The Kiara Lee Show: Recent Episodes
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Recorded during Black Maternal Health Week (April 11-17), in this episode, I share my own Black maternal health crisis story. I am sharing my story to shed awareness on the fact that Black mothers, Black mothers-to-be and our Black babies are all susceptible to this crisis -- no matter how healthy, educated, or prepared we may be. I hope that my story will not scare you but that it will inspire you to educate yourselves on the Black maternal health crisis and love extra hard on the Black mothers, mothers-to-be and Black babies in your lives.
MUSIC CREDIT:
Kiara Lee Show Theme: CrazyUntouchable Records (feat. Leroy Knighten)
Episode Music: Quinton Robinson, Up South Beats @quintondwaynemusic
In this episode, I have the opportunity to talk to Lowell Thomas, program director of a local PAL (Police Athletic League) chapter. He and I consider a re-imagined policing system, given the FACT that about 1 in every 1000 Black men will be killed by the police the way things stand today, according to the Proceedings from the National Academy of Sciences. Some activists are calling for a complete defunding or abolishing of the police while other people feel that the anger towards the "brothers in blue" is often unwarranted or misplaced. His expertise, as well as input from a public school teacher, a social worker, and an in-depth look at a recent police incident help us think deeply about viable ways to reform policing.
MUSIC CREDIT
Kiara Lee Show Theme: CrazyUntouchable Records (feat. Leroy Knighten)
Episode Music: Quinton Robinson, Up South Beats @quintondwaynemusic
In the first episode of the podcast format of The Kiara Lee Show, I have a conversation with Stephanie Granderson, a Richmond Public Schools (RPS) teacher, about racial violence and American's current racial climate. With RPS being a predominately Black school system in inner-city Richmond, VA, we talk about the direct effects of racial violence occurring throughout the nation and even here at home on our Black students and Black educators. My experiences as a Black professor and her experiences as a Black K-12 educator shed light not only on the plight of our Black students, but that of their Black teachers, too. Listen to this raw and insightful conversation and never forget -- Black students (and their Black teachers) matter.