Podcasts about african diasporic

Leslie Salmon Jones is the CEO and co-founder of Afro Flow Yoga®, an embodied practice integrating African Diasporic dance, yoga, and live healing music to support trauma recovery and holistic well-being. Inspired by her transformative experiences across Africa and the Caribbean, she co-founded Afro Flow Yoga® in 2008 with her husband, Jeff W. Jones, a multi-instrumentalist, recording artist, musical director, and composer. More info: www.afroflowyoga.com In this conversation, Leslie Salmon Jones and Jane Garnett explore the awakening of feminine energy in the context of toxic masculinity, personal healing, and the importance of community. They discuss the need for a language revolution, the role of rituals in relationships, and the transformative power of Afro Flow Yoga. The conversation emphasizes the significance of embodied connection, alternative currencies, and the healing rhythms of drumming. In this conversation, Leslie Salmon Jones and Jane Garnett explore themes of birth, initiation, cultural wisdom, and the importance of embodied practices. They discuss the significance of the Black Jaguar in indigenous cultures, the rise of awareness in spiritual practices, and the role of women in healing and empowerment. The conversation emphasizes the importance of collective consciousness, the power of circles, and the celebration of life and gratitude. Leslie shares her vision for the future of her work, focusing on healing and connection through community and spirituality. takeaways We're in a time of the toxic masculine being revealed. The divine feminine is emerging with rage as a form of healing. Patriarchy is pervasive and affects our relationships and society. Awareness of our socialization is the first step to healing. The real estate of our minds is crucial for transformation. We need to reimagine success beyond traditional metrics. Community and embodied practices foster deeper connections. Rituals can strengthen relationships and personal growth. The journey of Afro Flow Yoga connects dance and spirituality. Drumming resonates with our heartbeat and offers healing. The experience of birth is a profound initiation. Cultural wisdom, like that of the Black Jaguar, empowers women. Awareness of embodied practices is on the rise. Sankofa symbolizes the importance of learning from the past. We are transitioning from a material to a spiritual focus. Women play a crucial role in spiritual awakening. The circle is a powerful structure for connection and trust. Collective consciousness fosters healing and celebration. Gratitude is essential for personal and communal well-being. The future of healing lies in connection and community. t"I'm getting these waves of feminist rage" "The divine feminine to awaken and to emerge" "The real estate of our minds" "We need a language revolution" "I need to heal myself" "Afro Flow Yoga has been our therapy" "I'm going to free fall" "The first drum is the heart" "Only imagining that's experience." "This is the rise of what we're seeing now." "Celebration is every day, all day long." "I feel so prepared for it." Chapters 00:00 Awakening Feminine Energy 03:12 Toxic Masculinity and Personal Healing 06:04 Reimagining Success and Alternative Currencies 09:04 Embodied Connection and Community 11:45 The Journey of Afro Flow Yoga 15:01 The Role of Rituals in Relationships 17:53 Navigating Personal Growth and Relationships 21:12 The Healing Power of Drumming and Rhythm 32:43 The Journey of Birth and Initiation 34:03 Cultural Wisdom and the Black Jaguar 35:11 Awareness and Embodied Practices 35:46 Sankofa: Wisdom from the Past 37:14 The Shift from Material to Spiritual 37:51 The Role of Women in Spirituality 40:56 The Power of the Circle 45:04 Collective Consciousness and Celebration 51:57 The Future of Healing and Connection Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

(Airdate 3/17/25) Chief Ayanda Ifadara Clarke, Ajibilu Awo of Osogboland, is a master percussionist and educator. Highly skilled and internationally revered, he embodies and uplifts African and African Diasporic traditions. Chief Ayanda is a GRAMMY® Award-winning musician. His organization, THE FADARA GROUP, houses his public events, initiatives, and programs. He's also the founder and Chief Babalawo of Ile Oturupon Sokun Temple. https://www.instagram.com/ChiefAyandaClarke/https://www.instagram.com/diprimaradio/

In this episode, Arianna Ray joins me in conversation about the history of representations of Africans in early modern prints within the Dutch Atlantic. Arianna is a PhD candidate in art history at Northwestern University and a current Fulbright Fellow based in the Netherlands. She specializes in early modern Northern European prints in a global context with a particular interest in materiality. Her dissertation, “Paper Skin: Printing Blackness and Materializing Race in the Early Modern Dutch Atlantic,” investigates how the color binary inherent to printmaking epidermalized race in engravings, etchings, and mezzotints of African Diasporic peoples. 

Understanding where food comes from allows you to take it to new placesCleophus Hethington learns and shares all he can about African Diasporic foodways“Africa influences everything” Chef Max sits with Cleophus Hethington, who'd honestly rather be in AtlantaCatch him on occasion at instagram.com/ebichopbar/Made in-house at wabe.org/justsat This episode of Just Sat with Maximilian Hines was produced by Kevin Rinker and Maximilian Hines. Original music from Micah Freeman. Additional production and editing by Scotty Crowe.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In conversation with Shantrelle Lewis Morgan Parker won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Magical Negro, a poetry collection that ponders the nuances of Black American womanhood. She is also the author of the young adult novel Who Put This Song On? and the poetry collections Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night and There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé. A Cave Canem graduate fellow, the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and the winner of a Pushcart Prize, Parker is the creator/co-curator of the Poets With Attitude reading series and is a member of The Other Black Girl Collective. Her writing has appeared in a variety of venues, including The Paris Review, The New York Review of Books, Best American Poetry, a Broadway playbill, and two Common albums. In You Get What You Pay For, she charts the generational and historical difficulties, traumas, and beauty of existing as a Black woman. Shantrelle P. Lewis is a multi-hyphen creative and scholar who accesses multiple disciplines to help elucidate African Diasporic history, aesthetics, culture and spirituality. After premiering at BlackStar Film Festival, her critically acclaimed directorial debut, In Our Mothers' Gardens, was released on Netflix via Ava Duvernay's Array. Her book, Dandy Lion: The Black Dandy and Street Style, was published by Aperture in 2017. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, LA Times, Variety, Hollywood Reporter, NPR, BBC, Washington Post, Slate, The New Yorker and the Philadelphia Inquirer. She co-founded Shoppe Black with her husband and fellow Howard alum, Tony Oluwatoyin Lawson. As an initiated Lukumi Sango Priest, hoodooist and New Orleans native, Shantrelle can be found waxing poetic about all things African spirituality online and in person at the Beaucoup Hoodoo Shop, the annual Beaucoup Hoodoo Fest this October and within her community, ATRS Book Club. Because you love Author Events, please make a donation to keep our podcasts free for everyone. THANK YOU! The views expressed by the authors and moderators are strictly their own and do not represent the opinions of the Free Library of Philadelphia or its employees. (recorded 3/13/2024)

Ep.188 Demetrio "Dee" Kerrison. Born in Harlem, NY, he now resides in Los Angeles. In 2001 after a visit to the Studio Museum of Harlem to view an exhibition titled “Freestyle” and curated by Thelma Golden and Christine Y. Kim, he decided to begin building an art collection with a particular focus on African Diasporic artists. Since then, Dee and his wife Gianna Drake Kerrison have built an eclectic contemporary art collection which foregrounds emerging and ultra contemporary figurative painters. Abstract, sculpture, conceptual, and photographic works are also featured in the collection. They are active patrons, and they site on many art focused boards both past and present to include William H. Johnson Foundation, Mistake Room, Noah Purifoy Foundation, the Hammer Museum Board of Advisors and Mike Kelly Foundation. Image ~ Photo credit Dania Maxwell/ Los Angeles Times Demetrio Dee Kerrison https://www.linkedin.com/in/deekerrison/ Gianna Drake Kerrison https://www.linkedin.com/in/gianna-drake-kerrison-76685a34/ Hammer Museum https://hammer.ucla.edu/ Cultured Magazine https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2021/11/05/dee-kerrison-life-was-forever-changed-by-art-so-what-comes-next Future Fairs https://archive.futurefairs.com/journal-posts-2/demetrio-kerrison LA Times https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2023-02-17/faces-of-frieze-los-angeles-2023-opening-day-photos NY Times https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/08/arts/design/los-angeles-art-galleries.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare Hyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/557471/gallery-platform-la/ Gallery Platform LA https://galleryplatform.la/editorials/demetrio-kerrison KPCC https://www.kpcc.org/show/take-two/2018-01-15/why-these-art-collectors-in-orange-county-are-focusing-on-artists-of-color Noah Purifoy Foundation https://www.noahpurifoy.com/board-of-trustees

In conversation with Shantrelle Lewis Ruha Benjamin is the author of Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code, a ''galvanizing'' and ''inventive and wide-ranging'' (The Nation) look at how new technologies reinforce social inequities; and Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want, a pragmatic yet poetic vision of the ways in which our minor everyday choices can add up to larger societal growth. Also the author of many scholarly publications, she is a professor of African American studies at Princeton University, where she is the founding director of the Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab. Benjamin's writing has been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, CNN, The Root, and Vox, among numerous other media outlets. A revelatory call to action, Imagination calls for readers to consider the arena of the mind as a very real space for struggle, interconnectedness, and societal change. Shantrelle P. Lewis is a multi-hyphen creative and scholar who accesses multiple disciplines to help elucidate African Diasporic history, aesthetics, culture and spirituality. After premiering at BlackStar Film Festival, her critically acclaimed directorial debut, In Our Mothers' Gardens, was released on Netflix via Ava Duvernay's Array. Her book, Dandy Lion: The Black Dandy and Street Style, was published by Aperture in 2017. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, LA Times, Variety, Hollywood Reporter, NPR, BBC, Washington Post, Slate, The New Yorker and the Philadelphia Inquirer. She co-founded Shoppe Black with her husband and fellow Howard alum, Tony Oluwatoyin Lawson. As an initiated Lukumi Sango Priest, hoodooist and New Orleans native, Shantrelle can be found waxing poetic about all things African spirituality online and in person at the Beaucoup Hoodoo Shop, the annual Beaucoup Hoodoo Fest this October and within her community, ATRS Book Club. Because you love Author Events, please make a donation to keep our podcasts free for everyone. THANK YOU! The views expressed by the authors and moderators are strictly their own and do not represent the opinions of the Free Library of Philadelphia or its employees. (recorded 2/7/2024)

Ever wondered how art can connect diverse communities and cultivate empathy? In this captivating episode, join Juliette as she delves into the inspiring world of David Howse. As the accomplished Executive Director of ArtsEmerson, David utilizes the power of art to break down walls and foster inclusivity.David's journey, from growing up in Tennessee to pursuing his passion at New England Conservatory of Music, fuels his belief that "we are more alike than unalike." He champions service as our rent to the Earth, embodying Maya Angelou's profound wisdom. Discover how he tackles the challenge of promoting diversity and inclusion in the arts, emphasizing the importance of imagination. Through curatorial listening, leaders can better understand the needs of vulnerable populations.Tune in to learn about the impactful Gaining Ground Fund, supporting artists reflecting the African Diasporic experience. David's advocacy for cultural exchange and increased funding is a call to action for a more inclusive and understanding world. Listen now and be part of the movement to bridge communities through art! Episode Highlights:09:45 - I thought, "Well, what if we reimagine that? What if we provided resources for artists to believe and dream and develop projects in their full voice? With all the intentions." And I said, "Can we do that?" And, you know, so we developed what we call the Gaining Ground Fund.15:55 - There are international stories that actually can help us understand who we are as Americans, as Bostonians. And so, this notion of cultural exchange, which used to be a pretty significant part of cultural diplomacy from the state house and from the government, but that has sort of pulled back in time. And we are committed, me and ArtsEmerson I should say, and many of our colleagues across the country and being able to do what we call international presenting.19:57 - I'm very inspired by healthcare. When they think about prescribing arts as a way of healing, as a way of mindfulness. So, I'm often interested in developers, commercial real estate developers, who are thinking about architects, landscape designers, artists to think about how we make our spaces more welcoming, a sense of belonging for more people.Contact LinksJuliette MayersLinkedInWebsiteJuliette's BooksInspiration Zone Newsletter Sign-UpDavid HowseLinkedInWebsiteArtsEmersonMuseum of Fine Arts BostonBoston Symphony OrchestraNorman Rockwell Museum

Feel Good Fridays will resume next Friday.  For today's episode- I'm joined by friend to the show, acupunturist, and author- Lindsay Fauntleroy, for a much needed conversation on things that we should also add to our self-care tool kit especially in times like these. Guest Spotlight: Lindsay Fauntleroy is a licensed acupuncturist and the founder of The Spirit Seed, a school that offers personal and professional development courses that are rooted in ancestral understandings of health, humanity, nature, and the cosmos. Her approach to soul medicine emerged through over 15 years of clinical practice, Doctoral studies of Indigenous and African Diasporic psychology, and her commitment to community wellness. Lindsay's line of Five-Element flower essence remedies, the Elementals, is available nationally and internationally. "The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free." Dr. Maya Angelou

Just after her debut set at Pitchfork Music Festival 2023, New York-based singer Yaya Bey sat down with Vocalo's Nudia Hernandez under rainy skies (and a few umbrellas). The two discussed her time at the festival, recent EP ‘Exodus the North Star' and finding inspiration in African Diasporic sounds. This interview was conducted and edited by Nudia Hernandez, and produced by Ayana Contreras. Keep up with Yaya Bey on Instagram at @yayabeybay.

