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Here’s part II of our interview with Kelly Price.  She’s definitely busy with the community and gearing up for her new album coming out this October.  check out what Kelly had to say. ELEV8:  Are you involved with any other community service projects? KELLY PRICE:  Yes, I’m involved with this exciting organization called, “Broadway in […]

Dr. Julianne Malveaux talks to Bernie McCain about her new book, “Surviving and Thriving: 365 facts in Black Economy History”, and the Urban League Conference at the Washington Convention Center. As the 15th President of Bennett College for Women, Dr. Julianne Malveaux has been the architect of exciting and innovative transformation at America’s oldest historically […]

“To hear conservatives tell it, there’s a one-sided race war going on in America, and white folks are the targets. From President Obama’s secret plan to use health care reform as a way to procure backdoor “reparations” for slavery, to his equally secret plan to wreck the economy as a way to pay white people […]

  Did you know that the United States of America, the Land of the Free, puts a larger portion of its population behind bars than any country on earth thanks in large part to the War on Drugs? As it happens, American drug prohibition and sentencing policies hit poor black men the hardest, devastating already disadvantaged […]

What can convince an intelligent, rational individual to commit an act of terror in the name of God? Author and former religious zealot Nader Pourhassan knows the answer to this question because he was indoctrinated by radical Muslim ideology at an early age. Born in Iran, Pourhassan was told by his own grandmother to hate […]

  The number of successful, young black men and women is on the rise even though this fact is often obscured by negative images of African Americans. Wright on the Edge is talking with two rising stars whose stories you may not have heard: Ernessa T. Carter has worked as an ESL teacher in Japan, a music […]

Join Bernie McCain Tuesday June 22nd at 5pm for an in-depth interview with James Lloyd, Assistant to the Director for Major Programs, U.S. Army on the 6th Annual National Veterans Small Business Conference. Mr. Lloyd was appointed as the Assistant to the Director for Major Programs in the U.S. Army, Office of Small Business Programs […]

DeShawn L. McMillan and John Ogden join Bernie today at 4:30pm to talk about the upcoming Run/Walk for Life 5k at Rock Creek Park, Sunday June 13th at 8am. DeShawn lost her mother, Sheila Ann Reddick while waiting for a transplant. DeShawn founded “Sheila’s Saving a Life Campaign”, a non-profit organization to raise awareness for […]

Internationally hailed as one of the greatest songstresses of our time, GRAMMY Award winning Roberta Flack remains unparalleled in her ability to tell a story through her music. Her songs bring insight into our lives, loves, culture and politics, while effortlessly traversing a broad musical landscape from pop to soul to folk to jazz. She […]

Wendy Wright takes on the question of why immigrants seize the American Dream while native born citizens are blind to it. Why do immigrants comprise 41 percent of the student population of Ivy League schools? What is it that immigrants teach their children that Americans don’t? These questions and more are the focus of discussion […]