The Race and Ethnic Relations on Campus Podcast Show

SHOW #77: DEION SANDERS - ”PRIME TIME” HAS CHANGED COLLEGE FOOTBALL FOREVER

Here is SHOW #77 - DEION SANDERS - "PRIME TIME" HAS CHANGED COLLEGE FOOTBALL FOREVER in which I not only discuss the CULTURAL impact of Deion's impact on college football but also his impact on changing race and ethnic relations on college campuses across the United States. Just the fact that Deion Sanders is HeadCoach of a major Division I school - Colorado University - in the Pac 12 and next year in the BIG 12, HeadCoach Deion Sanders is one of FEW Black Head Coaches in the higher level of conferences in college football today. Last week, HeadCoach Sanders took his young and new team of Colorado football team and coaches and beat TCU in one of the most entertaining games to start the college football season. Few so-called sports experts selected the Colorado Buffalos to win this game, but Deion and his players did - in a dramatic and shocking way! In this show, I further highlight how Deion will CHANCE College Football FOREVER primarily because of his message to the athletes today and to the BELIEF that ANYONE can succeed if they TRULY BELIEVE!! After listening to my Podcast show, please send me email and let me know your thoughts at: ejb678@gmail.com.  PEACE OUT and WE COMING!!

SHOW #76: CELEBRATING Dr.B’s SEVEN BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING BOOKS

Here is SHOW #76: CELEBRATING Dr.B.'s SEVEN BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING BOOKS! In this podcast show, I highlight all of my 7 Bloomsbury Publishing Books starting with my 2018 book - (1) "Race and Ethnic Relations on Campus: Understanding, Empowerment and Solutions for College Students" in which this podcast show is based upon. Now that Bloomsbury Publishing has taken over my previous publisher (ABC-CLIO publishers), my seven books have more of an international and global market. Check out this podcast show in which I give you the INSIGHT and REASONS why I researched and wrote all of my books during the past 23 - 25 years! My other books include: (2) The New Face of America: How the Multiracial, Multiethnic Majority is Changing the United States - 2013, (3) The Cultural Rights Movement: Fulfilling the Promise of Civil Rights for African Americans - 2010, (4) Black America, Body Beautiful: How the African American Image is Changing the Fashion, Fitness, and Other Industries - 2008, (5) Food Choice and Obesity in Black America: Creating a New Cultural Diet - 2006, (6) African American Alternative Medicine: Using Alternative Medicine to Prevent and Control Chronic Diseases - 2002, and (7) Medical Anthropology and African American Health. After listening to this podcast show, if you have any comments and questions, please feel free to email me at: ejb678@gmail.com. I hope you LIKE this podcast show and SUBSCRIBE on any of the podcast platforms. As always, PEACE OUT!

SHOW #75: SUPREME COURT RULING on AFFIRMATIVE ACTION

Here is SHOW #75: SUPREME COURT RULING on AFFIRMATIVE ACTION in which I discuss the recent decision about the court's ruling and the RAMIFICATIONS that each and every institution must change and adapt their policies in college admissions. Quite frankly, this decision was going to happen and many of us who have been in higher education for decades had a feeling that it was about to happen. Why? In my podcast, I breakdown the reasons why and being a person of color and a professor in academia, "race" will no longer be in the only criteria for evaluating future students into higher education. So now, it is a NEW DAY for higher education institutions, administrators, and directors to start seriously evaluating future students more HOLISTICALLY about their potential to succeed at their respective institutions and NOT simply enroll students just because of their race and trying to be "EQUITABLE" at their institution. If you have a comment or suggestion, please email me at: ejb678@gmail.com. After listening to my podcast, please LIKE and SUBSCRIBE to my podcast too! Indeed, it is a NEW DAY! PEACE OUT!

