Kia Rae talks about pirates, their role in the slave trade and Black Cesar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qebFTx3bXOo https://keysweekly.com/42/keys-pirates-the-legendary-story-of-black-caesar-continued/ https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/caesa
Kia Rae discusses the virtual trail we leave when using the internet https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbescommunicationscouncil/2023/01/24/three-reasons-those-in-tech-should-actively-build-digital-footprints/?sh=32691184225f https://nordvpn.com/
Kia Rae discusses changes after the “official’ end of Covid protections in America https://www.npr.org/2022/01/27/1075299510/the-expanded-child-tax-credit-briefly-slashed-child-poverty-heres-what-else-it-d https://www.npr.org/sections/health-
Kia Rae discusses the Poor People's Campaign. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Poor-Peoples-March https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/poor-peoples-campaign https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/about/
Kia Rae talks about the unsuccessful war on drugs https://www.forbes.com/sites/artcarden/2020/11/04/its-time-to-admit-drugs-won-the-war-on-drugs/amp/ https://www.history.com/topics/crime/the-war-on-drugs https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgxn8
Kia Rae talks about her experience as a choir member https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1090513815001051 https://www.ox.ac.uk/research/choir-singing-improves-health-happiness-%E2%80%93-and-perfect-icebreaker#:~:text=Song%2
Kia Rae discusses the history of jury duty in America, how jurors are selected and thoughts on our civic duty https://www.npr.org/2015/06/07/412633577/jury-duty-who-gets-called-and-who-actually-serves https://www.uscourts.gov/services-forms/j
Kia Rae discusses historical cases of fraud https://www.investopedia.com/articles/financial-theory/09/history-of-fraud.asp https://www.experian.co.uk/blogs/latest-thinking/fraud-prevention/5-of-the-most-remarkable-instances-in-the-history-of
Kia Rae discusses traditionally lucky symbols and how they came to be seen as lucky. https://www.britannica.com/art/leprechaun https://www.trafalgar.com/real-word/history-of-leprechauns-trickster-fairies/#:~:text=Lucky%20Symbols,they%20remain%
Kia Rae talks about adult friendships and why they are harder than we all thought they would be https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/romantically-attached/202103/making-adult-friends-is-hard-here-are-40-reasons-why https://www.theatlantic.
Summary: Kia Rae discusses symbols of love just in time for Valentines Day! https://www.artandobject.com/news/history-heart-shape https://www.history.com/news/who-is-cupid https://www.history.com/.amp/topics/valentines-day/history-of-vale
Kia Rae discusses professional development and why it is important to careers of all kinds https://professional.dce.harvard.edu/blog/why-is-professional-development-important/ https://www.webce.com/news/2020/07/16/professional-development ht
Kia Rae discusses the history of a couple fad diets https://www.news-medical.net/amp/health/History-of-the-Ketogenic-Diet.aspx https://www.menshealth.com/nutrition/a25775330/keto-diet-history/ https://health.clevelandclinic.org/what-is-the-a
Kia Rae discusses the history behind New Year's resolutions and celebrations https://www.history.com/news/the-history-of-new-years-resolutions https://www.history.com/news/5-ancient-new-years-celebrations https://people.howstuffworks.com/c
Kia Rae takes a little holiday break! Want to support the pod? https://www.patreon.com/Talkingpointswkiarae https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/talkingpointswkiarae?locale.x=en_US https://linktr.ee/Talkingpointswkiarae
Kia Rae discusses how some elements of Christmas as we know it actually belong to pagans https://wootandhammy.com/blogs/news/wassailing-the-pagan-roots-of-christmas-caroling https://www.newsweek.com/christmas-tree-origin-story-pagan-tradition
Kia Rae discusses the European tradition of Krampus https://owlcation.com/social-sciences/A-Brief-History-of-Krampus-in-America#:~:text=%22It's%20been%20theorized%20that%20the,for%20the%20Coca%2DCola%20company. https://nationaltoday.com/krampu
Kia Rae discusses the origins of Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday and why Americans run out to buy stuff right after a holiday of gratitude. https://www.history.com/news/black-friday-thanksgiving-origins-history https:/
Kia Rae discusses the spiritual and scientific viewpoints on gratitude and how to start your own gratitude practice in time for Thanksgiving. https://www.forbes.com/sites/luisromero/2017/11/22/gratitude-the-ultimate-spiritual-practice-a-thank
Kia Rae discusses sports tourism and its economic impact across communities https://www.sportseta.org/portals/sportscommissions/Documents/Reports/TourismEconomics%20-%20Sports%20ETA%20SOTI%20-%20FINAL_82620.pdf https://destinationsinternation