(BPRW) MATTER OF FACT LISTENING TOUR CONTINUES ON THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, ACROSS HEARST DIGITAL MEDIA OUTLETS | Black PR Wire, Inc.

(BPRW) MATTER OF FACT LISTENING TOUR CONTINUES ON THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, ACROSS HEARST DIGITAL MEDIA OUTLETS

Host Soledad O’Brien Interviews Guests Including Musician John Legend, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Among Many Others

(Black PR Wire) NEW YORK – The “Matter of Fact Listening Tour,” hosted by Soledad O’Brien, continues its exploration of inauspicious points surrounding race and fairness in a brand new digital presentation, “Promises of Change,” the third in a collection that started in October 2020.  The new particular will stream starting at 7 p.m. Eastern on Thursday, December 16, on matteroffact.tv and Hearst shopper media digital platforms reaching thousands and thousands of customers. 

The 90-minute manufacturing, that includes a large and numerous array of thought leaders from throughout the nation, is a particular undertaking from Matter of Fact with Soledad O’Brien, the nation’s most-watched syndicated public affairs program, produced by Hearst Media Production Group. The October 2020 debut of the “Matter of Fact Listening Tour” launched a collection of boards using the digital platforms of lots of Hearst’s shopper media manufacturers, together with 33 television stations; newspapers across the nation; and most of the world’s hottest magazines — and Matter of Fact’s website, YouTube and Facebook Live channels.

Among O’Brien’s December 16 friends is award successful composer, musician, and singer John Legend, whose “Unlocked Futures” undertaking helps efforts to revive voting rights for individuals with felony convictions who’ve served their sentences.   Also showing is lately elected Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, a daughter of Taiwanese immigrants and the youngest particular person and first lady elected that metropolis’s mayor. She plans to pursue a “green agenda” for Boston.  And the particular encompasses a beforehand taped interview O’Brien carried out with Associate Justice of The Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor, addressing the challenges posed by hate speech.

“Promises of Change” follows the tour’s March 18 episode, “To Be An American: Identity, Race And Justice.” The tour debuted on October 2020 with “The Hard Truth About Bias: Images and Reality.” The preliminary two episodes, which subsequently aired on the Hearst TV stations and A&E Network, proceed to stream at matteroffact.tv.

“This latest Matter of Fact Listening Tour enlists the people working to overcome issues of racism and inequality in an effort to explore solutions,” O’Brien stated. “I believe that to find solutions you need to understand the problem. That means hearing from people doing the tough work on the ground to understand why things happen and how to change them. It means looking critically at what works and what doesn’t, and taking the time to really listen and question and find ways to move forward.”

“Soledad and the dedicated team behind the ‘Listening Tour’ continue to develop high-quality, critically acclaimed content that has added meaningfully to the much-needed conversation around issues of race and justice,” stated Hearst Television President Jordan Wertlieb.  “I am proud this initiative has once again delivered programming that is truly differentiated, thought-provoking and important.”

Additional friends scheduled for the December 16 program embrace: 

Lt. Paul Antonovich of the Schenectady, New York, police division, joined by Schenectady neighborhood activist William Rivas, his accomplice in a first-in-the-nation program serving to deal with bias through the use of a citizen evaluate panel to vet potential officers.

Mehrsa Baradaran, professor of legislation on the University of California Irvine School of Law and writer of “The Color Of Money: Black Banks And The Racial Wealth Gap.”

Bree Newsome Bass, a voting rights activist who entered the nationwide highlight in 2015 when she climbed a South Carolina capitol grounds flagpole to take away a Confederate flag.

Joy Buolamwini, MIT researcher and founding father of the Algorithmic Justice League, who’s finding out the impact of bias baked into facial recognition software program more and more utilized by authorities at numerous ranges.

Claudette Colvin, who as a 15-year-old in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955 was arrested when she refused to surrender her seat to a white lady on a bus — about 9 months earlier than Rosa Parks made headlines – and who to at the present time continues to be attempting to get her arrest expunged.

Sarah De Guia, CEO of Change Lab Solutions, an Oakland, California, group that makes use of instruments of legislation to advance well being fairness.

Kyren Gibson and his nine-year-old son, Kyng, co-authors of a well-liked and critically praised monetary workbook, “The Generational Wealth Building Activity Book.”

