Now You're Talking with Marshall Ramsey

Today our guest is Dr. Jason A. Beverly a Mississippi author who often incorporates the use of tradition, history, urban legends, folklore, and supernatural elements in his stories to provide intimate glimpses into the fictional lives of African Americans in the South and today he’s here to talk with us about his new novel Mississippi Revival Roads.

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Today our guest is Linden Barefield of Meridian. We will talk with Linden about her new children's book titled, "Fairy Monitor.” Listen as she explains how the high cost of health-care for her 72 -year-old father who suffers from Parkinson's disease led her to tap into her artistic talents.

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Operation Shoestring continues to help shape a better tomorrow for children and families in Jackson and today we have the pleasure of speaking with Executive Director, Robert Langford. We’ll talk with him about the wonderful programs they provide for the community, how it all began and how they plan to celebrate their 50th year anniversary.

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Our guest today is Dawn Dugle, an award-winning storyteller and writer who travels the country teaching businesses and non-profit organizations how to tell and share their stories and she’s here today to share her new story, The Bravo Way: Building a Southern Restaurant Dynasty. We’ll speak with Dawn and find out why she wanted to tell the story of Jeff Good and Dan Blumenthal and their business. Plus we’ll talk about the latest headlines in the weekly roundup.

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September is National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month so today we'll talk with with Molly Portera, Director of the Division of Outreach and Training at DMH, and Sandra Parks, Director of the Division of Children and Youth at DMH about their Suicide Prevention Symposium and Trauma Conference. We'll also speak with, Teresa Mosley, a woman who lost her daughter to suicide and now uses her experience to shed light on mental health.

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Today we welcome Melissa Robinson and Patricia McClure of the MIND Center at UMMC to talk about their program and their upcoming benefit concert featuring the Pop legend, Cyndi Lauper which will takes place on October 25th at Thalia Mari Hall in Jackson.

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Today our guest is Civil Rights Movement veteran Brenda Travis. We sit down and talk with her about her new memoir “MS Exiled Daughter: How My Civil Rights Baptism Under Fire Shaped My Life". Mrs. Travis recounts how her anger over the treatment of African Americans in Mississippi and beloved hometown gave way to determination and moved her to join the civil rights struggle as a teenager and how two days in 1961 changed the course of her life forever.

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As your college student heads off for their first year, you know that there will be many challenges ahead, both for them and for you so our guest today MeShonya Wren-Coleman Director of the First Year Experience Program at Jackson State University is here to talk about some of those challenges and give you tips on how to help make the transition a little less stressful. Plus, we’ll talk about the latest headlines in the weekly roundup. All that and more on this episode of Now You're Talking with Marshall Ramsey.

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Hot off the press is Professor Woodrow Hartzog’s new book, "Privacy’s Blueprint: The Battle to Control the Design of New Technologies". This is a fascinating and engaging book about a very important and controversial topic: Should privacy law regulate technological design? We will talk with Professor Hartzog as he makes a compelling case of why the law must become involved with design and scratch the surface of the many great issues he tackles in his book.

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Our guest today is American Idol’s 11th season top 5 finalist Skylar Laine-James. We’ll go behind the curtain to find out what she’s been up to since American idol. We’ll discuss everything from marriage to children and music. Plus you’ll meet the man behind her beautiful smile, her husband, Chris James.

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