In this next installment of the "Summer of Freedom", host Solomon Jones features The Colored Girls Museum with Vashti Dubois.

Dr. Nikia Smith Robert is an Assistant Professor of Religious Students at the University of Kansas, specializing in mass punishment, sociopolitical responses to the criminalization of impoverished Black Mothers and interventions to policing and prisons.

She joined Dr. Peterson for this week's Tuesday teach-in segment to discuss her courses, her nonprofit, recent podcast episode on Black mothers surviving the Eaton Canyon wildfires and more.

Dr. H. Samy Alim is the Chair in the Social Sciences and Professor of Anthropology at UCLA, and also serves as the Associate Director for African American Studies where he is a Faculty Director of the UCLA Hip Hop Initiative.

He joined Dr. Peterson to discuss his recent op-ed article “Hip Hop Is A Freedom Movement” and work with Public Enemy’s Chuck D.

Dr. Michelle Carrera Morales is the CEO of Xiente, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit breaking the cycle of poverty for multiple generations of families, empowering families to achieve economic mobility in Norris Square, an area of Philadelphia 64% of the residents live below the poverty line.

She joined Dr. Peterson on Evening WURDs to discuss Philadelphia’s poverty problem and ways to empower ourselves for increased economic prosperity.

Greta Bedekovics is the Associate Director of Democracy Policy at the Center for American Progress. Before joining the Center for American Progress, Greta worked on Capitol Hill as a policy adviser on the U.S. Senate Committee on Rules and Administration for Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), and her expertise is in elections, voting rights and government reform.

She joined Dr. Peterson on Evening WURDs to discuss Trump’s federal funding cuts to U.S. colleges and universities, and how they will impact Pennsylvania.

Dr. Stuart Gillespie has been fighting to transform our broken food system for the past 40 years that includes his work in leading the flagship Agriculture for Nutrition and Health research program, founder of the Stories of Change initiative, amongst a host of other interventions into public food policy.

Gillespie's work, the “food fight” he has been waging — has driven change across all frontiers, from the grassroots (mothers in markets and village revolutionaries), to politics (corporate behemoths and governance).

He joined Dr. Peterson on Evening WURDs to discuss his new book “Food Fight” regarding our food system.

This month, Evening WURDs launched a new bi-monthly segment series called Temple University Health System that airs various Mondays throughout the next 12 months. Lakisha Sturgis is the Director of Community Care Management at Temple Health. She sits down with Dr. Peterson for a powerful conversation on how healthcare works best in partnership with community.

Penn Science Professor Michael Mann joins the show to break down the recent flooding taking place all over the country.

Louis Massiah and Monica Henriquez are the directors of the film, “The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing”, which will be featured in the Black Star Film Festival. TCB – The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing is a biography of the influential writer Toni Cade Bambara, whose literary works and film collaborations were a catalyzing force in 20th century cultural and political movements. The documentary is made up of stories shared by friends and colleagues including Toni Morrison, Nikky Finney and Haile Gerima.

Louis and Monica join the show to further talk about the context of their film, and to also share their thoughts on what it means to them to have their film featured in the Black Star Film Festival.

Ashley Redfearn is the CEO of American Paradigm Schools (APS): a non-profit charter management organization that supports and serves four charter schools in North & Northeast Philadelphia. Naimah Wimberly is the Chief Executive Officer at Tacony Academy Charter School: a charter school in Northeast Philly whose mission is to enhance, support, and promote creative and critical thinking amongst its students.

Ashley & Naimah join the show to give their takes on the changes they believe need to be made in the Philadelphia public/charter school system to further enhance the learning of high school students.