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Derek T. Mosley is the Archives Division Manager at Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History in Atlanta, Georgia. He has held this role since 2016. He has previously worked at the Atlanta University Center, Robert W. Woodruff Library and the Ernest J. Gaines Center at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Mosley's enthusiastic and engaged leadership has shaped the archival profession on local and national levels. He has served on conference planning committees, election committees, and scholarship committees for several organizations. He is a founding member of the Atlanta Black Archives Alliance, a group that strives to educate Black communities on the importance of documenting their stories, and he was a member of the 2019 cohort of the Archives Leadership Institute. In 2021, he received the Georgia Historical Records Advisory Board Award for Excellence in Documenting Georgia's History. In 2023, Mosley was inducted as a Fellow of the Society of American Archivists, the highest honor the organization bestows. In 2024 Derek was elected as the Vice-President and President-Elect of the Society of American Archivists. He graduated from Simmons University with an M.S. in Archives Management and Morehouse College with a B.A. in History.

Episode 102: Choppin It Up with Shea Butter FC x FTCUTD and Footie Mob in Atlanta What's good squad? This episode of Shea Butter FC features audio from our live recording in Atlanta featuring Skye and Sylvs, Greggo and Coach Tony of For The Culture United and Footie Mob legend Curtis Jenkins and Vera Zeigler. This episode features a deep dive into Black culture and the intersection of soccer in Atlanta, and it exploring how important it has been growing the influence of soccer in the city hosting SheBelieves and the new location of US Soccer. This discussion was recorded in the historic Robert Woodruff Library in heart of Atlanta , and services the HBCUs of the Atlanta University Center! #hbcu #soccer #ForTheCulture #ftcutd #blacksoccer #blackpodcast #hbcusoccer #soccerpodcast #mls #nwsl #uswnt #shebelievescup #ussoccer #liveig #soccerlife #explore #exploreatl #clarkatlanta #spelman #morehouse

From San Francisco's controversial apology to Black residents to Shaq & TI's conversation, Amanda Seales is breaking down the latest headlines you need to know. Starting dissected by the NAACP, to the intriguing conversations between TI, Shaq, and their take on the evolving landscape of hip-hop and the NBA. Explore the outage mysteries of major social media platforms on Super Tuesday and delve into Supreme's revelations about Lil Baby's son catching his mother in a twerk session. Celebrate birthdays, engage with the Black Pop Quiz, and join the heated debate in the "Am I Trippin?" segment, where Tasha questions if leaving a weird date abruptly was the right move. Tune in for the word of the day, a historical reflection on the Dred Scott Decision, and hilarious moments in "Politicians Say the Darndest Things," featuring Trump's candid response on deportations. Listen, Laugh, and Learn on The Amanda Seales Show! If You Have A Comment Leave Amanda A Message At 1 855-Amanda-8 That's 1-855-262-6328 FOLLOW ALONG AS WE COVER:   (2:39) - Blackurate News The San Francisco Board of Directors is apologizing to their Black residents for decades of racism. This historic resolution apologizes on behalf of San Francisco to the African American community and their descendants. Take a listen. Other facts: This is the first reparations recommendation out of 100 reparations related proposals made by a city committee to win approval.   (6:50) - Pop Culture Story 2: It seems like conversations about the current state of hip hop will never end. T.I. and Shaq are comparing the current hip hop landscape to the NBA landscape. Take a listen.   (11:19) - Bringing Up Old Ish w/ Kimberly Renee   (16:17) - 60 Second Headlines It's the Amanda Seales show… I'm Amanda Seales… And now it's time for 60 Second Headlines.   Story 1: The Opill, the first oral contraceptive approved for over-the-counter use in the United States, will be available in stores and online this month. Suggested retail price of $19.99 for a one-month supply.   Story 2: Sinbad says he has felt all the prayers directed his way since his debilitating stroke in 2020, and he is vowing to make a comeback. The cast of A Different World is on an HBCU Tour, and Sinbad showed up virtually at their first stop last week at the Atlanta University Center, which is home to Clark Atlanta University, Morehouse College, and Spelman College.   Story 3: According to a new study, smoking, vaping, or eating marijuana has been linked to a significantly higher risk of heart attack and stroke, even if a person had no existing heart conditions and did not smoke or vape tobacco.   Story 4: 9-time Pro Bowler Russell Wilson will be released after 2 years with Denver Broncos. Wilson's two seasons in Denver have been disappointing for both the front office and fans. The team missed out on the playoffs twice, and he was benched at the end of the 2023 season.   (19:35) - We Up, We Up, We Up! Happy birthday if today is your birthday! Also, happy birthday to: - DL Hughley - Steadman Graham - Beanie Sigel - Bubba Sparxxx - Shaquille O'Neal - Tyler, the Creator - To the late Harriet Tubman (1820 - 1913) - Yvette Wilson (Andell on Moesha) - Marion Barry (Former DC Mayor)   Coming up: Blackurate News: Yesterday was Super Tuesday, and Instagram and Facebook both experienced a global outage. Supreme Splaining' - Supreme will break down how Lil Baby's son felt when he caught his mother in a twerk session. Plus, today's big up/let down… which today involves a bad girl, the bag, and a headline.   (21:17) - Blackurate News/Pop Culture: Global Outages & Conspiracy Theories   (25:22) - Supreme Splaining   (28:04) - Big Up, Let Down Big up - Rihanna for staying relevant and securing the bag!   (32:40) – We Hear From Our Listeners   (34:43) - Introduction - We Up, We Up, We Up!! It was on this day in 1857 that the Dred Scott decision of the Supreme Court denied Black people U.S. citizenship, as well as the right to sue in courts of law.   (36:26) - Am I Trippin - Part 1: Send us a DM @SealesSaidIt and tell us about your dilemma, and I'll weigh in on whether you're tripping like Ella Mai or somebody playing in your face.   (37:59) - Am I Trippin Part 2: Is she wrong… for ditching out on the date?   (41:18) - Blop Quiz   (44:31) - I Voted Today   (44:32) - Word Of The Day Is: Inveterate (in-VET-uh-rut) (adjective)   (46:23) - Politicians Say the Darndest Things: What Trump said about deportations if he wins the White House   (50:05) - Thanks for listening   FOLLOW THE SHOW ON ALL SOCIALS: @Sealessaidit @Amandaseales If You Have A Comment Leave Amanda A Message At 1 855-Amanda-8 That's 1-855-262-6328  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

URBANHAM News w/ guest Waymond Jackson Leondras Waymond Jackson Jr is the CEO of The Education Farm “Ed Farm”, a nonprofit, tech and education-focused startup in Birmingham, Alabama. Ed Farm was founded in February of 2020 through a partnership with Apple and Alabama Power. Ed Farm's mission is to equip educators in schools and communities with innovative tools and teaching strategies that support active learning for all students. Under his leadership, Ed Farm has: strengthened its partnership with Birmingham City Schools through its Teacher Fellows, Student Fellows and SPACES programs; established a funded partnership with the City of Birmingham to train residents for careers in tech through Ed Farm's Pathways-to-Tech program; and expanded the footprint of Ed Farm's K12 programs to 10 school districts across four states. Jackson, also lead the successful effort to secure a $50 million dollar commitment from Apple ($25 million) and Southern Company ($25 million) to launch The Propel Center - a global headquarters for innovation and learning for all 101 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU's) - in the Atlanta University Center. Prior to joining Ed Farm, Jackson served as the senior vice president of public policy, at the Birmingham Business Alliance. He is a graduate of the University of Alabama at Birmingham; a member of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity Inc; a 2014 Birmingham Business Journal Top 40 Under 40; and was recognized by Development Counsellors International (DCI) and Jorgenson Consulting as a Top 40 Under 40 in economic development, 2019. He is married to Kimberly L. Jackson and they are parents to Leo (son) and Kai (daughter).

