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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2015 Domestic Violence Awareness Month with Joy Keys
October 10, 2015 15:30 - 32 minutes - 28.4 MBOn average, 24 people per minute are victims of rape, physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner in the United States--more than 12 million women and men over the course of a year.(www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/ipv-factsheet.pdf) Special Guest: Jeannine Lisitski, Executive Director and President for Women Against Abuse.the mission of women against abuse is to provide quality, compassionate and nonjudgmental services in a manner that fosters self-respect and independence in ...
Joy Keys chats with Musician Toshi Reagon
September 28, 2015 23:00 - 36 minutes - 32.1 MBSpecial Guest: Toshi Reagon has been described as “a talented, versatile singer, songwriter and musician with a profound ear for sonic Americana—from folk to funk, from blues to rock” by critic/blogger Eva Yaa Asantewaa (InfiniteBody). “She masters each of these genres with vocal strategies that easily spiral and swoop from the expressively sinuous to the hard-charging, a combination of warmth and mischief.” While her expansive career has landed her comfortably in residence at Carnegie Hall,...
Joy Keys chats with Author Jeffrey Renard Allen about Song of the Shank
September 26, 2015 15:00 - 32 minutes - 29.1 MBSpecial Guest: Jeffrey Renard Allen. Born in Chicago, Allen holds a Ph.D. in English (Creative Writing) from the University of Illinois at Chicago and is currently a faculty member in the writing program at the New School. Allen is the author of two collections of poetry, Stellar Places (Moyer Bell, 2007) andHarbors and Spirits (Moyer Bell, 1999), and two works of fiction, the widely celebrated novel, Rails Under My Back (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2000), which won The Chicago Tribune's Hea...
Joy Keys chats with Actress Margaret Avery from Being Mary Jane about Lupus
September 19, 2015 21:00 - 31 minutes - 27.8 MBSpecial Guest: Margaret Avery moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career in 1968. In 1973 her Los Angeles Drama Circle Award-winning performance in the play “Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?” caught the attention of Clint Eastwood and he quickly cast her in his film “Magnum Force”, serving as an entree for guest starring roles in numerous episodic T.V. shows and Blaxploitation films including “Scott Joplin”, “The Lathe of Heaven”, “The Return of Superfly” and “Heatwave”. She eventually got ...
Joy Keys chats with Actor JR Lemon from NBC's The Night Shift
September 19, 2015 15:30 - 30 minutes - 26.8 MBJR Lemon was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. A Stanford University graduate with a BS degree in Management Science and Engineering, JR was signed as a running back to the Oakland Raiders subsequent to finishing school. After being released from the Raiders, JR relocated to southern California with the intention of continuing his football training. Little did he know at the time, but the move would expose JR to possibilities of a life he had never imagined in the entertainment industry....
Joy Keys chats with Actress Amber Stevens West from NBC’s The Carmichael Show
September 12, 2015 15:00 - 31 minutes - 28.2 MBSpecial Guest: Amber Stevens West can be seen starring opposite Jerrod Carmichael, David Alan Grier, and Loretta DeVine on NBC’s The Carmichael Show. Previously Amber starred opposite Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum in Sony’s 22 JUMP STREET, which Chris Lord and Phil Miller directed. For four years, Amber starred on ABC Family’s hit series GREEK and recently recurred on 90210 for the CW. Last year, she filmed JESSABELLE for Lionsgate and co-starred opposite Laura Prepon and Bryan Greenberg...
Joy Keys chats with Ugandan Author Dilman Dila about A Killing In The Sun
January 17, 2015 16:00 - 32 minutes - 28.8 MBDilman Dila is a writer, filmmaker and a social activist who believes that stories are an important tool in creating a better world. Dilman was shortlisted for the prestigious Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2013, long listed for the Short Story Day Africa prize, 2013, and nominated for the 2008 Million Writers Awards for his short story, Homecoming. Dilman’s first works appeared in print in The Sunday Vision in 2001, and have since featured in several e-zines and book anthologies, including t...
