Although this podcast never gained the group of concerned learners that I was hoping that it would, my gratitude for all the Black people who shared their insights, wisdom, and solutions-oriented thinking is immeasurable. My thinking about, my awareness of, and my respect for Black fellow Americans has grown in ways I never could have imagined without those 1-to-1 conversations... which I recommend for all White people who care about healing the racial divides in our country. This most essential...
May 15, 2022•4 min
According to Jason "Phatz" Kirkman, hip-hop has been misused and misappropriated. He’s written a book to shine a light on how the genre originated in the Bronx in the mid-60’s, as a peaceful, cultural alternative to crime. Phatz is on a mission to help youth understand hip-hop’s true purpose and to take it back. Here's an article worth reading to understand some of Phatz' work: Mentors and hip-hop combine in Virginia Beach Here's a link to the Kindle edition of Phatz' book: OFFSTAGE: The Culture...
Mar 25, 2022•1 hr 16 min
Here's the YouTube version of this episode, with lots of visuals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5SRfbrD-kA&t=2s Here's a link to SEL DAY info for the many ways you can help boost its success: https://selday.org #SELday Letter to the Editor Toolkit link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/173T0MrbfuA4urQZvGYRp6ccRr45dKDDjMUTZeesWl94/edit David Adams, the CEO of Urban Assembly, made time for this conversation because he places a premium on dialogue that is seen by both parties as an opportu...
Feb 17, 2022•1 hr•Ep. 25
Assata Moore is that rare, gifted, and generous educator who is uncommonly successful at helping students (melanated or not) enjoy the power of mathematics to make life, in school and beyond, successful and rewarding. Here is the link to Assata's BLACK MATH GENIUS online course. On sale in the month of February at a 62% savings. In 2017, Assata retired from her district-level position at the University of Chicago's Urban Education Institute. Before that position, Assata spent five years as a hig...
Feb 13, 2022•54 min•Ep. 26
YouTube of this conversation. ThePocketUSA - includes excellent info about interacting with police when pulled over for a traffic stop. ClippersandCops - effectively mending the gap between community and police: definitely a site worth checking out to see the positive community-level work being achieved. Once in awhile, a problem is so pervasive it seems insurmountable, and then someone comes along with a solution so sensible and so simple that you can’t help but wonder why it took so long to sh...
Dec 18, 2021•16 min•Ep. 24
Alvin Garrett is not interested in partial truths, and in this conversation we cover a broad range of topics, which several times circled back to the issue of real empathy, which Alvin affirmed, cannot be forced through a sense of guilt or in any other way. If you, as a ‘white’ person, have ever felt uneasy about talking to a Black person, for fear of saying the wrong thing, or making the wrong move, Alvin helps to clarify the root cause of that frustration. And he follows that insight with a vi...
Nov 29, 2021•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 23
https://www.13blacktownstour.com https://studio.youtube.com/video/5Phj93CKxjs/edit These are intense times, with battles being fought in school districts over how and what today’s students should be learning about this country’s history. Many of us are waking up to the fact that parts of this country’s history, the parts about which no one can feel any pride, have been and continue to be buried, withheld, and intentionally covered up. One of the many things I found most fascinating about convers...
Nov 03, 2021•1 hr 2 min
This podcast is for people who know they want to whole-heartedly move forward with their intention to be part of solutions to the racial disparities and inequities in America. We need to be very realistic about the fact that nothing will change just because we want it to change... but let's abandon the concept that it's 'hard work.' Instead, let's identify what's required of us 'white' people as 'worthwhile work,' or 'rewarding work' ... something more along those lines, because words do matter....
Oct 13, 2021•1 hr
Dr. Rachelle Rogers-Ard. Rachelle is a published author, adjunct professor, district administrator and she has over 25 years experience as an organizational development specialist focused on coaching school and business leaders in effective approaches for dismantling racist policies, practices and procedures that threaten organizational health. Currently, Dr. Ard is the Principal Lead for Harvest Consulting . REAL relationships, Rachelle points out, are based on the people in those relationships...
Jun 27, 2021•1 hr 25 min
Are you, like me, finally realizing that it’s up to so-called “white” people, to examine our woefully incomplete knowledge of history, and current realities, so that we are better able to contribute, in whatever ways feel most right for each of us, to practical and constructive solutions that will move all of us, as Americans, permanently forward. We've come a long way, yet we need to remain open to how very much more we need to learn and understand so we can consciously be part of the solutions...
Jun 08, 2021•40 min
Please help more people to learn about this podcast by rating and leaving a review on Apple podcasts, which will help to make this podcast more visible for others who, like us, want to do more than stating the obvious that Black Lives Matter… but who want to increase their awareness and understanding, which is the sole intention of this podcast. “ The Souls of Black Folk ,” by W. E. B. Du Bois, Chapter 2 (Of the Dawn of Freedom) This link connects to The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Souls of B...
May 27, 2021•1 hr 12 min
Welcome to the One White Woman podcast… Being here means you’re probably aware of how much more aware you could be about the facts and the challenges that underly the realities of systemic racism in the United States. Hopefully, too, you yearn for opportunities to heal the wounds brought on by the appalling facts of our country’s history. That’s why I’m here, sharing conversations I’m having with people who can help you and me to increase our understanding AND help us to become more effective in...