African spirituality is being demonized by popular Black evangelical preachers and the cosmos are in a tizzy! Join Lyvonne for a grounding conversation with artist, therapist, and Oya priestess, Thea Monyeé, around ancestral healing, motherhood, and deepening our self-love through the ancient wisdom of our African Diasporic culture and heritage. Inspired by "Blood and Bajareque" by Thea Monyeé.Order your copy of “Sensual Faith!” visit https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/706280/sensual-faith-by-lyvonne-briggs/Leave a comment and 5-star review on Amazon!For this episode's supplemental materials, visit patreon.com/lyvonnebriggs (aka Sensual Faith Academy) and join the tier that's right for you! The Sensual Faith tier supports the podcast and the Lavish Love tier supports the podcast *and* grants you access to bonus content (like book studies, audioessays, tarot/oracle card readings, behind the scenes footage, exclusive sneak peeks, and more!).Other ways to support Lyvonne and her work:Cash App: $PastorBaeVenmo: @LyvonneBriggsZelle: Lyvonne.Briggs@gmail.com

#39 - Join us for an incredible conversation with Acupuncturist and Author Lindsay Fauntleroy on how flower essences address the root patterns of imbalance and support archetypal emergence and awakening in the healing process.In this episode, Lindsay shares powerful insights into what we can learn from African and Indigenous healing systems, and practical tips for how to connect directly with Nature and the elements through different layers and states of consciousness.She also shares about the difference between working with flower essences and Flower Essence Therapy, and how working with the spirit intelligence of plants opens a shift in perspective as we come deeper into relationship with Nature. Lindsay additionally offers how wellness practitioners can integrate flower essences into their work, and key learnings that are integral to having an effective flower essence practice.Lindsay Fauntleroy is a licensed acupuncturist and the author of In Our Element: Soul Medicine to Unleash your Personal Power. She is also the founder of The Spirit Seed, a school that offers personal and professional development courses that are rooted in ancestral understandings of health, humanity, nature, and the cosmos.Lindsay is a certified instructor for the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM), as well as a facilitator of the Flower Essence Society's global practitioner certification program.Her approach to soul medicine emerged through over 15 years of clinical practice, Doctoral studies of Indigenous and African Diasporic psychology, and her commitment to community wellness. Lindsay's Five-Element flower essence remedies, the Elementals, are available nationally and internationally.You can find Lindsay at The Spirit SEED, on IG at https://www.instagram.com/lindsayfaunt/, and on facebook at The Spirit SEEDAnd you can order her book In Our Element: Soul Medicine to Unleash your Personal Power here: IN OUR ELEMENTFor more info please visit Sara's website at Multidimensional Nature and on IG https://www.instagram.com/multidimensional.nature/Learn how to communicate with plant consciousness in the free workshop on How to Learn Plant Language: Workshop on How to Learn Plant Language

Discover UC Santa Barbara's African diasporic Cultural Resource Center (AdCRC) - and all of the good things it has to offer students. KCSB's Clarissa Rios speaks with Tara Jones, coordinator of the AdCRC and EOP academic counselor, and peer mentor Kabo Mosetse to learn more. Find more information about the UCSB AdCRC by clicking on this link: https://eop.sa.ucsb.edu/cultural-centers/african-diasporic-cultural-resource-center-adcrc

Author, Dr. Natasha Gordon- Chipembere has been a professor of African Diasporic literature for over 20 years. She has taught in classrooms from South Africa to New York to Costa Rica. Telling the stories of her ancestral homeland and facilitating the growth of current and future authors is also a passion of hers. You can read more about Dr. Gordon-Chipembere's journey in these two articles in Essence Magazine: https://www.essence.com/lifestyle/par... https://www.essence.com/culture/retur.... Also, you can learn more about her Tengo Sed Writer's Retreats here, http://www.indisunflower.wix.com/nata.... You can locate her on Instagram at @natashagordonchipembere to follow her journey. - Thank you for taking some time to listen to this episode and for leaving your constructive feedback. The success of our show and the promotion of mental health in underrepresented and global communities depends on your support. Please subscribe to our Youtube channel, @aspire_counselingwell, and if you are interested in receiving more relevant mental health information, visit www.aspirecounselingwell.com and subscribe to our newsletter to join our community. You can also follow us on Instagram at our new account, @blackexpatexperience and on Twitter at @blackexpatlives, and lastly, the show is now available on the following podcast platforms: Apple, Stitcher, Google, and Spotify. Please subscribe, like, share, and rate the show! Be well and remember to prioritize your mental health today! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blackexpatexperience/message

 The Georgia Bulldogs are national champions once again, and this time, it wasn't even close. Georgia became the first team to repeat as national champions in the College Football Playoff era with a 65-7 thrashing of the TCU Horned Frogs at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, on Monday night. Despite the cross-country flight, plenty of Georgians and Cobb locals made it out west to witness history. Cobb Chief Magistrate Judge Brendan Murphy, a “double Dawg” graduate of the University of Georgia and its law school, said he was feeling “about as good as you can be” the morning after the big win. Murphy said he is happy for all the Georgia players, especially quarterback Stetson Bennett.Despite a controversial ban on tailgating around SoFi stadium, including no pop-up tents or grills, Murphy said fans had a drink or two at their cars before entering the stadium. He added that, despite heavy rain, there were still some fans tossing a football in the parking lot prior to kickoff. In honor of the University of Georgia's historic feat, Times-Journal, Inc. is publishing a commemorative championship edition with a special poster page, stories, highlights and photos from the national title game defeat of TCU. The edition was in Tuesday's home-delivered MDJ and will be available for purchase for $3 at the MDJ office, at 47 Waddell Street. The first Board of Commissioners meeting of 2023 was derailed Tuesday as the board's two Republicans refused to vote on county business amid Cobb's ongoing redistricting controversy, and were asked to leave the dais by Democratic Chairwoman Lisa Cupid. Republican Commissioners JoAnn Birrell and Keli Gambrill said they would not cast votes while the county remains at odds with the state government, and embroiled in a constitutional dispute, over its effort to redistrict itself via its home rule powers. The two Republicans were ultimately asked to leave the dais by Cupid, who cited county rules requiring commissioners vote on every item unless they are faced with a conflict of interest. The duo would spend the remainder of the meeting seated in back of the room while the board's three Democrats carried on with voting. Tuesday's was the first meeting since two conflicting county commission district maps took effect on January 1. The first, passed by Republicans in the General Assembly last year and signed into law by Governor Brian Kemp, sparked controversy as it drew Democratic Commissioner Jerica Richardson out of her seat midway through her four-year term. The second is a map the Democratic commissioners adopted in October in an untested assertion of its home rule powers, which the county says allows it to amend state laws including redistricting. That map would keep Richardson safely within the boundaries of District 2, which she currently represents. The county's map has been subject to a legal challenge from east Cobb activist Larry Savage, but Superior Court Judge Ann Harris has yet to issue a ruling. A man was seriously injured in a crash on I-75 early Wednesday morning after his motorcycle collided with a parked car, Marietta police said. Brian Vaughn, 36, of Chatsworth, was riding a Kawasaki motorcycle in the northbound lanes near Delk Road when he struck a parked and unoccupied Volkswagen Jetta, per Officer Chuck McPhilamy. The crash occurred around 12:40 a.m.; police said they do not know why the collision occurred. Vaughn was ejected from the motorcycle and was transported to Wellstar Kennestone Hospital with serious injuries, according to a news release. Anyone with information about the crash is asked to contact Investigator Gunkle. State Rep. David Wilkerson, D-Powder Springs, will host a town hall this month on the efforts to de-annex portions of Mableton from the newly created city. The town hall will be held at the Cobb police training center at 2435 East-West Connector, starting at 6 p.m. on January 18. Wilkerson has been a vocal critic of Mableton cityhood and told the MDJ last week he would file legislation this year to remove portions of the city from its boundaries. The areas in question are in the city's northern precincts, where a majority of residents voted against cityhood. Across the whole of the proposed city, 53% of residents voted "yes" for cityhood in the November referendum. Elections for mayor and City Council are set for March 21. A news release advises that residents "who now reside within the corporate limits of Mableton have the option of requesting de-annexation and, if approved, returning to unincorporated status." Interested residents can learn more at deannexfrommableton.org. Lassiter's wrestling team won its first region duals title since 2018 on Saturday, beating Pope 42-39 in the Region 7 6A finals. It went down to the final matchup. After a first-round bye and a 60-22 win over tournament host Johns Creek, the Trojans edged out the Greyhounds behind a crucial pin by Carter Brickley in the 126-pound weight class. Brothers Casey and Riley McElligott were among the standouts for the Lassiter on Saturday. Casey, a junior, and Riley, a freshman, both nailed down important wins, along with a key pin from Carter Brickley. Jacobee Connell also energized the team, beating a rival and adding key points to a one-match decision. Lassiter was a top-six team in the state last season and the final team remaining from Cobb County in the Class AAAAAAA tournament. Despite graduating more than 20 wrestlers over the last three years, the Trojans have remained relevant and continued that trend with just five upperclassmen on the 2022-23 roster. On Saturday, Lassiter will host Morrow in the opening round of the Class 6A state prelims, and if it wins, would match up with the winner between River Ridge and Tift County. The champion of that bracket will head to Gainesville for the state tournament January 21. Atlanta cellist-songwriter Okorie “OkCello” Johnson and Georgia Symphony Orchestra Music Director and Conductor Timothy Verville will present the world premiere of a new work for cello and orchestra on February 25. The piece, titled “Liminal: an Atlanta Concerto” was co-written by Johnson and Verville and will be first performed at the Georgia Symphony Orchestra's “You Shall Hear…” performances celebrating the works of black composers. The music offers a unique perspective on Johnson's creative life here in Atlanta, and his exploration of what contemporary African Diasporic stories and song forms sound like through an orchestra. This three-movement composition is comprised of music originally written by Johnson for solo looping cello which has been adapted for solo cello and orchestra. Two of the utilized pieces within the work are the results of previous commissions from Atlanta Organizations: the National Black Arts Festival and Freedom Park Conservancy. Participants can hear these pieces on February 25 at 8 p.m. and February 26 at 3 p.m. at the Marietta Performing Arts Center. 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Celina Ngozi is a Black/Igbo agrarian and the founder of Ala Soul Earthworks/Dry Bones Heal Bottomland, joining Hobby Farms Presents: Growing Good today to talk about her food-sovereignty work and earth-based practices. Hear about the Central Texas land that has been in Celina's family since 1876 and how she, her mother and other members of their family are coming together there. Learn about heirs property and the complexities of owning, enjoying and improving the land, particularly for Black land stewards in the South. Celina talks about her work as a Land Advocacy Fellow with National Young Farmers Coalition, land access issues in the Farm Bill and why that is so important to the future of small-scale farming. Get some advice on starting a garden from scratch with no motorized equipment, as Celina has done on land that hasn't been farmed in a few generations. Celina talks about adapting her farming practices from Colorado—where she learned about growing—to this new land, climate and community. She also talks about growing culturally relevant crops on subsistence farming and market gardening scales. Stay tuned until the end to hear about community building in rural areas and—something a lot of listeners can identify with—Celina's favorite farm meal. More about Celina Ngozi Esakawu: Celina's work with Ala Soul Earthworks/Dry Bones Heal Bottomland promotes connection to the earth through Afro-Indigenous practices, creativity and nurturing community.  For a decade, Celina has grown food and worked with frontline communities to develop creative solutions to inequities in the food system. Her work includes food distribution, coordinating community agriculture programs, living on farms, promoting SNAP at farmers markets, advocating for land access, teaching African Diasporic nutrition courses and supporting local food economies across Texas.   Her multi-ethnic background informs her earth-based practices. She focuses on growing culturally relevant foods of the Global South on land that has been in her family for 150 years. She is currently developing a program for people of color that promotes (re)membering ancestral knowledge in order to support future generations of agrarians. Celina is a 2022-2023 Land Advocacy Fellow with the National Young Farmers Coalition. Links: Ala Soul Earthworks/Dry Bones Heal Bottomland One Million Acres Campaign Federation of Southern Cooperatives land retention resources

Lindsay Fauntleroy - Author of In Our Element: Using the Five Elements as Soul Medicine to Unleash Your Personal Power introduces readers to the five elements – water, wood, fire, earth, and metal as a system for understanding the cycles and rhythms of body, mind, and soul. With a practical approach that weaves together Eastern medicine, Western psychology, Indigenous traditions, and African ancestral principles of spirituality, Fauntleroy teaches how to use the elements to improve physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health.  Experiences such as heartache, anxiety, and procrastination are signs that one of the elements is out of balance within you. Discover how to regain your footing, tap into your latent potential, and find your flow with journal prompts, flower essences, yoga poses, and music. By realigning with the elements, you can become the confident, energized, and fulfilled person you were always meant to be.Lindsay Fauntleroy is a licensed acupuncturist and the founder of The Spirit Seed, a school that offers personal and professional development courses that are rooted in ancestral understandings of health, humanity, nature, and the cosmos. A certified instructor of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM), as well as a facilitator of the Flower Essence Society's global practitioner certification program. Her approach to soul medicine emerged through years of clinical practice. Doctoral studies of Indigenous and African Diasporic psychology, and her commitment to community wellness.  For more, visit: https://www.thespiritseed.org/  Support the show Contact me at: postcardstotheuniverse@gmail.com Shout out and follow on IG - @postcardstotheuniverse https://linktr.ee/postcardstotheuniverse Thank you and keep listening for more great shows!

Lindsay Fauntleroy – The Spirit SeedAir Date: Wednesday, 14 December 2022 at 4:00 PM ET/1:00 PM ETAuthor of In Our Element: Using the Five Elements as Soul Medicine to Unleash Your Personal Power introduces readers to the five elements – water, wood, fire, earth, and metal as a system for understanding the cycles and rhythms of body, mind, and soul. With a practical approach that weaves together Eastern medicine, Western psychology, Indigenous traditions, and African ancestral principles of spirituality, Fauntleroy teaches how to use the elements to improve physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health.Experiences such as heartache, anxiety, and procrastination are signs that one of the elements is out of balance within you. Discover how to regain your footing, tap into your latent potential, and find your flow with journal prompts, flower essences, yoga poses, and music. By realigning with the elements, you can become the confident, energized, and fulfilled person you were always meant to be.Lindsay Fauntleroy is a licensed acupuncturist and the founder of The Spirit Seed, a school that offers personal and professional development courses that are rooted in ancestral understandings of health, humanity, nature, and the cosmos. A certified instructor of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM), as well as a facilitator of the Flower Essence Society's global practitioner certification program. Her approach to soul medicine emerged through years of clinical practice. Doctoral studies of Indigenous and African Diasporic psychology, and her commitment to community wellness.For more, visit: https://www.thespiritseed.org/#LindsayFauntleroy #TheSpiritSeed #PostcardsToTheUniverse #MelisaCaprioVisit the Show Page at https://omtimes.com/iom/shows/postcards-to-the-universeConnect with Melisa Caprio at https://www.postcardstotheuniverse.com/Subscribe to our Newsletter https://omtimes.com/subscribe-omtimes-magazine/Connect with OMTimes on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Omtimes.Magazine/ and OMTimes Radio https://www.facebook.com/ConsciousRadiowebtv.OMTimes/Twitter: https://twitter.com/OmTimes/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/omtimes/Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/2798417/Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/omtimes/

As the nights grow longer and the days shorter, share in a virtual celebration of Seasons of Light, Harvard Divinity School's beloved annual multireligious service honoring the interplay of holy darkness and light in the world's religious traditions. Performances include choral and instrumental music, readings by HDS students, the ritual kindling of many flames, and communal prayers and songs. Explore these offerings to the season in part or as a whole. Seasons of Light is hosted by Harvard Divinity School's Office of Religious and Spiritual Life under the direction of Christopher Hossfeld, Director of Music and Ritual, and Kerry A. Maloney, Chaplain and Director of Religious and Spiritual Life.

