Somewhere in Albuquerque, music is blasting, people with wild hair and flowy clothes are dancing barefoot, and the DJ is bobbing along to music. Except passersby observing the crowd can’t hear any music. Anyone running into the dancers at Headphone.
KUNM Radio hires Megan Kamerick as news director July 27, 2021
KUNM Radio, at the University of New Mexico, has selected Megan Kamerick to be the station’s next News Director. Kamerick started her position on July 19, 2021, following an extensive national search to fill a critical role for KUNM’s public service across central and northern New Mexico.
Kamerick began as a volunteer at KUNM in 2005 on Women’s Focus and joined the staff in 2015. She is familiar to KUNM listeners as a reporter, the local host for Morning Edition, and more recently as the local host for KUNM’s evening news magazine All Things Considered. She produces KUNM’s monthly program University Showcase. She is also a producer and correspondent for the NMPBS television program New Mexico in Focus. Her current work includes the NMPBS podcast Growing Forward, documenting the emerging state of legal cannabis with co-producer Andy Lyman.
A Dictionary of British Slave Traders to be compiled by team of British academics
Database will feature biographies of investors with links to the slave trade
Among them will be the Duke of Chandos and Robert Walpole, Britain s first PM
Greene King and Lloyd s of London have both apologised for roles in slave trade
Organisers say the Black Lives Matter movement made the project more important in highlighting Britain s involvement in the slave trade