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CancerNetwork® spoke with Kamran Idrees, MD, MSCI, MMHC, FACS; Natalie A. Lockney, MD; and Milad Baradaran, PhD, DABR, about the potential utility of intraoperative radiation therapy (IORT) among patients with pancreatic cancer. The group detailed the design and mechanism, gradual technical advancements, and trial data supporting the application of this radiotherapy modality for this patient population.  Idrees is the chief in the Division of Surgical Oncology & Endocrine Surgery, an associate professor of surgery, an Ingram Associate Professor of Cancer Research, and director of Pancreatic and Gastro-Intestinal Surgical Oncology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Lockney is an assistant professor in radiation oncology and the program director for the radiation oncology medical residency at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Baradaran is the head of quality assurance operations and assistant professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. As part of this discussion revolving around IORT, the group outlined the optimal conditions for using this technique depending on the extent of disease resectability in patients. Specifically, Idrees categorized patients as belonging to one of 3 major groups: those with metastatic disease, those with resectable disease, and those with borderline resectable or locally advanced disease. When considering these factors, patients with borderline resectable disease may be suitable to undergo IORT in combination with chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and surgery.  The conversation also focused on a particular case involving a patient with pancreatic cancer who received IORT at their institution. Based on the outcome of this case, they highlighted how multidisciplinary collaboration in combination with careful patient selection may offer surgical resection through IORT. “[There] has to be a multidisciplinary team approach to carefully select these patients and [determine] who can benefit from this procedure,” Idrees said. “For the families and the physicians who are taking care of [patients with] pancreatic cancer, it's valuable to obtain a second opinion, even if [the tumor is] initially deemed unresectable. What's unresectable in one surgeon's hands may be resectable in a different team,” he added.

Welcome to The Peds NP Acute Care Faculty series! This collaborative series was created and peer-reviewed by national experts and leaders in acute care PNP education to meet the needs of our current and future colleagues. In the push for competency-based education where faculty verify the skills of what a student can do, rather than their knowledge, our series focuses on the application of didactic content with a practical approach so that you can learn nuances of clinical skills before you reach the bedside.    This episode applies the concepts from the prior episode on “Delivering Bad News” (S11 Ep. 71) to a few examples where HIV status was disclosed to a pediatric patient. After reflection and discussion of a few ethical principles important to consent/assent, it's time to practice delivering bad news in a case study. An unfolding case poses questions to get you thinking about what you might say. Make it interactive by pausing your podcast and answer the question yourself. The case walks you step-by-step through the process of delivering bad news to a child and their family using the SPIKES protocol. There's no perfect answer, but this example helps to prepare you for competency-based learning, so that you're ready to deliver bad news in practice.   Authors (alphabetical): Becky Carson, DNP, APRN, CPNP-PC/AC, Ann Felauer, DNP, APRN, CPNP-PC/AC, Belinda Large, DNP, APRN, CPNP-PC/AC, and Robynn Stamm, DNP, APRN, CPNP-PC/AC   References Brouwer, M. A., Maeckelberghe, E. L. M., van der Heide, A., Hein, I. M., & Verhagen, E. A. A. E. (2021). Breaking bad news: what parents would like you to know. Archives of disease in childhood, 106(3), 276–281. https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2019-318398  Cassim, S., Kidd, J., Keenan, R., Middleton, K., Rolleston, A., Hokowhitu, B., Firth, M., Aitken, D., Wong, J., & Lawrenson, R. (2021). Indigenous perspectives on breaking bad news: ethical considerations for healthcare providers. Journal of medical ethics, medethics-2020-106916. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2020-106916 Field, M.J. & Behrman, R.E. (2003). When Children Die: Improving Palliative and End-of-Life Care for Children and Their Families. Chapter 4 communication, goal setting, and care   planning. Committee on Palliative and End-of-Life Care for Children and Their Families. Institute of Medicine (US) Holmes, S. N., & Illing, J. (2021). Breaking bad news: tackling cultural dilemmas. BMJ supportive & palliative care, 11(2), 128–132. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjspcare-2020-002700 Kaplan, M. (2010). SPIKES: A framework for breaking bad news to patients with cancer. Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing, 14(4), 514-516.                   https://cjon.ons.org/cjon/14/4/spikes-framework-breaking-bad-news-patients-cancer Kumar, V., & Sarkhel, S. (2023). Clinical Practice Guidelines on Breaking Bad News. Indian journal of psychiatry, 65(2), 238–244. https://doi.org/10.4103/indianjpsychiatry.indianjpsychiatry_498_22 Labaf, A., Jahanshir, A., Baradaran, H., & Shahvaraninasab, A. (2015). Is it appropriate to use Western guidelines for breaking bad news in non-Western emergency departments? A patients' perspective. Clinical Ethics, 10(1–2), 13–21. https://doi.org/10.1177/1477750915581797 Monden, K. R., Gentry, L., & Cox, T. R. (2016). Delivering bad news to patients. Proceedings (Baylor University. Medical Center), 29(1), 101–102. https://doi.org/10.1080/08998280.2016.11929380 Mostafavian, Z., Shaye, Z. A., & Farajpour, A. (2018). Mothers' preferences toward breaking bad news about their children cancer. Journal of family medicine and primary care, 7(3), 596–600. https://doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_342_17