SHOW #74: HALLE BAILEY AND DISNEY’S LITTLE MERMAID

This is SHOW #74 - "HALLE BAILEY and DISNEY'S LITTLE MERMAID" in which I discuss how this new movie became a GLOBAL BLOCKBUSTER overnight and broke cultural and ethnic barriers all in one UPLIFTING classic movie. In this movie, Halle Bailey plays the role of "Ariel" - a mermaid who wants to become a human and to marry her prince charming - Eric (sailor). The villainess, played by Melissa McCarthy, tries to stop it at all costs. What's so fascinating about this entire movie is that it is LIVE-ACTION, real people playing these roles instead of the ANIMATED 1988 cartoon-characters. Most importantly, it is Halle Bailey who is a woman of color being the BEAUTIFUL MERMAID!! She is stunning and so believable in this role while also making the audience forget that the original role of this mermaid was for a non-person of color. Talk about BREAKING BARRIERS and challenging our MISCONCEPTIONS & STEREOTYPES of lead characters in classic Disney movies, Ms Halle Bailey did it with STYLE, GRACE, BEAUTY, and BRAINS! In this podcast, I go much deeper in my analysis of race and ethnic relations because this CLASSIC DISNEY film helped to put race and ethnic relations on a GLOBAL SCALE with a POSITIVE message! Please send me your comments, thoughts, or suggestions about this podcast show at: ejb678@gmail.com. I look forward to reading your comments and continuing the discussion on race and ethnic relations in 2023!

SHOW #73: MENTAL HEALTH and COLLEGE STUDENTS

Here is SHOW #73: MENTAL HEALTH and COLLEGE STUDENTS. In this show, I discuss the serious issues of Mental Health and Mental Illness among college students today. As I have observed over my 35 years of teaching college classes, more and more of my college students are experiencing varying degrees of mental health issues. Whether it is increased anxiety, nervousness, isolationism, or depression, a much larger percentage of my Gen Z college students are experiencing more mental health conditions which may lead to a serious mental illness. In fact, I even share my own mental health issues when I was a college student in the 1970s and 1980s and struggled through some tough issues individually. The major TakeAway from this Podcast show is to: (1) Stay connected with your college student, (2) Listen more intensely to your college student, (3) Encourage more dialogue with your college student, (4) Provide more positive interactions and engagement with your college student, and (5) Reassure your college student that it is okay to seek professional help for your individual mental health situation. If you have a comment, question, or SUGGESTIONS related to this podcast show, please email me at: ejb678@gmail.com. As always, STAY SAFE, STAY CONNECTED, and EXPAND YOUR NETWORK!  Peace Out!

SHOW #72 - RACE RELATIONS: UNDERSTANDING the IMPACT on YOUR CAREER and LIFE

Here is SHOW #72: RACE RELATIONS: UNDERSTANDING the IMPACT on YOUR CAREER and LIFE. In this show, I discuss the importance of the concept - Race Relations -- and why it is so important and impactful to today's college students and young professionals. Unfortunately, during the past few years because of COVID-19, many of my college students had to isolate themselves from other students yet this has significantly caused them to NOT RELATE well to other students who do not look like them or have a different history or lifestyle than them. That's why it is critically important for today's college student (after post Covid) to make an EXTRA EFFORT in engaging, interacting, and immersing oneself in another person's culture so he/she can develop the necessary skills in developing POSITIVE race relations now in college BEFORE he/she graduates and live in the REAL WORLD! In this show, I also share my own personal experiences when I was in college at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio during the late 1970s in which I learned how to get along with other students who were completely different than me. It was the best experience for me at the time and I STILL thank my parents for supporting me! If you have a comment about this show, please send me an email at: ejb678@gmail.com. Please LIKE and SUBSCRIBE to the Race and Ethnic Relations Show on your favorite Podcast platform. PEACE OUT!

