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Melissa Gray Brown – Manager of Multicultural Marketing, Home Depot
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MANAGER OF MULTICULTURAL MARKETING
This week on TALK! with AUDREY: For many schools, finding money in the budget for upgrades can seem impossible, especially if it means coming at the expense of the education offered and other necessities. Higher learning institutions across the country have been struggling with how to stretch this money as far as possible, and it’s no different for the United States’ 105 historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). MELISSA GRAY BROWN, Manager, Multicultural Marketing, Home Depot joins me with information about The Home Depot Fourth Annual “Retool Your School” HBCU GRANT PROGRAM.FacebookTwitterGoogle-plus
April Tyler and Marie Delus of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America
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WIDE-RANGING COALITION OF VICTIMS & ADVOCATES TO HOLD MASSIVE MOBILIZATION AGAINST GUN VIOLENCE
This week on TALK! with AUDREY: New York Voices Against Gun Violence, a broad, newly-formed coalition of advocates, victims, youth organizations, health care workers, unions, elected officials, faith leaders and artists, announced today that they will hold a massive mobilization to promote the NY SAFE Act as a model for legislation at the federal level and in other states. Joining me on the show, Event Organizer and Community Advocate, APRIL TYLER and MARIE DELUS of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. Thousands of people will gather in New York City, and others will speak out across the state, to focus attention on the human toll of the gun violence that is plaguing our nation on a daily basis. The coalition includes Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, Harlem Mothers S.A.V.E., New Yorkers Against Gun Violence, Doctors for America – NY State Chapter, 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, Million Moms March and many other groups.
Patoula Chresomales – Executive Director, Advanced Placement, for the College Board
This week on TALK! with AUDREY: Ensuring that all academically-prepared high school students have access to rigorous course work that will prepare them to succeed in college is critical for the United States to remain competitive in a global economy. Recently,the College Board announced results from The 9th Annual AP Report to the Nation, highlighting the progress of America’s public high schools in preparing students for college-level course work. PATOULA CHRESOMALES, Executive Director, Advanced Placement, for the College Board is my guest.