Joy Keys chats with Actor Arlen Escarpeta from Lifetime's Whitney Houston biopic
January 10, 2015 16:30 - 30 minutes - 26.9 MBActor Arlen Alexander Escarpeta. He is best known for his roles in the films Friday the 13th,Brotherhood,Final Destination 5, and Into the Storm (2014). Escarpeta will be playing the role of Bobby Brown in the new Whitney Houston Biopic, Whitney (film), airing on Lifetime (TV Network) January 17, 2015. Golden Globe® Award winner and Academy Award® nominee Angela Bassett makes her directorial debut with the Lifetime Original Movie "Whitney," featuring Yaya DaCosta (Lee Daniels’ "The Butler")...
Joy Keys chats with Author Bridgett M. Davis about her book Into the Go-Slow
December 20, 2014 16:00 - 32 minutes - 28.9 MBINTO THE GO-SLOW is a novel about sisters, the legacy of the Black Power Movement, and the troubled bond between African Americans and Africans. It’s 1986, and twenty-one-year-old Angie is adrift in her hometown of Detroit. Her older sister, Ella, had disappeared in Lagos a decade earlier, and Angie decides to retrace her steps. Against a backdrop of Nigeria’s infamous go-slow—traffic as wild and surprising as a Fela lyric—Angie begins to unravel the mysteries of the past, and opens herself...
Joy Keys chats with Actor Stephen Hill
December 06, 2014 16:30 - 33 minutes - 29.4 MBSpecial Guest: Actor Stephen Hill.Stephen Hill is an award winning actor (Best Male Actor, ABFF Star Project 2010) and is known for solid work in a variety of roles in film, TV, theater, web series, etc. As an accomplished actor, he can be seen on Law & Order SVU, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Louie, Political Animals, and Do No Harm. Hill can also be seen in the award winning documentary, Jackie Robinson: My Story, as he embodies the role of Jackie Robinson. Known for his versatility by...
Joy Keys wraps up 2014 with Astrologer Samuel F. Reynolds
December 06, 2014 16:00 - 31 minutes - 27.6 MBSamuel 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 and teaches astrology full-time. He also serves on a few astrology organizational boards and writes horoscopes for Ebony.com, MySign.com, andPride, a British Black women’s magazine. His site is UnlockAstrology.com.
Joy Keys wraps up 2015 with Astrologer Samuel F. Reynolds
December 06, 2014 16:00 - 31 minutes - 27.6 MBSamuel 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 and teaches astrology full-time. He also serves on a few astrology organizational boards and writes horoscopes for Ebony.com, MySign.com, andPride, a British Black women’s magazine. His site is UnlockAstrology.com.
Joy Keys chats with Social Justice Advocate Bryan Stevenson
November 08, 2014 16:30 - 25 minutes - 22.8 MBBryan Stevenson is a public-interest lawyer who has dedicated his career to helping the poor, the incarcerated and the condemned. He's a professor of law at New York University Law School and the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, an Alabama-based group that has won major legal challenges eliminating excessive and unfair sentencing, exonerating innocent prisoners on death row, confronting abuse of the incarcerated and the mentally ill, and aiding children prosecut...
Joy Keys chats with French Soul Singer Imany
November 01, 2014 15:00 - 33 minutes - 30.2 MBImany wa born Nadia Mladjao in Martigues, France. She was a model for European FORD modeling agency for several years. She began signing in 2008. Imany opened shows for artists such as N’Dambi at the New Morning, Wasis Diop at the Cigale, and Anthony Hamilton and Angie Stone at Elysee Montmartre. Imany’s first album, Shape of a Broken Heart, which was named after a drawing she made with closed eyes, contains twelve songs written in English. Imany recorded the album at the studio Question de...
Joy Keys chats with Actor Nate Parker
October 28, 2014 15:00 - 20 minutes - 17.7 MBNate Parker is an American actor and musical performer who has appeared in Red Tails, The Secret Life of Bees, The Great Debaters, and Pride.He was an All-American wrestler in both at Great Bridge High School and at the University of Oklahoma.Parker has been active in charitable work, donating his time both as a volunteer wrestling coach. He is currently developing a feature script to direct and star, THE BIRTH OF A NATION, about slave-turned-revolutionary Nat Turner, through a fellowship wi...
