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Amber O’ Neal Johnston’s new book is A PLACE TO BELONG: Celebrating diversity and kinship in the home and beyond. The author is a home schooling mother of four who speaks and writes at heritagemom.com about diverse voices in traditional curricula and infusing culture into the home environment. She is a regular contributor to the Wild + Free homeschooling community.

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A spike in mental health challenges among children and adolescents has led the American Academy of Pediatrics to declare it a national emergency. Meanwhile, organizations serving children often have a challenge finding mental health service providers for kids. Our guest is Ron Richter is CEO and Executive Director of JCCA, a 200-year old non profit serving young people and families involved in the child welfare system. For more, visit JCCANY.org.

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HOW TO TURN $100 INTO $1,000,000: Earn, Invest, Save by James McKenna, Jeannine Glista and Matt Fontaine speaks to kids ages 10 and up about money by making difficult concepts easy to understand. This book gives parents an assist in raising financially savvy and responsible young adults. For more, visit bizkids.com.

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Brooklyn Community Foundation is the first and only public foundation solely dedicated to Brooklyn’s Charitable Community. President and CEO Dr. Jocelynne Rainey discusses their annual Spark Prize, a grant for Brooklyn-based organizations committed to advancing equity. For more, visit BrooklynCommunityFoundation.org.

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With nearly a billion members, LinkedIn is now the default tool for job seekers and employers. But do you really know how to use it? Omar Garriott and Jeremy Schifeling are veteran career coaches and hiring managers who led the education marketing efforts at LinkedIn. Their new book is LINKED: Conquer LinkedIn. Get Your Dream Job. Own Your Future. For more, visit thejobinsiders.com.

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The 146th Annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show presented by Purina Pro Plan is June 18-22, 2022, at the Lyndhurst Estate in Tarrytown, NY, with 19.5 hours of television coverage scheduled across FOX, FS1, and FS2. Our guest is Gail Miller Bisher, Director of Communications and on-air analyst for the WKC. For more, visit westminsterkennelclub.org.

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When is your coughing, sneezing or runny nose an allergy, a cold, flu or Covid? Our guest is Dr. Omar Waqar of ENT And Allergy Associates to help us understand allergies, how to distinguish and treat them. For more, visit entandallergy.com.

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The People’s Theater Project makes theater with and for immigrant communities. Now in their 13th season, People’s Theater Project been selected by the city to operate an innovative new arts center. Our guest is founding Executive Director of the People’s Theater Project, Mino Lora. For more, visit peoplestheatreproject.org.

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While war dominates the news at the moment, in fact, most of the time, wars don’t happen, and of the millions of hostile rivalries worldwide, only a fraction erupt into violence. Our guest is Christopher Blattman is author WHY WE FIGHT: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace. Christopher Blattman is the Ramalee E. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies at the University of Chicago, where he leads the development economics group and directs the prestigious Obama Scholars Program.

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As we watch the war and destruction currently in Ukraine, for many, the first stop and finest resource to find out more about the country and its history is The Ukrainian Museum in Manhattan’s East Village. Maria Shust, Director of the Ukrainian Museum, talks about the importance of preserving Ukrainian history in the context of Russian aggression. For more, visit ukrainianmuseum.org.

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