A Message from Home Stretch host Hannah Levin,
Dear listener:
Eight years ago, KXCI began a fruitful partnership with the University of Arizona to celebrate Black History Month. Every February, Home Stretch host Hannah Levin welcomes professors from the College of Humanities’ Africana Studies Department for guest DJ sessions during The Home Stretch at 5 pm throughout the month. The purpose of these sessions is to utilize the vivid beauty and unique power of music to illuminate important moments in Black history and culture.
Whether the core theme is identity, gender, food, religion, dance, film, or larger contemporary concepts such as Afrofuturism, we create space for these gifted educators to share the ways in which music intersects with their areas of academic expertise.
There is a direct correlation between your gifts of support to KXCI and our capacity to forge meaningful partnerships such as this. I cannot thank you enough for your continued support of independent radio. KXCI exists for you but also because of you and I am so grateful for your role in this beautiful equation that knits our community together.
The result 
has been a true gift in the form of consistently inspiring, intelligent conversations that spark to life through music’s distinct lens, refracting these topics with a warmth and accessibility that only music can provide.
First up in February, Professor Johnny Castro returns to the show. Castro is a third-year Ph.D. student in Critical Dance Studies at the University of California, Riverside. He holds an M.A. in Creative Enterprise Cultural Leadership from Arizona State University. He is a member of the Furious Styles Crew and co-founder of the Worth The Weight event series. Johnny is a leader in the Arizona dance community as a b-boy, practitioner, and event organizer/host and has witnessed unique aesthetic trends form in the Arizona dance scene. His research is rooted in the lived experiences of street dancers and examines the relationship between social media and feelings of belonging and dis-belonging as experienced by street dancers.
Schedule:
Feb. 5 – Johnny Castro
Feb. 13 – Charles Norton
Feb. 19 – Nadia W-Charles
Feb. 26 – DeAnna Daniels