Crystal Echo Hawk, government director of Oklahoma-based IllumiNative, a nonprofit group designed to light up the vibrancy and significance of Native voices, tales, and points in media, popular culture, Ok-12 schooling and different key sectors.

Dolores Huerta, who, with the late Cesar Chavez, co-founded National Farmworkers Association, which later merged with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee to change into the United Farm Workers.

Beth Howard, rural Kentucky marketing campaign director for the group Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) and originator of the slogan Rednecks for Black Lives, adopted because the title of Facebook group concerned about racial justice points.

Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, Andrew W. Mellon Professor within the Humanities at Boston University and best-selling writer of “How to Be an Antiracist,” amongst different books.

Emmanuel Pratt, a MacArthur Genius Award-winning city designer and the visionary behind The Sweet Water Foundation, whose resident-driven neighborhood growth effort is reworking a South Side Chicago neighborhood wracked by disinvestment. 

Yolo Akili Robinson, government director of BEAM (The Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective), a company that works to heal psychological well being points within the black neighborhood. 

Eugenia South, a Philadelphia emergency room doctor concerned in initiatives to enhance well being outcomes for individuals dwelling in distressed communities.  

Greisa Martinez Rosas, who leads United We Dream, which works to advance immigrant rights for the undocumented dwelling and dealing within the U.S.

Archelle Thelemaque, a politically liberal member of Gen Z, who with Justin Russell, a politically conservative member of Gen X, took a prolonged stroll collectively throughout the monuments of Washington, DC, to debate their variations… and their shared views.

Raj Vinnakota, president of the Institute for Citizens And Scholars, who beforehand co-founded The Seed Foundation to handle the nation’s first community of public boarding faculties for underserved kids.

About Hearst

Hearst is a number one world, diversified media, data and providers firm with greater than 360 companies. Its main pursuits embrace possession in cable tv networks akin to A&E, HISTORY, Lifetime and ESPN; world monetary providers chief Fitch Group; Hearst Health, a bunch of medical data and providers companies; transportation belongings together with CAMP Systems International, a significant supplier of software-as-a-service options for managing upkeep of jets and helicopters; 33 tv stations akin to WCVB-TV in Boston and KCRA-TV in Sacramento, California, which attain a mixed 19% of U.S. viewers; newspapers such because the Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle and Times Union (Albany, New York); greater than 300 magazines all over the world, together with Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Men’s Health and Car and Driver, and digital providers companies akin to iCrossing and KUBRA; and investments in rising digital leisure firms akin to Complex Networks. Follow us on Twitter @Hearst. To be taught extra about Hearst, go to hearst.com.

About Hearst Television

Hearst Television owns and operates 33 tv and two radio stations serving 26 media markets throughout 39 states reaching over 22 million U.S. tv households. Through its partnership with practically all main networks, Hearst Television distributes nationwide content material over practically 70 video channels together with programming from ABC, NBC, CBS, CW, MY Net, MeTV, Estrella and extra. The radio stations are leaders in Baltimore information/speak and rock music listenership. Its Hearst Media Production Group unit produces authentic programming throughout linear and streaming platforms for home and worldwide distribution.  Its Very Local app, free to obtain on family OTT gadgets and out there throughout common streaming providers, gives 24/7 entry to native information, climate and an array of native and regional programming.  Hearst Television is acknowledged as one of many trade’s premier firms and has been honored with quite a few awards for distinguished journalism, trade innovation, and neighborhood service. Hearst Television is an entirely owned subsidiary of Hearst.

About Soledad O’Brien

Soledad O’Brien is an award-winning documentarian, journalist, speaker, writer and philanthropist, who based Soledad O’Brien Productions, a multiplatform media manufacturing firm devoted to telling empowering and genuine tales on a variety of social points. She anchors and produces the Hearst TV political journal program Matter of Fact with Soledad O’Brien and is a correspondent for HBO Real Sports. She is a thought chief, with over 1.three million Twitter followers, who has a nationwide influence by way of her speeches, quite a few documentaries and her presence on the op-ed pages of platforms like The New York Times and HuffPost. She has anchored reveals on CNN, MSNBC and NBC and reported for Fox, A&E, Oxygen, Nat Geo, the PBS NewsHour, WebMD and Al Jazeera America, amongst others. O’Brien’s work has been acknowledged with three Emmy awards, twice with the George Foster Peabody Award, thrice with the Gracie Award, which honors girls in media, twice with Cine Awards for her work in documentary movies and likewise with an Alfred I. DuPont Award.

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