Saturday Mornings with Joy Keys
530 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 2 years 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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Joy Keys chats with Author & Activist Ms. Afropolitan-Minna Salami
June 27, 2020 15:30 - 43 minutes - 38.5 MBMinna Salami is a Nigerian, Finnish and Swedish writer and lecturer. She is the founder of the multiple award-winning blog, MsAfropolitan, which connects feminism with contemporary culture from an Africa-centred perspective. Her first book, Sensuous Knowledge, will be published in 2020 by Zed and Harper Collins. Minna is listed alongside Angelina Jolie and Michelle Obama as one of 12 women changing the worldby ELLE Magazine. She is a contributor to the Guardian, BBC, CNN, The Independent...
Joy Keys chats with Author Sulaiman Addonia about Silence Is My Mother Tongue
June 27, 2020 15:00 - 29 minutes - 25.8 MBSulaiman Addonia is a novelist who fled Eritrea as a refugee in childhood. He spent his early life in a refugee camp in Sudan following the Om Hajar massacre in 1976, and in his early teens he lived and studied in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He arrived in London as an underage unaccompanied refugee without a word of English and went on to earn an MA in Development Studies from SOAS and a BSc in Economics from UCL.The Consequences of Lovewas shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and was t...
Joy Keys chats with Author & Caine Prize winner Tope Folarin
June 20, 2020 15:30 - 33 minutes - 29.6 MBTope Folarin is a Nigerian-American writer based in Washington DC. He won the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2013 and was shortlisted once again in 2016. He was also recently named to the Africa39 list of the most promising African writers under 40. He serves as Vice President of Content and Storytelling at the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, and as Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Policy Studies. He was educated at Morehouse College and the University of Oxford,...
2020 Tourette Syndrome Awareness Month with Joy Keys
June 20, 2020 15:00 - 32 minutes - 28.6 MBTourette Syndrome is one type of Tic Disorder. Tics are involuntary, repetitive movements and vocalizations. They are the primary symptoms of a group of childhood-onset neurological conditions known collectively as Tic Disorders and individually as Tourette Syndrome (TS), Persistent (Chronic) Motor or Vocal Tic Disorder, and Provisional Tic Disorder. Special Guest--Emily Ricketts Ph.D. is a Clinical Specialist in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at University of Califo...
Joy Keys chats with Actor Curtiss Cook from Showtime’s The Chi
June 17, 2020 20:00 - 31 minutes - 28.2 MBSPECIAL GUEST: Actor Curtis Cook Curtiss became the first American to receive a full-ride scholarship to London's prestigious Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. He has performed on Broadway in productions of "The Lion King" and "Miss Saigon." Curtiss was recently on NBC's sci-fi hit series "Manifest," and FX's highly-acclaimed "Mayans M.C." In addition he has worked on ARBITRAGE, THE INTERPRETER AND SHUTTER ISLAND, along with roles in series such as Netflix's "House of Cards," "Luke C...
Joy Keys chats with Author Antoine Bandele
June 13, 2020 15:30 - 33 minutes - 29.5 MBSPECIAL GUEST: Antoine Bandele HE IS AN AMAZON BESTSELLING AUTHOR IN DARK FANTASY, SWORD & SORCERY, AND AFRICAN LITERATURE. Books: An Esowan Story ***The Kishi The Sky Pirate Chronicles **By Sea and Sky He lives in Los Angeles, CA where he produces work on YouTube for his own channel and others, such as JustKiddingFilms, Fanalysis, and more. http:/www.antoinebandele.com
Joy Keys chats with Malian Singer, Musician and Activist Fatoumata Diawara
June 07, 2020 02:30 - 46 minutes - 41.3 MBFATOUMATA DIAWARA: Hailed as one of the most vital standard-bearers of modern African music, Fatoumata Diawara takes her artistry to fresh and thrilling heights on her new album FENFO. Her spectacular 2011 debut album FATOU made the Malian singer and guitarist the most talked about new African artist on the planet. FENFO (which translates as “something to Say”’) dramatically fulfils that promise on a set of vivid and original new compositions that draw on the rich experiences she has enjoye...