Welcome to another whirlwind episode of the Adams Archive, where the mundane meets the insane, and the mainstream gets a reality check. Buckle up, folks, as your host, Austin Adams, takes you on a wild ride through the week's headlines that the powers-that-be might prefer you to ignore. First up, New COVID Lockdowns: Alex Jones, banned yet somehow right again, hints at a possible return to our favorite indoor pastime. Universities, masks, and a new variant - let's unravel this mess together. Next, Dodger Stadium's Unique Performance: Remember that one where Jesus was on a stripper pole? Let's delve into the divine, the bizarre, and the outright blasphemy of it all. Because why not? De-Dollarization According to Putin: What's the world without the mighty U.S. dollar leading the way? Well, ask Putin and China. They've been quietly working on it, and some big financial brains seem to think they're onto something. Could this be a revolution, or is it just another day in global economics? Boxing Match Between Dylan Danis and Logan Paul: Two colossal trash talkers are going to duke it out, and we can only hope for a double knockout. Why are we even talking about this? Because it's an absolute train wreck, and one can only pray someone get's knocked out. Plus, we'll tackle S&P's rating drops, the entertaining chaos in the world of celebrities, and a few shorter but equally sizzling discussions. So grab your headphones, hit that subscribe button, and maybe, just maybe, leave us a five-star review if you're feeling generous. Let's challenge the status quo, question the unquestionable, and dive headfirst into a world that refuses to make sense. Head over to Austin Adams' Substack for more unfiltered opinions. Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts because the truth shouldn't be this entertaining, but here we are. Enjoy the ride!   All the links: Https://linktr.ee/theaustinjadams Substack: https://austinadams.substack.com Mech: https://antielite.club ----more---- Full Transcription:     Adams archive. Hello, you beautiful people and welcome to the Adams Archive. My name is Austin Adams, and thank you so much for listening. Today. On today's episode, we are going to be discussing the recent, very recent conversation surrounding the potential for new C O V I D Lockdowns. Now this story was broken, broke. Broke, was broke, was broken by. Alex Jones, a man with quite the track record for both being correct on things we don't want him to be correct about, and then also simultaneously getting banned from every platform ever. So we are in good hands here and as is about maybe within 48 hours of him coming out with that video. We have seen article after article after article of mask mandates being rolled out at universities at the potential for these new covid type lockdowns and then all these discussions around this new variant. So we will discuss that. We will also talk about the. Very seemingly weird coincidence of what happened at Dodger Stadium. Now, if you don't remember Dodger Stadium, what ended up happening there a few months ago was the pride event where they showed a stripper performing on a pole dressed as around Jesus being crucified. So, hmm, we'll talk about that. Then we will get into the D Dollarization of. The world according to Vladimir Putin, he and China have been working behind the scenes. To de Dollarize is the term by basically getting rid of the United States dollar as the worldwide currency, which has been pretty effective. And if we look around a little bit, and we see some people that are also discussing this simultaneously, like the man from, if you recall that movie, the Big Short, who Predicted the 2008 crash? Of the mortgages of the United States. He has a pretty good track record. You know, they almost treat him like Rainman in that movie where he's like on a whiteboard, drawn up a bunch of symbols, and then he all of a sudden comes out and goes, I know what's happening. Right? And so, so there's a pretty good indication between some of the things that we're seeing in the financial sector along with the United States banks dropping after some of its ratings being dropped of the s and p. So pretty wild stuff. On top of that, a few of the shorter discussions we will have will be about the upcoming boxing match between Dylan Danis and Logan Paul. And you might say, Austin, why are we gonna talk about that? And that's a good question. But they've been talking a lot of shit and it's quite entertaining. And these are the two biggest pieces of trash. In probably the world, let alone celebrities. So hopefully it's a double knockout, but we'll, we'll get into why we're talking about that. 'cause there's been some pretty crazy types of discussions going on from one side of this. And then I believe I. That's what we got. So we'll jump into it all. But first I need you to head over to your phone that you're listening to this on and hit the subscribe button, whether you're on YouTube, apple podcasts rumble, wherever you're at, Spotify. Some of those obscured weird places that some of you watch and listen to podcasts. Go ahead and hit the subscribe button. If I could ask you a favor, please go ahead and leave a five star review. I would appreciate it. It's the only way that you can give back right now for all of the hard work and that's all I got. Alright. Oh, head over to the sub stack, Austin Adams dot sub stack.com. Okay, now without further ado, let's jump. Into it, the Adams archive. All right. The very first topic we're going to discuss today is we're gonna play a game. Let's play a game called Is Alex Jones correct? Once again, and you might already know the answer to that, but let's go ahead and explore it here. Alex Jones Recently, just a few days ago, like three, four days ago, came out with a video about. Biden potentially bringing back mask mandates, potentially bringing back lockdowns. And he alleges that he got this information from directly from somebody who works at the T s A that they're going to do this in waves. So let's watch this video. Let's see what Alex Jones has to say about this, and then we'll see if he's correct over the last few days. Here we go. Ladies and gentlemen, I got a call yesterday. An individual was in town and they wanted to meet with me that I know well, and they are a high level manager in the T S A. I went and met with 'em and had a cup of coffee with 'em, and they said, you gotta warn people Tuesday. We got called in the managers and told that by the middle of September that the new policy's being written that this is done. They were told this is happening. This is not hypothetical. You'll all have to wear mask again, and so will airport employees. Then by the middle of October, they are going to say that everyone flying has to wear a mask. And in the meetings people began to ask them, well, I mean, why is this happening? They said, well, because of the new variant in Canada. Because of the W H O. They may, you know, declare this, but regardless we've been told this is going to happen in interesting. And then they were told, we expect by December. I return to the full Covid protocol of 20 20, 20 21, and I was given many more details. I wrote down notes on it. Then I left, called the first federal connection that I was thinking of. Didn't answer. Called a second answered. Told them what I've been told and they said, what day was that? I said, Tuesday. They said, yep. We were told yesterday, this is yesterday was Thursday, so it was Wednesday. Expect Covid protocols to begin rolling out middle of September. And I said, what else were you told? Basically that they believe this new variant's super bad and that they're doing the testing and that they should just get ready for a whole new rollout of what happened before. And this was border patrol connected people I was talking to and testing at the border again, and the whole shooting match. That's two federal agents that told me this yesterday. Then I went and looked at the news and there they were saying, Canada's looking at new restrictions again because of the variant, and so is the eu, and what did the Russians just put out three days ago? US is plotting another pandemic. Russian head of the defense ministry warrants. Now new lockdowns will starve the third world. New lockdowns will destroy small businesses. New lockdowns will take the average person that's already $5,000 in the whole, and their paycheck is, is, is. Just on time, we'll put them into full bankruptcy and the children in the mask and the, the attempt to push a new shot for the new variant. And we're right back in the same hell hole we were in just a few years ago. And why is it perfect timing? Because you go into the election year, they had the last crisis go over two and a half years. They'll bare minimum run this through the next election. It's only 14, 15 months out with mail-in ballots again, and we have all the eyewitnesses and testimony that they'd get the mail-in ballots, and in some cases they were 99% for Joe Biden, who believes that u s Postal Service whistleblowers, U S P S poll watching witnesses. I, I have it all here. We'll play it next hour. We do not have to sit here and take. The same criminal UN global W A F, new world order regimes, second rollout of lockdowns. Alright, so you may hear.  All right, so you may hear during this episode me sniffling a little bit, and that's probably because I might be the very first person coming out and saying it's very likely that I have covid right now, that my family got covid, and you wanna know what I feel a little bit like shit, but you know what? I feel also free. Without any foreign mRNA substances flowing through my blood, and you know what? My family and I are going to be immune. For the next foreseeable future. Right now, this may be a biologically, you know, a, a web or a a lab created variant of this. Just as we know. The first one was that leaked out of Wuhan. So where, where are these variants coming from? That's the better question. Right? If we know for sure 100% that the first round of this came from Wuhan, why is there a second, third, fourth variance that are now being created? Where are those coming from? What is the likelihood that that's happening naturally? If the first one didn't happen naturally, what is the likelihood that our own government would be releasing, or at the very, you know, let's, let's be generous here, that these labs would be accidentally exposing the general public consistently to variants. What is the likelihood of that? Right. But you know what? Like I said, I feel a little bit like shit. I had a hard time sleeping last night. I had a little bit of body aches. You'll hear me sniffle throughout this podcast 'cause I feel a little bit like shit. But you know what? I'll be fine. And you know what? You'll be fine too, just like you were last time. Unless you decide to give in to these draconian mandates where you have to get an ex still experimental mRNA, gene therapy injected into your body. Because guess what? Even if they took the correct channels last time to get that vaccination, vaccination that gene therapy approved, it still would not be approved based on the amount of time that you have to go through clinical trials still would not be approved. And you know what? They didn't even do the clinical trials correctly the way that they should have, and they're still not doing them. But we know 100% that there's a large percentage of people who actually got the mRNA gene therapy that are dropping dead of heart conditions. Many of them you know, some. I know some. You probably have some in your family. I had some in my family. So guess what? Here's what I have to say to the potential of new Lockdowns. For a new Covid variant, fuck you. Absolutely not. I will not partake in that. I will not partake in it. Just as I didn't partake in it the first time, and I hope we all learned our lesson, that we will not be divided the same way that we were last time because that was the problem. Right now, we should know better. And maybe just last time they got what, 60, 70% of people to comply, but now we know better. Maybe this time it's 20 to 30% who are just obnoxiously agreeable to where they'll do whatever the hell you say or whenever you say it because you're daddy, your government, maybe that's, maybe that's the case. 20 to 30% will do whatever the government says whenever they say it, just so they can be the the good guy. Meanwhile, we've been shouting from the rooftops that they were wrong. We've been shouting from the rooftops that they've been trying to. Injure people through this mRNA gene therapy, right? So if, if you do not learn by now that the government does not have your best interest in mind, that the w h o, that the c d C does not have your best interest in mind, and you comply with this, you are complicit with this because fool you once, I'll give you a pass, fool you twice after we're shouting and waving our hands and telling you not to at. The detriment of our own sanity platforms, businesses. Now, it's not starting to look like you're as innocent or as naive as we thought. So this is, I truly hope this is wrong. I don't believe it is. With all the other articles that I'm gonna pull up here and show you, I absolutely believe this is happening. I absolutely believe that what I have right now. Is C O V I D, that it was probably very likely released from another lab with a variant to implement the same thing over and over again. And I think that Alex Jones alluded to this correctly. This will go on until the next election cycle, mail-in ballots. I. Right. They needed something, someone, some organization, some type of technology which would allow them to shut the country down, which would allow them to do mail-in ballots, which would allow them to do what they did and install somebody who can't even stay awake at a hearing about people's children who burned to death in Hawaii. That's where we're at with Joe Biden at this point. Right. So again, full. Me once. Shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. I don't see any situation where this goes, right? I don't see how anybody in their right mind would comply with this again. And it's infuriating that they even think that we're dumb enough that they can run the same playbook twice. But what's more frustrating than that is the fact that they're probably right. That regardless of what. We all know is the truth, regardless of what we all believe is is happening around us that we know 100% happened in those two years where they locked down the country. They shut down your businesses, they killed your family members, they injected you with this experimental drug. They forced your compliance through marketing tactics. The saddest thing about this to me is it will very likely work. I have a glimmer of hope, a glimmer of hope that maybe just, maybe people woke up, woke up enough over the last three years to realize what happened, but I guess time will tell. Let's go ahead and see if Mr. Alex Jones was correct. Here is the very next article. That I will show you, which is a video from the last few days by M S N B C. Well, new booster shots roll out. Anne Thompson asked the C d. C Director this summer. Most Americans left Covid in the past gathering together. Once again, mask free. But tonight, signs of a Covid resurgence across the country. Covid hospitalizations jumped more than 14% in the most recent week, but far lower than pandemic levels. N B C News, medical contributor, Dr. Kavita Patel, what's behind this uptick in Covid that we're seeing? The main driver of this. Is a variant that's relatively newer to the scene, e G five, it's easier to give and get, so that makes it kind of easier to pass along. It's been almost a year since the last Covid booster came out. C D. C Director, Dr. Mandy Cohen. The new Covid booster is expected to be approved by the F D A, and then we will make recommendations from the C D C probably by the second or third week of September. Will it protect against this new strain? Yes. The booster is tailored to what we are seeing circulating now. Critics say the federal government is behind once again. Mm. People knew there was going to be a covid resurgence. Mm-hmm. So why don't we have a booster today? Why do we have to wait until next month the way we go?  It's amazing that when you see all of these people talking about this new variant, they get these doctors in, they get these, you know, contributors in, they get people from the the who and the C D C, and all of them just have this biggest smile on their face, and they're so excited to talk about this. And underneath the desk they're speaking from, they just have a giant erection. They're so excited. You see this woman's eyes, she looks like she took four Adderall. She looks just super pumped for this new variant and this new booster, and this new lockdown and this new mask mandate, super pumped. They're so excited for their time to shine again, so they can be essential personnel. It's disgusting time for me to be important again.  About doing our, just like we do with our flu shots, right? We make sure that we're looking at the ways in which the virus changed. They look at and evaluate that the f d A is doing its work. We likely will see this as an annual covid o shot, just like the flu shot just in time for fall when we'll also face R Ss V. Can you take the flu shot? The Covid Booster and the R S V vaccine all at once. So for Flu and covid, yes. R S V again is only available for older adults. That's one where I'd say talk to your doctor about what's right for you. So until the new covid booster comes get prepared stock up on at-home tests, they do cover that new strain. Keep a mask handy in case you're in a crowded place, and most of all, get your shot. Covid Flu and R S V all by Halloween to give yourself your best chance of staying healthy. Buster. A reminder that Covid never went away. Alright? Didn't. And thank you.  And it never will get excited for another year of C O V I D. Year after year, we will have another one for you so we can continue to make our profits right? Did you hear her say that? And we're just expecting that this will just be an annual thing now. Right, that we'll just create a new variant every year for you guys so that we can sell you the antidote so that you don't feel like I do and have the last 24 to 48 hours. You know what? Like I said, I feel like shit, I might even look like shit, but in 48 hours from now, I will be perfectly fine. And guess what? I won't die from myocarditis, from an experimental gene therapy. That's the reality, but, It's so funny that these, the, these people think that when they speak from this like figure of authority mentality that people are gonna listen to them now. Right? Do you recall them saying that the vaccines are safe and effective? Do you remember them call telling us that the vaccines do not allow for transmission? Do you remember when they told us that masks work? I do. But they think that you don't, so they're gonna tell you it again. Hmm. Here's another article that came out, which came from, let's see here, Atlanta College, which is the, looks like Empire Brown. Atlanta College Reinstates Mask mandate for students and employees on campus, stating that the mask mandate is a precautionary move for just the next 14 days. Where have we heard that before? What was it? Two, two weeks to flatten the curve. Remember that? Hmm. More like two years of killing your small businesses physically killing your. Physically killing your grandparents and your parents and the elderly and the sick. Remember that one? Yeah. Oh yeah. And incentivizing people to, in the medical industry, to make sure that they check a box that they died with Ki Covid or instead of, you know, without it, so that they made their money. Oh. And, and remember even to put you on a respirator so that they could get their extra, what was it, $30,000 or something crazy like that. Alright, and here's the last one, California based film company, Lionsgate implements mask mandate in contact tracing amid new c o scare. All right. This says the California based film studio. Lionsgate has re-implemented the mask mandate for some employees as its Santa Monica Crew Cruise, or Santa Monica Cruise. Santa Monica flagship office. After several employees tested positive for Covid, according to deadline, Lionsgate Star's response Manager, summer Mackelroy sent an email to staff announcing that masks would be mandatory for the third and fifth floors of its five story building. Employees must wear a medical r. Face covering surgical mask, KN 95 or N 95 when indoors. Except when alone in an office with the door closed, actively eating, actively drinking at their desk or workstation, or if they are the only individual present in a large open workspace. All Lionsgate employees will be required to perform a self screening before coming into work each day and stay home if they're showing symptoms of Covid or have traveled internationally in the last 10 days. The studio is also conducting contact tracing and providing a upon request covid test kit to employees. This comes as Morris Brown, so that's what it was not Empire Morris Brown College in Atlanta re reintroduced a mask mandate in effect for two weeks after reports of positive cases among students at the Atlanta University Center. Los Angeles County. Police health has public health has recommended for higher risk residents to wear masks. And here we go. Hmm. So now if we go back, let's look a little bit more about what you know, Alex Jones has said about this. He, he comes out and says this, and within days, he's the one who blows the whistle, right? He calls it once again, from somebody who told him from the t ss a, that this. Will happen. And they know preemptively, they already know this to be true, right? They already know what the plan is. They already decided what they're going to do and when they're going to do it. Interesting. So there was another article that came out that showed that the government was already buying. Safety materials and gearing up for a new lockdown. So I'll see if I can find that. I thought I bookmarked it here for us, but apparently I didn't. But there was something that came up on Reddit of all the, you know, all the good stuff comes from Reddit. All right, so this one says So I did Coke with an elite and they loose lipped it big time. They were inebriated and nearly about to pass out. Son of an ultra high net worth individual. He wasn't very coherent until after a line then says, I'm gonna tell you some fucked up shit man. Takeaways from his further slurred. Barrage of weirdness. The vaccine is a depopulation tool. The mRNA vaccine has always been about programmable humans getting needles in arms to rewrite human biology. Now again, this is not corroborated. This comes from Reddit, so take it. Or leave it, but it's an interesting conversation. It says, after booster four, something called IgG four is permanently active. I'm no scientist but can remember IgG four 'cause my dog's name is Iggy. He says it's like allergy shots before the covid spike. It tells your body there is nothing wrong with the covid spike and to leave it alone. He says, if you look into it, you will see this is already known. The stage is now set. He says, over 3 billion people now have adequate levels of IgG four, and the final face is close. He also said, those in the know, call it the process, it is to reduce the human population by 5 billion, 3 billion from IgG, four programming, and 2 billion from the fallout of 3 billion deaths. He said late 2023, the new and final covid strain will be released. This strain will have over 90% fatality, but only those who have IgG only to those who have IgG four in their bodies, they will mount no immune response to this deadly strain. Un Vaxxed like him will basically have a mild cold shout out to your boy sitting in this chair talking. Who's alive and well, very likely with covid. Now, did I take a test? The answer is no, because as with everything else, it's all full of shit. So no reason, but I'm very positive. I'm pretty sure I have Covid and I'm okay, but very likely because I didn't take the shot. It says they will claim all governments knew and misled their people. It will be designed to cause mass, panic and turn all citizens against their governments. This will ensure cities burn during the viral outbreak, and emergency services are non-existent. Billions will die. My friends, I've never sewed up, sobered up so fast in my life. I left the party somewhat stunned. Who could make this up? Here's what we now, it points out to the August 11th article by Bloomberg. Which says, here's what we know about the new Covid variant, Aris, e r i s. Now, that's important because then it points us to the next article by Wikipedia, which talks about Aris within mythology, the Greek goddess of discord for the godde of love. See arose Aris is the Greek goddess of strife and discord. Her Roman equivalent is discord, which means the same. Iris's Greek opposite is Harmonia whose Roman counterpart is Concordia. Though she is also described as opposing Nike counterpart of the Roman Victoria Homer equated her to the war goddess Enio, whose Roman counterpart is bologna. The dwarf planet. Aris is named after the goddess. She had no temples in ancient Greece and functions essentially as a personification, as as which she appears in Homer in many later works. Aris is of uncertain etymology connections with the verb. To raise, stir, and excite in the proper name. Aness have been suggested, rejects these deviations and suggested a preg Greek origin. Interesting. So what they're saying is basically that the, the name naming of this variant as Aris is connected to the goddesses. The connection to strife and discord and to race, stir, and excite. So, hmm, not a ton to that, but this potential cocaine field conversation is quite interesting. Let's see what the people had to say. The very first comment on this Reddit thread says, I'm sorry, but how the fuck is this at all? A reliable source when it starts with, so I did Coke with an elite. Exactly. As I said, take it with a grain of salt. The next highest comment says, I guess we'll see what happens in the next couple months. The next person says, I'm torn. Is there a conspiracy to lower the population or is there a conspiracy of forces, forces leaching on people's emotions? Hmm. So somebody fact checks the IgG four thing, and this is from the I N I H. Which says, however, emerging evidence suggests that the reported increase in IgG four levels detected after repeated vaccination with the mRNA vaccines may not be a pro protective mechanism. Rather, it constitutes an immune tolerance mechanism to the spike protein that could promote unopposed SARS c Ovid two. COV two. Infection and replication by suppressing NA natural antiviral responses increased IgG four synthesis due to repeated M R a vaccine with high antigen concentrations may also cause autoimmune diseases and promote cancer growth in autoimmune myocarditis and susceptible individuals. There it is, folks. That is the extent of the covid. Oh my goodness. Alright. What a perfect setting for this podcast that I am speaking to you about this covid outbreak while actually having covid. What are the odds? Probably pretty high. Ugh. So forgive me if I have sniffles and you know, some, some sneezes every now and then. Alright, so there's your cocaine fueled Reddit article which you can take with a grain of salt. And as a word from our non-existent sponsors while I blow my nose. There you go, folks. Go to their website, buy their shit. All right, the next thing that I wanted to discuss about this is did we learn or did we not? Right? And that's what this person discusses here. Which says the masks didn't work, the lockdowns didn't work. The vaccines didn't work. So why would they repeat it? Well, maybe because it did work. Maybe because it was about control and not about public health. Once you start to understand that they're not spending this massive amount of money unless A, there's a return on investment, which we know they made billions of dollars during the last lockdown. And B, if it helps to perpetuate their underlying motivation, which is control. Right. Control for what? Well, one thing to allude to is the depopulation, which has been outwardly talked about, right? You go back to the committee of 300, and they actually have it written out on a stone that the population of the earth should never exceed 500 million. Well, guess what? We're about 3.5 billion people over that last time I checked. So is it about population control? Maybe, is it about profitability? 100%? Is it about control? Very likely. Is it about the election? Very likely, right? What? What can we learn from the last time that this happened and what can we do about it in the future? The first thing I'll say to you about this is do not comply from the very beginning. The second that we started to push back, the second that there was people in the streets, the second that people rose up, especially in mass. That was the time where they pulled back the, the, they're gonna start to turn the gas on the stove here. It's just starting to warm up folks. And as time goes on, the water will start to boil and unless you begin, when you feel the water getting a little warm, you won't even notice when you're perfectly cooked. Right. The boiling fr frog theory. Not a theory, it actually is a thing. So that's, that's what we need to do. We need to figure out what is our plan, right? And, and maybe shame on us, shame on us for not coming up with this and realizing that this was going to happen and not having a set systematic plan to overcome this shame on us for not getting into a, a large enough group where we have determined as a society, as a community to never let this happen again. Shame on us, but guess what? There are a lot of people who have woken up and maybe we're behind at this point where we should be in our planning, but they're very, very far ahead of us. But guess how many more of us than there is of them? Lots folks. Lots of us, right? So it all begins with masks. That's the first little checkpoint. Did they comply with masks? Check. Guess what? Give you the same response that I gave you for as before. Absa Fucking lly. Not Will I put a mask on my face no matter who you are, no matter where you're telling me to do it, no matter what, I will not have a mask on my face. Guess what? They don't work. Even if you want to gimme an N 95, absolutely not. If you wanna change the definitions of herd immunity, From people who have had C O V I D and now have antibodies like you. Boy, nice and early. Get it outta the way. Just saying if anybody needs to get this while I got it, just shoot me a dmm. I'll meet you up somewhere and, and we can drink from the same coffee as long as you buy it. I prefer beer though. And if we're talking what I actually prefer, it's whiskey. So you know, buy me some whiskey, I'll, we'll have a covid party. Let's all get together today. Get antibodies. Tell them to fuck off when it comes to the masks, right? Maybe that's our plan. Let's have a big C O V I party and they can't stop us, right? We need to throttle, we need to put the pedal to the metal early in how we plan this out and how people are going to come together and what we're gonna do when they decide to try to push masks on us. And guess what, where they, where are they doing it first? Where Alex Jones just talked about it. Where's the very first place that they're gonna do this? Transportation. Why? Why do you think it's transportation? Because it's necessary for you to do your job, because it's necessary for you to see your children because it's necessary for our day-to-day lives, and they can, at least they feel like they can. But if every one of the motherfuckers who walks through that door does not do it with a mask on. They don't buy plane tickets for one week. One week. That's all we need of people not buying plane tickets. What do you think will happen? How quickly do you think that our airlines will stop the mask mandates? Probably pretty quickly. Right? Interesting. Alright, so there's your quick little lesson for the day. Now the next thing that we'll talk about here, a nice little segue for you is do you recall what happened at Dodger Stadium just a few months ago? If you don't, let me cut you up to speed. There was a pride event at Dodger Stadium just a few months ago where they had these drag queens. Strippers there to promote pride. The same drag queens who were dancing all over crucified Jesus. Now if you wanna hear about something called karma, here it is. Dodgers Stadium has been flooded unbelievably by. The hurricane in California, you look around and Dodger Stadium is just completely filled with water and almost everywhere around it is not. Now. That's an interesting coincidence, isn't it? Here we go. Here's the article. It says, Los Angeles famed Dodger Stadium sustained an an inundation of rain from Hurricane Hillary last week. Prompting many of the raise their eyebrows over the timing of the deluge and their decision to host a controversial L G B T Q Pride event in June. Photos and videos emanating from LA over the weekend showed Dodger Stadium parking lot completely submerged and inaccessible. Let's watch this quick video. Oh wow. That was very loud. Sorry about that folks. Looks like somebody from a helicopter. If you can't tell from that that sound flying around Dodger Stadium and it is just flooded, only really the immediately surrounding area around Dodger Stadium. Coincidence, probably not. Probably not. Here's the video for you guys. So again, as always, not always. 'cause this is quite recent. For a while we were able to do it and then we didn't. But here we are on YouTube. You can watch along with me always. If you're just listening, I appreciate you. Head over to YouTube also find the Adams Archive YouTube channel, and then you can watch along as we're going through everything. Almost everything is not flooded, but Dodger Stadium is very interesting. All right, let's go back. And continue to read this article. All right, just video after video. Now it says, The Touring of Rain caused the Dodger Stadium to postpone their game with the Miami Marlins. Until this upcoming weekend, the flood of biblical proportions was interpreted as a sign that God was angry with the Dodger's decision earlier this year. To host the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence L G B T Group, which in the past has staged religiously offensive stunts including mock crucifixions of Jesus Christ. And here that video  is,    And that's enough of that. God is not mocked. June La Dodgers mock Catholic nuns by hosting hate group. August La Dodger Stadium is flooded. Hmm. Somebody else said the Dodger Stadium is flooded months after they mocked. God Highlighted by ex political commentator, Ryan Cunningham. God's power is mighty. Many in the prophetic have detailed events such as these and many more are to come this fall. Look out as we watch the structures of ball are torn down. Hmm, very, very interesting. And it just goes on with tweet after tweet after tweet of people calling them out. Very interesting. Alright, so I found that to be pretty crazy because, you know, you want to hear about what they just discussed there, the, the biblical reactions to these types of events in the Bible where things are flooded, when there's mockeries and, and all of this. All of the things that some people say, you know, are just tied or tall tales from a time that, you know, we're, we're not a part of. Obviously there's still some sentiment to, this seems pretty wild that within two months of that atrocious act by the Dodgers, this ends up happening. All right, on the next small article here, let's talk about what everybody's been waiting for, which is Dylan Danis and Logan Paul are set to have a boxing match this coming weekend. Now, again, you might say, Austin, why is this important? Why would I care about this? And the the real answer is, You shouldn't, but we're still gonna talk about it. And the reason we're gonna talk about it is because if you don't know who Dylan Dannis is or you don't know who Logan Paul is, you are one of the lucky few. Now, if you don't know who Dylan Danni is, there's quite a lot of people who don't know who Dylan Danni is. And rightfully, he's pretty much well known within the Juujitsu community as just the biggest piece of garbage. He's also known as Conor McGregor's. Jiujitsu coach Now, nobody knows really why? Because he has hasn't won a single large match in well over a half a decade. He doesn't actively compete. He is now seemingly boxing Logan Paul for clout and money. I have a hypothesis about this fight, which I believe is that Dylan Danis is gonna get absolutely obliterated by Logan Paul, who looks like he's. A bunch of steroids and far, far bigger than Dylan Danni. But the only true way that anybody wins in this fight is if they both simultaneously knock each other out. These men, if one could call them, that are the biggest pieces of trash in all of celebrity and mixed martial arts areas of discussion, right? The biggest pieces of trash. Now, Dylan Dannis went out of his way during maybe the last. Two weeks, week and a half to just completely, completely go after Logan Paul's wife, as probably the biggest bitch move ever. And he does it in a way that's extremely gross and untactful and just, just completely tasteless. Now. Now, this is nothing new for Dylan Danni everything he's ever done, ever is just. Disgusting and filled with self-conscious small dick energy. But he just posted video after video photoshopped after photoshopped image and picture after picture of, of this woman's. Who is by the way, is extremely, extremely attractive. To be fair. Her name's Nina Ab Aal or something like that. Very attractive. She's probably some sort of supermodel or something like that. So Dylan and Danish, just probably 150 tweets of him saying these atrocious things. Now this woman seems like she probably had a fair amount of history with many men. She was actually with Leonardo DiCaprio at one point too. But I just don't see the relevance within a fight conversation. And obviously there is something to marrying somebody with real values and, and also valuing themselves enough not to, I dunno. Be with. 30 men before she settles down in a marriage. But at the same time, I still think it's far more dishonorable to be on the side of Dylan Dannis shouting these things out from the rooftops and coming off as a complete douche bag. They had a press conference, which looked like something from the W W E completely fake, which may be. Closer to the truth than we know because Logan Paul has not been active in the boxing community. He's been active only in the w e community, so maybe this is all, some big show. Although I, I don't believe any man would ever let somebody talk about their wife like this and not be pissed off by it. But here's my prediction. I think Logan Paul knocks, Dylan Danni out. Dylan Danni has never been in the boxing match. He has no boxing skills whatsoever. He barely has any juujitsu skills. He's completely irrelevant in his own sport, but only gets relevance through shit talking people on Twitter. So that's, that's my prediction. I think anybody who watches this loses, you know, I, I would love the opportunity to sit in a ring with either of these men, you know, be it Juujitsu with Logan Paul, or boxing with Dylan Danni. I'm not gonna go as far as to say that I would do Juujitsu against Dylan Danni or Box Logan Paul at this point, unless she gimme maybe, I don't know, 18 months and then I'd smash either of them. But I just think everybody loses in this situation, especially the man who's shamelessly calling out another man's wife. Even though the man who he's saying that about happens to be one of the biggest pieces of shit in celebrity history, but I won't bore you with this any longer. Let's move on. If you want to get some of the taste of what's actually going on here you can head over to Dylan Dan's Twitter. But I, I won't bore you with the entire story. Here's a quick clip and a quick video for you. Do you see yourself like potentially getting American one day? Do you like it? I'm not gonna lie, I was like gonna praise him because like, you know, I'm all about like trans and like L G Q and everything. So I was gonna be like, oh, this is awesome. He like has a fiance that's trans. So I thought she was, and then I looked it up and it, and it was a girl. It made a severe and continuous. Lapse Takes all these clips of her with other guys and videos where she's being interviewed and mentions anything about sex and, eh, can't say it's not effective. He probably very rightfully pissed off Logan Paul. But anyways, like I said, I won't bore you with this any longer. I just could not go this entire time and not talk about it 'cause it's pretty wild.  Alright, so let's go ahead and jump into the last topic of discussion for today, which is that Vladimir Putin has come out and said that the d dollarization is irreversible, and this says that bricks will become economically more powerful than the G seven. The Russian president said an address to the Johannesburg Summit. The US dollar is losing its global role in an objective and irreversible process. The Russian president told participants at the Brick Summit in South Africa on Tuesday, Vladimir Putin spoke via video link. After choosing not to attend the event, in person, de Dollarization is gaining momentum. Putin declared adding that the members of the group of major emerging economies are seeking to reduce their reliance on the greenback. In mutual transactions, the Russian leader claimed that the five brick members. Russia, China, India, Brazil, and South Africa are becoming the new world economic leaders. Adding that, their cumulative share of global G D P has reached 26% now between just Russia, China, and India. That's pretty terrifying. Those are absolutely, even just if you say China and India, the next biggest player in the world economy, and the fact that they're moving away from the dollar is quite. Quite terrifying. And so it goes on to say that become the New World economic leaders adding their cumulative shares of global G D P has reached 26% noted that if measured by purchasing power parity, Brix has already surpassed the group of seven leading industrialized nations accounting for 26% of the global economy compared to 30% in G seven. For the past 10 years, mutual investment between the Brix member states has increased by six times. Their total investments in the world economy has doubled. While cumulative reports account for 20% of the global total, Putin said Moscow is focusing on reorienting its transport and logistics routes towards reliable foreign partners, including Brix members, to ensure an uninterrupted supply of energy and food to the international market. Russia's primary goals include developing the Northern Sea route. And the north, north, south transport corridor, Putin stated the first passing through the Arctic Ocean along Russia's northern coastline will ensure faster good deliveries between Europe and the far East. The second could connect Russia's Northern and Baltic ports to the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean facilitating cargo movement between Eurasia and African nations. A legitimate sanction seriously weigh in the international economic situation and the lawful freezing of sovereign state's assets constitutes a violation of free trade and economic Cooper cooperation rules. So is he right? Well, one would hope not because everything in our economy is based off of the dollar, but it seems to me that there are some other players in the game who are moving towards this as well. Right. Now let's just look at the first response here. Which says, I have come to the sad realization that Western governments are evil and are overseeing crimes against all the people of the world, including the populations of their own country. Looters of the West are neither the brightest nor the most upright representatives of their nations. They're just the most ethically and morally bankrupt. They're not. Politics for their people. They're in politics for themselves. Western governments accused non-western governments of corruption. Yet what is more corrupt than using taxpayer funds and the government debt underpinned by it to pursue the narrow interests of their political donors at the expense of their own people. Look at the status of Western infrastructure. It is decaying. Look at the state of Western society. It is destroying itself. The rest of the world needs to abandon the West to its fate. It won't take long, and the first victim will be the United States, which is much more guilty of inflicting harm onto others than all the others combined. Hmm. Very, very interesting. So, like I said, there are some other players on the US side of things who seem to believe that this is true. Right. One of the ways that you can jump on this bandwagon would be by shorting. The s and p 500, which is exactly what Michael Berry did. Now, if you know who Michael Berry is, he's the man from the movie, the Big Short, right? He's the man with the Rainman type scene where he's sitting there on a whiteboard, marking out all these mathematical equations, and he walks outta the office and goes, I got it guys. We're gonna short the mortgage market. Here's what's gonna happen. It's all gonna crash. 2008, 2009. It's gonna crash. It's gonna all crumble down. Now he is known as a Rainman in the stock market. This man does not shoot 20, 30%. This man shoots 90 percentile on what he's doing when he's predicting the market. So, He placed a bearish bet against the s and p 500, and he did so by investing in the stock ticker Q Q Q I believe. And he also sold his stake in Alibaba, first Republic and many other stocks. Burberry's Scion Fund loaded up on mining, shipping, and energy stocks. Michael Burey placed his bearish betts against the s and p 500 and NASDAQ 100 last quarter while switching out his wagers on Chinese e-commerce, titans and embattled banks for positions in shipping, mining, and energy companies. At the end of June, the investor of the big short fame held. Put options on two exchange traded funds, SS P D R Ss and P 500 and Invesco. Q Q Q. That track the major index funds a securities and exchange commission filing said Monday after scoping or scooping up cut price banking stocks in the first quarter he sold Capital One first. Republic Pac West Bank Group, Wells Fargo and Western Alliance. The investors, Scion Asset Management, also deposed of two Chinese Internet Giants, Alibaba and jd.com. On the other hand, it added the likes of Crescent Energy, Comstock Resources, precision Drilling star bulk carriers in STIs to its portfolio. The only positions to survive the period where the Geo Group, Liberty, Latin America, New York Community Ban Corp. Sign that Jewelers, Cigna group in the Real, real. After all the turnover, the total value of science portfolio has little changed at 100. Was little changed at 111 million. Excluding options. Brewery rose to prominence after his monster bet against the mid two thousands housing bubble was immortalized in the book and the movie The Big Short. He's also known. Known for betting on GameStop before it became a meme stock, and taking short positions against Elon Musk, Tesla and Kathy Woods flagship Arc Innovation Fund in recent years. Moreover, the Scion chief is famous for his grim warnings about the asset bubble and bleak predictions of epic market crashes. True to form, he issued a one word Declar declaration at the end of January, sell, yet he acknowledged he was wrong to say sell in March and has been silent on social media in recent months. So if this guy's saying sell, maybe you should sell. Maybe it's time to get your money outta the stock market and maybe into, I don't know, the exact same things that he's doing. But actually, honestly, to be true, I'm not a financial advisor and you should never listen to anything that I say that's technical. As a disclaimer, I am not a lawyer. I'm also not a financial advisor. But. If you look at the playbook, if we learned anything from silent weapons for quiet wars, is that there's a, a paved pathway for the way that people think during these types of things that are gonna happen. Now we know they're going to lock us down. We know there's going to be mask mandates, we know there's gonna be runs to the grocery store. We saw it before. All of those things that you saw before will happen again. Now the question is, will you be a victim of it or will you capitalize on it? Right, even if you don't want to capitalize on it, let's talk about the moral and ethical implications of that. Maybe you just want to be prepared. Maybe you have a couple extra rolls of toilet paper, right? Maybe you buy a bidet. Maybe you take your money outta the stock market and put them into, I don't know, some very well-known stocks that did very, very well last time. They shut us down. Maybe you do that, maybe you don't. But either way, that seems very likely as to what's gonna happen. Gold is up, S and P is down, NASDAQ is down, and it's just gonna get worse. Allegedly. I. And another indication of this is that shares of the US banks dropped after the s and p downgrades some of their ratings, right? The, the s and p 500 downgraded their, their rankings. So it says, shares of several US banks fell on Tuesday, the day after ratings agency SS and P Global followed Moody's in cutting its credit ratings on some regional lenders with high commercial real estate exposure. S and P'S actions will make borrowing more costly for a banking sector aiming to recover from a crisis. Earlier this year when three regional lenders failed prompting broader industry turmoil, some of the structural aspects for banks regarding their balance sheet remain risks to banks as the federal con, as the Fed continues to try to anchor inflation with higher rates for longer. Now, here's another conversation that we had before, is maybe you want to get your money into somewhere where if there's a bank run, Full reserve banking. As we talked about, if you remember the conversation in the podcast that we had when there was the banking collapse at the Silicon Valley Bank, we found out that there's essentially a 0% reserve on all of these banks, which means essentially they don't have to hold any of your cash. Now, I mentioned a few of those banks that are full reserve banks and they're mostly overseas and they're, they're a little bit more difficult to. Partake with, but it might be worth it if you have a large set of of assets and you wanna make sure that your money is there when you go to pull it, maybe. Maybe it's time to get it out of the banks that don't hold your money. Maybe pulling it out now and putting it into a full reserve bank as a precaution, maybe buying some extra food. Maybe investing in some stocks, which will do well as we see this same exact playbook play out and then maybe not complying and hoping that we're wrong might be the best move. And in the meantime, I appreciate you. Stay safe, do not comply, and I'll see you next time. Have a great day.  

