Chief Public Health Officer for the Health Department, Mrs. Denise Fair Razo shares some facts about how we should properly handle holiday gatherings during a public health crisis.  We also talk about a host of other programs and projects the Health Department offers Detroiters.  

In this episode of Say It Loud, LG Griffin III and I have an inciteful colloquy about his musical and life journey in Detroit.  Music has been an integral part in his maturation from a boy to a man with many life lessons along the way.  From his time at Henry Ford HS creating a choir to working with 313 The Live Experience, LG has been living the life filled with glorious music, sound and talent.  He has a new single out which is rich with sound and also the blessing of his father.  Both of his parents and several family members have been in and around music for a lifetime and you can feel it in his lyrics. 

It is extremely important to support and promote small and local businesses as well as artists and musicians.  Included in this description are links to access his latest single.  I DO NOT OWN THE RIGHTS TO ANY OF THE MUSIC IN THIS EPISODE.

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Holiday shopping can be a challenge, but shopping locally and supporting minority owned and operated businesses has quite a few benefits. Crystal Gunn, founder and creator of 20/20 Accord and Amazing Woman Network chats with me about supporting small business.  The Amazing Woman Network is sponsoring a Holiday Small Business Event on November 21, 2021 - Noon to 4:00pm (RSVP Events Studio, 25463 Grand River, Redford Charter Twp., MI.)  

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In this episode, culturally relevant teaching and critical race theory are described and defined.  

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Dr. Gholdy Muhammad, author of Cultivating Genius discusses the intersectionality of Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Culturally Responsive Literacy. Clips are from a Dr. Ben Carson interview earlier this year, Candace Owens and Donald Trump with public comments about Critical Race Theory and the 1619 project.

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"I conceive our Literary Institutions to have the power of doing.  It seems to me, then, that the main object is to accomplish an intellectual and moral reformation.  And I know of but few better ways to effect this than by reading, by examining, by close comparisons and thorough investigations, by exercising the great faculty of thinking; for, if a man can be brought to think, he soon discovers that his highest enjoyment consists in the improvement of the mind; it is this that will give him rich ideas, and teach him, also, that his limbs were never made to wear the chains of servitude; he will see too that equal rights were intended to all.  Then who would not wish to become inspired with the taste of reading, if it has the ability to create so happy a state of things as I have just described."  

-James Forten in an address delivered before the American Moral Reform Society, August 17, 1837

Kwaku Osei, Board member at Bridging Communities, a grassroots organization created to assist seniors in Southwest Detroit chats with me about the organization's mission and vision for today and tomorrow.  

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What are local school districts doing to support the social well being of students?   How are the student's responding to the responsibility of logging on, instead of going in to a school?  Principal Mrs. Claudia Martinez talks about the unique challenges of virtual learning for children in Southwest Detroit.  

Mr. Christian Greer, President and CEO of the Michigan Science Center shares the challenges and successes of the Science Center during the pandemic.  Over the last few months, MiSci has been nominated as one of the top 10 Science Centers in America as well as become a Smithsonian Affiliate.  We also chat about the Tuskegee Syphilis Study.  I share and we discuss an excerpt from Dr. Joy DeGruy's book, Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome.  

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Dr. Jesse Kilgore, Jr. founder of Plymouth Educational Center and CEO of T.E.A.C.H. an alternative pathway to teaching certification speaks about the benefits and employment opportunities in the field of education.