Saturday Mornings with Joy Keys
530 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratings“Saturday Mornings with Joy Keys” is an interactive, live Internet talk-radio show that focuses on providing people with tools to enrich and advance their lives mentally, physically, and emotionally. Callers are encouraged to call (516) 387-1745 to listen or ask questions.The show is LIVE on Saturdays at 11:00 a.m.12:00 p.m. Eastern. Joy is a licensed social worker, mother, trainer, speaker, mentor, actress, writer, producer and director. Ms. Keys holds a Masters in Social Work. She is a Leeway Art and Change grantee. She is passionate about making a difference in her local and global communities. *Make PAYPAL donations to : https://paypal.me/saturdayswithjoykeys
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2022 Sickle Cell Awareness Month with Joy Keys
September 17, 2022 15:00 - 37 minutes - 16.9 MBRegina Hartfield is CEO and president of the Sickle Cell Disease Association of America. Hartfield served on the association’s board of directors for three years, including as chair of the fundraising committee. Previously, she managed federal, state and commercial contracts for CVP, an information technology consulting firm in Virginia and Maryland. Hartfield was a community affairs professional in the nonprofit arena in New York for more than 25 years where she gained experience as a leader...
Joy Keys chats with Author Catherine Adel West about The Two Lives of Sara
September 11, 2022 16:00 - 32 minutes - 28.9 MB***THIS IS A PRE-RECORDED INTERVEW.*** Catherine Adel West was born and raised in Chicago, IL where she currently resides. She graduated with both her Bachelors and Masters of Science in Journalism from the University of Illinois - Urbana. Her work is published in Black Fox Literary Magazine, Five2One, Better than Starbucks, Doors Ajar, 805 Lit + Art, The Helix Magazine, Lunch Ticket and Gay Magazine. Catherine's sophomore novel THE TWO LIVES OF SARA is slated for release September 6, 2022...
Joy Keys chats with Corey Gumbs, Founder of The Black Podcasters Association
September 04, 2022 17:00 - 37 minutes - 33.8 MB***Pre-recorded interview*** Corey Gumbs, the owner of Black Label Media, LLC, has over 20 years of experience in recording as an independent music producer and artist. His experience in the music industry also includes working as an intern at Def Jam Records as a key member of their street promotions team in the mid-late 90s, as well as promotional tour support for Def Jam recording artist Foxy Brown, and Violator Records recording artists CRU during the 1997 Smoking Grooves Tour. He is c...
National Breastfeeding Awareness Month with Joy Keys and Nasheeda Pollard
August 26, 2022 22:00 - 35 minutes - 31.9 MBNasheeda Pollard is a wife and proud mother of two beautiful breastfed children! An International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, author of Magical Milk, and owner of Lactation Goddess LLC. A brand focused on helping new and expecting families unapologetically define their breastfeeding journey so they can feel confident in their abilities to lactate in a way that fits their lifestyle. Her passion for supporting lactating families of color and normalizing breastfeeding is the motivati...
Joy Keys chats with Author Ayana Gray about Beasts of Ruin
August 20, 2022 15:00 - 43 minutes - 19.6 MBIn this much anticipated follow up to New York Times bestselling Beasts of Prey, Koffi’s powers grow stronger and Ekon’s secrets turn darker as they face the god of death. Koffi has saved her city and the boy she loves, but at a terrible price. Now a servant to the cunning god of death, she must use her newfound power to further his continental conquest, or risk the safety of her home and loved ones. As she reluctantly learns to survive amidst unexpected friends and foes, she will also have ...
Joy Keys chats with Author Morowa Yejidé about Creatures of Passage
August 13, 2022 15:30 - 36 minutes - 16.3 MBMOROWA YEJIDÉ, a native of Washington, DC, is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Time of the Locust, which was a 2012 finalist for the PEN/Bellwether Prize, long-listed for the 2015 PEN/Bingham Prize, and a 2015 NAACP Image Award nominee; and Creatures of Passage, which was short-listed for the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence and was a 2021 Notable Book selection by NPR and the Washington Post. She lives in the DC area with her husband and three sons. NEPHTHYS KIN...
