WHRV’s weekly live show, Another View with Barbara Hamm Lee, looks at timely topics from the African American perspective.
Every month, Hamm Lee brings together a roundtable of local voices to share perspectives on current events. Once a month, Bon Secours Hampton Roads Head of Cardiology Dr. Keith Newby also visits to help listeners make sense of health care topics that disproportionately affect the Black community.
This year, Another View’s episodes on politics were among the most listened. Those feature Norfolk State University’s Eric Claville in the award-winning Claville Report.
See what Claville had to say about the massive shifts in American politics this year, and take a look at some of the lighter topics listeners were excited to hear:
The Claville Report: Life Under Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill'
Claville joined the show to break down the federal spending bill.
It was a major policy shift that changed health care costs, immigration policy and the debate temporarily disrupted food assistance.
“In my analysis of this, not opinion, but analysis, this is one of the most irresponsible pieces of legislation that's going to impact generations for decades to come … because it did not go through the proper process,” Claville told Another View.
Hair Anxiety
For many Black women, the look of their hair can impact self-esteem, daily life activities and ultimately cause damage to the hair itself.
In August, Hamm Lee spoke with Michelle Williams, CEO of Versus Salon in Virginia Beach and local actress Ashley Tru Ward about how they take care of their hair and the feelings it can bring up for them.
“I love for my hair to be big and wild. I do. But I also understand what stigma that carries and what people will think about me,” Ward said. “If they don't understand Black hair care or Black expression of hair, they might not understand that that's my freedom coming through in my self-expression.”
The Claville Report: The 47th President
The first days of President Donald Trump’s term were a flurry of executive orders and actions, some of which seemed symbolic, and others that seemed headed for court challenges.
Another View invited Claville to talk through some of the major early decisions of the administration, including blanket pardons for January 6 insurrectionists, new immigration policies and how life for marginalized people in America might look as those changes unfold.
AV on Health: The Alcohol - Cancer Connection
In early 2025, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recirculated information about studies that suggested any beverage that contains alcohol - including red and white wine, beer and liquor - increases your risk for cancer.
ButNewby had a more even take on the announcement, which he said didn’t appear to contain new information.
“You just want to be careful of your risk,” he said. “In other words, for example, if you have a family history of breast cancer, you have to be diligent with saying, ‘OK, maybe I need to just pull back altogether because I already have a higher risk, period.’”
Juneteenth! 2025
In one of two shows Another View held outside their studio space, Hamm Lee and producer Lisa Godley invited WHRO listeners to celebrate Juneteenth at the station with food trucks, a live storyteller and more.
Norfolk State University Professor of African American History, Derrick Lanois, joined to explain why Juneteenth is a federal holiday and its importance.
“By understanding what Junteenth is representing, it helps us understand what the fight that we're in right now and to continue this work that African American history not only is U.S history, U.S history is world history and it's very important.”
Encore: Meet S.A. Cosby
Mathews County native (and Gloucester resident) author S.A. Cosby talked with Another View about his fictional crime novels, which critics have called “Southern Noir.”
This interview is from 2023, but the Another View crew reupped it to celebrate Cosby’s 2025 release, “King of Ashes.”
Cosby’s work, as Hamm Lee described it, guarantees to cover the same three things his characters encounter in their small towns: Religion, racism and sex.
“I learned the sort of oral gift, the oral tradition of storytelling from my grandmother, grandfather, my uncles, my aunts,” Cosby told Another View. “I grew up in a household, you know, we weren't as financially advantageous as some other families, but we had so much love and so many books around us. My mom read biographies, my grandmother read romance novels that I probably shouldn't have been reading.”
If you listen to this episode now, be prepared to be the cool one among your friends: Cosby’s “King of Ashes” was named one NPR producer’s favorite book of the year and made it to Time magazine's Top 10 Best Books of 2025.