The Walt Weekly Podcast

The Millennials: Interview With Author, Lawyer, Poet, Hawa Allan

The Walt Weekly Podcast will begin what we will call  The Millennials series. Our guest today, Hawa Allan , author of Insurrection, published by W.W. Norton, meets that requirement. Our Millennials  will not be denied, and this drive will be passed on to future generations.

About Ms. Allan

Hawa Allan is a lawyer and writer of cultural criticism, fiction, and poetry. She is an essay editor at The Offing, and her work has appeared, among other places, in The Baffler, the Chicago Tribune, Lapham's Quarterly and Tricycle magazine, where she is a contributing editor. Her book Insurrection, an interweaving of personal narrative and legal history, was published in January 2022 by W.W. Norton. 

Links:

Website: 

http://www.hawaallan.com/

Link to my book at the publisher (including links to online booksellers): 

https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324003038

 

Return to Africa- Rebroadcast

Michelle and Walter discuss the "Year of the Return " movement. What is it? Should we go?

Conversation with Althea Stevens

We are extremely honored to have newly elected City Council Member, Althea Stevens, representing District 16 of the Bronx. What issues top her priority list?

AG Letitia James VS the Trumps

We will be talking about the orange man (again). Dawg! I never dreamed he would still be making trouble. But what he is doing is well beyond what I could have imagined.

First:  The pending Civil Investigation by New York AG Letitia James and

Second: We also want to touch upon the Jan 6^th anniversary of the terrorist assault on the US Capital from a Black perspective

 

The Walt Weekly Christmas Show: Rebroadcast

Hello all and thank you for joining FridayLive! Believe it or not this is our second end of year show and in honor of that we are having our Annual Christmas Show. We humbly thank all our listeners for supporting us and our Panel. We also extend our deepest appreciation to our esteemed guest for taking time out of their busy schedule, to appear on the TWW. Looking back at the 2021, I am proud that we maintained our value proposition of providing information impacting our community.

We would like to congratulate our panel member, Gene Edwards, for being awarded The Black Veterans Award.

May your holidays be happy, safe, memorable, and full of love.

We have done 123 episodes. We will be rebroadcasting some of these over the next few weeks.  See you live on January 7^th!

Interview with Jose Antonio Coello, Sr on NYC Construction- Rebroadcast

This week we take a look at the 800 Billion dollar construction industry. How do you bid for a contract? Our guest, Mr. Jose Antonio Coello, will address that question and more.

 

About Mr. Coello, Sr.

As a committed business entrepreneur and

proven community advocate and organizer, Jose

Sr. strongly advocates for minority contractors,

minority employment, and MWBE contractual

opportunities. As the President of the New York

State Association of Minoritv Contractors. Jose

Sr. had the mission of advancing and promoting

the mutual interests of minority and women

contracting firms based in New York. The

organization's corporate partners include the

School Construction Authority (SCA), MTA, FCRC,

DASNY, Con Edison, Battery Park, and the New York Port

Authority, amongst several others.

NYSAMC is particularly proud of being a signatory to the

precedent- setting Community Benefits Agreement (CBA)

of the Barclay Center Arena and Atlantic Yards Project,

and will continue to monitor and advocate for small

businesses.

Small Business and Entrepreneurship With Ray J. McGuire Former Vice Chairman Of Citigroup and Former NYC Mayoral Candidate

The TWW welcomes trailblazer Raymond J. McGuire. He is a former NYC Mayoral Candidate and a former Vice Chairman of Citigroup. He was also Global Head of Investment Banking during his tenure at Citigroup with a specific focus on Mergers and Acquisitions. Ray held this position for 13 years. This was the longest any person, Black or White, held this role.

Ray is a graduate of Harvard College and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Ray will bring his expertise and experience to small business, startups, and entrepreneurship. What does the current environment look like with COVID, supply chain disruptions, inflation, and the country’s political divide?

Saving Our Kids: :Stop and Frisk, Raise the Age? Rebroadcast

Attorney Walter Fields and his partner, Ronald Fisher,  will be discussing the” Raise the Age” changes that Bronx DA Clark wants to implement as part of the fight against gun violence. We will also discuss the return of” Stop and Frisk” and the Rittenhouse not guilty verdict. Today’s guest will provide us with a legal analysis of this verdict.

Where Are Our Black Churches? Rebroadcast

Harlem ‘s Reverend Dr. James A. Kilgore and  Greg Coleman join us to discuss why black churches appear to be absent from the struggle for equal rights.

Healthcare and the African American: Why Are We Left Out?

The TWW is joined today by a 16-year Healthcare professional who will help us discuss the lack of proper Healthcare African Americans have received. Whose to blame?

The Corona Pandemic exposed the ingrained discriminatory treatment of Blacks by the medical profession. It is prolific and permeates throughout this most important service. If you are not healthy, your options are automatically constrained and most tines unobtainable. Ergo, the lack of proper treatment served to insure that Blacks remained at the bottom of the economic ladder. What can be done? Is there some quick remedy? Or do we have to totally restructure the existing system.

Unnamed Guest Background

BSN (bachelor in the science of nursing)
CEN (certified emergency nurse)
16 years of experience