cleveland is a great city. Don't let
anybody try to tell you that we are any kind
of mistake on the lake. If anything, we are a

(14:21):
great location and a destination, and we the North for real.

Speaker 4 (14:26):
Give it up, everybody, one time, griff, give it up,
all right, Yeah, appreciate you coming on, Thank god, thank
you at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Here
at the kickoff of the NABJ twenty twenty five.

Speaker 3 (14:40):
We'll be right back. You already know what it is, lilies.

Speaker 4 (14:43):
Yeah, oh god, you can bring you can bring it
tipping the tuck.

Speaker 8 (14:48):
Around, can bring right, Yeah, yeah, we're good girls. Yeah,
bring it right.

Speaker 4 (14:51):
Oh yeah yeah, we keep it going, all right. So
nineteen sixty.

Speaker 5 (14:55):
Nine grandparents had parents I have and either removing it.
That's why I'm not okay, last time you watched PBS
like yesterday?

Speaker 4 (15:09):
Oh okay, Well, I guess you're still watching it. I
guess it's still number one on your on your list.
I still still number one on your list. Ninety five
point FM. We live right here in a BJ twenty
twenty five. Fifty years, fifty years of excellent of black
journalist if I call myself a journalist, Okay, I can't

(15:30):
remember the last time I wrote an article. I'm a
journalist byb Yeah, like writing ones red fifteen years probably
fifteen years.

Speaker 8 (15:41):
You're that old.

Speaker 3 (15:43):
Oh, welcome to the party, label Rome to the party.

Speaker 8 (15:47):
Welcome to the party. I don't know, look.

Speaker 6 (15:59):
Welcome to that.

Speaker 7 (16:00):
You're way yeah.

Speaker 2 (16:01):
Where's your Lily right over?

Speaker 3 (16:05):
Jors?

Speaker 8 (16:06):
What is she right to?

Speaker 6 (16:07):
Lily?

Speaker 3 (16:08):
Just skip right over all for it?

Speaker 4 (16:10):
Just coolm on the boards.

Speaker 14 (16:13):
So Lily, you're gonna ask the question.

Speaker 7 (16:14):
You're going to ask us questions? What are you going
to ask us? Because you know we normally the people
who write hold up.

Speaker 14 (16:24):
On the other side, normally.

Speaker 3 (16:29):
Going to hijack the show.

Speaker 5 (16:30):
That's you love that.

Speaker 4 (16:32):
That's not gonna how much I wanted to do, like
you're the only one here.

Speaker 7 (16:37):
Just don't do that, Okay, don't do the course.

Speaker 3 (16:45):
Stuck me writing.

Speaker 6 (16:48):
I love it.

Speaker 3 (16:51):
D J Christ you're alive with and this is my DJ?

Speaker 8 (16:56):
Lily J lower than me?

Speaker 3 (16:58):
When are we going to battle with this?

Speaker 14 (17:00):
Do you want to we.

Speaker 4 (17:01):
We're gonna battle, women, go DJ battle.

Speaker 3 (17:04):
When are we going to DJ? Remember we're going to court?

Speaker 10 (17:07):
Remember we were talking with.

Speaker 3 (17:11):
So when is the what are we one one?

Speaker 8 (17:15):
Right?

Speaker 5 (17:15):
We're one one? Apparently I thought it was two zero,
but apparently.

Speaker 3 (17:20):
First one, first one. I gave you. I gave you
the win. You didn't give it to me. That was
automatically given to me. He did that flip. What's the
second time?

Speaker 15 (17:29):
Right?

Speaker 7 (17:30):
No, that was the first time.

Speaker 3 (17:30):
First time what he did that flip?

Speaker 10 (17:32):
We knew that it was me, So you.

Speaker 3 (17:35):
Brought the rig right. But to the second time we battled. Yeah,
you got quiet on that one. See how that works?
See how that worked?

Speaker 4 (17:43):
Still better in general, like what happened.

Speaker 3 (17:47):
In general, they're not gonna be like what introduced. Go
ahead introduced the.

Speaker 5 (17:52):
Guests, Uh, go ahead, trying.

Speaker 3 (17:56):
To We'll get right. We'll get right too.

Speaker 4 (17:57):
We got we got we got family here right now,
so we keep cool.

Speaker 3 (18:02):
We're gonna talk about this late ter. Okay, you get
me it.

Speaker 5 (18:08):
Let's chill right now. So our next guest, we have
the legendary.

Speaker 3 (18:18):
From Channel nine.

Speaker 5 (18:21):
T We have the one and only I love her already,
Tiffany Tucker, give up one time, one time to the
Lily J not the Lily J Show. No, take it
over the show, My bad, bad And then can't forget

(18:43):
about my girl. Also, we got miss Jennifer from Fox.

Speaker 16 (18:50):
Here.

Speaker 7 (18:52):
I love that energy that Lily has, Lily j Lily.

Speaker 14 (18:57):
And I'm so proud of that.

Speaker 7 (18:58):
Thank you is beautiful.

Speaker 12 (19:00):
And You've just been a light at so many different
like events that I've been to, like of course Alpha
Kappa Alpha Sorority incorporated. Your mom and I are so
or so that's where I was first introduced. That's how
it was first introduced you to you, Lily, and I'm
just so proud of you.

Speaker 10 (19:18):
Thank you, You're welcome.

Speaker 1 (19:20):
Well, I'm proud of you because Jennifer's proud of you.
So I co signed on all of that.

Speaker 14 (19:26):
Yeah, sure, well, thank you so much for having us first.

Speaker 5 (19:29):
Thanks for coming. Christals. You got anything you want to say,
apparently if you're left out, you got anything you want say.

Speaker 3 (19:39):
I'm a team player. I'm a team player. I'll give
this this go ahead. No NAB fifty years.

Speaker 4 (19:47):
What does that mean to us as as black journalists
and within the black community.

Speaker 8 (19:53):
I mean that.

Speaker 7 (19:53):
Means what it stands for with resilience.

Speaker 1 (19:57):
I mean I remember my first NABJ I don't years ago,
was in Orlando and just to see other journalists who
look like you, who walk like you, who talk like you,
who could share the same information as you. It was
just an eye opening, beautiful thing. They have it here
in Cleveland. A lot of people haven't ever experienced Cleveland
and didn't.

Speaker 14 (20:16):
Know about Cleveland. Now they know.

Speaker 1 (20:18):
You know, I want to be sitting next to Jennifer Jordan,
who I met what thirteen years ago out on a story.

Speaker 14 (20:25):
Out on a story. I think you were pregnant after
I was pregnant with somebody I don't even know.

Speaker 8 (20:29):
We were always still.

Speaker 6 (20:31):
Pregnant, but I'm not.

Speaker 12 (20:33):
You were pregnant and we were at a breaking news
story in Cleveland, and.

Speaker 14 (20:37):
I was like, that's my people.

Speaker 12 (20:39):
We just felt the energy, like you know when you
meet someone out in the field, you do the same thing. Yes,
we worked for competing stations, but Tiffany Tucker and I
have always had like a connection.

Speaker 14 (20:50):
I think it's maybe the mommy connection. Being a mom
in this industry is not for the week.

Speaker 12 (20:56):
You're working a lot of hours, You're working a lot
of You're covering a lot of stories that hit home.

Speaker 14 (21:03):
You see the worst of the worst. You see.

Speaker 12 (21:07):
We interview people on their worst days, and you know
we just know what our careers are like. We understand
each other's hustle and the balance between home life and career.
So I think that's how Tiffany and not connected with
most and.

Speaker 3 (21:22):
Your y'all became a village out of that.

Speaker 4 (21:26):
How do you bounce a family life and being on
TV and doing the news, Like, how do you balance that?
Because you do have work odd hours, you do have
to get up a certain time and be there at
cerch time. How does that mix with the family life.

Speaker 14 (21:38):
Well, I think Tiffany can explain more. I have an
adult daughter. My daughter is twenty seven.

Speaker 12 (21:44):
I was Yes, I'm outside of that, but I mean
I worked in New York City when my daughter was
you know, I got my first job in New York
City when my daughter was four years old and I
was his single mom.

Speaker 14 (21:54):
And it was tough. It was tough.

Speaker 12 (21:57):
And I see these young journalists out there today, and
I think they have a lot more tools than I
had when I was in the industry. I mean they
were able to, you know, research stories at the touch
of their their.

Speaker 14 (22:11):
Phones and we have cell phones.

Speaker 12 (22:13):
Lily, when I first started in the Yellow Pages, for me,
we were looking at map books, trying to get from
point A to point B. We didn't have Google Maps
when I started in the industry, we didn't have cell phones.

Speaker 7 (22:26):
Cell phone now we're selling like an.

Speaker 12 (22:27):
Old colend There were college we had beepers and pages
back in the day, Lily, it was.

Speaker 7 (22:34):
It's just a different world.

Speaker 12 (22:35):
But Tiffany, you can talk about more about how you
know being a brilliant juggling motherhood and career.

Speaker 7 (22:41):
I don't know how you just you just managed to
do it.

Speaker 1 (22:43):
So I have a thirteen year old and a sixteen
year old and an eighty five year old mom who
lived with us before we had kids, and my husband's
a news photographer, so we it's a crazy, crazy family.

Speaker 7 (22:56):
But you know, I think you just have to lean on.

Speaker 1 (22:59):
Your community and think to have my mom and thank
God to have a supportive husband, but you have to
lean on others to kind of get through it. Now
he's out there grinding seeing the worst of the worst.
Now I'm not on the field as much, although I
still do stories n Anchor, but you have to try
to make that balance. Nothing's perfect, and so when people
say how do you juggle it, I don't know that
you do. You just wake up the next day and

(23:20):
thank the Lord for the day that you have and
keep on moving, and thank the Lord that I'm able
to provide amen my children and have our health and happiness.

