Tosha, MD and DC visit with telecommunications expert and highly respected consultant, Roger Entner of ReCon Analytics.

Topics Covered:

What is 5G How will 5G rule the world Black people working in Telecommunications

MD and guest host, Tosha Downey visit with the Mayor of Birmingham, AL, Randall Woodfin. This open and honest conversation touches on the challenges urban communities face with creating opportunities for women and black-owned businesses. Birmingham plans to become the HUB for Black and Women Owned business by 2021...Stay tuned to this dynamic young leader!

DC, MD and Tosha visit with education activists, Kristyna Jones and Larry Irvin of BE2T, Brothers Empowered 2 Teach.

Topics Covered:

• Black Men in the Class Room
• School to Prison Pipeline
• Encouraging Men to Teach

Tosha, MD and DC visit with veteran journalist and highly respected editorial columnist, David Waters, formerly of the Commercial Appeal and now taking up employment residence at the Univ. of Memphis Institute of Public Service Reporting.

Topics Covered:

Education and Bill Lee, Governor, TN Memphis Life After the Commercial Appeal

DC, MD and Tosha visit with event planner and cultural tastemaker extraordinaire, Cynthia Daniels. This conversation gets FUNKY on Food, Black Culture, Entrepreneurship and Black Restaurants. Black Restaurant Week is becoming a force across the country...Don't miss it!

DC, MD and Tosha visit with the Executive Editor of the largest Memphis newspaper, The Commercial Appeal (CA). This conversation gets extremely FUNKY as it touches on why the CA's brand challenges, its new ownership, structure, management, "Fake News" and the future of print media!

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DC and MD discuss the City of Louisville, KY with Mayor Greg Fischer.

MD and DC visit with the Chairman of the Shelby County Commission, Van Turner. This conversation gets extremely FUNKY as it touches on various topics that are affecting the local, state and national political landscape.

DC and guest host, Luther Mercer visit with the Supt. Shelby County Schools (Memphis). The unfiltered conversation touches on various topics Urban Education, Shelby County Schools, and why the City of Memphis is wrong for not supporting public education

DC and MD discuss the City of Louisville, KY with Mayor Greg Fischer. Mayor Fischer digs into many issues such as the income and opportunity disparity that exist in his city and our country. We also discuss education and one of Kentucky's top exports, bourbon and the economics surrounding the bourbon industry.