Every week, WHRO's Mind Over Manners podcast explores touchy subjects, and this week is no exception. We know we live in a society filled with microaggressions towards minority groups, and conversation can easily become contentious, many times with no ill-intent. In this episode, Norfolk State University History Professor and Director of the Joseph Jenkins Roberts Center for the Study of the African Diaspora, Dr. Cassandra Newby-Alexander, will provide a deeper understanding of the identities "black" and "African American," and the difference, origins, and significance of both.

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About the podcast:

Mind Over Manners endeavors to answer the questions we’re sometimes too afraid to ask. Each week, we talk with an expert who can help guide you through awkward social situations.

 

Meet the Hosts:

Lisa Godley

An Emmy award winning journalist, Lisa is a familiar face in Hampton Roads having served as a former news anchor and reporter at WTKR TV for a decade before joining the WHRO family. Lisa currently serves as co-producer of WHRV's show Another View. Throughout her career Lisa has worked as a television journalist in Nashville, TN, Louisville, KY, Lynchburg, VA and Washington, DC. She earned her master's degree in broadcast journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. She proudly received her bachelor of arts degree in journalism from Norfolk State University. Lisa is the proud mother of two daughters and enjoys mentoring young people of all ages.

Sondra Woodward

Sondra provides the latest local headlines along with regular traffic reports for your morning commute during NPR's Morning Edition heard weekdays starting at 5 a.m. on 89.5 WHRV FM. A Florida native, Sondra spent most of her life in Hampton Roads, growing up in Chesapeake. She is a graduate of the College of William & Mary. Sondra worked on-air at stations in Chesapeake, Norfolk, and Baltimore before moving back to the area and working at Colonial Williamsburg for a decade. She returned to Hampton Roads' airwaves on WHRV in 2004. Sondra lives in Norfolk with her science-writer husband, three diva rabbits and a precocious cockatoo. 

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