Speaker 7 (23:29):
But industry has definitely changed Gensen's when you started a lot.

Speaker 12 (23:34):
I remember walking in a newsroom and you hear the
sound of typewriters.

Speaker 7 (23:37):
I don't remember that. And you smell cigarettes. I don't
remember that.

Speaker 8 (23:41):
Now.

Speaker 7 (23:41):
People used to smell.

Speaker 12 (23:45):
And there were typewriters, the sound of typewriters.

Speaker 14 (23:49):
In the newsroom. I know I'm older than you.

Speaker 3 (23:51):
You don't remember that.

Speaker 2 (23:52):
I remember that, but I do.

Speaker 7 (23:54):
But I like hearing your stories.

Speaker 12 (23:55):
Yes, I remember that too, though you remember that too, Yes,
but yes, yes, miss Lily, Miss Lily Jay.

Speaker 5 (24:04):
Let's bring it with some fun.

Speaker 7 (24:06):
Okay, so that was fun?

Speaker 8 (24:07):
Okay, I want fun? Is now?

Speaker 1 (24:08):
Is that fun spelled? If you and R P h
U and that kind of fun? What kind of fun
are you talking?

Speaker 7 (24:15):
Okay?

Speaker 5 (24:16):
She had the other spell.

Speaker 7 (24:18):
Okay, I'm with you, the boring. Okay, just keep coming.

Speaker 3 (24:24):
What song makes you run to the dance floor tonight?

Speaker 17 (24:27):
Like?

Speaker 5 (24:27):
What song it turns on? And then boom, you know,
I gotta run out to the dance floor and dance
right now.

Speaker 12 (24:35):
Well, for me, I mean obviously anything Beyonce. I'm going
to run to the dance floor. Oh yes, Beyonce's Renaissance album.

Speaker 10 (24:43):
I mean, that's a good one.

Speaker 14 (24:44):
S goooves and just get you out there. We just
heard it.

Speaker 12 (24:48):
We were at the Rich Carlton earlier for another mixer
and they were playing some Beyonce and I'm like, I
missed this album that makes that makes me want to.

Speaker 7 (24:55):
Dan definitely, I think any kind of song. I mean,
it's just but the energy of the person you're with.

Speaker 1 (25:00):
School new school with some of this does I don't
understand what some of the things of the beats.

Speaker 7 (25:06):
Swearing, calling people by their name.

Speaker 1 (25:08):
I'm okay, I'm okay right, let me who do you
listen to now?

Speaker 5 (25:14):
So I listen to anybody, But personally, I like listening
to a lot of Chapelone, a lot, a lot of scizza,
a lot of of course Kendrick Lamar.

Speaker 7 (25:28):
You can see her hand expressions right now.

Speaker 12 (25:29):
Have to Okay, but you like Kenjack Lamar, But did
you like Drake before the Kendrick Lamar.

Speaker 4 (25:34):
Be Now that no, you got her Hyperea.

Speaker 5 (25:43):
Personally, I like I would listen to some of his songs,
like I would like, I love some of his songs,
but I wasn't like really a big.

Speaker 10 (25:55):
Fan of.

Speaker 3 (25:58):
Baby Girl. You don't like that part Nokia?

Speaker 4 (26:02):
Yeah, baby Girl, I like the song, I just I
don't like that part of it.

Speaker 10 (26:07):
Girl.

Speaker 12 (26:10):
No. I heard an old Brake song today and that
makes that made me what I what I was.

Speaker 5 (26:16):
Let's say when I was like five or six, I'm eleven.
Now you know that song, you know, something like kik
do you Love Me? Like that one?

Speaker 8 (26:29):
That one?

Speaker 5 (26:30):
Like what that one was like my favorite song. That
was the one that was.

Speaker 7 (26:34):
Getting get me going.

Speaker 14 (26:36):
Ok.

Speaker 5 (26:36):
But like personally, before the beef, I was really a
big the biggest fan, like I would listen.

Speaker 10 (26:42):
To a song.

Speaker 17 (26:42):
Just was.

Speaker 3 (26:46):
After the beef. What happened?

Speaker 5 (26:48):
Oh after that? Yeah, after that, it's like, Okay, just
forgot about his existence.

Speaker 7 (26:56):
God about his existence happens in five years?

Speaker 12 (26:59):
My goodness, I don't know, Lily I paid Kendrick Lamar's
song was a little overrated to me.

Speaker 14 (27:06):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 8 (27:06):
I'm a die hard drink.

Speaker 10 (27:08):
It was it was it was over rate.

Speaker 7 (27:11):
I'm a drake.

Speaker 2 (27:12):
I'm sorry. So that's not the wrong I get.

Speaker 12 (27:16):
Yes, I like the message behind it, but I didn't
like it was I didn't like that territory.

Speaker 7 (27:20):
No, I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 (27:24):
I could go down on laying with with draking that thing.
I'm not evenna go through it.

Speaker 7 (27:27):
Nobody can ever make me not like Drake.

Speaker 3 (27:30):
I love I love in other news. I love rapping Drake.

Speaker 4 (27:35):
I love rapping Drake is top tier. Come on, but
singing Drake and go back singing He's singing and to get
the emotional I just don't like it's the same.

Speaker 5 (27:44):
Yeah, but the song like he has no he is
like the only song that can give me hype.

Speaker 7 (27:49):
From Cake with Jay Zirl.

Speaker 4 (27:52):
Okay, rapping Drake. You talk about rapping Drake. Rapping Drake
is top So what can we respect from you eighties
here at the N A b J. You guys on
the panel.

Speaker 7 (28:02):
We are not on the panel.

Speaker 12 (28:03):
Will what I'm not on a panel, but I am
am seeing closing gala, the Gospel Brunch. Yes, Sunday, I
will see that.

Speaker 7 (28:19):
Yes, I was there. That will be here before we
know it.

Speaker 1 (28:23):
Right, Yes, you have to come see Miss Jennifer Jordan
at the Gospel Gospel. A lot of people always not attendees,
but a lot of them missed the brunch because it's
the last day of the convention.

Speaker 7 (28:35):
A lot of people haven't.

Speaker 12 (28:39):
The gospel brunches are usually the highlights of the n
A b J convention. I believe last year, Yolanda Adams,
they are saying that they have a popular.

Speaker 14 (28:51):
Gospel choir.

Speaker 7 (28:53):
I don't get nineteen news.

Speaker 1 (28:54):
I'm gonna find out for you.

Speaker 12 (28:58):
Maybe I just don't want to and I don't want
to give them all then.

Speaker 5 (29:06):
That you want to keep it a surprise so people
won't want to go, So you don't want to go,
and that way they'll be like, oh, it's this person.
I don't want to go, making a surprise. They can
find out.

Speaker 12 (29:21):
Just keep just give people a little taste. But it's
gonna be an amazing gospel brunch. And usually again, the
gospel brunches are the highlights of the and it be
DJ convention every year.

Speaker 1 (29:31):
I'm just gonna be at our great television booths or
recruiting booths talking to people looking at their tapes, giving
them some advice, that kind of stuff.

Speaker 3 (29:40):
I got so much to talk about that that could
be another conversation.

Speaker 4 (29:44):
We can't do it right now because we're short on time,
but Instagram and Facebook.

Speaker 3 (29:48):
But I do because I walked in today. What happened
off off records?

Speaker 4 (29:54):
Off record?

Speaker 8 (29:55):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (29:55):
That means okay, so we'll wait. I got that smile,
that face, the story. I gotta hear it.

Speaker 12 (30:04):
My Instagram, Yes, I am Jennifer Jay.

Speaker 14 (30:07):
That's very easy.

Speaker 12 (30:08):
Instagram, I am Jennifer j You can buy me there.
And on Facebook.

Speaker 7 (30:13):
Yes, my Facebook is Tiffany Tucker TV. Tiffany with an
E at the end, not a y like the jewelry store.

Speaker 1 (30:19):
Blame my dad for that. So Tiffany Talker TV. Instagram
is Tiffany Tucker News. They're giving us the rapp.

Speaker 7 (30:26):
Thank you so much for having you.

Speaker 3 (30:30):
Know, you're my future sorrow.

Speaker 1 (30:31):
Right.

Speaker 7 (30:32):
Yeah, she's gonna take our jobs.

Speaker 1 (30:34):
I'm gonna take appreciate you.

Speaker 4 (30:37):
Ladies for having I got a special guest, one of
my other really good friends. When I started getting into
movies and talking about movies. She's one of the best
writers there is out there. When we're talking about movies
and and talk and and just listen and just curtice
the movies right now, Miss Kathia, I say it right,

(31:00):
Kathy Kathia Woods. I think I got a right. I
think I got a right? Did I get a right? Kathia,
let me pull up.

Speaker 3 (31:10):
Yes you did.

Speaker 13 (31:12):
Huh.

Speaker 18 (31:12):
This is taking me back to my radio days, like
I used to host the Underground Hip Hop Show and
did some college radio stuff as well. But yeah, so
back in the day when you could be a little
you know, reckless, you could just drop, you could just
play what you wanted before the machine came in and

(31:34):
try to regulate the playlist.

Speaker 4 (31:36):
Yes, she walked me through the African American Film Critic Association.

Speaker 3 (31:42):
She helped me.

Speaker 4 (31:45):
How to be cordoral on a zoom call. Yes, trust me,
because I was doing some things. Hit me with the Hey,
you need to look up and not look at your
phone when you're on camera with people. It's giving an interview,
like she read me the Riot Act. If I'm not
up there four nah, I'm straight on my camera. The
look phones turned over, I'm looking at that. But I

(32:06):
appreciate that from you.

Speaker 18 (32:07):
I mean, listen, I want all of our people to
look good.

