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MCNP: Former tennis pro, Katrina Adams, tells us her post-election liberation dreams

Election day is less than one week away. Have you voted? More importantly, what are your plans to move this fight forward after you vote? Katrina Adams leads our conversation on the significance of generational advocacy efforts and change.

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MCNP: How athlete and activist Maxwell Pearce uses his platform to speak out against police brutality

As a professional athlete and current Harlem Globetrotters, Maxwell Pearce stands in solidarity as fellow NBA & WNBA players use their platforms to disrupt pro sports in wake of the Jacob Blake shooting by police.

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Expressions of Frida: Bella Canzano Examines Self-Love & Latinx Identity through Vibrant Art & Music

Bella Canzano is a Phoenix-based Peruvian/Italian American artist skilled in singing, songwriting, and illustration

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MCNP: Harlem Globetrotter Max Pearce talks sports activism in today’s climate

American actress and singer Vanessa Williams joins fellow Horace Greeley High alum and host Lauren Stockmon Brown to discuss the complexity of identity politics.

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Expressions of Frida: Eunsoo Jeong Turns Rage into Art

Chidi Asoluka and MCNP founder Lauren Stockmon Brown question how we can collectively liberate the minds of young people

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MCNP: Vanessa Williams talks ‘Bad Hair’, identity politics & navigating high school

American actress and singer Vanessa Williams joins fellow Horace Greeley High alum and host Lauren Stockmon Brown to discuss the complexity of identity politics.

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VIDEO: Indigenous communities can’t defeat colonialism without fighting anti-Blackness

Blackness was and is considered expensive, yet indigeneity was and is not.

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Season 2, Episode 5: Richard Pryor’s Smith College professor daughter & granddaughter discuss the ‘N Word’ & respectability politics

Famous 1970’s comedian Richard Pryor had his own journey around the “N word,” and current Smith College Professor, Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor explains how her father disavowed his own use of the word.

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9 intimate photos exploring the meaning & importance of Black queer love

Black queer love, in and of itself, is a defiance to what a Eurocentric, hateful world views as worthy, beautiful, and acceptable.

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My Colorful Nana Project: “Education unlocks human stories & makes ‘othering’ people harder” an interview with Chidi Asoluka

Chidi Asoluka and MCNP founder Lauren Stockmon Brown question how we can collectively liberate the minds of young people

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