InflexionPoint Podcast: Cultivating Change from the Inside Out

Being Black Globally - Musings from an Intellectual Brother Meet Corban Swain, Ph. D. candidate in Biological Engineering working in the laboratory of Professor Ed Boyden at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). As a scientist, photographer, poet, and PhD student, Mr. Swain pursues diverse interests with a keen eye, befitting the description of an “intellectual brother.”   Question of t...

Recap: 2017 Publication: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.   Key Takeaways of the Communities in Action Conceptual Model Health equity is crucial to the well-being and vibrancy of communities. Social inequities matter more than health care in shaping health disparities. Health e...

In this episode Gail, Mavis, and Anita continue the discussion of specific social determinants of health: social environment, physical environment and transportation, and education. Recap: 2017 Publication: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.   Key Takeaways of the Communities in...

Question of the Hour: What are social determinants of health? Discussion: Introduction to Social Determinants of Health Conceptual model   2017 Publication: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. "Health equity is the state in which everyone has the opportunity to attain full health...

Question of the Hour: What if we truly exercised the birthright to be Black and female anywhere? Benefits of Travel: Access is Everything. Meet Irijah Stennett, the owner of Irie Travels . She is a certified YogaSkills Kemetic Yoga teacher, Pranic Energy Practitioner, Fashion Designer and creator of "Retreat to Freedom". Ms. Stennett is excited to teach everyone from kindergartners to seniors, and...

CROWN Act: Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair Pretoria High School, a prestigious South African Private School, bans natural hair styles. What's the deal with my hair? My hair naturally grows out of my head thick and curly like a rainforest, yet people expect me to mow it into a lawn with fine, straight blades of grass.  Take a Stand for for the CROWN Act.   House Passes CROWN A...

Question of the Hour: How does an African-American Adoptee create an identity construct that transcends the pain of historical and experiential relinquishment?   In this episode we continue the previous discussion of identity. This time Gail, Mavis, and I welcome our first guest, Mr. Michael Williams, hailing from North Carolina. We are super charged with excitement to have Michael on the show!  ...

We continue the saga of personal identity across multiple decades. In previous episodes we covered the Great Migration, the Harlem Renaissance, and the murder of Emmett Till, a flame that burned itself right into the Civil Rights Movement. In this episode we highlight specific moments, personal experiences and impactful words uttered in eras marked by iconic protest songs, assassinations, and the...

The struggle for self-identification, cultural self-determination, autonomy, equality, and equity. It's all the same struggle across the spectrum of the Great Migration through 5 Historic Movements. The generational sentiment among Black people boils down to this: Leave us alone so we can freely and peacefully exist in the skin in which we are born. In this episode we immerse ourselves in a discus...

"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again."—Maya Angelou  The struggle for self-identification, cultural self-determination, autonomy, equality, and equity—it's all the same struggle across the spectrum of the Great Migration through 5 Historic Movements. The generational sentiment among Black people boils down to this: Leave us alo...

Question of the Hour: What role does identity play in the history of enslavement and reconstruction?   Identity Theft - Enslavement and the Power of (re)Naming Freedman and the Battle of Reconstruction Identity Hackers - Black Codes/Jim Crow   Civil War Amendments: 13th Amentment (1865) - abolish slavery (exception clause) 14th Amentment (1868) - citizenship, equal rights, legal rights 15th Amentm...

Question of the Hour: Who Among Us Is Free? Coin Analogy. Who is among the free and the brave? Liberty and justice for whom? Are we among the free? Personal Transformation Bridge: The gap between where you are and where you aspire to be. On the antiracism journey the gap includes courage, conversation, relationship, and accountability. It takes courage to immerse yourself in conversation, relation...

Question of the Hour: How is birthright defined? Join the antiracism mastermind group discussion wih Anita, Mavis, and Gail and be immersed in the question of the hour within multiple contexts: Dual natue of life in America Universal human rights Land of the free, home of the brave, liberty and justice for all Using historical documents such as the Declaration of Independence, the WHO Declaration...

This next episode of InflexionPoint Podcast is centered around "The Cairo Question." Will Cairo have to protest in his lifetime for the birthright to freely and peacefully exist in the skin in which he was born? In 15 years Cairo will be just about 17 years old, the same age as Travon Martin when he was murdered by George Zimmerman. Over the course of 15 years, I commit to activism through coachin...

Welcome to InflexionPoint Podcast on Transformation Talk Radio. InflexionPoint Podcast is a brave space for conversation about racism, personal transformation, and accountability. Join this journey towards antiracism and cultivating change from the inside out. In this episode you will get to know Anita Russell, the creator and host of InflexionPoint Podcast. You'll also get to know the co-hosts, M...