#voicesforracialhealing by Voices For Racial Healing

In this episode, we're joined by featured guest Terri Lyons.  A Philadelphia native, Terri is an award-winning storyteller, actress, keynote speaker, and author of eight books, including her latest, "Light of the August Moon," a collection of short stories of modern history with a poetic twist, stories of the American experience spanning the Roaring Twenties through the Disco Seventies.  

Maker education has the potential to empower all individuals to think critically about complex systems and encourage them to be active participants in building and shaping the future they want. 

This episode, I am joined by Erva Baden, a contemporary shaman who weaves together various healing modalities with compassion and humor to journey with folks who are committed to their own path of deep healing and transformation.  She is one of the original co-founders of Shadow Work Seminars (TM), a Reiki master, and a long-time facilitator in the Woman Within organization. She has also studied energy work, chakra healing, and core shamanic techniques under the direction of internationally recognized teachers. With more than 25 years experience in facilitating process work around the world, Baden's Soul Restoration series draws on her more recent st...

Join me as I chat with and play some songs by Bethlehem and Sad Patrick, members of the Philadelphia-based musical duo Be Sad Music.  We'll talk about their 5+ year collaboration and themes of love, struggle and healing in their music.

Did you see the videos of the incident between an off-duty cop in Anaheim, CA and a teenage boy?  It's shocking and disturbing on so many levels.  

Filmmakers Tim Viola (Twitter/IG: @tviola) and Kris Mendoza (Twitter:  @krismendozzzaaa; IG: @maestrofilmworks) chat with host Tieshka Smith about "Americano," an exciting and very timely new film project slated for production right here in the city of Philadelphia.  Americano is about a Syrian refugee who desperately chases US citizenship only to have it ripped away by a corrupt statesman, but not before inspiring the beginnings of a resistance. 

Melissa Holman of @EverydayPhilly and @Igers_Philly fame comes BACK this Friday to chat with me about the latest in Trump high drama:  The abrupt resignation of Michael Flynn, national security adviser (The Washington Post published a piece today entitled "The Flynn Crisis Paralyzes the White House"); Growing frustration among the elite GOP establishment players about what's happening; and, more. Among other things, we'll opine on why his missteps may be a blessing in disguise for social justice movements.  

Melissa Holman, photographer and co-founder of @EverydayPhilly on Instagram, chats with Tieshka Smith about the immediate impact a Trump presidency has had on photojournalism, street and documentary photography in Philadelphia.