Joy Keys chats with Actress April Parker Jones
October 25, 2014 15:30 - 30 minutes - 26.9 MBApril Parker Jones stars on the Tyler Perry hit primetime drama If Loving You is Wrong, on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network. With a diverse cast and storylines ranging from heartfelt to scandalous, April portrays a single mother, trying to get by with a son in prison and an absentee fathers on this sexy sleek drama that looks into the lives of a group of husbands, wives and friends that live and love in the same middle class neighborhood. Tyler Perry's "If Loving You is Wrong" airs on Tuesday ni...
Joy Keys chats with Author Alexis De Veaux
October 04, 2014 15:30 - 22 minutes - 20.1 MBAlexis De Veaux’s work is defined by two critical concerns: making the racial and sexual experiences of black female characters central, and disrupting boundaries between forms. She is the author of two award-winning biographies: Don’t Explain: A Song of Billie Holiday andWarrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde. A celebrated writer of poetry, children’s literature, plays, essays and journalism, De Veaux is also an activist recognized for her lifelong contributions to a number of women’s and ...
Joy Keys chats with Author & Playwright Pearl Cleage about her memoir
October 04, 2014 15:00 - 29 minutes - 26 MBPearl Cleage is an Atlanta based writer, currently Mellon Playwright in Residence at The Alliance Theatre in Atlanta where her play, “What I Learned in Paris,” opened the 2012-2013 Season. Her works include award winning plays, bestselling novels and numerous columns, articles and essays for a wide variety of publications including Essence, Ebony, Rap Pages, Vibe, The Atlanta Tribune, and The Atlanta Journal Constitution. Her first novel, What Looks Like Crazy On An Ordinary Day, was an Opr...
Joy Keys chats with Actress Essence Atkins
September 20, 2014 15:30 - 28 minutes - 24.9 MBIn My Other Mother, Candace “Candy” Meyers (Essence Atkins) is a successful anchor on a top-rated national magazine show. Fiercely independent and committed to her job, Candy doesn’t make many friends with her demanding, gruff nature. In fact, her only true friend might be her long-time manager Lewis (Kendrick Cross). Candy discovers that an anonymous fan she’s had for years has passed way – and he was her biological father Freddy Nelson! Content with the love and support of her adoptive ...
Joy Keys chats with Author C.J. Farley about Gameworld
September 20, 2014 15:00 - 24 minutes - 21.9 MBGameworld book: Dylan Rudee's life is an epic fail. He's bullied at school and the aunt who has raised him since he was orphaned as a child just lost her job and their apartment. Dylan's one chance to help his family is the only thing he's good at: video games. The multibillion-dollar company Mee Corp. has announced a televised tournament to find the Game-Changers: the forty-four kids who are the best in the world at playing Xamaica, a role-playing fantasy game that's sweeping the planet. If ...
Joy Keys chats with Clarinetist Anthony McGill
September 13, 2014 15:00 - 33 minutes - 7.39 MBAnthony McGill, just named Principal Clarinet of the New York Philharmonic beginning in September 2014, held the same position with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra since 2004. He was chosen to perform with Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, and Gabriela Montero at President Obama’s inauguration in January of 2009. Performances throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and South Africa in recital, chamber music and as a soloist with orchestras consistently receiving rave reviews. As an educator, McG...
Brain Aneurysm Awareness Month with Joy Keys
September 06, 2014 15:00 - 31 minutes - 6.93 MBSeptember is Brain Aneurysm Awareness Month. An estimated 6 million people in the United States have an unruptured brain aneurysm, or 1 in 50 people. Special Guest: Survivor Theresa Robinson: She suffered a subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) known as a brain aneurysm, however she is a survivor. In March 2012,she suffered a brain aneurysm that caused her to need surgery and extensive rehabilitation. During her recovery period, she experienced more time in the ICU due to seizures and other health is...
