In this episode, news publishers Julia Ann Dudley Najieb and Brigitte Jones remind viewers and listeners about the last few days of July which is Minority Mental Health Awareness Month.

Thereafter they discuss the breaking news regarding the police killing of Springfield, Illinois, 36-year Black mother of two, Sonya Massey, who called the 911 for help; they killed her instead.  Body-camera footage showing the fatal police shooting of Massey was released last Monday in a case that has led to murder charges against a deputy, Sean Grayson. 

Heated messages from NABJ members and Black people on social media regarding the former U.S. President Donald J. Trump who will participate in a conversation with journalists at the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) Annual Convention & Career Fair during its opening day in Chicago on Wednesday, July 31, at noon CST.

Trump will engage in a Q&A with political journalists before an audience of registered convention attendees that will concentrate on the most pressing issues facing the Black community.  

The event will be moderated by Rachel Scott, senior congressional correspondent for ABC News; Harris Faulkner, anchor of The Faulkner Focus and co-host of Outnumbered on FOX News; and Kadia Goba, politics reporter at Semafor.

On Monday night, more than 53,000 Black men joined a virtual conference, Win With Black Men, to rally behind the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Kamala Harris. During the four-hour call, organizers said the group raised more than $1.3m for the Harris campaign and grassroots voter organizations focused on Black men. 

The success of the call, which was inspired by the Win With Black Women call the night before , runs counter to the narrative shaped by recent election polling indicating that 30% of Black men are planning on voting for Donald Trump. “Don’t let anybody slow us down asking the question: ‘Can a Black woman be elected president of the United States?’” Raphael Warnock, who represents Georgia in the US Senate, said on the call. “Kamala Harris can win. We just have to show up. History is watching us, and the future is waiting on us.”