RACE TALKS® – November 2025 on Tuesday, November 18th at 7pm EST!

THEME: Freedom Under Fire: Sharing What We Are Thankful for in Rhythm and Verse

In this episode, treat yourself to jazz that jumps and poetry that propels vivid images into the minds of those who listen.

Join Host Kimberly Erwin, graduate of the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education and author of “There’s Only 1 Race—the Human One,” Says Me! A Children’s Book Ending Racism (second edition coming in 2026!). Kimberly brings her intercultural lens to this LIVE conversation with Dr. Herman Beavers, renowned scholar, poet, and cultural historian—the Julie Beren Platt and Marc E. Platt President’s Distinguished Professor of English and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

Both Dr. Beavers—whose teaching and poetry bridge the worlds of language, community, and resistance—and Kimberly, who at WGXC has interviewed dozens of leaders, thinkers, and creators of color, explore what it means to give thanks in a time when truth, history, and culture are under attack.

As an introduction to the evening’s conversation, Kimberly honors America’s Black cultural legacy with a reading from “Black Arts: My Mind is Burning,” written by her late uncle Americus Moses Kash III—a 1960s poet and professional athlete whose collection The Black Bard: Book of Moses captures the unflinching voice of a Black man navigating White America.

Throughout the broadcast, expect poetry, jazz, and conversation that speak to resilience, artistry, and the ongoing fight for understanding. The TALK Term for the night, “Wokeness,” will challenge listeners to consider how awareness itself has become a political act—and what it really means to stay awake in times like these.

So this November, while many gather around tables of gratitude, Race Talks® gathers around truth. Because when freedom is under fire, being thankful for our history—and daring to tell it—is its own revolution.  Also on hand is our very own Garrett Roche of The Roche Solid Truth podcast to connect listeners with us from our social media site AND to play the very wonderful musical interludes for this episode.  You do not want to miss the Professor's faves!

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