Ms. Nadiyah Spencer is truly an amazing woman.   She's a wife, mom and consultant.  Both of us have roots in the Atlanta University Center as she is an Alumna and I am an Alumna of Clark Atlanta University.  I am also excited to say that she and I are both members of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.   She's a new initiate...Spr. '23 She's the Founder of TinkPoo which is a Diaper Brand Company.  I had heard about this company prior to knowing her and wanted to learn more about it.  God would have it that Nadiyah and I would be connected for life.  In this episode, you will learn about the wonderful career experiences, how she started her consulting company and how TinkyPoo came to be.  Get ready to be inspired!!!

On May 30, 2023, a collective of artists, art historians, writers, and academics will convene at the Musée Quai Branly in Paris to mark the tenth anniversary of "Black Portraitures: Imagining the Black Body in the West". This conference delves into the positioning of Africa and the African diaspora, as well as their depiction in Western art. Among the attendees is art historian Cheryl Finley, who leads The Atlanta University Center of Art History and Curatorial Studies. She joined us on Perspective.

Inspired by the Greensboro, NC sit-ins of February 1960, the Atlanta Student Movement, led by the young men and women of Morehouse, Atlanta University, Clark College,  Interdenominational Theological Center, Morris Brown College and Spelman College, brought sit-ins, kneel-ins and boycotts to Atlanta. This ushered in the transition between Atlanta's “old guard” civil rights leaders and the younger, more progressive student leaders. It was inspiring to learn how the students of the Atlanta University Center organized and executed their plans and affected change and how the movement influenced the presidential race between Kennedy and Nixon.   Want to support this podcast? Visit here Email: thevictorialemos@gmail.com Facebook | Instagram | Twitter  

12.30.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: 2022 Year In Review, 2023 Year Preview, Dalvin Gadson Lawsuit, Black Engineer Shortage It's December 30, the last Friday of 2023 and we're taking a look at some of the biggest stories in 2022. We'll also preview what we can expect in the new year from congress, the supreme court, and our panel will get to throw in a few of their own 2023 predictions. A Black Army veteran is suing some Colorado Springs police officers over an alleged beating caught on body-camera video. I'll talk to his attorney about the case. In tonight's Education Matters segment,  we'll look at the Atlanta University Center's solution to the shortage of black engineers. Support RolandMartinUnfiltered and #BlackStarNetwork via the Cash App ☛ https://cash.app/$rmunfiltered PayPal ☛ https://www.paypal.me/rmartinunfiltered Venmo ☛https://venmo.com/rmunfiltered Zelle ☛ roland@rolandsmartin.com Annual or monthly recurring #BringTheFunk Fan Club membership via paypal ☛ https://rolandsmartin.com/rmu-paypal/ Download the #BlackStarNetwork app on iOS, AppleTV, Android, Android TV, Roku, FireTV, SamsungTV and XBox

Georgia Votes is live this week at the Woodruff Library at the Atlanta University Center where we hear from young voters and contemplate various election outcome scenarios. Emma Hurt, Rahul Bali Sam Gringlas and Susanna Capelouto are joined on stage by Clark Atlanta University professor Tammy Greer. This show was made possible by the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Dr. Talitha Washington is Professor of Mathematics and the Director of the Atlanta University Center Data Science Initiative.   On leave to the National Science Foundation, she received the NSF Director's Award for Superior Accomplishment in 2020 “for exceptional stewardship in establishing the first NSF Hispanic-serving Institution program.” She is a graduate of Spelman College and earned her Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut, then completed a research post-doctorate at Duke University.   The Atlanta University Center Data Science Initiative is a unique collaboration among four historically black colleges and universities (Clark Atlanta University, Morehouse College, Morehouse School of Medicine, and Spelman College) aiming to infuse data science within and across each institution, and led by its Director, Dr. Washington, who responded to these questions: How did the four institutions of the consortium come together to seek to establish a data science initiative and why? What is the scope of the AUC Data Science Initiative and what outcomes are being pursued? You and your staff are tasked with integrating data science into and across the curricula of four separate institutions and therefore have to know how courses and curricula are made. How do you go about making change take place? Moreover, aren't you also changing faculty? As a mathematician and data scientist yourself, it seems likely that you have looked at data on the relative success of cross-institutional, multi- and inter-disciplinary curricular and instruction initiatives such as you are directing. What do the data tell you? A final question is prompted by good news for you and your colleagues. The National Science Foundation announced that Clark Atlanta University will be awarded a $10 million grant to establish the National Data Science Alliance. The new Alliance will extend the University's efforts to expand participation in data science to the nation's HBCU institutions and increase the numbers of credentialed Black data scientists.  As the new Alliance's principal investigator, tell us what is the scale of this effort? How many more institutions will be involved and what do you aim to accomplish in terms of additional student data scientists?   Innovators is a podcast production of Harris Search Associates.  *The views and opinions shared by the guests on Innovators do not necessarily reflect the views of the interviewee's institution or organization.* For additional insights on data science, see previous INNOVATORS podcasts:    Digital Health – Technological and Scientific Invention and Innovation in Healthcare;    The Burgeoning and Expanding Field of Data Science; and Artificial Intelligence and Precision Medicine.