Speaker 14 (32:11):
Well.

Speaker 18 (32:11):
You also, we hung out at Sundance, you know, through
the treacherous weather.

Speaker 2 (32:15):
I'm very disrespectful.

Speaker 18 (32:17):
Right, I mean, and also helping each other get better passes,
get into these different parties at.

Speaker 16 (32:24):
Macro you know, and whatever.

Speaker 7 (32:26):
You know that that that is always a struggle, right, and.

Speaker 18 (32:30):
Let's not even go there, and let's hope it gets
better in Colorado on one day.

Speaker 3 (32:35):
Yes, are you going to come to you?

Speaker 2 (32:38):
I'm gonna.

Speaker 18 (32:38):
I would. I did at home because I knew I
wanted to go to con and I was like, you
know what, let me, you know, pick the one or
the other. But you know, yeah, I mean, I think
it's important. It's important for us to go. It's important
for us to cover naturally our stuff because you know,
they don't think that we go to go to sundance.

Speaker 8 (33:02):
But we do.

Speaker 3 (33:03):
We do deep deep, deep.

Speaker 18 (33:05):
Right, and we don't just watch wait for it, black films,
even though of course we're there to cover ourself.

Speaker 4 (33:11):
Yeah, we just don't cover It's a fun time. I
urge a lot of people, a lot of journalists to
go there. I think it's a wonderful time. It's one
of those different from the music industry the film industry.
You just really run into the studio heads, You run
into everybody and they just have a regular conversation. I
think that's one of the best things I meet DJ
Lily Jade here the youngest DJ in state of Ohio,

(33:32):
not just on air but actually dj DJ yep.

Speaker 16 (33:36):
The best go for you.

Speaker 3 (33:37):
You is one one right.

Speaker 5 (33:42):
Now, It's gonna be two to one after.

Speaker 3 (33:45):
This next it remains.

Speaker 4 (33:48):
So I had to get your on air because I've
seen you in a long time. We have a talk,
but I know you partying tonight and you gotta get
on the panel tomorrow.

Speaker 18 (33:55):
I'm on. Our panel is Friday, okay at noon and
Room nineteen where we're gonna talk. You know, freelance, I
mean freelancing in this climate and just helping each other
where to get the work, what resources to use because
you know we always the hustles always for us.

Speaker 16 (34:12):
This is just different day, same thing.

Speaker 18 (34:15):
So just giving each other, especially the next generation the
jewels on where to you know, find your writing home,
you know how to reach out to people.

Speaker 10 (34:24):
Don't be sliding in people's DM though, right right.

Speaker 4 (34:29):
Appreciate you so much and I hope we'll get to
hang out before you go back to Philly.

Speaker 18 (34:33):
Absolutely for thank you so much for having me and
I'm happy to be in your city.

Speaker 3 (34:37):
Yeah, thank you, appreciate you. That's Smith.

Speaker 4 (34:39):
Kathya Woods in the building. The best writer to come
to films, the TV critics. I'm telling you read it.
She get all the interviews too, of everybody, everybody before
even know how, I don't know how to get it
like that that quickly. Uh, we got the first lady
of sports here, the first lady of sports.

Speaker 7 (34:57):
Hello, how you guys doing?

Speaker 3 (34:58):
Rachel was in a bill Yes.

Speaker 19 (35:01):
NABJ twenty twenty five in Cleveland, it is finally here.

Speaker 5 (35:06):
And we ought to mention she's an officer for Cleveland's
chapter of NABJ.

Speaker 19 (35:12):
Yes, I'm the treasurer. So I wrote all the checks
to pay for the lovely event. And thank you mother Esha.
So she helped me a lot with everything. So yeah,
a lot of checks written.

Speaker 5 (35:25):
What kind of impact do you think this has on
our local community and future storytellers?

Speaker 19 (35:31):
Oh, it has a great local impact. One, it's bringing
money in and it's highlighting Cleveland. This is the fiftieth
anniversary of NABJ, so to have it here on its
golden anniversary, you know six years ago Cleveland was chosen
because this because the national chapter knew that Cleveland would
be able to carry this this convention and be able

(35:54):
to put off and put on again convention. Yeah, and
you know, one of the reasons why we were so
like because when we first started in twenty twenty, twenty
and fourteen, we had a regional convention in twenty fifteen,
So a year after our starting we had a regional
convention and we were deemed to be co Chapter of

(36:16):
the Year in twenty sixteen. So they said that when
we put our bid in and have it here in Cleveland,
that we were a great chapter and that we could.

Speaker 7 (36:25):
Host the fiftieth anniversary.

Speaker 19 (36:26):
So it's going to have a positive impact around the
world because you have journalists here around the world, so
it's going to have a positive impact on those journalists
as well as our economy as well.

Speaker 3 (36:37):
And we have a good time here.

Speaker 8 (36:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (36:39):
Really time we went behind the plannet of this though,
like tell us a little bit of details that you
can give us.

Speaker 19 (36:45):
Well, a lot goes behind the planning because pretty much
the national organization they handled everything, but the local events
such as the mixer last night at the library was
put on by the local chapter. This event tonight at
the Rocker Roll Hall of Fame was put on by
the local chapters.

Speaker 7 (37:01):
So there's a lot of party planning.

Speaker 19 (37:03):
Recently, we had a Hall of Fame in February, so
that kind of was one of the gear ups to
hold an event like this where the whole country comes in,
So there was a lot of planning that went into it,
but mainly the National chapter does the heavy lifting.

Speaker 4 (37:19):
Nice Nice ninety five point nine FM. Here Love at
the Rock Roll Hall of Fame. In a BJ twenty
twenty five, we got Rachel here, the first Lady of
sports here in the building.

Speaker 3 (37:29):
She had a first radio show in the state of Ohio.

Speaker 5 (37:33):
Let's give her around a right.

Speaker 4 (37:34):
As a female host her own show first.

Speaker 10 (37:39):
That's really big.

Speaker 4 (37:40):
Its huge as it comes on each and every Saturday
eight o'clock correct and also uploaded as a podcast too.

Speaker 3 (37:49):
And just we hear the Cleveland Browns.

Speaker 19 (37:51):
Well, I like how Blaine was very optimistic, and that's politicians,
I guess, you know, they tell you a lot of
they play on your emotions. So it was great him
being really positive. But me and Cleveland Kate, my co
host on her and the Huddle, we were able to
come up with at least six wins. So I know, Chris,
you up with six. We came up with six wins together.

Speaker 3 (38:11):
When we play the six wins against what.

Speaker 7 (38:14):
Well we got you know all of our division.

Speaker 3 (38:18):
Tic tac toe three wins in our division.

Speaker 4 (38:21):
Six wins and uh six wins, So you know that'll
be exciting.

Speaker 19 (38:27):
My question and you guys would be how are you
guys enjoying your first? Is this your first? NABJ?

Speaker 3 (38:31):
This is so okay.

Speaker 4 (38:33):
So I'm misinterpreted with in BJ was about obviously, I
did me a.

Speaker 19 (38:39):
Lot of questions, and I wasn't the very best at
answering you wasn't.

Speaker 3 (38:43):
The best answer to the question.

Speaker 4 (38:44):
I got there today, right, and I'm walking in as
I changed my set up there and changed cloth.

Speaker 3 (38:50):
I walked in, I'm watching every.

Speaker 4 (38:52):
Guy with a suit on one all the guys weren't
suits and I'm looking like this and didn't know it.

Speaker 3 (38:59):
Was a interviews there.

Speaker 4 (39:02):
I'm like, oh, so I got when it Zoom Scott
and uh he and Harry Boomer and and Don till
Worth Fox say, I said, hey, guys, why not wanted
you tell me how to wear a suit?

Speaker 3 (39:15):
I'm in this convention. Just let me come on.

Speaker 5 (39:24):
Like I'm the destroyer the park, like he just came
back from the ring.

Speaker 3 (39:31):
But so I figured out what it was.

Speaker 4 (39:33):
I was like, Okay, so now tomorrow I just don't
go halfway.

Speaker 8 (39:38):
I'm gonna go.

Speaker 4 (39:39):
All the way, snazzy, coming in in a suit. Oh listen,
listen tomorrow I'm step They're gonna.

Speaker 3 (39:45):
Know who I am.

Speaker 7 (39:46):
They will know Okay, they're like.

Speaker 3 (39:49):
Oh that's that guy.

Speaker 7 (39:50):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (39:51):
So but it's good.

Speaker 4 (39:52):
I think it's good. I think it's out dated for me,
for per se, because I'm not looking for a job
right right, So it's like I I'm not interviewing for
anybody no more at this point. Yeah, I can't see
myself sitting down an interviewing like either you like it
or you don't.

Speaker 12 (40:06):
Like the.

Speaker 8 (40:08):
Lily, how about you?

Speaker 5 (40:10):
So this actually is But it's lots of fun. I'm
really enjoying it.

Speaker 10 (40:17):
Thanks.

Speaker 5 (40:18):
There's lots of fun seeing all the good vibes, getting
to meet all these big people, and also getting to
know that we get all this big convention here in
our city. Yeah that's really important and really big.

Speaker 19 (40:34):
Yeah, and what you do is important as well. You're
inspiring a lot of children as well. So I think
it's great. I thought you was just nine. I didn't
know you was a.

Speaker 5 (40:41):
Lot of.

Speaker 7 (40:43):
You an age two years on me.

Speaker 19 (40:45):
I'm like, how should become eleve and all of a sudden,
But you know, I think what you do is great.
You know, you inspire a lot of adults and you
inspire a lot of children. So knowing what you want
to do when you grow up is amazing. So congrats
to you and keep on doing what you're doing. And
you know, I think this NABJ Convention is just you know,
amazing for the city of Cleveland, and it's.