We're almost at the end of our season, just as the biggest sports leagues in the world come to the end of theirs (as our guest today says, it all revolves around oil, and maybe a bit of corruption and looting). Speaking of today's guest, we've got on an expert in banking and the racial wealth gap whose biography will probably surprise you at every turn: Mehrsa Baradaran, Professor of Law at the University of California Irvine School of Law, who takes us on a tour of her new book The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America. Even though Sam and David's respective views on neoliberalism are what makes this a podcast divided, Baradaran opens the podcast by telling us that neoliberalism is synonymous with corruption and looting, but also that she's a big fan of markets. Next, Baradaran gives us a brief and maybe controversial account of the post-World War Two era, placing empire and race, not economics or ideology, at the center. Sam presses Baradaran on her thesis: that conmen and grifters, big oil and big tobacco, used neoliberalism, which then gained a life of its own as law and economics. David valiantly defends law and economics (sadly, no one seems to be convinced). We end with exposing the quietest coup: maybe Baradaran, in aiming to bare everything wrong with our economic system, was the real neoliberal all along. This podcast is generously supported by Themis Bar Review. Referenced Readings The Wretched of the Earth by Franz Fanon The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap by Mehrsa Baradaran Public Citizens: The Attack on Big Government and the Remaking of American Liberalism by Paul Sabin The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties by Daniel Bell The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life by Karen E. Fields and Barbara J. Fields “Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First” in The Onion

Over the last 50 years, an ideology known as neoliberalism has transformed the American economy — for better or worse. The concept is often associated with Ronald Reagan, free markets and deregulation. But legal scholar Mehrsa Baradaran says there’s a lot we get wrong about the origins of neoliberalism and its true impact on society. On the show today, Baradaran, author of the new book “The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America,” explains what neoliberal ideology promised to do for the American economy, what it actually did and why she believes that looking to the free market might, ironically, be the only way forward. Then, why actress Scarlett Johansson isn’t cool with OpenAI’s new chatbot. And we’ll hear the sounds of cicadas! Here’s everything we talked about today: “Opinion | The Neoliberal Looting of America” from The New York Times “What is neoliberalism? A political scientist explains the use and evolution of the term” from The Conversation “Opinion | Time is up for neoliberals” from The Washington Post “Learning how to use AI could boost your pay by 25%, study finds” from CNN Business “Scarlett Johansson says OpenAI chatbot voice ‘eerily similar’ to hers” from Reuters We love to hear from you. Send your questions and comments to makemesmart@marketplace.org or leave us a voicemail at 508-U-B-SMART.

