Enlighten Me

Show Credit: WERA-FM, 96.7|Show Title: No Church In The Wild
Colin Kaepernick's story highlights so many problematic stances the NFL takes regarding the relationship between the owners and its players. Attorney Charles Coleman Jr., has been following this closer than I ever would and he will join me to talk about the protest, the boycott and how kneeling turned into a fight for our rights.
Enlighten Me Wednesday 4-5p ET WERA-FM 96.7|@EnlightenMeWERA
Enlighten Me is a newstalk program that aims to educate and inform. From historical perspectives to modern day stories, we will focus our attention on the issues that everyone deals with — be it policy, health, education, the economy, current events and race. Nurturing Powerful Roots. #npr

Show Credit: WERA-FM, 96.7|Show Title: DETROIT
Not only are we still in the middle of a couple of wars overseas that we can’t seem to finish, but our government is currently going through it’s own constitutional crisis. This might be the single biggest challenge of our generation. Nothing of this magnitude can be created in a vacuum, so Scott Kurashige, author of The Fifty-Year Rebellion: How the U.S. Political Crisis Began In Detroit will join me to talk about how in many ways, Detroit echos the current U.S. political system.
Enlighten Me Wednesday 4-5p ET WERA-FM 96.7|@EnlightenMeWERA
Enlighten Me is a newstalk program that aims to educate and inform. From historical perspectives to modern day stories, we will focus our attention on the issues that everyone deals with — be it policy, health, education, the economy, current events and race. Nurturing Powerful Roots. #npr

Show Credit: WERA-FM, 96.7|Show Title: Spotlight: Stacey Abrams
In the first installment of Spotlight on Enlighten Me, the former Georgia House Minority Leader will join me, and you may be surprised at how she views being a single black woman running for office. Her story is inspiring for everyone who seeks to challenge themselves in life, and I hope you find it informative and enlightening.
Enlighten Me Wednesday 4-5p ET WERA-FM 96.7|@EnlightenMeWERA
Enlighten Me is a newstalk program that aims to educate and inform. From historical perspectives to modern day stories, we will focus our attention on the issues that everyone deals with — be it policy, health, education, the economy, current events and race. Nurturing Powerful Roots. #npr

Show Credit: WERA-FM, 96.7|Show Title: Care In Chaos
As the debate over healthcare looms in the form of “repeal and replace”, or “just repeal” or “try to replace at another more convenient time”, the good folks over at Rewire News have peered into a byproduct of the debate.On the program today, the women behind the doc: Calla Hales, the 27 year old administrator who works at the abortion clinic and Lindsay Beyerstein an award winning investigative journalist and the woman behind the lens. They will join me to talk about how these top down policies affect the local community.
Enlighten Me Wednesday 4-5p ET WERA-FM 96.7|@EnlightenMeWERA
Enlighten Me is a news talk program that aims to educate and inform. From historical perspectives to modern day stories, we will focus our attention on the issues that everyone deals with — be it policy, health, education, the economy, current events and race. Nurturing Powerful Roots. #npr

Show Credit: WERA-FM, 96.7|Show Title: Ripple Of Hope
The three years after John F Kennedy’s death proved to be a pivotal time not only for Robert Kennedy, but for the Democratic party itself. Author John Bohrer will join me to discuss his book The Revolution of Robert Kennedy: From Power To Protest After JFK to talk about the parallels between the 60’s and today.
Enlighten Me Wednesday 4-5p ET WERA-FM 96.7|@EnlightenMeWERA
Enlighten Me is a news talk program that aims to educate and inform. From historical perspectives to modern day stories, we will focus our attention on the issues that everyone deals with — be it policy, health, education, the economy, current events and race. Nurturing Powerful Roots. #npr

Show Credit: WERA-FM, 96.7|Show Title: CHIP[ping] WIC
According to the most recent data by the Census Bureau “Almost two-thirds (65 percent) of children, lived in households that participated in at least one or more of the following government aid programs: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), Medicaid, and the National School Lunch Program.”
So when the proposed fiscal government budget aims to cut important health and welfare programs that a majority of children in the US rely on, citizens and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle fought back.
On the program today, Thomas Huelskoetter, Policy Analyst for the Health Policy team at the Center for American Progress. His recent piece focuses on the major changes within the fiscal budget and how these proposed changes will impact families.
Enlighten Me Wednesday 4-5p ET WERA-FM 96.7|@EnlightenMeWERA
Enlighten Me is a newstalk program that aims to educate and inform. From historical perspectives to modern day stories, we will focus our attention on the issues that everyone deals with — be it policy, health, education, the economy, current events and race.
Stories that might get a quick blurb in national news — We aim to uncover the deeper issue. And we’ll be sure to add a healthy dose of humor in the mix. Nurturing Powerful Roots. #npr