Speaker 7 (41:07):
We still got more days ago.

Speaker 19 (41:08):
Today was just day one, So today you got a
few more days to go.

Speaker 20 (41:14):
A few more days Rachel Hill, what can you respect
from for the rest of the expect the regular conference stuff.

Speaker 8 (41:26):
Who's going to breakout sessions?

Speaker 6 (41:28):
Yeah, don't want to That's going to be a lot
of parties.

Speaker 19 (41:31):
But the breakout sessions are great within itself. You learn
a lot, you meet a lot of people. The Sports
Task Force Party is a huge party that gets a
lot of attendance and you know, one of the great
parties as well as a kickoff party for Atlanta because
the convention is going to be in Atlanta next year.
So what Cleveland did in Chicago last year was we

(41:53):
hosted a party with Destination Cleveland, which was a kickoff
party which passed a torch to us and now on
a few days to get to pass the tours to Atlanta.
Huh uh, DJ for that was DJ low Key was
who it was, DJ Loki, d J Ellery. I'm sorry,
d J Hllary.

Speaker 8 (42:14):
I paid DJ.

Speaker 19 (42:15):
Loky though, so DJ Lokey is on my mind, But
it was DJ l correct.

Speaker 8 (42:20):
Nobody.

Speaker 4 (42:21):
Nobody thought about Lily Jade or Christal Nobody. W wow,
you really really really really got the machine guns?

Speaker 3 (42:33):
Yes, tonight automatic.

Speaker 5 (42:36):
She said you wanted me, You said you wanted me.

Speaker 3 (42:40):
Well we still got a battle because the last battle
we had a smaster. It wasn't close, it wasn't even close.

Speaker 7 (42:50):
Well what you didn't Well, you know, I look at you.
I look at it like this for you guys.

Speaker 19 (42:58):
You know, obviously Cleveland has that talent and will you
guys be in here at this convention. It puts you
guys in the mind for the next conventions later down
the line, and they fly DJs in from across the
country and stuff like that, so that could be an option.

Speaker 3 (43:11):
Yeah, now I'm just talking to I don't care. Appreciate you. First, lady,
sport Rachel.

Speaker 4 (43:18):
He'll make sure you check it out each and every Saturday,
eight am a w OU ninety five point nine FM.

Speaker 3 (43:24):
We're gonna go to a short.

Speaker 4 (43:25):
Break, but we'll be right back, y'all.

Speaker 5 (43:29):
Silly man, Okay, welcome back everybody. Ninety five point nine
s M here live at the Rock and Roll Hall

(43:52):
of Fame.

Speaker 10 (43:54):
And we're back.

Speaker 5 (43:56):
But anyways, our next Intervieweve. We have some connections, you
can say that. I want to welcome Edwin Hubbard, who
is the executive director of NAACP Cleveland chapter.

Speaker 3 (44:14):
How are you doing, mister Edwin?

Speaker 8 (44:15):
I'm great.

Speaker 3 (44:16):
How are you, Lily, I'm good.

Speaker 5 (44:19):
Now, I like, why is NABJ really important for Cleveland?

Speaker 13 (44:25):
Well, I mean, the National Association of Black Journalist is
the voice of so many people. They represent who we
are and the importance of black stories. So, I mean,
it is incredibly important to our cities, and it's incredibly
important that organizations like the Cleveland branch and ACP and
others support this national conference.

Speaker 11 (44:47):
Perfect.

Speaker 5 (44:48):
Now, what's one story that you wish you had paid
more attention on while you were listening?

Speaker 13 (44:59):
Be more specific, I was listening to the radio or
growing up.

Speaker 3 (45:03):
I guess.

Speaker 5 (45:05):
Like while you were growing up, your parents, your parents
or your grandparents and telling you the story about family
or anything like that.

Speaker 8 (45:14):
You know.

Speaker 13 (45:15):
I'm a big fan of listening to my grandparents and
the stories that my mother would tell me when I
was a kid, And obviously I remember so many stories,
and even now I wish I could remember them even
better as they.

Speaker 8 (45:26):
Were originally told to me.

Speaker 13 (45:28):
But I think I could say. One of the things
that my grandmother used to always say to me as
a kid is you don't know what you'll do. You
don't know what you'll do until you actually have to
do it. It was pertaining to food, because when I
was a kid, I always talked about how I hated
peanut butter and I thought it was disgusting and she
I said, I would never eat it, and she said,
you don't never know what you would never do until

(45:48):
you have to do it.

Speaker 8 (45:49):
Now, mind you was years later.

Speaker 13 (45:51):
I'm still not a fan of eating peanut butter, but
I understand what it means to be in a situation
I have to do something you don't necessarily know you
would do until you have.

Speaker 11 (45:59):
To do it.

Speaker 5 (46:00):
Mm hm. That makes a lot of sense. But what's
one song that will get you running out to dance
floor once they.

Speaker 19 (46:13):
Turn it on.

Speaker 13 (46:15):
So I'm a member of a Magasoft Opportunity in corporator,
So anytime Atomic Dog plays them inclined have to get
out and hop.

Speaker 5 (46:24):
It's what story you think is important for me to
cover regarding our community.

Speaker 13 (46:31):
So right now we are living in very interesting times
in the United States. You know, we have the Big
Ugly Bill and other things that are negatively impact in
our community. It is incredibly important for journalism with journalists
to continue to shed light on the conditions that are
affecting people all over from my perspective, specifically Black and

(46:51):
African American people and how these current legislative changes are
impacting our lives in section negative ways. It is important
for us to know what's happening. It's important for us
to go and use our voices to vote, but it's
important for us to elevate and listen to the things
that our journalists are telling us because it's critical to
our future.

Speaker 4 (47:13):
That's what's up, not if our point not f him
here live at the where our call is your guy.
DJ Christowns along with DJ Lily J. We are here
at the NAB J and tell us about the NAACP.

Speaker 3 (47:29):
What are we doing to.

Speaker 4 (47:33):
I'm gonna keep this fine.

Speaker 3 (47:36):
I'm gonna keep it fine.

Speaker 4 (47:37):
But tell a little bit people who don't know what
the NAACP does, what they do it in the city
of Cleveland.

Speaker 3 (47:42):
I'm gonna say what it is. A lot of people
ask me what is it.

Speaker 13 (47:45):
The NACP is the National Association for the Advances of
the Black People, Always has been, always will be. Here
in Cleveland, w'eree hundred and thirteen years old. We're the
oldest civil rights organization in the country and we're still
fighting for civil rights on the day in and day
out basis.

Speaker 3 (48:01):
That's it. That's what it is.

Speaker 4 (48:02):
And I'm one of the first to say I'm not
involved with any of the NAACP, And maybe I should
be more than the red Maybe I should be. But
how do you guys are connecting with the younger generation?

Speaker 8 (48:17):
You know?

Speaker 3 (48:17):
And that's the biggest thing.

Speaker 4 (48:18):
It was always a big question, like how do you
because for me and I'm not even talking about me
as being a younger generation because I'm forty seven, but
I'm talking about for me and below me, then below
that generation, what are we doing to connect to get
us more involved than it was when my mom was
the fist going down the street over the great grandfather
or the great grandmother doing that. Like, what are we

(48:39):
doing with the NAACP to get us back engauge of.

Speaker 3 (48:43):
Trying to be a part of the community.

Speaker 13 (48:45):
I'm gonna say it two ways. A. It starts at home,
and so it starts with who we are as parents.
It starts with who we are as community members. Are
we talking about the things that are happening in our
communities with our children at home? Are we exposing our
children to current issues, to organizations and entities that can
help them make a difference in their community. So that's

(49:08):
where it starts right there. For me, my involvement and
understanding of the NACP happened between high school and college,
being involved in the Black Student Union and seeing that
that was an organization that existed and what the NACP
has done historically for people of color, right, and that
was something that was a start for me. But now
we are actually reaching out and directly trying to connect

(49:29):
with the community. That's the question that President will target
myself have all the time. You know, how are we
going to engage the youth. I will tell you this
year we had a program called Civically Engaged where we
hosted it the first week of February.

Speaker 3 (49:45):
We invited kids out.

Speaker 13 (49:46):
The CAVS were a support, and we started to have
conversations on what it looked like to really use our
voices to move our communities to the places that we
wanted to move them to. That's going to continue next year.
We're going to grow this thing even bigger, so you
can expect to see five hundred one thousand plus kids

(50:07):
getting involved and engaged in understanding what it looks like
to be civically engaged. Civic engagement is one of those
things that we followed off from you know, I know
about voting, understood it from my parents growing up, but
a lot of kids don't. And unfortunately, I've talked to
high school seniors who were just shy of graduation, who
could barely tell me who Martin Luther King Junior was

(50:29):
and what kind of contributions he made toward our society,
much less to understand the entity of the NAACP and
what it means to our community. The much greater problem
is that we're not tyvically engaged. We don't understand the
power of policy and legislation, and therefore we don't use
our voices to take back what's rightfully ours.

Speaker 3 (50:50):
And that's what it is. That's what it is.

Speaker 4 (50:53):
Appreciate you coming on and I got to bring you
down to the station so we get deeper into the conversation.

Speaker 5 (50:58):
I love it and we really do appreciate sate the
work you do at n double ACP. But you're not
working today, so I need you to go and let
your hair down.

Speaker 3 (51:10):
I'm absolutely for that.

Speaker 13 (51:11):
And if I can give one small shout out, we
have a great program called Heart and Soul Tomorrow that
is through A's Your Health and supported by the National
NACP and Santa Fee and it's right here in Cleveland
August seventh, twenty twenty five, from six to eight pm
at the Jerry Sue Thornton Center and it's the evening

(51:31):
for our Health. Then theer's going to be provided and
there is a panel in conversations about heart health. So
it's just not for me, it's for you, it's for everybody.