Over the last 50 years, an ideology known as neoliberalism has transformed the American economy — for better or worse. The concept is often associated with Ronald Reagan, free markets and deregulation. But legal scholar Mehrsa Baradaran says there’s a lot we get wrong about the origins of neoliberalism and its true impact on society. On the show today, Baradaran, author of the new book “The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America,” explains what neoliberal ideology promised to do for the American economy, what it actually did and why she believes that looking to the free market might, ironically, be the only way forward. Then, why actress Scarlett Johansson isn’t cool with OpenAI’s new chatbot. And we’ll hear the sounds of cicadas! Here’s everything we talked about today: “Opinion | The Neoliberal Looting of America” from The New York Times “What is neoliberalism? A political scientist explains the use and evolution of the term” from The Conversation “Opinion | Time is up for neoliberals” from The Washington Post “Learning how to use AI could boost your pay by 25%, study finds” from CNN Business “Scarlett Johansson says OpenAI chatbot voice ‘eerily similar’ to hers” from Reuters We love to hear from you. Send your questions and comments to makemesmart@marketplace.org or leave us a voicemail at 508-U-B-SMART.

Over the last 50 years, an ideology known as neoliberalism has transformed the American economy — for better or worse. The concept is often associated with Ronald Reagan, free markets and deregulation. But legal scholar Mehrsa Baradaran says there’s a lot we get wrong about the origins of neoliberalism and its true impact on society. On the show today, Baradaran, author of the new book “The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America,” explains what neoliberal ideology promised to do for the American economy, what it actually did and why she believes that looking to the free market might, ironically, be the only way forward. Then, why actress Scarlett Johansson isn’t cool with OpenAI’s new chatbot. And we’ll hear the sounds of cicadas! Here’s everything we talked about today: “Opinion | The Neoliberal Looting of America” from The New York Times “What is neoliberalism? A political scientist explains the use and evolution of the term” from The Conversation “Opinion | Time is up for neoliberals” from The Washington Post “Learning how to use AI could boost your pay by 25%, study finds” from CNN Business “Scarlett Johansson says OpenAI chatbot voice ‘eerily similar’ to hers” from Reuters We love to hear from you. Send your questions and comments to makemesmart@marketplace.org or leave us a voicemail at 508-U-B-SMART.

Celebrated author of the award-winning book, The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap, Mehrsa Baradaran states that when the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, Blacks had 0.5% of the nation's wealth. This statistic makes sense, since Blacks weren't allowed to own capital as enslaved people — their bodies were, indeed, the capital used to develop lending in this country. Fast-forward more than 160 years to today, Black households currently have a total wealth of just over 4% - not much growth, especially when U consider that one-in-four Black households overall have no wealth or in debt, compared to about one-in-ten U.S. households.    What if our nation's financial systems were rigged — not by evil puppet masters or villains — but by law-abiding judges, lawyers, policy makers and lobbyists? In Baradaran's latest book, The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and The Looting of America, the acclaimed professor of law at the University of California, Irvine argues that our political and economic systems of government have shifted in recent decades to yield more complex laws and regulations designed to benefit the rich and powerful—while at the same time, proclaiming smaller government and less regulation. The result has been a large section of Americans left poor and disenfranchised. Join us as I SEE U host Eddie Robinson chats with one of our country's leading intellectuals and legal scholars, Mehrsa Baradaran. We examine how the Civil Rights movement and the push for economic justice by Black activists led to a so-called neoliberal movement. Baradaran explores this ideology of neoliberalism and explains how it infected our politics to ensure and maintain a dominant system of economic power over democracy – a movement she says is far from over, and even accelerating. 

Amy is joined by philosopher and author Mehrsa Baradaran to discuss her latest book, The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap, and explore the history of Black banking, intersections of race, gender, and economics, as well as how we can take control of our economic future to create a more equitable world for all.Mehrsa Baradaran is a professor of law at UC Irvine Law School. She writes about banking law, financial inclusion, inequality, and the racial wealth gap. Her scholarship includes the books How The Other Half Banks and the award-winning The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap, both published by the Harvard University Press. Baradaran and her books have received significant national and international media coverage and have been featured in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Slate, American Banker, The Wall Street Journal, and Financial Times. On NPR's Marketplace, C-SPAN's Washington Journal, and PBS's NewsHour, and as part of TEDx at the University of Georgia. She has advised US senators and congressmen on policy, testified before the US Congress, and spoken at national and international forums like the US Treasury and the World Bank.

