Perspectives with Condace Pressley

Now streaming is a 96-minute documentary about a civil rights pioneer. A legend. An icon. Georgia’s Congressman John Lewis. “John Lewis Good Trouble” is directed by dawn porter and produced by Color Farm Films. The company’s co-founder and film producer is actor and activist Erika Alexander.

The Absalom Jones Center for Racial Healing in Atlanta has an idea to reimagine community policing. Dr. Catherine Meeks, the Center's Executive Director works to change hearts and minds one at a time. She invites a community to join the conversation. She argues that in the wake of the war on drugs, mass incarceration and the murders of Ahmad Arbery, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, change must hap...

To be a great leader, you must be able to unite people from all backgrounds with seemingly competing agendas to come together under a common cause. Those words from former New Orleans Mayor Marc Morial – the current President and CEO of the National Urban League – in his new book, The Gumbo Coalition.

My Vanishing Country is his poetic personal history. In the book Bakari Sellers awakens us to see the crisis affecting the other “Forgotten Men & Women,” who the media seldom acknowledges. For Sellers, these are his family members, neighbors, and friends. He humanizes the struggles that shape their lives: to gain access to healthcare as rural hospitals disappear; to make ends meet as the factories...

In the past two weeks, our country has experienced a tremendous wave of awakening and awareness regarding racism, justice, and racial reconciliation. Responses to the long-repressed issue have been sadly mixed, but one overwhelmingly positive result has been the spread of Black voices and the call for individuals to educate themselves about the underlying problems. Carlos Whittaker, the son of a H...

The country appears ready to have a real conversation about systemic racism. Today I'm talking with Debbie Irving, the author of Waking Up White. She's a 60 year old white woman who has had an epiphany about race in America. Her book is enlightening. The conversation is interesting. I hope you will listen. Her book published in 2014, is available where books and audio books are sold.

We say their names. Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd. Their murders shine a white hot light on the systemic racism in America and have led to protests not only in all 50 states, but also in countries around the world. With many Americans sheltering in place because of the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 seems to be forcing us to focus on the country's original sin. People of all races are m...

A glimmer of hope. Those words describe the news that there may be a vaccine to combat coronavirus. If future studies go well, the vaccine could be available to the public as early as January. Josh Nathan Kazis is the health reporter for Barron's. He has studied and written extensively on vaccines. His story in Barron's is Moderna’s Coronavirus vaccine appears to work in Early trials. What comes n...

Dr. Chris Hermann, an alum of both Georgia Tech and Emory University, is the brain behind one way to stay safe in if you are in the hospital. Its called clean hands safe hands and this technology was developed at the Centers for Disease Control, Emory University and the Georgia Tech Research Institute. Hospital acquired infections are the bane of the health care industry. Dr. Hermann’s clean hands...

Remember those resolutions you made at the start of 2020. You were going to eat better - make smarter choices, maybe try Keto. Then a pandemic hit and you've been quarantined in your home for weeks. The stress and the uncertainty can lead you to abandon the healthy diet plan. It does not have to be that way. Dr. Anna Cabecca best known as Dr. Anna joins us to talk about how to stick to a smart mea...

Our challenge during this pandemic is to care for the most vulnerable among us. This is the mission of Meals on Wheels Atlanta. This nonprofit distributes 20,000 meals per week. This is double their normal distribution. The group has partnered with the city of Atlanta to fund meals for waitlisted seniors through the end of the year. They are seeking support through 2020 to continue to close the se...

As many Georgians are home sheltered in place, many are catching up on their reading. Jack Carr, a former Navy SEAL sniper discusses the third book in his James Reece series. This book is called Savage Son. Jack spent 20 years as a Navy SEAL sniper, and bases his books on actual events that he experienced while overseas, and his transition back into civilian life. SAVAGE SON tells the story of a w...

Our community is finding new routines in the wake of shelter in place orders during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nancy Flake Johnson is President and CEO of the Urban League of Greater Atlanta. She is also on Governor Brian Kemp's Coronavirus Community Outreach Committee. The group includes leaders working to assure the most vulnerable members of metro Atlanta's community have their needs met during thi...

Teresita Terry of The Nicholas House explains how the coronavirus outbreak represents a significant health risk for families experiencing homelessness. Families living in public spaces or in congregate settings, have limited access to preventive measures and rapid access to health care. Often, they are far more likely to have chronic health conditions, one of the most significant risk factors with...

Days before Governor Brian Kemp signed an Executive Order for all Georgians to stay at home and to practice safe distancing, we called Dr. Gilberte "Gigi" Bastien at Morehouse School of Medicine. The Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Morehouse School of Medicine talks with us about best practices on everything from working from home and schooling the kids to maintain...

In the groundbreaking memoir Coming Full Circle: From Jim Crow to Journalism, retired newspaper editor Wanda Lloyd opens a window on the intersection of race, gender, and culture. She also tackles the media's role in the American experiment called democracy. Her path to the role of Executive Editor of a mainstream daily newspaper was shaped by segregated social, community and educational systems,...

In The Parlay Effect: How Female Connection Can Change the World, Anne Devereux-Mills uses her insights as founder of Parlay House to show how small actions can result in a meaningful boost in self-awareness, confidence and vision. Through a combination of scientific research and personal stories, The Parlay Effect offers a blueprint for anyone who is going through a life transition who wants to f...

CHANGING THE EQUATION celebrates more than 50 women who have shattered the glass ceiling, defied racial discrimination, and pioneered in their fields. Award-winning author Tonya Bolden explores the black women who have changed the world of STEM in America. The book provides an inside look at groundbreaking computer scientists, doctors, inventors, physicists, pharmacists, mathematicians, aviators,...

March is Women's History month and on the program we talk with Trina Parks, the first African American Bond girl. She appears in the movie Diamonds are Forever with Sir Sean Connery. With the passing of so many legendary black women during Black History Month including NASA's Katherine Johnson, design guru B. Smith and Ja'net DuBois from the television show "Good Times," we turn our focus to inspi...

William Johnson is founder of The Four Corners Group. Their mission is to get young people in the juvenile justice system out of the juvenile justice system. His organization finds that impacted young people lack leadership in their lives. They seek to turn young lives around.

Applications will be accepted until March 31 for medically fragile children in need of a room makeover. Sunshine on a Ranney Day is a nonprofit organization that renovates homes for children with special needs using top of the line construction and design. Through partnerships and donors we provide no cost wheelchair accessible bathrooms, dream bedrooms and in-home therapy rooms.

The late Hosea Williams was a lieutenant in the non-violent army led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, Williams would continue his public service through the nonprofit Hosea Feed the Hungry and Homeless. The organization is now led by his daughter Elisabeth Omilami who works to keep her father's legacy and the King legacy alive through service.

It could be the worst news a woman can hear. You have breast cancer. You will lose your hair. In the room next door is a bin with some wigs. Pick one. Better Day Givings works to make that change easier for women battling the disease with custom wigs and other support.

Looking ahead to Morehouse School of Medicine Community Engagement Day.

Raising breast cancer awareness with Married To Medicine's Dr. Jackie Walters.