Mr. Michael Dones and I have known each other since we were Freshmen in High School at Bishop O'Dowd.  After high school, he and I both headed to the Atlanta University Center for College.  He at Morehouse and I at Clark Atlanta University (then Clark College).  He is an amazing Husband to his wife Judy (whom I adore and she also went to O'Dowd and college at Spelman), Father, Son, and just a wonderful person.  I am grateful to call him my Brother.  In this episode, he speaks about how he has been on a one-year sabbatical.  After receiving an MBA from Clark Atlanta University, he has had an amazing career.  He has been a Corporate Exec for Fortune 100 Companies and living his best life.   The pandemic and other factors caused him to take a pause.  He's so glad he did.  Get ready to be intrigued and inspired!  Be sure to check out his Blog on LinkedIn #MichaelDones, #EastOakland, #Oakland, #BishopODowd, #MorehouseCollege, #ClarkAtlantaUniversity, #sabbatical 

Dr. Lakeysha Hallmon / Founder of the Village Market Recognized as one of the most brilliant minds in education and business, Dr. Lakeysha Hallmon has transformed the lives of thousands of Black entrepreneurs across the world. Her love of community, paired with her mantra, “Support Is A Verb,” inspires and educates African-Americans to create generational health and wealth. As an award-winning expert in education, business development, plant-based living, she leaves an indelible mark on any business who walks through her door. Dr. Key has developed an economical vehicle that empowers the Black community through cooperative economics. Her ‘key' to success is her village. Affectionately known as “Dr. Key,” she moves businesses from sales to success, and inspires them to become doers, supporters and leaders of change. The mission-forward visionary advocates and empowers artisans, creators, and burgeoning Black businesses who want to thrive. After founding the Village Market ATL in 2016, she has reached and served 1440 businesses and facilitated 5.3 million dollars of direct sales to Black-owned businesses. Now with several verticals under the Village Market moniker, Dr. Key has recently expanded her village to include her storefront The Village at Ponce City Market, a curated collection of premier Black businesses. She has cultivated a team of her own, employing 100% Black people, over 90% of them women. From Atlanta all the way to the Bahamas, the Mississippi-bred thought leader helps businesses with big ideas turn them into even bigger profit. Her goal is to build a Black mecca, where Black businesses can build and grow anywhere, and with several market storefronts on the way, she's just getting started. Dr. Key's expertise in education spans 15 years, where she has served as a critical voice and advocate for creating empowering learning and work environments for students and employees and is deeply passionate about work efficacy and social-emotional learning. Dr. Key has been featured in Forbes, Essence, Black Enterprise, CNN/ HLN, the Today Show, NOW THIS, the Source, Atlanta Business Chronicle, The Atlanta Voice, Madame Noire, Side Hustle Pro, Therapy for Black Girls, Black on Air. A sought-after speaker, served as the keynote speaker for the Fall graduating class at Clark Atlanta University and the Boys and Girls Club of NW Mississippi and graced the stages of the Steve Harvey Foundation, Hope Global Forum, Beyond School Hours National Conference, Students At-Risk Conference, National Summer Institute Conference, GA Federal Programs Conference, the Power Rising Conference, EnricHER Conference, Atlanta University Center's Financial Literacy and Innovation Conference, and the HBCU Entrepreneurship Financial Literacy Expo. Walker's Legacy has honored Dr. Hallmon. In 2017, she was inducted into the 40 under 40 Society at her undergraduate alma mater, Tougaloo College and in 2020 40 under 40 for Atlanta Business Chronicle, and recognized as most notable Georgians by GeorgianTrends. https://youtu.be/2hi5YVRHRmE Ted Jenkin / Oxygen Financial (Host) Lee Heisman / Savant CTS (Host) Dr. Lakeysha Hallmon / The Village Market (Guest)

Meet Glamo, the closet maven! From humble beginnings in a baptist home to the stylistically iconic "strip" of the Atlanta University Center, Glamo has seen and lived a life that many can only dream of in their coloring books. We discuss the decisions to allow the ocean to own it (let go and live) and trust in the 20% that you have figured out, because the other 80% is the adventure. Lastly, we learn the top three things that you need to remove from your closet, how to access a personal stylist from your back pocket and of course, the GLAM HOUR!!!! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/smalltalkbignames/message

In today's episode, Dr. Montgomery Rice sits down with her fellow Atlanta University Presidents ... Dr. George T. French, Jr. of Clark Atlanta University Dr. Mary Schmidt Campbell of Spelman College and Dr. David A Thomas of Morehouse College Atlanta University Center is the oldest and largest contiguous consortium of African American higher education institutions in the united states, each of which was significantly impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic. You'll get to hear the intimate details from each of these remarkable university leaders about some of the hardest decisions they had to make during the pandemic, challenges like the mental health crisis they still face on the road ahead, and how they came together as a close-knit community of leaders amid these challenges, and they are continuing to persevere to move the needle historically black colleagues and university systems and the stakeholder communities they serve. We hope you enjoy this inspiring episode of Danforth Dialogues... ADDITIONAL RESOURCES RELATED TO THIS EPISODE Visit https://www.msm.edu/about_us/office-president-ceo Visit https://aucenter.edu CREDITS Theme Music

Soil Cousins, come join me this weekend at the 2022 Soil Festival in Atlanta, GA presented by Food Well Alliance, Truly Living Well Center for Natural Urban Agriculture and WABE!I'll be doing some live interviews and catching up with some of my Soil Cousins you've heard on the Black in the Garden podcast.You can enter to win passes to Atlanta Botanical Garden during our exclusive Soil Festival GIVEAWAY! You have to pull up to enter!Enter the giveaway and purchase your signed copy of The Black in the Garden Coloring Experience! The 7th annual Soil Festival is a fundraiser to help boost Food Well Alliance's provision of resources and support for local growers. Tickets this year are $25 for Adults and $5 for Youth (16 and under). FREE for seniors and for neighbors living in the Truly Living Well service area, including Ashview Heights, Atlanta University Center, Bankhead, Capitol View, Capitol View Manor, English Avenue/Vine City, Hunter Hills, Just Us, Mozley Park, Washington Park, West End, and Westview. Admission includes food and beverages.Season 5 proudly sponsored by Atlanta Botanical Garden!Coming soon:Atlanta Botanical Garden | Alston Lecture: Topiary Therapy (atlantabg.org)Learn more about Underground Arborist and SUPPORT: undergroundarborist.orgBITG Theme: illsounds.comLike what you heard?Text Colah at (833)819-3926 about your favorite moments.Here's what to do to Help sustain this show:

It began in 1983 as a small picnic in a public park near the Atlanta University Center. It grew to become a cultural phenomenon, and the signature defining event for a generation of college students who were embracing freedom and challenging the status quo.  Freaknik. The notorious street party. The ultimate spring break. A meeting ground for Black people around the nation looking to turn up and turnout.  More than a festival, Freakink was a mass demonstration of Black culture and joy. An annual event that made the church ladies clutch their pearls. It had as many detractors as it had supporters, with the mayor of Atlanta calling the issue of Freaknik the most divisive issue he'd faced in public life.  So, how did a crew of young Black college students organize the most epic event in the country, and why was this event so polarizing? Find out on today's walk as we take a stroll through the freak storm that was Freaknik while discussing race, class, youth, image, and the lasting legacy of this ultimate street party. 

Chief Real Estate Officer Rachel Carey with Westside Future Fund joins the Atlanta Real Estate Forum Radio podcast to share how the organization supports rental housing, homeownership, financing and anti-displacement on the Westside. Carey joins host Carol Morgan on the All About Real Estate segment. A member of the organization for the last four years, Carey moved to Atlanta from New York City five years ago and has spent her career immersed in affordable housing finance. When she moved here, Carey had a goal to work with Westside Future Fund to take its community development in a new direction. Westside Future Fund launched in 2013 as a public-private partnership when the city of Atlanta committed funding to the development of Mercedes-Benz Stadium. In addition to the arena development, there needed to be contributions to the communities west of the stadium. The neighborhoods served by the organization are English Avenues, Vine City, Atlanta University Center and Ashview Heights. Carey said, “The thought was it's time to invest in these neighborhoods and have an organization that's going to be committed to a transformational, holistic revitalization.” Westside Future Fund proudly states that “we're in the housing business because we're in the people business.” While working on its impact areas in 2016 and 2017, the organization noticed mixed-income housing needs rising to the forefront. The redevelopment of the Westside was on the uptake and many worried that it would bring displacement to the neighborhood. Along with revitalization, there will be affordable renting and owning options for residents who wish to stay on the Westside. Through a set of community retention guidelines, Westside Future Fund prioritizes individuals who live, work and play on the Westside for the housing developed by the organization. The current Westside Future Fund goal is to reach 800 units of affordable rental housing for families earning 60 percent of the area median income, which equates to roughly $48,000 annually. There are currently 180 rental housing units, including naturally occurring affordable housing units purchased by the organization. The organization purchased properties on the market at risk of being lost to preserve affordability in the area. Alongside those efforts, the organization is acquiring vacant lots and land to develop or renovate new affordable housing! Vacant properties were purchased directly from the market or RFPs through Invest Atlanta. These lots will undergo the entire improvement process, from renovations and development to leasing through the organization's Home on the Westside program. Carey said, “Our waiting list comes from Home on the Westside and prioritizes people who have been in the community the longest [and] who have the strongest ties to the community to ensure that those people have priority for the work that we're doing and the housing we're producing.” Tune in to the full interview above for more information on the Westside Future Fund or visit www.WestSideFutureFund.org. Never miss an episode of Atlanta Real Estate Forum Radio! Subscribe to the podcast here. You can also get a recap of any past episode on the Radio page. Listen to the full interview above! Georgia Residential Mortgage Licensee, License #22564. NMLS ID #6606. Subject to borrower and property qualifications. Not all applicants will qualify. New American Funding and Westside Future Fund are not associated. Click here to view the terms and conditions of products mentioned during the show. Corporate office 14511 Myford Rd., Suite 100, Tustin, CA 92780. Phone: (800) 450-2010. (April/2022) New American Funding is a family-owned mortgage lender with a servicing portfolio of over 216,000+ loans for $56.8 billion, 171 branches and about 4,500+ employees. The company offers several niche loan products and has made Inc. 5000's list of Fastest-Growing Companies in America seven times.

In episode four of season two, co-hosts Dr. CBS and Dr. Layla Brown, start by shooting the shit with producer, Too Black, about what makes something a social media page vs platform. In her "Planting Thoughts" segment, Layla breaks down the Monstera Deliciosa (Swiss Cheese plant) and how it relates to making sure we all are taken care of. and how as life changes sometimes we need to not necessarily let go of things but pay more attention. Next, the two co-hosts conduct the "Class in Session" segment with Ph.D. students, Ashley Torres Carrasquillo and Chloe D. Ricks, about the importance of mentorship in graduate school, trusting in your scholarship, and linking scholarship to community work. In "Live From the Streets," the co-hosts then speak about student demands at Atlanta University Center with Co-founder of the ATLUjimacollective, Ellis Sawyer, Black Alliance for Peace, Tunde Osazua, and Assistant Professor of International Political Economy at Clark Atlanta University, Dr. Tamanisha John. "In these Tweets" is back by popular demand. We explore the neoliberalization of everything, cooking, struggling for the people, and the myth of the "First Black." Tap in to this episode of LDI--and be sure to subscribe to the channel and consider becoming a Patreon! Revolutionary Pan-Africanism Against Racial Capitalism: Lessons for Our Present Moment https://inciteseminars.com/revolutionary-pan-africanism/?mc_cid=3646c0a4a0&mc_eid=8dbc77a3bc Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LDIpodcast Twitter: @ldipodcast Instagram: @ldipodcast

In this episode of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Bob Schlehuber, co-host of Political Misfits, on from 12-2 PM EST to discuss the on-the-ground realities of the conflict in Ethiopia, the Tigray People's Liberation Front's brutal offensive campaign and its commitment of atrocities, and Washington's interests in the horn of Africa and meddling in the region and on the African continent.In the second segment, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Camilo Mejia, an Iraq War veteran and resistor, writer and activist based in Miami, and the author of Road from ar Ramadi - The Private Rebellion of Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejia to discuss Facebook's deletion of over one thousand Nicaraguan accounts based on dubious claims of a “troll farm,” Facebook role in information wars in Nicaragua and its service to the whims of empire, and what's at stake in the upcoming Nicaraguan elections.In the third segment, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Rafiki Morris, Organizer with the All Africa People's Revolutionary Party, member of the Coordinating Committee for the Black Alliance for Peace to discuss the role of HBCUs in maintaining and reinforcing the political and economic systems, how the material interests of these schools conflict with the narrative of “changing the world” that many present, and how the struggles at Howard and the Atlanta University Center fit into that role.Later in the show, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly, assistant professor of Africana Studies and Political Science at Carleton College, Visiting Scholar with the Race and Capitalism Project at the University of Chicago, and author of the book, “W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History.” to discuss the Democrats' electoral defeat in Virginia and how their unclear centrist message contributed to the loss, the culture war waged by Republican politicians over the front of critical race theory, how the debate over critical race theory is a thinly veiled attempt by the ruling class at driving mass consciousness toward a racist orientation to distract from its role in economic scarcity, and how progressive politics and politicians are limited by the electoral system.

In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Rafiki Morris, Organizer with the All Africa People's Revolutionary Party, member of the Coordinating Committee for the Black Alliance for Peace to discuss the role of HBCUs in maintaining and reinforcing the political and economic systems, how the material interests of these schools conflict with the narrative of “changing the world” that many present, and how the struggles at Howard and the Atlanta University Center fit into that role.

Recognized as one of the most brilliant minds in education and business, Dr. Lakeysha Hallmon has transformed the lives of thousands of Black entrepreneurs across the world. Her love of community, paired with her mantra, “Support Is A Verb,” inspires and educates African-Americans to create generational health and wealth. As an award-winning expert in education, business development, plant-based living, she leaves an indelible mark on any business who walks through her door. Dr. Key has developed an economic vehicle that empowers the Black community through cooperative economics. Her ‘key' to success is her village...Dr. Lakeysha Hallmon, affectionately known as “Dr. Key,” moves businesses from sales to success, and inspires them to become doers, supporters, and leaders of change. The mission-forward visionary advocates and empowers artisans, creators, and burgeoning Black businesses who want to thrive. After founding the Village Market ATL in 2016, she has reached and served 1440 businesses and facilitated 5.3 million dollars of direct sales to Black-owned businesses. Now with several verticals under the Village Market moniker, Dr. Key has recently expanded her village to include her storefront The Village Retail at a curated collection of premier Black businesses. She has cultivated a team of her own, employing 100% Black people, over 90% of them women. From Atlanta all the way to the Bahamas, the Mississippi-bred thought leader helps businesses with big ideas turn them into even bigger profits. Her goal is to build a Black mecca, where Black businesses can build and grow anywhere, and with several market storefronts on the way, she's just getting started. Dr. Key's expertise in education spans 15 years, where she has served as a critical voice and advocate for creating empowering learning and work environments for students and employees and is deeply passionate about work efficacy and social-emotional learning.Dr. Key has been featured in Forbes, Essence, Black Enterprise, CNN/ HLN, the Today Show, NOW THIS, the Source, Atlanta Business Chronicle, The Atlanta Voice, Madame Noire, Side Hustle Pro, Therapy for Black Girls, Black on Air.A sought-after speaker, served as the keynote speaker for the Fall graduating class at Clark Atlanta University and the Boys and Girls Club of NW Mississippi and graced the stages of the Steve Harvey Foundation, Hope Global Forum, Beyond School Hours National Conference, Students At-Risk Conference, National Summer Institute Conference, GA Federal Programs Conference, the Power Rising Conference, EnricHER Conference, Atlanta University Center's Financial Literacy and Innovation Conference, and the HBCU Entrepreneurship Financial Literacy Expo. Walker's Legacy has honored Dr. Hallmon. In 2017, she was inducted into the 40 under 40 Society at her undergraduate alma mater, Tougaloo College. Dr. Hallmon is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated.

Jina DuVernay is the Program Director for Engagement & African American Collections at Atlanta University Center, Robert W. Woodruff Library. Jina was the Collection Development Archivist for African American Collections at the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University. Prior to that, she was the Special Collections Librarian at HBCU, Alabama State University while pursuing her MLIS from the University of Alabama. Jina serves as an editor of both Women of Color and Libraries (WOC+LIB) and the new Library Diversity and Residency Studies journal. She is passionate about engagement and outreach to communities of color, as well as recruiting, promoting, and retaining library professionals of color. Jina was a 2018 ALA Emerging Leader.