In this episode of The Mama Psychedelia Podcast, I chat with Atiyeh Baradaran, an Iranian-Canadian psychotherapist. Atiyeh works with a wide range of approaches, from Dr. Gabor Maté's compassionate inquiry to sacred plant medicine, traditional ceremonies, yoga & meditation, music, dance and somatic healing. She currently lives in Baja California Sur, and has a private online practice  where she offers therapy sessions through zoom to clients from all over the world. She truly believes that the real healing from trauma only begins when we truly feel Held, heard and accepted in exactly where we are. Atiyeh is a survivor of trauma herself. She was born and raised in Iran, as the youngest of 3 siblings, during the time of war and ongoing dictatorship in the country, and amidst severe health issues in her primary family. Losing her father to death at the age of 13, and immigrating to Canada at 15 away from everything and everyone she knew, are among some of the life events that have brought her into her long and ongoing journey of consciously healing. She has dedicated her life to help and guide others doing the same work as well, and is very passionate about it. In our episode together, we discuss Atiyeh's journey of studying psychology and coming to somatic practices along with her studies under Dr. Gabor Mate's compassionate inquiry training which led to her counselling practice, Be Held Counselling. We dive into the realms of psycho somatic healing, how trauma is stored in the body, and the importance of integration work post plant medicine ceremonies and major life experiences, such as birth. Atiyeh shares some insights on early childhood development, the connection between the mother and infant's nervous system and some regulation tools. We talk about how disease is often the manifestation of suppression or unexpressed emotion, trauma healing, and how we can learn to parent our own inner child. Her brilliance shines in this episode, and carries so much value for anyone on the path to parenthood, in the midst of it, or on the path of parenting themselves again to come into a more whole regulated and emotionally mature version of themselves. Her compassionate heart, grounded energy, and wisdom offers so much. Resources: Where you can find Atiyeh: Website  www.beheldcounselling.com FB:  www.facebook.com/Beheldcounselling IG: @beheldcounselling www.instagram.com/beheldcounsellingYou can also email her directly at: atiyeh.b@gmail.comMackenzie's offerings: https://snipfeed.co/hunnywombIG: @mamapsychedeliahttps://www.instagram.com/mamapsychedelia/@hunnywombdoulahttps://www.instagram.com/hunnywombdoula/Intro Music "Waters of the Earth" by Satori covered by me, Mackenzie.(For more of her music, check out her Spotify) https://open.spotify.com/artist/6wf55RQ8QUEzAA2SeXDWSh?si=H-tnVLtzR2OoHnLU1ztOpw

This is Best of Week on The Academic Minute: For the Best Social Justice Segment Award: Shima Baradaran Baughman, professor of law at the SJ Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah, explores the police myth. Shima Baradaran Baughman is a national expert on bail, prosecutors, drugs, and race and violent crime.  Baughman […]

To spend or not to spend that is the question. As we approach the holiday season, our host Drs. Heard & Heard-Garris discuss Black buying power, Black Business owners, and capitalism. What is Black Capitalism anyway? This episode features a special guest, heavy on both the flesh & bold side, Sabrina Martin, business owner of AXB, and community change agent. Come on this journey with our host on their last episode of 2021 and be sure to throw the Cuzzo some businesses (insta: @shopaxb).Show Notes:Producers: Nevin J. Heard and Nia J. Heard-GarrisGuests: “Tio” Heard (Voiced by Wayne D. Garris)Editor: Nevin Heard & Wayne D. Garris, JDMusic: “Clay”; “LA” by Podington BearReferencesBlack capitalism. (2013). In The AMA Dictionary of Business and Management.https://news.uga.edu/selig-multicultural-economy-report-2021/amp/https://www.blackenterprise.com/black-buying-power-not-wealth/https://www.live5news.com/2020/07/08/blackout-day-draws-national-attention-black-spending-power/Baradaran, Mehrsa. The Color of Money : Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap, Harvard University Press, 2017. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/roosevelt/detail.action?docID=5090742.Created from roosevelt on 2021-11-26 15:57:42.https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2020/02/27/examining-the-black-white-wealth-gap/​​https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nielsens-10th-year-african-american-consumer-report-explores-the-power-of-the-black-community-from-moment-to-movement-301156690.html

