The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI // 16 February 2022

Published: Feb. 16, 2022, 5:28 p.m.

b"On this week's radio show with hosts John Tarleton and Amba Guerguerian:\\n\\n\\u2014 The Robinson family is fighting with the help of its neighbors to stay in the home that has been theirs since 1951. The landlord tried multiple times this week to forcibly enter the home at 964 Park Place in Crown Heights but was met with fierce community response. We speak with Sherease Torain, who was born in the home, Nico\\xe1s Vargas of Brooklyn Eviction Defense and Joel Feingold of Crown Heights Tenants Union, two of the groups that has come to support the Robinson Family.\\n\\n\\u2014In the past week, six Starbucks stores in New York City and on Long Island have filed for union recognition with the National Labor Relations Board, the first in the NYC region to do so. They are among the more than 80 Starbucks stores in at least 23 states that have sought to unionize since baristas at a Buffalo Starbucks store voted to unionize two months ago. Two baristas \\u2014 Megan DiMotta and Cynthia Villanave, from a Starbucks store in Bath Beach, Brooklyn which filed for union recognition last week, the first in Brooklyn to do so \\u2014 join us on WBAI-99.5 FM.\\n\\n\\u2014We talk Black History Month and in particular two films that are going to be screened at the Maysles Documentary Center in Harlem in the coming days. One is about the poet Audre Lorde and her time in Germany and the other is about the great writer, historian and activist W.E.B. DuBois who also has some interesting ties to Germany. Kazembe Balagun \\u2014 project manager at the Rosa Lux Stifgung\\u2019s New York office, a cultural historian, a contributing writer for The Indypendent and much more \\u2014 joins us to talk about the films."