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Then Jay Moran takes a visit to the Community Music School of Buffalo, as they move into a new East side facility.Today we look at the state of home ownership on the East side, with MMB Realty Group - the region's first all-female, Black-owned realty group. Mia Mootry, Tamika Collins Murphy and Rosalind Burgin will chat with Dave Debo.

In our weekly “Producers’ Picks” episode we bring you highlights of recent important interviews with:-Karima Morris from the Bury The Violence initiative, that works with parents of missing and murdered children-Ayat Nieves, a real estate agent who delivers financial education through the Buffalo Information Sharing Collective-Jasmine Tucker of the National Women’s Law Center on why Black women earn less pay-Attorney Jason Daniels on the rarity of being Black in corporate Buffalo-Mark Overall, Buffalo Urban League Young Professionals

How do private and public sectors collaborate with the Buffalo Urban League to improve the quality of life for Black families, and what needs to be next for Buffalo? In this episode, Host Dave Debo talks with the President and CEO, Thomas Beauford, Jr. about the challenges Black people face on the East side and throughout Buffalo.

 Across America, inequities outside the health care system – in terms of measures like poverty, food insecurity, and family wealth, also negatively affect the health of Black families. In this episode of “Buffalo, What’s Next?” professionals from the Community Health Center of Buffalo share their efforts to address healthy disparity and inequity.

Hear Gov. Kathy Hochul with WBFO’s Mike Desmond on today’s special legislature session to look at gun control laws after the US Supreme Court changed the rules on restricting concealed carry . And more about her when Albany correspondent Karen DeWitt re-caps Tuesday’s primary and looks ahead to today’s gun debate

With one more Buffalo area store approved to unionize, NLRB hearings into the way Starbucks fought an organizing drive have begun. WBFO's Tom Dinki takes you inside the testimony. Also, the push to bring a grocery store- possibly Wegman's — to Buffalo's East side. And The Buffalo city council is prepared to vote on new city council districts, and hear from Garnell Whitfield, who was in Washington DC to witness President Biden's gun control bill signing after losing his mother in the Tops shooting.

WBFO’s Tom Dinki synthesizes his four-part series on extremism in WNY with news director, Dave Debo. Kelly Marie Wofford, Director of Health Equity in Erie County talks with Brigid Jaipaul-Valenza about health outcomes and the challenges BIPOC communities face.

For 30 years, Theater Talk has been appointment listening on WBFO, featuring the insights of theater critic and historian, Anthony Chase, who joins Peter Hall for a five-minute weekly broadcast at 6:45 and 8:45 Friday mornings on 88.7 WBFO with a podcast available on wbfo.org. As part of BTPM (Buffalo Toronto Public Media) their beat is primarily Buffalo theater, but Broadway, The Shaw Festival, The Stratford Festival, and other relevant art forms including ballet and opera are covered.

WBFO’s Jay Moran talks wages, housing, and redistricting as part of racial inequity with Russell Weaver PhD, the Director of Research at the Cornell ILR Buffalo Co-Lab.

In this episode, Host Dave Debo talks DEIB and language with Dr. Brianna Cornelius, educator and cultural strategist. Host Jay Moran continues the examination of health disparity in Buffalo with Pastor George Nicholas, Co-Convener of the African American Health Equity Task Force.