Welcome to the Half Open Door Podcast brought to you by Kindfull Creations- Where we will be bringing you informative and enlightening lectures from some interesting people around the world. Join our Instagram Kindfull.Creations https://www.instagram.com/Kindfull.Creations/ to discuss any topics from the podcast. We can only show you the door, its up to you to walk through it. Episode details: Streamed live on Oct 3, 2017 “When the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, the black community owned less than one percent of the United States' total wealth. More than 150 years later, that number has barely budged.” As Mehrsa Baradaran argues in her new book, The Color of Money, this absence of wealth isn't just a failure to atone for oppression and exclusion imposed by slavery and Jim Crow, but the product of contemporary acts to maintain their legacy. Today, the racial wealth gap is animated by policies that build the wealth of those who already have it and sowing debt among those who don't, such as fees and fines levied by municipal governments and the criminal justice system, which fall disproportionately on communities of color. This experience of exclusion is reinforced at the community level where decades of legal residential segregation create the conditions for economic insecurity to become self-reinforcing. The disappearance of mainstream banks from communities of color, for example, has left the door open for unscrupulous and predatory actors, like payday lenders, to profit from poverty. Rather than seen as an outcome constructed by law and policy, Baradaran argues, the lack of Black wealth is blamed on colorblind market forces. As such, the prevailing solutions have focused on enabling Black communities to “bootstrap” their way to wealth by invigorating local enterprise, leaving unexamined the ways in which the government is culpable for both failing to invest in building Black wealth and continuing to siphon it away. Please join New America's Family-Centered Social Policy program for a conversation with Mehrsa Baradaran and a panel of municipal leaders on the front lines of pioneering new strategies to advance economic justice by reforming how government works--and who it serves. Copies of The Color of Money will be available for purchase by credit card or check. This event will be livestreamed on this page. Be a part of the conversation online with #ColorOfMoney and @NewAmericaFCSP. Participants: Mehrsa Baradaran, @MehrsaBaradaran Author, The Color of Money Professor of Law, University of Georgia Risha Berry, @OCWB_RVA Project Management Analyst, Office of Community Wealth Building, City of Richmond, VA Tishaura Jones, @tishaura Treasurer, City of St. Louis, MO Anne Stuhldreher, @AnneStuhldreher Director of Financial Justice, City and County of San Francisco Fellow, New America CA Moderator: Gillian White, @gillianbwhite Senior Associate Editor, Business, The Atlantic ==================================== New America is dedicated to the renewal of American politics, prosperity, and purpose in the digital age through big ideas, technological innovation, next generation politics, and creative engagement with broad audiences. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/halfopendoor/support

What is the police myth? Shima Baradaran Baughman, professor of law at the SJ Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah, explores this question. Shima Baradaran Baughman is a national expert on bail, prosecutors, drugs, and race and violent crime.  Baughman has worked with economists and political scientists to write articles involving advanced […]

I am talking to Amir Baradaran, the CEO and Co-Founder of Foldio. Foldio creates foldable educational toys that work with the well-known Calliope Mini board.Amir is part of the founding team of Foldio, a company that has its roots at the University of Saarland, Germany. A small team of student researchers took on the challenge to create an educational system that includes paper-based printed circuit boards. Printed circuit boards are essential for modern day electronics and computers, but normally these are quite stiff and non-flexible boards. The team at Foldio researched how these electric circuits can be printed onto normal paper, which has the benefit that you can fold it and thereby create stunning 3d shapes with a bit of hand-crafting. Paper is obviously quite cheap, but more importantly it’s a material that kids are very familiar with. Foldio is combining a well-known material, paper, with circuits and sensors to teach kids computer science. Their products work in combination with the Calliope Mini educational board, which is well-known here in Germany and by now sold globally as well. Their first product - the foldio starter kit - includes instructions for several so-called missions for the kids and also some information for the parents. Also included are of course the colorful paper-based circuit boards.

