Madalene Xuan-Trang Mielke is a nationally recognized civil rights leader and a member of USA Today’s Inaugural Leaders of Change. As President & CEO of the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies (APAICS). She joins us to talk about her work preparing AANHPI women for opportunity and challenges in America.

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Alissa Zhu, of the Baltimore Banner joins us to talk about her and her colleagues story chilling story for the NYT; and why this is happening.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/03/us/baltimore-opioid-epidemic-seniors.html

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We go back to our very 1st episode on June 11th 2020 for perspective on how it all started.

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Sabrina Singh talks to Colors about growing up as a 1st generation Indian-American, her background culture and interests. And she talks about one of her favorite things to do.  

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Sasa first joined us four years ago when she was 17 years old. She's now 21, a college graduate, a former "Poet Laureate" and now a new author of a fascinating chapbook about her life, love of music, and her "blackness and all o' that". 

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ATIDNA International Founder and President Elijah Kahlenberg, who is Jewish, and Vice President Jadd Hashem, who is Palestinian talk about their group and its effort to find and promote common ground on Jewish and Palestinian issues.

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In a very powerful episode, Natasha talks about growing up as a little "brown girl" in Iowa City, Iowa and the moment she realized she was being "othered". She also talks about her career, her observations regarding  race in America today,  and her deep commitment to diversity in newsrooms across America. 

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Author Traci Scott, a former journalist, staffer on Capitol Hill and a civilian who spent time in Iraq during the height of the Iraq war, talks about her crazy, amazing story in this book. It's called...

"Take Off Your Hoop Earrings Before You Put on Your Gas Mask: A Civilian Chick's Guide to Surviving a War Zone

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 Kao Kalia Yang, an award-winning Hmong author, tells the emotional story of her family's immigration to the U.S, "A mesmerizing and hauntingly beautiful memoir about a Hmong family’s epic journey to safety told from the perspective of the author’s incredible mother who survived, and helped her family escape, against all odds."

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New York Times writer Karen Zraick, discusses some really interesting research about what we can expect to see in the next census and why it matters to everyone right now. 

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