This new podcast offers not only words of encouragement to those among us who have grown life weary (beaten down), but it also offers measured insights into and commentary on why we cannot afford to be weary of life (giving up).

Whether you are on the left or on the right, let's weigh our thoughts and measure our words so that we can get to the promises to be found in the neglected middle.

Episode 1: The Magnifying Glass vs. The Mirror

When the stakes come down to stolen legacy and diminished Black life, both  becoming nothing more than a footnote on a police blotter, it's time to weigh in, to raise your voice against the darkness, to rage against the swell of political malfeasance and against the overt racism that has elbowed its way back into our private and collective lives.  The time for watching from the sidelines has ended.

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
                                                                         Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Episode 2: Black Male Forbearance

The need for a return to decency.

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most.  It is not complicated but it takes courage.  It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it."
                                                                                    Pablo Casals

Episode 3: The Resurrection of Decency

The 1619 Project reframes the legacy of slavery in America.  Its controversial probe carries with it consequences that continue to ripple in the chambers of congress and in the halls of academia.

Episode 4: The 1619 Project

A teenage girl goes from absolute refusal to continue her education beyond high school to completing her PhD.  Dr. Maranda Hall tells her story.

Episode 5: From Teen Pregnancy To PhD

The most interesting thing about you is not necessarily the year you were born.  All people have one of those.  And it isn't even the year you transition out of this life.  Again, all people have or will lay claim to one of these. The most interesting thing about you is to be found in the HYPHEN between those years. 

A certain, beautiful truth emerges in the last line of the famous poem "The Dash," by Linda Ellis:  "So when your eulogy is being read, with your life’s actions to rehash, would you be proud of the things they say about how you lived your dash?"

Michael J. Cotter