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Chauvin Trial & Police Shootings

How do employees define a workplace, company dynamics and how do societal issues influence companies and its culture?   Recently, there have been a number of articles raising the issue of women specifically Black women in the workplace and the issues around fitting in, acceptance, microaggressions and discrimination.  Several articles also popped up about misogynoir, a loathing of Black women and...

Essential workers? Employee Protections// Stimulus

Asian American Violence

Issues from how they are seen to housing, work issues, and Transgender deaths.

It's been a year since the pandemic, altering our lives in so many areas.  Small businesses and especially businesses owned by people of color have been hit hard with many closing their doors for good or trying to meet the demands of the Covid safety guidelines, maintaining a staff as well as customers.  We wanted to follow up with  some of our guests that have been on the program to see what a ye...

New Massachusetts bill would create mobile vaccination program, multilingual campaign to increase access.

PBS series the Black church feb 16, 23.

This seems like the perfect opportunity to celebrate and discuss Black love since Valentine’s day is this weekend. As much as we will discuss that, the episode will delve into the history of the Black family – from the roots of slavery where families were sold and torn apart, Moynihan’s debated report on “The Black Family,”  to free love, AIDS and how those pieces of history present themselves tod...

Code-switching is not new.  W.E.B. DuBois wrote about the complexities of duality, or double consciousness— and how Black people walked between two worlds.  And for many folks it was...and still is, a necessity for their advancement, survival and physical well-being… BUT as more people of color describe themselves as “authentically” or “openly" Black, we began to wonder in this time of racial reck...

Racial-Generational Trauma

The presidential election and the first female Vice President of Asian and African American descent.

Funding art and social justice; how the new fund will change the landscape of how we see work, what type of art people are exposed to as well as ways to create a funding pipeline for Black and Brown organizations. It also provides a deeper discussion on Black/brown philanthropy.

This week the show will discuss the Covid vaccines and how to move beyond fear, history and distrust of the medical community amongst people of color.  It’s no secret that there has been a painful history that Black people have endured within the medical community, from the high-profile stories of the Tuskegee study to Henrietta Lacks. However, beyond those stories are the health disparities and e...

Year of COVID, Racial Unrest, and an unprecedented Election. What do we take from everything that has happened and how we move on—and expect in 2021? Thoughts from an investigative radio reporter, an opinion columnist, a professor, and a therapist.

Art and artist during COVID and racial unrest

Rent. Food. Bills. What stays, what goes. How do you move forward in stressful economic times?  Which bill do I pay first?

Elections—who won? After the election: What now? Where do we go from here? The path toward the future.

A few days are left. Some people have already sent their votes in and some are still making up their minds.  But no matter who you vote for, in the words of Michelle Obama, it’s time to vote as if your life depends on it.

Sports Consciousness

How do you teach during the time of Covid?

Black anger and how it is misunderstood, dismissed or an emotion that society has said it is not acceptable for BIPOC to express.  If BIPOC do, they are shunned, labeled, excluded and/or physically and fatally harmed. The show episode will explore in the context of what has happened this summer – deaths, protests, COVID and the upcoming election.  

Protests sparked by the death of George Floyd saw an outpouring of people across the world demanding an end to police-involved shootings and an end to systemic racism---while COVID-19 continues.  The protesters willingly took to the streets—and continue to do so—voicing their outrage. But we also saw how activism has evolved, with activists who are multicultural, predominantly younger and users of...

Since the first cases of Covid 19 were identified in the US-- just four months ago, people of color have suffered the greatest number of infections and deaths. The global health pandemic, in turn, triggered a devastating economic blow to communities of color. And that grim backdrop was the context for the shocking on camera killing of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police. In the month s...

George Floyd’s life was snuffed out on the streets of Minneapolis, Armaud Arbery was gunned down on a Georgia road, and Breonna Taylor shot to death in her sleep. Millions have taken to the streets in multiracial worldwide protests declaring that Black Lives Matter. Celebrity athletes, corporations, and ordinary Americans are demanding police reforms and systemic solutions to racism. And then last...