I had the pleasure of interviewing Hassan C, a good friend from college who lives and works in Washington, D.C.  We discuss political matters including the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, and how was life in Washington with Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama compared to Donald Trump.   The interview concludes talking about the upcoming college football season. Thanks for listening and make sure to subscribe! Follow on social media: Twitter: @raytalkslive Facebook: @raytalkslive Instagram: @raytalks_live Email: raytalkslive@gmail.com

Impact of Educational Leadership Episode 94 Hosted by: I. D. III for Isaiah Drone III Panelist: Nina Taylor Are you attending an HBCU next year? Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) were established prior to 1964 with the principal mission of educating Black Americans. These institutions were founded and developed in an environment of legal segregation and, by providing access to higher education, they contributed substantially to the progress Black Americans made in improving their status. Analysts are projecting four top HBCUs for 2022. Spelman College: Located in Atlanta, Spelman College is a small private, not-for-profit institution providing a liberal arts education to women. Spelman is not only one of the best HBCUs in the country, but it was also ranked as the #3 school in the Students' Top Schools for Inspiration list by The Wall Street Journal. It is an excellent fit for students looking for a small campus and an equally small student-to-faculty ratio (11:1). Howard University is one of the oldest and best-known HBCUs. Founded in 1867, the school is a historically black college but accepts students of all races and genders to create a full student body of over 10,000 in the heart of Washington, D.C. Howard University is a good fit for post-graduates and anyone looking to continue their academic career beyond their four-year degree because the university produces more black doctorate recipients than any other nonprofit institution. The business school has also been ranked in the top spot of the schools for opportunities for minority students by the Princeton Review. Morehouse College is arguably the most famous HBC; Morehouse College was the academic home of Civil Rights hero and legendary activist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr as well as many other civil rights leaders. It is also one of only two HBCUs to produce Rhodes Scholars. Morehouse has an enrollment of over 2,000 students, making it the most prominent men's college in the United States. The small student body allows for an impressive student-faculty ratio of 13:1. Though it is a small college, Morehouse and Spelman College are part of the Atlanta University Center, ensuring access to wider shared resources. Hampton University is Based in Hampton, Virginia. This school offers a smalltown experience with a good size student body of over 4,000. The student-faculty ratio reflects both the small size of the school at 19:1. Although it is small, there is plenty of opportunity for high-level sports: Hampton is home to both NCAA Division I and II sports teams. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/isaiah-drone-iii/support