Joy Keys chats with Author Louis Chude-Sokei -Floating In a Most Peculiar Way
August 06, 2022 15:30 - 37 minutes - 16.6 MBLouis Chude-Sokei’s work includes the award-winning, The Last Darky: Bert Williams, Black on Black Minstrelsy and the African Diaspora, The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics as well as the acclaimed memoir, Floating in A Most Peculiar Way. He teaches at Boston University, directs the African American Studies Program and is Editor in Chief of the journal, The Black Scholar. He is also founder of the sonic art and archival project, Echolocution and was a curator of Carnegie Hal...
2022 Alzheimer's Awareness with Joy Keys
August 06, 2022 15:00 - 28 minutes - 12.8 MBSpecial Guest: Dr. Kyra S. O’Brien grew up in Northern Virginia and received her bachelor’s of science in biology from Yale University. She received her medical degree from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and stayed to complete her internal medicine internship and neurology residency training at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focus during medical school and residency aimed to characterize the clinical syndrome of primary age-re...
PTSD Awareness with Joy Keys, LaSheena Riley-Duvel, LSW & Dr. Janelle S. Peifer
July 24, 2022 16:00 - 30 minutes - 27.3 MBLaSheena Riley-Duval, MSW, LSW, CCM, is a licensed social worker with more than 15 years of experience working in a variety of settings within diverse communities. LaSheena’s career started as a case manager working with children, youth, and families victimized by sexual abuse. Additionally, she has worked extensively with adolescents and families in areas of behavioral health, parenting, and life skills training. LaSheena currently works as a high school social worker in the City of Philad...
Joy Keys chats with Author Alex Jennings about The Ballad of Perilous Graves
July 23, 2022 15:00 - 28 minutes - 12.5 MBAlex Jennings is a writer/editor/teacher/poet living in New Orleans. He was born in Wiesbaden (Germany) and raised in Gaborone (Botswana), Tunis (Tunisia), Paramaribo (Surinam) and the United States. He constantly devours pop culture and writes mostly jokes on Twitter (@magicknegro). He loves music, film, comix, and even some TV. He’s going a little nuts shut up in his Central City apartment, but thankfully he has two of the best roommates on earth (one of whom is a beautiful beautiful dog na...
Joy Keys chats with Author Namina Forna about The Merciless Ones
July 16, 2022 15:30 - 39 minutes - 17.6 MBNamina Forna is the author of the instant New York Times bestseller The Gilded Ones, the first book in an epic fantasy trilogy. She has an MFA in film and TV production from USC School of Cinematic Arts and a BA from Spelman College. Originally from Sierra Leone, West Africa, she moved to the US when she was nine and has been traveling back and forth ever since. She now works as a screenwriter in Los Angeles and loves building fantastical worlds and telling stories with fierce female leads. V...
Joy Keys chats with Author Ladee Hubbard
July 09, 2022 15:30 - 35 minutes - 16 MBLadee Hubbard is the author of The Rib King and The Talented Ribkins, which received the 2018 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Debut Fiction. Her writing has appeared in Guernica, The Times Literary Supplement, Copper Nickel and Callaloo. Hubbard is a recipient of a Radcliffe Institute Fellowship, a Berlin Prize Fellowship, and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award. She has also received fellowships from MacDowell, Art Omi, the Sacatar Fo...
Joy Keys chats with Actress/Director Nana Mensah about the Queen of Glory film
July 02, 2022 15:30 - 32 minutes - 14.5 MB'Queen of Glory' is the story of Sarah Obeng, the brilliant child of Ghanaian immigrants, who is quitting her Ivy League PhD program to follow her married lover to Ohio. When her mother dies suddenly, she bequeaths her daughter a Christian bookstore in the Pelham Parkway section of the Bronx where Sarah was raised. A follow-up on the classic immigrant's tale, Queen of Glory provokes laughter and empathy, as its heroine is reborn through her inheritance. Nana Mensah – Director / Writer / “S...