Speaker 8 (51:40):
Again.

Speaker 13 (51:40):
You can you can go and find that on the
Cleveland branch nacp's social media handles. Cleveland NACP on Instagram, Cleveland,
NACP on Facebook, NACP Cleveland on x and you can
go and get those free tickets to come and participate
in the Heart and Soul tomorrow.

Speaker 8 (52:00):
Thank you for allowing me to be.

Speaker 3 (52:01):
On your show today, Thanks for coming, Thanks for coming.

Speaker 8 (52:04):
Giving up one time.

Speaker 3 (52:05):
Clap it up?

Speaker 4 (52:06):
Now we got the president? Correct, the president in the ACP.
How do you become the president of that?

Speaker 8 (52:13):
Like?

Speaker 11 (52:13):
What? How?

Speaker 8 (52:14):
What? What poems?

Speaker 3 (52:15):
I gotta agrees to become the president?

Speaker 8 (52:19):
Vote?

Speaker 3 (52:20):
Oh oh well, I guess I'm never going to be president.
Membership is just thirty dollars right, members I was a
membership of something. Jeez, what.

Speaker 8 (52:35):
Man?

Speaker 11 (52:35):
I know?

Speaker 3 (52:36):
I'm how do you do?

Speaker 21 (52:38):
What?

Speaker 3 (52:39):
How do you feel about an ABJ.

Speaker 11 (52:40):
Thank you so much for having me and excited to
be here and be a part of this important conference.

Speaker 6 (52:48):
And it's a very important time.

Speaker 11 (52:50):
With conversation, we're talking about the role of journalism, the
state of journalism, and the importance of elevating voices.

Speaker 2 (52:58):
As executive director Mention earlier and just a.

Speaker 11 (53:02):
Few weeks removed from the early convention also in Cleveland,
so we have the opportunity to bring national perspectives to
Cleveland but also to elevate local stories here in Cleveland
up in the national level. So it's a privilege to
be a part of this time where Cleveland gets chances
to share the story.

Speaker 6 (53:20):
With the country.

Speaker 4 (53:21):
That's also they talk about media and in Abja, how
is the INAACP and trying to move with the times,
with the new media, with streamers, with podcasting, with content creators.
Are you guys involving that with the AACP a local level.

Speaker 11 (53:37):
Includeland that we have plans and unveiling our external communication.

Speaker 3 (53:43):
Strategy look at that.

Speaker 11 (53:44):
Information out to the community, So stay tuned.

Speaker 2 (53:47):
Some great things are coming.

Speaker 11 (53:47):
But Executive Director Hubert talked about the importance of making
sure that.

Speaker 6 (53:51):
We inform our communities about what's.

Speaker 11 (53:52):
Going on and legislation how it impacts our community, but
also sharing the stories of the community with individuals who
are in positions to discuss policy and to elevate those stories.
So how can the NACP be a conduit and connect
those stories and the policy conversations.

Speaker 6 (54:08):
That are taking place.

Speaker 11 (54:09):
So it's our goal to be a source of information
and we have some great things coming on.

Speaker 3 (54:14):
How it's awesome, that's awesome, awesome. Lily Jake.

Speaker 5 (54:18):
Now I'm gonna ask again what one story that you
wish you had paid more attention to right now?

Speaker 6 (54:29):
You know, when I.

Speaker 11 (54:30):
Was growing up, I have great examples with my parents
and things that they would say to me growing up,
and perhaps I didn't necessarily realize the perspective that they
were coming from until I myself became a parent, And
the thing that I see now as a parent, and
how I am talking and listening to the next generation,

(54:54):
and how important that is in terms of how things
have changed, and how sometimes things are the same some
of the same things that they faced when they are
growing up, the same things that you face growing up.
The things that you see they may have seen and
they may not have seen. So I call it wisdom sharing.
So each generation has wisdom that they can bring to conversations,

(55:15):
and so how do we exchange the wisdom of elders
and the wisdom of young people. And that's really where
the synergy happens. So that's one thing I think that
seeing you here is an example of bringing your perspective
but also sharing and listening with other generations as well,
and that's something very very special. I think I understood
that a little bit growing up and I understand that

(55:38):
better now.

Speaker 5 (55:41):
And also, what's some advice that you want to give
to you like me that might want to do what.

Speaker 10 (55:49):
You do today?

Speaker 11 (55:51):
Well, I think one of the things that I realize
is that no one knows your story better than you.
And that's one of the things that I encourage people
to share their stories and share their experiences because that
informs the lens in which you view the world, and
when you understand that other people see the world through

(56:12):
a different lens. It's seeking first to understand then to
be understood, So understand how other people see the world,
how they understand it, what experiences have shaped their perspectives,
but also share your perspective and how you see the
world and how you are navigating things. And that's going
to help other people to have a better informed view

(56:32):
of their interactions with their communities as well. And that's
really what community is about. It contains the word unity,
and I think that that's where an opportunity if we
get a chance to listen but also to speak, and
that's really what makes it special.

Speaker 5 (56:46):
You guys are gonna have you guys are gonna have
to need me at the Youth Summit, Come down, come
down there in DJ.

Speaker 4 (56:52):
If y'allre it is, there is ninety five point nine
as him live at that inn. A bj offers here
at the Rock Roll Hall of Fame kickoff show right
now music real quick top five top five artists.

Speaker 3 (57:07):
Your your Spotify right now, Spotify title whatever.

Speaker 6 (57:10):
Lamar.

Speaker 8 (57:13):
Clips h.

Speaker 2 (57:16):
Uh, let's see top five.

Speaker 4 (57:20):
I'm still listening to Joe to see Okay one more
Anthony Hamilton right now five Spotify or title whatever? All right,
right right, Like I can pick up your phone right now.
I have a Motown Radio Okay top five song.

Speaker 11 (57:41):
So we've got well artists I really like Okay, yeah,
the Temptations, perfect number Wonder and uh yeah, the Spinners,
all sorts of love it Jackson five of course.

Speaker 3 (57:59):
And it's not just mon and listen to. But you
know I'm right here. You have to get a shout
out to right care love it.

Speaker 4 (58:03):
Appreciate you guys, na A CP the Cleveland makes you
got check that out. Let's be evolved as be engauged,
and this is our community, this is our organization, so
let's bring it forward as we're supposed to do. Appreciate
you guys, and you personally invite to the rail station.

Speaker 3 (58:19):
So come down.

Speaker 4 (58:19):
So we got an in depth interview and we talk
more about the NAACP perfect. We appreciate you guys. Ninety
five point nine FM. We here live at the Rockwell
Hall of Fame. And then here's the manager here, Miss
Issha in my right here just organizing things. And Uh,
I was gonna say something crazy, Asha. It's two things

(58:42):
that I'm upset with. Right, I'm always gonna be upset
if I'm not I'm always gonna be upset if I'm
not DJing anywhere.

Speaker 3 (58:50):
Right, That's just that's just natural for me.

Speaker 4 (58:54):
The second thing is I'm just saying, you know what,
okay here that that's the gym right there, will aloud styles.

Speaker 3 (59:05):
Vince's next, No listen, let me tell you, let me
tell you something, Let me take let me tell you something,
Let me tell you something. You get in here. Once
you get in my dome, you get in this.

Speaker 4 (59:21):
Kingdom here, when you get this kingdom, you know what
I mean? You you stuck, You're stuck to You're stuck
in here.

Speaker 3 (59:31):
We getting interviews done.

Speaker 4 (59:39):
Vince is in the belt of Vince Robinson is in
They listen, let me tell you someth about Vince. Let
me tell you something story about this from what I heard. Now,
I got two legends in here this this letter be known.
Have two legends sit in the studio right now. The
first legend Vince Fence, open door. Make sure you check

(01:00:02):
him out eachould never Monday, I believe at eleven o'clock.

Speaker 8 (01:00:05):
That's right.

Speaker 4 (01:00:07):
He got a lot of trees, a lot of DJs
that come off this tree. I didn't know he was
a DJ too. I sing two on six movie and
they said it was the DJ. I said, not Fence,
and they said it was him that was spinning doing
all the parties at Kent State.

Speaker 3 (01:00:28):
Oh wow, he was. It was him?

Speaker 4 (01:00:32):
Then it was then that's what mc chilling him got
into doing it, because him and co Cheese and the
resid them, But it was him.

Speaker 22 (01:00:39):
I handed the microphone to Cole Cheese to take over
the Wheels of Steel and the RADS scale at Kent State,
but I put Kevin mc chill herd on for the
first time. So the first time that he spit on
the microphone was on my stage.

Speaker 3 (01:00:54):
Yep.

Speaker 8 (01:00:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:00:55):
And then when I say that, I was like, oh, Vince,
you hold out, you hold out. And the second legend
that that's in it right now, that's in in the
studio is live teeth. And if you remember Schoolhouse Production,
the famous name Schoolhouse Production, this is the guy was

(01:01:16):
behind it and Schoolhouse Production had everything every club from
Cleveland to Canton to Youngstown to Columbus. I mean, Rev,
I don't think anybody had a run like you have.
It's some people that tried it, but you had a
good ten year run of of just really locking down
the club saying in Northeas, Ohio run.

Speaker 23 (01:01:40):
You definitely had that run.

Speaker 3 (01:01:44):
Amazing, amazing.

Speaker 23 (01:01:45):
Yes, sometimes I don't even realize you know how we
even did it.

Speaker 6 (01:01:50):
You know, you just you just.

Speaker 8 (01:01:51):
Be when you in the moment, you're just doing it.

Speaker 23 (01:01:54):
And then when you kind of come out of the
area or come out of or you involved in doing
something else, then you really look back like dang Man.

