VOICES AGAINST HATE: Recent Episodes
EDWARD DUNBAR
Dr. Edward Dunbar is a psychologist, researcher and host of VOICES AGAINST HATE: a weekly series highlighting the efforts of people working together to stop bigotry and violence. Bringing together practitioners, scholars, and citizens, VOICES AGAINST HATE is a forum for people responding to the rising tide of racial violence, hate, and hostility around the globe. We hope you’ll join us.
We talk with Dr. Martin Gallagher, temporary Superintendent with the Criminal Justice Services Division of the Scotland Police. We talk about Dr. Gallagher's work as a senior law enforcement official and delve into the mind and motives of the lone wolf offender.
We talk with Anneli Svensson, a Scandinavian clinician and leading authority, on the subject of psychological support and treatment of victims of hate crimes.
We talk with Harry Krop about the troubling case of the Freeman brothers, young men who became radicalized and killed their parents due to religious and ideological differences. We consider if hate was the cause of the case of patricide and if there was a chance to stop the hate from leading to a triple murder.
We talk about Jeff's personal journey from white nationalism to his work in helping others to leave a hate-based lifestyle. We consider the what and how of hate identity and how to "fill the hole" in abandoning hate as a form of personal identity.
Our interview with Marshall Wong provides a long view on Asian hate violence in the US. From his work in the field of hate crimes, Mr. Wong discusses how we got to this place of overt violence and what may come next for our society.
Since founding her own label MPress Records two decades ago, NYC-based alt-pop artist Rachael Sage has steadily released a slew of vibrant, dynamic albums with poetic lyrics spanning subjects as wide as her inspirations. She has toured with an eclectic list of artists including Ani DiFranco, Beth Hart, Sarah McLachlan, Judy Collins and Howard Jones. Sage also continues to significantly grow her visibility via her many song placements, including 22 songs on top reality show Dance Moms, translating into over 10 million YouTube hits. Her latest single and video, “Blue Sky Days”, was originally composed as a meditation on gratitude in the midst of her own recent cancer recovery, but has taken on new resonance during Covid-19. Sage’s new album “Character” is an inspirational tribute to survivorship. The collection reflects on such concepts as identity, compassion, authenticity, optimism, and mindfulness. As Sage confesses, “I don’t think I understood the full meaning of the word ‘character’ until I was suddenly required to redefine my own…if there is a silver-lining in all of this, it’s that I have a much deeper relationship to gratitude.”
"One of music's most inimitable iconoclasts." — BlackBook
"Her keen, ironic sense of humor and quirky sense of the profound is what makes her special as a songwriter" — Billboard
Ted Winn is a gospel recording artist and songwriter who first gained recognition as half of the Award-winning Ted & Sheri gospel duo best known for their hits “Come Ye Disconsolate” and “Celebrate”. Since 2009, Winn has been a popular solo artist with chart songs such as “The Lifter” and “God Believes in You” to his credit.inn’s debut solo CD “Balance” (TeddysJamz / Shanachie) features the Billboard Top 40 hits “God Believes in You” and “The Lifter.”
Dr. Dunbar talks to Dr. Sherwood Smith and Dr. Desiree Crevecoeur-MacPhail about hate on college campuses. Dr. Smith is associated with University of Vermont and conducts faculty and staff workshops, teaching graduate and undergraduate multicultural and human development courses and researching on issues of intercultural communication, cultural identity development and multicultural education. Dr. Crevecoeur-MacPhall is currently an Associate Professor at Chapman University and specializes in Substance Use Disorders, Hate Crimes and Homelessness.
Fleet Maull, PhD, CMT-P is an author, meditation teacher, management consultant, executive coach, leadership trainer, seminar leader, motivational speaker, social entrepreneur and peacemaker. He is the founder of Prison Mindfulness Institute, National Prison Hospice Association, Windhorse Seminars & Consulting, the Center for Contemplative End of Life Care at Naropa University and co-founder of the Engaged Mindfulness Institute, Center for Mindfulness in Public Safety and the Upaya Zen Center's Buddhist Chaplaincy Training Program.Dr. Maull is a senior Dharma teacher in two venerable Buddhist traditions as an Acharya (senior Dharma teacher) in the Tibetan Buddhist Shambhala lineage and a Roshi (Zen master and lineage holder) in the Zen Peacemaker Order and Soto Zen lineage.
Dr. Dunbar talks to longtime associate Dr. Milton Bennet . Dr. Milton J. Bennett, the founder and director of the Intercultural Development Research Institute (IDRInstitute) about intercultural communication. Dr. Bennett is known for originating the Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity and co-developing two popular measures of it, the Intercultural Development Inventory and the Intercultural Viability Indicator.
Ed talks to Joyce Liu Countryman, an award winning producer of inclusion for film and tv, about the state of hate crimes against Asian Americans.
Amalio Blanco, Doctor in Psychology from the Complutense University of Madrid talks to Ana Ruiz.