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Important WUSB update - 43rd anniversary special Radiothon

WUSB truly loves and thanks our listeners for tuning in and providing so many years of support to keep us on the air. We postponed our Spring Radiothon due to the Corona Crisis but need your pledge of support now to help keep us on the air.

We are celebrating 43 years of FM bliss on June 27th and we hope you will tune in to a summer Radiothon from June 10th until July 5th as we bring you some extraordinary, one of a kind radio specials.

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Daniel Markovits Talks MERITOCRACY TRAP On Tom Needham's SOUNDS OF FILM

Why is there so much inequality in America? Yale Law School Professor/Writer, Daniel Markovits, and Tom Needham explore this question and more on the next SOUNDS OF FILM. The show will also feature interviews with the directors of the films ‘Narrowsburg’ and ‘Jane Fonda in 5 Acts.’

Daniel Markovits is the author of the explosive new book, ‘The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite’

Worldwide listeners can tune into the internet livestream on Thursday at 6 pm EST at wusb.fm.

For more information, visit https://www.broadwayworld.com/long-island/article/Daniel-Markovitz-Talks...

Music Legend Kurtis Blow Raps About Covid-19, God, & Hip-Hop On Tom Needham's SOUNDS OF FILM

Legendary Hip-Hop Star, Kurtis Blow, and director David Hambridge are Tom Needham’s exclusive guests on this Thursday’s SOUNDS OF FILM.

Kurtis Blow is known for his starring-role in the classic film, ‘Krush Groove,’ and has also appeared in ‘Crank the Series,’ ‘Hip-Hop Evolution,’ ‘Breaking the Rules,’ ‘VH1 Presents the 80’s,’ and ‘Rhyme & Reason’

Kurtis Blow is set to debut his brand new covid-19 themed song on the Long Island Music Hall of Fame’s Concert Supporting Health Care Heroes airing on News 12 Plus affiliated channels throughout the Tristate area on May 31st.

David Hambridge's KIFARU is a feature-length documentary that follows the lives of two young, Kenyan recruits who join Ol Pejeta Conservancy's rhino caretaker unit - a small group of rangers that protect and care for Sudan, the last male northern white rhino in the world.

Worldwide listeners can tune into the SOUNDS OF FILM’s internet livestream this Thursday at 6 pm EST at wusb.fm.

For more information, visit https://www.broadwayworld.com/long-island/article/Music-Legend-Kurtis-Bl...

Captain Phil brings you The Utopian on Sustain It! WUSB 90.1 FM

Captain Phil is Filling in for Habanero on Sustain It! This Friday Morning on WUSB 90.1fm Stony Brook from 6am to 8am. In this show we'll have some great music plus the fascinating Stony Brook press podcast The Utopian featuring Dr. Christopher Jones, a lead developer at the Cool Climate Network and an environmental policy expert, to discuss our role in stopping this inevitable crisis once and for all.

Also music by Genesis, Kansas, Jethro Tull, Jeff Lynne and Phideaux !

Buddy Merriam to host FACEBOOK LIVE for WUSB - Thursday, May 28, 7-8 PM

Legendary bluegrass musician and WUSB DJ BUDDY MERRIAM will be hosting a special program on FACEBOOK LIVE to help raise money for WUSB!

Follow Buddy on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/buddy.merriam.