**Full transcripts of all our episodes are available on the website, where you will also find an “Extras” page with additional resources. realprogressives.org/macro-n-cheese-podcast/ Steve's guest, Davarian Baldwin, calls himself an urbanist. This affects his prescriptions for reparations in the US, which extend beyond ADOS and beyond individual payments. His bio says he is a historian, cultural critic, and social theorist of urban America – and this episode touches on all those strands. The legacy of slavery and history of racism reverberates through any analysis of, or approach to resolving, this country's social and economic problems. The New Deal itself helped increase disparity between the races. The interview includes a discussion of “wokeness”—a term which continues to stir up trouble among leftists and pseudo-progressives. “I'm glad you brought up the term identity politics, because what's happened now is that in any discussion of race or racism, identity politics is seen as black and brown, or women, or queer, or LGBTQ, as if straight or white or elite aren't identities. As if those aren't the identities that have guided and driven our society since its founding. So, identity politics is not discriminatory. Everyone has an identity politics.” In the second half of the episode, Davarian explains the concept of racial capitalism, then goes on to tie it to gentrification. He gives a detailed description of the effects on the white working class as well as communities of color. He makes the case that any solution must be both race and class based and must be systemic. Davarian L. Baldwin is the Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies at Trinity College, and is a historian, cultural critic, and social theorist of urban America. His work largely examines the landscape of global cities through the lens of the African Diasporic experience. He is author of “In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities are Plundering Our Cities,” “Chicago's New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life,” as well as numerous essays and scholarly articles. He wrote the historical text for The World of the Harlem Renaissance: A Jigsaw Puzzle. @DavarianBaldwin on Twitter

Shay will forever have a special place in my heart and I can not wait for you to hear about her incredible journey.Shay Wafer has demonstrated a stalwart dedication to the arts and community development through many years of service to the field. Her passionate vision is balanced with pragmatic experience, as she has held senior-level positions at a number of non-profit arts organizations with a focus on African Diasporic programming and community engagement. Currently the Executive Director of WACO Theater Center in Los Angeles, Shay was the Executive Director of 651 ARTS in Brooklyn and the founding VP of Programs for the August Wilson Center for African American Culture, a multi-disciplinary center and museum in downtown Pittsburgh. Prior to that, she served as the managing director of Cornerstone Theater Company, LA Theatreworks, and the St. Louis Black Repertory Company. She also was a founding partner of Marla Gibb's Crossroads Arts Academy and Theatre. Ms. Wafer has engaged in additional community and volunteer activities throughout her career including serving on the Board of Directors of National Performance Network (currently the Board Chair), Theatre Communications Group, and as a New England Foundation for the Arts National Theatre Project and National Dance Project Advisor. Wafer has served as a peer panelist for The National Endowment for the ARTS, MAP Fund, Doris Duke, Mellon, Kresge, and Bush Foundations, among others. She holds a BS from Howard University in Early Childhood Education and an MFA from the Yale School of Drama, Theatre Management program. Shay Wafer has demonstrated a stalwart dedication to the arts and community development through many years of service to the field. Her passionate vision is balanced with pragmatic experience, as she has held senior-level positions at a number of non-profit arts organizations with a focus on African Diasporic programming and community engagement. Currently the Executive Director of WACO Theater Center in Los Angeles, Shay was the Executive Director of 651 ARTS in Brooklyn and the founding VP of Programs for the August Wilson Center for African American Culture, a multi-disciplinary center and museum in downtown Pittsburgh. Prior to that, she served as the managing director of Cornerstone Theater Company, LA Theatreworks, and the St. Louis Black Repertory Company. She also was a founding partner of Marla Gibb's Crossroads Arts Academy and Theatre. Ms. Wafer has engaged in additional community and volunteer activities throughout her career including serving on the Board of Directors of National Performance Network (currently the Board Chair), Theatre Communications Group, and as a New England Foundation for the Arts National Theatre Project and National Dance Project Advisor. Wafer has served as a peer panelist for The National Endowment for the ARTS, MAP Fund, Doris Duke, Mellon, Kresge, and Bush Foundations, among others. She holds a BS from Howard University in Early Childhood Education and an MFA from the Yale School of Drama, Theatre Management program. Enjoy and please share with your tribe. Black women are living remarkable and inspiring lives to be shared with all. Learn more about WACO Theater, https://wacotheatercenter.com/Peace and love, Monica Wisdom, Host, Black Women AmplifiedThank you for listening! Please share with your tribe and leave us a great review. Appreciate it!Join our waitlist for the Power Story Formula. An incredible course designed to help you choose, build and monetize an impactful story. www.monicawisdomHQ.com to sign up. Join our private community. Women EmergedEnjoy your day, Monica Wisdom

Do you know about the wisdom and healing power of the elements? Tune in Friday, October 21st at 10am PST/ 1pm EST for an inspiring discussion with Lindsay Fauntleroy on her new #book In Our Element: Using the Five Elements of Soul Medicine to Unleash Your Personal Power.#MomentsWithMarianne with host Marianne Pestana airs every Tuesday at 3PM PST / 6PM EST and every Friday at 10AM PST/ 1PM EST in the Southern California area on KMET 1490AM & 98.1 FM, ABC Talk News Radio affiliate! Not in the area? Click here to listen! https://tunein.com/radio/KMET-1490-s33999/ Lindsay Fauntleroy is a licensed acupuncturist and the founder of The Spirit Seed, a school that offers personal and professional development courses that are rooted in ancestral understandings of health, humanity, nature, and the cosmos. Lindsay is a certified instructor for the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM), as well as a facilitator of the Flower Essence Society's global practitioner certification program. Her approach to soul medicine emerged through over 15 years of clinical practice, Doctoral studies of Indigenous and African Diasporic psychology, and her commitment to community wellness. https://www.thespiritseed.org/meetlindsay For more show information visit:www.MariannePestana.com#bookclub #readinglist #books #bookish #newlife #healing #MariannePestana #author #authorinterview #nonfiction #kmet1490am #consciousness #spirituality #peaceful #authentic #empowering #selfhelp #bethechange #healing #healingjourney #LindsayFauntleroy

In this fifteenth episode, Amirah Mitchell of Sistah Seeds gives us a tour of the African Diasporic seed crops on her farm in Emmaus, PA. She also describes her work to preserve seeds and stories of African-American, West African, and Afro-Caribbean foodways, how she got to this point, and where she is headed. Amirah worked for four years as an apprentice and coworker at Truelove Seeds, and we are so grateful for our continued collaboration as she embarks on the next phase of her work as a farm owner, seed keeper, educator, and inspiration to so many. AMIRAH MITCHELL, SISTAH SEEDS: Web: sistahseeds.com Instagram: @sistahseeds Amirah in the press: Inquirer, 12/21 Grid Philly, 1/22 Edible Philadelphia, 3/22 Amirah Mitchell at Temple University Amirah's Seed Keeping Fellowship at Greensgrow SEED STORIES TOLD IN THIS EPISODE: Moses Smith Yellow Cabbage Collards Sea Island Brown Cotton Blue Shackamaxon Bean (Lenape) Ezelle Family Fish Eye Pea Fish Pepper Benne (Sesame) Green Striped Cushaw Squash Sea Island Red Okra White African Sorghum Celosia Sokoyokoto Lagos Spinach (Leaf Celosia from EFN) Efo Shoko (Lagos Spinach/Leaf Celosia from Truelove)  Feathery Plume Celosia (Ornamental)  Egusi Melon "Odell's" Large White Watermelon Chocolate Scotch Bonnet Pepper Aunt Lou's Underground Railroad Tomato MORE INFO FROM THIS EPISODE: Heirloom Collard Project Heirloom Collard Project on NPR (featuring Amirah and Mama Ira Wallace!) Truelove Seeds Indigenous Seeds Rematriation (scroll to bottom) Kris Hubbard, Appalachian Seed Keeper Fish Pepper episode, Seeds and Their People Cushaw Squash in Michael Twitty's Afroculinaria blog The Whole Okra: A Seed to Stem Celebration, by Chris Smith Herbal Affirmations, 'San' Kofi Sankofa, GoFundMe Lost Crops of Africa, Egusi Watermelon Men of Philadelphia, Inquirer article on the Carter family Ben Burkett, Federation of Southern Cooperatives ABOUT: Seeds And Their People is a radio show where we feature seed stories told by the people who truly love them. Hosted by Owen Taylor of Truelove Seeds and Chris Bolden-Newsome of Sankofa Community Farm at Bartram's Garden. trueloveseeds.com/blogs/satpradio   FIND OWEN HERE: Truelove Seeds Tumblr  |  Instagram  |  Twitter   FIND CHRIS HERE: Sankofa Community Farm at Bartram's Garden   THANKS TO: Amirah Mitchell Cecilia Sweet-Coll

Soul Medicine and the Five ElementsAired Tuesday, September 27, 2022 at 11:00 AM PST / 2:00 PM ESTLindsay Fauntleroy, LAc, introduces the five elements— water, wood, fire, earth, and metal—as a system for understanding the cycles and rhythms of your body, mind, and soul. With a practical approach that weaves together Eastern medicine, western psychology, Indigenous traditions, and African ancestral principles of spirituality, she teaches how to use the elements to improve physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health. Experiences such as heartache, anxiety, and procrastination are signs that one of the elements is out of balance within you. Discover how to regain your footing, tap into your latent potential, and find your flow with journal prompts, flower essences, yoga poses, and music. By realigning with the elements, you can become the confident, energized, and fulfilled person you are meant to be.About the Guest:Lindsay Fauntleroy is a licensed acupuncturist and the founder of The Spirit Seed, a school that offers personal and professional development courses that are rooted in ancestral understandings of health, humanity, nature, and the cosmos. Lindsay is a certified instructor for the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM), as well as a facilitator of the Flower Essence Society's global practitioner certification program.Her approach to soul medicine emerged through over 15 years of clinical practice, Doctoral studies of Indigenous and African Diasporic psychology, and her commitment to community wellness. Lindsay's line of Five-Element flower essence remedies, the Elementals, is available nationally and internationally.Social Media:Website: https://www.thespiritseed.org/Twitter: https://twitter.com/LindsayFauntInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/lindsayfaunt/Visit the Inspired Conversations show page https://omtimes.com/iom/shows/inspired-conversations/Connect with Linda Joy at https://www.linda-joy.com/#SoulMedicine #LindsayFauntleroy #InspiredConversations #LindaJoySubscribe to our Newsletter https://omtimes.com/subscribe-omtimes-magazine/Connect with OMTimes on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Omtimes.Magazine/ and OMTimes Radio https://www.facebook.com/ConsciousRadiowebtv.OMTimes/Twitter: https://twitter.com/OmTimes/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/omtimes/Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/2798417/Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/omtimes/

This episode is being brought to you by Forecast located in Homewood Alabama. Forecast is a hair salon on a mission to shape a movement in the beauty industry focusing on education, fashion, and creativity. Forecast strives to train stylists with the latest in education to provide their guests with the latest trends. Follow them on Instagram @forecastsalon or find them online at https://www.forecastsalon.com/ As this podcast goes to air we are in the energy of the new season of Autumn and a New Moon in Libra. As we move through these comic transitions, now is the time to clean up your energy with an energy-clearing session.  Schedule one in person or online. When you work with the energy body, it helps to release the old patterns and all that old stuff you've been crying around. When you start going within and connecting to your soul and your spirit, you will find your answers.  Empowered Spirit Private Mentoring Program. Schedule a Spiritual Upgrade Breakthrough call with me and let's talk about how my programs can help you. In today's episode, I wanted to offer another perspective on working with the elements and how ancient teachings are coming forward in our present lifetime. My guest is Lindsay Fauntleroy.  She's a medicine maker, educator, and author of, " In our Elements:  Soul Medicine to Unleash your Personal Power." In this episode, we talk about the five elements of the Chinese system, the element of Metal for the Fall, prayer boards, shared consciousness, money & honey, flower essences, and ways to support your own healing as well as the collective healing.  Lindsay Fauntleroy was drawn to the healing arts after her own journey to fertility introduced her to the interconnectedness of body, mind, and spirit. Her extensive training includes a Master of Arts from New York University,  a Master of Science from Tri-State College of Acupuncture, and clinical training in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), Kiiko Matsumoto style Japanese acupuncture, and myofascial Trigger Point release.   Lindsay firmly believes that the power to heal should rest in the hands and hearts of all communities.  Her approach to soul medicine emerges from over 15 years of clinical practice, her Ph.D studies of Indigenous and African Diasporic psychology, and her commitment to community wellness.  She provides practitioner certification in the sacred art and science of flower essence therapy, which she offers in loving partnership with the Flower Essence Society and the MINKA Mystery School.  Lindsay's line of alchemical Five Element flower essence remedies, the Elementals, are available nationally and internationally. https://www.thespiritseed.org/ https://www.instagram.com/lindsayfaunt/ What kind of body and what kind of soul am I? We can do everything on the surface and think we have everything. But if there's something within us that is out of alignment, even if you reach the goal, the fertility, the job, the, whatever it is,  that if you're not in alignment, it really doesn't matter. These two things work together. Sometimes the material world is just an inspiration to do the inner work.  Get into that soul energy and really check in and find out what is it. Go deep. Definitely sit still.  Be quiet. Listen. Sometimes it's enduring the heartache or the pain or the discomfort while we're waiting for something to show itself. Four Sacred Elements - Air, Fire, Earth, Water. Whereas the Chinese acupuncture system works in the five elements. The Autumn Equinox brings us into the Metal element, which is essentially the fifth element of the five-element system that begins with Water... to Wood, to Fire, to Earth to  Metal.  Late summer is considered the earth element. The earth element is also the transition between each season.  Every season goes back to the earth to replenish before becoming the next season.  The prayer board is leaving space for the unknown... this or something better. Flower essences we use to help us access the consciousness or the intentions of each of these elements of nature. One of the soul lessons for the Metal element is being present, being in the present moment, and being in the now. Essential oils are more for the etheric or the emotional body, because they are so effective at moving Chi.  Flower essences are taken internally as supplements. So you either put them in your water or put them in drops under your tongue and you ingest them. Instead of working more on the emotional body, they work more on our thoughts and perceptions. Flower essences shift us to a  perspective that is more in alignment with our highest good and our highest intention. They're super subtle. Lindsay's hope is that people will use this book as a springboard.  That they'll be introduced to some things that work, and discover other things that work just as well, if not better. We are all on this collective path of transformation together. This book is for a tribe of folks that she calls Neo-Ancients. There are a lot of us who are out there that are calling on older ancient technologies, spiritual traditions, healing, traditions, complementary and alternative medicine. What can we learn from our ancestors? What can we learn from the people who were most connected with the earth? Looking backward to look forward. As Lindsay reminds us, "Soul Medicine helps us to make space for Spirit that is always trying to communicate with us. It allows us to make space for that to come in and drive and direct us." Yes...Make space for what is unknown to bring it in, into a spirit-driven community. Check out Lindsay's work, and her flower essences and get her book. If you need help with developing your Spiritual Practice, reach out to me and schedule a Spiritual Upgrade Breakthrough Call. Thanks again for listening! To your Spirit, Terri PS...Schedule your Spiritual Upgrade Breakthrough call with me.   PSS.. Reiki 1 Class - October 16th at Ritual & Shelter   Follow Terri on Instagram Find her on LinkedIn Episode Credits: Sound Engineer: Laarni Andres https://www.facebook.com/laarni.andres.7    

A. Prince Albert III 11:00a – 12:00p Topic: Civil Rights & Tech policy expert Antoine Prince Albert III joins Dr. Nii-Quartelai Quartey for a conversation about Police surveillance, privacy (Roe's impact on LGBTQ rights), and competition policy. Bio: Antoine Prince Albert III is a technology and telecommunications law and policy professional who helps create and regulate technologies to maximize benefits and minimize harms for consumers. Prince is routinely consulted by technology companies, government officials, academics, journalists, and public interest advocates for his comprehensive and nuanced analyses of law, politics, history, society, and culture. Additionally, he offers critical insights on how technology functions within Black, Latino, Indigenous, and LGBTQIA2S+ communities in the United States, the Caribbean, and Africa. Prince most recently worked at Public Knowledge as a Government Affairs Policy Counsel, where he delivered high-impact advocacy strategies on issues like online platform governance, antitrust and competition, Section 230, artificial intelligence, algorithms, privacy, music licensing, net neutrality, and digital inclusion. Before Public Knowledge, Prince worked at Georgetown University's Institute for Technology Law & Policy, Georgetown's Center on Privacy and Technology, the Office of U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), and The Leadership Conference for Civil and Human Rights. Before working in tech policy, he served as an Officer of the U.S. Navy and an educator at La Salle College High School. Prince earned his Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center as a Global Law Scholar. He is a proud summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa alumnus of Morehouse College. He will soon hold a Master of Arts in French Civilization, Culture and Society. While he claims both Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the Southeastern Sea Islands as home, Prince resides in the D.C. Metro area where he stays physically active with cycling and fitness, and expands his knowledge of African Diasporic languages, cultures, and music for leisure.

