Our Own Voices Live

Welcome to Our Own Voices Live with your hosts: Rodney Smith Our Topic(s) today: “Thankful, Hope, Empathy Love and Compassion!” Please welcome our guess: Heather Burton Berry, our local love guru If you have a question, comment or just want to listen, give us a call: (516) 531-9535.  Press #1 to speak.  If you are near a computer you can listen in or chat with us here:  http://tobtr.com/12030853 Thanksgiving is that one time of year set aside to give thanks  We are living in a time of so much uncertainty, turmoil, malice and division.  Why is it and what can we do to change it?  Why did people seem to get along better years ago but not today or did they really get along better years ago?  We are the same people in the same county so something has happened.  Maybe instead of focusing on what we don’t have or what others may take from us, we should focus on what we have and what we can give so more can have too.  What do you have to be thankful for and what do you want to have to be thankful for? Let’s discuss this. On behalf of Our Own Voices Live and the entire Speak Up network, we wish you a Happy Thanksgiving!   Our Own Voices Live is a radio show featuring people and stories from our community in Las Vegas, the surrounding area and someplace near you. America is the greatest country on earth due to its cultural diversity and not in spite of it. Our mission is to help bridge the cultural and ethnic divide in America by working together to build the greatest bridge in history to unite us

9-11 and America 20 Years Later Remembering 9-11 and pondering how America has changed since then.  Did we become better and have we learned from the experience?

Welcome to Our Own Voices Live new show, E Pluribus Unum! With your hosts: Sara & Rodney Smith Our Topic(s) today: “Michele Fiore,  Race and the Nevada GOP!” If you have a question, comment or just want to listen, give us a call: (516) 531-9535. Press #1 to speak    Michele Fiore, Race and the Nevada GOP! A new radio show, E Pluribus Unum! Fiore and her statement NAACP comments about it Clark GOP getting hit for coming out Alt-right in the GOP, who is who Michael McDonald lied to the body about the governor Chuck Muth is a racist Race relations and how we move forward   If you have a question, comment or just want to listen, give us a call: (516) 531-9535. Press #1 to speak    Our Own Voices Live is a radio show featuring people and stories from our community in Las Vegas, the surrounding area and some place near you. America is the greatest country on earth due to its cultural diversity and not in spite of it. Our mission is to help bridge the cultural and ethnic divide in America by working together to build the greatest bridge in history to unite us

Black issues from Las Vegas with Angela Thomas from Our Own Voices Live, Brian Harris from Independent Black Voters Group and Rodney Smith from Our Own Voices Live

"Lest We Forget"

Welcome to Our Own Voices Live with your host: Rodney Smith Our Topic(s) today: “Politics & Lying” If you have a question, comment or just want to listen, give us a call: (347) 826-9600. Press #1 to speak    Politics & Lying Is America losing its moral core due to partisan politics and lying?  The truth more and more seems to be based on ones political affiliation.  If a person tells something that isn’t true it seems to be believable even if it is a lie to those in the same party as they ridicule others for lying.  Can our form or government stand as we slip more and more into a country whose leaders lies and what affect will that have on the rest of us?   If you have a question, comment or just want to listen, give us a call: (347) 826-9600. Press #1 to speak   Our Own Voices Live is a radio show featuring people and stories from our community in Las Vegas, the surrounding area and some place near you. America is the greatest country on earth due to its cultural diversity and not in spite of it. Our mission is to help bridge the cultural and ethnic divide in America by working together to build the greatest bridge in history to unite us

Welcome to Our Own Voices Live with your host, Rodney Smith Our Topic(s) today: “Black History Month the Black Agenda and Reparations” If you have a question, comment or just want to listen, give us a call: (347) 826-9600. Press #1 to speak    Black History Month                                           Feb was African American History Month or Black History Month.  What did it mean to you?  I even hear some people who say we no longer need it.  I disagree.  Since we have it, what are we doing with it and what difference does it make?  Heck, what difference can it make?   The Black Agenda Each year I like to discuss the Black Agenda since it is the one month where we can openly talk about 100% Black stuff.  This year was no different.  I asked if we should have one and what should it be composed of.   Reparations The making of amends for a wrong one has done, by paying money to or otherwise helping those who have been wronged.  That is how the Merriam Webster dictionary defines Reparations.  Should Decedents of American Slaves receive reparations? If you have a question, comment or just want to listen, give us a call: (347) 826-9600. Press #1 to speak  Our Own Voices Live is a radio show featuring people and stories from our community in Las Vegas, the surrounding area and some place near you. America is the greatest country on earth due to its cultural diversity and not in spite of it. Our mission is to help bridge the cultural and ethnic divide in America by working together to build the greatest bridge in history to unite us

