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Do you want to know how to strike a balance between addressing larger societal issues and meeting your own mental health needs? APB speaker and mental health advocate Dr. Nii Addy gives you the answer in his podcast, Addy Hour, alongside APB speaker and co-founder of March For Our Lives David Hogg. 

There is a new data map that will help track systemic health disparities across the country, and APB speaker and health policy expert Daniel E. Dawes J.D. helped create it. "A game-changer, while still in its initial phases, the Health Equity Tracker will provide us the opportunity to track the health inequities plaguing this country,” said Dawes, to Fierce Healthcare.  

On May 26, 2020, Philonise Floyd learned that his older brother, George “Perry” Floyd, Jr. had been murdered by four police officers in Minneapolis after a store clerk alleged that he passed a counterfeit $20 bill. The world watched as named officer, Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd’s neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds. George’s death sparked a worldwide outpour of protests against police brutality, especially toward black people. Philonise vowed that George’s death would not be in vain, another hashtag on a t-shirt, and started the Philonise and Keeta Floyd Institute for Social Change, actively working to eliminate the daily impacts of police brutality, criminal justice reform and systemic racism.

APB speaker and "Maria" on Sesame Street, Sonia Manzano, has a new book called Coming Up Cuban, and it will be out in April of 2022. Coming Up Cuban is set in 1959 and follows the lives of four children who each represent different intersections of race and class in Cuba. Publishers Weekly recently revealed the cover.   

Prices on many products are on a rise, and consumers are speaking out. APB speaker and Professor of Supply Chains at Northeastern University Dr. Nada Sanders says it’s going to get worse before it gets better.

APB speaker, producer, and educator Michael Davis wrote the New York Times Non-Fiction Best Seller Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street and is a co-executive producer of the documentary, Street Gang, which is gaining immense praise on HBO.   

Do you constantly feel overwhelmed by stress, feel dissatisfied in your career and relationships, and feel like you lack purpose? APB speaker, biologist, and stress expert Dr. Rebecca Heiss says that the answer to fixing these problems exists in rewiring instincts. Titled  Instinct: Rewire Your Brain with Science-Backed Solutions to Increase Productivity and Achieve Success, Dr. Heiss' new book is ideal for Gen Z and their known pursuit of manifestation and changing the subconscious. In everyday life, people use outdated instincts because biology and evolution haven’t quite caught up to today’s world. Dr. Heiss offers simple, actionable techniques to redirect those instincts to work for us rather than against us.  

APB speaker and civil rights attorney Bakari Sellers is representing the family of Andrew Brown Jr. Sellers criticized the police for showing disrespect to Brown's family, in addition to local prosecutor Michael Cox swearing at Sellers himself. Newsweek reports when Andrew Brown Jr. was being served an arrest warrant for felony drug charges, he was fatally shot by Pasquotank County sheriff's deputies in North Carolina. Sellers also accused Cox of attempting to stop the Brown family attorney's from viewing the footage.   

We recently sat down with Susie Reynolds Reece, a violence prevention strategist and consultant acclaimed for her expertise in suicide awareness, suicide prevention and postvention, depression, bullying and other issues facing families and youth today. Skillfully adept at blending the realms of science and research with experiences and storytelling, she engages and compels any person to be equipped to confidently stand up for social issues. Read the full interview: