All right, my friends how we doing welcome back to the channel and welcome back to yet another reaction video today. We look at the 48th ranked player in the top 100 NFL players in 2022 is named Robert Quinn. It's a name. I've heard before it's not a face I I can apply to that name, but I'm sure we'll see that and more in just a few seconds. He plays defensive end for the bears the bear And with that in mind, let's get into it This Robert Quinn is an unstoppable force Here's why I love Robert Quinn He was why Mike why oh my god. Look at him the state champion in wrestling in high school a lot of high school Bodybuilders will train for 20 years and still not look like that people don't know that all due respect to my backs of all players We're gonna go in the hard world. We're gonna be real cool. Shake them up pull up Free throws all that right? Yeah, yeah, you're right jump shot that fade away all that he's like nah I'm gonna put a headgear on guess weighty Russell oh You got a love of the Mike Daniels You just have been some time since Robert Quinn last appeared on the top 100 basketball is a flashy sport, but then again, so is football wrestling Not so much though. He did look like a bodybuilder. I don't know what he was eating.  But some things never change I Mean he's unbelievable. I mean I think There's just NFL throwbacks Instagram page and they posted I guess he had a season where he like 20 sacks He's been in St. Louis and I was watching that like what in the world It's eight years from that right so it looks like there's no drop-off in those eight years 26 how old is the guy? Quinn makes his return to the players list in record-setting fashion His 18 and a half sack set a bear's franchise record and put him over 100 for his career Hey What? It's like every every couple seasons people like try and forget about Robert Quinn like he didn't he didn't have like 19 or 20 sacks one year Like this is a guy who's got with a hundred and something sacks. He does That he does and with that in mind. Let's have a look at his stats Certainly deserves it. I've seen it. I've seen I must have seen him on the list before but let's get into it minute 1990 Six foot four to 45 May 19th May 18th. Sorry 1990 32 years of age Went in the first round of the 2011 draft pick number 14 Played at the Rams From 2011 to 2017 then the Dolphins in 2018 the Cowboys in 2019 and he's been at the Bears for the last two years He was selected as a first-team all-pro in 2013 and eight years later is selected as a second-team all-pro in 2021 and I don't know what happened in between there. Well, actually now I do he won three Super Bowls Sorry Pro Bowl. Oh my god, geez that's the first Pro Bowl Super Bowl, which would you rather I mean three-time Pro Bowl of 13 14 and last year So there's a seven-year gap between Pro Bowl appearances and that is sick He's listed at 245 in his profile But pre-draft he's 265. I could edit that but I won't a 40-yard dash of 4.7 seconds a Vertical jump of 34 a broad jump of 10 foot 5 24 reps on the bench. Let's have a look at his stats. Oh my lordy lord That's a lot of seasons That's that's 11 seasons guys 157 games 359 combined tackles 278 solo 101 sacks So he just snuck over with 18.5 if he had it had 16.5. He'd still be on 99 18.5 sacks, that's half a sack less than his career high back in 2013 Which was 19 four force fumbles this year bringing his total to 32 20 passes deflected Including zero for the last two years, but that's okay He was probably playing a different role in that year because he got less sacks, but got more passes deflected That's how I see it. Anyways guys. What an absolute legend. Let's have a look at this Quinn's mother Maria Camacho is from True Leo Alto Puerto Rico Quinn is the brother of Olympic gold medalist Puerto Rican hurdler Jasmine Camacho Quinn Olympic gold in the family That's something else. Let's just have a quick look at his college career because we do want to know about his His wrestling actually they don't have a huge amount of information about his wrestling, but that's alright Let's get back into it the 30 32 year old veteran who kind of looks like Ray Lewis.  No, he's got the right mentality is a wrestler. I'm a wrestler I understand him in time and he takes okay I don't know about Robert Quinn, but you don't want to wrestle Mike Daniels that mentality on the football field And nobody locked the mighty Quinn can't kill us We're still around No, we're not like roaches. You can't kill roaches, but I want to cause roaches, right?  He's an absolute sack machine He's trying to throw that, you know in the earth second in the league last year to only TJ What I'm led to believe so, but you know, it's hard to do and he's pretty good at it Just it's such a great story.  My god, he'd be playing till he's 36 at least And that is the formidable Robert Quinn Tell you what to sign a 31-year-old guy at the time to a five-year 70 million dollar deal They knew what they were getting they knew he hadn't dropped off He's joined some good company NFL players with 16 or more sacks in 13 games or less TJ Watt Robert Quinn Sean Merriman and Reggie White. He has just had a phenomenal season this year and just keeps producing How does he do that? Good penetration at the line of scrimmage was able to get into the backfield No way Tanya with Robert quit off the snap. I think it is the wrestling. It's got to be the wrestling. Oh I will not be surprised. I'm actually expecting him to have a very similar season to what he had this past season Fred well For the bear saga. I hope he does Right guys that was an entertaining one. They're only gonna get more entertaining from here on out Excuse me in the next one. We're looking at Fred Warner the player. I've certainly seen before and No time to lose Robert Quinn. Best of luck Fred Warner. I'll see you soon. Cheers guys and peace out


Hello friends and welcome to a another Pokemon update video My name is Lee also known as Osiris and in today's video We're gonna be going over the updates for the live Gigantamax events that are now running They've changed round in the wild area in Pokemon Sword and Shield so we're gonna cover them today and Firstly the big one is Toxricity is now available so you can see Toxricity if we go over to the Sword and Shield website. You can see Gigantamax Toxricity is now available within the game So it will be running from like now until the 8th of March I believe is when this this specific Gmax event finishes you can see it's electric and poison I didn't actually think we were gonna get it this soon. Honestly, I thought it might be one of the last Gmax Pokemon that we're gonna get because you know the data is in the game But there's no way to access it before now. So it's a real special one for us to get and There are two forms obviously the low key form which is available in shield and the amp form which is available in sword So you can get the other one if you've only got one version by finding friends finding and Raids online and joining those and hopefully you'll get the opposite cart version to what you've got And you can see it has got the signature Gmax move a stun shock, which is pretty cool Electric type move used by a Gigantamax Toxricity Will change to Gmax stun shock Gmax stun shock and not only deals damage But also poisons and paralyzes all opponents Which is a pretty pretty nice ability to have on top of the damage itself And you can see there is the amp form in the low key form Both forms look exactly the same when they are Gmax though So there's you're not missing out there, but it's a pretty nice Gmax Pokemon But these aren't the only changes that we've had to the wild area live Gmax events recently We've got the military one that is still running at the moment, and I believe if we hop over to serabi.net The military event is running till the 16th of February So we know that the other new Gigantamax Pokemon that will go over in a minute They haven't gotten ended as of yet So they are gonna be running as soon as you get an update on that I will let you know the the ones that were running the Lapras, Colossal and Philapple and Appleton are now finished. They're gone. They're not around. So they've been replaced by Kingler Morgrem Morgrem is obviously it has the ability to Gmax, but The it's only available in three star raids. So