In an earlier season we had an opportunity to talk about the issue of Black rural farmers. Today, we are looking at farming with a more urban focus. Sustaining Black Food Sovereignty is our episode and our dynamic guest is Karen Washington. Karen is one of the four women founders of Rise & Root Farm … Sustaining Black Food Sovereignty
This resource page accompanies our episode with Tizgel High. One of the things that became clear during our conversation is that the distinctions between the types of hospitals was not clear to us. In order for us to understand our ability to meet healthcare challenges, we need to know how the systems work! Nonprofit, For … Resources on Corporate Healthcare
During the first COVID-19 wave we had several episodes exploring COVID’s impact on our communities. One episode was specifically about the impact on hospitals. During the interim years there are many new healthcare issues, including the closing of hospitals in poor and rural areas. In this episode we speak with Tizgel High, who works in … Can Corporations Deliver Quality Healthcare?
As always , we like to provide our readers with additional information on our podcast topics. Resources on Black Mental Health accompanies our wonderful talk with Dr. Sarah Y. Vinson from the Morehouse School of Medicine. If you are interested in seeing more of Dr. Vinson’s work, she is the co-editor of SOCIAL (In) JUSTICE … Resources on Black Mental Health
In Black Mental Health and Trauma we discuss how COVID , police violence and suicide combine to impact our communities. We did a show in the first year on COVID’s impact on our communities. We also covered police violence. But, in this episode we look at the impact of the COVID pandemic and police violence … Black Mental Health and Trauma
It’s the end of the year! What a year 2022 turned out to be! We covered many serious issues this season from learning about our allies to HIV to the challenge to abortion. But, we want to finish the season off on a lighter note. We’re turning to the arts to get a lift up. … Healing Power of Black Art
On our last episode, Dr. Alicia Christy talked about the difference between reproduction rights and reproductive justice. As usual, this is our post to give readers additional information and there’s a lot to talk about. We offer: Resources for Reproductive Justice. What exactly happened to take us here Everyone anticipated the Supreme Court would use … Resources for Reproductive Justice
We mentioned the abortion issue in the episode on Voting Challenges. A woman’s right to chose is an abortion is an important issue. Yet, its one of those issues which our communities don’t talk about. We asked Dr. Alicia Christy (retired Colonel) to return to the show to talk about abortions. Dr. Christy is the … Abortion and Reproductive Justice
From the Beginning to where we are now We always try to provide additional information to go along with a podcast topic. Resources for Information on HIV/AIDS supplements our conversation with Jesse Milan, Jr., of AIDS United. Firstly, we want to cover what HIV/AIDS is and some of the advances in treatment of the disease. … Resources for Information on HIV/AIDS
As a society, we’ve been focused on the COVID-19 pandemic for over two years now. But we aren’t finished solving the problems of the HIV/AIDS crisis. Some may argue that many of the same mistakes that were made in the approach to treating HIV/AIDS were repeated at the onset of the COVID pandemic. And, we … Can We Talk About AIDS?