Did you know the rhythmic cycles of our mind, body, and soul are influenced by the five elements - Water, Wood, Fire, Earth, and Metal? Would you like to learn how to weave these elements together using a practical approach of Eastern Medicine, Western Psychology, and African Ancestral Principles of Spirituality to improve and enhance your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health? If your answer is YES, Join Lindsay Fauntleroy and me on Wednesday, September 21, from 10 - 11 A.M. CT U.S. Our conversation is about her remarkable life journey and her new book, In Our Element - Using the Five Elements as Soul Medicine to Unleash Your Personal Power. Lindsay Fauntleroy is a licensed acupuncturist and founder of The Spirit Seed. She teaches personal and professional development courses rooted in ancestral understandings of health, humanity, nature, and the cosmos. She was drawn to the healing arts after her fertility journey introduced her to the interconnectedness of body, mind, and spirit. Lindsay's extensive training includes an MA from New York University, an MS from Tri-State College of Acupuncture, clinical training in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Kiiko Matsumoto style Japanese acupuncture, and myofascial Trigger Point release. She firmly believes the power to heal should rest in the hands and hearts of all communities. Lindsay's soul medicine approach emerges from over 15 years of clinical practice, her Ph.D. studies of Indigenous and African Diasporic psychology, and her commitment to community wellness. She is a certified instructor for the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine and a facilitator of the Flower Essence Society's global practitioner certification program. Lindsay's Five-Element flower essence remedies, the Elementals, are available worldwide.

This week we have returning guest Kara Mack, back for round two! She’s going to tell you all about her latest venture (that you can 100% benefit from no matter where you live or how you dance)... Yes, we’re talking about the first ever online hub for African diasporic music and DANCE. As if that wasn’t enough, we go deep on purpose, influence and (of course) instagram! Show Notes Join the Bopsidy Launch Event Find Kara on Instagram Connect w/ Kara Mack Learn about Africa in America Join Bopsidy Listen to Kara’s first episode: #80 Respect the Technique Donate to the Words That Move Me Community Mailing List: Scroll to the bottom of the page at thedanawilson.com WTMM Membership: Join Here

Lindsay Fauntleroy is a medicine maker, educator, and the author of In Our Element: Soul Medicine to Unleash your Personal Power. She was drawn to the healing arts after her own journey to fertility introduced her to the interconnectedness of body, mind, and spirit. Her extensive training includes a Master of Arts from New York University, a Master of Science from Tri-State College of Acupuncture, and clinical training in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), Kiiko Matsumoto style Japanese acupuncture, and myofascial Trigger Point release.  Lindsay firmly believes that the power to heal should rest in the hands and hearts of all communities.  Her approach to soul medicine emerges from over 15 years of clinical practice, her Ph.D studies of Indigenous and African Diasporic psychology, and her commitment to community wellness. She provides practitioner certification in the sacred art and science of flower essence therapy, which she offers in loving partnership with the Flower Essence Society and the MINKA Mystery School. Lindsay's line of alchemical Five Element flower essence remedies, the Elementals, are available nationally and internationally. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Creating Wellness From Within is a podcast devoted to empowering you to live your best life by taking accountability for your own personal wellness … brought to you in part by Integrated Health Systems located in Denver, CO. Women in particular have a tendency to take care of everyone else around them first, while putting their own self care and wellness on the back burner. This podcast is designed to give you actionable advice and tools to help you power up your own wellness journey, and live the best life possible!I am your host, Amy Zellmer. I am editor-in-chief of MN YOGA + Life magazine & The Brain Health Magazine, and author of several books. Additionally I am passionate about yoga, photography, wellness, and all things glittery! You can find out more about me at www.creatingwellnessfromwithin.comFollow me on: Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter         Today's guest is:  Lindsay FauntleroyLindsay Fauntleroy is a licensed acupuncturist and the author of In Our Element: Soul Medicine to Unleash your Personal Power.  She is the founder of The Spirit Seed, a school that offers personal and professional development courses that are rooted in ancestral understandings of health, humanity, nature, and the cosmos. Lindsay is a certified instructor for the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM), as well as a facilitator of the Flower Essence Society's global practitioner certification program. Her approach to soul medicine emerged through over 15 years of clinical practice, Doctoral studies of Indigenous and African Diasporic psychology, and her commitment to community wellness. Lindsay's Five-Element flower essence remedies, the Elementals, are available nationally and internationally.www.InOurElementBook.com   15% with code :wellnessfromwithin"  any of the flower essences at www.theSpiritSeed.orgENJOYING THIS PODCAST?Consider supporting the podcast for $5 a month through Patreon.

The festival, presented by Black Arts MKE, is a celebration of storytelling from an African Diasporic perspective. It features the voices of the young people and the elders.

“It is true; most medicine does come in a bottle. There is however, some medicine that can only come through love, faith and hope. It comes from our Source, from our life force within. We can all benefit from this wonderful medicine daily and administer as often as needed.” ― Mishi McCoy Guest Spotlight Lindsay Fauntleroy is a licensed acupuncturist and the founder of The Spirit Seed, a school that offers personal and professional development courses that are rooted in ancestral understandings of health, humanity, nature, and the cosmos. Lindsay is a certified instructor for the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM), as well as a facilitator of the Flower Essence Society's global practitioner certification program. Her approach to soul medicine emerged through over 15 years of clinical practice, Doctoral studies of Indigenous and African Diasporic psychology, and her commitment to community wellness. Lindsay's line of Five-Element flower essence remedies, the Elementals, is available nationally and internationally. She's, most recently, the author of In Our Element: Using the Five Elements as Soul Medicine to Unleash Your Power  a beginner-friendly book introduces the five elements—water, wood, fire, earth, and metal—as a system for understanding the cycles and rhythms of your body, mind, and soul. With a practical approach that weaves together Eastern medicine, western psychology, and African ancestral principles of spirituality, that teaches you how to use the elements to improve physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health. More- Find out which Flower Essence resonates best with you during this season by taking this quiz! Get 20% off flower essences with code BEWELLSIS at checkout!  How to Connect with Lindsay: Workshops and Courses Instagram Be Well, Sis Partners: Athletic Greens– Redeem your offer for 1 year of high-quality Vitamin D + 5 free travel packs.  Bolden: A trusted voice in skincare that works to inspire women to nurture, value, and love their natural beauty. Check out their entire skincare range here! Natural Annies Essentials: A clean, non-toxic home fragrances and candle-making experience for you and your entire family. NaturalAnnie Essentials is a black woman-owned and family-operated lifestyle soy candle company based in Bridgeport, Connecticut.  Shop scents that elevate the ambiance of your home here! Taupe Coat: A vegan nail care brand that believes in a life filled with color, beauty, and abundance. Shop non-toxic nail care here! Nyah Beauty: is a natural skincare brand offering high-quality, consciously handcrafted soaps, lotions, candles, and scrubs. They offer plant-based skincare options free of detergents, phthalates, and other potentially irritating ingredients. Momotaro Apotheca: A plant-based and certified organic vulvovaginal care company that supports the body's natural ability to heal from issues stemming from yeast infection, BV, clothing, exercise, and sex.  Mothering Tea: Hand-crafted, small-batch teas to help you create more moments of stillness and reflection.  SUPPORT OUR CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN HERE!!!

The Dr. Pat Show: Talk Radio to Thrive By!: In Our Element: Using the Five Elements as Soul Medicine to Unleash Your Personal Power with Lindsay Fauntleroy. Lindsay Fauntleroy is a licensed acupuncturist and the founder of The Spirit Seed, a school that offers personal and professional development courses that are rooted in ancestral understandings of health, humanity, nature, and the cosmos. Lindsay is a certified instructor for the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM), as well as a facilitator of the Flower Essence Society's global practitioner certification program. Her approach to soul medicine emerged through over 15 years of clinical practice, Doctoral studies of Indigenous and African Diasporic psychology, and her commitment to community wellness. Lindsay's line of Five-Element flower essence remedies, the Elementals, is available nationally and internationally. Website: https://www.thespiritseed.org/

The Dr. Pat Show: Talk Radio to Thrive By!: In Our Element: Using the Five Elements as Soul Medicine to Unleash Your Personal Power with Lindsay Fauntleroy. Lindsay Fauntleroy is a licensed acupuncturist and the founder of The Spirit Seed, a school that offers personal and professional development courses that are rooted in ancestral understandings of health, humanity, nature, and the cosmos. Lindsay is a certified instructor for the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM), as well as a facilitator of the Flower Essence Society's global practitioner certification program. Her approach to soul medicine emerged through over 15 years of clinical practice, Doctoral studies of Indigenous and African Diasporic psychology, and her commitment to community wellness. Lindsay's line of Five-Element flower essence remedies, the Elementals, is available nationally and internationally. Website: https://www.thespiritseed.org/

Today's discussion is with Dr. Robin Brooks,  an associate professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pittsburgh with an impressive record of scholarship that examines a range of cultural matters concerning Black communities in the United States and the wider African Diaspora. Primary research and teaching interests for Dr. Brooks include contemporary cultural and literary studies as well as working-class studies, Black feminist theory, postcolonial studies, digital humanities, higher education management, and education policy. Her research is the recipient of numerous awards, grants, and fellowships and has been supported by the Ford Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She has been featured in several news media outlets, including NPR, The Washington Post, Ms. Magazine, and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and she has delivered countless presentations on her work at national and international conferences. Her interdisciplinary work appeals to various audiences and is solution-oriented in order to contribute to dismantling racial and related hierarchies. Challenging conventional boundaries, her scholarship uncovers overlooked and underexamined ways in which African Diasporic cultural representations participate in antiracist and anti-discriminatory struggles. In this conversation we discuss her book Class Interruptions: Inequality and Division in African Diasporic Women's Fiction (UNC Press, 2022), which is a book that examines how contemporary writers use literary portrayals of class to critique inequalities and divisions in the U.S. and Caribbean. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Florida and an MA in Afro American Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. We are joined by Dr. Keisha Allan, she is an assistant professor in Black and Latino Studies at Baruch College. She is the recipient of the Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship and the McKittrick Book Award.nRecently graduated with a Ph.D. from the department of English at the University of Maryland, her broad area of interest is twentieth-century Caribbean literature. Within this field, she examines Caribbean literature by women writers who critique social and political inequities in their societies. She examines how selected female authors from the Caribbean create fictional worlds that have the effect of subverting patriarchal perspectives and paradigms in their postcolonial societies. She interrogates society and artistic responsibility, with women presented as creatively engaged in revolutionary activities aimed at reshaping ideas and perspectives in the national imaginary.

Join Lindsay Fauntleroy and I as we discuss the powerful habit of connecting to Nature. Nature has the power to feed our souls Listen in to learn more! Lindsay Fauntleroy is a licensed acupuncturist and the founder of The Spirit Seed, a school that offers personal and professional development courses based on ancestral understandings of health, humanity, nature, and the cosmos. Lindsay is a certified instructor for the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM), as well as a facilitator of the Flower Essence Society's global practitioner certification program. Her approach to soul medicine emerged through over 15 years of clinical practice, Doctoral studies of Indigenous and African Diasporic psychology, and her commitment to community wellness. Lindsay's Five-Element flower essence remedies, the Elementals, are available nationally and internationally.

Join Lindsay Fauntleroy and I as we discuss the powerful habit of connecting to Nature. Nature has the power to feed our souls Listen in to learn more! Lindsay Fauntleroy is a licensed acupuncturist and the founder of The Spirit Seed, a school that offers personal and professional development courses based on ancestral understandings of health, humanity, nature, and the cosmos. Lindsay is a certified instructor for the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM), as well as a facilitator of the Flower Essence Society's global practitioner certification program. Her approach to soul medicine emerged through over 15 years of clinical practice, Doctoral studies of Indigenous and African Diasporic psychology, and her commitment to community wellness. Lindsay's Five-Element flower essence remedies, the Elementals, are available nationally and internationally.

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Have you ever wondered what it spiritually means to have Afro hair? Do you know why it's important to have natural hair? Does shaving your head and going bald, or doing the big chop change your energy? Listen in to this episode of The Afro Animist Podcast, where we talk all about the Magick of Hair! Hair is such an important part of African Diasporic, Black culture throughout the globe and for good reason- As Witches we discuss this seemingly mundane topic through a Witchy lens. Join the conversation and let us know all about your magical hair journey. Follow us! Tik Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@theafroanimis... Instagram https://www.instagram.com/theafroanim... Twitter https://twitter.com/afroanimist Subscribe and Share!

Tune een fa de Gullah/Geechee Financial Literacy Month: Foundation for a Black Wealth Legacy dialogue between Queen Quet, Chieftess of de Gullah/Geechee Nation (www.QueenQuet.com) and Felicia Gomes-Gregory of Heels in Higher Achievement.  April is Fiancial Literacy Month.  Annually Gullah/Geechee Riddim Radio commemorates the month by sharing wealth bulding principles and financial knowledge for the African Diasporic family.  Yeddi we sho-Gullah/Geechee Riddim Radio! www.GullahGeecheeNation.com

This presentation chronicled the evolution of the collaborative art exhibition, "Ye Shall Inherit the Earth & Faces of the Divine." The exhibition, featuring works of artists from the African Diasporic and Palestinian exilic communities, attempts to gesture towards some commentary about both the universality and specificity of conversations ranging from human rights, human dignity, and artistic production-as-a practice of resistance. Follow the Inherit exhibition on Instagram @inherit_exhibit22. This event took place on March 29, 2022. Learn more: https://rpl.hds.harvard.edu/programs/religion-conflict-peace