the likelihood of you getting it. It's a little rarer Although it has got a 20% Chance to spawn from the raids Toxricity is obviously one that we've just covered then you've got Grimsnall is another event Gmax Pokemon that we can get at the minute, which is pretty cool another 20% that's from a four star raid and then if we go down there is some more Pokemon Orbitil now Gmax Orbitil is another Pokemon available from these events You've got a 20% spawn chance from a three star raid then Hattern is another one 20% from that three star and then the Toxricity and as we go up to the four star You can see how to rain is now available as well. So we've got Orbitil. We've got Kingler We've got Hattern and Toxricity and the milsery event still running milsery is running till the 16th Remember there's lots of dates running around here So that one will end soon So do grab your milseries because remember I did cover a video on the milsery Gmax Events and you can get the star and the ribbon sweets which are exclusive to these raids So make sure you do grab them while you have the chance and then yeah and come down to the five star raid So five star you've got Orbitil 20% Hattern is 20% and the Toxricity is 30% so a little bit more of a chance to get the Toxricity So that's pretty nice pretty nice and what I've done I got in from work today I've had a pretty busy week as always And I wanted to get this up yesterday. Unfortunately had no time So come in tonight and I thought to mark a little special occasion We try and get ourselves a shiny event Toxricity because pretty cool So I've got the the den all set up and what I wanted to drop in this video was actually if you guys Would like me to cover how I've got this shiny red den and it took me like literally an hour an hour I got home from work. I did it all an hour got to this den in an hour I will I will do a video covering this over the weekend and I'll pop it up on Sunday So if you want let's say to Reinsure the interest let's get to a hundred likes on this video And I will I will post this I will publish the video or the guide on how to do this on Sunday for you It's a real simple method. I already have covered how you can get any G max Pokemon or any Pokemon I'm shiny in any den already, but this method is way more streamlined So if you guys would like to see that do let me know remember hit that like button Hit the subscribe button for more content like this and yeah, it all helps the channel out So we'll dive into this one and we'll give you a glimpse of at least one of the G max Pokemon in This this new event that's going on in the minute and we'll have a look I'm not sure if we really yeah, you can it's kind of it's really so it's a really subtle G max Pokemon It's a shiny so it's shiny forms not amazing, but there you go You can see the stars and I'm using good old lightning rod right here Which should give me a good a good chance of getting this one here and we'll G max ourselves and try and see if we can get this pretty quickly. So we'll be right back So there we go. We have beat it. So I'm just gonna try and catch it I don't actually have any master balls, which is not ideal for these situations But I repeat all I've caught it before gives you the best odds to catch these event G max Pokemon soft Fingers crossed. Let's hope we get it and we can catch ourselves this exclusive shiny G max toxicity One two, come on. Come on. Come on. Please please do it for the video. We need it There we go, we get it. So that's awesome get the toxicity Nice and we can check it out. Have a look at it See what items we get get Dynamics Candy, Mago Berry, Toxic Spikes, Sludge, Wave and Gunshot So not too bad not too bad Could be better I guess but I mean look at it. It looks awesome. It's a nice shiny as well I like it's kind of subtle, but it looks cool And I do personally prefer the amped form to the lucky form. So I'm a little bit biased there So I'm pleased I got sword and not shield on this occasion And there we go. So there it is G max toxicity Make sure that you guys take advantage of these events while they are active because toxicity isn't available Any other means in the game? So you can grab it now make sure you do get it while you've got the chance to and if you want me to show You and post that video to show you the guide on how to easily get yourself even easier than the last method I did and way easier really and anyone can do it If you want me to post the video for getting these event Pokemon shiny Then let me know make sure you hit that like button do subscribe to the channel leave any comments You've got down in the comment section below. Let me know which toxicity form is your favorite Do you prefer the amped or do you prefer the lucky form? toxicity's got probably one of the best designs in the sword and shield games for the new Pokemon at least at least It's my one of my favorites. Anyway, I do love it's design. It's really cool and being a guitarist myself Again a little bit biased there, but I hope you found this update video useful guys I have fun hunting these new G max Pokemon and it's a really nice bunch We've got for February at least into March and I assume we'll probably get some new ones on Around the 9th of March is what I've heard the event ends, but I'm not a hundred percent sure So just make sure you get the Pokemon where you can and if I do get confirmation on when these G max dates are gonna end I'll update in a pin post down below So thanks for tuning in take care of yourselves and I'll see you all for the next one So until then guys take care and buh-bye


Welcome to the rich TV live podcast. I'm your host, your boy rich from rich TV live. We're going to talk about the hottest stocks and crypto of the day as we do every day monitor the markets and get the winners bring you breaking news trending topics and we bring it to you first. Love to know what you think about the markets and love to know what you think about our show. If you like it, please smash the like button, comment down below, share the video everywhere and subscribe and first and foremost, I want to look at what is going on with the hottest stocks in the world. So here's KAMN. Take a look at this. Huge, huge, huge explosion on KAMN. Huge explosion on KAMN. Massive, massive move here. This is a $45 stock that just had this huge, huge candle. Now, if we look at the one year chart, you can see this is a 52 week high here for KAMN. So put it on your radar, put on your watch list up 100% on the day. After that, C R G E up 66% the second biggest mover of the day. You can see having this big move. This is the one year chart. You can see it's come down. So a lot of these stocks, especially small cab stocks have done this over the last couple of years where they just been crushed and they're starting to make these moves off the bottom. We call it a dead cap bounce. C R G E is at 20 cents and up 63% on the day. Mesa, M E S A. This is one I haven't talked about in a long time. Another one that's been crushed over the last year or so, two years really, and you can see it's come all the way down and went to 65 cents and now starting to make this move here up 65% on the day. So you can see what it did here came down a little bit after a big move M E S A. Now remember Rich TV Live is strictly for information and education purposes.  