Programming

“Let’s get started! 20th Century salsa, Latin jazz and Afro-Cuban music,” Juan Montenegro says as salsa legend Eddie Palmieri plays in the background. Montenegro’s Friday morning show, “Latin Explosion,” is an auditory trip through the Americas featuring music interconnected with the stories of its makers. “I focus on specific musicians, time periods and styles every […]

Sebastian Martinez will be our guest on Peace & Justice this Wednesday October 18 at 9am. He’s a 2021 graduate of Booker High School, has been involved in youth organizing since he was 15 years old. He founded a local youth organization, the Sarasota Youth Association (SYA), but after attending college, he decided to grow […]

First, we’ll talk to Sarah McNamara, author of Ybor City: Crucible of the Latina South. Sarah McNamara’s book traces the politics of Cuban immigrants and their descendants, the central role of women, and histories of labor organizing in a Tampa area cigar making community. Then we’ll talk to Mayor Stephen Reed. He wrote First, Best: Lessons in Leadership […]

This Wednesday we’ll talk to Brenda Downing-Wiggins, MBA Director of Operations The Salvation Army of Sarasota County. We’ll find out what they do and how they support the community. Then we’ll talk to Kel Roth, Education and Engagement Coordinator for the Florida Maritime Museum in Cortez. We’ll also ask our listeners to become WSLR members […]

Tuesday 10-03-2023 – WSLR 96.5 Sarasot  from 11:00 am until 1:00 p.m. (EST). Also available on our App (Android and IOS); and for two weeks on WSLR Archives: https://archive.wslr.org/ We are presenting from Tango to Flamenco and all Latinx music in between with rarely if ever played music and musicians in our show. Music styles […]

This Wednesday we’ll talk to author Tanya Golash-Boza, author of Before Gentrification: The creation of DC’S Racial Wealth Gap which shows how a century of redlining, disinvestment, and the War on Drugs wreaked devastation on Black people and paved the way for gentrification in Washington, DC. Then we’ll hear Bob’s interview with David Keith Cobb, […]