Speaker 6 (01:02:05):
So I appreciate that.

Speaker 4 (01:02:08):
And now you guys are doing more within the media
NABJS here twenty twenty five Black Journalism. Tell us what
does that mean to you, Vince? Because I've seen I
listened to your interviews. You have great artists on what
does NABJA have in our own organization?

Speaker 3 (01:02:27):
Well with us what does that mean to you?

Speaker 8 (01:02:29):
Though?

Speaker 22 (01:02:29):
As a journalist, what's important to me is the fact
that we're in a position to control the narrative. And
the narrative has been important because it has excluded us historically,
it's distorted the truth about us. But we can tell
our authentic truth. So having responsible people in these organizations

(01:02:51):
gives us an opportunity to tell the story more accurately,
particularly when we own the media. That's really important for
us to own the met because when others own it,
then they tell the story that the way they wanted
to be told.

Speaker 4 (01:03:06):
Absolutely, And the same question for you, Latif, how does that?

Speaker 3 (01:03:09):
What did it mean to you?

Speaker 4 (01:03:10):
Cause you now you've moved to the technical side of things,
uh and know how to move the podcasts and things
like that. How has black media changed? But then we
were talking about traditional radio and traditional TV. Now you
were involved with cutting up editing podcasts.

Speaker 3 (01:03:26):
Yeah, I was just really thinking about that today.

Speaker 6 (01:03:29):
How you know, Okay, I.

Speaker 14 (01:03:32):
Had seen a lady I went to school with.

Speaker 6 (01:03:36):
Her name is Betsy.

Speaker 23 (01:03:37):
She sells products, but you went to kid together and
she was talking about how she was, you know, going
back to school to finish her degree, and I was like,
I need to do that myself, you know, cause I
kind of jumped out and started my business while I
was in school, started my business, started my fan and

(01:04:03):
I said, you know what, I'm actually really in my
field of what I was doing.

Speaker 3 (01:04:08):
I Communications was my major.

Speaker 23 (01:04:11):
And I never thought I would go from all these
different mediums from djaying to promoting to now video photography,
you know, podcasting. You know, I've done so much in
the field that I studied, and I was just like,
it would be like a cherry on top if I

(01:04:32):
did go ahead and get my degree.

Speaker 4 (01:04:34):
Absolutely. Absolutely, Let's look at the landscape of this last question.
Let's look at the scale. How do I have the
landscape changed with black media from traditional to now?

Speaker 22 (01:04:45):
Well, I think the changes that have happened in black
media are the changes that have happened in media in general.
You know, there was a time when let's say you're
a television news reporter and you wanted to do a
live shot. There would be a truck, there would be
a person operating the camera, and then you would do

(01:05:06):
your story. They'd go back to the station, sometimes editing everything.
Now one person does everything, you know, just looking back
when I started in radio. I used to use cassette tapes.
I would have two tape recorders and I would use
one to isolate the sound bites, and then I would

(01:05:27):
use the other one to record the entire story too.
I used to have a key to the press room
at city Hall. We would go in the press room.
We would unscrew the phone because it was the old
rotary style phone, and you would unscrew the mouthpiece and
you had two alligator clips that would you would click
up you would attach to the pickups on the phone,

(01:05:49):
and you would send your story that way. So now you.

Speaker 3 (01:05:53):
Can do everything with a phone, absolutely, you know.

Speaker 22 (01:05:56):
So technology has changed, and we've moved into a place
where in order to save money, they pay fewer people.
So the mechanics of it have changed. But the other
thing that has changed is that there are so many
more options when it comes to content. You know, back
in the day, if you wanted the news, you went

(01:06:17):
to three, five, eight, nineteen and forty three. You know,
then cable came along, and then you had all these
new stations. And now everybody and their mama got a
cell phone doing a podcast, and you know, so that's
one of the major things that has changed. We just
have so many options, and that also means that there's

(01:06:39):
been a degradation of journalistic standards. There was a time
when your opinion as a news reporter was not important.
Your opinion as an anchor was not You didn't give
an opinion, it was Edward R.

Speaker 3 (01:06:55):
Murrell, just the facts.

Speaker 22 (01:06:57):
Now there's a lot of subjectivity involved in news reporting
and a lot of judgment. So things have in the
industry have changed, and they have changed for us as
black folk in the industry as well.

Speaker 4 (01:07:10):
Nine five point non fl missus checked out these two
guys Ken Dole show each and every Tuesday at twelve pm.
My teeth is men and everything there trust me check
him out.

Speaker 22 (01:07:23):
It's quite impressive.

Speaker 3 (01:07:24):
But I got everything they trust me.

Speaker 8 (01:07:28):
I'm very impressed.

Speaker 4 (01:07:30):
And Vince Robins at eleven o'clock you nine to five
point and from each and every mondy, I appreciate you
guys coming through. Legends are in the building. Thank you
nine to five because got something to eat and didn't
bring them food at all.

Speaker 3 (01:07:47):
There's no such thing as a break. This is straight
cutting through might check one two.

Speaker 10 (01:07:55):
We can hear you my check.

Speaker 4 (01:07:59):
While you hate on my single lessons singing. That's why
I can sing better than you. And you take a lessons?
How that work?

Speaker 3 (01:08:06):
How that works?

Speaker 14 (01:08:09):
Were you lucky?

Speaker 3 (01:08:10):
How does that work? Explain that to me?

Speaker 5 (01:08:15):
Oh my gosh, I'm just saying, since the person is
gonna leave the musical, I bet you, I bet you
don't even have.

Speaker 3 (01:08:22):
Act I let the musical before.

Speaker 6 (01:08:24):
It ain't nothing. Uh no, but we're.

Speaker 3 (01:08:35):
Down here the Rock roll Hall of Fame here at.

Speaker 4 (01:08:37):
The n A.

Speaker 3 (01:08:37):
B JAC. It is packed, it is going off, it's
going We're not even partying yet. We're not. We're down
here working.

Speaker 2 (01:08:44):
We didn't even find it part did you?

Speaker 3 (01:08:46):
Did you party? Have you been partying yet?

Speaker 2 (01:08:48):
I stayed working? You know, work is a party.

Speaker 3 (01:08:52):
Party?

Speaker 4 (01:08:52):
You were lying and on Sunday and the mid day.

Speaker 2 (01:08:55):
Yes, the work was done though, so it was time
that you know.

Speaker 4 (01:08:59):
You're now what to that point where you were just like,
I'm just.

Speaker 17 (01:09:04):
Want dance, you know, I'm a seventies child, like see,
I don't know all that new stuff that they doing.
I got the fan, but I don't know which hip
I'm supposed to be.

Speaker 2 (01:09:13):
I'm trying.

Speaker 3 (01:09:16):
I don't know which boot is on the Bring you
to the N A d J.

Speaker 2 (01:09:22):
Fifty years.

Speaker 17 (01:09:23):
So it's a girl County council woman Meredith Meredith Turner there.
It is represent Kayhoga County District nine, which includes Bedford,
Bedford Heights, Cleveland. Wards won the new three six Highland Hills,
North Randall, Orange, Pepper Pike, Shaker, Warrensville and the village
of Woodmere. And I'm so grateful for this, the seat

(01:09:46):
at the table that I have. Shirley Chisholm said, if
they don't give you a seat at the table, bring
a folding chair. Well, listen, Cleveland is centered the universe
right now. And I'm just fortunate that I was able
to provide some funding to the conference. So I'm here
to just support round the Crowder and the Greater Cleveland

(01:10:06):
Chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists, because you know,
they know how to get down.

Speaker 3 (01:10:13):
We get busy, Yeah, they get busy.

Speaker 2 (01:10:16):
Good food out there, good people, the fashion just the faster.

Speaker 4 (01:10:21):
For me, it's beautiful, wizarding to see these people dressed
up looking good.

Speaker 3 (01:10:25):
They're best for because people from across the nation, across
the world is here.

Speaker 2 (01:10:28):
They can write, they can spell.

Speaker 8 (01:10:30):
I love it.

Speaker 2 (01:10:32):
Blackness is on display.

Speaker 4 (01:10:36):
I was telling the story earlier, how I pulled up
to the conference. I'm doing some interviews down there, and
I'm looking around.

Speaker 3 (01:10:45):
I'm saying, all these people got suits on for what
is going on? I'm the only one not with a
suit on. And I'm like, oh right, interviews.

Speaker 4 (01:10:55):
I was so under dressed today. But not tomorrow though,
all right, I'm sure.

Speaker 3 (01:11:02):
Dude, I'm with you, Lily, Tomorrow we'll see. No, no,
it's not gonna You've already.

Speaker 2 (01:11:08):
Seen already take some photos and post them on.

Speaker 3 (01:11:13):
Yeah, I'm out there. So what what can we respect
from n A b J? Now for that?

Speaker 4 (01:11:18):
As as the week goes on, what is Cleveland doing
to put the best foot forward?

Speaker 2 (01:11:24):
Everything? I mean, all the bathrooms clean?

Speaker 3 (01:11:30):
Let me stop, you get there, We're good, we got
what I want.

Speaker 6 (01:11:34):
That.

Speaker 17 (01:11:35):
Uh well, you know the Kyle Hoga used to be dirty,
but it's clean now.

Speaker 8 (01:11:38):
You know.

Speaker 17 (01:11:39):
That's probably why they made the decision to come here, Clevelands.
It's changed a lot. You know, I'm a seventies child,
and I just remember things being different. The mayor roll
the red carpet out the county. Same thing. Advocacy, excellence,
evolution of our voices. I believe it's the theme. And

(01:12:04):
you know a city like Cleveland. Who you know, Carl Stokes,
Lewis Stokes, Stephanie Tubbs, Marcia Fudge, you know your name?