BGBS 071: Maurice Cherry | Creative Strategist | The Restorative Power of Play Maurice Cherry is the creative strategist for CodeSandbox, an online code editor tailored for web applications. Prior to this, he served principal and creative director at Lunch, an award-winning multidisciplinary studio he created in 2008 that helps creative brands craft messages and tell stories for their targeted audiences, including fostering relationships with underrepresented communities. Past clients and collaborators included Facebook, Mailchimp, Vox Media, NIKE, Mediabistro, Site5, SitePoint, and The City of Atlanta. Maurice is a pioneering digital creator who is most well-known for Revision Path™, an award-winning podcast which is the first podcast to be added to the permanent collection of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC). Other projects of Maurice's include the Black Weblog Awards, 28 Days of the Web, The Year of Tea, and the design anthology RECOGNIZE. Maurice's projects and overall design work and advocacy have been recognized by Apple, Adobe, NPR, Lifehacker, Design Observer, Entrepreneur, AIGA, the Columbia Journalism Review, Forbes, Fast Company, and many other print and digital outlets. Maurice is also an educator, and has built curricula and taught courses on web design, web development, email marketing, WordPress, and podcasting for thousands of students over the past ten years. Maurice is the 2018 recipient of the Steven Heller Prize for Cultural Commentary from AIGA, Creative Loafing Atlanta's 2018 Influentials in the fields of business and technology, was named as one of GDUSA's “People to Watch” in 2018, and was included in the 2018 edition of The Root 100 (#60), their annual list of the most influential African-Americans ages 25 to 45. In previous years, Maurice was awarded as one of Atlanta's “Power 30 Under 30″ in the field of Science and Technology by the Apex Society. He was also selected as one of HP's “50 Tech Tastemakers” in conjunction with Black Web 2.0, and was profiled by Atlanta Tribune as one of 2014's Young Professionals. He is also a member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. Maurice holds a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Morehouse College and a Master's degree in telecommunications management from Keller Graduate School of Management. In this episode, you'll learn... As a creative on the web, it's beneficial to stay fluid and agile enough to go where the market goes. It's detrimental to focus on only one specialty because the industry changes so quickly that it may become obsolete. When done correctly, brands can put forth an image that is discordant with people's initial perception of them, through storytelling in marketing. This can draw in an entirely new audience based on the brand's "personality." Podcasting is not as easy as it looks. Everything is deliberate, and a lot of care goes into each episode. Quotes [8:10] It almost is a detriment to be kind of a specialist, because your specialty may end up getting absorbed or may become obsolescent or something like that. So you kind of have to stay fluid and kind of see where different trends are going and see how you can fit in there. [12:45] Brands may try to put forth an image of who they are or who they want to be. And that may not even mesh with how people are thinking about them…but it makes people remember them in a way that perhaps people may not think of, and so they may gain a whole new level of audience just based off of that kind of storytelling and interaction that draws them in to who they are as a brand and what they sort of represent in terms of company values. [1:00:43] I think people will look at the 400 episodes of revision path and just see a monolithic set of people. But I mean, there's so much diversity within the people that I have interviewed, whether it's age diversity, whether it's what they do in the industry, years of experience, there's men, there's women, there's trans folk, there's folks in the US and the Caribbean, throughout Europe, throughout Africa, throughout Asia and Australia. They're everywhere. The thing that sort of ties them all together is they're practicing designers, or they're practicing techies, or they're doing something creative on the web that is worthy of kind of falling into line with everything that I'm doing with revision paths. [1:04:53] I just turned 40 this year. And there's still a lot of things about myself that I feel like I've managed to still keep a very playful spirit and still be able to kind of tap into the restorative power of play, even into the work that I do. I mean, even what I'm doing with creative strategy, it's kind of playing at work a little bit. I get to really dive into myself and come up with inspiring things that we can do and fantastic campaigns that we can execute. Resources Podcast: Revision Path LinkedIn: Maurice Cherry Twitter: @mauricecherry Have a Brand Problem? We can help. Book your no-obligation, 15-minute Wildstory Brand Clarity Call now.  Learn about our Brand Audit and Strategy process Identify if you need a new logo or just a refresh Determine if your business has a branding problem See examples of our work and get relevant case studies See if branding is holding your business back and can help you get to the next level Book Your FREE Brand Clarity Call   Podcast Transcript Maurice Cherry 0:02 And I started doing these long form interviews, maybe about 1500 to 2000 words or so. But it just took so long to put together. I was doing it by myself. And it was someone that actually was a reader of revision path, who one day wrote me and said that she was a fan of revision path as you would really like to be on revision path, but wanted to record a podcast because she had a podcast that she was doing in Chicago. At the time. I'm like, yeah, we can record that's fine. thinking to myself, I have no recording equipment. So we ended up recording our interview, the very first episode of revision path on my mobile phone in a restaurant. Terrible quality. I still keep the episode out. I mean, it's somewhat listable, I guess, I don't know. But that was kind of where the genesis of the podcast started. Marc Gutman 0:54 podcasting from Boulder, Colorado. This is the Baby Got Back story Podcast, where we dive into the story behind the story of today's most inspiring storytellers, creators and entrepreneurs. I like backstories and I cannot lie. I am your host, Marc Gutman, Marc Gutman, and on today's episode of Baby got backstory, we are talking with Maurice cherry, the award winning podcaster, creative strategist, and designer. And before we get into this episode, I feel so lucky that I get to talk to people. And I get to talk to people on this show. And I get to talk to people on this show, and share it with you, the audience. I truly, truly, truly thank you and appreciate you. If you like this show, and want to show your like an appreciation for me or the show, please head over to Apple podcasts or Spotify and give us a five star review and rating. Ratings really do matter. Apple and Spotify use these ratings as part of the algorithm that determines ratings on third charts. And we're human. We like likes and follows and ratings too. So thank you for your reviews. I do appreciate it. Today's guest is Maurice cherri, creative strategist, designer and host of the award winning podcast revision path. past clients and collaborators included Facebook, MailChimp, Vox media nyck Media Bistro site five sitepoint in the city of Atlanta. Maria is a pioneering digital creator, who is most well known for revision path and award winning podcast, which is the first podcast to be added to the permanent collection of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture. Other projects of maurices include the black weblog awards 28 days of the web, the year of t in the design anthology recognize Murray says projects and overall design work and advocacy have been recognized by Apple, Adobe NPR, life hacker design observer entrepreneur, the AI GA, the Columbia Journalism Review, Forbes Fast Company in many other print and digital outlets. He says the 2018 recipient of the Steven Heller prize for cultural commentary from the AI GA, creative loafing Atlanta's 2018 influentials in the fields of business and technology was named one of GED USA people to watch in 2018. It was included in the 2018 edition of the route 100. He was number 60 and their annual list of the most influential African Americans ages 25 to 45. In previous years, Maurice was awarded one of Atlanta's power 30 under 30 in the field of science and technology by the apex society. He was also selected as one of HPS 50 tech tastemakers in conjunction with black web to Dotto. It was profiled by Atlanta Tribune is one of 2014 young professionals. He is also a member of the International Academy of digital arts and sciences. And this is his story. I am here with Maurice cherry who is a creative strategist, designer and podcaster. You may know him from his very popular podcast revision path, and that's because they just recorded their 400th episode which is a major, major milestone Marie's Welcome to the baby. Got back History podcast. Maurice Cherry 5:01 Thank you so much for having me, Mark, this is great. Marc Gutman 5:04 That's so great to have you here. Why don't we just hop right into it? I mean, you, you have this varied what I'd call a hybrid background of creative strategist designer podcaster. Like, how did that come to be like, like, how do you make that all work in today's environment? Maurice Cherry 5:24 You know, I'm kind of still trying to figure that out myself. I'm lucky to be able to kind of remain a bit fluid and hybrid in some sorts as it relates to my skill set, which allows me to kind of go where the market goes, but I mean, my background, I have a undergraduate degree in mathematics. my graduate degree is in telecommunications, management's. I've worked in media, I've worked in web, I've worked with nonprofits, I've worked with tech startups, I've had my own business for nine years. So I've done a little bit of everything and a lot of different places. And I've had the opportunity to work with everyone from, you know, startup founders and entrepreneurs to like, captains of industry at fortune 100 companies. So I've kind of been a little all over the place. And like I said, being able to remain fluid has helped me as things have changed in the market. I mean, I started off working for companies here, I'm in Atlanta, Georgia, I started off working for companies here and then quit the last place I was working out, which was at&t and working as a senior web designer, started my own studio did that for nine years, sort of wound that down and then jump back into working for places design working for tech startups. And just kind of going from there. Yeah, and Marc Gutman 6:40 you use that word, fluid and fluidity. And you know, the old way of doing things used to be very specialized used to be very siloed not not bouncing between disciplines. Why do you think it's important to to be fluid in in your skill set in your career? What advantage is that given you, Maurice Cherry 7:01 um, for me, the advantage that it's given is being able to have the perspective to see where commonalities lie, as the market, or as you really the industry sort of changes. I mean, when I first came about on the web, you were either a web designer, a web developer, or a webmaster, like those are kind of the three particular titles that you had. And now you've got all different types of product designers and UX designers and things like that, despite the fact that there are new titles and the way that things have changed. There's still some sort of common threads between a lot of these different types of titles. And even as companies have come along and introduced new types of technology into the world, which therefore mean that there are new types of people that work on these things. Like, there's conversation designers, there's mixed reality designers like you know, a couple of weeks ago, I was first introduced to the metaverse, which sounds like something you'd hear in like a 90s sci fi afternoon kids show her something. So there's so many Tell that to say that the market and the industry changes so much, it almost is a detriment to be kind of a specialist, because your specialty may end up getting, you know, absorbed or may become obsolescent or something like that. So you kind of have to stay fluid and kind of see where different trends are going and see how you can fit in there. Marc Gutman 8:29 Yeah, and I want to be a part of the metaverse like that sounds awesome. I don't even know what that is. But I want to like tell people that I am part of the metaverse or that I work in the metaverse, that'd be great. And it's really interesting because the person that introduced us, Douglas Davis, who is appeared on this show, he was talking about something really, really similar in his conversation, his interview, which was a lot of what we're doing today hasn't been invented yet. Right? And we're kind of in this next wave of, of that. And so he gave the example back when he was starting out, like no one had really invented, like how to build web pages and websites. And so it was real time, right? And then we started to grow up in no one had invented how to be an expert on Twitter when Twitter first came out, we all just kind of did it, you know. And now you know, what I'm hearing you say is that business is again, moving technology is moving so fast. And it's you know, they're intertwined, right Business and Technology and it's moving so quickly, that you have to be fluid that you have to be nimble, and you have to be kind of you can't be an expert at anything, if anything because it's moving so fast, but what you probably can be is a really good thinker and a really good strategist in order to bring all these disciplines together. Did I didn't get that right. Maurice Cherry 9:52 Yeah, that's pretty accurate. I mean, the the beauty of my particular title of being a creative strategist Is that no matter what business that I'm put in, I'm still able to kind of function because what I do, but one of the top one of the things that I'm sort of tasked to do is kind of be a company's in house creative experts. So I'm working across teams to discover opportunities for storytelling. I'm working maybe with a marketing team on campaigns, I'm working with a sales team on ways that they can reach new audiences. So I can kind of be very flexible, you know, no matter what sort of business that I'm putting in, which is pretty good. Marc Gutman 10:31 Yeah. And that sounds like awesome, like, I hear you talk. And I'm like, wow, I want to be a creative strategist, you know, how, you know? How does that show up in business? are more and more businesses recognizing the need for it? And what really is the the, the impetus for bringing on a creative strategist? Like why? Why do they say like, hey, Maria, we need you to come in and help us out. Maurice Cherry 10:55 In my experience has mostly been when it's boiled down to needing help with storytelling, or with some sort of brand awareness or brand campaign strategy tends to be tied. In my experience, that strategy has tended to be tied to branding fairly easily. So say, at the past few places that I've worked at, I've done a lot of sort of brand centric work with what they're doing in order to take the story of what their business is, and what it is that they're trying to sort of put forth to their customers. And then really kind of, I don't know, tell that in a way that their audience would find compelling or that potential audiences may find compelling. And that could be video, that could be a podcast, that could be a really well done marketing campaign. It could be a drip campaign of newsletters, it could be a series of white papers, it can really sort of manifest in a number of different ways, depending on who we're trying to reach and what the story is that we're trying to tell. Marc Gutman 11:51 Yeah. And so as I think about it, I mean, I get excited about this idea of creative strategist and working at a brand level across departments, because that's typically where we run into problems, right, is that this type of initiative is siloed, into the marketing department into the creative department. And so having that influence across departments is really, you know, what I see is the magic of this type of work. But when you were, in your experience, when you look at this, what do brands that get this right? Like, what do they do? What are you seeing them do to get this this type of work? Right? Maurice Cherry 12:31 One thing I'm seeing is that they're doing a lot of listening, they're listening to their audience there, whether that's through social media, or through any sort of, you know, other channel or back channel, they're listening to what their audience is telling them. Oftentimes, brands may try to put forth an image of who they are or who they want to be. And then that may not even mesh with how, you know, people are thinking about them. Sometimes that works to a brand's advantage. Sometimes it doesn't. I think we've mostly seen this on social media, where you see brands like, Oh, God, what's a good brand that that's kind of subversive stay comes. The stake of his brand, for example, is weirdly stoic and philosophic. On Twitter, which you would not associate with a brand of like frozen meat products, like, why are they so deep right now, I don't understand this. But it makes people remember them in a way that perhaps, you know, people may not think of steak gums. And so they may gain a whole new level of audience just based off of that kind of storytelling and interaction that draws them in to like, who they are as a brand, and what they sort of represent in terms of company values. And such, I certainly thinks that as social media has grown as that and and as more people have tapped into social media, they're kind of starting to hold brands accountable a lot for the causes that they find the people that they hire, a number of companies get taken the task for these sorts of things that have nothing to do with their actual product at all. But if you're hiring someone who might be unknown abuser, for example, that's going to look bad on the brand. Or if you know your your company is funding a politician that might be taken away, or might be funding voting rights or something well taken away voting rights or something like that. These are the kinds of things that people are now keyed into. And they're looking at brands to kind of be these while they're there. They're wanting to make sure that the brands that they support with their dollars are also kind of, you know, in accordance with their values as well. Marc Gutman 14:37 Absolutely. And it's, it's crazy and amazing at the same time to me, I mean, I love the amount of power that consumers have on brands at the same time. Everybody has a voice right? And so how can brands even navigate all this? pressure and criticism to be something Different, right? You can't You can't please everybody all of the time, like, where do you see the challenges for brands in this new landscape? Maurice Cherry 15:09 I mean, I think the biggest challenge that happens is just making sure that you are being consistent with your voice. Often times I've seen brands try to like adopt a certain kind of you know, cheeky haha Twitter voice or whatever, that may be completely discordant with how they treat employees or, or you know how they treat customers or something like that. This is particularly the case I've seen with a lot of tech startups that try to like get in on certain little you know, punny things that are happening. But then something hits the verge where they mistreated a number of employees or something like that. And it's like, oh, you can't be you can't be cheeky and sarcastic on Twitter, and then you're treating your employees like crap, you know, behind the scenes. So I think love just trying to be consistent throughout everything that you're doing is one thing that that companies should think about as they kind of navigate the space, I would, I would also say, you know, it helps to just be agile and nimble, because sometimes these you know, if a certain catastrophe befalls a brand, sometimes it happens completely out of the blue for something they don't even know about. So, for example, say, a company has a particular actor or actress as a spokesperson. And this actor or actress did something on Instagram. Well, the first thing people are going to do, yes, they're going to take that particular actor or actress to task, but then they're also going to take the company to task and think, Oh, well, is this the kind of person that you want speaking for your product? And now it's like, oh, now we have to kind of go into crisis mode, and figure out how do we either distance ourselves from this? Or say, Yes, we are a part of what it is that this actor actress is about, here's what we're doing, as a company or as a brand to support them. So it's, it's tricky, but you have to kind of be, you know, pretty nimble to these sorts of things, because they can happen really out of the blue. Marc Gutman 17:08 Yeah, and there's a lot going on. And so, you know, it really lays out the, you know, the the framework for why a company might need a creative strategist. Yeah, there. It's not just this omni directional unit, or is it? I mean, I guess it'd be one directional conversation. It's not a one way conversation, right, this massive dialogue, and there's comments and insights and, and opinions, ping pong all over from every direction, and to really have someone at a higher level thinking like, how are we going to manage this conversation as something that is no longer a luxury for brands, but really a necessity? Maurice Cherry 17:44 Yeah, there's a lot of thought that has to go into so many things, the imagery that you use the hashtags that you use, the colors that you're using, all of that ends up sort of falling under the purview, usually of creative strategist. And I will say, you know, a lot of advertising firms employ creative strategist as well. So they know fully kind of what it means to have someone that's really thinking about the brand from like this 360 view, but also from this bird's eye view of being able to zoom out and really see all parts of where a particular campaign or something may touch, and realize those sort of points where something may go wrong, or maybe misconstrued and try to figure out a way to kind of circumvent that or fix that issue, you know, so it doesn't occur. Marc Gutman 18:29 Yeah. And so switching gears a little bit, you mentioned that you're in Atlanta. Now. Is that where you grew up? Maurice Cherry 18:35 No, I grew up originally in Selma, Alabama. But I've been here in Atlanta now for a little over 20 years. Now. I came here in 1999. So I've been here for what that's 21 years or something like that. I've been here longer than I've been in Alabama. Marc Gutman 18:56 Well, looking back to Alabama, assuming that you were there when you know, Murray was a young Murray's, like eight years old and you're hanging out. And were you there in Selma when you were eight? Maurice Cherry 19:06 Yeah, yeah, I grew up there. went to elementary, middle and high school there. Cool. Cool. So Marc Gutman 19:11 eight year old Morrison, did he think he was going to be a creative strategist? Maurice Cherry 19:18 I'm pretty sure eight year old Mario had no idea what a creative strategist was. I think eight year old Mario is probably either wanted to be a firefighter. I have an uncle, that's a fire chief. Or probably a writer. Probably one of those two is when I probably wanted to be at that age. Marc Gutman 19:37 Then I was gonna ask, but a writer might fill in this answer. So did you have a tendency towards either creativity or strategy or both? or What were you into at that age and as you started to matriculate through through the years and sama Maurice Cherry 19:54 Oh my god, eight years old. I really was into writing. I mean, that sounds like such an old hobby for a kid but I had been writing probably since around, let's see eight years old. What's that like, second grade, second, third grade, something like that. I have been writing since first grade like stories and also drawing along with them. I have an older brother, he's four years older. And he's really like, the super visual creative in the family, he paints he draws he sculpts. I mean, he's, he's a fantastic artist. And I remember growing up wanting to be like him, but I could not draw, I could do like little stick figures or whatever. I would say my work was very abstract at that age when I look back on it now. But I would draw that I would write these stories that would correspond with the drawings. And I remember, my teachers would give us this sheet of paper where it's like, blank on top, and then there's ruled lines on the bottom. And so you draw whatever top the picture or what have you. And then you write your story. Down below, I remember doing a lot of those, I have a whole, like binder full of those in my storage unit from when I was a kid, like just doing a ton of writing and drawing and exploring, I guess, I mean, trying to explore my creativity in that rather limited space. I mean, Soma is a is a very small town in South Central Alabama, most people know about it from the civil rights movement. I can tell you growing up there as a kid, I mean, it's the country, it's not super fun. Like, there's not, there's no, you know, big amusement parks, or movie theaters and things like that, that you would, you know, kind of hang out and do stuff with as a kid. So it was very much, you having to kind of find your own entertainment, maybe you're hanging out with other kids, maybe you're at home. A lot of people would be in church, because almost a big church town is like 100 plus churches there. So that's usually kind of what you were doing. You were trying to find something to do. Maybe watch TV, let's see eight years old that I haven't intended. I probably had an intent though back then also. So I was most likely playing Super Mario Brothers or pro wrestling. Probably pro wrestling, I was probably star man in pro wrestling back then. Marc Gutman 22:17 Good, good hobby, good hobby. And you mentioned that you know, you were creative with words, your brother visually creative. Were your parents creative? Did they instill this in your Where'd that come from? Maurice Cherry 22:32 Um, no, they're not creative at all. Let me let me take them. I mean, I think you know, as I think parents have to be creative to some capacity, just dealing with children, but they weren't in particularly creative fields. My dad at the time, was an engineer at GE, working on plastics. And my mom was working at the local community college as a lab assistant in the biology department. So they were very much like in the sciences kind of feel. So not a lot of, you know, creativity there, I would imagine, but I did have the opportunity at times to maybe go like with my dad to work or maybe go up my mom to work and like, see where they work and like, see the machines and see the lab equipment and all that sort of stuff, at least get interested in it like, like, know that this is like a possibility for me, perhaps but no one say anything creative. Like we don't think like someone doesn't have any, at least not to my recollection, any art museums or, or anything like that, where you would go and like be overwhelmed with visual creative inspiration. At that age, maybe probably when I was a little older, I certainly remember getting a lot of visual and creative inspiration from magazines. So I think probably when I was maybe about 10, or 11 or so I remember us getting maybe I had to be old enough that maybe I was a teenager at this point. But we would get subscriptions to like zillions magazine, which was Consumer Reports. They had this like kids vertical that they called zillions. And I remember we would get vive magazine and source the source magazine and stuff like that. So I'm gonna get visual inspiration from magazines a lot. Growing up, Marc Gutman 24:18 what an awesome like, sub brand for kids zillions like Maurice Cherry 24:23 yeah, I don't know, if they do that anymore. It was it was like they were teaching kids how to be like, responsible consumers. So they would like for example, talk about fruit juice and say how most fruit juice is not made of actual juice. If you check the labels, it's actually more you know, it's actually water and sugar and all this sort of stuff. So they were kind of like teaching you how to, you know, be a good consumer as a kid. It was like, it was like a kid's magazine about money, which was very interesting. Marc Gutman 24:52 That's so cool. I love it. And as you got older and as you got into high school was this creative like writing And in this creative outlet, was that still coming out of you? Or what were your interests at that time? Maurice Cherry 25:06 It was, I mean, I was all over the place for people that knew me in high school, I was all over the place I was writing. Let's see, I think I was in eighth grade or so. And I started taking college English courses in writing. So I was like, always writing something writing poems and like, getting published and stuff. But also right around seventh or eighth grade, I discovered music. And I discovered why once I discovered music, we had a band in middle school. And I wanted to join the band because the band could get out of sixth and seventh period. And I'm like, Well, I want to get out of 67 period. How do I make that happen? And they had like this open session where you, you know, go to the band room and you choose the instrument like, I remember going in and the band director, Mr. Ruffin would say, like, you know, you choose the instrument and turn the instrument will choose you like you just pick the one that you think you'll do best on it. I really wanted to play trumpet. I was like, yeah, I'm gonna play trumpet, but the mouthpiece was just too small. I just couldn't get the right on the shore. And then my band director switched me over to trombone. And that was like a match made in heaven. That was perfect. So I played music, from seventh grade all the way through high school, all the way through college, all throughout my 20s. I played trombone, in marching bands, and jazz bands and like, house bands, at clubs and all sorts of stuff. So in high school, I was doing music, I was writing. Also just doing class, I was kept in the math club. I was sort of all over the place in high school, doing a lot of different things. I was really though getting more into music, because I'm with the marching band. My band director also allowed me to kind of try my hand at composing. So I would like listen to songs like mostly songs from video games, I would listen to songs like say the fanfare from Final Fantasy when you beat an enemy. And I would say, Okay, how can I turn this into like four parts for trombone. So that means me sitting down on my keyboard, and like, dissecting out each part, and then go into my section, and then we practice it. And then we take it to the game, and we play it at the game and stuff like that. So I got a chance to really sort of cut my teeth with doing a bit of like arranging and composing there. And then my band director also introduced me to so much good music, mostly, like Earth, Wind and Fire. And he was a big Earth Wind and Fire fan. So he introduced me to like their whole catalogue at the time. And we were also playing some popular songs from off the radio. See, this was 95. So we were playing. Like, this is how we do it. For montell Jordan, water runs dry boys to man that might have been 96. But like, we were playing like radio hits, but then also playing like these, you know, well known songs from like the 70s and 80s from Earth, Wind and Fire and stuff. So I was I was all over the place in high school. I really was like, I was always doing something different mostly with the band, though. I think most people knew me for that. But also, I was just like, in class and making A's and you know, it was I, I really enjoyed high school. I enjoy high school a lot. Marc Gutman 28:23 Yeah, and are you still skilled and playing the trombone. Maurice Cherry 28:29 I haven't played the trombone and over 10 years, so I don't know, I would imagine, it's probably just like picking up, you know, like riding a bike, I would suppose because the trombone, unlike other brass instruments has no keys. And so it's just one long, interconnected tube. And it's there's only seven positions to the trombone are not marked either. So you have to know them just by memory. And you have to get the note right really by ear. So like this a lot of like active listening as you're playing. And because you're sort of like varying the length of air in this long tube as you're playing. You don't have a lot of room for error. But you also have a lot of room for improvisation, because you can easily slide in between notes without having to exactly know, the right fingering to get there, you can just get there based on how it sounds. And so like even doing something as simple as the chromatic scale, which you know, takes into account all the flats and sharps, you're just going up and down the slide. And so if you hit an F, then you know, if I need to get down to a flat, I just keep sliding down until I get there. So you sort of in your mind, you know, kind of the connective tissue between the notes that you have to reach. So I say like trombone is easy to pick up but hard to master. Because you have to be thinking about all of that while you're playing. So sad. Marc Gutman 29:49 I thought you would be the first guest that we would have on the Baby Got Back story podcast that would break out the trombone and it doesn't sound like you have one within arm's reach right now. I'll give you I'll give you a pass on that. But Maurice Cherry 30:02 I saw I saw my trombone when I was 30. Because I was like, I'm gonna hang it up because I really wanted to focus on, like, at the time, like, focus on my career and on tech and stuff, and I couldn't be playing, you know, like pickup songs and stuff like that, like I was a session musician for a while about 20s. Like, it's it's fun until it's not, you know, like, it's just not stable. And I don't know, I wonder what I wonder who I would have been if I kept up with it, though. Yeah, I still have kind of in the back of my mind. Like when all this tech stuff is said and done. To start my own Afro Cuban jazz, big bands. That may still happen. Like when I turned 50 maybe I'll I'll make that happen. I don't know. But it's in the cards. Marc Gutman 30:49 The future vision and you know, who knows, maybe we can get a crowdfunding campaign going for Murray's here to get them a new trombone? It's Yeah, seems like you should, you should be playing the trumpet, trombone, and you shouldn't be, shouldn't be selling your trombone. But as you were growing up in so many getting into high school, what do you think you were going to do? I mean, I see that you went to Morehouse, and I'm sure your parents were very proud. Where are they? What were their hopes and dreams for you? And what did you think you were going to do with your life as you were starting to get a little older, and, you know, into high school and looking into college? Maurice Cherry 31:24 So I, this is so interesting, and I don't know if this will make your viewers angry or not, or jealous, I don't know. But like, I was not thinking about, the only thing I was really thinking about at that age was getting out of Selma. That was like, my number one. Main imperative is like, get out of this town. This is a small town, I mean, to kind of give you some context with this. I mean, I came about in the generation right after, like civil rights movement, Bloody Sunday, all that sort of stuff. And so the city itself already has this, like, deep, like, just ghost of history about it everywhere that you go. I mean, Selma itself is a very haunted town, like there's a number of haunted houses and things of that nature, but like to live that close to history, and then also be so detached from the rest of the world is a very eerie feeling. I think about that, in hindsight, you know, growing up, like I really did not know, much of the world outside of Selma, until I left. And I think about well, who would I have been if I stayed there? Like I probably would have, you know, I don't know that a pastor or something. I don't know, who knows. But it's such a small, insular type of community. And it's very easy to like stay in that and never change and never go anywhere and never experienced anything new. For me, the main thing I wanted to do was just get out of Selma. So the reason I say this is because I didn't really have a plan as to what I wanted to do. My plan was just how do I get out of here? What what way do I make that happen? I don't care what the way is, it just has to happen. And so in seventh grade, I remember being part of the, I think it was called the Duke talent identification program, or tip for short. And what they will do is they will take like, high achieving middle schoolers, and you would spend a weekend at Duke University. And then they would also give you an opportunity to take one of the like, standardized tests early being the LSAT, or the a CT. So seventh grade, I took the a CT, and I scored a 30 on it. Now, I think the AC T goes up to a 36. So 30 out of 36 was very good that I think that's like analog to maybe like a high 1400 or low 1500. On the SSAT like it's pretty good. So when I took that in seventh grade, that pretty much wrote my ticket to any school that I wanted to go to. I didn't think at all about like, Oh, I'm really want to go to these colleges, so I have to apply or I really wanted colleges were coming to me. I didn't have to do it. And I don't mean to sound like a bragging sort of way. But I mean, you know, my mom wanted she tell you to like colleges, were contacting us left and right, sending us all sorts of materials. And I was really for me to just think, Oh, well, where do I want to go. And I didn't want to stay in Alabama. Because again, my thing was like I wanted to get out of Selma, but really, I just wanted to get out of like the state and experience something new. But my mom was very much like you know, wherever you go, I'm not getting on a plane. So you have to go somewhere close. Like you have to be still in the south because I'm not getting on a plane. I'm not taking a bus anywhere. It has to be fairly close. And Morehouse ended up being the choice because they came to me on my senior awards day and presented me with two full scholarships, which was more than any other The school had presented me with at the time and I mean, like every major school in Alabama and presented it was like a full ride or something. But I didn't want to go to like, no, no shade to the University of Alabama. I don't want to go to the University of Alabama. I didn't want to go to Auburn. I didn't want to go to Alabama State, no snow shade. The Alabama State. I didn't want to go there. But Morehouse came and Morehouse has this big reputation. And people are like, Oh, well, Martin Luther King went to Morehouse. And, you know, I should go to Morehouse. And I'm like, you know what, I should go to Morehouse. I want to go to Morehouse. And part of the reason of going was one, I knew that was a quick ticket out of out of Selma, but that also, and I think anyone who grew up in the south, probably in the 80s, and 90s, that wasn't near a big city, came to Atlanta at some point, like, there was a field trip to Six Flags, it was all your your class, they were on sa t we're going to Six Flags like everything was going to Six Flags. So there were always all these trips to Atlanta. And Atlanta was always sort of the destination, I think for a lot of us because it was the nearest really big city. Plus around that time. I mean, Atlanta in the 90s was a magical place. I mean, yes, you have the Olympics, but you also had freakness. So you've got like this combination of all this electricity happening in the city. And it was just the place like Atlanta was just the place to be. And so I'm thinking, well, if I can go to Atlanta, and it's a free ride, and I don't have to pay it, my parents will have to pay. Yeah, we'll do it. Let's do Atlanta. And so Morehouse ended up being the choice for me. I didn't even apply to Morehouse, they came to me. And, and the rest is history. Marc Gutman 36:44 A common question I get all the time is Mark, can you help me with our brand? Yes, we help companies solve branding problems. And the first step would be to schedule a no obligation brand clarity call, we'll link to that in the show notes, or head over to wildstorm comm and send us an email, we'll get you booked right away. So whether you're just getting started with a new business, or whether you've done some work and need a refresh, or whether you're a brand that's high performing and wants to stay there, we can help. After you book, your brand clarity call, you'll learn about our brand audit strategy process will identify if you need a new logo or just a refresh, will determine if your business has a branding problem. And you'll see examples of our work and get relevant case studies. We'll also see if branding is holding your business back and can help you get to the next level. So what are you waiting for, build the brand you've always dreamed of. Again, we'll link to that in the show notes. or head over to wildstorm comm and send us an email. Now back to the show. All I could think about when you were talking about music in Atlanta in the 90s was salt and pepper. So that's what it triggered for me. But so you went to Morehouse and sounds like you know, first and foremost, you're like a lot of young people. You're like, I just want to go someplace, I just want to change my life. I just want to start my life, you know, and kind of figure things out. When you got to Morehouse, what did you think you were going to do with with yourself? Maurice Cherry 38:30 Oh, my goodness, you know, I'm gonna be completely honest with you, Mark, I had no plans in college. I'm telling you that back then I didn't plan anything. I was such a easy going go with the flow kind of person to kind of give you a sense of that. I graduated from high school in late May of 1999. And then two weeks later, I packed up moved everything and went somewhere else because the the program that I was a part of for my scholarship, had a summer program is called project space. So I was at Morehouse in June of 99. Like, it was such a magical feeling. I'm like I'm in this big city, by myself. No one can tell me what to do. I could do whatever I want. But of course, it's still like within the confines of college and you have to kind of be, you know, aware of your surroundings. Morehouse is in that it's not in the best neighborhood. I mean, certainly back then it was it was not that great. It's probably better now. But back then it was a pretty rough neighborhood that the school was in so they really wanted to make sure that we stayed on campus where it was safe and not venture out into the neighborhood. But we could easily like catch a bus to the train station and like, go to all parts of the city where the train would go and so you know, the city kind of ended up being like our oyster but when I got there, I mean, I had no plans. I was in the summer program. And we were taking oh my goodness, we were taking like calculus two courses and we were taking care computer programming courses and Spelman, the program that we had on the head of cohort at Spelman College, which is the all female college that's across the street from Morehouse, which is all male college. And so we will take classes together with the girls from Spelman, we would hang out together. But mostly everything we did was kind of in and around. And on campus, like there wasn't a lot of off campus kind of stuff. Except for the people who were from Atlanta who could, you know, like, they could like get in their car, like take us somewhere, like take it to the grocery store or something like that. But they were they really highly discouraged us from going out and about in the city. And then once the school year started proper, I mean, I was just trying everything that I could like I was meeting new people that were into different things that was sort of my first real deep introduction to like anime, and trans music. Was that Morehouse, I was, like I mentioned, I was also still playing trombone. Just like discovering different things and different people, honestly, I mean, I'm just coming from Alabama, just being like this country bumpkin. Like now I'm all of a sudden, meeting all these people from the Caribbean, and from other parts of the country, and like, you know, them being really proud of where they're from, and their culture and everything like that. And so, just getting introduced to so many different things at once made it really, really hard to like, focus, like, I'll be honest, I almost almost flunked out. Freshman year, like first semester was, I was lost in the sauce. As I was going out to the clubs, I was hanging out late. I was getting back to the dorm room 234 in the morning for and then like sleeping for a few hours and then have an eight o'clock, Cal three class like I was reckless. I was so reckless freshman year, and it caught up to me to the point where I ended up getting evicted from my dorm. I was homeless for a slight bit like about a week or two, and then ended up getting placed into another dorm. And then that ended up being like a weird kind of situation, because the rd was kind of a creepy, like kind of a creepy guy, and got moved to another dorm. And then that was weird because my roommate in that dorm clearly had been suffering physical abuse from his roommate, and was very like, I don't know, very jumpy, like, anytime I will come around. And he's like, oh, like, don't you know, don't look at me that way, don't you know or something like that. So freshman year was a lot, at least the first half of freshman year was a lot. During that time. One thing I would say that was like, the stabilizing force outside of my classes was that I had joined a website and started working for them. So there was a website called college club calm. I don't know if people remember college club. And it was sort of like a precursor to Facebook. And basically, every college had their own campus on college club. And you could upload pictures. Every person had like a college club email, and they had this number that you could call that would read your email to you over the phone. There was live chat. I mean, comms club was lit. I mean, they ended up going bankrupt. for good reason. I think at one point, they were giving away like $10,000 a week to people, they were really just like that early, calm money was coming in. But I worked for college club as a campus representative first at Morehouse, and then for the entire Atlanta University Center. So I had three or four other people under me. And we had devised the system. Why am I telling this might be illegal actually know what comes out of the system? Well, that's fine. So we had devised a system where we basically would get paid from college club for every account that was created after every photo that we uploaded. So one of my good friends, good good friends, Chris wrote this macro that would allow us to basically just like dump a bunch of photos into a folder, and they would automatically get uploaded to college club. And so we would get, you know, money for that. And then he also came up with this other macro that will automatically create accounts. So we had these cameras, we have these huge Sony mavica cameras that actually were so big, you had to put a floppy disk in it for storage, like three and a quarter floppy disk. And we would go and take pictures and swap out the disk. And then at the end of the night, we would dump everything into this Network Folder. We run the macro, the macro would upload the stuff from the Network Folder, we would literally be making money while we slept. I mean I was making at that point. roughly about $4,000 a month. Marc Gutman 44:46 Pretty good for a college kid. Maurice Cherry 44:48 This is this is my This was my, like second half of freshman year and I mean, we did not know how to act with that with that much money we were just doing just spending money on just the dumbest stupid shit just like, go to Linux and like, you know, buy a whole bunch of people's stuff in the food court or just buying like extravagant clothes. And so I mean, in hindsight, just dumb, dumb stuff. But at the time, you know, you're 19 was 19 then trying to think now I was 18 and I was 18 then, and just like have money hand over fist. It was it was ridiculous. Um, eventually college club ended up going bankrupt. And so that job didn't last too long. But for the time that we had it, it was great. And so yeah, I didn't really have ambition. My freshman year, I was too busy having fun. Like, we would go out to the strip and take pictures and like, and then I mean, I guess I kind of have to set the scene here. I mean, so the Atlanta University Center is six colleges. It's Morehouse College, Spelman College, Clark, Atlanta University, Morris Brown College, they entered the interdenominational theological center and Morehouse School of Medicine. So like six schools, all together and like this one huge meta campus. And now the schools kind of have their own like, sort of divisions like Spellman, for example, has a huge wall around and it's basically like fort Spellman. But the other colleges, you can easily walk between and through and everything like that. And so the connective kind of tissue between the main colleges is this long brick thoroughfare called the strip. And it's basically just for walking. So like, you know, cars were coming up and down, it was just, you could walk, there were benches, there were booths, all sort of stuff. So you could hang out all day on the strip, and like, people watch, then walk down to seagulls and like, get some wings and then go sit on the bench and listen to some music and then go to the bookstore, go to the library, like everything was just connected in this big, almost like a marketplace. And then on Fridays, at the very end of the strip at Spelman, they would open their gates and you could go into Spelman to their lower courtyard that they called lower manly, and they had market Friday, and they would be DJs. there and dance. I mean, it was so much fun, that you didn't think about class, like class was almost like, why would I go to class, but I could just hang out on the strip all day, you know. So that was very easy. That first year as a freshman and you have money to it was very easy to just get completely sidetracked. And I completely fell deep into all of that. Well, Marc Gutman 47:37 and as we know, Time marches on. And it sounds like you know, had a very similar experience. I went crazy my freshman year and pulled it together primarily because my parents told me I had no choice. It was gonna be big trouble if I didn't. But Time marches on, and you get through Morehouse and like, how did you start a career in creativity and strategy Maurice Cherry 48:00 that really kind of came about almost as a almost as circumstance. So and I'll try to fast forward through, like past like post college on but so I graduated from Morehouse, I didn't have anything lined up like I'm to be completely honest. When I graduated, I had no plans whatsoever, partially because our scholarship program, they pulled the funding from it in 2001, because of 911. So they pulled funding from that and funding went to which was then created the Homeland Security Department. So we didn't have funding to kind of continue out what we thought the end result of our internships and stuff was going to be so with my scholarship program, basically, I would intern for two years for NASA. And then after that, we would get placed at a NASA facility. So in my mind, I'm like, as long as I keep Baba 3.0 I got a job at NASA. So that's all I have to do. jr came along and completely dashed all of that. And so by the time I graduated, I had nothing lined up. I was working at the Woodruff Arts Center, selling tickets to the symphony, and to the art museum into the theater, just like you know, selling old patriots tickets and stuff like that. And they took away the calculator at my station because I had a math degree, which was kind of degrading but whatever. Did that for a little while, left that job, worked at autotrader. Like, as a dealer concierge is basically just like a glorified customer service rep. Did that for a while, quit that job. And then on a whim, I found in the back of our local weekly newspaper, creative loafing. I found a listing to become an electronic media specialist for the state of Georgia, applied for it on a whim, got the job. I worked for there for about a year and a half left went to at&t as a junior designer. What worked my way up to being a senior designer left there in 2008. After Obama got elected, I started my own studio. I did my studio for nine years. And I would say that was kind of the genesis of this whole creative strategy career. Because even though I had my studio where I was doing web design and graphic design and email marketing and stuff like that, I really was able to branch out and do a lot of other creative stuff like I was able to do. Like DNI consulting for tech companies, like I did that for Vox media. For a while I did that with Netflix for a short period of time, did a lot of writing still, like I was still writing during that time. So I wrote four sight points. And for psych five, and I wrote for media B's show for a while I taught classes at the Bri and at Savannah College of Art and Design, I did a lot of different stuff in the studio. And so because I was doing all these different things, like I was gaining all this knowledge and other parts of the, you know, the business and the really in other parts of the industry, and was able to really kind of bring it all together. So by the time I Wow, my studio down in 2017, I knew that there was more that I wanted to do that I couldn't accomplish and sort of the current state that the studio was in. Also the market was changing, like, bespoke web design was sort of going out as more people started to use kind of drag and drop options like a Squarespace or Wix or something like that. So it made more sense for me to kind of phase out of that market and get more into the actual like, strategy portion of it. Because now there are these tools that allow me that allow people to do the things they would pay a designer to do. But the tools don't really give you the strategy behind why you would use certain things or something like that. And so I tried to kind of brand myself more in this strategy route. As I wind my studio down, um, at the end of 2017, I started at a tech startup, or there's a tech company at that time called Fog Creek software as starting, they're just kind of doing content marketing and getting a sense of the business and what they were doing. As I stayed there, they switched over to become the startup called glitch. And then as they were growing, and they look, we're looking to me, as someone that sort of had this thought leadership that was built up to this point, I was able to then kind of come in on a strategy aspect, and then help out with, you know, bizdev opportunities or partnerships or, you know, things of that nature. And so that really kind of set the stage for me to take all of the cumulative knowledge that I gained throughout my studio time and even the time prior to that working for companies and use that to kind of be this this sort of creative thought leadership at a company that needed it at the time. Marc Gutman 52:44 And when did revision path come about? Like how did you get into podcasting? Because it 400 episodes, I'm guessing you were a bit of an early adopter? Maurice Cherry 52:55 Yeah. So I started podcasting, initially in 2005. So I have old shows that will never see the light of day. I have old old shows from back then. And Atlanta, to its credit actually had a very vibrant podcasting. Community back then we had this thing called the Georgia Podcast Network that was put on by this couple rusty and Amber. And I mean, that was big for maybe about five or six years, there were meetups and things of that nature. And it was mostly Georgia, but also included like South Carolina, Tennessee, kind of like that tri state area. So I have been doing podcasting for a while but never really looked at it as a viable thing, then it was sort of this first wave of podcasting. Because, really, it wasn't something that caught on then like people were more so starting to latch on to video. During that time, it wasn't about, oh, we're gonna listen to this podcast. And even then what podcast were normally was just stuff that was on the radio that they didn't put out as an mp3. So like, The New York Times, NPR, etc, would have these little shows. And that's how you sort of picked up on like maybe a radio show that you've missed, you can subscribe to the podcast, which is really just that day is episode that they downloaded and made into an mp3 or whatever. I first started doing revision path in 2013. And at that time, it wasn't a podcast, it was gonna be just an online magazine. I wanted to do something which showcased what black designers and developers were doing in the field like peers of mine, etc. to kind of counteract what I wasn't seeing in design media. And I started doing these long form interviews, maybe about 1500 to 2000 words or so. But it just took so long to put together I was doing it by myself. And it was someone that actually was a reader of revision path is woman named Raquel Rodriguez, who one day wrote me and said that she was a fan of revision paths. She would really like to be on revision path, but wanted to record a podcast. Because she had a podcast that she was doing in Chicago, and at the time, I'm like, yeah, we can record that's fine thinking to myself, I have no recording equipment. So we ended up recording our interview, the very first episode of revision path on my mobile phone, in a restaurant. Terrible quality. I still keep the episode out. I mean, it's somewhat listable, I guess, I don't know. But, uh, that was kind of where the genesis of the podcast started. And then as I continue to keep doing revision path throughout 2013, I would give guests the option to either record, or we could do like the long form interview. So I sort of alternated. And then when 2014 came around, and it was a full year of revision path, I just decided it's just easier to do the podcast, so switched over to becoming a podcast in March of 2014, officially, but when we launched, we still had about, I say, about 15 episodes prior that we had done. So we launched with a pretty big catalog already. So technically, we launched that like, Episode 16. But we have been recording since episode one. Back in June of 2013. Marc Gutman 56:11 Yeah, and as you mentioned, you just recorded your 400th episode, you've been doing this for a while. I'm terrible at math, but it sounds like about eight years or something like that, which is a long time. Like I'm, I think you're gonna be Episode 71 for the baby backstory podcast, and I can tell you, I mean, it's been difficult it you know, sometimes I hear, I hear 71. And I'm like, Ah, that's not that much. But there is a lot of energy, a lot of effort and a lot of time that's gone into it, like 400 episodes, do you ever think like, enough's enough? Are you just gonna keep keep recording? Maurice Cherry 56:48 I mean, at this point, I'm going to keep recording. As we're talking, I've already got episodes recorded through 405. And then I've got five more in the queue. So we're up to like, 409, I think, technically, I, you know, I'll be honest, there's really no shortage of people for me to have on the show, I've got a running potential guests list in the 1000s of people that I could have on the show. And then, of course, folks recommend others, I've started to bring back old guests on the show, just to kind of see what their, their updates have been since they first came on the show, you know, like, so it's been fun to kind of chart that journey, in some ways. And then honestly, as the industry has changed, what the show has really allowed me to do is keep up. Because I mean, at this point, I'm not really a practicing designer anymore. Like I'm not, you know, in Photoshop, or sketch or figma, or whatever. But being able to talk to so many practitioners still keeps me up to date with what's going on, and what are the new technologies? And what are folks talking about? What are folks passionate about? It keeps me up to date with, with that sort of stuff. And also just being able to introduce design still to a whole new generation of people that may not have known that there were people in design who looked like them. People who think like, Oh, I'm just alone in this by myself, and then they can look and see no, you're not, there's like 400 other people here that you're in this thing with? So I don't I personally don't see it stopping anytime soon. I mean, we're still, you know, you know, knock on wood, getting funding and able to keep things going. So I'll keep it going for as long as the industry will have me. Marc Gutman 58:34 Yeah, let's talk about that really quickly. You know, you mentioned that revision path is really this outlet to showcase those those folks who typically aren't showcased and to show people that, hey, there's other people like them out there. Like when you think about revision path, like what's the one thing you want people to know, like, really now about what you're doing with this podcast? Hmm, Maurice Cherry 59:00 that's a good question. I mean, I think, off the top of my head, I would want people to know that this is not easy. And I think people will look at what I'm doing and think that it's pretty easy. And it's not, I mean, I think that might be the case for most podcasters. But for me, in particular, like I've had to continually work and try new things to get to a system that I know works with me and my team, like and it's bulletproof. It's a time to get there, that wasn't just something that I was able to kind of pull out from, you know, from scratch, and it was something I had to build myself. I had to find the right tools to pull in to make sure all of this work. So it's really about that. I would say for any podcast, it's really about building systems that allow you to be able to do this work. I don't necessarily want to say at scale because I think honestly, the the production level that we're doing is not really changed that much over the years. But it's refined to the point where I can take long breaks between interviews and not get burned out from this. And I'd say yeah, like, it's not easy. People will look at me and will look at me and look at the show and think that it's easy like oh, is, it just seems so easy for you to get people to come on the show. I'm like, no, it's still, it. Honestly, it's still a challenge sometimes to get people to come on the show. Just making sure that everything sort of flows regularly. Like, even though we have our system down, that could still be one thing and that system that could cause it all to, you know, tumble like a house of cards or something. So definitely, that it's it's not easy that it's a lot of thought that goes into it. I think people will look at the 400 episodes of revision path and just see like a monolithic set of people. But I mean, there's so much diversity within the people that I have interviewed, whether it's age diversity, whether it's what they do in the industry, years of experience, as men, there's women, there's trans folk, there's folks in the US and the Caribbean, throughout Europe, throughout Africa, throughout Asia and Australia. Like they're, they're everywhere, the thing that sort of ties them all together, is you know, they're practicing designers, or they're practicing techies, or they're doing something creative on the web that is worthy of kind of falling into line with everything that I'm doing with revision paths. So yeah, I would say that's probably the the main thing I think now as the show has started to, I don't want to say become mainstream, I'd say the older that the show gets. I've seen the more people maybe not understand what it is. And I tell people right off the bat, that revision path is a design podcast granted, I do have developers on the show, I have had software engineers on the show. Just lately, like I was talking

