This week on WCLK's The Local Take(Saturdays 8am), I reached out to EMBARK and Dr. Sharnell Myles to ask her about our children and their mental health.
Slavery By Another Name by Douglas Blackmon examines the intersection between Race and the economy. This book outlines the institutional, systemic and structural racism in our country.
This week on WCLK s The Local Take(Saturdays 8am), I reached out to Professor Douglas A Blackmon about his seminal book
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II. The book was released in 2008 and awarded the Pulitzer Prize. PBS produced a documentary about the facts Blackmon documented in 2012. If you’re not familiar with either, I encourage you to take in this content to understand better what is going on today. Blackmon, a former writer at the Wall Street Journal, is currently a professor at Georgia State University.
Saturday morning at eight on WCLK s The Local Take, I talk with The Hammonds House Museum s most recent Executive Director, Leatrice Ellzy Wright, as she prepares to join the famed Apollo Theatre. Wright has been on the Atlanta cultural scene since she began working with the National Black Arts Festival as a curator and producer. Her knowledge and innovation changed the historic Hammonds House Museum in West End after just a few months.
I asked if she was leaving Hammonds House in good hands, and she assured us that she would be working with their new leader as she transitions from the position. She mentions that everybody wants to play the Apollo Theatre. The eighty-eight-year-old institution has begun to stretch out in Harlem beyond the stage in two new venues. Wright will start to lead the organization with innovative educational programming. She speaks about how culture can impact our community and nation.