All Heart! Guests: Cardiometabolic Network director Angela Taylor, MD and educator Alexis Mason.
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Angela Tylor, MD directs the Cardiometabolic Network at the University of Virginia’s Medical Center.… Read More
We welcomed back the effervescent artist Warren Craghead ; and courageous professor and activist who lives out her exploration of race/ethnicity, religion, and politics Dr. Larycia Hawkins. [Craghead: minute 10:40; Hawkins: minute 35:55.]
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Warren Craghead is an artist, creating compelling comics and drawings that deftly combine whimsy and stark reality, humor and politics.… Read More
It's Hops and Hip-Hop! We spoke with Jaewar of Vibe Riot. He's an activist, front man, and producer of funk, hip-hop, soul, rock & go-go. And we chatted with Lee Graves about beer — craft's golden age, recommendations for both the beer squeamish and the adventurer alike, and heard about Virginia's unique beer history, including and the roles of women and slaves in the Commonwealth's brewing past.… Read More
We spoke with Gloria Beard and Cauline Yates who made the 98-person pilgrimage to Montgomery, Alabama in the summer of 2018 to the new Legacy Museum and National Memorial for Peace and Justice.… Read More
(Pictured l to r: Priscilla Mendenhall, Justin Reid)
We spoke with Justin Reid, Director of African American Programs at Virginia Humanities. We also welcomed back Priscilla Mendenhall, co-founder of CIRAC— the Charlottesville-Area Immigrant Resource and Advocacy Coalition.… Read More
(Pictured l to r: Jaewar, Aran Shetterly)
We spoke with Aran Shetterly about his book The Americano which details the largely untold story of an American who fought in the Cuban Revolution; and we discussed events leading to the Greensboro Massacre.… Read More
(Pictured l to r: Ashley Walding, Camilla Fojas)
We spoke with Camilla Fojas whose work is a fascinating look at how, through popular culture, Americans see themselves and those perceived as “the other” exploring capitalism, nationalism, and more.… Read More
We were honored to host a conversation of truth-telling with Andrea Douglas and Jalane Schmidt as they prepare for a pilgrimage to Montgomery, Alabama to memorialize the 1898 lynching of John Henry James.… Read More
Dr. Michael D. Williams on how the UVA School of Medicine is tackling implicit bias, recent studies on racial inequity, and more and Brendan Wolfe, author of Mr. Jefferson’s Telescope: A History of the University of Virginia in 100 Objects, about rare, funny, controversial, and peculiar objects.… Read More
We spoke with Steven Thomas, restorative justice and community organizer, working to build relationships across racial and cultural divides in Harrisonburg, Charlottesville, and beyond; and Corban Addison best-selling author & humanitarian, who traveled from Greece to Berlin, along the route of refugees, to research his latest book.… Read More