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Podcast - Urban Connections

This podcast tracks the audio archives for the “Urban Connections” show. Urban Connections conducts guest interviews covering issues affecting our local, national, international and global communities from a Black perspective.

Dancing Her Blackness

Live in conversation with Cat Mahari.  She creates work with personal and collective transformational possibilities. A free-style  hip hop and house dancer, also trained in modern, ballet, West African, Cuban Son, and Chen taiji, whose work is grounded in the upliftment of the African Diaspora and peoples all over the world. Cat is the founder and director of...

03/28/2018
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There’s Nothing Wrong With Black People

Live in conversation with Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, an award-winning historian and New York Times best-selling author, Professor of History and International Relations and the Founding Director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University. His second book, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, was published...

03/24/2018
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Harambee City

Dr. Nishani Frazier, Associate Professor of History at Miami University, shares insight from her latest book, Harambee City: The Congress of Racial Equality in Cleveland and the Rise of Black Power Populism.

02/10/2018
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Capitalism Is Not The Only Choice

Penn Loh, Senior Lecturer and Director of Community Practice at Tufts University, joins us to discuss ways that Americans are redefining economy beyond capitalism. What if economy is all the ways that we meet our material needs and care for each other? And what if it's not a singular thing?

01/13/2018
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Own Your Glow with Latham Thomas

Latham Thomas, aka Glow Maven, is a celebrity wellness/ lifestyle maven and birth doula- transforming not only how women give birth to their babies, but how they give rise to the best version of themselves. She is the founder of Mama Glow (MamaGlow.com) a lifestyle brand and highly regarded website offering inspiration, education, and holistic...

12/13/2017
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Take Note KC

Community engagement consultant with Take Note KC, Timothy Holman, Jr., joins us to discuss the educational landscape in Kansas City. Take Note KC is a 3 year initiative aimed at taking an in-depth look of where we are, how we got here and where we need to go with education in...

10/28/2017
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