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Maafa 2009: Today we speak to Minister Mxolisi T. Sowell(aka Minister Mxolisi Ozo-Sowande)who is the Community Relations Chairman of the Amelia County Branch of the N.A.A.C.P. He is a 1975 graduate of California State University of the East Bay (formerly California State College, Hayward.), with a B.A. degree in Social Science, with a Journalism concentration. He is a graduate of Merritt Community College of Oakland, California, with an A.A. Degree in African American Studies. Bro. Mxolisi is Senior Minister, Emeritus, of the Wo’se Community of the Sacred African Way of Oakland and Sacramento, California. We will also be speaking to Alan Laird, M.Div., also at GTU Berkeley, CA. He is an artist and activist born in Oakland, CA. He was he said, a part ofthe "1960's Black enfranchisement movement and was blessed to serve the community as a member of BPP and was a friend to murdered Comrade Little Bobby Hutton. He is a Viet Nam disabled veteran, an ordained minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. He has and continues to provide outreach to those incarcerated and their families. We will close with an interview with Rwanda, African Women's Charity Organization and a prerecorded interview with King Sunny Ade recorded June 20, 2009. We didn't get to the prerecorded interview (smile). I will schedule a special broadcast for Monday, October 12, at 6 AM: "Indigenous People's Day."