♪♫This is Halloween!  This is Halloween!♫♪  Supporters on our Patreon and fans in our FB group chose the topics for today's episode (plus now there's a sub-reddit):  01:35 sorting Dracula fact from fiction 07:49 how horror stars got their stars 20:01 when did clowns become scary 23:29 the history behind zombies 28:38 movie monster fast facts!  Mentioned in the show: Overly Sarcastic's Frankenstein run-down Cutting Class podcast on Christopher Lee Oh No! Lit Class on The Phantom   Who needs a costume when you could wear this?!   Read the full script. Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. Music by Kevin MacLeod  Sponsor: City of Ghosts Brandi B. asked that we sort fact from fiction on Vlad Dracula.  Personally, I can remember a time when I didn't know that Vlad the Impaler was thought to be the inspiration from Bram Stoker's genre-launching vampire Dracula.  Hop in your magic school bus, police box, or phone booth with aerial antenna, and let's go back to 15th's century Wallachia, a region of modern day Romania that was then the southern neighbor of the province of Transylvania.  Our Vlad was Vlad III.  Vlad II, his father, was given the nickname Dracul by his fellow Crusade knights in the Order of the Dragon, who were tasked with defeating the Ottoman Empire.  Wallachia was sandwiched between the Ottomans and Christian Europe and so became the site of constant bloody conflict.  Without looking it up, I'm going to guess that they failed, since the Ottoman Empire stood until 1923.  Dracul translated to “dragon” in old Romanian, but the modern meaning is more like devil.  Add an A to the end to denote son-of and you've got yourself a Vlad Dracula.   At age 11, Vlad and his 7-year-old brother Radu went with their father on a diplomatic mission into the Ottoman Empire.  How's it go?  No too good.  The three were taken hostage.  Their captors told Vlad II that he could be released – on condition that the two sons remain.  Since it was his only option, their father agreed.  The boys would be held prisoner for 5 years.  One account holds that they were tutoried in the art of war, science and philosophy.  Other accounts says they were also subjected to torture and abuse.  When Vlad II returned home, he was overthrown in a coup and he and his eldest son were horribly murdered.   Shortly thereafter, Vlad III was released, with a taste for violence and a vendetta against the Ottomans.  To regain his family's power and make a name for himself, he threw a banquet for hundreds of members of his rival families.  On the menu was wine, meat, sweetbreads, and gruesome, vicious murder.  The guests were stabbed not quite to death, then impaled on large spikes.  This would become his signature move, leading to his moniker Vlad the Impaler, but wasn't the only arrow in his quiver.  Facing an army three times the size of his, he ordered his men to infiltrate their territory, poison wells and burn crops.  He also paid diseased men to go in and infect the enemy.  Defeated combatants were often treated to disemboweling, flaying alive, boiling, and of course impalement.  Basically, you turn your enemy into a kabob and let them die slowly and, just as important, conspicuously.  Vlad's reputation spread, leading to stories we have trouble sorting from legend, like that he once took dinner in a veritable forest of spikes.  We do know that in June of 1462, he ordered 20,000 defeated Ottomans to be impaled.  It's a scale that's hard to even imagine.   When the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II came upon the carnage, he and his men fled in fear back to Constantinople.  You'd think Vlad was on the road to victory, but shortly after, he was forced into exile and imprisoned in Hungary. [[how?]]  He took a stab, no pun intended, on regaining Wallachia 15 years later, but he and his troops were ambushed and killed.  According to a contemporary source, the Ottomans cut his corpse into pieces and marched it back to Sultan Medmed II, who ordered them displayed over the city's gates.  History does not record where the pieces ended up.   Vlad the Impaler was an undeniably brutal ruler, but he's still considered one of the most important rulers in Wallachian history for protecting it against the Ottomans and a national hero of Romania.  He was even praised by Pope Pius II for his military feats and for defending Christendom.  So how did get get from Vlad Dracula, the Impaler, a warrior king with a taste for torture, to, 400 years later, Dracula the undead creature of the night who must feed on the blood of living, can morph into bats or mist, and must sleep in his native earth?  Historians have speculated that Irish author Bram Stoker met with historian Hermann Bamburger, who told him about Vlad III, which ignited some spark of inspiration, but there's not actually any evidence to back this up.  Stoker was actually the first writer that we know of to have a vampire drink blood.  Vampires are actually a common folklore baddie around the world, from the obayifo in Africa which can take over people's bodies and emit phosphorus light from their armpits and anus to the manananggal of the Philippines who can detach her torso from her legs so she can fly around with her organs trailing behind her and use her snakelike tongue to steal babies from the womb.  In Western culture, though, Vlad the Impaler became the basis for everything from Bela Lugosi's Dracula to Count Chocula.  That means he's also the source of the Twilight saga, truly one of history's greatest monsters.   Ronnie asked for “how some legends got their stars.”  I wasn't sure what that meant, so I asked for clarification.  No, I didn't, I launched off immediately and at a full gallop with the first interpretation that came to mind, as I do in all aspects of my life.  So let's talk horror actors and the Hollywood walk of fame.   Even if he weren't a recognizable face, Vincent Price is probably the most recognizable voice in horror history.  For folks my age, you probably heard him for the first time on Michael Jackson's Thriller.  Folks in their 30's might have heard him first as Prof. Ratigan in The Great Mouse Detective.  Price wasn't always a horror icon.  He'd done theater, radio, including Orson Wells Mercury Theater of the Air, and other genres of films, but 1953's House of Wax, which was also the first 3D movie to crack the top 10 box office gross for its year, solidified his place in horror history.  It's almost odd that Price went into acting at all.  His father was the president of the National Candy Company and his grandfather had set the family up with independent means thanks to his brand of cream of tartar.  Price and his wife Mary wrote a number of cookbooks, one of which my mother had when I was young.  You cannot fathom my confused disappointment that it was just a regular cookbook full of regular, boring, non-scary recipes.  And now, for no other reason than it makes me smile, is another amazing voice, Stephen Fry, talking about Price on QI.:  Romanian-born Bela Lugosi was a classical actor in Hungary before making the move to movies.  In fact, he was already playing Dracula on stage when the movie was being assembled.  Lugosi wanted the role so badly he agreed to do it for $500 per week, about $9K today, only one quarter that of actor David Manners who played Jonathan Harker.  It was a good investment, I'd say, since everyone knows Lugosi and this was the first time I'd ever seen David Manners' name.  Though Lugosi turned down the role of the monster in Frankenstein, he was quickly locked into horror.  He appeared in minor roles in a few good movies, like “Ninotchka” with Greta Garbo, but mostly bounced like a plinko chip from mediocre to bad movies, with ever decreasing budgets.  His drug addiction probably had a cyclical relationship with his work prospects.  He died two days into filming the absolutely dreadful “Plan 9 From Outer Space” and was replaced by a much younger and taller actor and his ex-wife's chiropractor because he fit the costume.   Peter Lorre is a name you might not recognize, but you would absolutely recognize his overall aesthetic.  It's still being referenced and parodied to this day.  See the bad guy?  Is he short, with round eyes, and a distinctive way of speaking?  What you got there is Peter Lorre.  Hungarian-born Lorre struck out at 17 to become a star.  For 10 years he played bit parts in amateur productions, but in 1931 he got his big break in the German film “M,” and Hollywood took notice.  His first English-speaking role was in the Hitchcock thriller “The Man Who Knew Too Much.”  The character spoke English, but Lorre didn't.  Just like Bela Legosi during his first turn as Dracula, Lorre had to memorize his lines phonetically.  Imagine how difficult it must be to put the right pacing and inflection into a sentence when you don't know which word means what.  He continued portraying psychopaths until John Huston cast him in a quasi-comic role in “The Maltese Falcon” with Humphrey Bogart and Sidney Greenstreet, which led to lighter roles like the one he played in Arsenic and Old Lace.  If you never seen it, make it you next choice.  It's a comedy, but you can definitely watch it with your horror movies, since it's about a pair of serial killers hiding bodies in their cellar.   Arsenic and Old Lace also features a bad guy getting plastic surgery to avoid the police, which accidentally leaves him looking like Boris Karloff and he's really touchy about it.  I don't know why.  Even though he played many monsters and villains in his career, Karloff was said to actually be a kind, soft-spoken man who was happiest with a good book or in his garden.  We hear him narrate How the Grinch Stole Christmas every year.  He doesn't sing the song, though.  That's Thurl Ravenscroft, who was also the original voice of Tony the Tiger.  The title role in Frankenstein took Karloff from bit player to household name.  Karloff said of the monster, “He was inarticulate, helpless and tragic.  I owe everything to him. He's my best friend.”  By the way, if you're one of those people who delights in going “Um, actually, Frankenstein was the name of the doctor,” can you not?  We all know that.  And since it's the last name of the man who gave him life, aka his father, it's a perfectly passable patronym to use.  Oh and by the way Mr or Ms Superior Nerd, Frankenstein wasn't a doctor, he was a college dropout.  I refer you to my much-beloved Red at Overly Sarcastic Productions on YouTube for a thorough explanation of the actual story.  Penny Dreadful did get pretty close in their interpretation.   Here's a name more people should know, John Carradine.  Wait, you say, the guy from Kill Bill?  No, that's his son David.  Oh, you mean the FBI guy the sister was dating on Dexter.  No, that's his other son Keith.  Revenge of the Nerds?  No, that's Robert.  The patriarch John Carradine was in over 500 movies, big names like Grapes of Wrath and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, but he also did a lot of horror, though it could be a mixed bag — everything from Dracula in House of Dracula down to Billy the Kid vs Dracula.  Not always for the love of it, either.  Sometimes a gig's just a gig.  He told one of his sons, “Just make sure that if you've got to do a role you don't like, it makes you a lot of money.”  Good advice for many areas of life.  If you've got Prime Video or Shudder, look for The Monster Club.  It's an darling, schlocky little anthology movie, which they just don't seem to make anymore, starring Carradine and Vincent Price.     Jaime Lee Curtis could have been on this list since she was in 5 of the Halloween films, but I just don't think people think “horror” when they hear her name.   There were a few names surprisingly not set in the stones.  While ‘man of a thousand faces' Lon Chaney, who played the original Phantom of the Opera and Hunchback of Notre Dame, has a star, his son, Lon Chaney Jr, who played the Wolfman, the Mummy and numerous other roles in dozens of horror movies, does.  Somehow, Christopher Lee doesn't either.  In addition to the 282 roles on his imdb page, he deserves a star just for playing Dracula 10 times and still having a career after that.  Also, he was metal as fuck, recording metal albums into his 80's and there was the time he corrected director Peter Jackson on what it's like when you stab someone, because he *knew.  My buddies over at Cutting Class diverged from their usual format to tell us all about his amazing life.   Over in the Brainiac Breakroom, (plug sub reddit, thank Zach), Alyssa asked for the history behind clowns being evil.  One day, a man dressed up as a clown and it was terrifying.  Thank you for coming to my TED talk.   No?  Okay.  Fine!  It's not like I have to research them and keep seeing pictures of clowns.  Clowns weren't really regarded as frightening, or at least a fear of clowns wasn't widely known, from the creation of what we'd recognize as a clown by Joseph Grimaldi in the 1820's until fairly recently.  David Carlyon, author, playwright and a former clown with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in the 1970s, argues that coulrophobia, the fear of clowns, was born from the counter-culture 1960s and picked up steam in the 1980s.  “There is no ancient fear of clowns,” he said. “It wasn't like there was this panic rippling through Madison Square Garden as I walked up through the seats. Not at all.”  For centuries, clowns were a funny thing for kids — there was Bozo, Ronald McDonald, Red Skelton's Clem Kaddidlehopper and Emmet Kelly's sad clown– then bam!  Stephen King's hit novel “It,” the doll in “Poltergeist,” and every incarnation of The Joker.  It could be seen as a pendulum swing.  Clowns had been so far to the good side that it must have been inevitable they would swing *way the hell over to evil.   Not so fast, argues Benjamin Radford, author of the book “Bad Clowns,” who argues that evil clowns have always been among us.  “It's a mistake to ask when clowns turned bad because historically they were never really good.  Sometimes they're making you laugh. Other times, they're laughing at your expense.”  Radford traces bad clowns all the way to ancient Greece and connects them to court jesters and the Harlequin figure.  He points particularly to Punch of the Punch & Judy puppet shows that date back to the 1500s.  Punch was not only not sweet and loveable, he was violent, abusive, and even homicidal.   Maybe when isn't as important as why.  Why are some of us afraid of clowns?  Personally, I think it's their complete disregard for personal space.  Kindly keep your grease-painted face at least arm's length away.  The grease paint may be part of it.  It exaggerates the features.  The face is basically human in composition, but it's not.  It dangles us over the edge of the uncanny valley, where something makes us uncomfortable because it is *almost human.  The makeup obscures the wearer's identity, so we don't really know who we're dealing with.  Clowns also act in aberrant ways, contrary to societal norms and expectations, and that might subconsciously get our back up.  As for coulrophilia, sexual attraction to clowns…. I got nothing.  You do you.   Charlie asked for the real history behind popular horror icons, like werewolves, vampires, and zombies.  Even though the zombie craze held on longer than the 2017 obsession with bacon, most people don't know about them pre-George Romero's Night of the Living Dead.   The word “zombie” first appeared in English around 1810 in the book “History of Brazil,” this was “Zombi,” a West African deity.  The word later came to suggest a husk of a body without vital life energy, human in form but lacking the self-awareness, intelligence, and a soul.  The Atlantic slave trade caused the idea to move across the ocean, where West African religions began to mix with force Christianity.  Pop culture continually intermixes many African Diasporic traditions and portrays them exclusively as Voodoo. However, most of what is portrayed in books, movies, and television is actually hoodoo. Voodoo is a religion that has two markedly different branches: Haitian Vodou and Louisiana Vodoun. Hoodoo is neither a religion, nor a denomination of a religion—it is a form of folk magic that originated in West Africa and is mainly practiced today in the Southern United States.   Haitian zombies were said to be people brought back from the dead (and sometimes controlled) through magical means by voodoo priests called bokors or houngan. Sometimes the zombification was done as punishment (striking fear in those who believed that they could be abused even after death), but often the zombies were said to have been used as slave labor on farms and sugarcane plantations. In 1980, one mentally ill man even claimed to have been held captive as a zombie worker for two decades, though he could not lead investigators to where he had worked, and his story was never verified.   To many people, both in Haiti and elsewhere, zombies are very real and as such very frightening.  Think about it.  These people were enslaved, someone else claimed dominion over their body, but they still had their mind and their spirit.  What could be more frightening to an enslaved person than an existence where even that is taken from you?   In the 1980s when a scientist named Wade Davis claimed to have found a powder that could create zombies, thus providing a scientific basis for zombie stories, a powerful neurotoxin called tetrodotoxin, which can be found in several animals including pufferfish.  He claimed to have infiltrated secret societies of bokors and obtained several samples of the zombie-making powder, which were later chemically analyzed.  Davis wrote a book on the topic, “The Serpent and the Rainbow,” which was later made into a really underappreciated movie.  Davis was held up as the man who had scientifically proven the existence of zombies, but skeptic pointed out that the samples of the zombie powder were inconsistent and that the amounts of neurotoxin they contained were not high enough to create zombies.  It's not the kind of thing you can play fast & loose with.  Tetrodotoxin has a very narrow band between paralytic and fatal.  Others pointed out nobody had ever found any of the alleged Haitian plantations filled with zombie laborers.  While Davis acknowledged problems with his theories, and had to lay to rest some sensational claims being attributed to him, he insisted that the Haitian belief in zombies *could be based on the rare happenstance of someone being poisoned by tetrodotoxin and later coming to in their coffin.   Bonus fact: Ever wonder where we get brain-eating zombies from?  Correlation doesn't equal causation, but the first zombie to eat brains was the zombie known as Tarman in 1984's Return of the Living Dead.  This wasn't a George Romero movie, though.  It's based on a novel called  Return of the Living Dead by John Russo, one of the writers of Night of the Living Dead.  After Russo and Romero parted company, Russo retained the rights to any titles featuring the phrase “Living Dead.”    Cindra asked for movie monster facts.  The moon is getting full, so let's hit these facts muy rapido.   1922's Nosferatu was an illegal and unauthorized adaption of Bram Stoker's Dracula.  Stoker's heirs sued over the film and a court ruling ordered that all copies be destroyed.  However, Nosferatu subsequently surfaced in other countries and came to be regarded as an influential masterpiece of cinema.   Not a single photograph of Lon Chaney as the Phantom in The Phantom of the Opera (1925) was published in a newspaper or magazine, or seen anywhere before the film opened in theaters.  It was a complete surprise to the audience and to Chaney's costar Mary Philbin, whos shriek of fear and disgust was genuine.   In the original Dracula, Lugosi never once blinks his eyes on camera, to give his character an otherworldy vibe.  Francis Ford Coppolla did something similar by having Dracula's shadow move slightly independently, like the rules of our world don't apply to him.   Even though he starred in the film, Boris Karloff was considered such a no-name nobody that Universal didn't invite him to the premiere of 1931's Frankenstein.   Karloff's classic Mummy the next year did not speak because the actor had so many layers of cotton glued to his face that he couldn't move his mouth.   The Creature from the Black Lagoon's look was based on old seventeenth-century woodcuts of two bizarre creatures called the Sea Monk and the Sea Bishop.   To make a man invisible for 1933's The Invisible Man, director James Whale had Claude Rains dressed completely in black velvet and filmed him in front of a black velvet background.   The movie poster for The Mummy (1932) holds the record for the most money paid for a movie poster at an auction: nearly half a million dollars.   Boris Karloff's costume and makeup for 1935's Bride of Frankenstein were so heavy and hot that he lost 20 pounds during filming, mostly through sweat.  His shoes weighed 13 lb/6 kg/1 stone apiece.   The large grosses for the film House on Haunted Hill (1960) were noticed by Sir Alfred Hitchcock was inspired to make a horror movie after the seeing the box office gross for William Castle's House on Haunted Hill.   Filming the shower scene for Psycho was pretty mundane, but actress Janet Leigh was so terrified by seeing the finished product –thanks to the editing by Alma Reveill-Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann score– that she did not shower, only bathed, from the premier in 1960 to her death in 2004.  You can read more about Alma Revill in the YBOF book.   According to our friends Megan and RJ at Oh No! Lit Class podcast, the first use of Toccata Fuge in G Minor in a film was the 1962 Phantom of the Opera.  It's hard to imagine classic horror without it.   In Night of the Living Dead, the body parts the zombies ate were ham covered in chocolate sauce.  George Romero joked that they shouldn't bother putting the zombie makeup on the actors because the choco-pork made them look pale and sick with nausea anyway.   A lot of people know that Michael Myers' mask in the original Halloween was actually a William Shatner mask painted white.  They bought it because it was on clearance and the film had a small budget.  Most people don't know that Shatner later repaid the favor by dressing up as Michael Myers for Halloween.   Freddy Kruger's look was based on a scary drunk man Wes Craven saw outside his home as a child.  His glove made of leather and steak knives was actually inspired by Craven's cat.  Looks down at scratches on both arms.  Yeah, that checks out.  The idea of being killed in your sleep comes from real deaths of people who survived the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, only to die mysteriously later.   1987's The Monster Squad. With a werewolf, a mummy, Dracula, and Frankenstein's monster in the mix, the group looked suspiciously like the line-up of the 1930s and '40s Universal horror movies. To avoid confusion (i.e. lawsuits), filmmaker Fred Dekker made some subtle changes to his monsters, like removing Dracula's widow's peak, and moving Frankenstein's neck bolts up to his forehead. See? Totally different!   Yes, those were real bees in Candyman, even the ones in Candyman's mouth.  Tony Todd had a clause in his contract that he would get $1k for every bee sting he got during filming.  Even though juvenile bees with underdeveloped stingers were used, he still got $23k worth of stings.   You might think 1991's Silence of the Lambs was the first horror movie to win an Oscar, but Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde beat them to it by 60 years with Fredric March's Oscar for Best Actor.