Joy Keys chats with Trumpeter Keyon Harrold about The Mugician
May 30, 2020 15:30 - 35 minutes - 31.7 MBKeyon Harrold was born and raised in Ferguson, MO, the St. Louis suburb that tore into America’s national consciousness in 2014 with the police shooting of Michael Brown and the bitter protests and riots that followed. While Ferguson looms large in Harrold’s album The Mugician, it examines our troubled times through a far wider lens than any one tragedy. Sweeping and cinematic, the music draws on elements of jazz, classicval, rock, blues, and hip hop to create something uniquely modern, unm...
Joy Keys chats with Author Tembi Locke about From Scratch
May 30, 2020 15:00 - 31 minutes - 28.3 MBAn accomplished actor with over sixty television and film appearances, including the recent hit Netflix comedy Never Have I Ever, Ms. Locke is also a producer, screenwriter and author of the New York Times bestselling memoir and Reese’s Book Club’s pick (May 2019): FROM SCRATCH: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home. The book chronicles three summers Locke and her young daughter spent on the island of Sicily after her husband's death. It has been called "incandescent" and "a profound st...
Joy Keys chats with Author Shana L. Redmond about her book Everything Man
May 23, 2020 15:30 - 34 minutes - 30.4 MBShana L. Redmond is a native of Racine, Wisconsin and the daughter of working-class parents, whose experiences of service work and incarceration profoundly impacted her political and racial identity. It is from these experiences and knowledges that she approaches her scholarship and activist work, which are both concerned with laying bare and challenging the material conditions that encode and enforce difference and inequality. Labor, carceral regimes, and racial justice are some of her activ...
2020 Mental Health Awareness Month with Joy Keys
May 23, 2020 15:00 - 31 minutes - 28.4 MBMay is National Mental Health Awareness Month Dr. Krystal Lewis from the National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH). She is a licensed clinical psychologist and a researcher at NIMH. She conducts research on anxiety treatment and prevention in children and adolescence. Special Guest: Black Men Heal organization.-https://blackmenheal.org/ Tasnim Sulaiman is the owner of Taz Talk Therapy, a private practice specialized in relationships, couples and sex therapy. Tasnim, (warmly known as Taz)...
Joy Keys chats with Actor Jean Elie from HBO’s Insecure show
May 20, 2020 23:00 - 38 minutes - 34 MBJéan Elie is a Haitian American actor/writer, known for playing Ahmal Dee on HBO’s critically acclaimed comedy series Insecure. Elie rose to recognition as an actor for playing Yves Durand in the 2017 limited drama series American Crime, before attaining his most prominent role as Issa Rae’s brother, Ahmal Dee on Insecure. Elie is also an up and coming writer, after being inducted into Season 2 Magic For Humans (Netflix) writers room and for writing Send Help, currently in development at Part...
Joy Keys chats with Author Emily Bernard about Black is the Body
May 16, 2020 15:30 - 40 minutes - 36 MBEmily Bernard holds a B. A. and Ph. D. in American Studies from Yale University. Her work has appeared in The American Scholar, The Boston Globe Magazine, Creative Nonfiction, Green Mountains Review, Oxtford American, Ploughshares, TheNew Republic, and theatlantic.com. Her essays have been reprinted in Best American Essays, Best African American Essays, and Best of Creative Nonfiction. Her first book, Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, was a New...
Joy Keys chats with Singer Ayo about her album Royal
May 09, 2020 15:30 - 30 minutes - 27.1 MBAyo (born as Joy Olasunmibo Ogunmakin in Frechen near Cologne, Germany) is a Nigerian-German singer-songwriter. She recorded her first album Joyful in January 2006 in the New York Sony studio. Her debut album Joyful reached Double-Platinum status in France, Platinum in Germany and Poland, Gold status in Switzerland and Italy and Greece. The album was released in the United States on 20 November 2007 by Interscope Records. On her American tour she performed with Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds. I...