Joy Keys chats with Author Kevin McGruder about The Father of Black Harlem
July 02, 2022 15:00 - 28 minutes - 12.5 MBKevin McGruder is Associate Professor of History at Antioch College. His interest in community formation led to a career in community development, with positions that included Program Director at Local Initiatives Support Corporation, Director of Real Estate Development with the Abyssinian Development Corporation (Harlem), and Executive Director of Gay Men of African Descent (New York City). Now as an academic, his research interests include African American institutions, urban history, and ...
2022 Migraine Awareness Month with Joy Keys and Jaime (Migraine Diva) Sanders
June 26, 2022 16:00 - 29 minutes - 25.7 MBJaimeSanders is the author of the award-winning blog The Migraine Diva. She is a participant with the Coalition for Headache and Migraine Patients, with whom she worked to create an Issue Brief on Disparities in Headache and is a part of the leadership of the Disparities in Headache Advisory Council (DiHAC). Jaime is a stakeholder with the Headache and Migraine Policy Forum, works with the Society for Women’s Health Research Interdisciplinary Migraine Network, sits on the Patient Leadership ...
Joy Keys chats with Author Eric K. Washington
June 25, 2022 15:00 - 29 minutes - 12.9 MBEric K. Washington is an independent historian and a Bundles Community Scholar of Columbia University. Hismost recent book is Boss of the Grips: The Life of James H. Williams and the Red Caps of Grand Central Terminal (Liveright, 2019), the biography of aonce influential Black railway labor figure and his Harlem-based workforce. The book won the Herbert H. Lehman Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in New York History(New York Academy of History), the GANYC Apple Award(Guides Association of N...
Joy Keys chats with Author Bethany C. Morrow
June 18, 2022 15:30 - 44 minutes - 19.9 MBBethany C. Morrow is a national bestselling author writing for adult and young adult audiences. She is the author of the novels Mem, A Song Below Water, A Chorus Rises, So Many Beginnings: A Little Women Remix, and Cherish Farrah. She is the editor/contributor to the young adult anthology TAKE THE MIC, which won the 2020 ILA Social Justice in Literature award. Her work has been featured in The LA Times, Forbes, Bustle, Buzzfeed, and more. She is included on USA TODAY's list of 100 Black novel...
Joy Keys chats Author C. J. Washington
June 11, 2022 15:00 - 37 minutes - 16.6 MBC. J. Washington is a data scientist and writer. He has a master’s degree in computer science from the Georgia Institute of Technology and lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with his wife and daughter. The Intangible is his first novel.
Joy Keys chats with Author Aisha Shahidah Simmons: love WITH Accountability
June 08, 2022 23:00 - 46 minutes - 20.8 MBAishah Shahidah Simmons (she/her) is an award-winning Black feminist lesbian cultural worker who has examined the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and sexual violence for over 25-years. A survivor of childhood and adult sexual violence committed to healing and non-carceral accountability, Aishah is the editor of the 2020 Lambda Literary Award-winning anthology, love WITH accountability: Digging Up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse (A.K. Press), and the producer/director of the 2006- r...
2022 Stroke Awareness Month with Joy Keys
May 22, 2022 17:30 - 30 minutes - 27.1 MBPRE-RECORDED INTERVIEW 2022 Stroke Awareness Month- Stroke is a leading cause of death in the United States and is a major cause of serious disability for adults. It is also preventable and treatable. ***Dr. Rani Whitfield-I have been in Private Practice and living in my home town of Baton Rouge since 2000. My specialty in Sports Medicine has allowed me to grow my outreach to youth in the Baton Rouge area and across the nation. I speak frequently for the American Heart/American Stroke Assoc...
Joy Keys chats with Author Thabiti Lewis about Black People Are My Business
May 21, 2022 15:30 - 45 minutes - 20.3 MBThabiti Lewis is from St. Louis Missouri, where he grew up in West and North St. Louis. A graduate of the University of Rochester, he received degrees in both English and History (with honors), and the Masters in the Art of Teaching (English) from the University of Rochester’s School of Education. He obtained a doctorate in English from Saint Louis University with a special focus on American literature and culture between the 1950s-1990s and Black Feminist writer Toni Cade Bambara. While com...
