The Janus Adams Show

Journey to the Cradle of Civilization, as master photographer, CHESTER HIGGINS, JR. shares stories from his fifty-year pilgrimage through the ancient roots of modern-day faith.

A rarely seen portrait of Appalachia―Black Appalachia. William H. Turner, coal miner's son, is author of the memoir, THE HARLAN RENAISSANCE: Stories of Black Life in Appalachian Coal Towns. From African American family life and culture in the boom years of Harlan County, Kentucky’s coal-mining company towns, to the bust era of the “Rust Belt,” Bill Turner comes bearing stories of family, friends,...

How do we rectify racial injustice? Through his power as a storyteller and his skills as a journalist, Solomon Jones leverages his own life experience to resurrects ten people whose lives were ravaged by racism. His indictment of what he calls the "Criminal Injustice System,” will get you thinking about how YOU—how WE, together—can opt-in on an actionable plan “to repair our racist past, change th...

Otis Moss III. Author, DANCING IN THE DARKNESS: Spiritual Lessons for Thriving in Turbulent Times. A 2-part Janus Adams SPECIAL with Rev. Dr. Moss is Senior Pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago--the congregation once pastored by the Obama family's minister, Rev. Jeremiah Wright. WEBSITE: JanusAdams.com SHOW NOTES: bit.ly/JA-OMoss3 RATING, REVIEWING & FOLLOWING "THE JANUS ADAMS SHOW...

Otis Moss III. Author, DANCING IN THE DARKNESS: Spiritual Lessons for Thriving in Turbulent Times. A 2-part Janus Adams SPECIAL with Rev. Dr. Moss is Senior Pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago--the congregation once pastored by the Obama family's minister, Rev. Jeremiah Wright. WEBSITE: JanusAdams.com SHOW NOTES: https://bit.ly/JA-OMoss3 RATING, REVIEWING & FOLLOWING "THE JANUS AD...

This “Janus Adams Show” Special features TEAM DREAM—a documentary film short about two elite swimmers (Ann Smith, 82, and Madeline Murphy Rabb, 76) and their journey to the National Senior Games. A serious contender in the run-up to awards season, this little star of a film flares with unexpected brilliance—capturing imaginations and challenging long-standing assumptions about Black people, swimmi...

With pushback on immigration policies being shaped by White supremacist legacies, what is the United States' vision for the future? What can——and must——each of us do today to ensure the well-being of a multiracial tomorrow? Confronting the racist legacy of US immigration policy with our guest, REECE JONES Guggenheim Fellow, political geographer, and author of the books, WHITE BORDERS and NOBODY IS...

As US government-backed Dakota Access Pipeline proponents wreaked havoc on Indigenous peoples, their lands, sensibilities, and on Nature herself, First Nations (Mexica and Otomi) documentary photographer, cinematographer, and film director, Josué Rivas was on the scene as witness and participant; demonstrator and Water Protector. The experience endangered his life. It also marked what he calls his...

Meet "Philly" Walls: poet, photographer, and “multidisciplinary artist. She is curator and creator of the digital installation, THE MUSEUM OF BLACK JOY——a “borderless refuge for the observation, cultivation, celebration, and preservation of Black joy.” What does Black Joy mean and why do we need a museum for it? That’s the question that propels this interview with Andrea “Philly” Walls through unc...

On this episode of "The Janus Adams Show": The Sister Days Mother/Daughter* Sistafest (Part 2). Five guests gather in celebration of women and our lives: Elle Cole, MaryAnne Howland, Irma McClaurin, Dakota Nelson, and Deborah Payton-Jones.

AMERICAN SANCTUARY: A Path Through History - Guest: Walter Gable This program was produced in cooperation with ILoveNewYork.

Congressman Ritchie Torres (D-NY15) returns to the show. With all that’s going on in his New York City hometown, the state, the country, indeed the world; his unique perspective is right on time.

On this episode of "The Janus Adams Show": The Sister Days Mother/Daughter* Sistafest (Part 1). Five guests gather in celebration of women and our lives: Elle Cole, MaryAnne Howland, Irma McClaurin, Dakota Nelson, and Deborah Payton-Jones.

On the anniversary of Dr. King's "Letter from a Birmingham City Jail" (April 16, 1963), a message from his last speech, just four days before he was assassinated, becomes a call-to-action for today. With this episode of The Janus Adams Show, we pay tribute to the man and his legacy: THANK YOU, DR. KING, The jail cell pictured here is a replica of the actual cell in which he wrote his historic "Let...

“We have a long fight and this fight is not mine alone. But you are not free whether you are White or Black until I am free.” Keisha N. Blain, Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh, MSNBC contributor brings us her new book, “UNTIL I AM FREE: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America.” With Ibram X. Kendi (whose books on Anti-Racism have changed the way we speak of the American...

Voter suppression. What’s at stake? With Republican-led state legislatures enacting laws designed to disfranchise Black and Brown voters, what impact will this surge have on our legal system? juries? convictions? fundamental human rights? Civil Rights Attorney DeWitt Lacy of California on the current political climate: justice, injustice, policing, voting rights—and wrongs. And, as always: where d...

It's the infamous event known at the "Birmingham Church Bombing." A bomb, planted by White supremacists and pro-segregationists, was detonated at the 16th Street Baptist Church murdering "Four Little Girls" and severely injuring Sarah Collins Rudolph. This week's guest on The Janus Adams Show, she is joined by Tracy Snipe, PhD―co-author of her memoir, "The Fifth Little Girl." NOTE: This show airs...

What are your hopes for the year ahead? How will you turn the page on one year and rethink priorities for a new? Tune into this week’s Janus Adams Show and podcast with my guest―psychologist and author Peggy Fitzsimmons―on life, work, the Omega Institute, Oprah Winfrey’s “Super Soul” series, Maria Shriver’s Sunday Paper, Dr. Michael Beckwith’s visionary prognosis, healing our world from the inside...

Singer, songwriter, teacher, descendant of two of the 20th century’s worst atrocities, Lucas Maehara Rotman’s very existence is also a miracle. “Dear Miki: An All-American Family Saga” on The Janus Adams Show.

The Janus Adams Show with guest, DENISE WOODS: voice, speech, and dialect coach to Hollywood's A-Listers; author of "THE POWER OF VOICE: A Guide to Making Yourself Heard."

THE JANUS ADAMS SHOW: #DangerousWomen. What happens when a male congressman feels so threatened by Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez―a powerful woman doing the job she was elected to do―that he verbally assaults her in the most sexist and racist of terms.

From 1917 to 1923, there were 25 White Supremacist race massacres across the United States. There was also a determination by Blacks to rise from the ashes. Director, writer and producer DAWN PORTER brings the 1921 Tulsa Massacre into sharper focus and context with her film, "RISE AGAIN: Tulsa and The Red Summer."

"Dear America, my wish for you on your birthday is..." © Janus Adams 2021 Excerpted from my forthcoming memoir for the July 4th edition of "Maria Shriver’s Sunday Paper."

With his #1 New York Times bestseller "HOW THE WORD IS PASSED: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America," CLINT SMITH takes us to the marrow of who we are as a nation, what we’ve done, where we’ve been, what must change, why, and—if we listen we are brave enough to take the journey—how.

Throughout American history to the twenty-first century, regardless of the laws, court decisions, and changing political environment, the Second has consistently meant this: That the second a Black person exercises this right, the second they pick up a gun to protect themselves (or the second that they don't), their life may be snatched away in that single, fatal second. "When I wrote that," says...