Ancestry.com has added new records to improve online searches for descendants of slaves. Genealogist Nicka Sewell Smith explains the benefits for researchers of records from the Freedmen's Journal and new data ingested from the West Indies.

The 2021 Atlanta Jewish Film Festival goes viral. Go behind the scenes with Festival Executive Director Kenny Blank on what film fans can expect from 38 films between now and February 28th. There is a $3 discount on four family friendly films with promo code FAM2FAM.

Next, health information—and misinformation—is all around us, and it can be hard to separate the two. How do we stay sane while unraveling the knots of fact and fiction to find out what we should really be concerned about, and what we can laugh off? In Viral BS, journalist, doctor, professor, and CDC-trained disease detective Seema Yasmin, driven by a need to set the record straight, dissects some of the most widely circulating medical myths and pseudoscience.

Paul Judge, the much buzzed-about Black entrepreneur and investor, has partnered with Mark Buffington and BIP Capital to form Panoramic Ventures in Atlanta. This venture capital firm launched a new $300 million fund to grow underserved, promising companies the SE and Midwest.

The fund will give entrepreneurs in lesser funded regions, access to capital and expertise, to help grow tech companies in often-overlooked states; where tech companies struggle for capital. They are intentionally looking to fund outside of the typical Silicon Valley and the NE regions. This will provide funding as well as remedies for discrimination companies face when seeking funding.

What do former college roommates, now retired professionals do in the middle of a pandemic and year of social unrest? They write a book! Wanda S. Lloyd and Tina McElroy Ansa, roommates at Atlanta's Spelman college and now a retired journalist, author and book publisher united as editors for Meeting at the Table: African American Women Write on Race, Culture and Community. The book is a collection of 16 essays from notables including Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, Pastor Vashti Murphy McKenzie and actress Anika Noni Rose.

What do former college roommates, now retired professionals do in the middle of a pandemic and year of social unrest? They write a book! Wanda S. Lloyd and Tina McElroy Ansa, roommates at Atlanta's Spelman college and now a retired journalist, author and book publisher united as editors for Meeting at the Table: African American Women Write on Race, Culture and Community. The book is a collection of 16 essays from notables including Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, Pastor Vashti Murphy McKenzie and actress Anika Noni Rose.

Have you ever heard of Rebecca Lee Crumpler? Neither had I until I talked with Dr. Melody McCloud. Rebecca Lee Crumpler was the first Black female doctor to practice medicine in the United States. Hers is quite the story as Dr. McCloud tells us.

February is heart month and heart disease remains a number one killer of women - claiming one in three lives. The American Heart Association's Go Red for Women movement seeks to raise awareness in the fight against heart disease and stroke in women. Anna Williams experienced both - before the age of 40.

Now that 2020 is in everyone's rear view mirror and the first month of 2021 is in the book, let's look ahead to the rest of the year. Stephanie Nichols is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and joins us to talk about maintaining one's mental health as the one year anniversary of the pandemic approaches.

This week began with the 35th celebration of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday, featured the inauguration of the 46th president of the United States and the 49th Vice President of the United States and the passing of a sports and civil rights legend, Hank Aaron. My guest is Monica Pearson who has witnessed much of Atlanta's history from behind the anchor desk at Channel 2 Action News.

In the aftermath of the insurrection at the White House on January 5 and the election of Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff to the United States Senate, we speak with Dr. Cynthia Neal Spence, director of the Social Justice Fellows Program at Spelman College in Atlanta about the influence of women on the vote and the differences which exist between black women voters and white women voters.