Race Talk

It was less than two weeks after the storming of the U.S. Capitol and the night before President Joe Biden’s inauguration.  I spoke with Mario X. Carrasco, Co-Founder and Principal of ThinkNow, an award-winning, technology driven cultural insights agency. The plan was to talk about multicultural marketing.  We did.  But we talked about a whole lot more.

After a week that ripped America apart, I turned to my friend, Derek Walker, of Brown and Browner Advertising, to provide a racial perspective.  He blew me away.

In this episode, our guest is Valerie J. Lyons, founder of Valerie J. Lyons Enterprises, and author of the book, “Power Networking from the Inside Out: Where Your Career and Your Well Being Meet”.  Valerie discusses institutional racism and how networking can help to dismantle systematic oppression.

In this interview, Jinghuan Liu Tervalon, an insights and strategy executive at The Coca-Cola Company, talks about her racial awakening journey and her anti-racist work in both the corporate world and the running community, while busting the model minority myth. 

In this episode, I interview Nia Clark, a TV news reporter and the host of “Black Wall Street – 1921,” a podcast chronicling the Tulsa Race Massacre.  Nia gives a fascinating account of what has been called “the single worst incident of racial violence in American history.”

In this episode of Race Talk, high school teacher, Joi Cox, shares her views of how race and racism impact education, and how teaching, when done effectively, can help undermine racist attitudes.

In this episode, multicultural marketing expert, Reginald Osborne, discusses the intersectionality of being African American and LGBTQ, in marketing, in media, and in life.

In this episode, clinical psychologist, Dr. Maysa Akbar, discusses the human, intergenerational effects of racism and urban trauma, and her book, “Urban Trauma: A Legacy of Racism.”   Additionally, Dr. Akbar offers a sneak preview into her newly released book, “Beyond Ally: The Pursuit of Racial Justice.”   

Multicultural marketing expert, Gwen Kelly, shares her experiences as an African American woman in corporate America and a longtime advocate of diversity, equity, and inclusion.  Gwen offers advice to younger people in terms of opportunities she’s had, and roadblocks she’s encountered.

In this very personal episode, multicultural marketing pioneer and thought leader, Rochelle Newman-Carrasco, discusses her growing commitment to confront whiteness and privilege, at an industry and at an individual level, starting with herself. From growing up Jewish on New York City's Lower East Side; to her agency beginnings in 1980 as the first employee of a pioneering Hispanic ad agency; to the present, Rochelle combines candor and comedy into this unforgettable conversation.   

In this interview, coincidentally recorded the morning of George Floyd's murder, Derek Walker of brown and browner Advertising, offers his  candid view of  multicultural marketing, race, and racism in America.  

 Today, nearly 90 percent of deportees are men, and over 97 percent of deportees are Latin American or Caribbean. In this episode, sociologist Dr. Tanya Golash-Boza explores the global context under which mass deportation has occurred and draws parallels with mass incarceration.

In this episode, Hispanic marketing guru, Dr. Felipe Korzenny, discusses the ins and outs of successful marketing to Latinx consumers, with a focus on culture.

Race Talk host, David Morse, discusses how people of color, particularly African Americans, are suffering and dying from Coronavirus in much higher numbers.  Morse examines some of the causes, as well as how the current situation fits into a much larger historical pattern of healthcare disparities and  medical racism. 

In this episode, market researcher, author, thought leader, and Black American subject matter expert, Pepper Miller, joins me to talk about Black Americans' value (as a people and market segment) and how brands can better engage Black America so they can have loyal customers and a positive bottom line.

In this episode, Dr. Hannah Rosen discusses her book "Terror in the Heart of Freedom", a startling portrayal of the sexual violence visited upon black women after the Civil War, and how citizenship, gender and sexuality intersected with violence during Reconstruction.

In this episode, I interview D&I expert Lonnie Lusardo about his book "The Anatomy of Organized Hate: Stories of Former White Supremacists - and America's Struggle to Understand the Hate Movement."

In this episode, I interview Pulitzer Prize winning historian, Professor Eric Foner, about his book "The Second Founding",  an amazingly timely history of the constitutional changes that built equality into the nation’s foundation and how those guarantees have been shaken over time.

In her book, Medical Bondage, Queens College, CUNY professor Deidre Cooper Owens moves between southern plantations and northern urban centers to reveal how nineteenth-century American ideas about race, health, and status influenced doctor-patient relationships in sites of healing like slave cabins, medical colleges, and hospitals. It also retells the story of black enslaved women and of Irish immigrant women from the perspective of these exploited groups and thus restores for us a picture of their lives.

Dr. Chinyere Osuji discusses her book, "Boundaries of Love: Interracial Marriage and the Meaning of Race".  It's an amazing work of scholarship rooted in comparing and contrasting black/white marriages in Rio de Janeiro and Los Angeles.

Welcome to Race Talk, a place where race is front and center.

Multicultural marketer Isaac Mizrahi shares his thoughts on marketing to multicultural consumers.

Dr. Matthew Hughey discusses his research with two groups, white nationalists and white anti-racists, offering interesting points of comparison between two seemingly disparate groups.

Tony Hernandez discusses his work with the Immigrant Archive Project (IAP) as well as revealing much about his own personal experience as a young 1st generation American from Cuba.