Lets Talk About Race

Lets Talk About Race Peter Ruggiero

September 27, 2019 02:31 - 59 minutes - 54.9 MB

A discussion of European identify, ethnicity, whiteness, privilege and culture. When does race identity start and why? How do you teach current events and accurate history within the curriculum?

Lets Talk About Race Jean Mcguire

September 15, 2019 00:29 - 59 minutes - 54.9 MB

Eyes on the Prize Keys to the Kingdom featuring Jean McGuire, See this episode to contemplate Boston's racial history. This is not ancient history. This is the history of exactly where we are today. Watch this video and remember. The episode shows actual footage of the Boston clash between Roxbury black people and South Boston White people as they struggled over who would go to their neighborhood schools. The black struggle was for equal educational opportunity, the white stuggle was for co...

Lets Talk About Race Wolfgang Wentzel

September 06, 2019 03:23 - 1 hour - 54.9 MB

Thursday, September 5, 2019, 7-8 PM Wolfgang Wentzel joins Let's Talk About Race. Millennials, Pharaoh Saunders and Wolfgang Wentzell talk about politics 2020. Biden? Bernie? Elizabeth Warren?

Lets Talk About Race Jordana Hart Roni Bennett

August 30, 2019 01:38 - 1 hour - 54.9 MB

Thursday, August 29, 7-8PM, Jordana Hart and Roni Bennett of Unity360, Miami Shores People of Color join Lets Talk About Race remotely from Miami to help us take an indepth dive into Reparations. Will we need a truth and reconciliation commission? What might that entail? Truth and Reconciliation as a way to engage the country in the formal discussion of our history of race and the debt owed. Reparations. How might we involve the people of America in a Truth and Reconciliation Process? What w...

Lets Talk About Race Bindu Kalesan

August 23, 2019 08:10 - 59 minutes - 54.9 MB

People attempting to kill others are not as accurate shooters as suiciders. When they may try to kill someone else, they may hit but not kill them. Between Trauma care and bad shooting, lots of neighborhood shootings are not fatal. And even when they survive, black gun violence survivors suffer. First, Doctors are more biased when they treat black victims than whites. Whites are mostly hailed as heroes, Black victims get assigned criminality forgetting that they are victims, not the perpetrat...

Lets Talk About Race Nina Walcott Wentzell

August 11, 2019 01:39 - 59 minutes - 54.9 MB

Welcome Nina Walcott Wentzell. To talk about: Current events in politics. -Trump is a racist, why can’t white America admit it? -Stereotyping Of whites -Jesus was a brown immigrant whose parents were turned away. And of course, the current and long-running: White nationalist terrorism in America

Lets Talk About Race Miles Selena Wentzell

July 23, 2019 20:15 - 59 minutes - 27.4 MB

Miles Selena Wentzell talks about looking for and finding women of color to support in upcoming elections. Where to look? How to look? How to ask? Who to look for? How do you know? What questions do we ask ourselves?

Let's Talk About Race Vid The Visionary Wilkerson

July 12, 2019 01:17 - 59 minutes - 27.4 MB

Vid The Visionary is making a way out of no way. Vid describes his process of moving forward with his life even with a tough system involved early childhood. He talks about what it takes to make a path right through the center of no early childhood with no guidance and a difficult start in life The Biracial experience - Evolution of Race (Regional to Pigment-based) - The Racial Divide (Generational Stability & cultural history)

Let's Talk About Race Benjamin Echevarria

June 28, 2019 01:58 - 59 minutes - 27.4 MB

Black and Brown People have to build power. Black and Brown people must vote. Election 2020. Get out the vote. In this picture Ben Echacharria presents an award to another power house Yvette Wilks. Benjamin Echevarria is the Executive Director of The Welcome Project an organization dedicated to building the collective power of immigrants to shape community decisions. A pastor and a longtime leader in the Latino community Ben’s work in the social justice movement has led him to organizi...

