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"Race in the Age of Obama" is the name of an upcoming symposium hosted by Shameka Neely, senior reporter/producer for WTIU. In April of this year, Shameka debuted her documentary "Witnesses to History", chronicling her journey to Washington D.C. with a local group to experience the inauguration of President Barack Obama. Shameka joins us in the studio along with symposium panelist Khalil Muhammad, an Indiana University history professor. In addition to the symposium, Neely and Muhammad discuss systemic and institutional racism, and reflect on the various reactions to President Obama receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. Also in this program: our savvy sistah Leila Randle gets mixed results trying to save money on groceries by growing produce in a city community garden on a new edition of "HomeGurl Shopping", featuring tips from one black woman trying to survive in today's poor economy.

Indiana University PhD student, associate instructor in the Department of Applied Health Science and project coordinator with the Center for Sexual Health Promotion Phillip Schnarrs discusses his research of discrimination related to health issues. Previous research has evidenced a significant connection between health disparities as they intersect with sexual orientation and gender and similar differentials reflected in ethnic populations where they are in the cultural minority. Schnarrs' research results will be applicable to the development of educational programs in addressing problematic social/health movements and easing the frequency of such crises as the HIV/AIDS pandemic. bOUT2 is a spinoff podcast of bloomingOUT, Indiana's only out, loud, and proud radio show, a public affairs program dedicated to the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer community.