Wole Soyinka in Nigeria, Toni Morrison in the United States, Derek Walcott in the Caribbean, and Bernardine Evaristo in the UK are just a few of the contemporary Black writers who have engaged with Graeco-Roman antiquity in their writing. In this podcast, Shivaike Shah speaks to Justine McConnell, Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature at King's College London, about why ancient Greece and Rome hold such a prominent place in 20th- and 21st-century literature by African and African diaspora writers. How do we explore the classical influence on works such as Toni Morrison's Sula and Bernadine Evaristo's The Emperor's Babe without overemphasising it?To find out more about this topic, check out the reading list on our website: https://www.khameleonproductions.org/classics-in-african-diasporic-writing

Well, you don't. But luckily Drs. Fadeke Castor and Akissi Britton do, and they're here to help us learn more. As always, be sure to visit keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more! 

Behind Closed Doors: Financial Freedom Our Only Hope is a FREE online Town Hall event that which happens on April 30, 2021 at 8 p.m. Easter and is hosted by L.A. Wade and Mic Truth, The Elephant Room TV is a platform and series that stimulates the African and African Diasporic community through the engagement of the taboo, unspoken and often difficult conversations inspired by events in popular culture. Financial Wealth Advocates Francine Joseph and Simon Smith, this town hall will focus on introducing and building pathways toward generational wealth, understanding the investment mindset regardless of your current economic status, creating opportunities for group economics and investment strategies like crypto currency and other diverse wealth building portfolio options. During the conversation, the panel talked about: – The gap in generational wealth and what what wealth means to them – The misconceptions Black people in their journeys have when it comes to wealth – Parents' influence when it comes to a money mindset – How the pandemic has impacted the gap in generational wealth – How the event came into being – Approaching potential clients, and how they respond – The turning point that got each of the panelists taking wealth more seriously and their transformation after taking wealth more seriously You can find more about Behind Closed Doors: Financial Freedom Our Only Hope including how to register for the event by clicking on the following link: https://bit.ly/2PwbgIk Visit The Dr. Vibe Show™ at https://www.thedrvibeshow.com Please feel free to email us at dr.vibe@thedrvibeshow.com Please feel free to “Like” the “The Dr. Vibe Show” Facebook Fan Page here God bless, peace, be well and keep the faith, Dr. Vibe 2020 Podcast News Award Winner – Canadian Ethnic Media Association 2018 Innovation Award Winner – Canadian Ethnic Media Association The Dr. Vibe Show™ At “The Good Men Project” One of the first Brand Ambassador's – Cuisine Noir Magazine Dr. Vibe – Producer And Co-host of Black Men Talking On WJMS Radio Dr. Vibe on HuffPost Live – August 2, 2013 2013 Black Weblog Awards Finalist (Best Podcast) 2012 Black Weblog Awards Winner (Best International Blog) 2012 Black Weblog Awards Finalist (Best Podcast) 2011 Black Weblog Awards Finalist (Best International Blog and Best Podcast Series) Black Blog Of The Day – Black Bloggers Network – June 23, 2011 Twitter Twitter hashtag: #DrVibe The Dr. Vibe Show™ – iTunes The Dr. Vibe Show™ – Spotify Dr. Vibe Media – You Tube The Dr. Vibe Show™ – Stitcher Radio The Dr. Vibe Show™ – TuneIn Radio The Dr. Vibe Show™ – Google Play Music The Dr. Vibe Show™ – iHeartRadio The Dr. Vibe Show™ at Anchor Linkedin – The Dr. Vibe Show™ Instagram The Dr. Vibe Show Facebook Fan Page

In this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by Davarian L. Baldwin, the author of "In The Shadow of the Ivory Tower", to discuss morally questionable symbiosis that exists between universities, the government and the economy. Davarian L. Baldwin is a historian, cultural critic, and social theorist of urban America. His work largely examines the landscape of global cities through the lens of the African Diasporic experience. Baldwin’s related interests include intellectual and mass culture, universities and urban development, the racial foundations of academic thought, competing conceptions of modernity, Black radical thought and transnational social movements, and the racial economy of heritage tourism, His teaching brings together urban and cultural studies, 20th Century U.S. History, and African American Studies. Baldwin is the author of Chicago’s New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life (UNC, 2007) and co-editor, with Minkah Makalani, of the essay collection Escape From New York! The New Negro Renaissance beyond Harlem (Minnesota, 2013). Baldwin is currently at work on two new single-authored projects, Land of Darkness: Chicago and the Making of Race in Modern America (Oxford University Press) and UniverCities: How Higher Education is Transforming Urban America. He is editing the Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance: Using the Present to Excavate the Past (Greenwood Publishers) and serves as a consultant for the 2014 national art retrospective Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist. Prior to joining Trinity, Baldwin was Associate Professor of History and African and African Diaspora Studies at Boston College. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Édouard Glissant said it, I repeat - Opacity - own it. In this episode, Pawlet Brookes and Dr S. Ama Wray discuss the sixth commandment of Black Manifesto, the relationship between the mind and the body, Dr Wray’s Embodiology® movement, and the indigenous and African Diasporic influences that led Dr Wray to create Embodiology®.

The notion, assumption, and/or idea that the various peoples who were enslaved during the periods and processes of the solidification of the racial global economy that claims our ancestors were deprived of culture, strips of all associations with historical and ancestral groundings is a product of centering European historicity as the dominant expression of social, historical, political and epistemic knowledge systems. This argument is rooted in the fact that one of the most vibrant places to find the most articulate expressions of African/a humanity is in the way we resist injustice—inequity—violence. The way we conceptualize and engage in struggle against systems of oppression, the foundation of which is an advanced understanding of the praxis of being human. See everything Sylvia Wynter. African/a struggles operate on multiple and simultaneous levels of human existence. It always was, always will be a struggle to realize a world beyond. The material and nonmaterial praxis to balance forces seen and unseen. The science of African/a fighting arts…a commitment, conscious or unconscious, to embody resistance. Of becoming rebel. Building on the work of Dr. Kamu Rashid, I assert that of becoming rebel can be understood in the Swahili tradition as, “Harakati za Waasi”, translated as “Movement of Rebels”. For Dr. Rashid, it represents the tradition of radical resistance that is embedded in the history of Capoeira and other African Diasporic combat arts. These arts were used in the people's resistance to state oppression throughout the Americas. Harakati za Waasi seeks to honor these traditions by seeking to engage in the rigorous study and practice of the theoretical and technical applications of African combat systems. Additionally, Dr. Rashid and the collective seek to broadly disseminate these arts within the African community for the sake facilitating cultural transformation. Today, embodied resistance: the science of African/a fighting arts with Kamau Rashid. Dr. Kamau Rashid is an Associate Professor of Educational Foundations and Inquiry at National-Louis University in Chicago. Kamau earned his Phd and BA from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Master of Arts degree from Northeastern Illinois University. Dr. Rashid work focuses on African American history and culture, particularly on the inter-generational dynamics of African/a social critique, which includes an exploration and theorizing of W.E.B. Du Bois as well as contemporary African-Centered scholars and critical race theorists. Undergirding this, he studies art (Hip Hop and comics) as a radical public pedagogy. He is co-developing an oral history and archival project focused on African American social movements in the Chicago area from the 1960s to1980s with Dr. Richard Benson of Spelman College. And is currently working on Finding our way through the desert: Jacob H. Carruthers and the restoration of an African worldview as well as The critical theory of W.E.B. Du Bois: The Struggle for Humanity. He has published a number peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and received various grant awards to support his work. Lastly, likely most importantly, Dr. Rashid is active in a number of community organizations in the Chicago-area including the Kemetic Institute of Chicago, a research and educational organization focused on mapping, exploring and applying the ancient and contemporary contributions of ancient Nile Valley civilizations. Our show was produced today in solidarity with the native, indigenous, African, and Afro-descended communities at Standing Rock; Venezuela; Cooperation Jackson in Jackson, Mississippi; Brazil; the Avalon Village in Detroit; Colombia; Kenya; Palestine; South Africa; and Ghana; and other places who are fighting for the protection of our land for the benefit of all people. Enjoy the program! Image: Statue of Zumbi

In popular culture, Afrofuturism is best known by its sci-fi imagery depicting the African Diaspora utilizing technology as a tool of empowerment; or  an imagining that employs other worldly environments to emphasize the Alien-nation popularized by the work of Sun-Ra. Maybe many entered the world of Afrofutrism through the gateway located in Wakanda? In whatever ways you have come to this place where African diasporic culture meets at the crossroad of speculation, one central question must have crossed your mind: how can I create this future I see so vividly depicted by many but well understood by few?  This guiding question is at the center of our meditation: How can we create the Afro Future? It is a deceptively simple question I would hear asked by community members looking for themselves in an uncertain world. Certainly, the concepts being popularized through the works of Afrofuturist artists are not new. Somehow though, through our radical imagining they are being felt in new ways. It is my understanding that this radical imagining of Blackness in the future cannot be what it is intended to be without the full participation of everyone searching for a world outside of the one we are presented everyday. A world where Blackness can grow in creativity and peace; a world where the focus of our lives is centered in practices that encourage innovation without requiring assimilation.  Ah! but therein lies the rub! (a phrase that means: that's where the problem is). How do we imagine a world of peace when we do not exist in peaceful times? How do we utilize our culture when, through assimilation we forget what that culture looked liked? How does the African Diasporic community participate in the innovation industry when we are locked out of innovation and creative practices at every turn? So often it feels like these questions are overwhelming, especially for those who wish to use the creativity of Afrofuturism in their live, whether it be through homeschooling, organizing, community outreach, or artistic practice. If these question resonate deep within you, then I want you to breathe. Breathe deeply. Breathe again and know we got this. Now, join me, as I meditate on all the ways we can use our imagination and creativity to design the future. I look forward to what we create.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afrofuturismxdesign/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afrofuturismxdesign/support

[Program produced and aired 2016] Image: Frontispiece to Walker's Appeal, in Four Articles; Together with a Preamble….1829 Maroon derives from Spanish cimarrón. Cimarrón originally referred to domestic cattle that had taken to the hills in Hispaniola. It was gradually expanded to be applied to enslaved Indigenous peoples who escaped from the Spaniards as they colonized South and Central America as well as the Caribbean. By the end of the 1530s, the concept had taken on strong connotations of being "fierce," "wild" and "unbroken," and was transferred to be primarily applied to Africans and people of African descent---or the runaways as they were referred to. For more than four centuries, the communities formed by escaped enslaved peoples dotted the fringes of plantations throughout the Americas, from Brazil to southeastern United States, from Peru to the American Southwest. Known variously as quilombos, mocambos, or mambeses, these new societies ranged from tiny bands that survived less than a year to powerful states the numbered thousands of members who survived for generations and even centuries. Maroon communities consisted of escaped African/a peoples with origins from a wide range of societies in West and Central Africa...Their collective task was to create new communities and institutions, through various processes of integrating cultural elements drawn largely from a variety of African societies [never forget, home was their destination]. Kwame Gyekye work on the deep continuities of cultural elements that link African societies is important to note here. For generations, historians believed that even the most remarkable of maroon settlements in the North America did not rival the achievements of maroon communities in South and Central America as well as the Caribbean. However, according to a number of scholars such as Cedric Robinson; Gerald Mullin, as well as Hebert Aptheker, and most recently Sylviane A. Diouf, evidence of the existence of at least fifty such communities in various places and at various times, from 1672 to 1864, has been documented. Herbert Aptheker's points out that the 1st maroon communities pre-dated Jamestown settlements by 82 years. They were African insurrectionists who secured gained their freedom from abortive Spanish colonizing efforts in North and South Carolina. Maroon communities were a real presence in the U.S…as Aptheker documented their 19th century presence in VA; Georgia; Alabama; Louisiana; South Carolina as well as in Wake, Gates, Onslow, Bladen, Sampson, Jones, New Hanover, Dublin, Wilmington, Robeson, Nash counties, North Carolina. Today, will listen to a conversation I had with Dr. Nubia Kia where we discussed her recent historical novel, titled I spread my Wings and I Fly. Dr. Kia is a cultural worker, artist, activist, scholar, retired professor from Howard University. Her work has been published in Black Scholar, Black American Literature Forum, and Journal of the African Literature Association. As historian and poet, Dr. Kai has also won numerous honors, which include the Michigan Council Arts Awards, D.C. Commission of the Arts Awards, and National Endowment for the Arts Awards, just to name a few. Her work is an important meditation and contribution on previous and current work that is being done to explore the connections between culture, resistance, the science of metaphysics [spiritwork] as a source liberatory practice as a historical and cultural product of the Maroons. All of which were cultivated within conditions that African peoples were thrust into. This process and its elements are found within every corner of African Diasporic sociopolitical thought and cultural practices from Brazil, to Colombia, to the Black Church to hip hop. Africa as more than a geographical landmass, lives. It lives in the mind, bodies, spirits, intelligence of African/a peoples. Enjoy the program

In her Master's Thesis Capstone Empathy Check, Tori Edwards describes why and how exhibition curators should collaborate with the communities for whom they are designing as equals. In this episode, she describes an exhibit called Queens: The Weight of Our Crown at the Colored Girls Museum which she developed and designed to establish an empathetic experience for the African Diasporic community around the subject of hair. You can reach Tori here: http://www.victoriaredwards.com/empathy-check CONNECT WITH ANITA ✩ Email - purposefulempathy@gmail.com ✩ Website - https://www.anitanowak.com/ ✩ LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/anita-nowak-phd-9770253a ✩ Instagram -https://www.instagram.com/anitanowak21/ ✩ Twitter - https://twitter.com/anitanowak21 ✩ Facebook Page -https://www.facebook.com/PurposefulEmpathy ✩ Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/1617454411751130 ✩SpotifyLink-https://open.spotify.com/show/1kUXlB4PsfzHaNj00GSMzG?si=rxmYHlXMR-GYr7eWlhazfQ Video edited by David Tsvariani

On this episode, we’re joined by Daniela Ricci to discuss her book, African Diasporic Cinema: Aesthetics of Reconstruction.