Let's Talk About Race Annette and Choice revisited

June 21, 2019 01:28 - 59 minutes - 27.4 MB

On Thursday, June 20, 2019, Let's Talk About Race visits again with Annette McCarty and Choice to learn more about what happened in the aftermath of their horrific experience with 333 Huntington Ave Spa in Boston. It seems that there is an upside. When Annette reached out, she found many helping hands. We want to talk about what Annette did to find help in this great city of Boston and who actually helped. Welcome back Annette and Choice.

Guided Meditation Who Am I and What Am I Here to Do?

June 18, 2019 01:39 - 49 minutes - 47.5 MB

Guided meditation into the heart of the chakra energy

Let's Talk About Race Debby Irving

June 14, 2019 20:22 - 56 minutes - 48.8 MB

Waking Up White is the book Debby Irving wishes someone had handed her decades ago. By sharing her sometimes cringe-worthy struggle to understand racism and racial tensions, she offers a fresh perspective on bias, stereotypes, manners, and tolerance. As she unpacks her own long-held beliefs about colorblindness, being a good person, and wanting to help people of color, she reveals how each of these well-intentioned mindsets actually perpetuated her ill-conceived ideas about race. She also exp...

Let's Talk About Race Annette And Choice

June 14, 2019 20:14 - 55 minutes - 26.6 MB

"We should have been treated fairly, with the utmost respect and dignity. I am concerned about the level of the nonchalance of bigotry, harassment of a child, physical assaults, racial profiling, and the change of prices rate for African American curly texture hair. This experience has tarnished my daughter. I believe we are victims of a hate crime and ugly racism. It hurts tremendously! I am a Mother reach out to you to ask for help for my daughter."

Guided Meditation Unblocking and Balancing Chakra energy

May 27, 2019 22:00 - 57 minutes - 69.2 MB

Full 7 chakra guided meditation using relaxation, guided meditation, visualization and mantras.

Jessica Eshleman, Executive Director of Union Square Main Streets.

May 27, 2019 21:53 - 59 minutes - 27.4 MB

Jessica talked about many important emerging city topics including: "Mitigating commercial and cultural displacement (affordable housing is a pressing matter that many great organizations have as their focus. Our focus with small business and cultural institutions is synergistic with these concerns) History of race in Union Square. Future of race in Union Square: how does the new and improved Square benefit all people living here?"

Let's Talk About Race Kia Tay OAZ!

May 27, 2019 21:40 - 59 minutes - 27.4 MB

Kia is a 22 year old native Bostonian, growing up in Roxbury, Dorchester. Kia is a recording artist and model. Hear more about Kia on Thursday, May 16. Her artist name is OAZ. You can find her on any social media platform, Pandora, Spotify, ITunes. In addition to her own journey to success, Kia talked about the school to prison pipeline, community violence, the importance of engagement, and community health & awareness. Join us.

Let's Talk About Race Lew Gitelman and Bill Cavellini

May 10, 2019 03:44 - 59 minutes - 27.4 MB

Join A conversation about politics with LTAR co-hosts Diane Wong, Pharaoh Saunders and special return guests Lew Gitelman and Bill Cavellini. A discussion on race, civil rights, Israel, Palestine, Anti-semitism, white supremacy, capitalism, ignorance and much more. How to engage a movement. Ideas? Passion? Both?

Let's Talk About Race Alex Pirie

May 03, 2019 01:11 - 51 minutes - 24.1 MB

Alex is the Coordinator of the Immigrant Services Providers Group/Health, a member of the Sanctuary City Steering Committee, the Somerville Youth Workers Network, and the Tisch Center for Community Research at Tufts Steering Committees, the Health & Legal Immigrant Solidarity Network and a member of Our Revolution Somerville. He was gentrified out of Cambridge in the late 1970’s and moved to Somerville during its not so good old days

Let's Talk About Race Lew Gitelman

April 27, 2019 03:01 - 59 minutes - 27.4 MB

"Growing up in neighborhoods of black and brown folks I was acutely aware of racism and the deadly effects it had on friends and people I knew. I believe the turning point in my radicalization was the advent of Black Power/Malcolm and the murder of MLK! A lot of white liberals could accept civil rights but raising the question of power was going “a bit too far” I can remember as if it happened yesterday ; I was at a Martha Reeves and the Vandellas concert when it was announced MLK had been sh...