Joy Keys chats with Author Morowa Yejide about Time of the Locust book
August 30, 2014 15:00 - 34 minutes - 7.65 MBTime of the Locust: Travel into the heart and mind of an extraordinary autistic boy in this deeply imaginative debut novel of a mother’s devotion, a father’s punishment, and the power of love. Sephiri is an autistic boy who lives in a world of his own making, where he dwells among imagined sea creatures that help him process information in the “real world” in which he is forced to live. But lately he has been having dreams of a mysterious place, and he starts creating fantastical sketches of...
Joy Keys chats with Actress Amanda Warren from HBO's The Leftovers
August 19, 2014 23:00 - 29 minutes - 6.51 MBAmanda Warren plays Lucy Warburton who is the mayor of Mapletonon the show HBO show The Leftovers. http://www.hbo.com/the-leftovers/#/ Born and raised in New York, Amanda Warren received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, and her Master of Fine Arts from Yale School of Drama. Most recently, Warren appeared in USA Network's 'Royal Pains.' In 2012, she had a recurring role on the final season of 'The Closer.' On the small screen, Warren has also appe...
Breastfeeding Awareness Month with Joy Keys
August 09, 2014 15:00 - 28 minutes - 6.29 MBSpecial Guest: Susan Vierczhalek, MD, FAAP, FABM, IBCLC is an Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics New York University School of Medicine and is the medical director of the Bellevue newborn nursery, and of the Bellevue Breastfeeding Program and co-director of the high-risk newborn follow-up program. She serves as the American Academy of Pediatrics New York Chapter 3 Breastfeeding Coordinator, Chair of the New York State Breastfeeding Coalition and Vice-chair of the New York City Breas...
What is Psoriasis? with Joy Keys
August 02, 2014 15:00 - 27 minutes - 6.16 MBAugust is Psoriasis Awareness Month-Psoriasis is a common skin condition that causes skin redness and irritation. Most people with psoriasis have thick, red skin with flaky, silver-white patches called scales. Special Guest: Jerry Bagel, M.D.: He is a member of the National Psoriasis Foundation Medical Board. www.psoriasis.org Dr. Bagel is the Director of the Psoriasis Treatment Center of Central New Jersey. Dr. Bagel has been named a Top Doctor in the Castle Connolly Medical Top Doctors ...
Joy Keys chats with Actor McKinley Freeman from VH1's Hit The Floor
July 21, 2014 23:00 - 30 minutes - 6.83 MBMcKinley Freeman stars as the handsome, sexy, and mischievous LA Devils professional basketball player Derek Roman on VH1’s Hit The Floor series. Hit the floor airs Monday nights at 9pm ET on VH1. http://www.vh1.com/shows/hit_the_floor Freeman was born David Freeman in Champaign, Illinois. He played NCAA Division I basketball for the University of Illinois. After graduation Freeman decided to trade his NBA dreams for an MBA in Marketing and MIS from his alma mater. IBM recruited Freeman out...
Joy Keys chats with Actor Charles S. Dutton
July 12, 2014 15:30 - 37 minutes - 8.31 MBIn Comeback Dad, Nima Babineaux (Tatyana Ali) looks like a woman who has it all – she is an accomplished pianist who runs her own music school and is engaged to Spence (Brad James), a successful engineer who adores her. But, in truth, she has never recovered from her alcoholic father, Othell (Charles Dutton), walking out on their family and it has made it hard for her to truly trust anyone. When Othell decides it is time to make amends and tries to reenter her life, Nima begins an emotional...
Joy Keys chats with Author Kimberla Lawson Roby about The Prodigal Son
July 12, 2014 15:00 - 27 minutes - 6 MBNew York Times Bestselling Author Kimberla Lawson Roby has published 20 novels which include THE PRODIGAL SON, A HOUSE DIVIDED,THE PERFECT MARRIAGE, THE REVEREND’S WIFE,SECRET OBSESSION, LOVE, HONOR, and BETRAY, and BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU PRAY FOR. She has sold more than 2,000,000 copies of her novels, and they have frequented numerous bestseller lists, including The New York Times, USA Today, The Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, and Essence Magazine, just to name a few. Kimberla is a ...
