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During crisis, community centers and faith organizations step forward to help a community through their struggles. Amy Betros from St. Luke’s Mission of Mercy talks about their response and what the community needs, Then Dr. Barbara Seals Nevergold - former Buffalo School Board President and historian talks about why children need to learn about race, history and oppression.

Today, how the rural school districts without robust public transit or a big population, cope with the shortage of school bus drivers. Also, the latest changes in overtime rules for farm workers. Prosecutors say they have a mountain of evidence in the case of the Chautauqua Institution stabbing of author Salman Rushdie, and an end to the mask mandate on public transit.

Our week of education topics continues with Dr. Catherine Fisher Collins, the WNY representative on the NYS Board of Regents with Dave Debo to talk about race, curriculum and related matters. And then he speaks with Leah Watson of the ACLU on education and censorship of what teachers are allowed to teach.

In Ontario, there are predictions of yet another large COVID wave coming as children return to school. And the debate over whipped cream chargers- and even the whipped cream canisters in the grocery stores - and whether you need to be 21 in order to buy one. Also Jay Moran with the creators of the movie "Chicken Strips: The Trials and Tribulations of Becoming a Garage Band"

Earlier this year TIME magazine included Buffalo’s Dr. Fatima Morrell PhD in their national list of education innovators and she joins hosts Jay Moran and Thomas O’Neil White on this edition of “Buffalo, What’s Next?” She is the associate superintendent of culturally and linguistically responsive initiatives for Buffalo Public Schools, and has worked on making sure that the city’s classrooms, teachers and parents all resonate properly for students of color. In the wake of the George Floyd killing and the summer of Black Lives Matters rallies, she developed and implemented an “Emancipation Curriculum” to address systemic oppression and she says anti-racism education plays a role in violence prevention, especially after the Tops shootings.

The state's teachers' unions are calling for more work to be done to prevent mass shootings and violence. Meanwhile, The Buffalo School District is being sued by someone who says they knew about the impending shooting and stabbing incident at McKinley High School last February. And join jay Moran as he goes behind the scenes with preparations for next month's Borderlands Music Festival at Knox Farm State Park in East Aurora.

Our weekly "Producers' Picks " program features highlights of earlier interviews with award winning art administrator Thembi Duncan, on identity and Black casting in theatre and film. Former elected official Betty Jean Grant looks at economic development, Warren Galloway on the GOP and race after this week's primary election. Also, lecturer Vicki Math on art and social studies education, and Jacqueline Cherry from the African American Cultural Center talks about dance and healing.

What are the experiences of Indigenous filmmakers in an industry characterized by exclusion? The Haudenosaunee Micro-Short film Program (HMSFP) now in its second year, develops a new model for supporting underrepresented artists through direct collaboration and compensation. Jay Moran talks with Lukia Costello from Spark Filmmaker’s Collaborative and program coordinator Terry Jones. Then, Dave Debo talks about fear of being inside the Tops Market, with Malane White, a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with Spectrum Health Services. And Dr. Willie Underwood MD from the Buffalo Health Equity Center broadens our discussions on health disparities by looking beyond the social factors that determine health to discuss health care delivery systems and outcome monitoring.

If it's Friday, It's Theater Talk- today with Anthony and Peter talking about the managment changes at Shea's Buffalo Theater in light of several resignations and accusations of a toxic workplace. Also, hear Thomas O'Neil_White report on how in advance of the school year, and with an eye on what people need to do since 5/14, Black barbers in he University District are hosting an event to stress community. And Karen DeWitt lookks at the state's first round of retail cannabis licenses - being sent to those who were harmed by prosecution for marijuana offenses.

More than three months after the shootings at the Tops Market, there is still fear and grief in the community. Jay Moran talks with Kelly Dumas, LCSW , The chief operating officer of BestSelf Behavioral Health, and Kevin Beckman, BestSelf’s Vice President of Health Home. Kelly is also chair of the will also address why it’s important to be specific in identifying and addressing race equity in your diversity goals and how to be intentional in this work and sustainability. Beckman is a LMHC a mental health counselor and addiction / substance abuse counselor.