May 28, 2021

According to the ACLU, Black students are arrested, suspended, and expelled from school at higher rates than other students and far more likely to wind up in the juvenile justice system. Guest host Dr. Chidinma Ibe talks with Dr. Odis Johnson, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Safe and Healthy Schools about how...

May 27, 2021

A recent survey found that 90% of young people support the Black Lives Matter movement’s work to end racism in policing. Guest host Dr. Chidinma Ibe talks with youth leader Jada Johnson and with Joni Holifield, the founder of Heart Smiles, about how they experienced George Floyd’s murder and Derek Chauvin’s...

May 26, 2021

Guest host Dr. Chidinma Ibe talks with Joe Jones, executive director of the Center for Urban Families about the economics of racism in the United States. They discuss how discrimination in education, housing, health care, and jobs keep Black people from success, and how much of this gets attributed to individual...

May 25, 2021

In the year since George Floyd’s murder, there have been calls for police reform, record voter turnout for a Presidential election, and 360 bills with restrictive voting provisions introduced by legislators in 47 states. Guest host Dr. Rachel Thornton of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity talks with democracy...

May 24, 2021

George Floyd’s murder had an impact on our collective consciousness, and racism by itself is a “biopsychosocial stressor.” Guest host Dr. Rachel Thornton of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity talks with Dr. Wizdom Powell of the UConn Health Disparities Institute about the potential for mental health...