Show Credit: WERA-FM, 96.7|Show Title: Usual Suspects
On the program, Hillman award winner Adele Stan, columnist for the American Prospect, will join us to give her analysis on the latest developments with the FBI investigation into the Trump campaign colluding with Russia. Also, did misogyny play a role into former FBI Director James Comey’s letter to congress on Clinton’s e-mails? Adele offers her insight on what might have led to the release of Comey’s letter just days before the election.
Enlighten Me Wednesday 4-5p ET WERA-FM 96.7|@EnlightenMeWERA
Enlighten Me is a news talk program that aims to educate and inform. From historical perspectives to modern day stories, we will focus our attention on the issues that everyone deals with — be it policy, health, education, the economy, current events and race. Nurturing Powerful Roots. #npr

Show Credit: WERA-FM, 96.7|Show Title: C.R.E.A.M.
If there is anything I have learned these past few years regarding economic policies that have shaped the American worker, inequality and the forces behind it are what make the U.S. economy function the way it does. A small percentage of the population gets rich, while the rest fight for crumbs at the bottom.
An Atlantic piece highlighted MIT economist Peter Temin's new book, The Vanishing Middle Class: Prejudice and Power in a Dual Economy. I am please to have Peter on the show to outline the factors that shape American inequality.
Enlighten Me Wednesday 4-5p ET WERA-FM 96.7|@EnlightenMeWERA
Enlighten Me is a news talk program that aims to educate and inform. From historical perspectives to modern day stories, we will focus our attention on the issues that everyone deals with — be it policy, health, education, the economy, current events and race. Nurturing Powerful Roots. #npr

Show Credit: WERA-FM, 96.7|Show Title: S.O.S.
On the program, Tasha Eurich, author of Insight, shows us that we are not as self aware as we think. She’ll also outline steps on how to truly see ourselves clearly. It could probably help a lot of people in the political sphere right about now.
ALSO– A couple of new indie films that deserve support are making themselves known on the internet. Penny Hollis, director of Maxine and The Birthday Gift, opens up about mental health awareness and the black community.

Enlighten Me Wednesday 4-5p ET WERA-FM 96.7|@EnlightenMeWERA
Enlighten Me is a newstalk program that aims to educate and inform. From historical perspectives to modern day stories, we will focus our attention on the issues that everyone deals with — be it policy, health, education, the economy, current events and race. Nurturing Powerful Roots. #npr

Show Credit: WERA-FM, 96.7|Show Title: With Every Minute, Seize The Chance To Turn It Around
The new administration is currently seeking to eliminate Title X family planning funding, as well as add Teresa Manning to the Department of Health and Human Services where she will oversee the department assigned to women’s health and family planning for low income and uninsured women.
On the program to discuss this, Jessica Mason Pieklo, Vice President, Law and the Courts for Rewire. If you haven’t been keeping up to date on this, her recent piece on the Trump administration and birth control will catch you up.
Enlighten Me Wednesday 4-5p ET WERA-FM 96.7|@EnlightenMeWERA
Enlighten Me is a news talk program that aims to educate and inform. From historical perspectives to modern day stories, we will focus our attention on the issues that everyone deals with — be it policy, health, education, the economy, current events and race. Nurturing Powerful Roots. #npr

Show Credit: WERA-FM|Show Title: The Power of the People
US District Court judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos ruled in Texas recently that SB 14, the voter ID Bill passed in 2011 was passed with the intent to discriminate against minority voters. This is something civil rights leaders, voting rights advocates and legal scholars have been fighting against for years. It begs the question, would this same level of advocacy be applied to other cases like this across the country.
I’m not a lawyer, but good thing I know a few good ones. On the program today, Ezra Rosenberg, Co-Director of the Voting Rights project at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law where he oversees all voting rights litigation will explain what this means for Texas and other voter ID laws that have popped up over the years.
Enlighten Me Wednesday 4-5p ET WERA-FM 96.7|@EnlightenMeWERA
Enlighten Me is a news talk program that aims to educate and inform. From historical perspectives to modern day stories, we will focus our attention on the issues that everyone deals with — be it policy, health, education, the economy, current events and race. Nurturing Powerful Roots. #npr

