My Ancestors Traded Slaves. So now what?
What do you want from me? I didn’t do it, don’t like it, and can’t change it. Some members of Katrina Browne’s family were once wealthy from the United States slave trade. But they’re from the North?...
View ArticleWhat Holds White People Back on Race?
Often the conversation about racism and White people stalls or stops after the subject of White privilege and advantage. In the face of White privilege, how can racial healing and anti-racist work...
View ArticleHate Speech – The Latino Congreso Response
What is hate speech? Who is harmed, and how? When do words jump on a train that can lead to discrimination and violence? The inflammatory programing and radio talk with anti-Latino themes requires a...
View ArticleNew Orleans Mayor Talks Racial Healing
Mayor Mitch Landrieu is not afraid to talk about what he sees as racism. But can he talk about racial healing beyond facts and figures? He seems to have a sense of urgency that goes beyond just making...
View ArticleBeing Asian The Reality Triumph and Challenge
Identifying with being Asian and Pacific Islander means many things to many people. Can one name capture the cultural diversity? Is there one stereotype or myth that dominates today? In the USA, Asians...
View ArticleRacial Healing - How Talking about Race Helps Children
The heart of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s mission is to support for children, families and communities as they strengthen and create conditions that propel vulnerable children to success. Too often,...
View ArticleHealth: Why are Many People of Color in Poorer Health than Whites?
Many People of Color have poorer health than European-Americans from the cradle to the grave. What are the real causes for these persistent differences? Many people believe that these health inequities...
View ArticleNative Americans: When Genocide Meets the 21th Century
What is “Up Heartbreak Hill”, and why should we care? What really happens when Native American teens feel torn between going to cities and staying with their family? Today, US history books dare not...
View ArticleSpecial Encore Presentation: Being Asian The Reality Triumph and Challenge
Identifying with being Asian and Pacific Islander means many things to many people. Can one name capture the cultural diversity? Is there one stereotype or myth that dominates today? In the USA, Asians...
View ArticleThink You Know a Lot about Arab-Americans? Really?
Arab-American’s know firsthand the opportunities, challenges, and work still needed to help all of the United States better live up to forming “a more perfect union”. What do most Americans really know...
View ArticleTim Wise Talks – A New Demonizing Trend?
What happens when government programs for human services are suddenly needed by more White people today? Has demonizing those who use services now bleed in a new “colorblind” hue? Is this new group...
View ArticlePsychiatrist Talks Race and Human Development
Dr. James P. Comer’s iconic work in child development and the human condition allow us direct access to the best thinking and doing on race and development we can find. Is it only fear preventing open...
View ArticleThe Decendents: Plessy AND Ferguson
The courageous act of civil disobedience by Homer Plessy sparked the U.S. Supreme Court decision to uphold separate-but-equal laws. Judge John Ferguson won his case. Plessy VS Ferguson set in motion...
View ArticleSustaining My Fire for Racial Healing
Mrs. Cherry Steinwender is a founding member of the first organization to brand itself as “racial healing” in 1989 in Houston, Texas. She hasn’t given up or let down…ever. The organization, The Center...
View ArticleCan We See Heaven in the Face of Black Men?
When Black men gather alone, what do they talk about? How do some see themselves? Black males have long been THE target of racism. The stereotypes in our society too often paint them as “dangerous” and...
View ArticleWhat is the Future of Racial Healing
Have we heard it all now? Is there anything left to know about racial healing, but to just DO IT? Maybe we are using patterns and language that are no longer useful. We know the problem. Can we think...
View ArticleI’m Afro AND Latino, Must I Choose One?
What image of a person comes to mind when you hear the word Latino? Should speaking Spanish automatically assign someone to being Latino in the USA? Does the social experience of Blackness and Latino...
View ArticleWhen People of Color Turn to Self Hate
Where does self-hate about a person’s own ‘race’ or culture come from? Must People of Color assimilate into Whiteness in looks, speech, and mannerisms to be acceptable? How does the idea of ‘Whiteness...
View ArticleSex and Race in Latin America
Encouraging interracial relationships, or ‘race mixing’ in some Latin American countries such as Brazil and Colombia, are often believed to be examples of how to solve racism. Race is not considered a...
View ArticleCan Sexual Orientation and Racial Healing Co-exist?
If you are Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, or Trans-sexual (LGBT), what difference does race make? Is sexual orientation in the USA “racialized”, or linked to racism? How is ‘Coming Out’ as a LGBT person in...
View ArticleSpecial Encore Presentation: The Decendents: Plessy AND Ferguson
The courageous act of civil disobedience by Homer Plessy sparked the U.S. Supreme Court decision to uphold separate-but-equal laws. Judge John Ferguson won his case. Plessy VS Ferguson set in motion...
View ArticleDo Black Women Impact the USA? How?
Who dares, in today’s racial environment, to openly talk about the African-American woman? Is there such a person as the ‘Strong Black Women’? What does that mean? Some say it’s not good for the future...
View ArticleThe Military and Racial Healing
The Military culture and organization, by necessity, are built on mission, rules, obedience, honor, courage, and more. The military was one of the first organizations to mandate racial integration. The...
View ArticleOnce Master and Enslaved, Now at the Table
The unspoken secrets fill the air. The evidence is all around in plain view. You may be a Black, White, Native American, or ‘Mixed Race’ person with the same last name, same county or state of birth,...
View ArticleSpecial Encore Presentation: Racial Healing - How Talking about Race Helps...
The heart of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s mission is to support for children, families and communities as they strengthen and create conditions that propel vulnerable children to success. Too often,...
View ArticleSpecial Encore Presentation: Health: Why are Many People of Color in Poorer...
Many People of Color have poorer health than European-Americans from the cradle to the grave. What are the real causes for these persistent differences? Many people believe that these health inequities...
