User:Three white leopards/Margaret Prescod

Margaret Prescod

Barbadian-American activist, organizer and radio host

Host and producer of Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod on KPFK-FM Los Angeles and the Pacifica radio network. Public affairs program covering local/national/international current events, politics - special focus on impact on women, indigenous communities, communities of color

Formerly went by Sojourner Truth as a "pen name?"

2009 show started? I think just moved to consistent morning time? https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-nov-05-et-arbitron5-story.html

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-mar-27-la-et-onthemedia27-2010mar27-story.html

"Well-known radio host" by 2010: https://www.laweekly.com/missing-the-grim-sleeper-by-a-hair/

Structural impacts of imperialism on Haiti; effects of climate change on vulnerable communities; disparate health impacts on Black communities

Maxine Waters' delegation to Haiti in 2019: https://lasentinel.net/congresswoman-waters-leads-delegation-to-haiti-finds-both-inspiration-and-evidence-of-violence.html

Theme song: "One Love" by Bob Marley

https://www.kpfk.org/on-air/margaret-prescod/

https://sotrueradio.org/index.php/about-us

Executive board member of Center for Study of Racism, Social Justice, and Health at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health

https://www.racialhealthequity.org/executive-board

Born in Barbados, moved to Brooklyn in 1962, either at 12 or as an early teenager

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-07-28-vw-5698-story.html

Parents owned radio station and were schoolteachers

http://ourweekly.com/news/2015/jan/15/kpfk-radio-host-margaret-prescod-moderate-mlk-pane/

Graduated HS at 16, college at 20 (Long Island University), graduate work at Columbia University's Teachers College

Schoolteacher in Brooklyn

International Wages for Housework Campaign - founded by Selma James, mother of Sam Weinstein, Prescod's ex-husband

Tried to convince international organizations to quantify value of unpaid housework (mostly by women) and include in GNP

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-05-07-vw-4294-story.html

Director of US chapter: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-03-25-mn-14815-story.html

Married Sam Weinstein, labor official and organizer - moved to LA 1980 when he elected president of Utility Workers of America Local 132

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-10-16-vw-5852-story.html

Came to prominence as founder in mid-1980s of Black Coalition Fighting Back Serial Murderers, created to draw attention to a string of unsolved murders in South Central LA

http://www.blackcoalitionfightingbackserialmurders.net/

Frequently appeared at commissions/hearings/press conferences, tried to convince police to take phenomenon more seriously - police skeptical it was serial killer and did not release composite photo/ask for public's help until October 1985 (even though first murder in Jan 84 and suspected serial murderer in April 85, after seven deaths) - turned out to be Grim Sleeper

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-10-03-me-739-story.html

Frequently spoke at events and quoted in newspaper stories trying to convince police to dedicate more resources - take as seriously as Night Stalker

Darryl Gates called "asinine" the idea that the police weren't doing enough - suggestion that less attention because Black women and prostitutes

Police Commander William Booth (July 1986)

Distributed estimated 150k flyers in 30 years

http://www.blackcoalitionfightingbackserialmurders.net/archive/2015/4/9/jlimjp0rwrephk4no6eq95gtzgzvk5

Weekly vigils, subject to intimidation https://www.laweekly.com/group-demands-progress-on-grim-sleeper/

https://calisphere.org/item/ark:/21198/zz0002n8nc/

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/grim-sleeper-killer-convicted-black-women-are-still-vulnerable-n584856

https://www.laweekly.com/black-coalition-begins-grim-sleeper-information-campaign-despite-michael-jackson/

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qbx9zp/how-a-slice-of-pizza-may-have-helped-catch-californias-longest-active-serial-killer

http://rosesouthla.org/photo-gallery/

"Veteran activist" https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jul-26-me-59444-story.html Other groups:

Women Count Implementation Committee (implementing UN strategies for women's economic equality) (founded)

Carmen Lima and Family Defense Committee (immigrant/undocumented women) (involved)

International Black Women for Wages for Housework (founded 1976)

Global Women's Strike Los Angeles (spokeswoman) https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-mar-09-me-7001-story.html

D2K Convention Planning Coalition https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jul-01-me-46666-story.html

Every Mother is a Working Mother Network https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-may-12-mn-36486-story.html