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Enlighten Me
by Andrea Cambron
Enlighten Me w/Andrea Cambron is a news talk program that aims to educate and inform. From historical perspectives to modern day stories, we will focus our attention on the issues that everyone deals with — be it policy, health, education, the economy, current events and race. Nurturing Powerful Roots. #npr
Episodes
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Enlighten Me - Episode 40 - No Church In The Wild
Show Credit: WERA-FM, 96.7|Show Title: No Church In The Wild Colin Kaepernick's story highlights so many problematic stances the NFL takes regarding the relationship between the owners and its players. Attorney Charles Coleman Jr., has been following this closer than I ever would and he will join...
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Enlighten Me - Episode 39 - DETROIT
Show Credit: WERA-FM, 96.7|Show Title: DETROIT Not only are we still in the middle of a couple of wars overseas that we can’t seem to finish, but our government is currently going through it’s own constitutional crisis. This might be the single biggest challenge of our generation. Nothing of this...
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Enlighten Me - Episode 38 - Spotlight: Stacey Abrams
Show Credit: WERA-FM, 96.7|Show Title: Spotlight: Stacey Abrams In the first installment of Spotlight on Enlighten Me, the former Georgia House Minority Leader will join me, and you may be surprised at how she views being a single black woman running for office. Her story is inspiring for…
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Enlighten Me - Episode 37 - Care In Chaos
Show Credit: WERA-FM, 96.7|Show Title: Care In Chaos As the debate over healthcare looms in the form of “repeal and replace”, or “just repeal” or “try to replace at another more convenient time”, the good folks over at Rewire News have peered into a byproduct of the debate.On the program today…
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Enlighten Me - Episode 36 - What Are YOU Doing For Preparedness?
Show Credit: WERA-FM, 96.7|Show Title: What Are YOU Doing For Preparedness? "Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?" - Bertrand Russell On the program, Elizabeth (Liza) Goitein, Co-Director of the Liberty & National…
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Enlighten Me - Episode 35 - Ripple Of Hope
Show Credit: WERA-FM, 96.7|Show Title: Ripple Of Hope The three years after John F Kennedy’s death proved to be a pivotal time not only for Robert Kennedy, but for the Democratic party itself. Author John Bohrer will join me to discuss his book The Revolution of Robert Kennedy: From Power To...
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Enlighten Me - Episode 34 - CHIP[ping] WIC
Show Credit: WERA-FM, 96.7|Show Title: CHIP[ping] WIC According to the most recent data by the Census Bureau “Almost two-thirds (65 percent) of children, lived in households that participated in at least one or more of the following government aid programs: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families...
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Enlighten Me - Episode 33 - Usual Suspects
Show Credit: WERA-FM, 96.7|Show Title: Usual Suspects On the program, Hillman award winner Adele Stan, columnist for the American Prospect, will join us to give her analysis on the latest developments with the FBI investigation into the Trump campaign colluding with Russia. Also, did misogyny…
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Enlighten Me - Episode 32 - C.R.E.A.M.
Show Credit: WERA-FM, 96.7|Show Title: C.R.E.A.M. If there is anything I have learned these past few years regarding economic policies that have shaped the American worker, inequality and the forces behind it are what make the U.S. economy function the way it does. A small percentage of the...
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Enlighten Me - Episode 31 - S.O.S.
Show Credit: WERA-FM, 96.7|Show Title: S.O.S. On the program, Tasha Eurich, author of Insight, shows us that we are not as self aware as we think. She’ll also outline steps on how to truly see ourselves clearly. It could probably help a lot of people in the political sphere right about now. ALSO–…
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Enlighten Me - Episode 30 - With Every Minute, Seize The Chance To Turn It Around
Show Credit: WERA-FM, 96.7|Show Title: With Every Minute, Seize The Chance To Turn It Around The new administration is currently seeking to eliminate Title X family planning funding, as well as add Teresa Manning to the Department of Health and Human Services where she will oversee the department...
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Enlighten Me - Episode 29 - The Power of the People
Show Credit: WERA-FM|Show Title: The Power of the People US District Court judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos ruled in Texas recently that SB 14, the voter ID Bill passed in 2011 was passed with the intent to discriminate against minority voters. This is something civil rights leaders, voting rights...
