Amid nationwide protests and anti-racist solidarity sparked by George Floyd’s violent death, more US athletes are using their platforms to call for racial justice. In this episode, a former professional football player and an academic expert on the intersection of race, sports, and identity provide personal and historic insight on[…]
The public health imperative to stay home has introduced new challenges on a wide scale for mental health, maintaining cybersecurity in our virtual world, and for those with extra time, occupying oneself with home entertainment. In a program dedicated to some of the practical realities of this period, learn key[…]
The idea that we’re all in this together takes on powerful and multidimensional meanings in Harlem, City College’s historic home base. In partnership with the Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce (GHCC), City College, and its community radio station, WHCR-90.3 “The Voice of Harlem,” are currently presenting a series of COVID-19[…]
With 11 million items illuminating the richness of global black history, arts and culture, the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is a powerful archive and epicenter of research and learning about people of African descent throughout the world. As the centennial of the Harlem[…]
It is with great sadness that we announce the unexpected passing of WHCR Gospel announcer Sister Mary Jefferson. She was the host of Sweet Spirit of Victory on Mondays 4am-8am. Sister Mary was a host on WHCR for the past 24 years. She started as one of Deacon Watts’[…]
The next generation of leaders are finding their power — and personifying hope for an inclusive, renewed American democracy – at one of the nation’s most diverse colleges, The City College of New York. Look inside CCNY’s Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership and learn how this laboratory[…]
Host: CCNY President Vincent Boudreau Guests: Dee Dee Mozeleski, Executive Director of the Foundation for City College and Senior Adviser to the President; Deborah C. Harte, Student Life Manager for the Single Stop program at CUNY’s Borough of Manhattan Community College Your browser does not support the audio element.
Jeanne Parnell talks to legendary rapper Curtis Blow and DJ Flame.
Host: CCNY President Vincent Boudreau Guests: Gilda A. Barabino, Daniel and Frances Berg Professor and Dean of CCNY’s Grove School of Engineering; Curtis Archer, President of the Harlem Community Development Corporation Your browser does not support the audio element.