Joy Keys chats with Philadelphia’s Poet Laureate Trapeta Mayson
May 09, 2020 15:00 - 31 minutes - 28.2 MBTrapeta B. Mayson is the city of Philadelphia’s current Poet Laureate. She reads her poetry widely and works extensively facilitating poetry and creative writing workshops. Her work sheds light on and honors the immigrant experience as well as amplifies the stories of everyday people. She is a recipient of a Pew Fellowship in Literature, Leeway Transformation Award, Leeway Art and Change Grant and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Grants. Her work was also nominated for a 2016 Pushcart Pr...
2020 Stroke Awareness Month with Joy Keys
May 06, 2020 23:30 - 32 minutes - 28.4 MBNATIONAL STROKE AWARENESS MONTH Special guest: DR. CAROLYN BROCKINGTON Carolyn D. Brockington, MD is the Director of the Stroke Center at Mount Sinai St. Luke’s and Mount Sinai West Hospital in New York City. She is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and has a subspecialty board certification in Vascular Neurology. In addition, she works with the American Stroke Association (ASA), as a volunteer medical spokesperson, regarding a campaign to increase strok...
Joy Keys chats with Author Michael Arceneaux about I Don’t Want To Die Poor
May 02, 2020 15:30 - 30 minutes - 26.9 MBMichael Arceneaux is the New York Times bestselling author of I Can’t Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I’ve Put My Faith in Beyoncé. Additionally, he is a regular contributor to Esquire, Elle, Essence, NBC News’ THINK, MTV News, among others. He’s also written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Houston Chronicle, Complex, Rolling Stone, Teen Vogue, Wired, BuzzFeed, The Guardian, them., Time Ideas, New York magazine’s Vulture, Salon, The Atlantic, NPR, Com...
Joy Keys chats with Actor Neil Brown, Jr. from CBS’s Seal Team
May 02, 2020 15:00 - 32 minutes - 28.7 MBActor Neil Brown, Jr. is best known for his current role as Ray Perry in CBS' s Seal Team show. In addition, he plays Chad Kerr on HBO's Insecure show Neil has worked on Straight Outta Compton, Derk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, The Walking Dead, Suits, Fast and Furious and more. Neil is also a skilled Martial artist.
Joy Keys chats with Grammy winning Drummer Terri Lyne Carrington
April 29, 2020 23:30 - 31 minutes - 28 MBhree-time GRAMMY® award-winning drummer, producer, educator and activist, Terri Lyne Carrington started her professional career as a “kid wonder” while studying under a full scholarship at Berklee College of Music in Boston. In the mid '80’s she worked as an in-demand drummer in New York before gaining national recognition on late night TV as the house drummer for both the Arsenio Hall Show and Quincy Jones’ VIBE TV show. In 1989, Ms. Carrington released a GRAMMY®-nominated debut CD on Verve...
Joy Keys chats with Actress Folake Olowofoyeku from Bob Hearts Abishola TV show
April 29, 2020 23:00 - 2 minutes - 1.08 MBNigerian-born actress Folake Olowofoyeku has won the hearts of critics and audiences alike with her title role in the CBS half-hour comedy “Bob Hearts Abishola.” In this comedic examination of immigrant life in America from a creative team led by Chuck Lorre (“The Big Bang Theory,” “Two and a Half Men”), a middle-aged, divorced medical sock salesman (Billy Gardell) from Detroit suffers a heart attack and falls for his cardiac nurse (Folake), an immigrant from Nigeria and young single mom. Fo...
Joy Keys chats with ABC's The Rookie Actress Mekia Cox
April 25, 2020 15:30 - 30 minutes - 26.8 MBMekia Cox MEKIA COX Mekia has been dazzling audiences since the age of two when she performed her first solo song and dance. It was then that she knew her purpose in life was to entertain. With early career credits including “One Tree Hill”, “CSI:NY”, “Half & Half” and “Bones,” she proceeded to be cast in award-winning television series such as “Modern Family”, “Grey’s Anatomy”, “Gotham”, “Key & Peele”, “Almost Human”, and a multitude of other TV shows including The CW’s hit series “90210” ...