Welcome to Our Own Voices Live with your hosts: Rodney Smith Our Topic(s) today: “11 Annual Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Candlelight Vigil!” If you have a question, comment or just want to listen, give us a call: (347) 826-9600. Press #1 to speak.   11 Annual Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Candlelight Vigil The Candlelight Vigil is an event to continually share Dr. King's message to inspire us to do more and better.  This year's theme,”Humanity Tied in a Single Garment of Destiny.” We use the Kwanzaa principal of Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility), to produce this event. We have speakers and occasionally performers sharing conscious words. It came about 11 years ago when we noticed younger people didn't seem to know much about Dr. King, his accomplishments, and movements that he led. We wanted something right in the community that was free to attendees. It was not meant to replace anything but to be in addition to. It was also an opportunity to introduce some to our Dr. King statue. We are blessed to not only have a larger than life size statue and to have a street named after Dr. King but we have the statue on the street. That is rare. Even rarer is to have Coretta Scott King Roses. Thanks to the suggestion by Franklyn G. Verley and the support of Commissioner Lawrence Weekly.   If you have a question, comment or just want to listen, give us a call: (347) 826-9600. Press #1 to speak Our Own Voices Live is a radio show featuring people and stories from our community in Las Vegas, the surrounding area and some place near you. America is the greatest country on earth due to its cultural diversity and not in spite of it. Our mission is to help bridge the cultural and ethnic divide in America by working together to build the greatest bridge in history to unite us

Welcome to Our Own Voices Live with your hosts: Rodney Smith Our Topic(s) today: “Happy New Year and the Government shutdown!” If you have a question, comment or just want to listen, give us a call: (347) 826-9600. Press #1 to speak.  Happy New Year and the Government shutdown This is our first show of the New Year as it is the first Saturday of the New Year.  When President Trump took office on Jan 20, 2017, I said this, “We celebrated the Peaceful transfer of power from our 44th President, Barack Obama t our 45th President Donald Trump.  Some saw it as a time to celebrate and others saw it as a time to mourn.   How do you see it today now that we are 2 years in and have a government shutdown?  We have a new congress and split government.  What do you want to change in this new year and why?  Let’s discuss this. If you have a question, comment or just want to listen, give us a call: (347) 826-9600. Press #1 to speak.    Our Own Voices Live is a radio show featuring people and stories from our community in Las Vegas, the surrounding area and some place near you. America is the greatest country on earth due to its cultural diversity and not in spite of it. Our mission is to help bridge the cultural and ethnic divide in America by working together to build the greatest bridge in history to unite us

Welcome to Our Own Voices Life with your host: Rodney Smith Our Topic(s) today: “Rosa Parks, the Catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement” If you have a question, comment or just want to listen, give us a call: (347) 826-9600. Press #1 to speak.  Rosa Parks, the Catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement “Lest We Forget,” is a phrase often used from military remembrances.  It is associated with Armistice Day which we now call Veterans Day.  Dec1, 1955, is another day that is of such importance that it too deserves the Phrase, “Lest we forget.”  That is the day that Sister Rosa Parks Decided to not take unfair and unlawful treatment while riding a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama.  This is the person, the date and event that many historians attributed to be the catalyst to the beginning of the modern day civil rights movement.        If you have a question, comment or just want to listen, give us a call: (347) 826-9600. Press #1 to speak.  Our Own Voices Live is a radio show featuring people and stories from our community in Las Vegas, the surrounding area and some place near you. America is the greatest country on earth due to its cultural diversity and not in spite of it. Our mission is to help bridge the cultural and ethnic divide in America by working together to build the greatest bridge in history to unite us