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Annette John Hall and Kamala Allen of Upsilon Delta Omega Chapter, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., join the show to talk about an upcoming event, "Keep Your Bans Off Our Books."

As the Trump administration threatens to walk away from the negotiations to end the war in Ukraine, national security expert Malcolm Nance joins us to talk about the implications for America.

Vic Walczak joins the show. He is the Legal Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania. Vic talks to us about the lawsuit challenging allegedly illegal deportations by the Trump administration.

Katie Mitchell is a storyteller and bookseller. Katie lives, works, and writes in Atlanta, Georgia. Her online and pop-up Black bookstore, Good Books, has been featured in The New York Times, NBC, NPR, PBS, and many other outlets.

Katie joins the show to further discuss her book, "Prose to the People". This book centers profiles of over fifty Black bookstores from the Northeast to the mid-Atlantic, the South, and the West Coast, complete with stunning original and archival photography. Katie also talks about an event on May 1st 2025 in promotion of Prose to the People in Philadelphia, at the African American Museum with Glory Edim and March Lamont Hill.

Sarah Huffman is a reporter at Technical.ly: an organization that runs several outlets focusing on tech news, serving markets in New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Delaware, and the District of Columbia. Rebecca Grant is the senior director of life sciences and innovation for the city's Department of Commerce.

They both join the show to talk about the opportunities and challenges our life sciences ecosystem faces. They also discuss the layoffs of a company called, “Spark Therapeutics”. They touched on the impact Spark had, and what it means for the region.

Dr. Gbolahan Okubadejo is a board-certified and fellowship-trained spinal and orthopedic surgeon with 20 years of experience. He leads The Institute for Comprehensive Spine Care, with offices across the New York Metropolitan area.

Dr. Okubadejo joins the show to talk about the various spinal health disparities that exist in the Black Community. He also goes over the most common spinal conditions affecting Black patients, and how to prevent them.

Jamila Harris-Morrison is the executive director for “ACHIEVEability”: a nonprofit working to permanently break the generational cycle of poverty for low-income, single-parent, and homeless families.

Jamila joins the show to discuss ACHIEVEability’s” Impact Day”: a neighborhood-wide day of service and celebration, where more than 500 volunteers will come together to restore homes, beautify public spaces, and strengthen the West Philadelphia community. This event will take place on Friday, April 25th from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.

P.O.C. (Proof of Consciousness) is the host of WURD’s environment-centered Friday morning show, “ecoWURD Magazine,” which airs every Friday from 10am to 11am ET. She is also the visionary Founder and Host of REVIVE RADIO, an influential online broadcasting platform.

P.O.C. joins the show to talk about the importance of Earth Day, and why and how Black millennials are reclaiming the day which has been whitewashed over the years.

Sameera Fazili is the former Deputy Director of the National Economic Council in the Biden-Harris administration. In that role, she led the Biden-Harris administration’s work on U.S. competitiveness, industrial policy, supply chains, and regional economic development, and the administration’s response to numerous supply chain crises.

Sameera joins the show to speak on the state of clean energy in the US, the impact of Trump’s tariffs, as well as the cancellation of EV battery factory production.

Angelique Hinton, Executive Director of PA Youth Vote. In 2020, Ms. Hinton became a Regional Organizer for “My School Votes”, a part of Michelle Obama’s organization “When We All Vote”, whose mission is to reduce the age and race gap in voting. During the 2020 election cycle, she worked with students across Pennsylvania to help register eligible voters and get them ready for the presidential election.

Angelique Hinton is currently co-leading PA Youth Vote, a nonpartisan collaboration of students, educators, and organizations working to elevate student voices and empower Pennsylvania youth as civic actors.

She joins to discuss civic engagement within the Black community, and young adults.