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#TalkRadio – May 20: If You Want to Be On the Wall: Buy The Wall: The Fight Against History Removal

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The Igniting Change Radio Show will discuss the privately funded efforts to preserve African American History and the government’s responsibility to funding the full and complete story of American History. Today’s panel represents experts in African American History as well as former elected officials that will discuss the community and governmental value of telling the whole story of American history.

#TalkRadio – April 16: Public Tax Dollars Paying for Racist Statues: The Case for Renaming Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge

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Today's show will focus on the issue of the naming of monuments and structures after slaveholders and racist Americans, that if funded by public taxpayer money. Maryland holds the fourth highest percentage of African American citizens in America. It is the only state in America with an African American Governor. Maryland also boasts an African American women as the Speaker of the House. Yet Maryland taxpayers have supported the naming of monuments after people who stood for slavery and against the advancement and inclusion of African Americans.