May 20, 2025 // News
Our Summer 2025 Schedule is live! Click on the SCHEDULE link in our website’s header to see the Summer 2025 schedule.
WRCT’s student and community volunteers always provide you with the intelligent, energetic, and diverse programming you’ve come to associate with WRCT. Some of your favorite shows may have moved to new time slots; and lots of new shows are on the schedule. Tune in to WRCT to discover some new favorite shows!
Whether they’re live in the studios or broadcasting from their home studios, WRCT student and community volunteers produce Pittsburgh’s best variety of music and public affairs programming — 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, on 88.3 FM, Pittsburgh, or streaming from this very website!
May 20, 2025 // Forbes Avenue
This week on Forbes Avenue, we talked to Dr. Edda Fields-Black, a CMU history professor who just won a Pulitzer Prize for Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War! We talked about her prize-winning book, her other research, and writing untold stories. She also told us why a rice field is a historical document. A fascinating conversation!
Listen to the episode: Edda Fields-Black
Riona Duncan, host, audio editor, audio engineer, researcher
Recorded May 12, 2025; WRCT debut May 20, 2025
April 29, 2025 // Forbes Avenue
This week on Forbes Avenue, we aired an April 16 interview with Jaime Martinez, the Community Defense Organizer at Casa San José, an agency that supports Pittsburgh’s Latino community.
Martinez related some of the issues immigrants face when confronted by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. He also summarized the advice he gives in Casa San José “Know Your Rights” sessions, detailed some of the confrontations of which he has firsthand knowledge, and explained the history of increased ICE enforcement over the last 10-15 years. He appealed to listeners to value the humanity in all of us — no matter where we each come from.
In the course of the conversation, Martinez mentioned several agencies or initiatives that can help with Immigration questions:
Listen to the interview: Jaime Martinez
Credits:
Richard Gordon, host, audio engineer, audio editor, researcher
Riona Duncan & Archan Das, additional research
Recorded April 16, 2025; WRCT debut April 29, 2025