Liseli A. Fitzpatrick is a Trinidadian-scholar in the field of African Diasporic cosmologies and sacred ontologies. In May 2018, Fitzpatrick made history as the first Ph.D. in the Department of African American and African Studies (AAAS) at The Ohio State University (OSU). Fitzpatrick is passionate about cultivating sacred consciousness, not limited to religiosity, and is a cultural enthusiast at heart. Her penchant for spirituality paired with her altruistic spirit informs her life path and dedication to humanity. Spirituality, family, altruism, and culture are, therefore, positioned at the epicenter of her existence. (source: https://www.wellesley.edu/africana/faculty/fitzpatrick) In this Mission Outlook's episode, Liseli explains what is African Cosmology and why it is so important for our society facing racism and division. Listen to the episode to know more... For any feedback on this episode, please, email: Liseli: lfitzpa3@wellesley.edu Pietro (podcast's host): butros92@gmail.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/pietro-rossini/message

Producer/Host: C.J. Walke, MOFGA Keynote Address – Common Ground Country Fair – 2020 given on September 25, 2020 Farming While Black: African Diasporic Wisdom for Farming and Food Justice Uprooting racism and ceding sovereignty in the food system Speaker: Leah Penniman, Soulfire Farm, Grafton, NY About the host: C.J. Walke, host of Common Ground Radio, has been involved in Maine agriculture for over 20 years and has worked in numerous capacities for the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA) starting in 2006. Since 2012, C.J. has worked as farm manager for College of the Atlantic’s Peggy Rockefeller Farms in Bar Harbor, Maine, where he works with students to grow organic fruits, vegetables and livestock products. He holds degrees in park management/environment education and library science. Common Ground Radio debuted in June of 2010 and C.J. has been the show’s host since 2014. The post Common Ground Radio 10/8/20: Farming While Black: African Diasporic Wisdom for Farming and Food Justice first appeared on WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives.

Producer/Host: C.J. Walke, MOFGA Keynote Address – Common Ground Country Fair – 2020 given on September 25, 2020 Farming While Black: African Diasporic Wisdom for Farming and Food Justice Uprooting racism and ceding sovereignty in the food system Speaker: Leah Penniman, Soulfire Farm, Grafton, NY About the host: C.J. Walke, host of Common Ground Radio, has been involved in Maine agriculture for over 20 years and has worked in numerous capacities for the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA) starting in 2006. Since 2012, C.J. has worked as farm manager for College of the Atlantic’s Peggy Rockefeller Farms in Bar Harbor, Maine, where he works with students to grow organic fruits, vegetables and livestock products. He holds degrees in park management/environment education and library science. Common Ground Radio debuted in June of 2010 and C.J. has been the show’s host since 2014.

In this episode, we’re talking to Shay Wafer, who is a mentor, Mama, grandmama, And so much more to many Black cultural workers in the world right now. In her long career in performing arts, Shay Wafer, has demonstrated a stalwart dedication to the arts and community development through many years of service to the field. Her passionate vision is balanced with pragmatic experience, as she has held senior level positions at a number of non-profit arts organizations with a focus on African Diasporic programming and community engagement. Currently the Executive Director of WACO Theater Center in Los Angeles, Shay was the Executive Director of 651 ARTS in Brooklyn and the founding VP of Programs for the August Wilson Center for African American Culture, a multi-disciplinary center and museum in downtown Pittsburgh. Prior to that, she served as the managing director of Cornerstone Theater Company, LA Theatreworks and the St. Louis Black Repertory Company. She also was a founding partner of Marla Gibb’s Crossroads Arts Academy and Theatre. Shay has engaged in additional community and volunteer activities throughout her career including serving on the Board of Directors of National Performance Network (currently the Board Chair), Theatre Communications Group and as a New England Foundation for the Arts National Theatre Project and National Dance Project Advisor. Shay has served as a peer panelist for The National Endowment for the ARTS, MAP Fund, Doris Duke, Mellon, Kresge and Bush Foundations, among others. She holds a BS from Howard University in Early Childhood Education and a MFA from the Yale School of Drama, Theatre Management program. Our conversation was recorded on April 15, 2020. Enjoy! Produced by Curtis Caesar John Music by audionautix.com

In her own words, Makeba Dixon-Hill is a connector, explorer and advocate who believes in the power of wandering when the heart is your guide. This Path has led her to writing, working in museums, teaching yoga, public speaking, and supporting others as a facilitator, thought partner, funder, and curator. Her areas of expertise include health and wellness consulting, arts advocacy strategy, interdisciplinary arts programming, artist workforce development, creative placemaking, and African Diasporic art and culture. And she currently serves as the Curator of Education at the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art here in Atlanta. WE DISCUSS:The place that she's in right now as a return to self and empowering the selfArt as a tool for connectivity, altering spaces + holismGestures and practices that create accessibility + relevance in institutional spacesUsing art to facilitate creative and utilitarian outputCelebrating creativity as a component of survivalReconnecting to one's voice within the body and the spirits of othersHow spirituality + magic can support us in being more caringMaking brave decisions around consumptionLeaning into YES as allowing + collaborationOpening up our definitions of mediumship, especially through artistic practices and participationThe power of editing + curation within the context of our artistic representation + image consumptionIf you enjoyed this episode, check out:Episode 44 w/ Aaron Samuel DavisEpisode 32 w/on Michael J MorrisEpisode 37 w/ Anana Harris ParrisEpisode 15 w/ Dr Tiffany JohnsonLINKS /More info about MG's upcoming workshopAstrology SessionsIntuitive Coaching SessionsTarot SessionsMary Grace's IGMary Grace's websiteEmail —> hi@mgallerdice.comDisclosure (documentary)/ /Makeba's websiteMalcolm XKiki CinzaSpelman College Museum of Fine ArtSpelman Musem IGToni MorrisonJoin us for a free class on Taking Care : Pillars for Creation, Circularity + Support — tools to help you design your life with more support and care built in, especially during difficult times. This free class is Friday, March 18 at Noon ET/ 9:00a PT. Sign up here to attend and/or get the replay. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/mgallerdice)

Listeners of Diversity Matters can also enjoy episodes of Beyond the Mill which is a live diversity dialogues show created and hosted by Oscar Holmes IV at Rutgers University-Camden with generous support from the Office of Diversity and Inclusion and the Office of Student Affairs. Beyond the Mill Season 2 Episode 4 Guests: Dr. Keith Green & Dean Rhasheda Douglas, Esq.  Summary: In this episode, I interview Keith and Rhasheda as we celebrate and discuss Black History Month 2020. 

Dr. Riché J Daniel Barnes is the Dean of Pierson College at Yale University, Co-Founder and Director of the Association of Black Anthropologists, and Award-Winning Author of "Raising the Race: Black Career Women Redefine Marriage, Motherhood, and Community.” https://richebarnes.com https://anthropology.yale.edu/people/riche-barnes Book ► https://bit.ly/RaisingTheRace Twitter ► https://twitter.com/DrRJDBarnes LinkedIn ► https://bit.ly/RicheLinkedin Partner ► https://www.americananthro.org Welcome ✌

Listeners of Diversity Matters can also enjoy episodes of Beyond the Mill which is a live diversity dialogues show created and hosted by Oscar Holmes IV at Rutgers University-Camden with generous support from the Office of Diversity and Inclusion and the Office of Student Affairs. Beyond the Mill Season 1 Episode 4 Guests: Dr. Eliezer Marcellus & Marla Blunt-Carter Summary: In this episode, I interview Dr. Eliezer Marcellus and Marla Blunt-Carter as we celebrate and discuss the significance of Black History Month and the African Diaspora. Please Rate, Review, & Subscribe on , , , , , , and  

A conversation with Negarra A. Kudumu -- "independent scholar, author of the e-book Spiritual Hygiene, and healer working at the intersection of art and healing with a focus on contemporary art from Africa, South Asia, and their respective diasporas as well as African Diasporic knowledge systems. She holds the title of Yayi Nkisi Malongo in the Brama Con Brama lineage of Palo Mayombe; she is a lay person in the Lukumi Pimienta lineage; a practitioner of Espiritismo Cruzado, and a level II Reiki practitioner."

In this third episode, Ira Wallace from Southern Exposure Seed Exchange talks about her faves: collards and roselle. She also describes her life growing up, her work with southern and African Diasporic seeds and stories, and takes questions from Truelove Seeds apprentices (and adoring fans) Amirah Mitchell and Chris Keeve and from a visitor named Mimi. SEED STORIES TOLD IN THIS EPISODE:CollardsRoselle MORE INFO FROM THIS EPISODE:Ira Wallace: Writer, Seed Saver, EducatorSouthern Exposure Seed ExchangeGrow Great Vegetables in Virginia, by Ira WallaceCollards: A Southern Tradition from Seed to Table, by Edward H. Davis and John T. MorganFarming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land, by Leah PennimanBlack Urban Growers Conference ABOUT:Seeds And Their People is a radio show where we feature seed stories told by the people who truly love them. Hosted by Owen Taylor of Truelove Seeds and Chris Bolden-Newsome of Sankofa Community Farm at Bartram’s Garden.trueloveseeds.com/blogs/satpradio FIND OWEN HERE:Truelove SeedsTumblr  |  Instagram  |  Twitter FIND CHRIS HERE:Sankofa Community Farm at Bartram’s Garden THANKS TO:Ira Wallace and Gordon SprouleSara TaylorJulia Aguilar, Althea Baird, Chris Keeve, Amirah Mitchell, and Zoe Jeka of Truelove SeedsMimi PugaThe voices of the youth and other staff of Sankofa Community Farm at Bartram's Garden

Hey NAP family! Glad you are here to join us on our very first episode of In the Telling! Our first episode features NAP's co-founder Steven G. Fullwood - writer, archivist, and amateur photographer and filmmaker. His published works include Black Gay Genius (2014), and Carry the Word: A Bibliography of Black LGBTQ Books (2007). Fullwood is the former associate curator of the Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Books Division at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. He is the co-founder of the Nomadic Archivists Project, an initiative that partners with organizations, institutions, and individuals to establish, preserve, and enhance collections that explore the African Diasporic experience. He’s currently exploring his filmmaking interests through documentary work. He is a regular contributor to the American Age podcast. Fullwood enjoys reading about neuroscience, astrophysics, and watching science and nature documentaries. Want more? Visit nomadicarchivistsproject.com Original music by Sean Bempong

To understand the music of John Coltrane you must understand the long genealogy of the genre of African Diasporic cultural expression—called Black (or American) Classical Music or jazz as it is often labeled particularly, as it moves back and forth on the time/space continuum. From the Now moment. To the Future moment as yet seen. To the complexities of the past. Back to Now. Never in a linear path. You must listen to Sun Ra. Diz. Bird. Sonny. Brother Ah. Abdullah Ibrahim, Celia Cruz, Tito. Hugh Masekela. Abby. Max. Ella. Nina. Holiday. De La. Tribe. Guru. Heavy. The birds. The Wind. The rain. You must be able to map the material and non-material experiences…often improvised in response to the conditions within which Africana peoples found themselves. You must understand the deep ancestral, historical, and spiritual memory of a people to simultaneously be aware of these conditions while also seeing a world beyond those conditions. John Coltrane—the person, the musician—is a vital link in the long chain of humanity—a representation of an African vibration of humanity. Amiri Baraka in his article John Coltrane: Why His Legacy Continues? writes: “Why does his legacy continue to influence our lives, our music, and the arts?...Trane emerges as the process of historical clarification itself, of a particular social/aesthetic development…When we see him standing next to Bird and Diz, an excited young inlooker inside the torrent of the rising Bop statement, right next to the chief creators of that fervent expression of new black life, we are seeing actual point and line, note and phrase of the continuum. As if we could also see Louis and Bechet hovering over them, with Pres hovering just to the side waiting his entrance, and then beyond in a deeper yet to be revealed hover, Pharoah and Albert and David and Wynton or Olu in the mist, there about to be, when called by the notes of what has struck yet before all mentioned. Trane carried the deepness in us thru Bird and Diz, and them, back to us. He reclaimed Bop fire, the Africa, Polyrhythmic, Improvisational, Blue, Spirituality of us…the Free Jazz! Was parallel to Free Angela! Free Huey! The Ballot or the Bullet! Free Black People!” (192: Digging: The Afro American Soul of American Classical Music) ---Amiri Baraka adds more clarity---I love Music (For John Coltrane)-- For Amiri Baraka, and others, “Trane still sounds inside us as the freedom we seek, the total expression of our lives as the expression of the Human headed soul, teaching that the flaming paradise of his music is in us to create the world we live in” (194: Digging: The Afro American Soul of American Classical Music) But above all of this…more than any of this…to understand Trane you must understand his wife, Alice Coltrane. You must listen to her organized vibrational melodies that seek in their own space to free people, who did not know they needed to be freed, and as of yet still not know they need to be freed. Today, we will listen to a radio documentary produce by the Pacifica Archives, titled Trane Lives. We hear Alice on Trane…and Trane, less than a year before he moved beyond. For complete program: https://www.pacificaradioarchives.org/recording/pz065901-02 Our show was produced today in solidarity with the native, indigenous, African and Afro-descended communities at Standing Rock; Venezuela; Cooperation Jackson in Jackson, Mississippi; Brazil; the Avalon Village in Detroit; Colombia; Kenya; Palestine; South Africa; and Ghana; and other places who are fighting for the protection of our land for the benefit of all people. Image: Alice and John Coltrane: no copyright infringement is intended

Author, activist, and farmer Leah Penniman discusses the movement for food sovereignty and building a food system based on justice, dignity, and abundance for all members of our community. The talk took place at the Center for the Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR) at Harvard Divinity School on September 17, 2019. Leah Penniman is a Black Kreyol educator, farmer/peyizan, author, and food justice activist from Soul Fire Farm in Grafton, New York. She has been farming since 1996, and co-founded Soul Fire Farm in 2011 with the mission to end racism in our food system. Her James Beard award-winning book, Farming While Black, offers the first comprehensive manual for African-heritage people ready to reclaim their rightful place of dignified agency in our food system. Video and full transcript here: https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news/2019/09/17/video-farming-while-black Learn more about Harvard Divinity School and its mission to illuminate, engage, and serve at http://hds.harvard.edu/.