Joy Keys chats with Jazz Pianist Christian Sands about Be Water
April 25, 2020 15:00 - 31 minutes - 28 MBChristian Sands is currently one of the most in-demand pianists working in jazz. In the last few years he has toured around the world as a bandleader and recently appeared as a sideman on records by Christian McBride and Gregory Porter. After the one-two punch of Reach and Reach Further - EP, Sands' dynamic 2017 Mack Avenue debut and his live/unreleased studio tracks EP follow-up released of, Facing Dragons is Sands' return to the recording studio with an indestructible band and an unwavering...
Joy Keys chats with HBO’s Insecure Actress Natasha Rothwell
April 22, 2020 23:30 - 14 minutes - 12.4 MBNATASHA ROTHWELL Natasha is a writer, actress and comedian. She currently plays Kelli on HBO’s Insecure show. Natasha was previously a writer on Saturday Night Live TV show 2014-2015 season. in addition, she can be seen on HBO's A Black Lady Sketch Show. ***2019–Nominated for Black Reel Awards for Television. ***2019–Nominated, Black Reel for Outstanding Supporting Actress, Comedy Series for Insecure ***2019–Nominated, Black Reel Outstanding Writing, Comedy Series for Insecure For the ...
2020 Autism Awareness Month with Joy Keys
April 22, 2020 23:00 - 31 minutes - 27.9 MBAUTISM AWARENESS MONTH Special Guest: Kim Kaiser is a proud Mom of a son on the Spectrum. She is an Autism Advocate, Artist and Certified Peer Support Specialist and Parent Advisor with Families Together in New York State and a Parent Trainer, panelist and collaborator with The Color of Autism Foundation. Kim has 35 years experience working with Families and grassroots initiatives in the areas of parent education, mental health, developmental disabilities and recovery. Kim supports and...
Joy Keys chats with Kent Garrett about his book The Last Negroes at Harvard
April 18, 2020 15:30 - 30 minutes - 27.3 MBKENT GARRETT was born in the Fort Greene Projects in Brooklyn, New York. He excelled in the New York City Public Schools and went on to Harvard College in 1959. He was one of the producers of the ground-breaking public TV program Black Journal and went on to a long career with CBS and NBC News. In 1997, he left the rat race and became an organic dairy farmer in upstate New York. THE LAST NEGROES AT HARVARD In the fall of 1959, Harvard recruited an unprecedented eighteen “Negro” boys as an e...
Joy Keys chats with Therapist Bill Holmes about Coping with Stress
April 16, 2020 23:00 - 31 minutes - 28.4 MBApril is National Stress Awareneas Month Stress is up. Most Americans are suffering from moderate toh 44 percent reporting that their stress levels have increased over the past five years. Children are hurting. Stress is also taking a toll on kids. Almost a third of children reported that in the last month they had experienced a physical health symptom often associated with stress, such as headaches, stomach aches or trouble falling or staying asleep Self-care isn’t a priority. Only 40 per...
Joy Keys chats with Able-bodied African American Pilot Leslie Irby
April 11, 2020 15:30 - 30 minutes - 26.6 MBLeslie Irby is a trailblazer, innovator, speaker and avid traveler. Irby hails from East Point, GA. As a 2012 graduate of Fort Valley State University, Leslie was at the starting point of life when she was involved in a car accident in 2013 where multiple fatalities occurred. Becoming paralyzed, Leslie decided life was worth living, she gave new meaning to “The Phoenix Rises”. Deciding to continue her education, In 2017, Leslie received her Masters in Clinical Rehabilitation and Mental Hea...
Joy Keys chats with Author Dr. Chika Unigwe about Better Never Than Late
April 11, 2020 15:00 - 31 minutes - 27.7 MBCHIKA UNIGWE, PhD Chika Unigwe, PhD, is the author of four novels, including the acclaimed On Black Sisters' Street (Jonathan Cape, 2009), and winner of the $100,000 Nigeria Prize for Literature (2012). In 2014 she was included in the Hay Festival Africa39 list of most promising African writers under the age of 40. In 2016, Unigwe was appointed as the Bonderman Professor for Creative Writing at Brown University in Rhode Island, and was a judge of the Man Booker International Prize in 2017. ...