View ArticleThe Real Native Hawaiian Story We Don’t Know
Hawaii is often referred to as ‘Paradise’. Popular cultural images come to mind of beautiful people, beautiful water, and beautiful land. Everyone speaks a little Hawaiian, right? Aloha. Luau. Much of...
View ArticleRadical Collaboration – A New Racial Healing Era?
Many believe that we needed both Dr. Martin Luther King AND Malcolm X to make progress. Do RADICAL COLLABORATION models and RACIAL HEALING belong in the same room? There is competition among...
View ArticleHow 2 Men Racially Heal. 1 Black, 1 White Tell All
Our show says ‘Racial Healing Happens Everyday’. But what does EVERYDAY look and feel like for 2 men on a separate journey to DO SOMETHING about this subject? We know racial healing is not just for...
View ArticleSpecial Encore Presentation: The Military and Racial Healing
The Military culture and organization, by necessity, are built on mission, rules, obedience, honor, courage, and more. The military was one of the first organizations to mandate racial integration. The...
View ArticleGeorge Washington’s Favorite Slave. Male or Female?
Favorite slave. Seriously? That stinging reference aside, this was the only enslaved person George Washington freed upon his death, and gave an inheritance. The others were given, as property, to his...
View ArticleWorld Class Tennis: A Black Coach’s Point of View
Sports have often been referenced as a great racial and national unifier. The road to the top includes the right coaches at the right time in a career. You may never hear or know the names of some of...
View ArticleMy Black Family and My White Male Privilege
What really happens when a White man crosses the color line in the 21st Century by marrying a Black woman, and has children in the USA? How does White Privilege show up at home? Michael R. Wenger,...
View ArticleHow a White Couple Recovers from Brainwashing
This White couple just ended their 15 years of roaming the USA in an RV looking for Black people to befriend. Was their ‘Longing’ and urgency to recover from the race lie so deep they just ‘Authorized’...
View ArticleNative Americans: July 4th and Saving America’s Soul
Can’t deport Native Americans. These sovereign Nations have been here from the beginning, and will be forever. Is it true that without the heart, soul, and help of Native Americans, we would not be...
View ArticleThe New Racial War - Making it Safe To Talk
Have a story, opinion, or question that MUST be shared NOW? I do. We need to talk in ‘mixed’ company. How can ‘America’ heal if it’s not safe to talk about race? The Paula Deens, Trayvon Martins,...
View ArticleIncarceration: How Your Culture Can Heal You
“For me to change, I had to journey past all those ugly identities that were placed upon me – that I accepted.., and go back...to the original spark that connects everything”, said Mr. Albino Garcia....
View ArticleA Path to End Mass Incarceration
Get sentenced, incarcerated, and lose your human rights to gain a job, education, even food and housing…maybe forever. It’s a system that makes a person pay far beyond the sentence served. Some say our...
View ArticleIncarceration: The Childs Point of View
Children of the incarcerated seem to be invisible in this continuing national tragedy of mass incarceration. There are over 2.7 million directly affected and the number is growing. A stigma is placed...
View ArticleSafety: When Black and Brown Boys Face Race
Trayvon Martin, being followed in stores, more severe punishment than White children in schools, driving while Black, Brown, or ‘Middle Eastern’ looking. What is the stereotype when Black and Brown...
View ArticleAlaska Native Tribes – Guardians of Health Care
Valerie Davidson says, “My Mother told me, ‘Lead with love. If you lead with love, you will never stand alone’. Valerie is a negotiator, director, commissioner, and tribal member of the Orutsararmuit...
View ArticleAsian Americans: Expanding Voice in Civil Rights
September 11th put many South Asians under a spotlight colored by race and sometimes religion. This isn’t the first time Asian Americans were targets. The Japanese internment or incarceration camps...
View ArticleBlack Panther Baby: Jamal Joseph’s Story
He was young, gifted, and Black. What would cause Jamal Joseph to go from a youth in the NAACP straight to becoming a Black Panther in New York City? We hear the term ‘radicalized’ used today to mean...
View ArticleSpecial Encore Presentation: Incarceration: The Childs Point of View
Children of the incarcerated seem to be invisible in this continuing national tragedy of mass incarceration. There are over 2.7 million directly affected and the number is growing. A stigma is placed...
View ArticleGospel Music: Roots that Drive Social Justice
If it ‘ain’t sung, social justice can’t be won’. Can you think of any social justice movement without music? Why do 3 words, “We Shall Overcome”, put our emotions in a higher place? Gospel music is...
View ArticleWhite was Invented, Now Set Me Free!
The Irish were mistreated until they too became ‘White’ people. Rita Starr, Founder and Program Developer of Healing Our Nation and author, knows 1st hand what it’s like to be ‘White’ and then learn...
View ArticleBlack Hair: Politics, Art, and Culture
It seems VERY complex. Is kinky hair a political statement like the symbol of a people regaining personhood in the ‘60’s? Is straightening hair about self-hate, and buying into the White standard of...
View ArticleHow They Pushed Through Racial Pain and Trauma
‘Let’s become friends on purpose’, they said. What? The daughter of enslaved Africans and the son of slave traders agree to test a rarely traveled road? Is this a sign of “POST Racial American Society”...
View ArticleHe Just Won’t Quit! Who is Dr. Clarence Jones Really?
Why did Martin Luther King, Jr. trust this man so much? Yes, Dr. Clarence B. Jones assisted in drafting King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, was his lawyer, and personally brought the “Letter from...
View ArticleThe Last War - Racism and Spirituality?
The Roman Empire did not colorize the person. Rome is arguably the roots of Western civilization. Slavery existed, but not with the racism we know of today. Any form of slavery is bad, but the world...
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