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Enlighten Me - Episode 28 - The Complexity of Women
Show Credit: WERA-FM|Show Title: The Complexity of Women On the program, Zoe Carpenter of The Nation has been looking into African American maternal birth rates. If we claim to care about black babies, let’s care about what has happened to them from the start. Also, how did certain topics become...
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Enlighten Me - Episode 27 - Inspire. Empower. Stand Up.
Show Credit: WERA-FM, 96.7|Show Title: Inspire. Empower. Stand Up. As a young teen, I always wondered what my mother did at the conferences she attended in Washington, DC. One year, she brought back a t-shirt with the AAUW logo. On it, was a phrase that I have seen throughout the years. “When…
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Enlighten Me - Episode 26 - Fortitude
Show Credit: WERA-FM, 96.7|Show Title: Fortitude On the program, Dr. E. Faye Williams, President & CEO of the National Congress of Black Women talks about the history of the organization as well as her role in protecting the rights of black women. Also, the Center for American Progress released...
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Enlighten Me - Episode 25 - Binders Full Of Women
Show Credit: WERA-FM, 96.7|Show Title: Binders Full Of Women On the program, Rewire Federal policy reporter Christine Grimaldi talks about #ADayWithoutAWoman as well as her piece regarding the American Health Care Act, the proposal from House Republicans regarding health care in America.…
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Enlighten Me - Episode 24 - Because of Them, We Can
Show Credit: WERA-FM, 96.7|Show Title: Because of Them, We Can Black women’s contributions to this society have been enormous, far ranging and all encompassing. On today’s program Dr. Tracee Jamison-Hooks, a research Electrical Engineer for the NASA Goddard Spaceflight Program. She was also the...
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Enlighten Me - Episode 23 - Fight The Power
Show Credit: WERA-FM, 96.7|Show Title: Fight The Power On the program, civil rights activist Kevin Alexander Gray will talk about the history of the civil rights struggle, as well as his views on the administrations outreach toward African-Americans during black history month. Cinematographer…
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Enlighten Me - Episode 21 - Past Is Prologue
Show credit: WERA-FM, 96.7|Show Title: Past is Prologue “How can a community that evolved for more than 100 years only carry on in the memories of a few surviving members?” On the program today, Jason Green, the co-producer of The Quince Orchard Project will answer these questions and more. As a...
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Enlighten Me - Episode 18 - There Are No Children Here
Show Credit: WERA-FM, 96.7|Show Title: There Are No Children Here https://enlightenmeonwera.com/2017/01/18/11-18-17-false-prophets-leading-no-one/ On the program, Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, Director of the Hamilton Project and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution will join me. She has…
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Enlighten Me - Episode 19 - The Resistance
Show Credit: WERA-FM, 96.7|Show Title: The Resistance https://enlightenmeonwera.com/2017/01/25/01-25-17-the-resistance/ I talked to Adele Stan, Contributor for The American Prospect on her thoughts on the women's March on Washington and what we need to do to move forward. Her recent piece on...
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Enlighten Me - Episode 20 - Black Girl Magic
Show Credit: WERA-FM, 96.7|Show Title: Black Girl Magic https://enlightenmeonwera.com/2017/02/01/02-01-17-black-girl-magic/ It wouldn’t be Black History month to me if I didn’t start off by showcasing powerful black women. Why? Because who tried to save the world? Exactly. On the program, Tara...
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Enlighten Me - Episode 17 - #LetGirsLearn
Show Credit: WERA-FM,96.7|Show Title: #LetGirsLearn https://enlightenmeonwera.com/2017/01/11/1-11-17-letgirlslearn/ First Lady Michelle Obama has put her name behind Let Girls Learn, the initiative to “address challenges preventing adolescent girls from attaining a quality education that empowers...
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Enlighten Me - Episode 16 - Give us, Us Free
Show Credit: WERA-FM, 96.7|Show Title: Give us, Us Free https://enlightenmeonwera.com/2017/01/04/1-04-17-give-us-us-free/ What would you say if I told you that almost 40 percent of people currently in the American prison system are incarcerated unnecessarily? That’s the latest report from the...