Speaker 3 (01:12:14):
You don't, don't you like? Don't say all those things.

Speaker 5 (01:12:19):
And then not say yours yet to give yourself recognition.

Speaker 4 (01:12:25):
Ninety five point nine n film. You get to toot
your own horn here.

Speaker 5 (01:12:29):
You know, I'm hum yourself some recognition.

Speaker 4 (01:12:32):
You were here at OVU ninety five point nine film.

Speaker 3 (01:12:40):
You are allowed to toot.

Speaker 2 (01:12:40):
Your own You heard it right here.

Speaker 4 (01:12:45):
It was messed up my throat. See what happened was wait?
Did my throat set up?

Speaker 8 (01:12:49):
You know? You know.

Speaker 2 (01:12:52):
He got some What is that?

Speaker 3 (01:12:54):
What is my wife's that? It's not mine? I'm talking
to I am talking.

Speaker 2 (01:12:59):
On airbing listen.

Speaker 17 (01:13:01):
Cleveland has long been a home for truth tellers and
justice seekers.

Speaker 2 (01:13:05):
And this is the city that gave us.

Speaker 17 (01:13:07):
Carl Stokes, the first black mayor of a major American city,
elected right here nineteen sixty seven. It's the hometown of
his brother, Lewis Stokes. His book Gentlemen from Ohio Lewis Stokes,
when he was talking about the fact that his mother
was only able to clean people's houses. Yes, she burst
a congressman and a mayor. Right, what a legacy that's big.

(01:13:33):
Chaired the Congressional Black Caucus, fought tirelessly for equity, and
I think that's.

Speaker 2 (01:13:36):
What everybody here this week is here to do.

Speaker 17 (01:13:40):
Right, get their marching orders, talk about what's been going
on in the world, and center black stories and voices.

Speaker 4 (01:13:46):
Yes, and I think right now is the great is
a great time for us to tell our stories and
were able to do. Ask content creators as streamers now
as a freelance writers and journalists that were able to tell.

Speaker 3 (01:14:01):
Our stories here.

Speaker 4 (01:14:03):
So it's great to have them all here in Cleveland.
I love Cleveland on the spotlight because it's why I
go to other cities. Man, it's a fight know how
great Cleveland is.

Speaker 17 (01:14:13):
They have a misconception of who we are. So I said,
the city has changed a lot, the development. I mean,
we still need more housing.

Speaker 2 (01:14:20):
We do, right. I'm getting ready to work.

Speaker 17 (01:14:22):
On some legislation to try to create some solutions for
those coming back into you know, our community re entry.
It's important, uh to me. But the water is clean.
I don't ask me about the Browns. Can't even talk
about the brown.

Speaker 4 (01:14:40):
I did a couple of interviews before and just's getting
the same energy get here.

Speaker 3 (01:14:44):
I wanted. I wanted that energy right now.

Speaker 2 (01:14:46):
I'm just looking forward to seeing Chadur on Friday though.

Speaker 4 (01:14:48):
Yeah, talk about the water is clean. Me and my
wife had joined the boat club now, so we may
be the few black people. Yeah, we don't get a boat.
We able to row boats the water and actually Lake
Erie it's not too bad.

Speaker 2 (01:15:03):
It is not. The Algie blooms are down, right, But
this this was a big story, right, they caught on fire.
That was the.

Speaker 17 (01:15:12):
Impetus for Mayor Stokes and his brother creating, you know,
the whole movement around the e p A Right Clean
Water Act. And that's what they was writing back, writing
about back then. Right, so what if they descended on
Cleveland to write about this year?

Speaker 14 (01:15:30):
Right?

Speaker 2 (01:15:31):
How beautiful the city is?

Speaker 17 (01:15:33):
It is the convention center, the county County own convention center, right,
the waterfront.

Speaker 2 (01:15:42):
The beautiful hotels, the museums.

Speaker 17 (01:15:45):
And what else we got here, a little jay, you've
been everywhere, the metro parks right now, the Rock Hall. Yes,
oh and we got our own monument, Lily j Lily.

Speaker 5 (01:16:01):
JK, thank you kind, thank you kind, Right, but I'm
not the one that's being interviewed right now.

Speaker 3 (01:16:12):
This about you, right now, this about you.

Speaker 2 (01:16:16):
Right now, it's about us.

Speaker 5 (01:16:19):
You want ninety five point nine point humble, We are
not humble.

Speaker 17 (01:16:25):
Were here said to come back and listen to this and.

Speaker 3 (01:16:29):
Not the way I too did because it wasn't great
it was.

Speaker 8 (01:16:34):
I agree.

Speaker 17 (01:16:35):
You really need to hear that message, Jay, because you
know I'm humble because sometimes people get bothered, you know,
by your life, and I think I, you know, be
trying to overprove to folks that I'm a good person.
But no matter how good you are, no matter you know,
how much output you're giving into the world, it's positive,

(01:16:56):
you're just gonna always have haters. So if you're gonna
always have hate as well, just be yourself, right.

Speaker 4 (01:17:02):
The famous philosopher said, if you don't have haters, you
ain't doing nothing.

Speaker 2 (01:17:10):
Y'all hear me, Oh my hat you should drop that.

Speaker 3 (01:17:15):
That was a good one.

Speaker 8 (01:17:16):
That one.

Speaker 3 (01:17:17):
Then that's a good mom. Cut that up.

Speaker 8 (01:17:24):
Well.

Speaker 3 (01:17:24):
Appreciate you coming out to us, hanging.

Speaker 4 (01:17:26):
Out with us here on airnin FM live at the
Rock and Roll Hall.

Speaker 2 (01:17:32):
I appreciate the invitation.

Speaker 17 (01:17:34):
I just want to say I sure, am, But before
I do that, I just want to say to all
our visitors, when honored to have them here, I hope
that they find Cleveland to be warm, welcoming, inspiring. You know, learn, connect, recharge,
Explore our historic neighborhoods, visit our finding do we gotta

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find out and we got a.

Speaker 3 (01:17:57):
Few few, we have several.

Speaker 2 (01:17:59):
We gotta feld a lot of them.

Speaker 17 (01:18:01):
Report from the streets. You're seeing your value and celebrated.
Congratulations on your fiftieth anniversary National Association with Black Journalists.
You matter, our stories matter, and thank you for centering
blackness and black voices.

Speaker 8 (01:18:19):
Awesome.

Speaker 2 (01:18:21):
It sounds like I got a radio voice.

Speaker 3 (01:18:22):
Wait you do listen? Yeah, we are room. We are rooms.

Speaker 10 (01:18:29):
I got a new co host.

Speaker 2 (01:18:31):
See how god is?

Speaker 17 (01:18:33):
Let me spin around in this chair right See you're
putting people on.

Speaker 10 (01:18:40):
Girl.

Speaker 2 (01:18:40):
You need a talent agency.

Speaker 15 (01:18:42):
Now, absolutely, girl, listen, Appreciate you so much and we'll
be back.

Speaker 8 (01:18:55):
Wow. That was amazing.

Speaker 5 (01:18:56):
You're good.

Speaker 4 (01:19:03):
Ninety five point nine f m is you got DJ Christal.
Make sure I got the right mic on because I
been screwed up all day.

Speaker 3 (01:19:11):
I'll be screwing this this board up all It's different.
My board at the station. It has the mic. This
is screw me up.

Speaker 4 (01:19:18):
But first and foremost letting you know I paid all
my tickets.

Speaker 5 (01:19:26):
You gotta get that out the way before before we
introduced the.

Speaker 4 (01:19:30):
Next afford to county, when I checked the child's the
poor system, I'm up to date.

Speaker 3 (01:19:35):
I'm good, no riders, We're good to go.

Speaker 4 (01:19:38):
The last one graduated and you know she's about to be,
so I should be cool.

Speaker 3 (01:19:43):
The warrants out there.

Speaker 10 (01:19:45):
Listen, we're not here to do that. We're not here
to address.

Speaker 5 (01:19:51):
Okay, we're not working today.

Speaker 7 (01:19:55):
I'm not working work earlier.

Speaker 4 (01:20:01):
We've got the fabulous judge in the building. Tell us
your full name.

Speaker 24 (01:20:05):
My name is Judge Andrea Nelson Moore, and I am
one of your judges on the Cleveland Municipal Court.

Speaker 4 (01:20:12):
Now, when you was younger, that's what you wanted to
be with a judge? Was that the one thing you
sit there in first grade, You're like, I'm.

Speaker 3 (01:20:18):
Gonna be a judge.

Speaker 24 (01:20:20):
Actually I did, Okay, does that mean we have to
that means get out of here?

Speaker 10 (01:20:26):
Okay, so we'll keep going.

Speaker 24 (01:20:29):
But yes, Actually, when I was in the second grade,
that's when I determined that I wanted.

Speaker 10 (01:20:33):
To be a judge.

Speaker 5 (01:20:33):
Oh you just followed that.

Speaker 10 (01:20:35):
I did.

Speaker 4 (01:20:36):
I did.

Speaker 3 (01:20:37):
I love that.

Speaker 4 (01:20:38):
Yeah, because a lot of people say I want to
do something and just then quite go down that lane.

Speaker 3 (01:20:42):
But you actually did it.

Speaker 10 (01:20:44):
I did so.

Speaker 24 (01:20:45):
At the time when I was saying that, my initial
thought was one, judges were rich too. I thought it
was like this prestigious. It is prestigious. Yeah, it's wonderful.
I don't misunderstand me, but I thought, hey, you know,
I'm gonna be famous.

Speaker 10 (01:21:03):
Everybody gonna know my name.

Speaker 24 (01:21:04):
I didn't know what you had to go through to
become a judge, but yeah I did. I had no
idea what it meant to become a judge or how
to get there. So no, I didn't. I didn't have
a clue about what to do. First generation college student,
So what college? I started out at the College of Worcester.

