WBGO commentator Mildred Antenor has some advice for transracial couples who want to adopt. Antenor stresses during these troubled times, parents will still need to have "the talk" with their adopted children. Mildred Antenor is a professor and the author of The Gladioli Are Invisible: A Memoir. Click above to hear her commentary.

The 41st Annual Marion Thompson Wright Lecture Series , One Begins Again: Organizing & the Historical Imagination, will be online on Saturday, February 20, 2021 at 9:30am. The conference is presented by the Clement A. Price Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience. You can register here . Joining WBGO Journa l host Doug Doyle is Director of the Institute, historian, curator, writer and professor Jack Tchen and two orginal members of the Marion Thompson Wright Study Club,

The Jazz and music world continues to mourn the loss of one its most beloved artists. Pianist, keyboardist, composer and Bandleader Chick Corea. Corea died on Wednesday, February 10 from a rare form of cancer that was diagnosed just recently. Corea is a revered figure in contemporary jazz but is also an artist whose work spanned fusion to classical. He was 79. WBGO has many specials planned this month to celebrate Corea's impact of the world and this station. in 2014 on WBGO’s “The Checkout”

After covering the pandemic for more than a year WBGO’s Alexandra Hill is one of the first on our staff to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. Alexandra documented the experience as she received the second and final dose of the Moderna shot at the former Kmart location in West Orange New Jersey. “I made getting the vaccine a priority and was eager to sign up in January when the demand was not as high, the reason, I live in a multi-generational home and care for not only my children, but my 75 year old

The inspirational story of Davyeon Ross is just one of the many reasons why ShotTracker , the company he co-founded in 2013, has reached amazing heights in technology and sports. Ross, who was born and raised in Trinidad and Tibago, became an All-American basketball player at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas. Ross joined SportsJam host Doug Doyle to talk about ShotTracker, his business and tech saavy, his basketball career and the importance of family and faith in his life. ShotTracker is

Two River Theater's most popular education program in Red Bank, New Jersey is creating something entirely new with Tiny Shakes: Romeo and Juliet, adapted and directed by Em Weinstein (A Little Shakespeare: Twelfth Night ). Weinstein and Two River's Education Director Kate Cordaro joined WBGO Journal host Doug Doyle to talk about the exciting and creative break from the theater's A Little Shakespeare productions. Because of the limitations of 2021 and coronavirus pandemic, Tiny Shakes brings high

Like Toronto, NY and other film festivals, Sundance in the Plague Year was virtual. It reduced its scope and crammed 73 films into six days. Nothing unspooled, it all streamed digitally, with 28 satellite drive-in sites scattered around the country. Here in the East it was freezing, and we got the snow Park City didn’t. Our film critic Harlan Jacobson sees black and white in color at Sundance this year. HJ:. Sundance this year took the measure of Race – where we’ve been and where we are, maybe

The number one housing complaint in New York City during the winter months is a lack of heat. Tenants who want to force their landlords to provide adequate heat can call the city’s 311 line and request that an inspector from the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development visit their home but there are a limited number of inspectors and home visits may occur when a tenant is at work. Tenants can now use a tech tool to get action: a web-enabled thermometer that documents conditions

WBGO Journal host Doug Doyle reports on the latest curfew restrictions for NYC and NJ.

New Jersey prosecutors have filed charges against three correctional police officers for beating female prisoners the night of Jan. 11 at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women. Officials said the late-night attacks at the prison in Hunterdon County left the victims with scratches, concussions, and at least one orbital fracture. According to Attorney General Gurbir Grewal, corrections officers had organized into “extraction teams” to remove prisoners from their cells. Per state policy,