The President and CEO of AIDS United, Jesse Milan Jr. joins us for a discussion on what's happening in the AIDS community now. How did folks make it through the COVID-19 pandemic? What scientific progress is being made in the fight against AIDS? We also ask Jesse what obstacles remain in dealing with this now 40 year old disease.

In this episode we talk with Mark Hugo Lopez from the Pew Research Center. Mark has a wealth of data at his fingertips on race and ethnicity. Our talk with him focuses on the various Latino/a communities within the United States. It's strange that within communities of color we can go about knowing little about each other. But, the information about all of us is out there!  Hope you enjoy learning this information about our Latino neighbors as much as we did.

This episode is the latest in the Learning Our Allies series. President and CEO of Asian American and Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy, Patricia Eng shares a conversation with us about the various Asian American communities in the US. Their history and relationship with this country is complex. But Pat is excited about the possibilities of helping Asian American communities develop ties with other communities of color so that we can all move in from margins and into full participation in this country.

We chat with Dr. Rahsaan Harris of Citizens Committee for New York City. He talks about the importance of supporting community driven initiatives and how the micro grant process helps communities implement programming that matters a difference where they live.

This episode is the second and final part of our conversation with Janella Hinds and David Adams on the K-12 curriculum in New York and in Connecticut. They discuss what is actually happening in light of the awareness brought to educational inequities as well as the push back in certain areas to making the educational system truly inclusive.

In this episode, our guests, Janella T. Hinds and David Adams discuss some of the challenges around culturally responsive teaching in the K-12 curriculum. Janella is the United Federation of Teachers Vice-President of Academic High Schools and she is also a classroom teacher in NYC. David is the Executive Director of The William Casper Graustein Memorial Fund which addresses the challenges of racial inequity in the Connecticut school systems. Our interview with Janella is extensive. Welcome to part 1 of the conversation. 

Law Professor Kenneth Nunn joins us to discuss the push by conservative Republican states to ban so-called Critical Race Theory or CRT.  We discuss what the definition of critical race theory is and what the push to ban it is really about. Florida leads the nation is extreme legislation trying ti suppress teaching about the racial history of this country. We take a look at their recent legislation on the restricting what can be taught in the classroom.

This episode is an interview with Dr Hadiya Green, PT, DPT. In our conversation she talks about the impact of race on the ability of communities of color to get access to physical therapy. She also encourages listeners to think about physical therapy in broader terms. It is, of course, a tool for helping a person recover from injury or illness but, physical therapy can also be a part of an overall wellness plan.

This episode is part of a series where we are introducing our listeners to information about the other communities that are contained in the acronym BIPOC. Our guest is Yolandra Gomez Toya, a Native American pediatrician from the Jicarillo Apache nation. Yolandra discusses the impact of COVID-19 on the health of Native Americans and other related issues.

We talk with Aida Pacheco from the Virginia Latino Advisory Board. She is the first guest in a series we hope to do this season where we talk to other members of the BIPOC community. We want to understand their issues and learn how we can all be better allies to one another.