Joy Keys chats with Professor of Law Justin Driver about The School-House Gate
April 04, 2020 15:30 - 45 minutes - 40.3 MBJustin Driver is Professor of Law at Yale Law School. He teaches and writes in the area of constitutional law and is the author of The Schoolhouse Gate: Public Education, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind. The book was selected as a Washington Post Notable Book of the Year, an Editors’ Choice of the New York Times Book Review, and received an honorable mention, Silver Gavel Award, American Bar Association, 2019. The Washington Postcalled The Schoolhouse Gate “masterful,...
Joy Keys chats with Actor J. Alex Brinson from CBS All Rise tv show
April 04, 2020 15:00 - 30 minutes - 27.4 MBAs a talented actor on the rise, J. Alex Brinson continues to build his body of work by bringing dynamic characters to life within his acting career. Currently, Brinson can be seen as Bailiff Luke Watkins in CBS’s drama ALL RISE alongside Simone Missick, Wilson Bethel, Jessica Camacho. The drama follows the dedicated, chaotic, hopeful, and sometimes absurd lives of judges, prosecutors, and public defenders as they work with bailiffs, clerks and cops to get justice for the people of Los Angel...
Joy Keys chats with Singer Sia Tolno
May 14, 2016 15:00 - 42 minutes - 38.4 MBSpecial guest: Singer Sia Tolno. Sia Tolno was born1975 in Gueckedou in Guinea, Geopolitical this ravaged area had eleven years of civil war, from 1991 to 2002, because of the"blood diamonds", which were taken by warlords. Sia Tolno has long wanted to "seize the Afrobeat, an expression of anger music, which is at the height of what I mean." For her previous two albums, Eh Sanga and My Life (RFI Award 2011), she worked with Guinean guitarist Kante Manfila (a former Ambassadors Salif Keita...
Joy Keys chats with Comedian Lil Rel Howery from NBC's The Carmichael Show
May 07, 2016 15:30 - 28 minutes - 25 MBLil Rel Howery stars as Jerrod's ever-hustling brother, Bobby Carmichael, in the NBC comedy "The Carmichael Show." Hailing from Chicago, Howery has been seen on his own Comedy Central special, "Last Comic Standing," "Russell Simmons Presents Stand-Up at the El Rey," "Martin Lawrence Presents 1st Amendment Stand Up" and "Diddy's Bad Boys of Comedy." He has also made appearances on "The Arsenio Hall Show," "Shaq's All Star Comedy Jam" and "Chelsea Lately." In 2009, Lil Rel began his first bus...
Joy Keys chats with Nigerian Author Noo Saro Wiwa
May 07, 2016 15:00 - 32 minutes - 28.4 MBNoo Saro-Wiwa was born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, and raised in England. She attended King's College London and Columbia University in New York. Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria (Granta, 2012) is her first book. It was selected as BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week in 2012, and was named The Sunday Times Travel Book of the Year, 2012. Shortlisted for the Author’s Club Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award in 2013, Looking for Transwonderland was also nominated by The Financial Time...
Joy Keys chats with Nigerian Author Chioma Okereke
April 30, 2016 15:00 - 30 minutes - 26.7 MBChioma Okereke was born in Benin City, Nigeria. She started her writing career as a poet and performed throughout Europe and the United States before turning her hand to fiction. Her work has been shortlisted in the Undiscovered Authors Competition 2006,run by Bookforce UK, and in the Daily Telegraph's 'Write a Novel in a Year' Competition in 2007. Bitter Leaf is a richly textured and intricate novel set in Mannobe, a world that is African in nature but never geographically placed. At the he...
2016 Autism and African Americans
April 23, 2016 15:30 - 31 minutes - 27.9 MBAutism spectrum disorder (ASD) and autism are both general terms for a group of complex disorders of brain development. These disorders are characterized, in varying degrees, by difficulties in social interaction, verbal and nonverbal communication and repetitive behaviors. http://www.africanamerautism.com/ Special Guest: Angela Norris -Hawkins, Angela, along with her mother, are co- founders of the African American Autism Center, one of a handful of African American focused community based ...
