Positively Black

Weekly series highlighting health and education issues, social and cultural programs and services in the black community. Tracie Strahan interviews those who are making a difference.

Our Voices Nov 27

Positively Black: Retired NYPD Officer Writes Stories to Turn the Page on Perceptions

A retired NYPD officer is writing children’s stories that he hopes will turn the page on relations between the community an police. John Chandler reports.

Positively Black Nov 21

Positively Black: Dr. Alfred Titus
Positively Black Nov 14

Positively Black: Music With a Message

Positively Black Nov 7

Positively Black: Artist Tyler Gordon

This week on Positively Black, Tyler Gordon, a 15-year-old artist with a severe speech impediment, shares his impressive artistic talents.
Positively Black Oct 31

Positively Black: Mission to Save African Burial Ground in Brooklyn

A grassroots effort seeks to honor African Americans who lived and died in a Brooklyn neighborhood.
Positively Black Oct 24

Positively Black: NYC Marathon History in the Making

This week on Positively Black, we feature Ted Metellus, the city’s first Black director of the New York City Marathon.
Positively Black Oct 3

Positively Black: Implicit Bias in Courts

This week on Positively Black, investigative reporter Chris Glorioso talks to Jason Daniel Williams, Director of the Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law at NYU about implicit bias in the courtroom...

Positively Black Sep 26

Positively Black: Jewelry Makers

Erica Byfield visits the Brilliant & Black exhibit at Sotheby’s
Positively Black Sep 12

Positively Black: Mount Vernon Neighborhood Health Center

In Westchester County, there’s a health center that’s become a one-stop shop for a community in need, providing medical care, transportation, and healthy food. This week on Positively Black, News 4’s Marc Santia takes a visit to Mount Vernon Neighborhood Health Center.
Positively Black Sep 5

Positively Black: Chef Adrienne Cheatham

This week on Positively Black, Chef Adrienne Cheatham is determined to change hearts and minds with every dish.
Positively Black Aug 15

Positively Black: Fathers Who Bother

This week on Positively Black, we feature Jerry Barrow’s podcast, “Fathers Who Bother,” which was created to help shift public perception of Black dads.
Positively Black Aug 8

Positively Black: The Black Women Wage Gap

This week on Positively Black, Gilma Avalos speaks with Jasmine Tucker, the Director of Research at the National Women’s Law Center, to discuss the wage gap between Black women and white men.
Positively Black Aug 2

Positively Black: Blapp

This week on Positively Black, we feature Blapp, an app that is a guide to Black-owned businesses and restaurants in the US!
Positively Black Jul 18

Positively Black: Cartooning While Black

This week on Positively Black, cartoonists Victor Varnado and Akeem Roberts talk about their book, “The Anti-Racism Coloring Book,” and how they want to encourage conversations about racism.
Positively Black Jul 11

Positively Black: Holding Companies Accountable

Amid America’s racial reckoning, some of the loudest calls for change have been in the advertising world. Last year, NBC New York’s Erica Byfield reported on the demands and the promises and now, in Positively Black, she explores where we are now with one top executive who’s challenging some of the biggest names in the business....
Positively Black Jul 4

Positively Black: Terence Blanchard on Jazz, Opera & the Need for Change

This week on “Positively Black”: a pioneering composer who’s touching every part of the music world from the club to the stage, and to Hollywood.
Positively Black Mar 15, 2020

Positively Black: Deborah Riley Draper

Tracie Strahan speaks with author and filmmaker Deborah Riley Draper about her book, “Olympic Pride, American Prejudice.”
Positively Black Mar 8, 2020

Positively Black: Marvina Robinson

Tracie Strahan speaks with Marvina Robinson about her business, Stuyvesant Champagne.
Positively Black Mar 1, 2020

Positively Black: Christian McBride

Tracie Strahan speaks with bassist and composer Christian McBride about his new release, “The Movement Revisited: A Musical Portrait of Four Icons.”
Positively Black Feb 23, 2020

Positively Black: Going Green at the Laundromat

The future of cleaning your prized fabrics is the focus of a laundromat called Celsious in Brooklyn. Tracie Strahan speaks with the sisters behind the eco-friendly business.

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