May 03, 2021•38 min•Ep. 14
This podcast exists to learn about the love, the dignity and the creative power of Black people who are our fellow Americans… and… This podcast exists to value differences, while breaking down conscious and unconscious barriers of separation which are sometimes caused by those differences. In this October episode I am scary grateful and supremely honored to be sharing conversation with Freddie Taylor, the Founder and CEO of Sankofa Club… an online resource for Black parents to supplement their c...
Oct 18, 2020•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 12
Patrice Register is my favorite kind of person: one whose life is all about moving forward on every front, no matter the external obstacles, while being a force for positive growth along the way. Growing up Black in Georgia is one part of Patrice’s story. Another part is her big-hearted family. And, are you ready for this? Patrice was a police officer in Georgia. A Black. Woman. Police officer. This woman is sooo solid. And NOT to be put into a ‘box’ of simple and predictable labels. After servi...
Sep 29, 2020•58 min
Police are in the news a lot these days. Too much, really, since the news about police is mostly bad, unacceptable, despicable and even terrifying. So, don’t ask me how, because I really don’t remember, but I came across a YouTube video with Police Chief Thomas Connolly. On the 5-minute video, he clearly expressed his strength-based humility alongside his invitation to the citizens of his town to participate in constructive partnership. It was abundantly clear that Chief Connolly meant every wor...
Sep 02, 2020•1 hr 8 min
Martin Luther King, Jr., John Lewis and many others ( black & white) put themselves in dangerous situations, commonly marked by violence and time in jail, to increase awareness about the fact that voting rights, especially in the southern states, were very purposely designed to suppress Black and minority voters. The 1965 signing of the Voting Rights Act by Lyndon Johnson, made nearly all voter suppression tactics illegal across this country. And when Congress enacted the Voting Rights Act, ...
Aug 24, 2020•12 min•Ep. 9
When Emancipation for Black people was won, after so many lives lost in our Civil War, that should have been the start of a new chapter in this country - one that would start the healing from all the ugliness promoted by the enslavement of Black people. It did not. What happened, instead, was a vicious and shameful recalibration of the 'white supremacy' mindsets. "JIM CROW" came to be the code word for the whole package of ways in which some white people were willing to show themselves as aggres...
Aug 18, 2020•12 min•Ep. 8
Cheryl shared the following quote from William Edward Burkhardt (WEB) DuBois. DuBois was the first African-American man to graduate from Harvard, and he wrote these still relevant words in 1903 in a book he published, “The Souls of Black Folk”: "One ever feels his two-ness, an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. The history of the American Negro is the history of...
Jul 18, 2020•37 min•Season 1Ep. 7
In 1996, 24 years ago, Prop. 209 was passed in the state of California. Prop 209, also referred to as the ‘California Civil Rights Initiative.’ Quoting from that Proposition:"... prohibits the state from discriminating against , or granting preferential treatment to , any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting." We’ve focused on public education in this episode's conversati...
Jul 13, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 6
I know something you don’t know… you don’t know what you don’t know. None of us do. How could we? Especially when our not knowing is strategically combined with the intentions of people in power, like political leaders, like designers of educational systems and writers of curriculum, who’ve exhibited no qualms about filling in our not knowing with what reflects and serves their values and their purposes … to promote and perpetuate the mindset of WHITE SUPERIORITY. I am so grateful to Jennifer Ha...
Jul 04, 2020•24 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Stay in touch with the Chandler’s life by joining their Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/thechandlercrew/ Below are most of the points from Pamela's original post: So as a white woman married to a black man and raising a biracial child I’ve had to unlearn a lot of things. I’ve also had to LEARN twice as much. I’ve had to become aware and start to notice things my mind never would have before. My husband, Walter, and I were recently discussing this list of all the things we’ve encounter...
Jul 02, 2020•37 min•Season 1Ep. 4
This podcast exists as a warm invitation to join in my journey of discovery about how my whiteness in America has advantaged me, while I’ve been mostly oblivious to all the disadvantages which have been structured into life for Black people in America. If you are feeling some concern about the ugly facts of systemic racism in America, then this podcast is for you, for us… together. In this episode’s conversation, we benefit from the bright intellect and generous heart of Dr.Tracy Timberlake. She...
Jun 29, 2020•30 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Jordan's recommendations for resources: 13th is on Netflix. It's the hurtful truth presented in a thought-provoking documentary directed by the brilliant Ava DuVernay. If you'd like to start a little more gently, watch a conversation between Oprah and Ava DuVernay discussing the making of this history lesson of Black life in America. Showing Up 4 Racial Justice is the great organization Jordan was describing. They have new local chapters popping up everywhere. They also have weekly zoom teleconf...
Jun 27, 2020•50 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Have you ever set off in a direction, not knowing exactly where you’d end up, but knowing you had to get there… wherever “there” was … ? If that doesn’t sound too crazy, if perhaps you can relate, then you’ll understand why I had to create this podcast. I have never even come close to being a racist. Even as a little girl, I fought my father’s bigotry and careless racial slanders. Regrettably, it took George Floyd’s murder to wake me up to the painful fact, one I’ve rejected for decades, that I ...
Jun 24, 2020•2 min•Season 1Ep. 1
