Perspectives with Condace Pressley

Ronnie Mabra is a community servant. He served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 2013 to 1016. He's an alum of both the Georgia Tech Institute of Technology and the University of Georgia School of Law. He's an attorney with a heart for service - to his clients and to his community. The Fayetteville native is the son of a small businessman who also played in the NFL. His mother taught sc...

The COVID-19 pandemic affected everyone, especially kids. For Kyallan Parker the challenges were great - transitioning from a private school to virtual learning to eventually a public school. Kyallan was quiet and withdrawn and about to be labeled as a student with a behavior problem. His mother Krystle knew that he liked to journal and she encouraged him to do so. Later the pair learned that Kyal...

The nonprofit organization Drive Toward a Cure challenges every licensed driver to make every mile spent on the road count for a cause. This effort seeks to raise awareness and research dollars for Parkinson's Disease. During the "75 Days of Summer" campaign, drivers are encouraged to log their mileage and recruit supporters to sponsor their travels. There are chances to win prizes and do some goo...

Recently, the L.E.A.R.N Foundation opened a brick and mortar location in Dallas, GA. This nonprofit seeks to provide innovative and structured educational outreach programs to veterans. The organization has a new program, Veterans Upward Bound which will allow qualified veterans to have free access to services barring them to educational success. This is one of three similar programs in Georgia. T...

AileyCamp, the nationally acclaimed summer program that uses dance as a means to stretch the minds, bodies, and spirits of middle-school students, launches in Atlanta this week in partnership with Purpose Built Schools Atlanta and continues through July 14 at Luther J. Price Middle School. Aligning with Atlanta’s “Year of the Youth” initiative announced by Mayor Dickens, the six-week, full scholar...

Georgia Public Service Commission Vice Chair Tim Echols joins Perspectives to talk winning the road race by driving an EV. The 13th annual Georgia Clean Energy Roadshow educational series, hosted by PSC Vice Chairman Tim Echols and produced by Event Energy Partners together with Clean Cities Georgia, kicks off June 23rd with four tour-stops in Savannah, Augusta, Peachtree City, and Albany. Four ha...

Today we talk with author Ruth P. Watson about A Right Worthy Woman. This work of historical fiction follows the remarkable true story of Maggie Lena Walker and Virginia’s Black Wall Street. Maggie Lena Walker was the daughter of a formerly enslaved woman who eventually became the first Black woman to establish and preside over a bank in the United States. As a child, Maggie helped her mother with...

In YES PLEASE!, author, CEO and certified executive and personal coach L. Michelle Smith draws upon positive psychology, neuroscience, and the experiences of high-performing professional Black women, including herself, to reveal the seven secrets for success for the “double disadvantaged” in senior executive leadership positions, most notably tapping into positive emotion. Her book emphasizes the...

Alaya Dawn Johnson is an award-winning author of speculative fiction for adults and young adults. Her most recent novel, The Library of Broken Worlds, introduces the reader to Freida, the daughter of a library god who has spent her entire life exploring the library's ever changing tunnels and communing with the gods. In the winding underground tunnels of the library, a heinous secret lies buried -...

Summer season has arrived and the concern over COVID continues to decline. Nonetheless, a new variant that comes with an unusual, new symptom is gaining traction in the U.S. XBB.1.16 or Archturus is responsible for a growing share of new infections which often begin with an eye infection in addition to other cold-like symptoms like coughing and sneezing. We speak with HHS Regional Director Antrell...

National Brain Tumor Society, the largest patient advocacy organization in the United States committed to curing brain tumors and improving the lives of patients and families, will host the inaugural 2023 Brain Tumor Walk & Race at The Battery - Atlanta on June 3, 2023. Hundreds of local volunteers and participants—including patients, survivors, caregivers, families and friends, research scientist...

May 30 marks Memorial Day in the us; an American holiday observed on the last Monday of May, honoring the men and women who died while serving in the U.S. military. Much of what we know about key historical events are learned through documentaries, school, and history books - but most vividly, is the first-hand accounts retold from our grandparents and ancestors who were alive during these periods...

During May, we acknowledge and celebrate the accomplishments and contributions of our neighbors of Asian American and pacific islander descent. Or simply AAPI month. Asian Americans are the fastest growing racial group in Georgia and in the United States. Yet their history is rarely taught in Georgia classrooms. The group – Asian American voices for education – created and launched a heritage mont...