Joy Keys chats with Nigerian Author Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani
April 23, 2016 15:00 - 28 minutes - 25.2 MBAdaobi Tricia Nwaubani is a novelist, essayist, journalist and humorist. She was born in Enugu, Nigeria. As a teenager, she secretly dreamed of becoming a CIA or KGB agent. She studied Psychology at the University of Ibadan. Her first income was from winning a writing competition at the age of 13. In her first year at university, she was a member of the Idia Hall Chess Team, and also a member of the university's (classical music) choir. I Do Not Come to You by Chance:A deeply moving debu...
Joy Keys chats with Award winning South African Singer Lira
April 16, 2016 15:30 - 30 minutesSongstress LIRA, whose music career spans 13 years and includes 6 Studio albums, 3 live DVD’s, an autobiography and a movie; has established herself as the foremost female artist in South Africa and a formidable presence on the global music scene. When asked to elaborate on the significance of the title; “I grew up in a world where I faced so many limitations. I realised defining freedom for myself and subsequently living it was what I needed to do. In exploring this, the concept of “Born Fr...
Joy Keys chats with Poet Yolanda Wisher
April 16, 2016 15:00 - 29 minutesYolanda Wisher is the 2016-2017 Poet Laureate of the City of Philadelphia. Wisher is the author of Monk Eats an Afro and the co-editor of Peace is a Haiku Song. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, Fence, Chain, MELUS, and GOOD Magazine and the anthologies Gathering Ground and The Ringing Ear. Wisher is a 2016 Hedgebrook Writer-in-Residence, 2015 Pew Fellow, Center for Performance and Civic Practice Catalyst Initiative grantee (2015), Leeway Art & Change Award recipient (2008), and the ...
Joy Keys chats with Actress Keesha Sharp
March 12, 2016 16:30 - 34 minutes - 30.7 MBActress, writer and director Keesha Sharp shines in her current role as Dale Cochran, the wife of defense attorney Johnnie Cochran (Courtney B. Vance), in FX’s “The People vs. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story.” She’s also well known for series regular roles as Gigi on the TBS (and Syndicated) comedy “Are We There Yet?” in which she also made her directorial debut, and as Monica Charles Brooks on the hit CW series “Girlfriends,” for which she was nominated for a NAACP Image Award for Outst...
Joy Keys chats with Author Kali Nicole Gross
March 05, 2016 16:00 - 30 minutes - 27 MBKali Nicole Gross is an Associate Professor and Associate Chair of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and affiliate faculty in the History Department and the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies. Her research concentrates on black women’s experiences in the United States criminal justice system between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She is author of the award-winning book, Colored Amazons: Crime, Violence and Black Women in the Cit...
Joy Keys chats with Author Kimberla Lawson Roby about Best Friends Forever
December 12, 2015 16:00 - 31 minutes - 28 MBSpecial Guest: Author Kimberla Lawson Roby chats about her new book Best Friends Forever. BEST FRIENDS FOREVER tells the story of Celine Richardson, her husband, Keith, and their 10-year-old daughter, Kassie. But this once loving marriage and happy family unit turn devastating when, only days apart, Celine is diagnosed with breast cancer and learns that Keith is having an affair. Worse, Keith still leaves her for the other woman. Celine then wonders how she’ll navigate the difficult ...
Joy Keys chats with Author Tananarive Due about her book Ghost Summer: Stories
December 05, 2015 16:30 - 33 minutes - 29.4 MBSpecial guest: Author Tananarive Due Whether weaving family life and history into dark fiction or writing speculative Afrofuturism, American Book Award winner and Essence bestselling author Tananarive Due’s work is both riveting and enlightening. In her debut collection of short fiction, Due takes us to Gracetown, a small Florida town that has both literal and figurative ghost; into future scenarios that seem all too real; and provides empathetic portraits of those whose lives are touched by...