Joy Keys chats with Author Taija Isen
May 14, 2022 15:00 - 34 minutes - 15.2 MBTajja Isen is a writer, editor, and voice actor. Her first book, Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service, is forthcoming in 2022 from Atria/One Signal Publishers in the US, and from Doubleday Canada north of the border. She is the co-editor of the essay anthology The World As We Knew It: Dispatches from a Changing Climate, also forthcoming in 2022, from Catapult. Her essays have appeared in dozens of outlets across the US and Canada. She is the editor-in-chief of Catapult magazine, th...
2022 Lupus Awareness Month with Joy Keys
May 07, 2022 15:30 - 35 minutes - 15.7 MBSpecial guest: Belinda Birnbaum, MD, Rheumatologist at Bryn Mawr Medical Specialists. Medical degree from University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. Member of American College of Rheumatology and lPhiladelphia Rheumatism Society.. Previous positions : Temple University; Assistant Professor of Rheumatology 2005-2007 and The University of Pennsylvania; Assistant Professor of Rheumatology 2008-2016. Affiliated with Lupus Foundation of America. Special guest: Cheri M. Perron, Ch...
Joy Keys chats with Author Dorothy E. Roberts about her book Torn Apart
May 07, 2022 15:00 - 30 minutes - 13.7 MBDorothy Roberts is the George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. A contributor to the 1619 Project, she is the author of four books, including Killing the Black Body. Her other books include Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century (New Press, 2011); and Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare (Basic Books, 2002),. Many believe the child welfare system protects children from a...
Joy Keys chats with CNN Newscaster and Author Zain E. Asher
April 23, 2022 15:00 - 29 minutes - 13.2 MBZain Ejiofor Asher was born to first-generation Nigerian parents in South London. A graduate of Oxford University and Columbia University, she is currently an anchor for CNN International. She anchors the weekend edition of CNN Newsroom and is currently launching One World with Zain Asher, her own global news program on the network. Ejiofor Asher’s brothers are Oscar-nominated actor Chiwetel Ejiofor, successful entrepreneur Obinze, and medical doctor Kandibe. She is passionate about her famil...
Joy Keys chats with Author Umar Turaki
April 16, 2022 15:30 - 38 minutes - 17.4 MBUmar Turaki's writing has been shortlisted for the Miles Morland Scholarship, longlisted for the Short Story Day Africa Prize, and has won the AFREADA Photo-Story Competition. Umar's short films have screened in numerous festivals, and his work in television both as a writer and director has been broadcast on various stations. Umar lives in Kelowna, British Columbia with his wife and daughter, where he is an MFA candidate in Creative Writing at UBC Okanangan. SUCH A BEAUTIFUL THING TO BEHOL...
2022 Sarcoidosis Awareness Month with Joy Keys
April 16, 2022 15:00 - 29 minutes - 13 MBDr. Divya Patel’s focus is to improve the clinical care of patients with sarcoidosis and to be an advocate for them. She has completed specialized training in sarcoidosis and participates in clinical research with the aim to improve the quality of life of patients. She routinely recruits patients for both single-center and multi-center clinical studies including industry sponsored and investigator initiated clinical trials. Dr. Patel is a Clinical Associate Professor of Pulmonology and Dire...
Joy Keys chats with Actress Ryan Michelle Bathe from NBC's The Endgame show
April 13, 2022 23:00 - 31 minutes - 14.1 MBActor and producer Ryan Michelle Bathé currently stars in NBC’s high-stakes thriller series THE ENDGAME. She portrays the relentless and socially-outcast FBI agent Val Turner, who is on the hunt for an international arms dealer. In 2020, Bathé starred in the Emmy nominated Amazon film SYLVIE’S LOVE, directed by Eugene Ashe, and in CBS’ ALL RISE, opposite Simone Missick. Since 2019, she has starred in the BET+ dramedy FIRST WIVES CLUB, based on the classic 1996 film of the same name. Bath...
