Truth’s Table LIVE: American Institute for Research Equity Event with Aloe Blacc

Truth's Table

Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Episode Description: It’s been a while since Truth’s Table has done a live event, so it was fitting for our first live recording to take place at the National Museum of African-American Music in Nashville, TN. In this episode, Ekemini and Christina sit down at the table with Dr. Rashawn Ray and Aloe Blacc at the event, “AIR Equity Initiative Pathways to Peace: Reimagining the Future of Public Safety for Youth and Communities.” We discuss racial equity, activism, and the need to dismantle systemic barriers so that Black children can thrive and dream. We also sat down with Dr. Terrance McNeil and Dr. Melissa Collins to discuss school safety from elementary school to the college classroom.

Learn more about our guests:

Dr. Rashawn Ray serves as Vice President and Executive Director of the AIR Equity Initiative at the American Institutes for Research.
Aloe Blacc is a Grammy-nominated musician, philanthropist, and advocate.
Dr. Melissa Collins is an educator from Memphis-Shelby County Schools, known for her engaging and innovative STEAM initiatives, and was named the 2022-23 Tennessee Teacher of the Year.
Dr. Terrance McNeil is an assistant professor at Tennessee State University and has expertise in culturally responsive school governance, mentoring, and shrinking opportunity gaps through leadership development (including educating and mentoring aspiring principals in TN). He was the inaugural recipient of the Excellence in Innovation and Competitiveness Award from the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (2018).

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0:00.0	This episode of Truths Table is brought to you by our NAACP Image Award nominated book,
0:06.2	Truths Table, Black Women's Musings on Life, Love and Liberation. Get it where all books are sold.
0:14.0	Sisters, how y'all feel? Brothers, y'all all right? If this is your first time at Truths Table,
0:19.8	welcome to the table, and you've been sitting at the table with us all these years,
0:24.0	we are so grateful that you have been listening to us through these years and we are inviting you
0:28.6	to partner with us and support our work at patreon.com slash Truths Table. Now pull up a chair
0:35.2	and have a seat at the table with us.
0:38.4	Afternoon everybody. Well, usually how we start off our show is welcome to Truths Table.
0:44.8	Midwives of Project for Grace and Truth. I'm Akemini and I'm Christina. This table is both
0:50.0	by Black Women for Black Women, so welcome to the table, y'all. How y'all doing?
0:54.6	I'm doing well, thank you. Definitely great to be here. Thank you.
0:58.8	Yes, yes, we are honored first of all. Let me get the title of this event right because this is
1:03.2	extensive, this title. Okay, it is air equity initiative working at the intersections symposium,
1:11.3	pathways to peace, reimagining the future of public safety for youth and communities and we are at
1:17.6	the National Museum of African American Music in Nashville. I'm excited to be here in conversation
1:23.5	with you all. Yeah, yeah. So I've got your textbook definitions of who you are, but I would rather
1:28.8	have you tell us who you are in your own words, but let me introduce you to the listeners who will
1:33.5	be dialing in for this today. We have Dr. Rashan Rae who serves as the vice president executive
1:39.9	director for the AIR Equity Initiative at the American Institute for Research, Shoutout to all
1:44.8	the researchers in the room. I'm a psychologist by trading. This is the world we live in and I'm
1:49.9	really grateful to also introduce Aloe Black to the to the room today, especially as we're sitting
1:56.1	in this historic museum that highlights African American music. You are a Grammy nominated musician.
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