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When we consider the socioeconomic plight of the most challenged in Urban American neighborhoods, there can be no doubt that they are affected by circumstances beyond their control. Often, the response to trouble is to laugh -... more

Thanks to all of our loyal listeners! If you have been following us then you know that TALK-STRAIGHT has a basic format: Host Generated Topics - Opening Monologue – Question/Answer. Well again - tonight we suspend with the... more

Whenever a child or youth gets in trouble or is in harm's way, the first place society looks for blame is to their parents. For the most part, parents want what is best for their children and most importantly to keep them safe! However many... more

The desire to become rich and or powerful can lead the weak-minded or poor to do some of anything for success. Too often decent people find themselves compromising their values and self-respect in order to get rich. In the American... more

Perhaps the most overlooked potential is that which lies in the ?Ghetto?! Much like the natural soil, it is full of nutrients and great promise to produce useful goods. The label ?Ghetto? is what causes people to turn a blind eye to... more

Many people feel as though the demands and expectations of society are simply overwhelming. In effect, they are drowning in society. Learning how to swim is not a standard lesson in public education, however, allegorically speaking it is... more

In 1963, at the March on Washington, Dr. Martin Luther King shared a dream he had about the progress of race relations in America. For over fifty years – many White and Blacks have been hopeful of the fulfillment of such a utopian... more

Too often the use of the word ?COMMUNITY? is reduced to a euphemism that means little of nothing. Particularly when it comes to urban communities, those who make up the population tend not to control the quality of education... more

Thanks to all of our loyal listeners! If you have been following us then you know that TALK-STRAIGHT has a basic format: Host Generated Topics - Opening Monologue – Question/Answer. Well again - tonight we suspend with the... more

Perhaps the one social institution that is most strained by poor trust, communication, and relationship is the FAMILY. Particularly the Urban American Family is plagued by a historical breach of trust between men and women. This... more

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