(01:21:29):
Hated it did It's a lot.

Speaker 4 (01:21:32):
It's a lot of black folks in order went to Woolster,
especially in the nineties, like late ninety.

Speaker 10 (01:21:38):
When I was there, it was early nineties.

Speaker 24 (01:21:41):
It wasn't for me, you know, I'm not saying that
it's not for anyone else, but it wasn't for me,
and then I transferred up to Baba Mahlace.

Speaker 10 (01:21:49):
So you know, I'm a Cleveland girl through and through the.

Speaker 24 (01:21:53):
Cleveland Heights High School, Cleans, Cleveland Heights, the Building Heights,
in the field and in So tell us.

Speaker 3 (01:22:01):
Your first job your lawyer, correct, before it becomes a judge?

Speaker 11 (01:22:03):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (01:22:04):
Yes? Was it a plublic defender or criminal?

Speaker 24 (01:22:07):
So honestly, I started out in criminal defense. Okay, Yeah,
I started in criminal defense and then I switched over
to become a prosecutor. And I thought it was going
to be effective because I knew I want to be
a judge, so I thought it was important to have
both sides and both perspectives.

Speaker 10 (01:22:21):
So that's what I did.

Speaker 4 (01:22:22):
Yeah, I love it. And then now you're a judge
jealous When you made that decision, was it because you
were doing on the criminal side, and did you want
to see different censuses for certain people or what was
your motivating factor behind that?

Speaker 10 (01:22:42):
Okay, so let me go back to the very beginning.

Speaker 24 (01:22:46):
My motivated factor for even becoming a judge, apart from
just saying I want to be rich, but my family.
You know, I have a lot of people in my
family who are justice impacted, right, I have uncles, I
have cousins who have gone through the criminal justice system.
And in fact, one of my uncles suffered from mental illness,

(01:23:06):
and when he was in one of his crisis, he
actually he murdered a man, and so he went through
the criminal justice system. And I remember at the time,
you know, talking about mental illness was taboot, right, so
we didn't discuss it, particularly in.

Speaker 10 (01:23:21):
The black community.

Speaker 24 (01:23:22):
And I remember the suffering that my grandmother underwent just
dealing with her son going through the process. And that's
not to make light or to excuse anything that he did,
because it was wrong, and I understood that, you know,
he had to be separated from society. But at the time,
the judge who sentenced him didn't even factor in his

(01:23:44):
mental illness at all, and he gave him a double
life sentence. And I know that there were people who
had killed other folks who got out of jail. My
uncle never had an opportunity to get out of jail.
So that was something that, you know, it's stuck in
the back of my mind, even though I was a
kid experience, and that it stayed there. It resonated, and
I always said that one day I was gonna be

(01:24:05):
a judge, and I was gonna have more compassion for
families who come through, regardless of what side wrong, whether
you're the victim, whether you're the defendant. We can have
compassion for one another and still hold people absolutely.

Speaker 4 (01:24:18):
And what we hear at the Rockwell Hall of Fame
Live at the NABJ Convention kickoff and she has the fun.

Speaker 5 (01:24:23):
Question, Yeah, take it off. So if your career had
a theme song, what would it be?

Speaker 10 (01:24:33):
Mmmm?

Speaker 24 (01:24:34):
Oh wait, my goodness, I think I kind of like
your questions better.

Speaker 10 (01:24:40):
No, I love your question, but god, that's a tough one.
What would it be? I'm every woman perfect shak Khan
Sha ka Khan all day long.

Speaker 14 (01:24:50):
Baby.

Speaker 3 (01:24:50):
And now what song makes you?

Speaker 5 (01:24:52):
It's just gonna make you run straight to the dance floor,
no matter what, like, no matter where you are, and.

Speaker 3 (01:24:58):
You hear that song. I gotta go on to this
book right now.

Speaker 24 (01:25:07):
There's so many of them, but one that's really super
fun for me.

Speaker 10 (01:25:11):
Don't judge me, y'all smoking all hey, in the middle
of the bar.

Speaker 4 (01:25:16):
Love it conflict, corcial conflict.

Speaker 3 (01:25:20):
Now the five point nine NFL. We appreciate you coming
on with us.

Speaker 4 (01:25:23):
I gotta bring you to the station soever a full
long interview to get even to these questions. But I
appreciate you celebrating with us the National Associate Black Journalism
fifty years.

Speaker 5 (01:25:33):
Fifty years five zero five zero, and I love what
you all are doing because we need someone to tell our.

Speaker 3 (01:25:40):
Stories absolutely every day day. Yeah day.

Speaker 16 (01:25:47):
Thank you, miss Lily J.

Speaker 10 (01:25:49):
Is an honor to meet you. Thanks for coming, and thank.

Speaker 4 (01:25:52):
You teacher, Thank you, appreciate you so much. Stephanie Phelps
in the building, she's pulled up.

Speaker 3 (01:25:58):
What up?

Speaker 8 (01:26:01):
Grab what?

Speaker 15 (01:26:02):
Uh?

Speaker 8 (01:26:03):
Mike oh man, this is just so different.

Speaker 4 (01:26:06):
You know, we got we got stefinitely, We've got Stephanie
Phelps in the building.

Speaker 3 (01:26:12):
She's right here.

Speaker 4 (01:26:13):
Another look each and every Friday at eleven a m.
Here at w o W ninety five point nine FM,
Lily J got some fun questions for you.

Speaker 5 (01:26:22):
Yeah, yeah, we're gonna start off with the fun ones.

Speaker 16 (01:26:25):
Okay, thank you, Lily J.

Speaker 2 (01:26:27):
I really appreciate that.

Speaker 5 (01:26:28):
Now, if your career had a theme song, what would
that song be?

Speaker 9 (01:26:34):
It would be you gotta be bad, you gotta be bold,
you gotta be wiser And I forgot the artist, but
you know I might sing a little bit for you,
saying that song?

Speaker 16 (01:26:45):
Who sang that song?

Speaker 14 (01:26:46):
I don't know.

Speaker 10 (01:26:47):
We gonna figure it out. That's what we're gonna do,
all right.

Speaker 5 (01:26:50):
And what's that one song tonight? No matter where you are,
no matter what you're doing, and you hear that song
and you just have to run to the dance floor
and start busting the move. What is that song?

Speaker 21 (01:27:07):
Oh my god, Lily, Jay, that is a good question,
because I have no answer for that.

Speaker 16 (01:27:13):
I guess I would just have to say, I don't know.
You gotta be bad, you gotta.

Speaker 3 (01:27:20):
Be both right right right right right.

Speaker 21 (01:27:22):
All I know is love will Save the Day. That's
my song. I gotta find out who who sang that song?
I gotta look it up, okaying.

Speaker 5 (01:27:34):
Some sing some of the songs.

Speaker 10 (01:27:36):
We figure.

Speaker 9 (01:27:37):
You gotta be bad, you gotta be boat, you gotta
be what?

Speaker 3 (01:27:41):
Oh that's that's?

Speaker 11 (01:27:43):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (01:27:46):
That was that? That's not it?

Speaker 16 (01:27:51):
No, I can't her name is on the top.

Speaker 8 (01:27:57):
It is he? Sure?

Speaker 3 (01:27:58):
Sure?

Speaker 4 (01:27:59):
I can't read that?

Speaker 21 (01:28:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 16 (01:28:00):
Yeah, something like that, something like that.

Speaker 3 (01:28:01):
What else you got you got?

Speaker 17 (01:28:04):
Jay?

Speaker 16 (01:28:04):
Give me some non music questions?

Speaker 3 (01:28:08):
That is it right?

Speaker 16 (01:28:09):
That is it right? That's it?

Speaker 4 (01:28:11):
Deserright yes, n a bj right here twenty twenty five
Cleveland or fifty years year.

Speaker 16 (01:28:18):
I think there's nineteen seventy five.

Speaker 10 (01:28:20):
That's a long time.

Speaker 3 (01:28:22):
Yeah, does that mean to you fifty years having? Has
our story been told?

Speaker 15 (01:28:27):
Still?

Speaker 3 (01:28:28):
Has it been told?

Speaker 8 (01:28:29):
Right?

Speaker 3 (01:28:29):
Even we have fifty years has been.

Speaker 16 (01:28:31):
I don't think it's been told fully.

Speaker 21 (01:28:34):
I think that people have an idea of what our
story is and then they kind of just concoct the
rest a lot of times, you know.

Speaker 16 (01:28:42):
So no, I don't. But I think it's up to
us to tell our own story.

Speaker 3 (01:28:47):
And have we been doing it?

Speaker 8 (01:28:49):
Though?

Speaker 3 (01:28:49):
That's the question?

Speaker 4 (01:28:51):
See there it is fifty years, But have we really
been telling our story?

Speaker 14 (01:28:56):
I think no.

Speaker 16 (01:28:58):
To be honest, there it is, no, we haven't.

Speaker 21 (01:29:01):
No.

Speaker 16 (01:29:01):
But and I but you know, we could.

Speaker 21 (01:29:03):
Come up with all the kind of reasons and excuses,
But no, I don't think we have.

Speaker 3 (01:29:08):
Ninety five point nine f M. We gotta get up
out of here.

Speaker 4 (01:29:10):
They gave us a time limit here twelve am. I know,
will give me Stephanie Felks each and every Friday, eleven
am another look Dope interviews.

Speaker 3 (01:29:19):
Check her out. She is the voice of the city.
Stephanie Phelps coming up today. Okay, that's that's it. Literally
up about it. We did it, We did it.

Speaker 5 (01:29:31):
Huh so some fun.

Speaker 3 (01:29:34):
Well, I don't know if you can go upstairs house.
I don't know if you can are here, popped off