SHOW #71 - ANGELA BASSETT and WAKANDA FOREVER

Here is SHOW #71: ANGELA BASSETT and WAKANDA FOREVER. In this show, I highlight the achievement of the actress and Woman of Color - Angela Bassett - along with the phenomenal new movie - WAKANDA FOREVER - in which was a #1 Blockbuster movie for 4 weeks in a row.  The day before I recorded this show, Angela Bassett was NOMINATED by the Academy Awards for BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS for her role in WAKANDA FOREVER!! I therefore felt it was time to RECOGNIZE the phenomenal career of ANGELA BASSETT and what she brings as a person, individual, wife, mother, actress, and woman of color over her decades of work as an actress after graduating from Yale University with her Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A) from Yale School of Drama in 1983! I believe that Angela Bassett along with her Oscar nomination and the movie WAKANDA FOREVER are a CELEBRATION of academic achievement, hard-work, and an appreciation of culture in which ALL of us need in these challenging times of race and ethnic relations. After listening to my podcast show, please send me an email at: ejb678@gmail.com if you agree or disagree. I would truly want to receive your feedback and opinion. As always, take care and LET'S SUPPORT ANGELA BASSETT in getting her OSCAR this year!! If you are with me, send me an email too! PEACE OUT!

SHOW #70 - DEVELOPING SOLUTIONS TO IMPROVE RACE RELATIONS

- Here is SHOW #70: DEVELOPING SOLUTIONS TO IMPROVE RACE RELATIONS. In this show, I highlight the STRATEGIES that each and every person can use to improve race relations in their community, town, city, neighborhood, college, university, institution, or company. In this episode, first, I commend my outstanding college students for their end of the semester projects in which they are developing new strategies to improve race relations on campus. I am thoroughly pleased with how my college students are passionate about trying to improve race relations and it is showing in their projects. Next, I provide the FRAMEWORK for improving race relations. Finally, I strongly suggest that every person who listens to this podcast can "BE A CHANGE AGENT" to improve race relations in their lives. In fact, I am asking the listening audience to send me an email at: ejb678@gmail.com stating that YOU are going to be THAT CHANGE AGENT! Will you? I believe you can and I believe the time is NOW! Let's ALL OF US BE THAT CHANGE AGENT and effect our world for the GOOD & POSITIVE! Stay Safe and PEACE OUT! Let's do this for 2022, 2023 and BEYOND!!

SHOW #69: POLITICS AND RACE

Here is SHOW #69: POLITICS AND RACE. In this show, I pose the question and suggest that the average citizen still selects a candidate based upon his/her race. Although a majority of us listen and support a candidate based upon their issues, stance on different policies, values, beliefs, agenda, and accomplishments, there is STILL a certain percentage of the reason for WHY we select a candidate and I CONTEND that RACE is a part of that equation. WHAT DO YOU THINK? Please email me at: ejb678@gmail.com. Regardless of your political affiliation -- Democrat, Republican, Independent, Green party or Other -- send me an email and share your perspective. After listening to my podcast, please LIKE or SUBSCRIBE. Final takeaway from this podcast -- PLEASE GO VOTE!! This is a Midterm election so it is very important across the United States! EVERYONE PLEASE VOTE PARTICULARLY COLLEGE STUDENTS!! Peace Out!

SHOW #68 - DO YOU FEEL COMFORTABLE EXPRESSING YOUR ETHNICITY OR NOT IN THE U.S. OR ELSEWHERE?

Here is SHOW #68: DO YOU FEEL COMFORTABLE EXPRESSING YOUR ETHNICITY OR NOT IN THE U.S. OR ELSEWHERE? In this show, I begin by defining the word "Ethnic Groups" and then provide examples of ethnic groups within our U.S. racial populations. Next, I pose the question to the listening audience -- Since you live in an increasingly racially diverse world and community, DO YOU FEEL COMFORTABLE EXPRESSING YOUR ETHNICITY on a daily basis particularly on college and university campuses across the U.S. and elsewhere? I have had an interesting response from college students but I would like to find out what is the general pattern or preference among my listening audience of this podcast show. Please email me at: ejb678@gmail.com and share with me your experiences or preference. I think this is a very critical question to DIG DEEPER INTO now simply because our universities and colleges are changing rapidly and we need to find out what are the opinions of our college students and those who are NOT college students living in this world and their own individual communities.  As I always say, this PODCAST FORUM is for us to connect, engage, discuss, debate and LEARN from each other. Thank you for listening and let's continue to grow together! PEACE OUT!