Season 2, Episode 7 (018) Joining us with her incredibly exotic sounding Cocoa Mint Latte, Shery Baradaran of Greenbox Architecture shares her journey into interior design and the path that took her there. Join us with your brew as she talks to us about * her story and passion for design* Favourite passions and remembering her humble beginnings in design* Self care thoughts and what brings her joy* Quick Fire Five Instagram: @shez_design07 @greenboxarchitecture

In this episode, Mehrsa Baradaran, Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives & Robert Cotten Alston Associate Chair in Corporate Law at the University of Georgia School of Law, discusses her book, "The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap," which was published by Harvard University Press. Baradaran begins by describing both the conventional wisdom on the history of African-American banks and the very different reality. She explains how discrimination and lack of access to capital have hamstrung African-American banks time and time again, focusing on particular examples of how white economic power undermined the viability of black institutions. And she reflect on the co-optation of black nationalism by the concept of black capitalism. She closes by arguing that structural inequality can be remedied only by redistribution. Baradaran is on Twitter at @MehrsaBaradaran. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I’m Glen Ford, along with my co-host Nellie Bailey. Coming up: The Black economic condition has dramatically worsened in the 21st Century, with median Black household wealth on a track to disappearing entirely in the next few decades. However, the author of a new book says there’s not much that Black-owned banks can do to head of the disaster. And, the nation’s best known political prisoner has been behind bars for 35 years, but his supporters are stepping up the Campaign to Bring Mumia Home. Donald Trump’s presidency has seen U.S. prestige in the world hit new lows. But the U.S. had long been regarded as having little respect for international law. Black Agenda Report contributor Danny Haiphong has teamed up with Roberto Sirvent to author an upcoming book, titled, “American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: The Fake News of Wall Street, White Supremacy and the U.S. War Machine.” Haiphong says Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were champions of American exceptionalism. Danny Haiphong’s co-author, Roberto Sirvent, is the editor of the Black Agenda Book Forum. Last week, the BAR Book Forum featured Mehrsa BaRAdaran, author of “The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap.” BaRAdaran is a law professor at the University of Georgia, specializing in banking law. She says Black banks are useful and should be supported, but they are not the solution to Black economic precariousness and the drastic decline of household Black wealth This month is known as “Black August” among many Black activists, a month to remember political prisoners and those that have died in service to the Liberation Movement. Mumia Abu Jamal has spent the last 35 years behind bars in the death of a Philadelphia policeman. Hearings resume on his contention that judicial bias led to his wrongful conviction. And, Dr. Johanna Fernandez, of the Campaign to Bring Mumia Home, says there is photographic evidence of police tampering with evidence. Dr. Fernandez was part of the group that produced the 2010 film, “Justice on Trial,” which is being screened on August 23rd at the Maysles Cinema, In Harlem. She was interviewed by Black Agenda Radio producer Kyle Fraser.

The racial wealth gap is where past injustice compounds into present inequality. When I asked Ta-Nehisi Coates, on this show, what would prove to him that white supremacy was over in this country, he pointed to the closing of the racial wealth gap. The numbers here are startling. In 2016, the median white family in America had $171,000 in wealth. The median black family had just $17,400. Put differently, for every dollar in wealth the average white family has, the average black family has a dime. And the chasm is growing. One of the first episodes of Vox’s new Netflix show, Explained, explores the roots, realities, and future of America’s racial wealth gap. This conversation continues the discussion with one of the key voices in that episode: Mehrsa Baradaran, a law professor at the University of Georgia and author of the extraordinary book The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap. Baradaran focuses on a part of the American story that’s often ignored: the way African Americans were locked out of the financial engines that create wealth in America, and the way the rhetoric of equal treatment under the law was weaponized, as soon as slavery ended, against efforts to achieve economic equality. But Baradaran’s view isn’t just historical: she’s also studied the way African Americans are disproportionately unbanked and underbanked today, and has been advising Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s efforts to do something big and surprising to solve it: building a nationwide postal banking system. The issues discussed in this episode are, I think, some of the most important facing America right now, and Baradaran’s perspective is unusual in its marriage of analytical rigor, historical analysis, real solutions, and deep compassion. This is worth listening to. Recommended books: The Human Instinct by Kenneth R. Miller Master of the Senate by Robert Caro Feel Free by Zadie Smith Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, the black community owned less than one percent of the United States’ total wealth. More than 150 years later, that number has barely budged. According to a new book by Mehrsa Baradaran, The Color of Money, this absence of wealth isn't just a failure to atone for oppression imposed by slavery and Jim Crow — it's the product of contemporary acts to maintain their legacies. Today, the racial wealth gap persists in building wealth for those who already have it and sowing debt among those who don't. Many policies animated by this trend — fees and fines levied my municipal governments and the criminal justice system; residential segregation; the rise of predatory payday lenders — disappear mainstream banks from communities of color, pass off responsibility of investment in their wealth, and enforce conditions that disproportionately push them from profit to poverty. Join New America NYC and the NYU McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research for a conversation with legal, business, and racial equity leaders on the fight for economic justice and how to pioneer strategies that reform how government works — and who it serves. OPENING REMARKS Scott M. Stringer @NYCComptroller Comptroller, City of New York PARTICIPANTS Mehrsa Baradaran @MehrsaBaradaran J. Alton Hosch Associate Professor of Law, University of Georgia School of Law Author, The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap   Blondel Pinnock @blondelSenior Vice President and Chief Lending Officer, Carver Federal Savings Bank Anne Stuhldreher @AnneStuhldreher Director of Financial Justice, City and County of San Francisco Fellow, New America CA Clyde Vanel @clydevanelAssembly Member (D-33), State of New York Michael Lindsey @DrMikeLindseyDirector, McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research, New York University

