Elizabeth Speck, Founder of MindOpen Learning Strategies, which helps organizations and their leaders break down barriers to achieving social justice goals, will soon be listening to New Yorkers’ ideas on the city’s racial equity priorities. MindOpen’s focus groups will be conducted against the backdrop of the state’s examination of the history of enslaved persons in New York and the potential need for reparations. New York joins California, Illinois, and dozens of localities seeking to create reparations programs for its citizens. Dr. Speck makes the case that White Americans who say they value social justice must start talking about what they’re willing to give up to achieve it.

In this episode, Tanya D. Davis talked with former USAID Power Africa Partnerships Office Deputy Director about the impact on American business in African countries and on the safety and security of the United States. Gwen Andersen, outlines all the things the agency was uniquely equipped to handle and predicts that it will be revived in some form because it met too many American needs not to be. She delves into claims of waste, fraud and abuse and argues all claimsof corruption are untrue and misinformed. Andersen also explains how inadequate agency officials were at explaining to the American people all that USAID dollars did for them before it was too late. Andersen is now a co-founder of The A Energy Company, which, according to their website, seeks to "continuethe vital work of electrifying Africa.”

The United States Supreme Court handed down two immigration-related decisions in the last week of the term that left legal scholars, deportees and non-citizen parents with as many questions as answers. Tanya D. Davis jumped into the immigration law melee to see how much refuge is still available in the system - and how much hope can be found in the courts.