Past performance is not always an indication of future results. And remember the market is very unpredictable and anything can happen after we talk about a stock or a crypto. It could go higher, it could go lower, it could go sideways. We're trying to tell you what we think is going to happen based on what it's doing right now, but anything can change based on news, market conditions, good news, bad news, you name it. And remember, we do trade everything. We trade stocks, cryptos, NFTs, real estate, you name it. We traded here on Rich TV. All right. P C S A up 24% of the day. You can see it's come down and starting to make one of these moves here. This is the one day chart. You can see it has gone up pre market and then consolidated. So it's been a really tough start to 20 24 so far. I don't believe this will continue, but a lot of it is due to the fact that the market was just too high. So things had to come back down. Here's B F R G. I've been talking about it all week and they've been climbing literally every day this week. This is an AI stock bullfrog AI holdings, very bullish on AI. And you can see that they've been climbing all week and they continue to climb up another 14% today. And over the last year, you can see they have been as high as $8. I have been tracking this. I told you that they had a gap to fill and that they literally are starting to fill this gap with a lot of room for this to continue to run, maybe as high as $8 where it's been in the last year. So definitely keep your eye on bullfrog AI holdings as they are one of the hotter stocks this week. D WAC, I told you that this is a stock to watch with Donald Trump in the news, seemingly every day with the election coming. So definitely keep your eye on D WAC. They've been an interesting trade. This is Trump socials, social media company, D WAC. And you can see that they have been higher, as high as $90 and currently at 27. So definitely keep your eye on D WAC. Here's NOB one that I've been watching and it has come up from a bottom and sitting right around nine cents. It did hit nine five today and currently sitting at nine cents. All right, those are the ones that are up. Let's talk about stuff that's down. So MRI has been doing pretty well this week, selling off a little bit today. Meta Meta continues this grind higher. It just keeps going up and up and up. I've been marking it every day. What a move for Meta currently at $381 Google grinding higher today. It just continues to go up and that momentum continues for Google. NVIDIA. This has just been an absolute beast and it just continues to go higher and let's see here. Look at that. Just all time high after all time high after all time high. Number one chip maker in the world and the number one AI stock in the world. Apple starting to find a bid kind of weird. Don't really know why, but probably just because it's a big company with too much money in the bank and too many products that everybody knows about just continues to go higher. Microsoft also continuously going higher. These are stocks that just keep hitting new all time highs. Visa continues to grind higher as well. People getting heavily into debt with their visas. Visa is profiting from that. All right. So the market is having a green day. Let's just quickly take a look at the market watch. Not much, but you can see the Dow Jones is in the green. S&P 500 is in the green. Nasdaq is in the green. Oil is in the green and gold is in the green. So lots of green today. Now you can also take a look at our website. Love to have you guys join us. It's growing. You can navigate the markets together. Kalker Market Labyrinths, Savvy Insights and Dynamic Chats. And we are doing collaborations as you can see here with Stockhouse, Interactive Brokers. And you can see all of our featured videos on trending topics, CEO interviews, breaking news and daily shows in the world of stocks and cryptocurrencies in the world of finance. You can also unleash market potential with key features including personalized watchlists, expert topics, real-time market alerts, vibrant group chats, in-depth technical analysis, and interactive trainings. You can see our top 10 soaring stocks and top 10 crypto movers every single month. Obviously the market is down. So a lot of those picks are taking it on the chin and get breaking news in the world of finance and in-depth market analysis. How-to guides and so much more. Sign up for free and get our newsletter at richtv.io. All right. Let's get back to the markets right here. All right. So the S&P 500, as you can see, this is really bullish. But how long can it continue? The markets just continue to go higher. S&P 500 trading at all time highs, essentially. So can it continue to go higher? I believe it can, especially if the Fed cuts rates. But it's going to be difficult. The markets can't just go up forever. Eventually there will be a downtime. And that's kind of how we've started this year. Here's GBTC. This is a Bitcoin ETF. You can see it is trading at a very high level. The RSI is actually in a sell zone. So this is why a lot of these assets are starting to struggle. The Dow Jones, as you can see, also trading around an all-time high. You see the Dow Jones clearly at an all-time high. So this is tough time. Where's it going to go from here? We're at all-time highs. What's going to take it higher? That's why the market is really, really difficult right now. AMD also trading around an all-time high. So a lot of these assets that are all-time highs, investors are going to take profits. Profit takers are going to say, wow, we're at all-time highs. Time to sell. US 30 also doing well. Slightly red today. Ethereum. I did sell Ethereum yesterday. Concerned about the markets and crypto falling off. So took profits on Ethereum yesterday. And not that I don't like it. I'll probably get back in, but I had to sell and take some profits on Ethereum as I felt like the market was definitely selling off for cryptos. Amazon. Amazon is doing well. A little bit in the red today, but you can see the trend with Amazon has been up, especially over the last year. Amazon is not at all-time highs, but we'd have to get to these levels to get to all-time highs right here. Right around $170 to $180 would be all-time highs on Amazon. And we're sitting at $153. Roblox told you guys, I really like this company. I think there's a huge gap to fill. And I think they will. Tesla, I've been talking about Tesla saying it's dipping. It keeps dipping. And I think if it gets under 200, that it'll be a screaming buy. The last time it got under 200, it immediately bounced all the way back up. So I feel like we will see that again here. So definitely it bounced from 200 all the way to 247, 250 zone last time it dropped to that 200 mark. So I really believe that under 200 is a great buy for Tesla. But I also believe even these levels are pretty good buy. And we're currently down 1% on Tesla. Bitcoin really struggling as the Bitcoin ETFs came and left, and investors got bored like, okay, now what? Now the next big catalyst is Bitcoin halving, which will be a massive catalyst. And typically we're going to see a run up 60 days prior to the Bitcoin halving, which would take us to February 17. So we got about a month. So we're probably going to see some selling action and some sideways consolidation on Bitcoin as we get closer to that Bitcoin halving, which is estimated for April 17. So that would take us to about February 17, where I feel like we'll start to see a big run up in Bitcoin. But these next 30 days are going to be tough because investors will be looking for other ways to make money. Augusta Gold is a gold play that I like down a little bit today. Coinbase really struggling, fighting with the SEC and struggling to stay up as Bitcoin has also struggled. Coinbase is dropping as well. Micro strategy as well, had a huge run up with Bitcoin ETFs. Now selling off, investors are getting disinterested in these trades right now, looking for other ways to make money, and you're starting to see a lot of these stocks are dropping. RML, Rassaro Mining. This is a mining deal that has done a 16X, definitely really hot, but a little bit red today, investors taking profits. Cardano. This is a crypto that I'm interested in, but also in the red today, taking it on the chin. And Solana, one that I own, also in the red today, down 2%. So tough day in the markets for a lot of cryptos, especially in Bitcoin. And some stocks doing well, but overall, not the greatest day in the market. It's also Friday. A lot of people don't even trade on Fridays. So KAM, AM, KAMN, still the hottest mover of the day, up 101%. MESA up 64%. CRGE up 62%. PCSA up 27%. And Bullfrog AI, one that I'm probably more bullish on than all of these picks today, up 17% on the day. All right. Those are the stocks and crypto that we're watching. Like I said, not the greatest day. And a lot of the momentum that was in Bitcoin has come and gone. And I'll be watching very, very closely. If anything changes, anything big happens, we'll let you know. I'm your host of the most your boy, Rich from RichTV. If you're not winning, probably not watching, bringing the winners, CEO interviews, breaking news, trending topics, and we bring it to you first. Hope you have a great day. Have a great weekend. Your boys out. Peace.


