This Week in America with Ric Bratton

Staten Island was once Home to New York’s Most Notorious Mob Families Some Ties are Meant to be Broken in MTV’s “Made in Staten Island” The new docuseries is executive produced by “Mob Wives” star Karen Gravano. Ric Talks with cast members Karina & Christian "C.P." Bosses aren’t born, they’re “Made in Staten Island.” Staten Island was home to New York’s most notorious mafia families. Now, a ne...

Ric Speaks with Vanessa & JoJo Simmons Before an All-New, LIVE & Interactive Growing Up Hip Hop Vanessa and JoJo Simmons – the Children of Legendary Hip Hop Star Joseph “Rev Run” Simmons of RUN DMC – Join the Growing Up Hip Hop Cast for a LIVE Event to Answer Viewer Questions In WE tv’s popular series Growing Up Hip Hop, the next generation of hip hop royalty sets out to do whatever it tak...

EVOLUTION: NEW HUMAN ABILITIES BLUGEE BOOK 1 by Edward Morse When a handful of young runners who call themselves the Blugees, along with their coach, happen upon a strange blue tree in a wilderness stripped of any living creatures, they have no idea the incident will change their lives forever. After being covered in a blue pollen-like dust and blacking out, they all come to and return to their no...

REACHING OUT TO KINDRED SOULS: A COLLECTION OF POEMS AND DRAWINGS AND A PLACE TO YOUR OWN by Rosa Mae Rosa Mae has earned a bachelor's degree in Biology and a master's degree in Educational Administration. She has taught middle school science, coached several sports, raised children and taught as an adjunct professor of Biology. Rosa has a lifelong love for expression of life through poetry and ha...

THE GIFT OF SOBRIETY: A SPIRITUAL TRANSFORMATION by Rose B The Gift of Sobriety: A Spiritual Transformation is a spiritual memoir about one woman’s descent into alcoholism and her eventual recovery by getting involved with Alcoholics Anonymous and integrating spirituality into her journey towards sobriety. This book chronicles her gradual spiritual transformation from the first day she walked into...

The Charmed: Fascinatus by Alan Southall The story occupies the existence of a gold piece—a bracelet of exceptional quality that is not meant to be worn on a wrist. The charm was formed in a workshop in Deva (now Chester) in England in Roman times. The events take place over the periods 105 AD to 2020 AD. About the Author . Alan worked in Sales for a world leader in supply of safety and survival e...

The Legend of the Phantom Effect by John Henry Hardy Harpie Colcek is a newspaper reporter assigned to write an article about a mysterious blip that appears on NORAD's radar screen every Christmas Eve at 11:55 p.m. As he heads to interview a four-star general at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Harpie has no idea that what lies ahead is much more intriguing than what the radar techs ca...

LIFE FROM THE ASHES: A WARTIME SURVIVAL by Guenter L Grothe and Kendall B Krogstad Guenter L. Grothe was born in Melchow, Germany, in 1931, at the height of the great depression. Adolf Hitler was becoming a political powerhouse, promising jobs and proposing the reclaiming of that portion of Poland that had been removed from Germany as part of the World War I armistice. His agenda was popular with...

NANCY JUETTEN Our guest today is Nancy Juetten, co-founder of Life Goes on Roadmap. Together with her husband CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER ™ Professional Steve Juetten, they guide families to share power, access, and control over their personal financial information, even after life has served up a bump in the road. This is especially important when something happens along the road of life when one...

RETURNING TO EDEN by John Mazurk For thousands of years, humankind questioned what happens when we die. Philosophers and religious leaders searched for an answer. Often, the answer was, after dying, one's spirit goes to a paradise. What happens when we no longer die? Do we ever go to a paradise? Returning to Eden is a story of what humankind needs to do when it achieves immortality in this existen...

THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE ALEXIAN BROTHERS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH HOSPITAL: AND OTHER CONTROVERSIES IN PSYCHIATRY by Dr. Anthony D'Agostino This book is a history of psychiatry and medicine in the context of the evolution of managed care over the last forty years. The Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospitals rise to the seventh largest psychiatric corporation (as of 2016) in the USA is reviewed in re...

Entertainer and Fan Favorite Bobby Lytes Heats up Winter on the New Season of Love & Hip Hop: Miami and he's talking with Ric VH1 is warming up the winter months with its hit series “Love & Hip Hop: Miami. The “Love & Hip Hop” franchise holds four of the top five unscripted spots in cable with P18-49. “Love & Hip Hop: Miami” marks VH1’s highest rated reality launch since 2014 and f...

