In this week's Black History Month special, we sit down with Teajai Travis who shares his journey of tracing his ancestor's steps before settling in Windsor through the Underground Railroad. He talks about the inspiration for starting the Bloomfield House, his influences as an artist and views as an activist. 

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In this special episode of the Straight Outta Windsor Podcast, we celebrate the life of Howard McCurdy and discuss how his daughter Leslie McCurdy has carried on his work as an actor featured on Detroit 187, Behind The Mask and more, a dancer on several plays including the Wiz and Tommy and the writer of The Spirit of Harriet Tubman and Things My Fore-Sisters Saw.

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Our second Black History Month special features the Honourable Madam Justice Micheline Rawlins who was the first black woman appointed to the Ontario Court of Justice serving this community as both a judge and lawyer for over 35 years.

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To kickoff our Black History Month features, we sit down to have a conversation with Charles 'Spider' Jones who shares his story of going from a gang member who served more than 5 years in jail, participated in underground fight clubs and dropped out of school in grade 4 who eventually won 3 Golden Gloves Tournaments, was a sparring partner for Muhammad Ali, became a highly popular radio personality and created his own non-profit organization that helps youth at-risk

Find more information on Spider at spiderjones.com and follow him on Twitter @spider_jones

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Jeff Casey is the  owner of Snapd Windsor (windsor.snapd.com) who is the founder of 100 Men Who Give A Damn (100whocarewindsor.com) is hosting the Play For A Cure ProAm Tournament (playforacure.ca) and a cancer survivor who is dedicated to giving back and helping others. Listen to his story and the origins of these great initiatives in our community.

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President Christopher Pressey (Twitter) and CEO Arthur Barbut (Twitter) join forces to lead the Downtown Windsor Accelerator (Twitter, Instagram, Facebook) to create a hub and community for small business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs in all sorts of industries throughout our community.

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Calling all Makers! Applications for the Windsor Mini-Maker Faire are now open at windsoressex.makerfaire.com

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Chief Al Frederick has been serving our community as part of the Windsor Police Service for 34 years, holding every rank along the way. As he prepares for retirement this year, he joined me in his first long-form interview to discuss his career, learning lessons, approach to leadership and to better understand the man behind the badge. 

Limitless is the perfect word to describe Paul McCrary. After breaking his neck and becoming paralyzed in a high school football game, Paul has defied the odds in the road to recovery and now helps young athletes and others with spinal cord injuries as the owner and trainer at Limitless Training Centre

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Our special New Year's edition of the Straight Outta Windsor Podcast features Marni Wasserman (Instagram), who left her career as a certified nutritional practitioner and natural chef as well as Dr. Jesse Chappus (Instagram) who left his career as a chiropractor to both become full-time podcasters with the Ultimate Health Podcast (website, Instagram, Facebook), reaching thousands of people around the world from their home studio here in Windsor.

This special holiday edition of the Straight Outta Windsor Podcast features Lorraine Goddard (Twitter), CEO of United Way Windsor-Essex County (website, Twitter, Facebook) to discuss the role of the United Way in our community, history, programs and impact stories.

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