Good afternoon. My name is Molly Martin, and I'm with New America. I'm the director of New America's work in Indiana The director of New America Indianapolis in name and I work in Indiana and a little bit in Arkansas, Ohio Michigan, West Virginia and Western New York. I'm really excited you're here today I wanted to take a minute and tell you a little bit about who we are before we get to the far more interesting people on this call of I have lived in Indiana for 20 years. I've lived in Indianapolis. I'm from southern West Virginia I was drawn to New America because it's a different kind of think tank and we are think tank We are a nonpartisan non-profit organization based in DC But we do have folks who work across the country like I do because Our goal is to solve social problems and our goal is to highlight those who are already solving them in interesting ways We know that we don't have all the answers and we also knew that all of the answers didn't exist simply in DC And that's why we're here. I'm really excited about the event today at New America We focus on issues of work income and economic inequity and opportunity usually through a race conscious lens We also talk about income and gender Our working principles when we talk about race like we will today Because the title of the series is COVID-19 in the black community Our rules are black voices are critical to communities economic and cultural lives black lives matter Wraith race and ethnicity are different black residents are not a monolith and we talk a lot about vulnerability But that doesn't mean that all black residents are low-income or all black residents don't have means One of the reasons I'm excited to do this work in Indianapolis is its story of the black middle class and black entrepreneurship black populations across the country are so different, but if you Recognize the trend of the communities I work in many of them have a long history of both vibrant black communities and a deep segregation and sometimes deep deep inequity Today, we're going to talk specifically in this first part of our COVID-19 series About how black communities get timely and accurate information and you're going to hear from some top leaders now We only have an hour together and I'd love for you to hear far more from the top leaders So we'll be taking time to have one-on-one recorded conversations with these leaders after the webinar So that you can continue the conversation and continue to learn more about them I will introduce the panel momentarily I do want to start by thanking them, but I'm going to start with new America's lead partner in this work And that is the Indianapolis recorder Certainly if you live in Indy or if you live most anywhere you've probably heard of the recorder And I'm going to spend a couple minutes talking to the editor Oshia Boyd about the recorder's legacy So Oshia as I come over to you, I think Angela is going to unmute you there To talk to us about what the recorder is because we actually have attendees from across the country today And then also tell me why you think having well-supported media by and for black communities is so vital Well for those who know and those who don't know well first of all, thank you for this partnership This is a great opportunity for us for the recorder. We're 125 year old black-owned newspaper We had been black-owned since the very beginning of 1895 when we started out as a two-page church bulletin So we're the fourth oldest newspaper black-owned paper in the country. I think that said a lot about the recorder Um, we have been here for forever. It seems like 125 years and we're working who want to continue on that legacy for another 125 more and 125 more. So what our mission is is a prepared conscious I think we've lost audio and Oshia Can you guys hear me now? There you go. Okay Where did you where did we leave off? Um, could you restart again about the importance of black-owned media and media buy-in for the black community? Thank you So I said 125 years old we start out with a two-page church bulletin And so as you guys know People are pretty aware that the need for black-owned institutions came about because we were excluded We didn't we were not considered part of the fabric of America We had to start our own and so we start our own newspaper to tell our stories to keep our people abated on local and national news As well as tell positive stories that were happening in our community and that's still the world of recorder We still adhere to the highest standard of journalism Journalism Excellency is our is our standard always Stories we got became the editor two years ago our stories. We always look to engage empower educate our readers That's what we want to do with every story that we have in the paper and sometimes entertain as well But we want to make sure that we give our community good information that they can use to empower their lives educate themselves and be better citizens in our community fantastic Oshia Research shows and it's shown the same trend for for decades that black Americans tend to trust local media More than their white counterparts and it seems that black-owned media and the legacy of black community newspapers are a really important part of that My guess is that right now in a time of crisis the recorder gets all sorts of requests and demands on its time Can you tell me what it's like to be this trusted Scion of local media when your community is in crisis. What what are you hearing? What are the sorts of calls you're getting? Oh gosh, it's a lot of pressure a lot of pressure to make sure that we are Doing the job that we're supposed to do one of my one of my concerns is Beating into the hype into the hysteria. I don't want to do that but I want to make sure that we are disseminating accurate information and You know that is changing so rapidly that what's accurate at one o'clock may not be accurate, too So that's one of our challenges keeping up with What's going on and making sure our community? Knows and with our website that's reaching the younger audience as you're well aware that many of the baby boomers still read the print edition so We're a weekly and so that makes a little more difficult to Get them the information that's changing every every hour every couple of days So what we do with the print edition is try to make sure that we give them the stories that really Will impact the information they need to know the bigger stories. We're working on things like Talking to businesses that have been hit hard by by COVID-19 Talking to people who actually have had COVID-19 are in the process of ill and so we try to do some things differently For the print edition to make sure that people are still getting accurate information and good information and then things like this also matter And certainly we thought of the recorder of as a really important community convener And thank you again for doing this. We'll be back to Oshia very soon as part of our broad conversation But next I'd like to turn to a special guest We're really delighted today to have the honorable Andre Carson representing the 7th congressional district of Indiana Joining us today to talk a little bit about the importance of amplifying and lifting up Good work in the black community during the crisis, but also amplifying the challenges that are unique We'd love to hear from the congressman anytime But I think especially at a time like now The leadership is much appreciated. So congressman a representative Carson. I have to remember all of my different etiquettes Could I come over to you and ask you to say a little bit? Why do you think the COVID crisis might be different for black Americans? Well, I I think we know that COVID has been damaging and devastating our community And for folks across America And around the world and and there are really essentially two fronts to this I think there's the public health crisis we're facing and You know, this is by this virus is extremely contagious It's very dangerous and our ultimate goal is to really slow the spread and save lives and so While all of us are trying to engage in social distancing And stay at home as much as possible Our economy effectively has been shut off. So we have restaurants, hotels, bars, retail stores, barbershops dance studios yoga studios, gyms Practically every segment of our small business Minority african-american, latino Sector has been impacted and I think these social distancing measures Were were necessary But it has rocked our economy and I think the impacts will be so devastating We're going to be talking about this for decades And so I I think that there's there there has to be this balance between making sure Our community is a part of this effort to We revitalize our economy But you know, even I wrestled but I had I had a small business town hall yesterday on instagram And I had some of some of my my my friends who are barbers and who own beauty shops and who are estheticians and You know some some of my friends who even own smoke shops And many of my friends who are entertainers, you know, I know Sean Jones is in here Um and Ashley and others but even my friends who are entertainers Are really are really struggling and suffering right now And as we are bailing out The airline industry and we're bailing out other industries Small businesses are having to take loans So you have big corporate enterprises. We're getting bailouts with small businesses. We're still having to effectively get into debt Now the sba Is is is is offering competitive interest rates But we're still seeing an important segment of our society that has oftentimes overlooked and misrepresented Having to get deeper in debt to solve this crisis and it seems a bit unfair. So as they're representative in the true sense One of the things that that that I have done and others on both sides of the alfie frankly because we all have constituents I'm going to have to jump off and get on a call with speaker Pelosi in a few minutes Is raise these points with democratic leadership About how can we push back on the administration to not be so wedded to this idea of saving Corporate interests but missing out on everyday folks like us and business people who are the Incubators of our society and who produce other businesses and who help employ over 50 of the population You got a lot of nods on that one Thank you When you think about getting the word out to these small business leaders and actually next week's conversation in this series We'll focus on on small business and entrepreneurs and how they'll be impacted in the black community Getting them information quickly matters Getting accurate information in the hands of your constituents your neighbors matters What worries you about the trafficking of information at a time of crisis like this, especially in the black community Well, everyone's talking about this, you know $1,200 the additional $500 that that that that families will get and It's a notable amount for many It's a small amount for some but I think it's it's it's it's an attempt to at least cover folks temporarily, but Even if you work the numbers if you have an individual making up to $75,000 or married couple making a combined income of about $150,000 You have an additional $500 for a per child that still won't be enough And those payments even decrease Very rapidly and stop altogether for single workers making more