Bria Samoné Henderson can currently be seen playing 'Dr. Jordan Allen' in David Shore's hit medical drama series THE GOOD DOCTOR for ABC. She also appeared as the radical feminist and "Ms. Magazine" editor, Margaret Sloan, in the FX for Hulu critically acclaimed limited series MRS. AMERICA, opposite Cate Blanchett, Niecy Nash, Uzo Aduba, and Sarah Paulson. In 2021, Bria was nominated by Niecy Nash for the Women in Film Pathmaker Grant. She also appeared in the short film PREPARED and won the award for "Outstanding Comedic Actress (Short Film)" at the Micheaux Film Festival. In between acting gigs, Bria executive produced, wrote, and starred in the pilot VIRGINALITY. The pilot is about the misadventures of a 30-ish year old virgin. Previously, Bria was chosen to be in the NBC Spotlight Diversity Showcase. She received her MFA in Acting from the University of Washington's Professional Actor Training Program and her B.A. in Drama at Spelman College.

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Joy Keys chats with Actress Bria Henderson from The Good Doctor TV show

DAWN TURNER is an award-winning journalist and novelist. A former columnist and reporter for the Chicago Tribune, Turner spent a decade and a half writing about race, politics and people whose stories are often dismissed and ignored. Turner, who served as a 2017 and 2018 juror for the Pulitzer Prize in commentary, has written commentary for The Washington Post, PBS NewsHour, CBS Sunday Morning News show, NPR’s Morning Edition show, the Chicago Tonight show, and elsewhere. She has covered national presidential conventions, as well as Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential election and inauguration. Turner has been a regular commentator for several national and international news programs, and has reported from around the world in countries such as Australia, China, France, and Ghana. She spent the 2014–2015 school year as a Nieman Journalism fellow at Harvard University. In 2018, she served as a fellow and journalist-in-residence at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics. Turner is the author of two novels, Only Twice I’ve Wished for Heaven and An Eighth of August. In 2018, she established the Dawn M. Turner and Kim D. Turner Endowed Scholarship in Media at her alma mater, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The animating question at the center of Dawn Turner’s profound, gorgeously written, and resonant memoirTHREE GIRLS FROM BRONZEVILLE  is: when did we lose them? Them being the author’s sister, Kim,and her best friend, Debra. One dead by 25, the other imprisoned for decades after killing a man. Why did they fall behind while another graduated college and became an award-winning journalist? Why was Dawn given grace to learn from her mistakes while Debra and Kim never recovered? Three Girls from Bronzeville is Dawn’s attempt to find answers. 

Joy Keys chats with Author Dawn Turner about Three Girls from Bronzeville

NADIFA MOHAMED was born in 1981 in Hargeisa, Somaliland. At the age of four she moved with her family to London. She is the author of Black Mamba Boy and The Orchard of Lost Souls. She has received both The Betty Trask Award and the Somerset Maugham Award, and in 2013, she was named as one of Granta‘s Best of Young British Novelists. Her work appears regularly in The Guardian and the BBC. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, she lives in London. Her latest novel is called The Fortune Men. Mahmood Mattan is a fixture in Cardiff's Tiger Bay, 1952, which bustles with Somali and West Indian sailors, Maltese businessmen and Jewish families. He is a father, chancer, petty criminal. He is a smooth-talker with rakish charm and an eye for a good game. He is many things, but he is not a murderer.

Joy Keys chats with Author Nadifa Mohamed

Special guest:  American Diabetes Association Ambassador- Anthony Wilson has long known about a heart condition that caused his heart to race, but the EMS professional was unaware of his type 2 diabetes until the day he nearly died. An Emergency Medical Technician for more than 33 years and current operations manager of an ambulance service, Anthony has always had a passion for helping others. As a national ambassador for Know Diabetes by Heart, Anthony adds his voice to the landmark collaboration between American Diabetes Association and the American Heart Association to educate people like him about the link between type 2 diabetes and heart disease and stroke.  His professional experiences in EMS and personal experience with a diabetes crisis make Anthony well-aware of the dual threats of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Helping one person get tested for diabetes or encouraging one person living with type 2 to take care of their cardiovascular health is his goal.   Special Guest: Stephanie Chung, M.B.B.S., Clinical researcher from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, part of the NIH. Dr. Chung is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, The Children's National Health System.  She is a Pediatric Endocrinologist – Faculty, National Institutes of Health Clinical Center/ Eunice Kennedy Shriver Fellowship Training Program NICHD, NIH.  The Institute;'s overall goal is to minimize the burden of diabetes health disparities across the lifespan through improving diabetes prevention and management. By elucidating the complex association of biological, social and environmental factors to the pathogenesis of cardiometabolic diseases, we will evaluate current paradigms and promote the development of novel screening and therapeutic strategies.

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Samuel F. Reynolds, ISAR CAP, a former skeptic, had a life-changing visit to an astrologer and has since spent 30 years doing charts and studying astrology. He currently serves on the board of directors for the International Society for Astrological Research (ISAR) and the International Academy of Astrology. He’s also a co-founder of the International Society of Black Astrologers, and a faculty member for the International Academy of Astrology. He’s written for multiple print and online outlets, including Ebony.com, horoscope.com, tarot.com, and New York Magazine. His home website is UnlockAstrology.com.

2021 Joy Keys chats with Astrologer Samuel F. Reynolds

Namina Forna is a young adult novelist based in Los Angeles, and the author of the New York Times bestselling fantasy The Gilded Ones. Originally from Sierra Leone, West Africa, she moved to the US when she was nine and has been traveling back and forth ever since. Namina loves building fantastical worlds and telling stories with fierce female leads.

Joy Keys chats with Author Namina Forna

Whether Michael Mayo is performing with his band, as a guest, or alone with a looper pedal, the LA native’s commanding and other worldly vocalese is quickly gathering critical and commercial acclaim around the globe. Born to two successful musicians, Mayo grew up just a little more than 20 feet from the likes of Diana Ross, Luther Vandross, Earth Wind and Fire, and Stevie Wonder. This proximity helped Mayo create a musical path centered around elements of R&B, Soul and Jazz, forging his musical identity long before he hit the stage. Mayo attended the acclaimed Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance, only the third vocalist to be accepted into the 20-year-old program, where he learned from the likes of Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock. Now living in Brooklyn, and still in his 20s, Mayo is a veteran international performer whose highlights include singing at the White House, the Kennedy Center and Renée Fleming’s American Voices Festival, as well as the Panama Jazz Festival. Most recently he has recorded and performed with Herbie Hancock, Jacob Collier, Kneebody, Gretchen Parlato, Josh Groban, Ben Wendel, and Becca Stevens among many others. His own band performance was a standout at the 2019 Playboy Jazz Festival, Atlanta Jazz Festival, and Monterey Jazz Festival. Signed to Mack Avenue/Artistry Records, Mayo’s debut record BONES, produced by Grammy Award-winning producer Eli Wolf (Norah Jones, Al Green, The Roots) was released on June 4th, 2021.

Joy Keys chats with Singer Michael Mayo

Christine Pride is a writer, editor and 20-year publishing veteran.  Over the course of her career, she’s held editorial posts at many different imprints, including Doubleday, Broadway, Crown, Hyperion, and, most recently, as a Senior Editor at Simon and Schuster, and published many bestselling and critically acclaimed books.  She's also a writer: her first novel, We Are Not Like Them, written with Jo Piazza was published by Atria Books in October.  She does select freelance writing and editorial work, and pens the "Race Matters" column and Cup of Jo. You can reach her at Christine@christinepride.com or @cpride on Instagram.   

Joy Keys chats with Author Christine Pride

Uwem Akpan'd short stories and autobiographical pieces have appeared in the special editions of The New Yorker, the Oprah magazine,Hekima Review, the Nigerian Guardian, America, etc. His first book, Say You're One of Them, was published in 2008 by Little, Brown. It made the "Best of the Year" list at People magazine, Wall Street Journal, and other places. The New York Times made it the Editor's Choice, and Entertainment Weekly listed it at # 27 in their Best of the Decade.  Say You're One of Them won the Commonwealth Prize (Africa Region), the Open Book Prize, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award.  The collection of short stories was the 2009 Oprah Book Club selection. A New York Times and Wall Street Journal #1 bestseller, it has been translated into 12 languages. His second book and first novel, New York, My Village, was published on November 2, 2021, by WW Norton. In this immigrant story, Uwem writes about NYC with the same promise and pain we saw in his African cities of Say You're One of Them.  Uwem teaches in the University of Florida’s MFA program

Joy Keys chats with Author Uwem Akpan

Actress/director/playwright & Golden Globe winner Regina Taylor is best known to television audiences for her role as Lily Harper in "I'll Fly Away.” She received a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a TV Series, 3 NAACP Image Awards and two Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her role. Her recent guest starring credits include “The Blacklist,” “Elementary,” and the upcoming CBS drama “Red Line” while other television roles include “Dig,” “The Unit,” “The Education of Max Bickford," "Feds,” “Strange Justice,” Masterpiece Theatre’s "Cora Unashamed," "Children of the Dust," "I'll Fly Away: Then and Now" and "Howard Beach: Making a Case for Murder.” She most recently recurred in the HBO critically acclaimed series “Lovecraft Country” and starred in the Netflix feature All Day & A Night opposite Jeffrey Wright and Ashton Sanders. In addition to her film and television work, she holds the honor as being the first Black woman to play William Shakespeare's Juliet in "Romeo and Juliet" on Broadway. Taylor’s critically acclaimed "Crowns" continues to be one of the most performed musicals in the country and is the winner of four Washington D.C. Helen Hayes awards including Taylor’s win for Best Direction and Best Regional Musical Taylor has received honorary doctorates from Columbia College, DePaul University and Lake Forest College. Regina can currently be seen on BET Plus in A Jenkins Family Christmas.

