For the season 1 finale, Rita sits down with artist, writer, filmmaker, and activist, Talamieka Brice.

Rita sits down with Jackson native and Mississippi treasure, Teneia Sanders. A songwriter, recording artist, and musician, Sanders talks about her journey from North Jackson to an award-winning international touring musician and performer.

Rita sits down with Jackson native Dr. Nashlie Sephus, a world-renowned computer engineer and artificial intelligence expert, to discuss her pathway into the Tech world and how she became one of the country's foremost experts on race and bias within artificial intelligence.

Rita sits down with community activist, childcare advocate, and Jackson native, Cassandra Welchlin, leader of the Mississippi Black Women's Roundtable, to talk about being raised by her mother and grandmother and how that influenced her work and decision to fight for affordable childcare for working people.

Rita interviews Pamela Junior about her life, Juneteenth, and May 8, 1865, also known as 8 of May Day. Hear how Pamela and the Two Mississippi Museums do "Black History 365."

Rita interviews another Mother of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement, the trailblazing Dr. Flonzie Brown Wright. Dr. Brown Wright was the first Black woman elected to public office in Mississippi in 1968.

When her family integrated Sunflower County Public Schools in 1965, Gloria Dickerson endured fights on the bus, a drive-by shooting into their home, and having their local grocer deny them food. Gloria describes how her mother's love and resilience inspired not just an entire family, but the whole community, to keep on going.

Rita Brent is joined by Dr. Nakeitra Burse, founder and owner of Six Dimensions, a  woman-owned, minority-owned, public health research, development and practice agency focused on health equity and social justice, to talk about Black Maternal Health. We explore the history of Black maternal health and highlight some of the black-lead organizations and initiatives improving maternal health policies and outcomes in Mississippi.