than $99,000 And so I still you know, we've not figured out the right The right set of metrics to solve this thing I think it's an honest attempt because we're still wrestling with trillions of dollars in terms of our deficit But I would hope that we will continue to have these forms one for clarity and building bigger bridges between The government and and and the people who elect us But also to kind of dispel myths right now because you know, I There's so much information out there from from health experts from the president and from Many of my friends Who are very sincere and dedicated to enlightening The masses and and and and who are trying to keep us woke There is this confluence of information coming from all sides and at some point people don't know what to believe We don't you know people are at the point where they're unsure if it's bio warfare If it's if it's created by the u.s. Government if it was made in Wuhan and you have all of these ports of information coming in but what is clear is that it is devastating our economy And black people particularly elderly black folks and minorities and Latinos are getting sicker and sicker So regardless of the origin of this which I think we should focus on at some point I think what is clear is that our hospitals our hospital workers our health care workers are stretched very thinly We don't have the resources that we need the masks that are held in indiana or outdated And you you would think the wealthiest country in recorded history would be able to at least secure masks Now we're having to rely on foreign entities Um to get the tools that we need while their own economies and their people are suffering as well So we're at we're at a crossroads. I think where we're having to reevaluate Our misplaced priorities And this greater and more important conversation about health care and what it means in a free society Well put. I I think congressman everyone on this call on this panel would would agree and understand that there are Systems in place in this country that have historically Dismanaged all black residents. Um, you know, they keep them from schooling or or fair wages or safe housing This is a huge crisis that is amplifying those inequities If you make a if you were to issue a cry a battle cry to us all What would you want the panelists in the audience today? To to ask of people like you to ask of the representatives at a moment of crisis When these racial inequities are so heightened what what should we ask you back? You know, I I think we have, you know, the press here. We have The NGO representatives here. We have activists. We have artists here My my point would be to to push us Um to ask the right questions to do what's right on behalf of You and your families But also to really inform us any information that you're getting and to really support health care workers And folks in the service industry again With with so much information coming in day by day Um on these conference calls, I I think I have like six or seven conference calls a day many of with members of congress of different committees and you know The experts were on these calls and telling us that the virus Will will peak and could possibly revisit us Much more deeply around the fall But we certainly know that it's making a migration toward the midwest And to the best of our ability while we can prepare I think there there has to be an extent where we're working together cooperatively to not necessarily or at least In a way that that that stirs fears and anxieties To focus on ways in which we can help flatten the curve And not necessarily deal with its root yet But at least flatten the curve and practice social distancing and practice Washing our hands and to the degree that the health care experts are advising us To do to do such a thing I think when it comes to asking the right question when it comes to contracting for vaccinations when it comes to Minority vendors being a part of this and minority health care experts being a part of this greater conversation about Doing work with the government and working with local hospitals as these federal dollars come to our states I think that's an important point for everyone on this call to raise as we go further down the down the road Thank you so much. It's it's hard for me to call you andre because I was raised in appalachia And my mother will like reconstitute herself from her ashes and say you say thank you, sir. And thank you representative Everyone here calls me andre adres. So and that's who I am. So Well, thank you andre. We're really really grateful that you could join us today. I know you have to hop onto another call But thank you so much. Thank you everyone. Thank you thank you So after that, which was a great mobilizing moment asking for cooperative personal action We'll turn to our panel. I'm really excited today to have with us. Alan bacon Who is the senior director of the social innovation fund at united wave central indiana? You've met. Oh, she avoid the editor of the indianapolis recorder and indianapolis minority business magazine Ashley Gerbets the chief executive officer of the alliance for northeast unification And if I understood correctly also an artist And also an important part of our creative community Sean jones from wqrt local activist artist and creator with big car collaborative as well Speaking of big car We have the director of programs and exhibitions and also the co-founder chauchet marsh And then last but definitely not least latoya pits the executive director at christinmore house And and thank you all so much for being part of this So just to start off Since our focus today in this first part of the series is about how people in the black community get their best Information right now. I'm gonna start. Let's see. It's like looking at the brady bunch. I'm gonna start with alan From united way and ask you in your experience with your neighbors with the united way stakeholders How are people getting their information right now? And do you think they're getting accurate and timely information? Yeah, uh, thanks so so much for having me on this panel. We're really glad to join the dialogue and conversation But I think there's a lot of modalities and ways that people are getting information I think social media is definitely a driving force in this as well, but Always, you know direct people to when it comes to covet specific house impacting the nonprofit world uwci.org united ways Website is is a place where I think that you know people can get accurate information when it comes to covet Especially when it comes to the covet relief fund as well also the indy chamber Dot com indy chamber has a great program a rapid response program that is great for small businesses and a catch all Website and a place for information kepper.org as well It has a lot of information a lot of uh tools and resources that Individuals can access. So those are my my main My three go-tos when it comes to disseminating the information And alan that's so helpful. We'll make sure that we distribute that to everyone who's online that the list of great resources that you gave Tell us a little bit more about the united ways community relief fund. It's it was announced pretty recently. That's exciting news Yeah, I mean when we're talking about, you know rapid response and being able to Um get together just just a host of funders. It's not just united way, but Lily is involved and the polling center and fair banks and a lot of entities are just the funding community Has put together this covet uh rapid, you know response and release fund So that we can, you know, help, you know, secure the safety net help individuals in our community And it's something that we're very proud of We're able to get a lot of money out the door rather quickly Which is a goal and something that that we accomplished and and once again, it's really about you know, how can we help support The entire community but also, you know focusing on black and brown. So there's a lot of You know funding That went to non-profits that directly impact Black and brown communities with cafe at the marten flanner house gleaners The urban league just just to mention some so I think that you know, we're we're doing The best we can navigating this new space and that's fun the covet release fund is in our response to that Do you think alan since the united way works with just about every health and human services agency in the the region What would you advise these agencies to do to reach the black community specifically? well, I think it's you know one there's not a There's a lot of different sources of information. I mean the recorder being being one So I think there are you know those, you know pillars that the black community trusts for information during times like this especially So I think that it's not necessarily a point of you know, are we not getting information people are getting information I mean places like recorder, you know capra There's a lot of grassroots organizations like before you fall that are going, you know street to street canvassing They're in the specific zip codes and areas that are doing a great job I make sure that the information is out there, but I think you know, we have the right Pillars in place to make sure that you know, we're effective in communicating with the black community Thank you alan I will be back. I'm actually going to swing over to shatay Shatay when when all of this really when the crisis really hit Um, you and I had a conversation kind of back channel And you suggested that you were meeting people in your neighborhood who still didn't really know what was going on Can you talk a little bit about that and reflect on why you think that is? Yeah, um, so when I was getting groceries They're at safe way. There there were lots of people, you know, they're like, what's going on why Why is there a note? Why are people stocking up on toilet paper and Why is there none of this available for me? Um, and they didn't know anything about what was going on at all And I think a lot of you know, and definitely, um alan just referenced it and You know represented our Carson just represent our was talking about it You know, it's trust. Who do we trust? um in this time to get Information and then who has access You know I think that you know The Indianapolis recorder starting out as a church bulletin, you know churches You know, there's so many different ways now that that we receive information and things are are so divided based off of You know our histories and based off of of race like who do we trust within our communities to give us the correct information? um And who has access and then that's even divided within the the communities. So I really think at times like this, um, you know churches Going door to door That's the key to getting information out and making sure people have access to information and because big car Isn't just an arts organization. We were also Have a foot in community development and community work um, you know that our space is a hybrid between contemporary art museum and a community center. So we Are thinking about you know, how do we get information? How do we create spaces and now? Now that we can't offer up a physical space because it's not safe for people. How do we Get information to people? Um, and you know Continue our programming That's really really insightful Chate and