Gerrymandering is the process of drawing voting districts in order to give one party an advantage over another. It's often called "the art of rigging elections." With gerrymandering, politicians are able to choose their voters instead of the other way around. This is a very serious issue that affects our democracy and undermines fair representation for citizens across America. On this episode of The 411 Live, Beverly Taylor invites Chris Walton, former President of the Democratic Party of Milwaukee County, What gerrymandering is, how its done by both Democrats and Republicans but how its often associated with Republicans. The 411 Live is a non-profit organization and your financial support will help us continue to help us help you through outreach and education. All contributions made to The 411 Live is tax deductible to the extent permissible by law.

Would you take a pledge against human trafficking? Women!! Would you love for your man to take a pledge against human trafficking? Convergence Resource Center is in the business of stopping human trafficking and they want you to be a part of the HEMAD pledge. Join us tonight as we talk to Dr. Debbie Lassiter, CEO & Co-Founder of Convergence Resource Center (CRC) as well Arnold Cifax, Director of the HEMAD campaign at CRC to talk about their campaign and movement HEMAD.

Here’s a question for you: could funding an industry that presents itself as aiding the community actually harm it? On this week's episode of The 411 Live, Beverly Taylor chats with George Hinton from Social Development Commission (SDC) about America's heritage and how we can take on systemic racism in order to make change happen. Watch closely as they dive deep into what makes up our past - examine its perplexities without fear or favor; then move forward together towards transformation!

It’s important for young children and teenagers to give a voice to the worries and traumatic experiences that impact their mental health and well-being. Issues that parents, teachers and others may not be aware of and circumstances that children may not be able to easily articulate.  Join us as we talk to Aaron Heffernan MA, LCSW, Psychotherapist and Patrice McBeath, Trauma-Informed Therapist from Jewish Family Services about the importance of active listening, non-judgmental conversations, unique mental health challenges of children and innovative therapeutic methods for helping children express their needs.

Starting off our New Season of The 411 Live, host Beverly Taylor talks to Susan Lubar, Founder and President of Growing Minds about mindfulness. Its possible for anyone to become better at being mindful of their own body and actions, because it is a skill. It can be learned, practiced and strengthened. Join us as we discuss and learn this skill called mindfulness that not enough people may be aware of and it could drastically help you.

Media has the power to empower or destroy and in this episode of The 411 Live, Beverly Taylor talks to Mikel Holt, Associate Publisher for the Milwaukee Community Journal, political analyst and Co-founder of the Wisconsin Black Media Association, Faithe Colas, Radio host at WNOV, Liddie Collins, former TV producer for Milwaukee PBS, Everett Marshburn, Executive Producer for Black Nouveau, and finally, Earl Arms, current President of the Wisconsin Black Media Association and Host of Black Nouveau. In this episode we talk about the importance of black voices and representation in media. Each of our guest not only shares their expertise on the importance of black voices in public media but also their personal experiences and testimonies on how far we’ve come as a society. Listen to each guest’s words on the positive progress and influence the black community has.

On this week’s episode of The 411 Live, Beverly Taylor talks to Dr. Robert Smith, director of Center for Urban Research’s teaching and outreach, Dr. Darren Wheelock, associate professor of social and cultural sciences, and Shar-Ron Buie, community liaison and EPP, to discuss the prison re-entry into society college program they conduct in the Milwaukee area and the great feats they have accomplished. Dr. Robert Smith enlightens, “we are wasting so much human potential and human expertise because of the sickness that is that carceral system.” Education is one of societies most important tools for empowerment, therefore, it needs to be offered and encouraged for those who require re-entry into society. This is The 411 Live. Real People. Real Talk.

Join Beverley Taylor "Tuesday night at 8pm" as she talks to April Bentley who is an Artist, Author & Founder of Rubies. She intimately shares how she overcame her childhood trauma of being raped and trafficked in this powerful episode of The 411 Live. She also talks about her new song and her organization, Rubies. Please help April’s Testimony reach more people by sharing this episode as well as her original song “I’m Free”…

On this week’s episode of The 411 Live, Beverly Taylor talks to Jason Boyd, Life Coach and Author to talk about whether or not relationships suck and if dating is even worse. Jason Boyd is the author of “The Reasons Why Relationships Suck but Dating is Worse” and strongly believes women are naturally meant to be the leaders in a relationship and if they knew this and act accordingly, relationships could greatly improve for many. He believes this theory is based on the fact that men naturally pursue women and women naturally instruct men and challenge them to be better. Meanwhile, if a woman pursues a man then, as Jason Boyd states, “when the mouse pursues the cat, the cat will still eat the mouse. As a man, you don’t set the tone in the relationship.” What do you think about this topic? Does modern American society misunderstand the male-female relationship dynamic?

There is no unspoken secrets on how to create a healthier relationship between a man and a woman and there is nothing that is stopping anyone from bettering themselves. Join us as Beverly Taylor talks to certified life relationship coach and author, Tray Kearney. Tray states “I’m not here to judge you, I used to be you”. Her motto is we have all fallen short of the mark. Tray talks about what type of communication is needed and how to interact with different communication types. Tray says, “Communication is a skill and a lot of the time it is underdeveloped in a lot of us.” On this week’s episode of The 411 Live, we will uncover the misconceptions of what strong communication looks like and why it is so intertwined with maturity and how to heal for infidelity.