Show Credit: WERA-FM|Show Title: The Complexity of Women
On the program, Zoe Carpenter of The Nation has been looking into African American maternal birth rates. If we claim to care about black babies, let’s care about what has happened to them from the start.
Also, how did certain topics become single issue deal breakers in political discourse? And where did women of color, specifically African American women stand as they straddled the fence of wanting civil and equal rights while at the same time promoting and protecting their strong pro-family stance?
Marjorie Spruill, author of Divided We Stand delves into what some called “Four Days That Changed The World”, a look into the generational effects of the 1977 International Women’s Year Conference.
Enlighten Me Wednesday 4-5p ET WERA-FM 96.7|@EnlightenMeWERA
Enlighten Me is a news talk program that aims to educate and inform. From historical perspectives to modern day stories, we will focus our attention on the issues that everyone deals with — be it policy, health, education, the economy, current events and race. Nurturing Powerful Roots. #npr

Show Credit: WERA-FM, 96.7|Show Title: Inspire. Empower. Stand Up.
As a young teen, I always wondered what my mother did at the conferences she attended in Washington, DC. One year, she brought back a t-shirt with the AAUW logo. On it, was a phrase that I have seen throughout the years. “When women succeed, America succeeds.” So i’m happy to come full circle with Abigail Lewis, Vice President of Leadership Program and Campus Initiatives at AAUW to talk about #StandUpToSexism, the campaign highlighting how everyday sexism affects women in leadership.
Enlighten Me Wednesday 4-5p ET WERA-FM 96.7|@EnlightenMeWERA
Enlighten Me is a news talk program that aims to educate and inform. From historical perspectives to modern day stories, we will focus our attention on the issues that everyone deals with — be it policy, health, education, the economy, current events and race. Nurturing Powerful Roots. #npr

Show Credit: WERA-FM, 96.7|Show Title: Binders Full Of Women
On the program, Rewire Federal policy reporter Christine Grimaldi talks about #ADayWithoutAWoman as well as her piece regarding the American Health Care Act, the proposal from House Republicans regarding health care in America. Opponents argue it has changed a lot of provisions that helped family planning, women’s health and access to affordable care.
Enlighten Me Wednesday 4-5p ET WERA-FM 96.7|@EnlightenMeWERA
Enlighten Me is a news talk program that aims to educate and inform. From historical perspectives to modern day stories, we will focus our attention on the issues that everyone deals with — be it policy, health, education, the economy, current events and race. Nurturing Powerful Roots. #npr

Show Credit: WERA-FM, 96.7|Show Title: Fight The Power
On the program, civil rights activist Kevin Alexander Gray will talk about the history of the civil rights struggle, as well as his views on the administrations outreach toward African-Americans during black history month. Cinematographer Hans Charles will also join the program to talk about his latest film, The 13th.
Enlighten Me Wednesday 4-5p ET WERA-FM 96.7|@EnlightenMeWERA
Enlighten Me is a news talk program that aims to educate and inform. From historical perspectives to modern day stories, we will focus our attention on the issues that everyone deals with — be it policy, health, education, the economy, current events and race. Nurturing Powerful Roots. #npr

Show Credit: WERA-FM, 96.7| Show Title: Black Love, Black Power
Stefanie Brown James and Quentin James are committed to engaging the African American electorate to empower themselves. Their decades of service in community engagement and progressive politics led them to found The Collective PAC, and organization dedicated to building Black political power by recruiting, training, funding and electing progressive black candidates on the local, state and federal level.
Join me as I talk to them about their story as well as what they see in the future for The Collective.
Enlighten Me Wednesday 4-5p ET WERA-FM 96.7|@EnlightenMeWERA
Enlighten Me is a news talk program that aims to educate and inform. From historical perspectives to modern day stories, we will focus our attention on the issues that everyone deals with — be it policy, health, education, the economy, current events and race. Nurturing Powerful Roots. #npr

Show credit: WERA-FM, 96.7|Show Title: Past is Prologue
“How can a community that evolved for more than 100 years only carry on in the memories of a few surviving members?”
On the program today, Jason Green, the co-producer of The Quince Orchard Project will answer these questions and more. As a fifth generation descendant of the area, I’m sure he can provide some much needed context.
It’s Black History Month on Enlighten Me. Trust me, this is the escape you need.
Enlighten Me Wednesday 4-5p ET WERA-FM 96.7|@EnlightenMeWERA
Enlighten Me is a news talk program that aims to educate and inform. From historical perspectives to modern day stories, we will focus our attention on the issues that everyone deals with — be it policy, health, education, the economy, current events and race. Nurturing Powerful Roots. #npr

Show credit from WERA-FM 96.7|Show Title: America, Oh What A night
|https://enlightenmeonwera.com/2016/11/09/11-09-16-america-oh-what-a-night/

In what the polls, the pundits and everyone but the people thought to be the case, Donald Trump became the President-elect of this here United States.

