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Insight: VLS Journey's, Justice, Reentry & Healthcare Summit & of Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body and Spirit

Published: Oct. 2, 2020, 7:30 p.m.

b'The show kicks off with our monthly segment with Vanesse Lloyd-Sgambati\\u2019s VLS Journeys Vanesse interviews Sili Recio the author of If Dominican Were a Color and Sili Recio. For her feature \\u201cWhat is Philadelphia Reading? Vanesse speaks with children\\u2019s book author Jamilah Thompkins Bigelow who is an educator and writer who centers Black and Muslim children in her work. Her latest book is Your Name is a Song.

October is AIDS Education Month and Philadelphia Fight\\u2019s Institute for Community Justice is presenting Justice, Reentry and Healthcare Virtual Summit October 5-9th. I speak with Assata Thomas, Director of the Institute for Community Justice.
https://fight.org/justice-reentry-healthcare-summit-2020/

I have a fascinating interview with Mary-Frances Winters, author of Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body and Spirit. Beautifully written and deeply researched, Winters describes how centuries of racism have created a burden that impacts the economic, health and emotional well being for Blacks in America.
https://www.wintersgroup.com/team/mary-frances-winters/'