Joy Keys chats with Film Director Biyi Bandele about Half of a Yellow Sun
July 05, 2014 15:30 - 21 minutes - 4.71 MBA prolific Nigerian playwright, novelist and screenwriter now based in London, HALF OF A YELLOW SUN is Biyi Bandele’s feature film directorial debut. This first feature follows his distinguished career writing and directing plays for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal Court, and writing screenplays for the BBC and British and international film productions. Bandele has previously written and directed a short, THE KISS (2009), a psychological thriller. For television, Bandele wrote Not Eve...
Joy Keys chats with Filmmaker Byron Hurt about Hazing: How Badly Do You Want In?
July 05, 2014 15:00 - 31 minutes - 6.91 MBByron Hurt is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, writer, and anti-sexist activist. Hurt is also the former host of the Emmy-nominated series, "REEL WORKS with BYRON HURT." His documentary, Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and broadcast nationally on PBS’ Emmy-award winning series Independent Lens. Byron's latest film, Soul Food Junkies, won the CNN Best Documentary Award at the American Black Film Festival and Best Documentary at the Urbanworld ...
Joy Keys chats with Actor David Ajala
June 14, 2014 15:30 - 24 minutes - 5.31 MBDavid Ajala is becoming a force of nature on the entertainment landscape. He was most recently seen in Fast & Furious 6 alongside the late Paul Walker and Vin Diesel. Ajala also completed work on the Wachowski feature Jupiter Ascending, and the indie film Kill Command. Additional notable credits include, One Day, The Dark Knight, and Payback Season. Appearing in A wide range of television roles, Ajala was a rapper in the television series Trexx and Flipside, in addition to major guest roles ...
Joy Keys chats with Dr. Carl Hart about his book High Price
June 14, 2014 15:00 - 28 minutes - 25 MBDr. Carl Hart, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry at Columbia University. He is also a Research Scientist in the Division of Substance Abuse at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. Hart is a member of the National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse and on the board of directors of the College on Problems of Drug Dependence and the Drug Policy Alliance. A native of Miami, Florida, Dr. Hart received his B.S. in psychology at the University of Maryla...
Joy Keys chats with Author Mitchell S. Jackson about his book The Residue Years
June 07, 2014 15:30 - 33 minutes - 7.47 MBMitchell S. Jackson is a Portland, Oregon native who lives in Brooklyn, New York. He received an M.A. in writing from Portland State University and an MFA in Creative Writing from New York University. He has been the recipient of fellowships from Urban Artist Initiative and The Center For Fiction. A former winner of the Hurston Wright Foundation’s award for college writers, he teaches writing at New York University and is the literary editor of Dossier Journal. Jackson published the eBook c...
Joy Keys learns What is a Midwife?
June 07, 2014 15:00 - 25 minutes - 5.67 MBSpecial Guest: Marinah Farrell: President of the Midwives Alliance of North America. Politics and traditional medicine are what led Marinah to midwifery, and she has a firm commitment to both political activism and birth work. Marinah has been the president of various non-profit boards, has worked in waterbirth centers and medical facilities for international NGOs, in free-standing birth centers in the U.S, and has been the owner of a long standing homebirth practice. Website:www.mana.org Sp...
Joy Keys chats with Soul Singer Bettye LaVette
May 31, 2014 15:30 - 32 minutes - 7.27 MBBetty Jo Haskins was born in Muskegon, Michigan. The family moved to Detroit when she was six years old. Bettye did not get her start in the church, but in that very same living room, where there was a jukebox, filled with the blues, country & western, and R&B records of the time. The "5" Royales, Dinah Washington, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Red Foley, ...these were her roots. At 16 years old Betty Jo changed her name to Bettye LaVette. Bettye's first single was "My Man - He’s a Loving Man.", in t...
Joy Keys chats with Dr. Norman H. Edelman about how to manage your Asthma.
