Olutosin Burrell and Aaron “Ab” Abernathy met at Howard University with a shared passion for music and the creative “Love Jones” life. After graduating Ab developed a professional career singing, playing the piano, and traveled the world. Olu influences the local government as a facilitator and executive coach. We talk about giving dap at the rec center, what is required to create an anti-racist culture, and how dap at its core is a radical expression. As COVID, unfortunately, has impacted the black community at a disproportionate rate to white people, Olu talks about being quarantined from his wife and two small children while he recovered from COVID.
SHOW NOTES:
Peter Drucker, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast”
https://journal.jabian.com/culture-eats-strategy-for-breakfast-and-transformation-for-lunch/
79% of change management initiatives fail -- where is the evidence?
https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/leadership/changing-change-management
“We have to find some way to persuade the white liberal to stop being a liberal and become an American Radical,” Lorraine Hansberry
http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/blackspeech/lhansberry.html
Music and the Civil Rights Movement
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/eyesontheprize-music-civil-rights-movement/
Link to Ab’s 2017 album, dialogue
https://aaronabernathy.bandcamp.com/album/dialogue
Jazmine Sullivan, Adele and How Black Soul Artists are Received
https://www.themarysue.com/jazmine-sullivan-adele/
Food Deserts in DC
https://www.dcpolicycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Food-ACCESS-in-DC.pdf
History of H. St. Corridor Development
https://washington.org/visit-dc/h-street-corridor-ne-history-and-revival
Building New Hospitals to Rectify Unequal Access to Hospitals
https://eastoftheriverdcnews.com/2020/05/15/expanding-health-care-access-in-wards-7-and-8/
