Dialogue

Each week Dialogue features interviews people across the region along with in-depth stories from the IPM News team about education, health, politics, arts, and more as it relates to local Black communities. Dialogue airs Saturdays at 11 am and Tuesdays at 6 pm on Illinois Soul FM 101.1 and streams live at illinoissoul.org and can be heard Wednesdays at 8 pm on WILL-AM 580.

Licensed Clinical Psychologists Dr. Deidra Weathersby and Dr. Kamau Grantham with the Dialogue logo down the center.

A Dialogue On Mental Health in the Black Community

Join us this week as Dialogue takes a deep dive with experts on mental health in the Black community. Then, an in-depth conversation about how depression affects young Black men and women. Finally, host Kennedy Vincent talks with Dr. Stephanie Cockrell, founder of The Well Experience. 

Headshot of Sean Garrick and a picture Luisette Kraal hugging a child

A Dialogue with Univ. of Illinois’ DEI leader and why a Black Illinoisan who helps migrants faces an immigration struggle herself

On this episode of Dialogue, we hear from Vice Chancellor for Diversity Equity and Inclusion at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign Sean Garrick. Then we learn more about a video game about housing discrimination and woman from the North Side of Chicago who's one of the first advocates to help migrants when they were sent to police stations. And finally, we meet Major General Rodney Boyd, the 41st adjutant general of the Illinois National Guard.