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Enlighten Me - Episode 14 - The 13th
Show Credit: WERA-FM, 96.7|Show Title: The 13th https://enlightenmeonwera.com/2016/12/07/12-07-16-the-13th/ This is the premise upon which Ava Duvernay seeks answers for what has happened to black and brown communities across the United States after the 13th amendment was ratified 151 years ago…
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Enlighten Me - Episode 13 - It's The Media, Stupid
Show Credit: WERA-FM, 96.7|Show Title: It's The Media, Stupid https://enlightenmeonwera.com/2016/11/30/11-30-16-its-the-media-stupid/ Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief of Rewire says we can’t let Donald Trump control the press. I’ll get her take on how the free press should report during a Donald...
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Enlighten Me - Episode 12 - The Trump Effect
Show Credit: WERA-FM, 96.7|Show Title: The Trump Effect https://enlightenmeonwera.com/2016/11/16/11-16-16-the-trump-effect/ Steve Snyder, Editorial Director of The 74 will join the program. The 74 has compiled more than 140 instances of school bullying and intimidation since Donald Trump was...
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Enlighten Me - Episode 11 - When Women Succeed, America Succeeds
Show Credit: WERA-FM, 96.7|Show Title: When Women Succeed, America Succeeds https://enlightenmeonwera.com/2016/10/26/10-26-16-when-women-succeed-america-succeeds/ What would happen with a feminist in the White House? or, How would women go about getting the fair pay we truly deserve? And even…
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Enlighten Me - Episode 10 - America, Oh What A Night
Show credit from WERA-FM 96.7|Show Title: America, Oh What A night |https://enlightenmeonwera.com/2016/11/09/11-09-16-america-oh-what-a-night/ In what the polls, the pundits and everyone but the people thought to be the case, Donald Trump became the President-elect of this here United States. I...
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Enlighten Me - Episode 9 - Dark And Lovely
Show credit from WERA-FM 96.7|Show Title: Dark And Lovely |https://enlightenmeonwera.com/2016/11/02/11-02-16-dark-and-lovely/ Indian American Aswathi Thomas wrote a piece in Huffington Post on the effects that colorism have had on her and other dark skinned Indian Americans in the hopes that we…
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Enlighten Me - Episode 8 - Work. Life. Balance.
Show credit from WERA-FM 96.7|Show Title: Work. Life. Balance. |https://enlightenmeonwera.com/2016/10/19/10-19-16-work-life-balance/ A new report from the Center for American Progress crunches the numbers. Parents are stretching themselves thin when it comes to the misalignment between our...
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Enlighten Me - Episode 7 - Started From The Bottom Now We Here
Show credit from WERA-FM 96.7|Show Title: Started From The Bottom Now We Here |https://enlightenmeonwera.com/2016/10/12/10-12-16-started-from-the-bottom-now-we-here/ I had a conversation with Alejandro Danois, author of The Boys of Dunbar: A Story of Love Hope and Basketball on the ’81-’82...
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Enlighten Me - Episode 3 - Pay Me What You Owe Me
Show credit from WERA-FM 96.7|Show Title: Pay Me What You Owe Me| https://enlightenmeonwera.com/2016/09/14/09-14-16-pay-me-what-you-owe-me/ The report from the Census bureau on Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States showed wages between men and women have stayed the…
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Enlighten Me - Episode 1 - America's Child Care Crisis
Show credit from WERA-FM 96.7|Show Title: America's Childcare Crisis |https://enlightenmeonwera.com/2016/06/30/americas-childcare-crisis/ Rasheed Maalik, a policy analyst at the Center for American Progress will discuss his latest research on the economic dilemmas that families face when they…
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Enlighten Me w/Andrea Cambron is a news talk program that aims to educate and inform. From historical perspectives to modern day stories, we will focus our attention on the issues that everyone deals with — be it policy, health, education, the economy, current events and race. Nurturing Powerful Roots. #npr
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Enlighten Me w/Andrea Cambron is a news talk program that aims to educate and inform. From historical perspectives to modern day stories, we will focus our attention on the issues that everyone deals with — be it policy, health, education, the economy, current events and race. Nurturing Powerful...
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