I'll be back to you in a moment but you mentioned that the role of a community center and we do have Latoya here from christinmore house and I think of all of the work that christinmore does In hawville and on the west side So so you know probably better than anyone what it means to reach people kind of where they are on that day Whether they're young or or old or starting again or in perfectly fine shape How do you build community and get information to people when you can't be more than Six feet, you know closer Well, thank that's a great question. Molly and i'm so glad that you asked it. So, um With covet 19, of course, we had to change how we structure and how we do business So community centers have always been that place where you just walk in and as soon as you walk in the door You're greeted. We kind of meet you where you are and get you those resources Um, another thing that community centers are responsible for is making sure that our neighborhoods and our families have access to the information And the resources that they need and so with covet 19 before covet 19 We always have taken christinmore house. Um, and a lot of other community centers take a grassroots approach And so that's going to where the people are so we don't just um use social media Which we do we use a lot of social media, but we use a lot of printed materials as well So our families hang out at family dollar. That's where they do a lot of their shopping at so what do we do? We print flyers and take on the family dollar. We're we're making sure that the information is getting out there. Um The gas stations a lot of our families buy snacks and buy things from the gas station So we're positioning ourselves so that we're in the areas where the families are coming to So that they can still get that information because a lot of our families while they have cell phones and Have access to social media Sometimes the public library which we all know is closed right now because of covet 19. It's how they get access to the internet So if i'm a person then my email is attached to my phone And I don't have internet at home The only way that I have access to this is the maryon county public library But now that's not a I don't have that access anymore. And so we have to get really creative as a group Um, and how we reach our um, you know our people how we get that information out so Social media is one way but actually going out into the community. Um hallville neighborhood is fortunate enough to have a lot of Advocates that are from our area who are still living in that area. We have a guy by the name of ted hardy who is on social media He's actually going out and knocking on the resident's doors We have our neighborhood association harville strong and so kind of together We're we're taking a a west side harville approach and a lot of the community centers on other sides of town are doing that as well But I would say that's how we're getting the information out like you have to go to the people Latoya you make a really important point about smartphone access and broadband access We know and all and everyone on this panel knows that Black households in america are more likely to be smartphone exclusive than white households Some of that is trust some of that is just income stratification But you also have a broadband availability gap in black households So you have maybe about 66 percent of black households with broadband at home versus like 79 percent in white communities And so to your point of public spaces whether they're retail or or third spaces become increasingly important when people need information quickly How are you thinking about protecting your activists your outreach coordinators yourself as you have to get creative and do Kind of high touch person to person outreach for folks who don't have internet access right now yeah, so with christinmore house and I upui recently opened up their Wi-Fi and you can sit in their parking lots and have access to their wi-fi. So a lot of people may have not known that i'm in the same thing with um Westside community development corporation and christinmore house So we're not allowing folks into our building my staff are wearing gloves They were a mask when they're coming in contact with people we're giving out pens So we're not even recycling pens. So if a family comes in or comes to the building They need to fill out paperwork outside of our building. You can just have the pen We don't we don't need it back. We just we can't clean it quick enough Take the pen. We'll just give the next family a new one. So we're doing things like that like really getting creative Like I never thought we would go through 2000 pens But here we are needing to order more ink pens because I mean you just don't know so creative things like that But yeah, so that's how you know, we're we're protecting our community activists We move to a model where not all of my staff are in the building at the same time We're a small organization and so we alternate days. So some days everybody's in the building and we're kind of in our own area But like I said, we're using masks. We're cleaning off our surfaces. We've restricted who Is allowed into our building. So that's kind of how we're responding to it But I mean, it's just like a kind of a doctor or a nurse or like we're taking care of people's social Needs not necessarily their health needs. And so those needs still need to be met Families still need to be fed utility bills still need to be paid. Um, and so those type of things we don't have the luxury of saying Oh, well, we're just going to do everything from inside the building. It's just not that simple So we just have to get super creative and make sure that we're taking care of everybody Thank you for that and and that's incredibly helpful a shout out to the public interest technologists who might be listening to this conversation I think building uh electronic intake and digital tools that don't exist right now So sometimes you have to do intake face-to-face and there's some challenges there You know one one way that that we reached people when we stopped being able to go door to door a while ago was radio So this is a good segue for me to talk to Sean Jones Radio is a really interesting medium at a time like this Could you tell folks, especially folks who aren't familiar a little bit about wqrt and then reflect to us What's the mandate to a place like wqrt at a time like now? So thank you. Thank you all for letting me uh be a part of the conversation so Wqrt is a 100 watt low-powered FM station project of big car work closely with shatay and company started in 2017 with the purpose of Serving the community whether it be public service announcements volunteer run shows pretty much Programming and shows that focus on stuff. You don't traditionally hear on top 40 commercial radio so It's kind of an interesting moment on history I read an article the new york times posted on sunday About how community radio is getting more of a shine and spotlight More so now than the never just because we are kind of the beacon boltman board for organizations and community members and folks That don't necessarily have the means to get information from the worldwide web or their smartphone So that's essentially what we're trying to do even more so Now is to kind of piggyback what i was saying is get those pillars involved like the kebras and learning tree indianapolis recorder folks to collaborate with us to kind of just Amplify that message so to speak And shawn, we don't know each other. So did you grow up in peonapolis? I'm actually from war saw indiana and I came to nianapolis uh for secondary education iupy and Just kind of evolved into art and music and yeah, well, we're glad to have you I'm glad to find someone from a smaller community. Yeah, so what's your reflection on The experience of getting information right now that is kind of by and for The black community in smaller indiana towns. Do you have any reflection on that from having grown up in war saw? uh, I mean Not really inside I moved here and got to get to know my family My pops aside here But I mean the indianapolis recorder is definitely a staple at my granny's house So You know was that was definitely a thing where I knew and grained in my head that my uncle and my granny would always Read the indianapolis recorder and that was just an institution Of stability, you know But that's I feel like it's important now more so than ever Is to be able to share that That with everyone with the community and people that Don't necessarily have the means to touch technology like that Osha, when you hear shon talk about the importance It is understanding of the recorder as a trusted friend, you know, even in his earliest age everyone's mentioned it You have a captive audience right now uh, osha, what sorts of support does a community media Giant But one that that runs on a pretty thin operation What sort of support do you need from the community right now? Well the support we need read subscribe Go online Uh subscribe. That's how we get advertisers based on subscription Uh go online Share our articles. That's how we get web advertisements because people see that people are actually reading articles and sharing our articles Our reporters work really really hard. Um, we do a lot With the small staff we have I'm always amazed to have quickly to turn stories around just how in depth we can go With I mean, they're really pretty much straight out of college These are cub reporters and they really do They really work hard. We work We work more than 40 hours a week around here And we also have a magazine like you said Indiana business minority business magazine, which goes all over the state That's distributed statewide. So we do double duty. I'm an editor of both. They're the reporters for both So we're always trying to make sure that we keep our community with good information That is just one of the things like I said earlier We're just tasked with and it just warms my heart to hear people say, you know Your grandmother had the recorder institution. Um, that just It warms my heart to hear that right here people say how much the recorder played a role in their lives growing up I'm not from Indianapolis. I'm from Muncie um But I should hear the commercial on the radio And this is my second stint here. Actually, I started as a reporter here back in early 2000 And so I came back I came back after a few years away at other publications To be the editor so that just shows and there's a lot of people in our community who worked here And who are still involved who still come back. They they want to write they want to help They give us sources. So we are definitely family oriented. I should say the community definitely feels like part of the family So again, subscribe subscribe and buy ads and and Local media matters. I think we would all agree on that Yeah, it matters more than just about anything right now um, you know, actually coming over to you You're up with the alliance for northeast unification So when when you weigh in I'd love for you to tell us a little bit more about what what that means Uh, because it may be a new organization to people But since you work across community leaders, you work across business leaders and civic leaders and local leaders You probably have some insight on what makes a good leader. I'm leading to something here. Ashley