Poets have long used ekphrasis—the vivid description of a piece of visual art—as a way of exploring the deep complexity of representation, the relationship between the artist and her art, and to make legible things which may otherwise seem inexpressible. NHC Fellow Meta DuEwa Jones is herself a poet and a scholar of poetry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she is an associate professor of English. She is currently working on a new project exploring the relationship between African American poets and visual artists and the ways that their works speak to one another. In this podcast, Jones discusses how these texts inform, integrate, and translate the experience of blackness across genres as they trace the cultural underpinnings of the contemporary African Diasporic world. She elucidates the relationship between efforts to tell the story of the “I” and the story of “we”– whether through words, image, or art in the work of artists and writers such as Glenn Ligon, June Jordan, and Shirley Graham Du Bois.

According to The New York Times, the https://ncblackrep.org/nbtf-info/ (National Black Theatre Festival) is one of the most historic and culturally significant events in the history of black theatre. The event brings together black theater companies from around the world and celebrates the contributions of African American artists. This year, the festival chose 25 plays to represent the best in black theater from the United States, Europe, the Caribbean, and Africa. One of those plays selected to make its national debut as one of the festival’s main stage productions was the gospel musical drama, POOLED, written by Moses T. Alexander Greene. Hear what he has to say about the healing powers of POOLED and what it means for our community to have this work validated on a national stage. About the Guest Moses T. Alexander Greene is an unconventional playwright, cultural arts producer, performer, and artistic director whose commitment to the arts and creative scholarship continue to impact a myriad of landscapes. A sixth-generation New Yorker (Long Island), he is a double graduate of Syracuse University with a Master’s in New Media Management and a dual Bachelor’s in African American Studies and Writing for Television, Radio, and Film. Since May 2017, he has served as director of the NC State University's African American Cultural Center and leads its mission to cultivate the critical examination and exploration of African American and other African Diasporic cultures. Before that, he served as Chief Communications Officer/Assistant Professor of Media & Film at Saint Augustine's University. In 2013, he was one of 20 educators nationwide named as a Fellow of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (EMMY) Foundation. As an arts advocate, Greene currently serves Raleigh in several capacities: vice-chair of the City of Raleigh Arts Commission, chair of the Commission's Racial Equity, Access and Inclusion Task Force and board member of the African American Cultural Festival of Raleigh and Wake County. He is also the visionary behind Nia Kuumba, a special audition that provides singers and actors of various ethnicities, cultural backgrounds, and gender identities as well as performers with disabilities with an opportunity to audition for over 30 local and regional professional and community theatres at one time. In 2018, he founded and became the artistic director of https://www.facebook.com/LiVMahobProductions/ (Li V Mahob Productions), a Raleigh-based, professional theatre company committed to uplifting narratives of the diverse experiences of African Americans and African diasporic cultures through performance art. The first production of the company, a work written by Greene called POOLED, held its world premiere that February at the Kennedy Theater of the Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts in Raleigh. The National Black Theatre Festival named POOLED as “one of the best 25 black theatre productions of the U.S., Africa, Europe and the Caribbean” and selected it as a main stage production.  Connect with RDU on Stage Facebook – @rduonstage Twitter – @rduonstage Instagram – @rduonstage Web http://www.rduonstage.com/ (www.rduonstage.com) Support this podcast

Discussion with Dr. Ifetayo FlanneryIfetayo M. Flannery is an assistant professor in the Department of Africana Studies at San Francisco State University. As a Temple graduate she was the 2016 recipient of the Molefi Kete Asante Founders Award. In 2018, Dr. Flannery was awarded the DuBois Research Fellowship from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her publications can be found in a variety of journals and texts including the Berkeley Journal of African-American Law and Policy, Journal of Supportive Cancer Care, and Qualitative Methods in Africana Studies. She most recently published a book titled, An Introduction to Black Psychology.Dr. Flannery's research locates and examines cultural patterns in the collective consciousness of African Diasporic groups with particular focus on their political orientation, social behavior, and spiritual beliefs. She serves as the Vice President of the Bay Area Chapter of the Association of Black Psychologists (ABPsi) and is a peer reviewer for the Journal of Black Psychology.http://africana.sfsu.edu/people/facul...

Steven G. Fullwood was the archivist who founded the “In The Life Archive” at the Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture, a part of the New York Public library. Originally from Toledo, Ohio, he earned his Bachelor’s degree in English and Communications from the University of Toledo and his master’s in library science from Clark University in Atlanta. As a writer, His published works include Black Gay Genius: Answering Joseph Beam's Call (co-edited by Charles Stephens), To Be Left with the Body, (co-edited by Cheryl Clarke), and Carry the Word: A Bibliography of Black LGBTQ Books (co-edited by Lisa C. Moore). His Nomadic Archivist Project documents and preserves the African Diasporic experience.  This initiative partners with organizations, institutions, and individuals to establish, preserve, and enhance collections. Fullwood lives to document the history of people of African descent. He believes it is a privilege to do so for many good reasons: primarily, doing so allows him to pay the appropriate respect to people of African descent in Africa, as well as in the African diaspora. Fullwood is also the Vice President of Fire & Ink. Fire & Ink is recognized as the most influential supporter and advocate for GLBT writers of African descent. He is currently at work on his first film short, Timothy, or Timothy to the Future. This vérité-styled documentary follows Timothy DuWhite, a 27-year-old black, gay, HIV + poet as he rehearses his first one-man show, Neptune, a story about where the unloved go to find love.

Digging Deeper: Karen Ricks was my interviewee on Episode 84 on Girlfriends' Guide to Homeschool with Angela Jordan Perry. This worldschooling Mom currently living in Albania is an inspiration and a trailblazer for many who desire to become a world schooler. Karen, her husband and 7-1/2 year old son (as of this recording) has lived in Mexico, Italy, Japan for 10 years, New Zealand, Australia and now Albania. (I'm sure I've missed a few locations.) We dig deeper regarding her advice to the African Diasporic homeschooling community that she shared during her interview on GG2H. "Start before you are ready. Never a perfect time to get started. Start sooner. Start Now." Karen and I chatted around what did her advice look like for her and her family and why the sound of urgency. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/girlfriendschat/support

BOBFEST 2018 JAH9 LIVE - CONCERT IN THE VILLAGE Fri, Feb 16, 2018, 7:30 PM – Sat, Feb 17, 2018, 12:30 AM  Dubbed the "Queen of Neo-Roots" music sweeping the world, Jah9 joins us alomng with some special musicians and artists to bring Atlanta a recharge and spiritual boost in a night of food, family, Afrikan marketplace, word sound & power. Takes place at the spacious and gracious Shrine Of The Black Madonna in Atlanta's historic West End. State of the art sound, free, secure parking, family-friendly environment. Bobfest rides again #Iknowaplace   YOGA ON DUB featuring Jah9 Thu, February 15, 2018 - 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM EST   Jah9 is an international Reggae artist and healthy lifestyle guru. She was certified in Kemetic Yoga through the great Yogi Yisir Ra Hotep. We have an exciting evening of Yoga led by Jah9, assisted by premeire Yogis of the Atlanta community, in a special blend with authentic music. This is a presentation that has been shared in choice places all over the world. After Yoga, participants will enjoy a light vegan meal, including tea, and healthy snacks. A night to remember   AFRICA UNITE Film Festival - Sat. Feb. 17 Sat, February 17, 2018 - 10:00 AM – 7:00 PM EST  FREE Film Festival at Atlanta's historic Auburn Research Library  CELEBRATING the art of storytelling. Features Independent, classic films from the African Diasporic experience, musical performances, all-day marketplace and a special, brief, powerful presentation by Baba Wekessa Madzimoyo on "Injected Racial Scripts." Paid parking available on site and in the neighborhood. Marta accessible. Wheelchair accessible. State of the art theatre and facilities Full lineup announced Feb 6th

Today I’m chatting with Kali Ferguson, a bilingual storyteller, songwriter, and poet living in her hometown of Charlotte, NC, in the United States. Whether she’s breathing life into folktales or singing original Spanish lyrics, Kali passionately shares cultural literacy through Latin American and African Diasporic traditions. Join us in as we discuss Kali's favourite fairytale, relationship with body, and with creativity. This is an entirely self-produced podcast. If you appreciate the Wild Elixir podcast, please support the show at: www.patreon.com/janellehardy Connect with Kali here: www.kaliferguson.com Connect with Janelle here: www.janellehardy.com

Our first post-Manana podcast comes from one of the stars of the festival, @dj-sabine, whose work focuses on the exposure and pleasures of African Diasporic music. ++ How and where was the mix recorded? ++ It was recorded at home in preparation for the African & Diasporic Religious Studies Association conference this year where I presented on Oyasound. ++ What was the idea behind the mix? ++ I wanted to create a mix that featured Yoruba's influence in house music. It's a mix of old and new tracks. ++ How is the mix influenced by Cuba? ++ A lot of the tracks are sung by/sampled by Afro-Cubanos as the Yoruba tradition (Santeria/Lucumi) is very strong in Cuba. ++ What did you take away from your trip to Santiago ++ It was indeed a spiritual & musical awakening for me. I have a strong interest in how traditional Haitian art, culture, & spirituality has informed the craft of Haitian electronic artists. When I found out about the festival in Santiago, the idea was so aligned with the work I am doing. Santiago also has a rich Haitian history. I was so excited to visit, participate as a DJ and share my interpretation of the music. For me, it was a great opportunity to explore art, culture, and spirituality not only from an African diasporic lens but also have a global connection with various people I've met. What better way than through music! 1. Orisha - Afroqbano 2. Omo Oggun - Santos 3. Rumberos de Ayer - Quinto y Bongo (Jose Marquez Mix) 4. Orisha - Atjazz Lovesoul Remix (Havana Cultura) 5. Elegua - Celia Cruz (Jose Marquez Remix) 6. Oya - Abicah Soul (Space Mix) 7. Chango Chant - Gigi Testa 8. Aguanile - Hector Lavoe (Jose Marquez Remix) 9. Baile Elegua - David Montoya 10. Cubanacan - Charo Velecio & Realm of House 11. Oyadde (Oya) - Sintesis 12. Oyasound - (Sabine Blaizin/Oyasound Mash-Up) 13. Madres - Dayme Arocena (Zepherin Saint Remix) 14. Love & Happiness/River Ocean - India (Master's At Work) 15. Yemaya - Carlos Torre 16. Chango - Hook & Bass (Afrotech Mix) 17. Obatala Sango Ochun- Tony Real 18. Eleggua - Ibeyi (DJ Don Cuco Remix) 19. Babalawo - Gianluca Pighi & Tiziano Ribiscini 20. Cantos A Oshun Et Oya- Osunlade 21. Babalu Aye - Kiko Navarro & DJ Fudge ft. Dono (Club Mix) 22. O Mi Shango - Sunlightsquare 23. Oya's Bembe - Ian Friday ft. Nina (Libation Remix) 24. Babalu Aye Y Yemaya - Louie Gorbea & Chris Perez ft. Nina (LouIIChris Main Mix) 25. Chango - Gina Martin & Latin Xpress 26. Orisa - The Boss (David Morales Mix)

Shine: The Visual Economy of Light in African Diasporic Aesthetic Practice (Duke University Press, 2015) is a gorgeous book. It’s about light and the practices of self representation in diasporic and Caribbean communities. Krista A. Thompson looks carefully and sees in the glittery surfaces of contemporary art, photographic and video practices in proms and dancehalls, and the visual culture of hip-hop the generative power of alternative modalities of being. Taking us to New Orleans, Jamaica, the Bahamas and on the global hip-hop circuit, this book engages with the discourses of art history and dissolves its Eurocentric bearings.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shine: The Visual Economy of Light in African Diasporic Aesthetic Practice (Duke University Press, 2015) is a gorgeous book. It’s about light and the practices of self representation in diasporic and Caribbean communities. Krista A. Thompson looks carefully and sees in the glittery surfaces of contemporary art, photographic and video practices in proms and dancehalls, and the visual culture of hip-hop the generative power of alternative modalities of being. Taking us to New Orleans, Jamaica, the Bahamas and on the global hip-hop circuit, this book engages with the discourses of art history and dissolves its Eurocentric bearings.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shine: The Visual Economy of Light in African Diasporic Aesthetic Practice (Duke University Press, 2015) is a gorgeous book. It’s about light and the practices of self representation in diasporic and Caribbean communities. Krista A. Thompson looks carefully and sees in the glittery surfaces of contemporary art, photographic and video practices in proms and dancehalls, and the visual culture of hip-hop the generative power of alternative modalities of being. Taking us to New Orleans, Jamaica, the Bahamas and on the global hip-hop circuit, this book engages with the discourses of art history and dissolves its Eurocentric bearings.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shine: The Visual Economy of Light in African Diasporic Aesthetic Practice (Duke University Press, 2015) is a gorgeous book. It’s about light and the practices of self representation in diasporic and Caribbean communities. Krista A. Thompson looks carefully and sees in the glittery surfaces of contemporary art, photographic and video practices in proms and dancehalls, and the visual culture of hip-hop the generative power of alternative modalities of being. Taking us to New Orleans, Jamaica, the Bahamas and on the global hip-hop circuit, this book engages with the discourses of art history and dissolves its Eurocentric bearings.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shine: The Visual Economy of Light in African Diasporic Aesthetic Practice (Duke University Press, 2015) is a gorgeous book. It’s about light and the practices of self representation in diasporic and Caribbean communities. Krista A. Thompson looks carefully and sees in the glittery surfaces of contemporary art, photographic and video... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Artists María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz, and Freddy Rodriguez discuss the varied ways in which they engage Afro-Latino themes and issues in their work. Panelists will consider whether Latino artists bring a unique perspective to representing African diasporic people and culture in American art. Discussion is moderated by curator for Latino Art E. Carmen Ramos.

Episode 49 of Inciting A Riot: the Podcast finds us Inciting A Diasporic Riot. Special guest, Cory from the New World Witchery podcast, stops by to comment on the news, the word of the day, the gripe department, and then lends his expertise to our continuing religions series with his take on Diaspora - specifically, African Diasporic traditions in the New World. Luckily, this means Fire Lyte gets to second fiddle this Riot. News: Westboro Baptist Church wins in court, Georgia tries to usurp Roe v. Wade, and Cory weighs in on a strange reason why Mazda is recalling 52,000 cars. Word of the Day: cockalorum Gripe Department: Z. Budapest, Christian Day, and when pagan media whores go a-whorin’. Spirituality: Diaspora Please continue to vote for the show on Podcast Alley, vote, subscribe to, and rate the show on iTunes, join the TwitterRiot by following me @IncitingARiot, enter the Swag Contest through a donation or purchase of swag through the CafePress.com swag shop, and send your questions, comments, gripes, or complaints to IncitingARiotPodcast@gmail.com Love and Lyte, Fire Lyte Home Page: http://www.IncitingARiot.com Podcast Alley: http://www.podcastalley.com/podcast_details.php?pod_id=86829 iTunes: http://www.itunes.com/podcast?id=337689333 Twitter: http://twitter.com/IncitingARiot Swag Shop: http://cafepress.com/IncitingARiot Project Pagan Enough: http://www.incitingariot.com/p/project-pagan-enough.html