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At least once each year, Pastor Kinzer Pointer from Agape Fellowship Baptist Church on Northland Avenue in Buffalo takes new UB Medical students on a tour of Jefferson Avenue, pointing out the issues that they need to have awareness of and people they should have empathy for. Then Jay Moran brings us excerpts from a recent “Making Spaces” discussion at Buffalo Arts Studio with Artist Matt Kenyon, Fruit Belt activist Dennice Barr, UB professor Henry Louis Taylor Jr. and others on art, urban planning and economic justice.

Today, Victoria Perez, the newly appointed interim education and arts engagement director at Shea’s Buffalo - will talk of her role there, and also the Raices Theater Company she founded to spotlight Latinx themes – including “Islena” a one woman show she performed in there this summer. Then Jay Moran visits a recent meeting of the Wakanda Alliance, an Afrofuturist group that works with youth and others in Buffalo.

Erie County Legislator Howard Johnson looks at the lack of development on the East side with Angelea Preston. Then, Jay Moran is joined by Murray Holman from the Buffalo Peacekeepers and the Stop the Violence Coalition to discuss whether there has been any change or progress since the Tops shootings on 5/14.

Islanders are being warned to be on their guard as scammers pose as BT workers in an attempt to steal money from individuals.

Today, as Henry Louis Gates Jr. wraps up his 4-part PBS series “Making Black America”, we talk with Terry Alford from The Michigan Street African American Corridor about some of the sort of spaces Gates delved into- offering refuge from discrimination and social separation. He’ll also chat with Dave Debo about long-term plans for the corridor.Then Jay Moran looks at Rooted in Love, with Tesha Parker, founder of the East side ministry that reaches out to the homeless and others in need.