WE SEE EACH OTHER is a personal history of trans visibility since the beginning of moving images by Tre’vell Anderson. A literary reckoning, it unearths a transcestry that’s long existed in plain sight and in the shadows of history, and further contextualizes this present moment of increased representation. Though there have been trans memoirs and histories, there has never been a book quite like...

The schoolyear is about to end and many students will still be reading below their grade level. Blame this learning gap on the COVID-19 pandemic. One woman, however, is working to make reading easier and more enjoyable for children. Author and child advocate Sherrika Myers is back with the third in her series of Lil' Herbie books. This one is Lil' Herbie's New Friend. Herbie is a little boy learni...

Author Leah Johnson always wanted to be a superhero. When she discovered writing is her superpower, she became a writer which she says is the next best thing to being a superhero. Her debut novel, You Should See Me in a Crown was a best seller and won many honors including selection as one of Time's 100 Best Young Adult Books of All Time. Johnson is back with a novel for middle school students, El...

In Georgia, hundreds of young people age out of the foster care system every year. Many of these kids have experienced varying degrees of abuse and neglect without the proper health care to help them to work through their trauma. This contributes to many former foster care children's disadvantages when entering adulthood and the workforce. Young adults who grew up in the system are less likely to...

Within fiction lies the seeds of powerful transformation and inspiration. Some of the most inspirational guidebooks are parable, including Spencer Johnson's Who Moved My Cheese and Dr. Seuss' Oh, The Places You'll Go. Both have inspired business visionaries, entrepreneurs and graduates for decades. Joining this thoughtful collective is Ed Hajim's The Island of the Four Ps: A Modern Fable About Pre...

There is a saying, that when you know better, you do better. As a lifelong learner, I’m delighted to welcome to perspectives Cat McAfee and Charaun Cash. McAfee is executive director of LA Amistad and Cash is executive director of VOX Atlanta. They along with Habitat for Humanity’s Joshua Rogers are participating in the American Express Leadership Academy. This six-month program seeks to equip lea...

Fans of the television show Power on STARZ know Councilmember Rashad Tate played by acclaimed actor Larenz Tate. What fans may not know is that Tate is the youngest of three brothers and where one goes, they all go. Lahmard is a comedian/actor and Larron runs the family business and foundation. They join me to talk about being brothers, making their grandmother proud and the importance of giving o...

The Knowledge House wants you to join them for their first in person recruitment event since COVID. The event is Saturday, April 22, 2023 from 1:00 p.m. until 4:00 p.m. at Atlanta Tech Village, 3423 Piedmont Road, NE Atlanta, 30305. Founded in New York in 2014, The Knowledge House exists to close the gaps in education to employment pipeline by leading digital skills training for underserved commun...

Colorectal cancer is swiftly shifting to more advanced disease and younger individuals according to Colorectal Cancer Statistics 2023, a new report on cancer facts and trends by the American Cancer Society (ACS). Researchers showed the proportion of individuals in the United States diagnosed with advanced-stage colorectal cancer increased from 52% in the mid-2000s to 60% in 2019. In addition, diag...

The key to understanding, embracing, and unleashing your God-given uniqueness is possessing an accurate picture of your true identity. After all, if you don't know who you are, how could you ever know what you've been born to do? In Your Purpose Is Calling, Dr. Dharius Daniels, founder of Change Church, takes you on a journey of discovering your identity through a threefold solution of finding ful...

Despite his humble origins, Dr. Bill Pickard became the first person in his family to earn a four-year college degree. Today Dr. Pickard is CEO and chairman for multiple businesses, including VITEC LLC, Global Automotive Alliance LLC, and many more. It all started with two of his friends and a single McDonald's franchise. He guides other potential business leaders in his new book, Surviving the Sh...

Colorectal cancer is swiftly shifting to more advanced disease and younger individuals according to Colorectal Cancer Statistics 2023, a new report on cancer facts and trends by the American Cancer Society (ACS). Researchers showed the proportion of individuals in the United States diagnosed with advanced-stage colorectal cancer increased from 52% in the mid-2000s to 60% in 2019. In addition, diag...