Joy Keys chats with Astrologer Samuel F. Reynolds about 2015
December 05, 2015 16:00 - 32 minutes - 28.5 MBSpecial guest : Astrologer Samuel F. Reynolds. Samuel F. Reynolds, a former skeptic, had a life-changing visit to an astrologer and has since spent 23 years doing charts and studying astrology. Now Samuel consults, writes, and teaches astrology full-time. He currently is the resident astrologer for New York Magazine and Pride Magazine in the UK. He serves on the boards of directors for the International Society for Astrological Research (ISAR) and the Astrology News Service, and he’s a co-f...
Joy Keys chats with Soul Singer Amana Melomé
November 21, 2015 16:30 - 32 minutes - 28.9 MBSpecial Guest: Amana Melomé: Born in Germany, raised around the world, Amana Melome' is a Euro-Caribbean-American singer-songwriter.Both Amana’s mother and grandmother were professional singers and her father hailing from the Caribbean island of Aruba is still an active musician in the European scene. Amana recorded her debut album INDIGO RED as well as her sophmoric LP PHOENIX RISING with producer Saverio ‘Sage’ Principini in LA. After a US release with indie label Savana Records and a dis...
2015 Diabetes Awareness Month with Joy Keys
November 21, 2015 16:00 - 27 minutes - 23.8 MBNovember is Diabetes Awareness Mionth. 29 million Americans have Diabetes.(CDC) The mission of the American Diabetes Association is to prevent and cure diabetes and to improve the lives of all people affected by diabetes. - http://www.diabetes.org Special Guest: Theresa Sims-Cardiothoracic Registered Nurse. BSN from Drexel University. She is a volunteer with the American Diabetes Association.
Joy Keys chats with Dr. Shane Perrault about The Black MANual
November 14, 2015 16:30 - 33 minutes - 30.1 MBWhether you are single, divorced or widowed -- Dr. Shane Perrault, PhD., has learned first hand that "It is never too late to live happily ever after." As founder of AfricanAmericanMarriageCounseling.com, he has provided relationship and marital counseling to hundreds of couples since 2004. Throughout his work as a marital psychologist, he as found one of the key factors in relationship or marital success is choosing the right partner. Dr. Shane received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology at...
2015 Alzheimer's Awareness Month with Joy Keys
November 14, 2015 16:00 - 28 minutes - 25.3 MBIt is estimated that as many as 5.1 million Americans may have Alzheimer's disease. The mission of the Alzheimer's Foundation of America (AFA) is "to provide optimal care and services to individuals confronting dementia, and to their caregivers and families-through our member organizations dedicated to improving quality of life..” http://www.alzfdn.org/ Special guest: Charles J. Fuschillo was appointed chief executive officer of the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America in January 2014. Prior t...
Joy Keys chats with MS Activist Kristen Henry King about her song Impervious
October 31, 2015 15:00 - 31 minutes - 28.2 MBSpecial Guest: Singer, Model, and Actress Kristen Henry King (http://kristenhenryking.com) - Kristen battles with Multiple Sclerosis. She was inspired to write the song IMPERVIOUS chronicling her experience with MS.. listen to the song here on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScJit0ET-pw Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a potentially disabling disease of the brain and spinal cord (central nervous system). In MS, the immune system attacks the protective sheath (myelin) that covers nerve f...
Joy Keys chats with Author Cynthia Bond about her book RUBY
October 17, 2015 15:30 - 30 minutes - 27.2 MBSpecial Guest: CYNTHIA BOND is a New York Times Best-Selling Author. Her novel RUBY was chosen to be an Oprah Book Club 2.0 selection. RUBY was also a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, and an Indie Next Pick. A PEN Rosenthal Fellow, Bond attended Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, then moved to New York and attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She founded the Blackbird Writing Collective in 2011. Cynthia has taught writing to at-risk and homel...
2015 Down Syndrome Awareness Month with Joy Keys
October 17, 2015 15:00 - 26 minutes - 23.7 MBSpecial Guest: David Charmatz, SVP of the Global Down Syndrome Foundation.Charmatz oversees marketing, public relations, research and analysis for Global, and his top priorities will be growing the personnel and revenue in order to better serve the needs of people with Down syndrome nationally and internationally. Before joining Global full-time, Charmatz was a consultant assisting with the launch of Down Syndrome World magazine and Global’smonthly electronic newsletter, and with the plann...