RadioACTive 01.17.22

  • January 17, 2022
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Utah Black Chamber Founder ready to publish Black Utah, Stories From a Thriving Community, Evening in Harlem moving to April, Dr. Bernice King coming to Utah. The Uncomfortable Truth podcast reflects on the Ahmaud Arbery trial outcome and how it compares to and is possible because of the Trayvon Martin and Emmett Till trials.

Tonight's show featured the following people, organizations and/or events. Check them out and get plugged into your community! 

James Jackson III, founder of the Utah Black Chamber, a platform where Black Utahns and other minority-owned business owners could come together and create the network and resources necessary to help the advancement of all black-owned businesses.

  • To support Black-owned businesses, visit utahblackpages.com. "More than 100 Utah Black-owned businesses have been added to this website. Our mission is to ensure that all black businesses are included in this site and connected to both new customers and the applicable resources that ensure their success." To add a black-owned business to the list, click here.

  • Feb. 1: Utah Black Chamber releases Black Utah, Stories From a Thriving Community. Learn from many of the talented Black leaders, innovators, creators, and educators in Utah. This book is part of the chamber's mission to elevate Black Utah and change Utah's diversity landscape. Book signings TBD. 

  • April: Evening in Harlem fundraiser. Due to surging COVID rates, the Utah Black Chamber is moving its Night in Harlem to April (date TBD) at The Leonardo. To purchase tickets, click here.

  • April 21: Dr. Bernice King, Eccles Theater. Tickets go on sale in February. 

Loki Mulholland of The Joan Trumpauer Mulholland Foundation, a nonprofit working to end racism through education. A recipient of the 2015 National Civil Rights Museum Freedom Award, Joan is a Civil Rights Icon who participated in over 50 sit-ins and demonstrations by the time she was 23 years old. She was a Freedom Rider, a participant in the Jackson Woolworth’s Sit-in, the March on Washington, the Meredith March and the Selma to Montgomery March. For her actions she was disowned by her family, attacked, shot at, cursed at, put on death row and hunted down by the Klan for execution. 

  • JTMF Micro-Scholarship/Grant, awarding one student or teacher a $250 scholarship/grant each week. You can only apply once per week but can apply during multiple weeks if you qualify based on the theme for that week. Only one scholarship/grant per person. JTMF will award a scholarship/grant each week until April 30th, 2022.

The Uncomfortable Truth Podcast, hosted by Loki Mulholland and Luvaghn Brown. Tonight: Arbery, Travon and Till - Loki and Luvaghn share their reflections on the Ahmaud Arbery trial outcome and how it compares to and is possible because of the Trayvon Martin and Emmett Till trials. Listen here: bit.ly/3EYtC8j or find it wherever you get your podcasts. 

  • Loki Mulholland is an award-winning filmmaker, author, activist and son of Civil Rights Icon, Joan Trumpauer Mulholland. An Emmy-winning producer who has received 40 Telly Awards, Loki’s films on race and social justice issues have won 14 Best Documentary awards including the National Black Film Festival for his film on institutional racism, “The Uncomfortable Truth”. His first book, “She Stood For Freedom” was nominated for the 2017 Amelia Bloomer Award. Loki speaks across the country on issues of race and social justice.

  • Luvaghn Brown is a native of Jackson, MS and has resided in Greenburgh, NY since 1979. A Freedom Rider at the age of 16, he plunged into the Civil Rights Movement after being arrested for sitting at a Whites Only lunch counter at the local Woolworth’s. As a Field Secretary for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Mr. Brown worked primarily in Greenwood and Jackson, MS in direct action and traveled the state, working on Voter Registration. He eventually moved to Chicago, IL where he worked with the Friends of SNCC on demonstrations, local politics, preparation for the March on Washington and fundraising. A year later he moved to New York and worked with the local SNCC office and the New York CORE group. Mr. Brown has a Master's Degree in Social Work from SUNY Stony Brook. Currently, he co-chairs the African American Men of Westchester Business Skills Olympics program and was appointed to the Westchester County Human Rights Commission. He is a member of the White Plains Juneteenth Committee and a member of the African American Men of Westchester.

Views, thoughts or opinions shared by guests are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of the board, staff or members of Listeners' Community Radio of Utah, KRCL 90.9fm. Tonight's show was produced and hosted by Lara Jones.

 

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