In this episode, Janelle and Melissa talk with Angela Carol Brown, Carlos Brumfield, and Taj Shareef about the Echoes vMuseum, Creating from the Ashes, and what it was like to be a Black creative in 2020 amidst Coronavirus and the protest atmosphere after the murders of Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, and Breonna Taylor. Find us at: iTunes - Click Here Google Play - Click Here Spotify - Click Here Check out our vMuseum and all the artists featured www.echoesofthestruggle.com/vmu

In this episode of "on air with...," Janelle talks with Echoes' new co-host, Melissa Mains, about finding a voice in social justice conversations and teaching inclusion to her son, Patrick. Find us at: iTunes - Click Here Google Play - Click Here Spotify - Click Here

In this episode of "on air with...," Janelle and Melissa talk with Maithy Vu, editor at Rebel Girls books, about her creative writing journey and how Rebel Girls is expanding the list of female heroes for young girls. This episode was recorded before the recent hate crime against Asian Americans in Atlanta. Our guest is devastated over the attack and would like to take this opportunity to encourage others to visit https://linktr.ee/stopasianhateresources to find ways they can

Words matter. We are taught as children that our words matter, and words laced with anger, hate and jealousy cannot be taken back. We can apologize for it, but the message as soon as it left our mouth, had already pierced someone’s heart. I’m sure we can all look back on a point in our lives where we heard something said to us, about us, and it still stings, no matter how long it's been. In raising my children, we say affirmations after prayers and books. We say, out loud, wo