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Last episode was part one of NOW READ THIS! , in which ten awesome people awesomely awesomed up their awesome reading recommendations. Why? Because a whole bunch of angries didn’t like the Bradford Reading Challenge. What’s the Bradford Reading Challenge, you ask? Simple! Author, tech-reviewer, and fandom activist K. Tempest Bradford suggested in an xoJane.com opinion piece that readers should discover the world of writers who never get confused for Mitt Romney, Stephen Harper, or Patton Oswalt. This episode, instead of ten boffo-socko book baptisers, let’s level up to SIXTEEN SCINTILLATING BOOK SPEAKERS. That’s right! We’ll hear from: Directors Ernest Dickerson, Seith Mann, and Reginald Hudlin Alternative Radio founder and interviewer David Barsamian South Sudanese community activist Buk Arop Sociologist and author Algernon Austin Columnist, author, and activist Bill Fletcher Hip hop artist and activist Young Mav Actors Isaiah Washington, Jamie Hector, Robert Wisdom , and...

CJSR FM88 www.cjsr.com 6 PM Mountain Time All youth face difficulties in the transition from childhood to adulthood, but those difficulties are typically greater for youth who immigrate. In Edmonton , the increasingly large population of new Canadians from the Afrikan continent, especially from the Horn of Afrika, is finding that Canada contains within it much opportunity—for success, as well as for suffering. On Monday, I spoke with two youth activists who are attempting to steer their peers towards productive, happy lives. Yannick Dako from Ivo ry Coast is 21 years old and is currently in an internship program with the YMCA. He’s also worked for Canadian Heritage and has been volunteering with Youth and Family Alliance of Alberta and Family First. Amal Issa is a 19 year old Political Science student at the University of Alberta . Of Somali heritage, she currently volunteers at Edmonton ’s new Africa Centre located ine former Wellington school, where she helps tutor young pe...