Um, yeah is is unfortunately kind of a unicorn only six percent of news directors in this country are black Um, we need black leaders in health organizations We need black leaders in media organizations if we want black messaging and black stories to be told accurately And if we want people to trust those institutions So so after you tell us After about the alliance, I'd love to hear your thoughts on developing black leaders to communicate at a time like this Yes, um, thank you so much again for the opportunity. I would say first and foremost the alliance for northeast unification Um, simply is the collective community impacts here within northeast indianapolis We are really grateful as an organization where it houses two umbrella entities that of the united northeast community development corporation So when we're thinking of the bricks and sticks our housing The community partners whether you are a small business or a neighborhood association All of those play a huge impact as far as making sure If we want to improve the quality of life in our neighborhood Activate the historical press like preservants of just what makes a community community We do so through that Also with the alliance we house the meadows community foundation In we think about the business and economic development In our area itself there were a time Was a time excuse me where our neighborhood was one no one wanted to invest in There was no grocery store the access to schools itself But we know the power of what leadership can do together Where for instance today we're really able to say There was a 75 million dollar investment in the early 2000s where there are schools There is a beautiful health and wellness facility So I think when we're leading into the question about what makes a good leader It is identifying who are the leaders right within your backyard every single day and in a time and period Of what we're dealing with with covet. We're seeing our beautiful resilient leaders shining It's such a major time of crisis Who is that leader that has the ability of as one of my neighbors remind me all the time Keeping a new school, but also old school. So Making sure if we're communicating all important information That it makes sure there is equitable Access so it hits our senior. Um, and then it also Means to being innovative enough of hitting our our youth and our future generations to follow I think secondly as well a good leader understands the importance of We have our specific gift and ability So during that time frame our organization We're small but mighty, but we know the power of our collaborative spirit of our community partners Really thankful for instance as we're grappling making changes and I have to make sure I give credit we're credit to do um This opened our eyes about how we were structuring getting information out Let's get inapolis along with other community partners help make sure we had the essential needs of being able to integrate in um information such as text threads um a wonderful staple community church itself that feeds with our populations and pantries hundreds Upon hundreds each day get the adequate technology and even streaming to neighbors. Um, it's all done so through I think that aspect One of the other things I think from a leadership perspective that should be thought about as well You can't say you're leading unless you understand the components Of what the people need. Um, it's so Very important and essential that the characteristics the concerns the assets the understandings And yes, you will be tested along the line as far as how true to the leadership will be That you deliver. So that's one of the things uh wholeheartedly I'd say in northeast indianapolis We're doing and striving every single day um And if it wasn't for our neighbors where we're just being that information help for them Delivering if that means their neighbors whether block by block are able to get critical tools to them Or is it their businesses in our area where it's delivering information such as You know, what was mentioned with the emergency fund with uwci And we have to look into like the rapid response indie chamber and so forth We're just trying to do everything we can just the show we're standing with them during their most hardest times Thank you, ashley. Thank you for all of your You touched on a few things that are coming up in the questions and and to our audience online I want to reassure you we'll make sure that your questions if they don't get addressed live Get to the folks in question gets to get to our friends at wfyi and we'll get those answers out But a number of people have asked about credibility of language trust in institutions One of the programs that we'll do as part of this series later on is about the black experience with medical institutions And how it's not always so hot I'm going to go down the line and come to all of you and ask How do you Decide how to differentiate your message for a black audience? Do you do you talk to people? Do you have a go-to resource? um So yeah, how do you Shape a message that is credible and takes into account the uniqueness and of every black experience There's so many different black experiences. Alan. I'm going to come to you Since we haven't heard from you for a minute and ask you first I mean, how do you shape the message and I think you know This is from our vantage point in out of the way. We've been very intentional in reaching out to the black community um, you know, we've we've funded entities like kepper and and others And we feel that you know, we have a good understanding of what those needs are but I think just you know from us It's just that intentionality and you have to reach out you have to go deep in the community You have to have a level of understanding and that you know data and this is what you collect should inform You know, how you fund who you fund is what the strategies look like. So I think you know when it comes to You know having that, you know, trusted source of information You know, I feel pretty confident that just from from our vantage point that you know We're doing the due diligence on the front end and just involving the right parties and having the right individuals at the table When it comes to I help them to decide Uh In a form or our direction from forward. I should actually have a respond to the cope it Thank you. Shall I tell you how about you? so You know, one thing, you know, just being just being um Multiracial myself and Sean and I both kind of struggle with always trusting like what our perceptions are of the black community I a lot of times will go and and like for example I work with Mari Evans or I work with people I trust Lashonda crow storm phyllis Boyd with groundworks nd And You know several times I'm asking Is this Is this right what what I'm trying to say am I saying this the right way? um And also just not even speaking myself, but giving Them the platform um So I think that when it comes to messaging um Two specific communities minority communities in particular um, I Mainly try to hang back and put forward um People I feel in that community that are experts Thank you shot. Hey Latoya. What about you? What would you add? um, I would just add it's based on relationships people listen to who they think they can trust. Um We do a lot of non sugar coating at crystalmore house We deal with a lot of um brown families and my situation is a little different. I was born and raised in Alville So when my family's come to the center that she's from here She's walked the same streets as a little child. She's grown up here. And so my my messaging is different I'm perceived and received a little differently. Um, and they don't just look at me and think of my staff Oh, this is just another professional trying to tell me what's best for my life. Like they truly um believe that I stand for what I stand for. So I think it's about better relationships No matter what color you are if you are talking to People and the people can tell that you care about them. You've done your research And you know how to speak to them on their level on a level that they understand Not like you're talking at them But you're truly talking to them the people will listen. It's about relationship building It's great. Great advice Sean, what about you? I mean you you're kind of you said you were new to town at one time So you had to build those relationships in the ground up when you're when you're on the air or when you're finding Folks to join you on the air. How do you think about the message? How do you think about the messenger? Oh, I think we're you're still muted You're good now. All right. I feel like I've been blessed to be in a community of folks that are so active Within each neighborhood's all around the city, you know from, you know, learning tree Kepra Even Ted Hardy. So you get a gauge of what folks are doing locally And you see people that are in the trenches that are on the ground floor being active And sharing a message that affects folks Right here in the city I feel like that is important to always be aware and Listen and learn from that and to be able to share your resource And amplify that to let folks know that hey, this is what's going on in Hallville over here This is what's going on the southeast side um Right now more than more than ever. I feel like it's it's important to to gauge and listen and Get your information From folks that you trust, you know over the years and that you see are actively doing Stuff from, you know, like IPS having the food drives or the indie parks department have Sharing so from work any workhorse Workhouse development workforce development stuff like that Local ground grassroots initiatives that are benefiting people rapidly right here in the city Oshia, um, what would you add? I mean you have to Speak to so many audiences at once as an editor I as everyone on the panel speaking I was just thinking about that is one of the challenges I have As editor of the newspaper is that we don't have one specific audience As you said in the very beginning of african-american of african-american community is not a modelist So not only do we have the citizens slaves? We have People who are born in jamaica Who are born in countries in africa who all read the recorder? and so Our experiences might not always be the same But in america we all Can to be told at one point in time or another that we are black So I think that's what we can all connect is that we know at some point No matter what we do that somewhere down the road someone will remind us Hey, you are black and there are always challenges to being black and I think that is one of the ways that the recorder We always try to make sure our stories are told from a perspective of Not necessarily downtrodden but that we We have a connection here of this country. Let's us know at some point in time They're going to try to put you in your place. Whatever that place may be And that we can rise above we always want to make sure our story highlight Challenges But at the end of the day we can still win we can still come out on top It's not a story of of can't do it's a story. We will do we will try them And I think that's one of the ways we always try to make sure our audience We give them we try to give them hope that even though things may look bleak Even though things may be this way We've survived we persevered. We've been here for 125 years How many newspapers can you can you say that about black on white on doesn't matter? How many businesses can you say that about? So I think I think the recorder to me just Um It just actually exemplifies that that black excellence that that perseverance that can do no matter what mentality And so I think we try to make sure that we we pass that on to our readers as well Um, the connection is again We are black on there's a trust there because we're black on but we're also taking a task People aren't always happy with the things we write the things we report But but is it accurate? Is it true? That's that's the standard. That's most important to me We try to make sure that we can stand by whatever we've written and if we make a mistake we correct it I have no problem saying hey, we messed up We're going to run a correction to fix that So I think that also earns people's trust when they know that we're going to Fix it when we do something we make an error. So I think those things matter those little things matter I get on the reporters. I'm like, you know, we we can't we can't have a name is spelled We can we can't use the wrong word here or there because those little things hurt our credibility If you can't trust it with the small things, hey, can you trust it with the big things? You know, those are things that are very important to me So obviously ashley, thank you, ashley. You have to build a lot of trust with the folks that you work with in your project trust building representation Authenticity what would you add when when you're messaging?  