Pass the Mic

From Left: Brendan Dorr, Lara Sumerson, Ashley Mac and Ezra Allen are bar and restaurant industry veterans who 'pivoted' during the pandemic, kept their businesses running and served up support for their colleagues and friends. Photo: Melissa Gerr

Sheilah Kast

What has running a social establishment served up during the past two years ... and with virus variants threatening more restrictions, what's to come? Four good friends, veteran bartenders and industry leaders hash it out.

Kerry Hawk Lessard (top left) talks with artist and healer Judy Tallwing McCarthey (top right) and public health researcher Tara Maudrie (bottom) about the rich Native American culture they share; why Native lives depend on accurate Covid-19 data, and how they have flipped the script on Native American Heritage Month. Photos: Melissa Gerr

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Pass the Mic: Lose the Native American stereotypes

Melissa Gerr

We Pass the Mic to Kerry Hawk Lessard. Her guests discuss the rich Native American culture they share; why Native lives depend on accurate Covid-19 data, and how they have flipped the script on Native American Heritage Month.

Pass the Mic host Lea Gilmore (top left) talks with D. Watkins (top right) about his book,' We Speak for Ourselves.' Then she's joined by Two Strikes Theatre Collective founders Christen Cromwell (bottom left) and Aladrian Wetzel (bottom right) to hear about their new show, Brown Sugar Bake Off. Credit: Guests

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Pass the Mic, share the platform

Sheilah Kast

On the Record's first episode of Pass the Mic! In this series we invite a host to choose the guests and direct the narrative. Activist Lea Gilmore interviews writer and educator D. Watkins and talks with Aladrian Wetzel and Christen Cromwell, the creators of ‘Brown Sugar Bake Off’: theater about the politics and power around Black women’s bodies.