The 2017 Salt Lake Sunstone Symposium convenes in two weeks (July 26–29), and this episode introduces some of its highlights. But far more than just that, two of Sunstone's leaders—executive director and event coordinator Lindsay Hansen Park, and Sunstone magazine editor Stephen Carter—speak candidly about the new directions Sunstone has been moving in lately, and the new identity it is embracing. And it is also an identity that many listeners to this podcast will find fascinating and empowering for themselves in their individual lives within the Mormon tradition. Rejecting the foundation's past attempts to try to bend its focus to convince people that it is not primarily is a group of Mormon misfits who negatively influence the wider LDS Church, it has completely tossed damaging scripts that play over and over in wider Mormonism about who is "in," who is "out," who is "heretic," "apostate," or a "real" Mormon, etc. Instead it is embracing the motto that "There are many ways to Mormon." It recognizes the individuality of paths within the Mormon tradition and invites all to come and share about their journeys, beliefs, peculiarities, and spiritual cores. If you're able to speak well and respectfully of others, Sunstone welcomes you to its gatherings and to submit pieces to be considered for publication. It will no longer play identity games that ultimately only benefit institutions rather than individuals. And just as Sunstone embraces all ways to Mormon—active and fully engaged in the LDS church, post-Mormon, ex-Mormon, fundamentalist Mormon, member of the Community of Christ or groups who separate from the Salt Lake headquartered church, or individuals who are in any other way shaped in some way by the Mormon tradition might think of themselves—might we also consider this attitude and path for ourselves? What might our Mormon journeys look like if we truly internalized the message that our way of "Mormon-ing" is just fine. Listen in as this approach and embrace of every path (whether others consider it "fringe" or not) is laid out. Along the way you'll learn more about the history of the Sunstone organization and its development alongside key moments in the past four-plus decades of Mormon history, including those brought on by the emergence of the internet and other things that have led it to seek new ways of connecting with Mormons. And, if you're interested in learning more about its 2017 Salt Lake symposium and some of its key sessions, and other details such as how to register and how to purchase audio of the sessions should you not be able to attend (or that you missed because there were so many good ones happening concurrently!), you will not be disappointed. Those come in the final third of the episode.

A conversation with Mormon political commentators Brad Kramer, Joshua Madson, Mehrsa Baradaran about the US Presidential elections.  They tackle the question 'What happened to America?'  & 'What happened to the Mormons?'

Author and academic Mehrsa Baradaran joins me to discuss her unique Mormon upbringing, her work on Wall Street, and the Christian ethics of the financial system.

Amir Baradaran is a New York-based artist, born in Tehran and raised in Montreal. His breakthrough 2007 work, The Poetic Quarrel, was inspired by his life-long interest in mysticism fostered by his grandfather's writings and his mother's poetry. His most recent work, The Other Artist is Present, performed March 12, 2010 at Museum of Modern Art, in New York, pays homage, questions, and ultimately departs from the work of Balkan artist, Marina Abramovic, a pioneer in the field of performance art.' As a public speaker, Baradaran has addressed issues of authority and authorship and is known for examining the cross-section of race, sexuality and theory. His academic work has been very well received by the media in Canada as well as in Iranian Diaspora.