Gloria Minott Presents...

Maurice Weeks the Co-Executive Director of ACRE(Action Center on Race & the Economy) talks about his new report on Amazon.

More info on Maurice Weeks and ACRE are available on Twitter at @mo87mo87 and https://www.acrecampaigns.org/.

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Loida Lewis talks about some of the great business achievements of her late husband TLC Beatrice founder & CEO Reginald F. Lewis.

More information on Reginald Lewis is available at https://reginaldflewis.com/

Also information on the documentary "Reginald F. Lewis and the Making of a Billion Dollar Empire" can be found at https://reginaldflewis.com/documentary/

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Roland Phillips (referred to as Ronald Phillips in podcast) talks about his latest book "A Spy Named Orphan: The Enigma of Donald MaClean" - The first full biography of one of the twentieth century’s most notorious spies.

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Deborah G. Plant is an African American literature & Africana Studies scholar and literary critic whose special interest is the life and works of Zora Neale Hurston. She talks about the 2018 New York Times bestseller "Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo", a book recently published and written by Zora Neale Hurston more than 87 years ago.

Karl A. Racine, Washington DC's first independently elected Attorney General, discusses some of his accomplishments and goals for the future.

More information about Attorney General Karl A. Racine is available at:

https://oag.dc.gov/about-oag/our-structure-divisions/about-attorney-general

Twitter: @AGKarlRacine

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dcoag/)

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Brought to light in the Rebecca Skloot book "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" and the Oprah Winfrey produced HBO movie based on the book, Henrietta Lacks is known as the "mother of modern medicine."

The Lacks Family Attorney Christina Bostic and Ron Lacks talk about the sad story of Henrietta Lacks and the current litigation between the family and John Hopkins on overdue and proper compensation for the use of her body.

More info at

https://www.biography.com/people/henrietta-lacks-21366671

https://www.bosticklawoffice.com/blog/family-of-henrietta-lacks-seeks-legal-redress-for-the-1951-theft-of-her-biology

http://rebeccaskloot.com/the-immortal-life/

https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/16/health/henrietta-lacks-portrait-smithsonian-tmd/index.html

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Throughout his long career, Alex Blake has played with the greats Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins, Sun Ra, Art Blakey, Freddie Hubbard, McCoy Tyner, Lenny White, Stan Getz, Harry Belafonte, and the Manhattan Transfer --just to name a few. He talks about his journey from Panama City on this edition.

More information about Alex Blake can be found at https://www.alexblakebass.com/his-story.

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Sage Marie Spaeth, 3rd grader and former winner of the Roald Dahl's "Imaginormous Challenge", talks about this exciting challenge in which children from ages of 5-12 can enter their own imaginative story ideas up to 100 words. More info is available at www.imaginormouschallenge.com.

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Recorded from WPFW 89.3 FM's (www.wpfwfm.org) live broadcast from the National Council of Churches' Act 2 End Racism March and Rally hosted by Gloria Minott, Reverend Grayland Hagler, and Dr. E. Faye Williams marking the 50 year mark of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.' assassination. Ben & Jerry Ice Cream's founders Ben Cohen & Jerry Greenfield and actor/activist Danny Glover drop by to join in the discussion.

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Historian and former chief of staff to Democratic Leader/Speaker Nancy Pelosoi, John A. Lawrence, talks about the roots of polarization in American politics. His new book "Class of 74: Congress after Watergate and the Roots of Partisanship" is available now.

More information on John A. Lawrence's book is available at https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/content/class-74

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