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The Biden Administration announced included in the $2 trillion infrastructure and jobs package is $400 billion to combat climate change, including $60 billion for infrastructure related to green transit and $46 billion for climate-related research and development. The bill also aims to make electric-vehicle charging stations available across the country. Andreas Karelas, author of CLIMATE COURAGE:...

The Anti-Defamation League recently honored Leah Ward Sears, former Chief Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court with a lifetime achievement award for her work on equal justice and fair treatment of people. She joins me to talk about Georgia's new election law, the Atlanta Spa Shootings and the Derek Chauvin trial.

April is National Minority Cancer Awareness Month. Many cancer patients, especially those in underserved communities, cannot afford to take part in clinical trials that could save their lives. Racial disparities in clinical trials have long been an issue that’s just another part of the implicit bias in health care. It’s not just African Americans. Asians, Hispanics, Native Americans, and Alaska Na...

Next Gen Men and Women believes if a young person can see it and experience it, then he or she can be it. This metro Atlanta nonprofit works with young people from disadvantaged communities and schools them on the ways of success. Executive Director Phil Olaleye and student Cy'ierra Davis a senior at Atlanta's Creekside High discuss how Next Gen has influenced her. Next we meet Jackie Cannizzo, Ex...

Deloris Jordan is Michael Jordan's older sister. They are four years apart. In the 33 years I've done this show, this was one of the most challenging interviews I've ever done. Of course, I am respectful of the guest, but I also want to be sure that I ask the questions that are on your mind. Deloris Jordan has turned her pain into her purpose and now travels the country as a motivational speaker....

You may have heard of the book: In the Footsteps Of Jesus: A Chronicle Of His Life And The Origins Of Christianity from National Geographic. Dr. Jean-Pierre Isbouts is the historian and filmmaker and author of this book in which he suggests among other things that Christ treated women as his disciples and that He and his earthly father, Joseph, worked together as carpenters building a city during...

Too often the teachers in many public schools know very little about the students in their classes. Strong Black Girls: Reclaiming Schools in Their Own Image lays bare the harm Black women and girls are expected to overcome in order to receive an education in America. This volume, edited by Danielle Apugo, Lynette Mawhinney and Afiya Mbilishaka amplifies routinely muffled voices and experiences of...

When Tonya Hicks was a girl, she wanted to work at NASA cracking codes and making discoveries. In college a professor told her that her best option with a degree in math was to be a teacher. That was not her goal. One summer she found herself on a job site where math dominated. Next thing, she's an electrician and owner of her own company making her way in a male dominated world successfully. We s...

The pandemic year has provided people a "time out" to evaluate their lives, goals and dreams. In Permission to Dream, Chris Gardner, author of The Pursuit of Happiness delivers a powerful tome on dreaming your way to the next level of your life. He argues dreams not only improve your life, but they also make the world a better place. This is a philosophical guide to turning dreams into action, rig...

There’s a lot of misinformation out there about the COVID-19 vaccines and many people are not getting the answers they need. Rev. Charles Maxell, Senior Pastor of The Breakthrough Fellowship has pulled together a panel of expets to answer your questions about the vaccine. It is a virtual town hall meeting on March 25, 2021 at 7pm. The forum is free and open to the public. Register to attend at www...

As Jewish families prepare for the upcoming Passover holiday, many wonder how best to pass down and preserve their Jewish identity in an increasingly secularized culture. Miriam Udel, a rabbi, mother, professor of Yiddish language and Literature at Emory University, introduces modern-day families to translated versions of the cherished fairy tales, fables, folklore, and poems originally written in...

It's the interview everyone has been talking about - Oprah's conversation with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle and take a deeper dive on the issues confronting mixed race women with Cheslie Kryst. Kryst was named MISS USA 2019, and was one of the Black Trifecta queens. She's recently been named a correspondent for the entertainment magazine EXTRA. Also, true to her legal professional roots, she rec...