May 31, 2014 15:00 - 24 minutes - 5.35 MBSpecial Guest: Norman H. Edelman, M.D., is the American Lung Association’s leading medical authority. Having served as the Association’s Chief Medical Officer for 25 years, he is a highly sought after expert on all matters pertaining to lung health and is a seasoned media veteran. Dr. Edelman also provides patient care as a teaching clinic supervisor and is a Professor of Preventive Medicine, Internal Medicine, and Physiology and Biophysics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook....
Joy Keys chats with Singer LiV Warfield about her new album The Unexpected
May 28, 2014 23:00 - 32 minutes - 7.16 MBLiV Warfield, a native to Peoria, IL, has one of the most distinct and promising voices in R&B/soul today. Her singing career can be traced back to her college years in Portland, OR, where she’s known as their “most soulful singer” (Portland Monthly). LiV’s performed alongside a host of legendary artists such as Al Green, B.B. King, Dave Matthews Band, The Roots, and most notably, Prince. As a current member of his live vocal group New Power Generation, LiV aspires to preserve the experience...
2014 Lupus Awareness Month podcast
May 24, 2014 15:00 - 36 minutes - 8.08 MBLupus is a chronic, autoimmune disease that can damage any part of the body (skin, joints, and/or organs inside the body). An estimated, 1.5 million Americans have lupus. Special Guest: Annette Myarick is the CEO for the Lupus Foundation of America’s (LFA) Philadelphia Tri-State Chapter. Prior to joining the LFA in 1991, she was with the Arthritis Foundation’s Eastern Pennsylvania Chapter for 14 years, most recently as the Vice President for Public Health Strategies. Annette has a Bachelor’s...
Joy Keys gets interviewed by Kevin Stone & Tamika Morris of ISTA Entertainment
May 03, 2014 15:00 - 38 minutes - 8.61 MBJoy Keys gets interviewed by Kevin Stone & Tamika Morris of ISTA Entertainment. http://www.blogtalkradio.com/ista-network This is a pre-recorded interview. Joy Keys is a mother, trainer, speaker, mentor, actress, writer, producer and director. She is a member of the Screen Actor’s Guild (SAG). Keys is a Leeway Art and Change grantee. Joy Keys is the host of "Saturday Mornings with Joy Keys" on BlogTalkRadio.com. She has interviewed Pulitzer Prize winning Authors ( Isabel Wilkerson and Char...
Joy Keys chats with Actress Kimberly Elise
April 17, 2014 23:00 - 26 minutes - 5.86 MBSpecial Guest: Actress Kimberly Elise. Four Time NAACP Image Award winner. She currently plays Sloan Hayes on VH1's Hit The Floor show. Elise has been seen in films, such as, Beloved, The Diary of a Mad Black Woman, & For Colored Girls. She has been seen on TV in Close To Home, Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story, Soul Food, & Grey's Anatomy. Elise will be playing the lead role of Angela Logan in UP TV's Original movie Apple Mortgage Cake. Directed by Michael Scott. Produced by Entertainment ...
Joy Keys learns about Living On A Dollar A Day
April 12, 2014 15:00 - 33 minutes - 7.44 MBSpecial Guest: Author, Activist , PRofesor, & Lawyer Thomas Nazario-. Tom is a California attorney, child advocate and law professor. His expertise in children's legal issues has led him all over the world documenting human rights violations involving women and children, as well as working with inner-city kids in the Bay Area for over 30 years. Special Guest: Pulitzer Prize winning Photographer Renee C.Byer-senior photojournalist at The Sacramento Bee. She won a Pulitzer Prize in 2007 for h...
Joy Keys chats with African American Ballet Dancer Misty Copeland
March 22, 2014 15:30 - 16 minutes - 3.65 MBMisty Copeland joined ABT's Studio Company in September 2000 and then joined American Ballet Theatre as a member of the corps de ballet in April 2001. In 2007, Misty Copeland made history by becoming the third African American female soloist and first in two decades, at American Ballet Theatre. Her roles with American Ballet Theatre include: Muse-Duo Concertant, Gulnare-Le Corsaire, Flower Girl-Don Quixote, The Peasant Pas de Deux-Giselle, Lead Harlot-Romeo and Juliet, Fairy of Valor-The Sle...
