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Today on Athens News Matters, some tips on staying safe from ticks and avoiding Alpha-Gal syndrome. Then, how one cartoonist takes inspiration from the Athens music scene.

For our second listeners’ appreciation show of the year, we introduce the 10 African nations participating in the 23rd Fifa Men’s World Cup in North America.

Born Coosaponakeesa (coo-sop-oh-na-KEEsah), Mary Musgrove was the daughter of an English father and a Creek Indian mother. Fluent in both English and Muskogee, the Creek language, she became a bridge between two worlds.

As they say in Chichewa in Malawi, a mother is still a mother, though her legs be small.

This week on Music from High Cotton: Sam Morrow has carved out a sound that exists somewhere outside of genre and geography.

Susie King Taylor was born into slavery in Georgia in 1848. With the help of her grandmother, she was able to access an underground education in a time when teaching African Americans to read and write was illegal.

In 1916, Jeannette Rankin was the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress, representing Montana. At the time she was elected, women in most other states were not able to vote.

Born near Macon, GA in 1826, Ellen Craft was a slave who famously fled from slavery in 1848. Ellen was very light-skinned, and used this trait to disguise herself as a young, ill white man while her husband William posed as her slave.

Today on Athens News Matters, Tim Denson and Dexter Fisher in a roundtable discussion on their visions for the future of Athens.

Friday, June 19th is Juneteenth, a federal holiday commemorating emancipation of enslaved Africans. Join us as we remember the history and culture behind Juneteenth, and begin our African Summer Music Festival.