Let's Talk About Race Ryan Maranville

April 23, 2019 00:30 - 59 minutes - 27.4 MB

Ryan brought his voice and perspective to the show with Diane and Pharaoh to share his thoughts on race in America. Raised in a traditional and homogenous community, Ryan witnessed strict religious, gender, sexual, and racial views throughout his life. While living in Boston, Ryan has begun to recognize and confront his own biases while attempting to understand his heritage and maintain the love for the place he, for so very long, called home. Listen to Ryan talk about 1) Being from a small ...

Let's Talk About Race Bill Cavellini

April 12, 2019 01:16 - 59 minutes - 27.4 MB

Bill Cavellini has been a community organizer all his adult life, in New York City, Atlanta, Georgia, Cambridge and Somerville, MA. He drove a taxi cab for over thirty years in Cambridge and worked as a case manager for a Housing First Program, Journey to Success, in Boston, Revere and Chelsea for ten years before retiring in 2016. He grew up in a segregated housing project in the Bronx, NY. His father was born in Italy, came to this country when he was seven years old. His mother is a first...

Let's Talk About Race Greg Hill

April 10, 2019 03:13 - 59 minutes - 28.7 MB

A long-time resident of Somerville, Greg Hill worked as a library technician until his retirement in 2012. Formerly a freelance photographer, he was also sole proprietor of a screen-printing shop in Cambridge. A local activist for many years, he’s been a member of the Somerville Producers Group, Union United Coalition, Concord Ave. Community Garden, Union Square Neighborhood Council, Somerville Stands Together and Mass. Senior Action Council. An avid amateur historian, he’s also a member of...

Let's Talk About Race Joy Maina

April 10, 2019 02:29 - 59 minutes - 27.4 MB

Let's Talk About Race with Tufts University student Joy Maina. 7-8 PM, Bostonfreeradio.com. We talked with Joy about: -how conceptualizations of Africa as a idea/concept have shown themselves to be tangent with institutional racism, and anti blackness in the education system: -that these things really all dissected with modernity as a shift in the way an orientation of a people is defined and valued in society; - the African diaspora colonialism ( religion ) ( capitalism ) ( modernity )...

Let's Talk About Race Peter Brown White Supremacy

March 23, 2019 02:08 - 59 minutes - 27.4 MB

Peter Brown on: 1)Definition of Friend and Enemy 2)What produces the society we live in today? 3)What is the way out?

Let's Talk About Race John Philpot

March 17, 2019 23:51 - 1 hour - 81.5 MB

John Philpot is a highly experienced Montreal based criminal lawyer. A member of the Barreau du Québec since 1984, he has specialized in Criminal Law since 1984 and International Criminal Law since 1998. He is a pioneer in trials in International Criminal Law. He acted at the International Criminal Court in The Hague (ICC) in the Kenya file and at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in three cases. He is a judge at the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal.

Let's Talk About Race Tina Cabral

March 15, 2019 01:38 - 59 minutes - 27.4 MB

Tina Cabral. March 14, 2019, 7-8 PM. Bostonfreeradio.com and Facebook live. Tonight's discussion centers on: How do we change the culture of our race dialogue? Who's ready to talk about race? And, being proud of your immigrant identity!

Guided Meditation Indepth Chakra Work

March 09, 2019 23:37 - 52 minutes - 60.5 MB

Indepth work of manifesting through the chakras.