Ric Speaks with Two of the Stars of ABC’s Hit New Show THE ROOKIE – Afton Williamson and Titus Makin The Popular Drama Series Starring Nathan Fillion Returns on January 15 Inspired by a true story, ABC’s hit primetime series The Rookie stars Nathan Fillion as John Nolan, the oldest rookie in the LAPD. At an age where most people are at the peak of their career, Nolan casts aside his comfortable, s...

Perspective: The Golden Rule by David Meakes History tells us that wars are not an inevitable part of human existence. They are started by humans and can be avoided by humans. Wars destroy societies, ravage people’s lives, and bring aching voids filled with oceans of tears at the deaths of family members. No one knows this more than David Meakes, World War II veteran. Diplomatic avenues, mandatori...

THE DAY WE BECAME ME by Dr. Sal J. Pellicano Seventy-three years ago, December 24th, 1944, to be exact, Salvatore John Pellicano took his first breath. My parents, were both immigrants from Sicily, Italy. South Philadelphia was where I was born and lived for my first ten or so years. My father opened a bakery in the small town of Clayton, New Jersey; he purchased the equipment from my grandfather...

Inside Looking Out by Jeanne Tompkins Christopher Sky McKenzie, a young police officer, pauses in his stride as he jogged towards home. The sound was as though an animal was caught up somewhere to his right. On investigation, it wasn't an animal but the form of a young girl lying face down in a tangle of a large Briar Rose bush and a large Pyracanthos with its inch long thorns. While in the hospit...

THE LUMPA-RUPPER by Tina Heinrich *Do you know what a Lumpa-Rupper is? Read this book and see if you can _ nd out. *What does the Lumpa-Rupper do that is so annoying? *Why is this creature called the Lumpa-Rupper? *Who is the Lumpa-Rupper? *Why does the Lumpa-Rupper do this naughty thing? *Is Fee-Fee a good girl? Tina grew up in Kansas City, MO, earned a BS in Biology from Baker University, and a...

THE ADVENTURES OF FLOPSY AND FLATHEAD by Tina Heinrich and Illustrated by Josh Heinrich The following poetic tale relates the story of a group of Rhode Island Red chicks that we raised. Of the original group, only two survived. This is the true story of the adventures that those two chickens experienced as they were raised. Tina grew up in Kansas City, MO, earned a BS in Biology from Baker Univers...

Saying Thanks and Beyond: Is Saying Thank You Enough by Ralph Mosgrove A simple response of "Thank You' seems inadequate when you are on the receiving end of an act of kindness. My wife, Elsie disabled from a fall at the age of 75, received such attention as she approached a door or was in need of help in some manner. We often asked what more could be said to make the thank you more meaningful. Af...

Life Interrupted: It's Not All About Me by Chris M. Tatevosian Life Interrupted-It's Not All About Me by multiple sclerosis sufferer, Chris Tatevosian guides others with chronic illness or disability to control feelings of self-pity, worthlessness and diminishing self-esteem keeping their relationships strong and loving. A physically debilitating illness is difficult enough, Tatevosian strives to...

THE DAY GOD PLAYED BASEBALL by John Henry Hardy The Cherokees haven’t won a baseball game against their rivals, the Creeks, in ages. The Creeks, under the leadership of wealthy factory owner Conrad Beamis, have won the championship two years in a row. Worse, it’s obvious that Conrad bribes officials and recruits overage ringers for his team. How are you supposed to beat a team that doesn’t play by...

CONNIE SIEMAN THE WILLIAMS SISTERS by Connie Sieman The Williams sisters will help keep the evil population down and will even be able to have a normal life, with love and children and other things. The Williams learn to work and live with the special gifts that they have inherited from Grand and Nancy. Connie Sieman was born in Tampa, Florida. Growing up, her father was in the United States Air F...

THE FACE OF HUNGER: REFLECTIONS ON A FAMINE IN ETHIOPIA by Byron Conner, M.D. A compelling presentation of a devastating humanitarian crisis on television propelled Dr. Conner and his wife and two children on a missionary trip to Ethiopia. The crisis was a famine in Ethiopia which threatened the lives of many thousands of Ethiopian citizens. It has been estimated that four hundred thousand to five...

GAIL KNOX ADVANCING IN ENLIGHTENMENT: THE CRASH COURSE by Gail M Knox Advancing in Enlightenment contains forty-four years of metaphysical study of the most profound channeled teachings from five of Americas teachers with the highest integrity. With seven simple chapters, this book combines the wisdom of the ages to master the physical reality that surrounds you to personally improve your life. Sp...

The Groundbreaking Series That Puts Innocent People Behind Bars Is Back For An Explosive New Season… 60 Days In Ric Catches up with Sheriff Mark Lamb of Pinal County, Arizona and former New York gang member turned minister, Abner, one of the participants of the new season. In the new season of 60 Days In, Sheriff Lamb carefully selected seven innocent people to go undercover for a deep dive into t...