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Leid Stories—We Talk the Talk, And We Walk the Walk on ‘Free Your Mind Friday’—01.26.18

We engage each other, as usual, with our unique analyses of the issues of the day, but today we do so in honor of two fallen soldiers who did their best work as journeymen in struggle—the Rev. Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker, chief strategist to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the tumultuous years of the civil-rights movement, and Hugh Masekela, whose liberation music buoyed the spirits of South Africans fighting apartheid. They both died on Jan. 23.

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Leid Stories— The Rev. Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker, A Mighty Oak in the Civil Rights Struggle, Has Fallen; Foreign Governments Move On Clinton Foundation—01.24.18

The Rev. Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker, a brother in struggle with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the most challenging and dangerous times of the national civil-rights movement, and continued for decades to champion its ideals for decades after the assassination of King in 1968, died yesterday at the age of 88.

Leid Stories joins the world in thanking Dr. Walker for his lifetime of service.

More news from the federal probes into the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation (The Clinton Foundation). Wall Street banker turned financial investigator Charles Ortel, whose own independent probe has led him to call the Clinton Foundation and its network of spinoff “charitable” organizations “the largest unprosecuted fraud in U.S. history,” says the U.S. probe, with the Clintons and other key players in the legal crosshairs, is fueling similar probes overseas.

Leid Stories—Say It Like You Mean It on ‘Free Your Mind Friday!’—01.19.18

Welcome to the best open forum on the planet. It’s “Free Your Mind Friday” on Leid Stories, and we meet on air to talk about things that matter.

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Leid Stories—Are We Clear About What’s Happening in America? If so, What Are We Compelled to Do?—01.18.18

Leid Stories discusses the subject with listeners, who, as astute political observers, should have insightful answers.

Leid Stories—U.S. Clinton Foundation Probe Moves Closer to Indictments; Bogus Overseas Operations Netted the ‘Charity’ Hundreds of Unaccounted-For Millions—01.17.18

Credible sources have confirmed with Leid Stories that months-long FBI probes into the operations of the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation (The Clinton Foundation) will soon produce their first batch of federal indictments of key foundation personnel. The indictments, the sources said, are meant to send a signal to major targets of prosecution—most notably Bill and Hillary Clinton—that there’ll be little wiggle room for negotiations on allegations of massive fraud.

Charles Ortel, a retired Wall Street banker turned financial investigator who independently has been examining the foundation’s finances and operations for more than two years, has been reporting his findings on Leid Stories since his early conclusion that the evidence he uncovered, and still is uncovering, suggests that the foundation is “the largest unprosecuted fraud in U.S. history.”

He joins us with his latest update.

Leid Stories—Taking Inventory on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day—01.16.18

President spent Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day golfing at his Mar-a-Lago resort in West Palm Beach, Fla. He decided to avoid the inconvenience of having to explain further his derogatory and racist comments about immigrants from Haiti and the African continent. Some hapless members of his cabinet took on ceremonial duties in his stead, and daughter-in-law Lara Trump issued a perfunctory “official” statement about the federal holiday.

Media coverage of ceremonies around the country was predictable, continuing the years-long theme of a nice black man with big dreams of a wonderful world for everybody. The “other side” of that story was astutely avoided: The pillars of white supremacy, oppression and injustice still undergird practically all aspects of life in America.  

Leid Stories—Why Have We Been In the Storm So Long?—01.15.18

Today is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a day we fittingly commemorate the 86^th birthday of this exceptional leader whose life’s work, cut short by an assassin’s bullet on April 4, 1968 when he was 39, was supporting global struggles for peace, human rights and justice.

Poor and disfranchised people all over the world, and especially the United States, found a champion in King, who time and again went up against the social, political and economic order excoriating its universal inhumanity while encouraging the masses to peacefully resist.

Leid Stories will not do today what has become “regular” programming on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Instead, we provoke answers to the question: Why have we been in the storm so long, as the gospel song says, despite the efforts of King and others who, even sacrificing their lives, had done so much to light the path to progress and victory?

Leid Stories—Give Your Take on ‘Free Your Mind Friday!’—01.12.18

What a crazy week it’s been. Lots to talk about. And here’s “Free Your Mind Friday,” our weekly open forum, to the rescue.

Give your take on issues covered on Leid Stories this week, or on anything else you think warrants further consideration, discussion or debate.

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Leid Stories—Haiti Earthquake: After Hell, Eight More Years of Hell—01.11.18

Tomorrow marks the eighth year after a catastrophic 7.0-magnitude earthquake with an epicenter just west of Haiti’s capital city, Port-au-Prince, shattered the afternoon calm with the strongest tremors to strike the region in more than 200 years; at least 52 significant aftershocks were recorded by Jan. 24.

The disaster pushed Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, beyond the brink, compounding the political and economic crises that had dogged it for decades. The quake left some 3 million people affected; a government-estimated 316,000 dead; almost 300,000 homes and commercial buildings collapsed or severely damaged; and the entire nation gripped by sorrow and wondering whether they could survive the hell they were living in.

After the hell of 2010 came eight more years of hell, as Leid Stories discusses today with Dady Chery.

Chery is a Haitian-born journalist, poet, playwright, professor of biology, and co-editor in chief of the news site, newsjunkiepost.com. She writes extensively about Haiti. She wrote the first story uncovering Haiti’s hidden mineral wealth, and revealed that U.N. peacekeeping forces were responsible for two strains of cholera outbreaks that killed thousands of Haitians and sickened thousands more—which the U.N. finally admitted. She has followed closely the deeds of corrupt Haitian leaders as well as the deeds of Bill and Hillary Clinton in Haiti. Her recently published book is titled We Have Dared to Be Free: Haiti’s Struggle Against Occupation.

Leid Stories—Are We Sleeping Through A Revolution?—01.10.18

Next Monday, when the nation pays mostly symbolic tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. commemorating what should have been his 86^th birthday, look to the State Florida, where prison inmates plan to live the meaning of King’s prophetic words. Many of them will go on strike against the state’s legendarily oppressive prison system, refusing to work for 30 days until basic human-rights demands are met—not only fo themselves but for all prisoners.

Ahead of Dr. Martin Luther King Day, Leid Stories reminds us all that each of us has a role to play in creating both the possibility and reality of a better world. Sadly, for too many it’s merely an idea, not a duty or ongoing commitment. But King admonishes us against self-induced passivity in the face of clear and present dangers to humanity as a whole and even to ourselves. It was the signature theme of his speeches and writings.

A week before he was assassinated on April 4, 1968 in Memphis, Tenn., where he had gone to support sanitation workers on strike, King preached to a church congregation about the importance of “Remaining Awake Through  Great Revolution.” We listen to that sermon in preparation for further discussion on Leid Stories.