Let's Talk About Race Wolfgang Wentzel

March 08, 2019 02:50 - 59 minutes - 27.4 MB

Let's Talk About Race on Thursday, March 7 7-8 PM on bostonfreeradio.com with Wolfgang Wentzel "Wolfie". Wolfie is the son of Nina Walcott-Wentzell and Jerry Wentzell. What is Wolfie's perspective on race as it applies to him? Wolfie's mom Nina is bi-racial, Nina is the child of a white mother and a black father. His dad, Jerry Wentzell is white. So, how does Wolfgang Wentzell view himself racially. Wofie is 1/4 black and 3/4 white. How does Wolfie rationalize what race feels like to him? Doe...

Let's Talk About Race Larry Aaronson

March 02, 2019 23:38 - 59 minutes - 27.4 MB

As Larry describes himself: Throughout, I was always a curriculum developer, increasingly became teacher mentor/trainer, teaching for deeper understanding, making learning visible. I was always a teacher activist/community organizer for social and restorative justice, for race, class and gender equity. I believed it was critical to introduce students to understand deeply the concepts of historiography. I taught that the electoral franchise is our American birthright . My main text was Howard...

Let's Talk About Race Nina Walcott And Lisa Ward

February 15, 2019 04:08 - 59 minutes - 27.4 MB

Let's Talk About Race: A lively discussion with my cohost Pharaoh Saunders, contributor Nina Walcott-Wentzell and guest Lisa Ward. A discussion of current events in race, along with specific topics: Not Black Enough Black Family Issues Vs White Family Issues Black Woman’s Strength Let's Talk About Race

Let's Talk About Race Pharaoh Saunders and Diane Wong

February 08, 2019 02:19 - 59 minutes - 27.4 MB

Let's Talk About Race joins co-hosts Diane Wong and Pharaoh Saunders in a discussion of Blackface and Appropriation. Why is it coming up strongly now? How does our white supremacist society factor in to some of our white citizens joy in appearing in blackface? What does it all mean? Why is there pushback against white appropriation of black culture, ideas and concerns? What about black appropriation of white beauty, eg hair, features, skin color, etc? What does it all mean? We will add our th...

Let's Talk About Race 2019 Symposium

January 31, 2019 05:47 - 59 minutes - 54.9 MB

Our country has a long history of race oppression. Because of this largely unprocessed history, fear of discussing race permeates our national culture. Somerville is no different. We must engage with race in order to break the cycles of oppression that penetrate our lives. In celebration of Martin Luther King Day 2019 Diane Wong, in collaboration with the Somerville Media Center offered a panel of educators, activists, young people, and community members who have engaged in these critical con...

Let's Talk About Race FuturePerfect

January 25, 2019 01:56 - 59 minutes - 27.4 MB

Let's Talk About Race, Thursday, January 24, 7-8PM, meet Byron, "Byron the poet" Morgan, Marcus "Takz" Alimayu and Lewis "Xanza" Gay. Creators of the podcast, "Future//Perfect". Join us for stimulating conversation on: - Racial ambiguity; the psychological effects and its benefits/perks - If white folks lost control of the capitalist system we live in, would they be ok with that? What would a world look like in that instance? - Empathy and the importance of owning the narrative about black...

Let's Talk About Race Yosef Shum

January 18, 2019 02:42 - 59 minutes - 27.4 MB

Yosef brought great discussion to the show. Come listen to the discussion: "I was thinking ...of talking about... my Sicilian background and a little of my story, my messianic Jewish background/ antisemitism, and Palestine/Israel: Also faith matters in race relations, like Martin Luther King and his faith as a minister. And, my perspective on the solution to racism."

Let's Talk About Race Lyn Brown

January 11, 2019 03:01 - 54 minutes - 26.6 MB

White Privilege. Ok, why do nearly all people of color, especially black people get this, but whites can be clueless? Why is that? What about the shifting history of who is white in America? What do we make of all that?

