The Maya Akai Show (4-30-2015)

This episode Maya kicks off the show talking hot topics and headlines in the What’s Trending segment including talking all things Balimore and Freddie Gray. Next Shannon Heffernan ( @Shannon_H ) reporter and producer for WBEZ's Front and Center will joined the show to talk her recent investigation into the mental health crisis in Chicago with a top clinic closing (C4) and the overwhelming surge in Emergency Room visits. Last but not least the Community Activist Roundtable with Rosita Chatonda Founder of CAUSE- C.A.U.S.E. Chicago Alliance of Urban School Educators and Diane Latiker (Founder and CEO ) and youth guest Dominique of Kids Off The Block, Inc. (KOB) talked about Baltimore as it related to the continually growing problem of disenfranchisement of the Black community wrapped up the show.

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