Black Women Rising: Running for Office in 2020

07/19/20 • 59 min

With 40 African-American women running for political office in Minnesota, a movement for change is here. In this episode, Dr. Sylvia Bartley welcomes Laverne McCartney Knighton, Marquita Stephens, and Alberder Gillespie to discuss why they are running for office, and what changes they would like to see.

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Healing Through Community: Using community-led treatment to address racialized trauma

**This episode was recored on Saturday, May 30th 2020**

Dr. Sylvia Bartley and her panel discuss strategies on how to advance community-centered treatment and health for people who have experienced race-related trauma in the Twin Cities.

The panel of Sam Simmons, Ingrid Cockhren, and Dr. Reba Peoples also discuss a report commissioned by the African American Leadership Forum entitled, "A future of excellent emotional health and wellbeing: Community-centered approaches to advance African American consciousness and healing related to racialized trauma."

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A candid conversation with Deborah Watts, Co-Founder of the Emmett Till Legacy Foundation

Dr. Sylvia Bartley sits down with Deborah Watts, the cousin of Emmett Till and co-founder of the Emmett Till Legacy Foundation to discuss the parallels between the murder of 14-year old Emmett Till in 1955 and George Floyd in 2020. Among many topics, they discuss what has changed in 65 years and what has not.

Learn more at https://emmetttilllegacyfoundation.com/