2021 Joy Keys chats with Actress Regina Taylor

Ayana Gray is a New York Times and Indie bestselling author of speculative fiction and a lover of all things monsters, mythos, and #MelaninMagic. Originally from Atlanta, she now lives in Little Rock, Arkansas where she reads avidly, follows Formula One racing, and worries over the varying moods of her adopted baby black rhino, Apollo, and her mini goldendoodle, Dolly. Her debut novel, BEASTS OF PREY, is being adapted for film by Netflix. Penguin Young Readers is excited to present the most anticipated young adult novel of the year from breakout debut author Ayana Gray. BEASTS OF PREY (G.P. Putnam’s Sons BFYR; On Sale September 28, 2021) is the thrilling series opener that begins in the way all the best YA novels do: by striking a deal. Two teens agree to work together to track down a dangerous, ancient creature who plagues their city before they themselves become the hunted. Inspired by African mythology, Gray has woven a fast-paced fantasy filled with monsters, mythos, and a slow-burn romance that will leave readers clamoring for more.

Joy Keys chats with Author Ayana Gray about Beasts of Prey

Emerging actress LaToya Tonodeo stars in Power Book II: Ghost, the spin-off series to the STARZ original drama Power. LaToya portrays the intelligent and beautiful Diana Tejada, the daughter of Mary J. Blige’s character. Produced by series creator and showrunner Courtney A Kemp and Curtis ‘50 Cent’ Jackson, Power Book II: Ghost was renewed for a second season. LaToya’s previous television credits include recurring roles in the SONY/CRACKLE crime drama The Oath and FREEFORM’s romance drama The Fosters. In 2016, LaToya co-starred in the LIONSGATE film The Perfect Match. 

Joy Keys chats with Actress LaToya Tonodeo

CHIBUNDU ONUZO was born in Lagos, Nigeria and lives in London. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and regular contributor to The Guardian, she is the winner of a Betty Trask Award, has been shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Commonwealth Book Prize, and the RSL Encore Award, and has been longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize and Etisalat Literature Prize. Her first novel was The Spider King’s Daughter. The author of Welcome to Lagos, Sankofa is her third novel.

Joy Keys chats with Author Chibundu Onuzo

Nadine Ellis is an in-demand actress who currently stars in the FOX series, Our Kind of People.  In the soapy and thrilling drama, Nadine plays Leah Franklin-Dupont, a strong, confident, elegant businesswoman who sits at the top of the food chain of the wealthy, long-standing Black elite in Martha’s Vineyard.  The show follows a single mom, Angela Vaughn, who risks it all and moves her family to Martha’s Vineyard with hopes of reclaiming her family’s name by taking her natural hair care line to the next while infiltrating the African American elite in Oak Bluffs.  Leah is wary of Angela and will do anything to protect her family’s reputation and name.    Prior to Our Kind of People, Nadine was a series regular on BET’s comedy Let’s Stay Together as Dr. Stacy Lawrence and Netflix’s The Greenhouse Academy as Judy Hayword; and recurred on Showtime’s Shameless as Dr. Brenda Williams.  Earlier this year, Nadine starred in the backdoor pilot for the upcoming CW series All American: Homecoming, playing Ms. Sims, the mother of an up-and-coming college baseball player.   The Queens-native got her start in the entertainment industry as a professional dancer.  Throughout her successful dance career, Nadine performed with Beyoncé at the VMAs; starred in the film Hairspray as the lead of the Supremes-like group, the Dynamites; and was one of the original cat Dolls.

Joy Keys chats with Actress Nadine Ellis

Rémy Ngamije is a Rwandan-born Namibian writer and photographer. He is the founder, chairperson, and artministrator of Doek, an independent arts organization in Namibia supporting the literary arts. He is also the cofounder and editor in chief of Doek! Literary Magazine, Namibia’s first and only literary magazine. His work has appeared in AFREADA, The Johannesburg Review of Books, Brainwavez, American Chordata, Azure, Sultan’s Seal, Columbia Journal, New Contrast, Lolwe, and many other publications. He was shortlisted for the AKO Caine Prize for African Writing in 2020 and 2021. He was also longlisted for the 2020 and 2021 Afritondo Short Story Prizes. In 2019, he was shortlisted for Best Original Fiction by Stack Magazines. More of his writing can be read on his website, RemytheQuill.com.

Joy Keys chats with Author Remy Ngamije

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