#TalkRadio – May 6: If You Want to Be On the Wall: Buy The Wall: The Fight Against History Removal

SPEAKERS:

Dr. Karsonya “Kaye” Whitehead, 12:00 PM – 12:57 PM ET
Assoc. Professor of Communications and African American Studies, Loyola University; Founding Executive Director, The Karson Institute for Race, Peace & Social Justice; 2025 Who’s Who in Black Baltimore?

Hon. Carl O. Snowden, 12:00 PM – 12:57 PM ET
Convener, Caucus of African American Leaders; former Director of Civil Rights, Office of the Attorney General; former Annapolis City Alderman; Professor of History and Political Science, President & Founder, Carl Snowden & Associates; Civil Rights Activist, Author, and Frequent Newspaper Guest Columnist.

Fmr. Md. St. Sen. Michael B. Mitchell, 12:00 PM – 12:57 PM ET
Former Maryland State Senator; Former Assistant State’s Attorney for Baltimore City; former Member, Baltimore City Council Member of the prominent Baltimore family of the same name, Michael Bowen Mitchell was born in Baltimore, Maryland. His father, Clarence Mitchell, Jr., nicknamed the “101st U.S. Senator” waged a tireless campaign on Capitol Hill, helping to secure passage of civil rights legislation in the 1950s and 1960s: the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the Civil Rights Act of 1960, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Fair Housing Act. Mitchell graduated from Lincoln University, in Pennsylvania and earned his Juris Doctors from the University of Maryland School of Law.

Ms. Deborah Omawale Jarmon, 12:00 PM – 12:57 PM ET
San Antonio African American Deborah Omowale Jarmon is the xecutive Director for the San Antonio African American Community Archive & Museum (SAAACAM), with a mission to collect, archive, and tell the stories of the African American community in San Antonio. Director Omawale Jarmon is overseeing the privately funded 300,000 square foot African American Museum in downtown San Antonio, TX – which upon completion will be one of the largest African American Museums in America.

INTRODUCTION:

The Igniting Change Radio Show on Tuesday, September 26th, 2023, from 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Time, entitled, “Elevating Gen Z and Young Millennials to the Forefront of the Fight for a Multiracial Democracy”, will be live with Radio Show Co-Hosts and Transformative Justice Coalition (TJC) Co-Leaders Attorneys Barbara Arnwine, Esq. and Daryl Jones, Esq. and guests Myles B.Caggins; Bahram Mehretu; Stella McMillan; Andres Cubillos; Constance Crockett; Quincy Robinson; and, Gemale A. Black.

Today’s show will review the recent Gen Z and Millennial Votes Matter Leadership Training, held September 20th – 24th in Washington, D.C. during the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Annual Legislative Conference.  Today’s guests are all TJC Alumni who will be discussing their experiences from the Training. This paid training opportunity followed a train-the-trainer model and prepared 50 young people to go into their communities as voting rights advocates. Since 2016, TJC has invested in trainings to enhance the leadership skills of those 18 – 35 years of age. This represented the 15th such training and activation for Gen Z’s and young Millennials. During this September 2023 4-day Training, there was 22 panels from 47 experts, as well as one of the panels being at the Congressional Black Caucus’ Annual Legislative Conference, a community engagement project in Northern Virginia, a reception, an awards ceremony, and a press conference on “Power on the Line: Alabama’s Defiance of the Supreme Court”.

Myles B. Caggins III will also provide a brief and timely update about the US Department of Agriculture’s Discrimination Financial Assistance Program. This is his second time as a guest on our program this year. The application deadline for the Black Farmers’ Fund was just extended from October 31st, 2023 to January 13th, 2024.

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