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Community Dialogues
by WFUV News
A program for frank discussions about race, racism and racial justice.
Episodes
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Planting Seeds, Growing Racial Equity
Our guest is aLJo, founder of aLJo's Quarantine Gardening. His platform teaches people how to garden as a way to give communities of color autonomy over their food production, combat food insecurity, and provide a positive outlet to deal with everyday stress.
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Battling Drug Addiction
Our guest is Roy Kearse, a person in long-term recovery and Vice President of Recovery Services and Community Partnerships for Samaritan Daytop Village. The organization works to alleviate some of the adverse conditions that people in New York are dealing with. He talked with us about Samaritan...
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Intra-racism in the Black Community
Victoria McDonald is a Jamaican-American woman from Rochester, New York. She received her Bachelor's degree in 2011 at Howard University. She also received her Masters degree in Urban Studies from Fordham University in 2021. Victoria has entered active duty in the Army as a human resources…
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Olivia Ngo: 'I Wish People Would Care'
Our guest is Olivia Ngo, a senior at NYU studying public policy. She talks candidly with us about Asian hate and the need to support businesses in Manhattan's Chinatown that are struggling in the pandemic.
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Pushing Back Against Anti-Asian Hate
Our guest is Alexandra Lee, the current president of New York City's chapter of OCA Asian Pacific Advocates. As a volunteer and an Asian American woman in New York, she says the recent increase in anti-Asian violence has caused her to rethink how she goes about her daily life, but she is hopeful...
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Building Community Through Civic Engagement
When people are involved in their communities a lot of good can from it. But, sometimes there are barriers to civic engagement. The organization Women Creating Change is launching a new initiative to increase civic engagement in underserved communities across New York City. WCC's President and…
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Community Dialogues: Misdiagnosis and Mistrust in Mental Healthcare
WFUV's Kiera Mullany talks with Gloria Oladipo, a freelance journalist and a student at Cornell University, about her experience with mental illness misdiagnoses and her thoughts on accessibility within the mental healthcare system.
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Community Dialogues: Addressing Environmental Racism
Our guest is Dr. Maria Cruz-Torres, an associate professor at the school of transborder studies at Arizona State University. She specializes in anthropology and environmental studies, with a focus on coastal communities and the intersection between the environment and gender. In our conversation,...
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Community Dialogues: Natalia Veras
Our guest in this edition of Community Dialogues is Natalia Veras, a Domincan-American artist from the Bronx. Veras is the creator of Culture Face, a digitally visual platform showing the beauty of different cultures and bodies. Veras talks to us about her experience being an Afro-Latina, and how...
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Community Dialogues: Bronx Health REACH
Our guest in this edition of Community Dialogues is Charmaine Ruddock, the Project Director of Bronx Health REACH, a coalition that seeks to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in health outcomes. After working for the coalition for more than 20 years, Ruddock says the COVID-19 health crisis...
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Community Dialogues: Race, Racism and Health
Amara McNeil is a sophomore at Fordham University who has found a passion in advocating for racial justice on campus. Talia Mota, PhD, MPH, is an adjunct professor and molecular immunologist currently researching a cure for HIV. In this episode of Community Dialogues, McNeil and Mota discuss the...
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Community Dialogues: Black Artists + Designers Guild
Our guest on this edition of Community Dialogues is Malene Barnett. She founded the Black Artists + Designers Guild, a collective of makers in various disciplines such as interior design, architecture, fine art, textiles, and product design. The Guild aims to create a more inclusive and equitable...
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Community Dialogues: Mfalme Sikivu
This episode we’re joined by Mfalme Sikivu. Mfalme, who’s state name is Dontie Mitchell, is a jailhouse lawyer, activist, scholar, and mentor. He’s been incarcerated in New York State since 1998 when he was 17 on charges of armed robbery and attempted armed robbery. Mfalme is the founder and...
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Community Dialogues: Save A Rose Foundation
The United States has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the developed world. And black women are several times more likely to die in childbirth than white women. Bruce McIntyre is trying to do something about that. His partner died after an emergency C-section at a Bronx hospital in...
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Community Dialogues: Shea Shola
Our guest is Shea Shola, a sophomore at Vanderbilt University with her own clothing line inspired by African culture. She says she was surrounded by African prints and fashion while she grew up in Jamaica, and she wants to bring more attention and appreciation to this kind of art.
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Community Dialogues: Wrongful Convictions
WFUV's Kiera Mullany sits down with Sam Gross from the National Registry of Exonerations to discuss his recent report Government Misconduct and Convicting the Innocent, said to be the most thorough study ever conducted of police and prosecutorial misconduct in criminal cases in the United States.
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Community Dialogues: City Harvest
Our guest in this edition of Community Dialogues is Jerome Nathaniel, the Director of Policy and Government Relations for City Harvest. The organization provides food to more than 400 soup kitchens, pantries and community centers across New York City's five boroughs. We talked with Jerome about…
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Community Dialogues: Marijuana Legalization
As New Jersey and states across the country start the process of legalizing marijuana, legislators, cannabis business owners and activists have a lot to think about. How does a state make the leap from criminalization to legalization and how do dispensary owners create socially responsible...
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Community Dialogues: The Bronx Community Foundation
Our guest in this edition of Community Dialogues is Desmon Lewis, a co-founder of The Bronx Community Foundation, which is dedicated to creating a more just and equitable Bronx.
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Community Dialogues: Children's Aid Society
The COVID-19 outbreak has compounded longstanding inequities in our society. Among other things, the pandemic has exposed the digital haves and have-nots. In the age of distance learning, The Bronx Borough President’s office has been working with non-profit organizations to sound the alarm over…
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Community Dialogues: Steven Willis
Our guest this week is storyteller Steven Willis, who uses his poetic and theatrical background to creatively articulate African American culture.
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Community Dialogues: Kimberly Amazu
Our guest on this edition of Community Dialogues is Kimberly Amazu, an African American mental health counselor who helps people of color deal with racial trauma. She addresses the various ways race and mental health overlap.
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Community Dialogues: My Next Move
Kids leaving a juvenile detention center can feel hopeless about their future. That’s where the My Next Move program at the New York City-based organization Rising Ground comes in. My Next Move is an aftercare support program led by credible messenger mentors. The mentors are “credible” because...
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Community Dialogues: Lisa Taylor
Our guest in this episode of Community Dialogues is Lisa Taylor. She’s a media advertising professional. Lisa lives in midtown Manhattan, but grew up in Hamden, Connecticut. Lisa says she grew up very much in tune with her African American roots, but as a light-skinned Black person, she never...
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Community Dialogues: BronxWorks
It’s been six months since New York State took drastic measures, like shutting down non-essential businesses, to help combat the spread of COVID-19. But, even though a lot has since reopened, the economic and health fallout still runs deep, especially among communities of color. In New York City,...
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A program for frank discussions about race, racism and racial justice.
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