The Faith Hour

With Amy Coney Barrett now a United States Supreme Court Justice, women across the country are in jeopardy of losing access to safe, legal abortions. Conservatives are of the mistaken belief that banning abortions mean that abortion procedures will cease everywhere. What folks fail to understand is that legalized abortion means that abortion procedures are safe, and that they follow prescribed med...

Being white in America means being the least qualified person in the room but having the most prestigious-and most senior position. Positions that Blacks and people of color have to be routinely over- qualified and supremely educated for. Ms. Barrett has only two years experience in private practice, has never tried a case nor argued an appeal, and only became a judge for the first time in 2017. A...

Today, people are self-governed. That means we elect or choose our leaders. In Biblical times, God appointed leaders by speaking through Prophets and directing them to whom to appoint. God doesn’t speak through prophets today to dictate the choice of leaders. People choose their leaders. Is it a right to choose our leaders? Who declared conservativeness as a human value that is better than any oth...

It’s twelve days to the November 2020 elections and our nerves are fraught with so many plays on how the election could turn out. What if Trump is re-elected? What if Biden wins? What will it mean for Black Americans and racial violence if white supremacy gains ground in the white house. So many ways that this could play out it’s nerve-wracking but what about our own lives and our what if scenario...

Halloween 2020. What’s that going to be like? In this episode we talk about how to survive the next 10 days and do Halloween, 2020 style. I plan to be #WonderWoman and I think we should all hit up online stores and get our costumes and do Zoom parties trick or treating for whatever the hell these militias are planning. Let’s show them how to have fun, right? Before the elections, lol I don’t know...

With less than twenty days to go to the November elections, a covid19 positive president is holding rallies that from an outsider’s perspective seem like political suicide; the Michigan Governor who is under attack from domestic terroists and, and a president who continues to fan the flames of domestic terroism with his political rhetoric, endangering the life of the Governor, those around her, an...

My guest this morning is Atlanta Film- maker Mackleen Desravines (@yonimackie) on twitter, whose film “Smoke” is currently available on Amazon Prime. The film explores the trial of a Detroit-area man who had killed his pregnant girlfriend, served time in jail was released, married and killed his young children with his new wife. The film maker details why she chose this story.

What an amazing year 2020 has been. So many of us find ourselves fighting depression. How can we get pass this? In this podcast learn of the 7 ways Harriet uses to cope with depression. It’s going to be allright!

Forced sterilization policies targeted minorities and those with disabilities and was widely accepted well into the 20th century. A 1907 Indiana Law informed the Nazi 1933 Third Reich Law on Eugenics. In North Carolina, a state that had the 3rd highest rates of sterilization- 7,600 people from 1929-1973. Eugenics, a term coined by Francis Galton in 1883, applied ides of biology and genetics to hum...

A recent study by MIT confirmed what we have always known; that systemic and structured racism exist, even in how much we pay for our mortgages. Black homeowners pay more in mortgage insurance and property taxes than whites do. The result is Blacks have less savings and wealth accumulation than whites

‘You have been tried and found wanting’. Daniel was an Old Testament Prophet. The King, had a dream in which he saw a hand writing words on a wall. Daniel interpreted the dream and the prophecy was fulfilled. Daniel 5:17-30

Storming the Capitol. Instigate a civil war. Abducting a sitting governor ahead of a presidential election. Those were among the plots described by federal and state officials in Michigan on Thursday as they announced terroism, conspiracy and weapons charges against 13 men. At least six of them, officials said,had hatched a plan to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat who has been a focal poin...

A white male professor from the University of New Hampshire has been booted from the classroom for posing as a ‘woman of color’ the latest in a growing trend of race fakers. Craig Chapman allegedly secretly tweeted under the name The Science Femme and handle @pinney_the to rail against the left, transgender and even people of color to his more than 13,000 followers.

For most Black Americans descended from enslave Africans, there’s no way of tracing back where their ancestors came from. The slave trade ripped families apart, and records from slave ships and plantations often identified enslaved people with multiple or incomplete names. Given this systematic erasure, the story of Clotilda, the last slave ship to reach the U.S., occupies a profoundly unique plac...

Grief in this country has always had an equity problem, and 2020 has only amplified the issue, as Black deaths have come in back-to-back blows, from the coronavirus, police brutality, and the natural deaths of those we care about. In June, a Washington Post poll found that 1 in 3 Black Americans knows someone personally who has died of Covid-19. The death rate among Black individuals is up to 10 t...

The President has the coronavirus. He and top aides along with members of the Senate, intent on appointing a justice to the Supreme Court took part in an event where it seemed the coronavirus was rampant. The next 48 hours are critical in determining what happens next. Will the President emerge healed from the coronavirus after an experimental was administered or will the virus win?

U.S. President Donald Trump has tested positive for the coronavirus, the deadly virus has swept the world. With Trump and his followers claiming the the virus is “nothing to be worried about”, where will the country go now that the leader has tested positive for the virus.

Many Americans watching the presidential debate earlier this week remarked at the irony of three, elderly white men debating on the merits of the Black Lives Matter movement- with not one actual Black person in sight.

We were joined this morning by UK journalist, Denis Campbell who shared some perspective on ‘The Cost of Racism’. A new report exposing the high cost of racism in the U.S. show States with the lowest IRS tax audit rates tend to be home to middle income, largely white populations: places like New Hampshire, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. On the other hand, Humphreys County, Mississippi, a rural county p...

Amid raging debates over how Britain reckons with its imperial past, a new report published by Britain’s National Trust identifies over 93 places that were built, benefitted from, or connected to the spoils of slavery and colonialism. They include Chartwell, Winston Churchhill’s former home in the southeastern county of Kent, Devon’s spectacular Lundy Island, where convicts were used as unpaid lab...

With thirty five days to go to the November general election, America is burning. The impact of the Breonna Taylor verdict, has seen a nation torn apart by a man hell- bent on retaining power, doing everything to stoke the fires of racial unrest. The people are dissatisfied, and are vowing to vote out an unpopular leader, whose program of race-based politics has left America burning; from within,...

The Windrush scandal, along with the Black Lives Matter movement have altered the perceptions of the English ‘mother country’ . Windrush refers to the name of the ship that took Caribbean migrants from nation states like Jamaica, Barbados, Antigua, Trinidad & Tobago to Britain, from 1948-1971, to ease the shortage of labor after WWII. Britain through a public policy of making the UK a ‘hostile imm...

Join us as we talk with Shawn D. Rochester, author of “The Black Tax”, has quantified the cost of racism in the United States: $70 Trillion since the start of slavery. Today, he says, the Black Tax is perpetuates by discrimination- Black people are hired less frequently, paid less, and have less access to wealth-building tools like affordable mortgages.

Black Americans face a staggering wealth gap. The most recent statistics show that, in 2016, a typical middle-class white family in the US had $149,703 in accumulated wealth, while a middle-class Black family had only $13,024-meaning Black families have 8.6% of the wealth of white families. According to Shawn Rochester, author of “The Black Tax: The Cost of Being Black In America”, the cause of th...

The coronavirus pandemic has brought supply chains to the forefront, whereas previously, many were accustomed to it running in the background of everyday life. But for supply chain leaders, the pandemic has shifted focus from business as usual to crisis management, and planning for more robust supply chains in the future.