As the nation marks one year of the COVID-19 pandemic, we pause to mourn the lives lost and celebrate the survivors. Nerva Altino, one half of the Altino brothers contracted coronavirus in 2020 and lost his father to the virus. So inspired by his COVID experience, Nerva wrote his autobiography, More than a Gift. He writes of immigrating to the US, mastering piano and battling bullying. Today, Nerv...

Dwayne Reed says only New Yorkers tease him about his name. This Chicago born middle school teacher inspires his students with rhyme. He's crafted a book for young people called Simon B. Rhymin'. He's inspired by his mom and other teachers and wants young people to believe they can be anything they dream. March 13 through the 27th marks the Atlanta Science Festival - a virtual and partially in per...

Miseducated is a memoir from Brandon P. Flemming. He has transformed his life from college dropout to Harvard Professor. He is the founder of the Harvard Diversity Project. He attended college on a basketball scholarship, but an injury ended his career and for a moment, his education. Debate is the tool he used to transform his life and now the lives of others. He was teaching at the Ron Clark Aca...

In this half hour of Perspectives, genealogist Nicka Sewell Smith discusses concerns people may have with sharing their DNA in ancestry research. Next a conversation with the Grammy award-winning Christian Hip Hop artist Lecrae about the work in education he's doing on Atlanta's West side. Then we talk with Delta Community Credit Union's Reina Short about their collaboration with the Martin Luther...

Ancestry.com has added new records to improve online searches for descendants of slaves. Genealogist Nicka Sewell Smith explains the benefits for researchers of records from the Freedmen's Journal and new data ingested from the West Indies.

The 2021 Atlanta Jewish Film Festival goes viral. Go behind the scenes with Festival Executive Director Kenny Blank on what film fans can expect from 38 films between now and February 28th. There is a $3 discount on four family friendly films with promo code FAM2FAM. Next, health information—and misinformation—is all around us, and it can be hard to separate the two. How do we stay sane while unra...

Paul Judge, the much buzzed-about Black entrepreneur and investor, has partnered with Mark Buffington and BIP Capital to form Panoramic Ventures in Atlanta. This venture capital firm launched a new $300 million fund to grow underserved, promising companies the SE and Midwest. The fund will give entrepreneurs in lesser funded regions, access to capital and expertise, to help grow tech companies in...

What do former college roommates, now retired professionals do in the middle of a pandemic and year of social unrest? They write a book! Wanda S. Lloyd and Tina McElroy Ansa, roommates at Atlanta's Spelman college and now a retired journalist, author and book publisher united as editors for Meeting at the Table: African American Women Write on Race, Culture and Community. The book is a collection...

What do former college roommates, now retired professionals do in the middle of a pandemic and year of social unrest? They write a book! Wanda S. Lloyd and Tina McElroy Ansa, roommates at Atlanta's Spelman college and now a retired journalist, author and book publisher united as editors for Meeting at the Table: African American Women Write on Race, Culture and Community. The book is a collection...

Have you ever heard of Rebecca Lee Crumpler? Neither had I until I talked with Dr. Melody McCloud. Rebecca Lee Crumpler was the first Black female doctor to practice medicine in the United States. Hers is quite the story as Dr. McCloud tells us.

February is heart month and heart disease remains a number one killer of women - claiming one in three lives. The American Heart Association's Go Red for Women movement seeks to raise awareness in the fight against heart disease and stroke in women. Anna Williams experienced both - before the age of 40.

Now that 2020 is in everyone's rear view mirror and the first month of 2021 is in the book, let's look ahead to the rest of the year. Stephanie Nichols is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and joins us to talk about maintaining one's mental health as the one year anniversary of the pandemic approaches.

This week began with the 35th celebration of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday, featured the inauguration of the 46th president of the United States and the 49th Vice President of the United States and the passing of a sports and civil rights legend, Hank Aaron. My guest is Monica Pearson who has witnessed much of Atlanta's history from behind the anchor desk at Channel 2 Action News.