Joy Keys chats with Actor Aaron D. Spears from BET's Being Mary Jane
March 22, 2014 15:00 - 28 minutes - 6.28 MBSpecial Guest: Aaron D. Spears His stars as "Mark Bradley" in BET's Being Mary Jane, the drama series produced by Mara Brock Akil and Salim Akil (The Game, Jumping the Broom). Aaron’s co-stars are Gabrielle Union, Richard Roundtree, Margaret Avery and Omari Hardwick. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- At the insistence of one of his college professors, Aaron tried out for a part in the school play. One small part turned into six and the ac...
Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Month podcast with Joy Keys
March 15, 2014 15:30 - 29 minutes - 6.58 MBSpecial Guest: Dr. Nicholas LaRocca is a clinical psychologist who has worked in the field of MS for over 30 years. He was an associate professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and New York Medical College before joining the National MS Society in 1997. He currently serves as Vice President of Health Care Delivery and Policy Research in the Research Programs Department of the National MS Society. In this role he has responsibility for Society funding of research to address the symp...
Endometriosis Awareness Month podcast with Joy Keys
March 15, 2014 15:00 - 28 minutes - 6.22 MBSpecial Guest: Dr. La Tanya Hines is a board certified obstetrician-gynecologist currently practicing in Los Angeles, California .She is the former CEO of Girlfriends Medical Group,Inc. (www.girlfriendsmedical.com), a private practice catering to the needs of women throughout Southern California. She received her doctorate of Medicine from the University of California, Irvine, College of Medicine. She completed her surgical internship at the University of Southern California. Her extensive tr...
Joy Keys chats with Actress Tasha Smith
February 25, 2014 00:00 - 15 minutes - 3.28 MBTasha Smith is a multifaceted actress whose work brings style and intensity to the subjects she plays on the big and small screens. Smith can currently be seen in Tyler Perry’s television series “FOR BETTER OR WORSE” (OWN). Smith’s memorable portrayal of “Angela,” in Perry’s box office hits, “WHY DID I GET MARRIED?” and its sequel, “WHY DID I GET MARRIED, TOO?”, alongside Janet Jackson and Jill Scott, sparked the creation of the spin-off series which is focused around her relationship with on...
Joy Keys chats with Artist Mickalene Thomas about her HBO documentary
February 22, 2014 16:30 - 23 minutes - 5.23 MBRunway model Sandra Bush dreamed of becoming the first African-American supermodel, only to struggle with addiction and despair. But she later achieved celebrity as Mama Bush, the model for some of the best-known and widely admired paintings by her daughter, acclaimed artist Mickalene Thomas. In her film directing debut, Thomas paints a poignant portrait of her mother and artistic muse, presenting a tender look back at a lifetime’s worth of hopes, regrets and redemption. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO A ...
Joy Keys chats with the Authors of Salaam, Love
February 22, 2014 16:00 - 26 minutes - 5.84 MBIn Salaam, Love: American Muslim Men on Love, Sex & Intimacy,Ayesha Mattu and Nura Maznavi provide a space for American Muslim men to speak openly about their romantic lives, offering frank, funny, and insightful glimpses into their hearts—and bedrooms. The twenty-two writers come from a broad spectrum of ethnic, racial, and religious perspectives—including orthodox, cultural, and secular Muslims—reflecting the strength and diversity of their faith community and of America. By raising th...
Joy Keys chats with Actress Denise Vasi from VH1's Single Ladies
February 18, 2014 00:00 - 25 minutes - 5.64 MBDenise Vasi has made a name for herself as one of the top actresses to watch in Hollywood. Vasi currently stars as smart, savvy businesswoman Raquel Lancaster in VH1's hit, one-hour scripted series, "Single Ladies." The upcoming third season from Queen Latifah's Flavor Unit Entertainment, which chronicles three friends and their take on love, dating and female friendship, is slated to return on January 6, 2014. Gaining recognition in Hollywood for her breakout role in ABC's longstanding day...