CodeHouse is a local nonprofit working to expose students of color to the tech industry. Ernest Holmes, a software engineer at Google and the president and co-founder of CodeHouse, Tavis Thompson, the vice president and co-founder of CodeHouse and program manager at Microsoft and Jaycee Holmes, Spelman College professor and the director of Curriculum and Instruction of CodeHouse, talk with Rose about how the CodeHouse Scholars Initiative will provide incoming Atlanta University Center students with scholarships and mentorship.

Malaia and Kalia discuss why they both made the decision to transfer to Historically Black College and Universities in the Atlanta University Center and how it changed their lives forever.

The season finale of Ray Talks Live.  I'll be giving a brief recap of my favorite episodes from the first season.  I will also give you a preview of what's coming for Season 2 of Ray Talks Live.  Which includes a new logo, more in-depth historical topics and the topics of education, marriage, Disney vs. Universal, and Historical Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) roundtable discussions.  Be ready!Season 1 Episode 2:Lord...Come Get These Kids!Season 1 Episode 12:Parents, Teachers and COVID-19Season 1 Episode 9 & 16:Classic TV Sitcoms (Weddings)Classic TV Sitcoms (Cartoons)Season 1 Episode 1:End of the Dark SideSeason 1 Episode 8:American Democracy, Try American EmbarrassmentSeason 1 Episode 11:Impeachment: History Repeats Itself--Again!Support: Free Lunch CoffeeIf you love drinking coffee and want to help end child hunger.  There is no better way then by visiting Free Lunch Coffee  whose coffee is Specialty Grade, Certified Organic & Fair Trade. When you buy just one bag of coffee, you will provide 10 meals to children in need.  You will also receive a 10% discount at checkout by using the coupon code: raytalkslive Thanks for listening and make sure to subscribe! Follow on social media: Twitter: @raytalkslive Facebook: @raytalkslive Instagram: @raytalks_live Email: raytalkslive@gmail.com

Society of American Archivist Vice President and Head of Research Services at the Rose, Courtney Chartier, talks advocacy of the profession, engagement with the community, and about her experience as one of the processing archivists for the Martin Luther King Jr. papers, the Voter Education Project, and the Tupac Shakur papers during her time the Atlanta University Center.