I give my thoughts and analysis with Adele Stan, the Washington editor for Alternet. She has been covering the 2016 campaign for Alternet and the American Prospect and I am happy to bring her perspective to the table. Nurturing Powerful Roots. #npr

Show credit from WERA-FM 96.7|Show Title: Dark And Lovely
|https://enlightenmeonwera.com/2016/11/02/11-02-16-dark-and-lovely/

Indian American Aswathi Thomas wrote a piece in Huffington Post on the effects that colorism have had on her and other dark skinned Indian Americans in the hopes that we can dismantle the stereotype that fair skin equates to beauty. I talked to Lori Tharps about her new book, Same Family, Different Colors: Confronting Colorism in America’s diverse families on how colorism affects people across the diaspora. Nurturing Powerful Roots. #npr

Show credit from WERA-FM 96.7|Show Title: Work. Life. Balance.
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A new report from the Center for American Progress crunches the numbers. Parents are stretching themselves thin when it comes to the misalignment between our children’s school schedules and our work schedules. We’ll find out what their recommendations are to create some work life balance. Nurturing Powerful Roots. #npr

Show credit from WERA-FM 96.7|Show Title: Started From The Bottom Now We Here
|https://enlightenmeonwera.com/2016/10/12/10-12-16-started-from-the-bottom-now-we-here/

I had a conversation with Alejandro Danois, author of The Boys of Dunbar: A Story of Love Hope and Basketball on the ’81-’82 Baltimore Dunbar Poets basketball team. It’s about basketball but so much more. Nurturing Powerful Roots. #npr

Show credit from WERA-FM 96.7|Show Title: Each One, Teach One|https://enlightenmeonwera.com/2016/10/05/10-05-16-each-one-teach-one/

Education is the focus of today’s program, I talked to National Education Association (NEA) President Lily Eskelsen Garcia about the Trump Effect during National anti-bullying awareness month.

Also, Soledad O’Brien joined me to talk about her push to rethink high school. Nurturing Powerful Roots. #npr

Show credit from WERA-FM 96.7|Show Title: We Should All Be Feminists|https://enlightenmeonwera.com/2016/09/28/09-28-16-we-should-all-be-feminists/

Hillary Clinton is inching closer to the White House. But will she be the first proclaimed feminist? I talked to Doreen Mattingly on her book A Feminist in the White House: Midge Costanza, the Carter years and America’s culture wars. You’d be surprised at what’s still relevant today. Nurturing Powerful Roots. #npr

Show credit from WERA-FM 96.7|Show Title: Pay It Forward
|https://enlightenmeonwera.com/2016/09/19/09-21-16-pay-it-forward/

On the 5th anniversary of the Troy Davis execution I had a conversation with De’Jaun Davis Correia on his uncle’s legacy and what propels him to move forward. Nurturing Powerful Roots. #npr

Show credit from WERA-FM 96.7|Show Title: If You Don't Stand For Something You'll Fall For Anything|https://enlightenmeonwera.com/2016/09/07/09-07-16-on-wera-96-7-fm-4-5p-et-if-you-dont-stand-for-something-youll-fall-for-anything/

Colin Kaepernick’s silent protest and Jesse Williams speech at the BET awards has sparked a major discussion around patriotism, racial inequality, injustice, police brutality and how protests are handled throughout the country. We'll talk to civil rights leader and Executive Director of Color of Change Rashad Robinsion on protests, the message and the media. Nurturing Powerful Roots. #npr

Show credit from WERA-FM 96.7|Show Title: America's Childcare Crisis |https://enlightenmeonwera.com/2016/06/30/americas-childcare-crisis/


Rasheed Maalik, a policy analyst at the Center for American Progress will discuss his latest research on the economic dilemmas that families face when they can't afford adequate childcare.
Nurturing Powerful Roots. #npr

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