The Breathing Room Podcast
The Breathing Room Podcast
Latest Episodes
Promote Justice – Be an Antiracist
At some point, we all arrive at the proverbial fork in the road. Which route will we choose? Will we play it safe or take a risk? Will we dig our heels in or embrace a new way of thinking and acting? As season one of this podcast comes to a clo...
Don't Look Away: Say Something and Do Something
We’ve all been in those situations when we couldn't believe that someone actually did what we saw them do or say what we heard them say. There is a movement afoot in our country that revels in saying the quiet part out loud, deliberately making...
Shooting the Messengers: What’s Behind the Demonization of Colin Kaepernick, Black Lives Matter, and Critical Race Theory?
Sometimes we learn the most about others or ourselves from how we respond to events we didn’t see coming. What’s beneath the surface can seep or burst through our filters. We can leak. In many instances, we’re not even aware of our own pre-cond...
Processing the Joy and Sorrow of Juneteenth, the Proximity of Slavery, and the Rise of Jim Crow 2.0
We as a society are progressing in some areas and regressing in others. This odd push and pull, this mixture of emotions, the simultaneous holding of desperate thoughts seems to be heightened now as much as ever. In this episode, we begin to pr...
"Tim Scott Says ‘America Is Not a Racist Country’ – The Data Says Otherwise"
From the founding of our nation until now, there’s been an open question of who we are as a country. Whose country is it? To whom does it belong? Which people make up the “real America?” Who is wanted and welcomed and who is “othered” and...