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  • Black Power, Pride Museum
    Wil says he cannot say enough positive things about the new National Museum of African American History and Culture. The exhibits are impressive, inspiring and sometimes painful, but leave you with the truth about how absolutely vital African Americans were to building this country. Wil talks with the Museum's Curator Mary Elliot.
    22 min
  • Skin Color Politics
    Wil talks with author Lori L. Tharps, about her book, "Same Family, Different Colors: Confronting Colorism in America's Diverse Families."
    25 min
  • DNA is 'no joke'
    Wil talks with comedian and author Pekitta Tynes, about her book, Thank God I'm Adopted 'Cause DNA Is No Joke! which tells of how after being an abandoned baby with no birth certificate, she discovered both of her biological parents after a 35-year search. Find out how!
    24 min
  • Crook County Exposed
    Wil talks with law professor and author Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve whose book exposes the racism of Cook County -- the criminal justice system of Chicago. Her book, "Crook County Exposed: Racism and Injustice in America's Largest Criminal Court," exposes rampant racial bias among attorneys, judges and the police in dispensing punishment. Van Cleve spent ten years observing for over 1,000 hours the types of injustice in Chicago where punishments are determined by race, not the crime.
    26 min
  • Black Support for Trump
    Wil mixes it up with RNC National Director of African American Engagement and his efforts to gain Black support for Donald Trump. They discuss Trump's housing discrimination against Blacks, the Obama birther issue and more.
    19 min
  • Poetic Descent
    Author Clint Smith, writer of a new book of poems, 'Counting Descent,' has a wide-ranging conversation about racism, the criminal justice system and the Black Lives Mater movement.
    34 min
  • Black Arts Matter
    Named for world renowned African American opera singer Dorothy Maynor and famous artist John Biggers, the Maynor Biggers Artist Fund was founded by a group of Hampton University alumni to provide funding in support of Hampton Roads, Virginia artists whose work advances social justice.
    16 min