On Monday, June 1st, 2020, after watching a weekend that included both peaceful protesting and violence across America, I opened the program discussing race, racism and building trust. I'm hardly an expert, just one voice. But we need to talk, we need to listen and we need to engage.

Opening Monologue: Race, Racism and Building Trust

Award-winning radio host whose work has encompassed sports talk and news talk from Minneapolis to Fresno. Christopher is a four-time Golden Mike Award winner (Radio & Television News Association of Southern California), a two-time Best Morning Drive Radio Show award winner (The Business Journal) and a three-time Best Radio Show in the Region award nominee (The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead). Gabriel is a frequent guest and guest host on sports talk radio programs across the nation. He’s broadcast his program from numerous major sporting events including the CFB Playoff national championship game, multiple FCS national championship games, the NCAA Frozen Four, NCAA Regionals in hockey and basketball, the Mountain West Conference basketball tournament, the Las Vegas Bowl and regular season college football games at the Rose Bowl and the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Guests have included Nobel, Pulitzer, Oscar, Emmy, Tony and Grammy winners, professional and college coaches and athletes, New York Times bestselling authors and even a barber doing a haircut in Jamestown, ND. A proud native of Chicago, CG offers big opinions, insightful commentary, a splash of satire and believes in discourse, not discord.

Prior to radio, CG was a classically trained actor performing on stages in the U.S. and Great Britain. He worked alongside numerous acclaimed artists, notably James Earl Jones, Julie Harris and John Barton, founding artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

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Opening Monologue: Race, Racism and Building Trust

The Christopher Gabriel Program