Joy Keys chats with Author Sharon C. Cooper about Business Not As Usual
March 26, 2022 15:30 - 36 minutes - 16.2 MBAward-winning and USA Today bestselling author Sharon C. Cooper loves anything that involves romance with a happily-ever-after, whether in books, movies, or real life. Sharon writes contemporary romance, as well as romantic suspense and enjoys rainy days, carpet picnics, and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. She’s been nominated for numerous awards and is the recipient of Romance Slam Jam Emma Awards for Author of the Year 2019, Favorite Hero 2019 (Indebted), Romantic Suspense of the Year 2...
Joy Keys chats with Coss Marte, Founder of CONBODY
March 23, 2022 23:30 - 33 minutes - 15.1 MBCoss Marte grew up in New York's Lower East Side, where he began dealing drugs at a young age, with his first arrest at only thirteen years old. In prison, Marte was told by doctors that if he didn't start eating right and exercising, he was likely going to die within five years. This wakeup call for Marte motivated him to do calisthenics with his own body weight, losing over 70lbs in 6 months. Gaining the attention of others, Marte began training inmates, helping them lose over 1000 pounds ...
2022 Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Month with Joy Keys
March 20, 2022 15:00 - 27 minutes - 24.1 MBSpecial Guests: Kalina Sanders, MD, a board-certified neurologist, specializes in multiple sclerosis and spasticity management. As a former assistant professor of neurology, she stays abreast of cutting-edge treatments and clinical research. Dr. Sanders also serves on local and national clinical advisory committees for the National MS Society. Her areas of expertise include: Multiple SclerosisSpasticityHealth Literacy Dr. Sander's patient-centered philosophy of care is one that aims to impact...
Joy Keys chats with Author Robert Child about Immortal Valor
March 19, 2022 15:30 - 34 minutes - 15.6 MBRobert Child is a military history writer, director, and published author with Penguin/Random House. The film rights to his book, co-authored with Denise George, The Last Eleven have been acquired. Robert Child has also garnered more than 26 writing and directing awards including an Emmy® nomination and is one of only a handful of writer/directors whose work has screened in the United States Congress. His film, The Wereth Eleven, was nominated for an Emmy® and won the highest honor at the G.I...
2022 Colon Cancer Awareness Month with Joy Keys
March 12, 2022 16:30 - 30 minutes - 13.7 MBColon Cancer Awareness Month Guest;: Ashwani Rajput, MD, Director, Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center - National Capital Region, Professor of Surgery, specializes in the surgical treatment of melanoma as well as colorectal, pancreas and liver cancers. Dr. Rajput is a member of the Kimmel Cancer Center's comprehensive Melanoma Program. Dr. Rajput’s research is focused on key signal transduction regulators of cancer metastases. He is the author of numerous scientific journal articles. A g...
Joy Keys chats with Author Brendan Slocumb about The Violin Conspiracy
March 12, 2022 16:00 - 31 minutes - 13.7 MBBrendan Nicholaus Slocumb was born in Yuba City, California, and was raised in Fayetteville, North Carolina. He was the concertmaster for the University Symphony Orchestra at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and served as the principal violist. He has performed with numerous small chamber ensembles and in the BESK string quartet. For the past twenty-three years, he has been a public and private school music educator, and is a Nobel Educator of Distinction. He also serves as an e...
Joy Keys chats with Singer Judith Hill
March 05, 2022 16:30 - 30 minutes - 13.3 MBGutsy and nuanced as a vocalist, and an accomplished songwriter, arranger, and pianist as well, Judith Hill is likely the only musician who can cite Elton John, Spike Lee, Prince, and Michael Jackson among those who have sought out her talent. One of the highest-profile background singers of her generation, she got her start in the early 2000s, and in the next decade established a solo career with the soundtrack to Lee's Red Hook Summer (2012). Since making these strides, she has built a disc...
Joy Keys chats with Author Nana Nkweti
March 05, 2022 16:00 - 28 minutes - 12.7 MBNana Nkweti is a Cameroonian-American writer and AKO Caine Prize finalist whose work has garnered fellowships from MacDowell, Kimbilio, Ucross, and the Wurlitzer Foundation, and several others. Her first book, Walking on Cowrie Shells, was hailed by The New York Times review as a “raucous and thoroughly impressive debut” with "stories to get lost in again and again." The collection is also a New York Times Editor's Choice, Indie Next pick, recipient of starred reviews from Kirkus, Publishers ...