Let's Talk About Race Raeshelle Cooke

December 28, 2018 04:31 - 59 minutes - 27.4 MB

Police brutality, inter-sectional feminism, and building generational wealth to close the racial wealth gap. We talk about it all. Founder of production company RMC Pictures, Raeshelle writes about the many misadventures of love, with music and spoken word often leading the narratives. She's also recently started writing films with social commentary in them, telling them in a Twilight Zone-inspired way. She's won 3 film awards, one from the LA Film Awards; she had a film screen at the Reel t...

Let's Talk About Race Henry Parker

December 24, 2018 05:30 - 59 minutes - 27.4 MB

Henry will talk to us about the early days being a black family in Somerville, MA, attendance at the local high school and his experience in a black college. Topics we will discuss include: 1. Race in Somerville 2. Race national and international 3. The system of white supremacy. Join us at 7PM on December 20 and learn about early black family life in somerville, MA. Meet Henry Parker.

Let's Talk About Race Uhuru Sollidarity Movement Boston

December 24, 2018 05:27 - 53 minutes - 45.3 MB

Meet Halley Murray, Northeast Regional Coordinator of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement and Chair of the local chapter Uhuru Solidarity Movement Uhuru solidarity Movement Boston; and Allie Aiello, National Secretary of USM and Chair of the Birthday Fundraisers for the . They will talk about The Uhuru Solidarity Movement and why white people owe reparations.

Let's Talk About Race Najat Kessler

November 09, 2018 04:09 - 59 minutes - 27.4 MB

The Woman and the Land. Morocco, land of magic. "I am not an Arab and North Africans are not really Arabs. We were colonized by the Arabs during the Islamic invasions dating back to 7th century." Najat Kessler. Najat talks about: -Being a woman in the world -The magical land of Morocco -Acceptance, love, and gratitude to heal our old wounds

Let's Talk About Race Reparations

November 07, 2018 05:48 - 59 minutes - 27.4 MB

The topic is Reparations: We are working with the hypothetical situation where it is determined that Reparations are in order. So, let's design the program. Who should the program be designed to reparate? In other words, Who should get get paid and why? And, Who should decide who gets gets? How should it all work? We will start off with the show hosts making a pitch for what they think. Then, we ask you to call in and participate. Get ready to talk about Race. Get ready to talk about Reparati...

Let's Talk About Race The Decola Family

October 30, 2018 02:34 - 52 minutes - 25 MB

"Recognizing racism in Trump's Republican Party." Gen Z, Millennials. How do they define "whiteness" and what role does whiteness play in racism in and out of the republican party? Hear from white young people on racism in the US and more.

Let's Talk About Race Finding your voice. Allowing the wisdom of the Unverse.

October 21, 2018 02:10 - 1 hour - 68.6 MB

Learning podcast skills by creating a podcast. A deep discussion about bring forth your authentic self and creating space for others.

Let's Talk About Race Terrence Duren, A Retired Black 34+ Years Police Officer

October 19, 2018 19:18 - 53 minutes - 17.6 MB

Race and policing, working through difficult issues in the heat of the moment. Keeping to the letter of the law.

Let's Talk About Race KC Connell

October 19, 2018 16:35 - 58 minutes - 26.9 MB

Let's Talk About Race presents K,C McConnell on Thursday, October 11, 7-8 PM for a conversation on the intersection of race/gender and religion. K.C. McConnell was raised in the suburbs surrounding Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 2016 with a BA in Religion with a Concentration in Gender and Sexuality Studies. She currently attends Harvard Divinity School and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy as a dual degree candidate, and will graduate with a Maste...

Let's Talk About Race Jerry Wentzel - a white guy. An American.

October 19, 2018 07:25 - 59 minutes - 27.4 MB

Jerry Wentzel. Jerry describes himself as a non-trump supporting white guy. An American. Jerry is married and has a family with Nina Walcott-Wentzel, a biracial, black/white woman. We talked with Jerry about what it means to live with acceptance amongst black people. And what it means to be that white guy in the age of Trump. The ins and the outs of living with race.

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