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"TALK-STRAIGHT"

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During our last episode, the conversation was explosive, informative and thought provoking! Well… Let's do again! Generally TALK-STRAIGHT has a basic format: Host Generated Topics - Opening Monologue –... more

Thanks to all of our loyal listeners! If you have been following us then you know that TALK-STRAIGHT has a basic format: Host Generated Topics - Opening Monologue – Question/Answer. Well, tonight we suspend with the... more

Over the last year or so, Talk-Straight has held many discussions about the plight and make up of Urban America. To a large extent the focus of topics has been on the poor and at-risk population that has been around for decades. However,... more

Often when the conversation about success is held – somehow the focus is on ?taking a chance? that one can reach a desired end. However the reality is that success is the product of deliberate actions designed to achieve a specific... more

In the noun form the word ?GIFT? has at least two applications: 1. a thing given willingly to someone without payment; a present or 2. a natural ability or talent. As related to Urban American youth, there are many gifts and talents that go... more

More and more we hear of young males who go ballistic in their actions. Within them are built up aggressions and hostilities toward authority figures and society as a whole. The underlying factor is the lack of trust and confidence in self... more

Our first encounter with life involved the challenge of someone having to push hard to bring us into this world. After birth many struggle to stay alive or maintain a certain quality of life. In the Urban American experience – certain... more

There is power in CHANGE! It is amazing to know that our lives can be made better by our own efforts. The good news is that with a change in perspective there can be innovation that results in personal growth and success! Join... more

While in a Birmingham, Alabama jail cell, in 1963 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., pinned a historical letter. He entitled it ?Why We Can't Wait?? Motivated by the national presence of social economic inequity and oppression all across... more

At the conclusion of our last episode a very significant question was raised… ?How do you get residents of urban neighborhoods to be unified?? The premise to the question is based in one of the six suggestions shared by the show's... more

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