Um, you know, that's a great point and just building up what this boy said as far as trust um Something I say all the time to multiple audiences Throughout the neighborhood I work with is all progress moves at the speed of trust We know that there are wonderful things that are here often At times especially in our black and brown community We're always seen for the challenges the inequities all of the negative things first But we know for a fact that there are a lot of great assets right within our own backyard. So With trust, I think whoever the messenger is it's important to make sure One has taken the time to know before a message needs to be delivered that they know The audience of who they are delivering it to So I think just any time Whether it is through the relationship building with your neighbor Or a community partner that you do see that you have some type of connectivity with them And so we have to take it from a multi prong approach Some allow me to be direct with them. I'm a very open transparent book I don't mind admitting if I'm wrong. I think that also helps with that trust building and the delivery of messages itself, but I also know too That it's important as well if a message may be interpreted and Accepted especially if you can benefit their life better You know, who can I call on that may be able to help meet them in the same frequencies? So no one's left behind One thing that really struck me about what you said Ashley and what everyone has said speaks to a really important question That we got about the concept of evidence-based decision making When people who fund work or program work or decide what to put in the newspaper, you know that he this Audience member says, you know, that's an anomaly to black experience in life Because it's been controlled by white voices for so long and and I think that's an excellent point So the professor raises the point. I want to say professor Harold Brown Raises the point, you know, how can we have trust in the truth offered about the description of us as citizens by a white voice? So When you think about adding more black voices to your own work and a lot of you already do Um, what would your advice be to predominantly white institutions about adding those black voices? Things that they need to be careful of Tokenism or things that they need to really think about places they should look We're running a little close on time So I'll probably take some of your answers offline and we'll make sure we cover those But you know, Alan, I'm actually looking at you because the united way Is a very storied institution And and how do you cope with making sure that there are enough black and brown voices and in what you know A kind of long-standing white institution has been doing Yeah, man, and I think, you know, honestly, uh kudos to indianapolis because I mean not just united way But there's other, you know organizations as as a well that have been very intentional when it comes to making sure that black and brown Are at the table when it comes to decision-making when it comes to Who we're funding and things of that nature But you know, we've been very intentional in making sure that we have a record of The voice of our community and especially the individuals that we serve and a lot of the individuals that we serve in the community are black Are black and brown people so It would be irresponsible of us not to have, you know, relationships with the urban league and christmas moore house and And kepper and flanner house and just things of that nature because that's that's our people. That's who we're serving Those are our neighbors So, uh, we make it it's a part of our mission Uh internally and externally when it comes to our own goals and outcomes when it comes to diversity inclusion and equity and For us, I mean, it's it's just part of our fabric Right now to make sure that you know, we are doing our due diligence when it comes to making sure that the black voices are heard And just how that informs our decision-making Thank you. Thank you Latoya, we had a question about Mythbusting what local media outlets like the indie star are doing to bust some of the myths they're hearing But you have grown up in the neighborhood that you now serve You have deep relationships. What sorts of are you doing the mythbusting? Who's busting myths in the community about COVID-19 right now? Oh, I wish I was the only mythbuster, but I'm not so Um, but yeah, so I mean that's the reality of what it is It's a cultural issue sometimes and so when I hear things, um, that are not true or that are myths I'm equipping my staff so that they can have those conversations my case managers My family's when they come in so the families that send their kids there for preschool and After school and our our programs our senior programs We're we're having those conversations so that they can go out and be mythbusters throughout the community because that's really what it is So if I bust the myth for miss mary and miss mary has a group of 15 friends in the same block with her Now miss mary is the mythbusters So I've equipped her with what she needs to now be the new resource for the neighborhood So I think it's about a the gang telephone So if I bust one myth then hopefully she gets it and I explain it in a way She understands it and then she goes back and takes it to the masses of the people that she interacts with but um I mean it takes a it takes a group. So My conversations with united way my other conversations with my other community centers Like what are you hearing? This is what I'm hearing. Um, it's an ongoing conversation But no, I'm not the only mythbuster in the all-bill near west side area Thank you, that would be a lot, right? I think the whole world is dealing with myths 24 7 Looking at the clock and knowing that we had a very short window of time We're actually coming to the end of our time together I do want to acknowledge that we've had some tremendous questions and a lot of them speak to upcoming events in this series We had a lot of questions about institution and trust and black experiences in seeking medical care In being kind of believed taken up their word and taken seriously when seeking medical care Developing black leadership in health care and certainly messaging about vaccine Prevention and future responses to cobit as we learn them. So we'll definitely tackle those soon. We also had some really good questions about cdc Community development corporations for folks who live outside of this world How they've kind of fluctuated in their size and their capacity What it takes to be successful there and we'll certainly tackle that in a future program And then certainly last but not least lots of questions about supporting Individual black business owners getting information out to them and that will be the topic of our time together next week We will deal with all of these questions and make sure that we get back to everyone who registered and signed on As we've come up on time. I really just want to thank our panelists Thank you so much. Ashley and Alan and Sean and Shaute and Latoya and Doshia Thank you to the office of congressman Andre Carson Just tremendous thanks in the indianapolis recorder for their partnership here And for the work that they continue to do and and thank all of you for tuning in to new america today You can learn more about our work at new america.org And certainly as subscribed to the indianapolis recorder We'll share information about all the people and organizations we talked to today But thank you so much and angela. I'll turn it back over to you to close us out Thanks again so much for joining us and have a great day


Hi, this is Kristin reporting live from the Stevenson green carpet at the 2018 Stevenson gala. Thank you for being here So first just want to start off with a question about give us a recap of your season. What's it been like so far? I know it's still going for you guys. It's been we've had our ups and downs for sure Okay, but it's been really good we really kind of solidified our team chemistry and unity especially in these last couple games and We've had to overcome a lot of adversity. We had a lot of one goal game losses that were really tough so we're hoping to kind of overcome that and Really end the season with a bang in this last couple weeks. Absolutely and for the rest of your postseason How would you describe your team chemistry now? Our team chemistry now is is on it's going up Like we have it's better every game. We're playing more as a unit more as a team we really have Learned to bond with each other and play with each other and play to each other strengths And that has really helped us in these last couple games that we play and you're a senior So is there a game that really sticks out to you for the last four years that you'll never forget? Graved in your head whether anything you did anything the team did all together Man, I don't know But we did our senior night the other night was really great for me it was a really great game in my career and I had my favorite goal on Goal line extended just kind of tapped tap the ball right into the goal. So that's really exciting Congratulations on senior night. Yeah, that's great. Yeah, that was a really fun one. Awesome So just to wrap it all together Is there anyone you want to give a shout out to or really think that's major Stevenson career here worthwhile? Um, I want to thank emcee. She's been here since my freshman year Okay, she pushed me and she was always running our workouts and she has been there for us since day one You know even as someone to talk to we can always we can always find her on campus. Oh, yeah, and She just really helped me through so circuits are killer. Yes, that's great. Well. Thank you for being here And I hope you enjoy the rest of the gala