Build. Black. Podcast

Build. Black. Podcast

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Build. Black. Podcast episodes

  • Special Episode: Black Mothers & COVID 19 Vaccine Hesitation
    In this special episode of the BUILD BLACK Podcast we feature Dr. Kristin Gates of Kaiser Permanente. In this intimate conversation we dive into being purposeful about the COVID 19 vaccination options for ourselves and families. Kindra shares her real feelings behind her own vaccine hesitation and the need to align health equity and justice. Dr. Gates gets “real” about the risk vs. reward and creating safe and healthy communities living in a post COVID pandemic world. “The world is about to start acting as if everyone is vaccinated! Listen to this special episode as both women speak from personal experience and LOVE. 
     
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    48 min
  • Colorism in the Black Community
    Several issues going on in the Black community Kindra, Berry, and Damien touch on. On the heels of Megan Markle's interview with Oprah the three wind up in a discussion about how colorism runs rampant in the Black community. 
    Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of the first Ali Frazier fight. What sometimes get lost is the hateful language Ali used towards Frazier leading into that fight. 
    Cassandra Jenning, the president of the Greater Sacramento Urban League joins the crew. 
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    1 hr
  • California Black Freedom Fund
    Stuart Burden joins us and explains the $100 million investment into Black owned businesses through the California Black Freedom Fund,. 
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    36 min
  • Harrison Barnes Joins the Build Black Podcast
    Harrison Barnes joined us to discuss a number of things including...
    His season so far. 
    Social messages in the NBA. 
    The importance of community and Build Black. 
    Financial literacy and the launch of Drafted, a program he's doing with the Black-owned finance app Goalsetter. 
    How to get young people excited about financial literacy and saving. 
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    28 min
  • Advocating For Children with the Roberts Family
    Mr and Mrs Darrell and Tina Roberts join Kindra and Berry to talk Build Black and advocating for children. The importance, the struggles, and navigating the pandemic. 
    Mr Roberts shares his connection to the Super Bowl and the 4 share the importance of the Bruce Arians having 4 black coordinators and 2 women on his staff. 
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    55 min
  • Say It Loud
    Tamisha  Walker, co-founder and current Executive Director of the Safe Return Project, joins the Build Black podcast. The Safe Return Project is an organization invested in securing the freedom and liberation of formerly incarcerated and convicted individuals while participatory action research and grassroots organizing to ending mass incarceration and mass criminalization of poor people. She has been a community organizer and known advocate on issues related to mass incarceration and racial disparity in the criminal justice system since my release from incarceration in 2009.
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    55 min
  • Organizing is Like Picking a Fight
    The show opens with a couple of thoughts on things that have and haven't happened since the insurrection. 
    Gabby Trejo, the Executive DIrector of SacACT joins the conversation. 
    We discuss how she got into community action and Build Black. 
    Inequality in health care. 
    Racism between black and brown people. 
    How to help. 
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    51 min
  • Make Green Sexy w/Simeon Gant
    Dedicated to Sara Richards-Newsom. 
    This week we're joined by Simeon Gant, the founder of Green Tech.
    Green Tech prepares youth and young adults, ages 16-21 for emerging career opportunities in clean energy, energy efficiency and sustainable living strategies. We emphasize careers in construction, transportation, manufacturing, utilities, and environmental management. 
    Green Tech offers life skills and workforce development to “at promise”, working class communities and diverse ethnic backgrounds.
    Hear Simeon's amazing story of how Green Tech came to be and what's next for this amazing non-profit. 
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    53 min
  • Conversation with Chet Hewitt
    Chet Hewitt is the President and CEO of Sierra Health Foundation. He's also one of the founders of Build Black. 
    Saving the country. 
    What is Build Black and why is it so important? 
    Do Black people do enough to support Black people? 
    Why is Build Black scary to some? 
    What are the next steps? What are immediate steps? 
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    48 min
  • Bonus: Insurrection
    Berry, Kindra, and Damien get together to discuss the Capitol Riot that took place in Washington, DC while trying to shine light on the extraordinary events that took place in Georgia. 
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    51 min

About Build. Black. Podcast

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Build. Black., in collaboration with the Be Heard podcast network and Entercom, is launching The Build.Black. Podcast to serve as a platform for Black healing, organizing and power, uplifting Black entrepreneurs, artists, families and cultural and community leaders. Hosted by community activist and organizer Berry Accius, associate director of Sierra Health Foundation Kindra Montgemery-Block, and Be Heard founder Damien Barling. Issue areas addressed will reinforce the four pillars of the Build.Black. collaborative: uplifting Black youth voices, health equity and access, justice and policing in Black communities, and investment in Black neighborhoods and businesses. Build.Black. is a program of The Center at Sierra Health Foundation. Learn more at buildblack.org.