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Supporting Young Athletes: Advancing Beyond in Sports (ABIS)

Release Date: 09/26/2025

Calming Traffic: Virginia Walkability Action Institute

Arrested Mobility

When we talk about racial discrimination in American cities, we usually focus on housing, schools, or policing. We talk less about streets and sidewalks. But in many communities of color, decades of disinvestment have resulted in a built environment where people are unable to move through public space in a safe and healthy way. Those communities tend to look a lot like Lansdowne, a predominantly Black, low-income neighborhood in Roanoke, Virginia. It’s a place where wide, fast roads cut through a residential area and pedestrians have spent years navigating streets that weren't built with...

Community Violence Intervention: Chicago CRED

Arrested Mobility

For generations, the dominant public response to violence was punishment and enforcement. But another approach has continued to grow alongside that model: Community Violence Intervention. CVI suggests that the people best positioned to interrupt gun violence are often those with lived experience, deep relationships, and hard-earned credibility in the communities most affected. Sometimes, they're people who were previously in a gang, or been in prison, or lost their family to a shooting. Those folks have more credibility with their community, and more influence to help young men facing elevated...

Clean Neighborhoods: WE ACT for Environmental Justice

Arrested Mobility

When majority minority neighborhoods become sacrifice zones for pollution, it can fall on community members to stand up and defend their health and wellbeing. Case in point: the nonprofit organization, WE ACT for Environmental Justice, was founded in 1988 to organize the people of West Harlem and protest the construction of the North River Sewage Treatment Plant. Today, WE ACT continues to advocate for environmental justice in Northern Manhattan, and beyond. By centering community outreach, they’ve managed to include residents into the processes that determine their neighborhood’s health....

Fighting For Health Equity: California Black Health Network

Arrested Mobility

Healthcare is a difficult system to navigate in the United States, no matter who you are. But research shows that Black Americans face unique challenges when seeking medical care. On this episode, Charles T. Brown speaks with Rhonda Smith, Executive Director of the California Black Health Network. This is an organization that advocates for Black Californians of all backgrounds to have quality, equitable access to healthcare. Find California Black Health Network at https://yourcbhn.org/

Essential Riders: Detroit People's Platform

Arrested Mobility

One night in 2014, Renard Monczunski was stranded at a transit center in downtown Detroit. It took three hours for a bus to come. He was angry, but the experience got him thinking about the state of public transit in the city that built the American automobile industry. Renard decided to do something about it. Together with Detroit People’s Platform, he built a team of transit riders that have learned to wield power by refusing to stay invisible. It’s been years of difficult, often unglamorous work. But today, he’s affected real change by making sure that city officials can’t ignore...

Supporting Young Athletes: Advancing Beyond in Sports (ABIS)

Arrested Mobility

Advancing Beyond in Sports (ABIS) is an advocacy group that addresses sports-specific inequity, particularly for young athletes of color. Their work involves showing students alternate options to consider after their athletic career, and helping athletes secure Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) deals to build businesses and wealth. Today, Charles T. Brown and his son, Christian Brown, speak with ABIS Chief People Officer, Renae Myles Payne. Find ABIS at https://weareabis.org/

Narrative Change: The Center for Cultural Power

Arrested Mobility

The Center for Cultural Power works with BIPOC communities to amplify authentic stories that counter harmful narratives and build public will for policy change. From supporting Walmart workers to advancing reproductive justice, they've seen firsthand how the right story told at the right time can reshape entire movements. In this episode, Charles T. Brown sits down with Aisha Goss, CEO of the Center for Cultural Power, to explore how narrative strategy creates lasting social change. Find The Center for Cultural Power at https://www.culturalpower.org/

Housing Reparations: Taking Ownership PDX

Arrested Mobility

In 2020, shortly after the murder of George Floyd, Portland native Randal Wyatt had an idea. As people asked him how they could be better allies to the Black community, he saw an opportunity to address a critical but often overlooked driver of gentrification: home maintenance. Taking Ownership PDX was born, providing free repairs and renovations for Black homeowners, particularly elderly residents at risk of displacement. Find Taking Ownership PDX at https://takingownershippdx.org/

Fighting Food Apartheid: The Detroit People's Food Co-op

Arrested Mobility

In 2024, the Detroit People's Food Co-op opened its doors in Detroit's North End neighborhood. This full-service grocery store was birthed by the Detroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network, or DBCFSN. It’s an organization that focuses on food justice, land access, and building Black self-determination. Today, we will hear from Gi'anna Shears and Dr. Shakara Tyler Saba, the co-executive directors of the DBCFSN, about their vision for a more equitable food system, why language matters in discussing food access, and how their organization is creating a closed-loop economic ecosystem...

Breaking the Bedside Barrier: The Legacy of Black Hospitals

Arrested Mobility

In 1942, the Taborian Hospital opened in Mound Bayou, Mississippi. At a time when most hospitals segregated Black from White patients or turned Black patients away, the Taborian Hospital provided equal treatment and care for all. There is no question that desegregation and the Civil Rights Movement improved access to healthcare for Black Americans. But today, rural hospitals increasingly face closure, and healthcare disparities continue to negatively impact Black Americans. It’s worth investigating the history of the Taborian Hospital, and other hospitals that were visited and staffed by...

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