Joy Keys chats with Actor William Stanford Davis from ABC’s Abbott Elementary
February 26, 2022 16:30 - 31 minutes - 14 MBAward-winning actor William Stanford Davis currently appears on the hit ABC series “Abbott Elementary” as the opinionated yet lovable janitor Mr. Davis. He also recurs on the sports series “Swagger” as Coach Max, in a story based in Kevin Durant’s youth basketball playing experience with the AAU circuit for AppleTV+. This classically trained actor who is born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, is a veteran of both stage and screen. He has amassed an impressive resume that is over 70 credits ...
Joy Keys chats with Poet Desiree C. Bailey
February 26, 2022 16:00 - 30 minutes - 13.4 MBDesiree C. Bailey is the author of What Noise Against the Cane (Yale University Press, 2021), which won the 2020 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize and was a finalist for the 2021 National Book Award for Poetry. She is also the author of the fiction chapbook In Dirt or Saltwater (O'clock Press, 2016) and has short stories and poems published in Best American Poetry, Best New Poets, American Short Fiction, Callaloo, theAcademy of American Poets and elsewhere.Desiree is from Trinidad and Tobago...
Joy Keys chats with Actress Cassandra Freeman from Peaock’s Bel Air show
February 23, 2022 00:30 - 30 minutes - 13.7 MBCassandra “Cassie" Freeman has made her mark in everything from drama to laugh out loud comedy across film, television and the stage. She will next been seen starring as Aunt Viv in Peacock’s dramatic re-telling of THE FRESH PRINCE OF BEL-AIR, entitled BEL-AIR. The drama, which hails from Will Smith’s Westbrook Studios, is expected to premiere in early 2022. In 2019, Freeman starred as FBI agent Jackie Pettigrew in NBC’s drama series THE ENEMY WITHIN alongside Morris Chestnut. She has also s...
2022 African American Women and Eating Disorders with Joy Keys
February 23, 2022 00:00 - 31 minutes - 13.8 MBMazella Fuller, PhD,MSW,LCSW,CEDS-S, is a Clinical Associate on staff at Duke University’s Counseling and Psychological Services(CAPS). Dr. Fuller provides clinical services, consultation, and training for social work and psychology interns. Dr. Fuller has a PhD in Human Services and an MSW from Smith College School For Social Work. Dr Fuller is an Integrative Health Coach and graduate of Duke Integrative Medicine. Dr. Fuller is a member of the International Association of Eating Disorders Pr...
Joy Keys chats with Singer Jake Isaac
February 17, 2022 18:00 - 37 minutes - 33.6 MBSinger Jake Isaac- Born and raised in south London, UK, Isaac began playing drums at the age of 3 and during his school years taught himself to play piano and bass guitar. By 19, Isaac had begun to make a living as a part-time session musician playing drums and bass on various jazz and rock records for a variety of international artists, including the Grammy-award winning Duffy. Marketing manager by day, songwriter and session musician by night, Jake began working with artists such as Cynt...
Joy Keys chats with Cevivor Founder Tamika Felder about Cervical Cancer
February 12, 2022 16:30 - 37 minutes - 33.7 MBThis is a prerecorded interview from Instagram At the age of 25, Tamika Felder was diagnosed with cervical cancer and underwent surgery, chemotherapy and radiation. She lost her uterus, her cervix, and as a result, her fertility. Tamika opted to use her experience and her loud, powerful and humorous voice to educate other women about ways to prevent cervical cancer. By telling her story, Tamika inspired other women to start speaking about HPV and cervical cancer, which led to a network of su...
Joy Keys chats with Sociologist Elijah Anderson, PhD about Black in White Space
February 12, 2022 16:00 - 42 minutes - 19.2 MBElijah Anderson is the Sterling Professor of Sociology and of African American Studies at Yale University, and one of the leading urban ethnographers in the United States. His publications include Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City (1999), winner of the Komarovsky Award from the Eastern Sociological Society; Streetwise: Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community(1990), winner of the American Sociological Association’s Robert E. Park Award for the be...
