Episode 9: To the Diaspora with Love

11/04/20 • 42 min

In this episode, I continue with my personal reflections on the inception of my love affair with Diasporic Blackness. I channel the spirit of Zora Neale Hurston and sit firmly in the passenger seat as I am interviewed as a continuation of a 3-part series.
Guest Co-Host: Jonathan Glover
Music: Theme Song, Power by Kudo NYC; The Lustful Ones by the Chalalatas; Mandeville Banton by Calisto Young; Wrong Love by Cleo Kelly.
Archive Sound: The Late Prime Minister of Grenada, Maurice Bishop via the Freedom Archives.

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Episode 8: Poem in Progress

Ancestral stories start somewhere, but the most definitive starting place is you. In this episode, my good friend Jonathan Glover reverses the mic and interviews me on what brought me to Blackness. We discuss colorism, family deities, Roots and one of my favorite places in the Diaspora, the Black DC and Maryland area.
Special Guest Host: Jonathan Glover
Music: Unlucky Woman by Helen Fumes and Leonard Feather; Power by Kudo NYC; Talk to Me, Talk to Me by Little Willie John; Stranger by Yung Kartz; Addicted by Makaih Beats; Picture Perfect by Yung Kartz and Ara Lee Live.

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Episode 10: USA

U.S.A is the last installment in a 3-part series where I look at my own experience walking through the "Diaspora." In the last episode, I reflect on the conflicted experience I had living in Miami, Florida for 12 years; the white supremacist rhetoric that influenced my day-to-day and my eventual decision to really go back and get academic understandings of the Black experience in Latin America. This episode contains a call-to-action to support part of a Afro-Colombian collective in Buenaventura, Colombia. It also contains racially sensitive material and views.
Guest Host: Jonathan Glover
Music by: Theme Music for Show - Power by Kudo NYC; Careless Conditon by Norman Sann; La Coqueteria by Dylan Joseph; Hidden Hills by Damma Beetz; They Don't Know by Damma Beetz; Agua y Llama by Cuba Quartet.