EP#61 Mary Ashanti Interview: NAACP

Race and Community Esteem Series launches with the first episode, a powerful interview with Mary Ashanti, the president of NAACP in Wicomico County in Maryland. This conversation covers the relevance of the NAACP today, the challenges of achieving lasting police reform, the importance of partnerships in making change and how race influences our self esteem and our community esteem. Includes a performance of the song "Lift Every Voice", written by John Rosamond Johnson and James Weldon Johnson and performed by your co-hosts, Ilyana Kadushin and James Harrell.