Joy Keys chats with Majora Carter about her book Reclaiming Your Community
February 05, 2022 16:00 - 39 minutes - 17.6 MBMajora Carter is a real estate developer, urban revitalization strategy consultant, MacArthur Fellow and Peabody Award winning broadcaster. She is responsible for the creation and successful implementation of numerous economic developments, technology & green-infrastructure projects, policies and job training & placement systems, and is currently serving as Senior Program Director for Community Regeneration at Groundswell, Inc. Her ability to shepherd projects through seemingly conflicted s...
Joy Keys chats with Actor Arjay Smith from ABC's The Rookie
February 03, 2022 00:00 - 41 minutes - 18.7 MBActor Arjay Smith-Going from a “child actor” to an “adult actor” can be a circus ride…but luckily things worked out for actor Arjay Smith. The Southern California native began his professional acting career some 28 years ago. In 1997, he garnered the lead role in Nickelodeon's "The Journey of Allen Strange", and in 2000 recurred as Cadet Finley on FOX's "Malcolm in the Middle". Directly following his high-school graduation, Arjay landed his first feature film co-star role alongside Dennis Qu...
Joy Keys chats with Jason Marsalis about Music for Meditation & Relaxation
January 29, 2022 16:30 - 32 minutes - 14.2 MBJason is the son of pianist and music educator Ellis Marsalis and his wife Dolores, and the youngest sibling of Wynton, Branford and Delfeayo. Together, the four brothers and their patriarch Ellis, comprise New Orleans venerable first family of jazz. By age six, not only had Jason gotten his first real drum set, but he was also taking lessons from the legendary New Orleans drummer James Black. At age seven he was sitting in with his father’s jazz group, as well as playing with his trombonist...
Joy Keys chats with Dr. Marcia Chatelain about her book Franchise
January 29, 2022 16:00 - 31 minutes - 14.1 MBDr. Chatelain is currently a Professor of History and African American Studies at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Previously, she was a Reach for Excellence Assistant Professor of Honors and African American Studies at the University of Oklahoma in Norman. She is a proud native of Chicago, Illinois, and she's an even prouder graduate of the following schools: St. Ignatius College Prep, the University of Missouri-Columbia (B.A. Journalism/Religious Studies), and Brown University (...
Joy Keys chats with Author Myriam J.A. Chancy about What Storm, What Thunder
January 22, 2022 16:30 - 48 minutes - 21.7 MBMyriam J. A. Chancy-Guggenheim Fellow & HBA Chair of the Humanities at Scripps College, is a Haitian-Canadian/American writer born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and subsequently raised there and in Canada. After obtaining her BA in English/Philosophy (4-YR ADV, with Honors), from the University of Manitoba (1989) and her MA in English Literature from Dalhousie University (1990) [pronounced Dal-house-zie], she completed her Ph. D. in English at the University of Iowa (1994). Myriam Chancy was ...
Glaucoma Awareness Month with Joy Keys
January 22, 2022 16:00 - 30 minutes - 13.5 MB**Dr. Constance Okeke received her undergraduate and medical degrees from Yale and trained in ophthalmology at the Wilmer Eye Institute of Johns Hopkins. She completed her glaucoma fellowship training as a Heed Research Fellow at the prestigious Bascom Palmer Eye Institute of University of Miami. She became a clinician scientist under a National Institute of Health K12 grant at the Scheie Eye Institute of University of Pennsylvania, where she also earned a Master of Science degree in clinical...
Joy Keys chats with Author Buki Papillon about An Ordinary Wonder
January 15, 2022 16:30 - 35 minutes - 16 MBBio: Buki Papillon was born in Nigeria, the oldest of six. After studying law at Hull University in the UK, she completed an MFA in Creative Writing at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She has received several fellowships and awards for her writing and is an alumnus of Key West Literary, Vermont Studio Centre and Vona Voices residencies and workshops. Her work was published in Post Road Magazine and the Del Sol Review. She has in the past been a travel adviser, events host and c...