We take you now to the streets of Washington DC after dark, when Black Lives Matter Plaza comes alive in the midst of Trump's Republican National Convention speech at the White House and buzzes with action the nights after the Commitment March. This episode features interviews with protesters who have been active in DC from the beginning of the protests, at this point, for a consistent 90 days. They describe firsthand accounts with the police, some speak to their experience being kettled in a crowd others to the conditions after being arrested for marching. We record from a scene where smoke bombs were thrown at the crowd at 3:00 in the morning. Other interviews are held in the late evenings with people who have traveled in from out of town who give perspectives and comparisons to their home cities. CREDITSProducers, Reporters on the Ground, & Hosts: Brittany "NO FOMO" Hallberg & Chris WebbAudio Engineer & Music Composition: Chris Webb and Shane CooleyMastering: Zachary GoldmanAll audio is original, directly recorded out in the field via reporters Brittany "NO FOMO" Hallberg and Chris WebbSOURCESAfrican American Policy Forum https://www.instagram.com/aapolicyforum/ Say Her Name Campaign https://aapf.org/sayhernameUntil Freedom https://www.instagram.com/untilfreedom/ Freedom Fighters DC https://www.instagram.com/freedomfightersdc/Volunteer Form https://ffdcvolunteers.typeform.com/to/AyUb85H0Liv, Atlanta Protester & HBCU Student https://www.instagram.com/brownsugaababee/Oyoma, DC Photographer & Protester https://www.instagram.com/_oyoma/Concerned Citizens DC https://www.instagram.com/concernedcitizensdc/ The Palm Collective https://www.instagram.com/the_palm_collective/ & https://palmcollective.org/ DC Protests https://www.instagram.com/dc_protests_/ We Keep Us Safe https://www.facebook.com/wekeepus/They Them Collective https://www.instagram.com/theythemcollective/Occupy DC https://www.instagram.com/occupydc202/ Historically Black Colleges and Universities [HBCU] https://sites.ed.gov/whhbcu/one-hundred-and-five-historically-black-colleges-and-universities/The Live Movement https://www.instagram.com/_thelivemovement/ Atlanta University Center https://aucenter.edu/members/ Fuel the People https://www.instagram.com/fueltheppl/ Long Live Go Go Bus https://www.instagram.com/longlivegogodc#BlackLivesMatter

The deaths of unarmed black people have sparked nationwide demonstration and dialogue. Following in the tradition of the great civil rights lawyers like Thurgood Marshall, Constance Baker Motley, and countless others, there are legal warriors doing battle in courtrooms today and their voices are needed to truly understand where we go from here. Attorneys Mawuli M. Davis, Francys Johnson, and R. Gary Spencer take part in the first installment of our Brothers-in-Law special conversation on race and justice. Guest bios:Mawuli M. Davis is a founding partner of the Davis Bozeman Law Firm where he leads the firm’s Civil Rights Division. He attended the United States Naval Academy, where he played varsity basketball and earned a degree in Political Science. He served in the United States Navy as an officer while earning a Masters in Public Administration from Bowie State University. Attorney Davis is a graduate of Georgia State University(GSU) College of Law and he is recognized as a Super Lawyer, a distinction given to less than 3% of the lawyers practicing in Georgia.  As an activist, Attorney Davis is a co-founder of Let Us Make Man. After the acquittal of George Zimmerman, he was one of the primary organizers for the ”Respect Black Life” march of over 5,000 protestors from the Atlanta University Center to CNN which was featured in Ebony magazine.Francys Johnson is a practicing lawyer, public theologian, and educator. He practices criminal and civil law in the state and federal courts in Georgia from his office on Main Street in downtown Statesboro. A graduate of Georgia Southern University and The University of Georgia School of Law, Johnson previously served on the Political Science and Criminal Justice faculties at Georgia Southern University and Savannah State University teaching courses on Criminal Law; Constitutional Law; Race and the law; and the Civil Rights Movement. Today, he is a recognized thought-leader on voting rights having testified before Congress; lecturing across the country and writing on the other subjects including race, measuring equity, and understandings of power in public policy. Previously, Johnson was President of the Georgia NAACP, this state's oldest and largest civil rights organization, following more than two decades of service in a variety of capacities including Southeast Regional Director.R. Gary Spencer has more than 25 years of experience in serving clients in criminal defense, personal injury, wills and probate, and attorney disciplinary actions. He is a member of the State Bars of Georgia, where serves as a member of the Board of Governors, and the State Bar of Florida. He is admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court. He is a graduate of Howard University and the Howard University School of Law.Support The Podcast:If you enjoy Hidden Legal Figures The Podcast, you can support us by donating here and by leaving a review here.To contact us or learn more about The Arc of Justice Institute, visit: https://onthearc.net/Podcast Team:Terrass “Razz” Misher, Producer, Podcast on the Go, LLCMia Mance, Social Media Communications, Mia Talks, LLCMarvin Cummings, Special Voice TalentDerrick Alexander Pope, J.D., Host Find Us On Social:Facebook   Twitter    Instagram  Hidden Legal Figures is licensed for the exclusive use of The Arc of Justice Institute, Inc. The Arc of Justice Institute is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, public educational institution. Hidden Legal Figures: The Podcast copyright © 2019-2020 by Derrick Alexander Pope, J.D. All rights reserved.

with the recent emergence of expose pages, sexual violence/abuse has been heavy on the minds of students, pushing some to vocalize their trauma. social media became an outlet for survivors to call out abusers and their enablers (*i love this song*). this pertinent conversation defines sexual violence & its’ terminology, dissects Title IX in relation to HBCUs, and spreads awareness on how we can protect each other. — FOLLOW MY GUESTS ON SOCIAL: kadidiatou • @_kaaddii jauan • @princejauan lani • @lanigrayer wesley • @kingwesley12 — if you have been a victim of sexual assault, rape, sexual harassment, or any other act of sexual violence (including coercion & manipulation) in the Atlanta University Center please consider filling out the form for ‘What She Said’ in @lanigrayer’s instagram bio. there is a non-victim option in the form as well. #WhatSheSaid

April is Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Month and my guest is absolutely one of my most favorite people in the world!As one who suffered childhood sexual abuse, specifically father-daughter incest, Lyvonne Proverbs is deeply committed to ending childhood sexual abuse in and beyond Black religious spaces.We cover a lot of a ground – including how to break free of your “pity parties” and commit to healing and how to become co-conspirators in healing (and why we love this word more than ally).We even chat about all of the ways we love on ourselves so that we can activate our power and presence (it's a lot simpler than you might think!)You'll also learn more about Lyvonne's work with beautiful scars, an online platform support Black Christian women in finding their voice and healing.Get a pen and paper, you're going to want to take notes!Support our show! If you'd like to make a donation in support of the podcast, go to http://bit.ly/beyondsurvivingpodcastdonation - all contributions will be applied towards funding scholarships, the running of donation based & free programs, & making sure that those reaching out for support get what they need.---Lyvonne Proverbs, MDiv, a New York City native, is a body and sex-positive pastor, preacher, transformational speaker, spiritual life coach, writer, poet, educator, and conscious creative social entrepreneur. An Emmy-award-winning media producer, Proverbs graduated from Seton Hall University with a Bachelor of Arts in English Honors, Yale Divinity School with a Master of Divinity, and Columbia Theological Seminary with a Master of Theology, where she completed her thesis, The Problem with "Father" God: Incest as a Silent Killer in the Black Church, about preaching, poetry, and sexual trauma. She is a highly sought after presenter and has partnered with Lyft, Auburn Seminary, San Francisco Department of Health, the Atlanta University Center, Young Women Social Entrepreneurs, and more.Proverbs is the founder of beautiful scars, an online storytelling agency focused on trauma, healing, and resiliency. Her @WereSurthrivors platform is a digital community for Black Christian women who are also survivors of childhood sexual abuse. By harnessing the power of narrative, she is aiding survivors (and communities, at large) to shift from silence to storytelling to put an end to male sexual violence.Proverbs has been featured in ESSENCE, Cosmopolitan, and The Washington Post magazines and Sojourners named her one of "11 Women Shaping the Church" in March 2019. Proverbs is a proud member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated and the inaugural cohort of the DO GOOD X Startup Accelerator. She currently resides in Atlanta, GA and can be found on Facebook and LinkedIn, as well as Twitter and Instagram (@LyvonneP).lyvonnep.com@Lyvonne P on IG/TwitterLyvonne Proverbs on Facebookweresurthrivors.com@WereSurthrivors on IG/Twitterbeautiful scars on FacebookSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/beyond-surviving. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Good morning, it's Friday, January 24th. I’m Lucas Dixon, and here are today's headlines from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. It’ll be cloudy today, with a couple of showers and a thunderstorm, and a high of 58. Tonight, expect patchy clouds, and a low of 38. Our top story is: Instead of being demolished, the home of Atlanta’s first black mayor, Maynard Jackson, will be preserved and turned into affordable housing for Atlanta University Center graduate students and researchers.

Clark Atlanta University, one of 101 Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the nation (3:05)Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. attended college on this campus (3:25)Social mobility through education (5:05)Three times a Panther (6:05)Identified as a future leader in DeKalb County Schools (7:00)Year 45 and counting – a lifetime dedicated to serving others (9:00)A court order and Felicia’s first teaching position (9:20)Nearly a dozen languages spoken in the school (10:05)Seven years, seven years, seven years… (10:25)Too many principals of color in some schools (11:05)Education as the most noble field (12:45)Teachers perpetuate democracy (13:15)A child of civil rights (13:50)A fabulous childhood, in a mission (15:05)A southern midwestern accent (16:35)There is something bigger than you (17:15)The Wallace Foundation, Gwinnett Public Schools, and the Principal Pipeline (18:00)A teacher’s impact is significant (18:45)The leader must have the big picture (20:00)Even when you think big, there’s something bigger (21:20)Leveraging power to impact a community (22:15)1953, heart of the civil rights struggle, and a segregated community (23:30)The “mission of the mission” was pushed by the black aristocracy (24:20)New Orleans, Dubuque, and Memphis (25:20)The common enemy was never based on someone’s race (25:50)The good, and the evil, that is colorless (27:30)Skin tone, or something else, as a core issue? (28:30)Are you here to contribute, or are you here to take away? (29:40)It was right in the middle of a housing project (31:10)This was definitely a bifurcated community (32:20)Fathers and mothers were paying attention to a lot of things (33:00)Happy to be able to be an ambassador for my race (35:00)Had to prove myself, and I had to make all A’s (35:30)Segregation was about capacity (35:45)These women were very progressive (36:20)We need to make sure that everyone has a voice (37:30)My mother wanted me to go into education (37:50)Overwhelming sadness (38:35)The haze as the sun was setting was orange (39:35)Our home received a phone call (39:55)Lessons learned from the civil rights struggle and Dr. King’s assassination (41:20)There is a significant price paid when one person advances at the expense of another (42:25)What gives birth to civil wars (43:40)Educator-leaders are in the middle to mitigate our struggles (44:00)The risk of forgetting (44:45)Faith and hope that we will continue to do well, learn, listen, and improve (46:20)Understanding the human condition, everyone has a voice, and emerging from oppression (47:00)We are learning on a broader screen (48:30)Working to harvest the best gifts (48:55)Empowerment, respect, and using the best of what people have to offer (49:45)History of women’s needs not being met (50:55)Outcasts, outsiders, and social responsibility (51:15)I have a responsibility to share what works (52:30)This is a wonderful time, with so many rich examples of leadership (55:45)We know what goes into being successful (54:30)You can “get the call back” after a mistake is made (55:00)A leader will not make a perfect call every time (55:35)Systems theory and vision – long-term and right now (57:25)You must have an undergirding of service to others (58:10)Personal care shows–in your face, your countenance, and your productivity (59:40)Don’t work out your inadequacies on social media (1:00:00)To lead means that you are giving your best self (1:02:10)Social justice defined as advocacy (1:03:10)Dr. Moses Norman - insert yourself into a dark place and turn on the light (1:05:00)I want my experience to be of benefit to someone else (1:07:30)Leadership and popularity (1:08:20)The benefits of the earlier harvest (1:08:50)Do justly, love mercy, walk humbly (1:10:00)Retirement just keeps moving away from me (1:10:40)Dr. Fidel Turner and Barbara Hill providing leadership at CAU (1:11:30) http://www.cau.edu The History of Black Catholics in the United States https://www.amazon.com/dp/0824514955/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_ysvrEbK92EG5V

Join us for an engaging conversation with Lyvonne Proverbs, MDiv, a New York City native, and body and sex-positive light-worker, pastor, preacher, transformational speaker, writer, poet, educator, and conscious creative social entrepreneur. An Emmy-award winning media producer, Proverbs graduated from Seton Hall University, Yale Divinity School, and Columbia Theological Seminary. She is a highly sought after presenter and has partnered with Lyft, Auburn Seminary, the Atlanta University Center, San Francisco Department of Health, Young Women Social Entrepreneurs and more. Rev. Lyvonne offers consulting for sacred and secular institutions, as well as individual and group spiritual life coaching. Rev. Lyvonne has been featured in ESSENCE, Cosmopolitan, and The Washington Post magazines and is the host of Courageous Currents podcast on KPFA, where she fosters conversations with her guests about life at the intersection of faith and social justice. Sojourners named her one of “11 Women Shaping the Church” in March 2019. We delve into quite a bit during this episode: - Understanding Jesus as liberator for the most marginalized.  - How thinkers rooted in black liberation theology, founded by Dr. James Cone (God of the Oppressed and many other books) and womanism (defined by Alice Walker in her 1983 book In Search of our Mothers' Gardens), expanded her own personal understanding and expression of Christianity. Some of these womanist thinkers  include: Dr. Katie Geneva Cannon, Rev. Dr. Emilie M. Townes, Delores S. Williams, and Ebony Janice Moore.  - Healing from incest (at the hands of her biological father) and founding Beautiful Scars, an online storytelling agency focused on trauma, healing and resiliency. - @WereSurthrivors platform, a digital community for Black Christian women who are also survivors of childhood sexual abuse. By harnessing the power of narrative, she helps survivors (and communities, at large) shift from silence to storytelling. - Moving beyond the shaming of our bodies and sex / sexuality  which is so prevalent in many churches so we can realize our personal and collective liberation in Christ.   - Seeing the body as a divine expression of God's love for us, and embracing various practices to center self care with intention. - The importance of therapy for our well being. Check out Open Path Collective for affordable care options.  Connect with Pastor Lyvonne via her website: https://lyvonnep.com (where you will find links to all her social media pages).  Stay Connected with Pray with our Feet: IG: @praywithourfeet  Twitter: @praywithourfeet  This podcast is generously edited by my hubby, Kes, a talented videographer / photographer / editor at www.keston.online.

Good morning. It's Monday, August 26th. I’m Tiffany Jeans, and here are today's headlines from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Today will be mostly cloudy and humid with a high of 79 and a low of 70. Expect a shower or thunderstorm both during the day and tonight. Our top story: Last week, Atlanta police released a video showing a suspect in a shooting at a block party at the Atlanta University Center that wounded 4 students.

Bill, Janae and Tucker talk with senior NBA writer for The Undefeated, Marc Spears about the NBA Finals, the upcoming Draft, and why getting a degree in sports business management can help sports journalists. They also weigh on the hate group that is expected to protest graduations ceremonies at the Atlanta University Center.

Dr. Lakeysha Hallmon is the founder and CEO of the Village Market. Since 2016, Dr. Hallmon has been a transformational leader and speaker by bringing national exposure to black-owned businesses. She has developed an economical vehicle that empowers the Black community through cooperative economics. Dr. Hallmon is a native of Batesville, Mississippi. An educator by passion, she began hosting Master Classes to provide tangible tools, resources, and connections to encourage forward progression as a community. The desire that launched The Village Market ATL only three months later was two-fold: to support socially conscious, community-minded, entrepreneurs and startups of color. Kidpreneurs is a unique facet of the market that gives kids a taste of entrepreneurial life from the most grass-roots level. With the feeling of family and community, attendees are eager to support and circulate their dollars to the many small businesses showcased at the Village Market. The Village Market welcomes thousands of attendees, showcasing hundreds of vetted Black-owned companies from across the country and it's staple a plant-based cafe'. Dr. Hallmon has been featured in Because of them We Can, Creative Loafing, Rolling Out Magazine, The Atlanta Voice, Madame Noire, Cool Soror podcast, BlossomTV, Our Voice, Our Lives, and The Official Black Wall Street. She has been a featured speaker for the Steve Harvey Foundation, the keynote speaker for the Fall graduating class at CAU, keynote speaker for the Boys and Girls Club of NW Mississippi, Power Rising Conference, EnricHER conference, Atlanta University Center’s Financial Literacy and Innovation Conference, and the HBCU Entrepreneurship Financial Literacy Expo. Walker's Legacy has honored Dr. Hallmon. In 2017, she was inducted into the 40 under 40 Society at her undergraduate alma mater, Tougaloo College. Dr. Hallmon is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated. www.thevillagemarketatl.com       Peeling Back the Layers of Your Life® Podcast Creator, Host, and Producer:  Loronda C. Giddens www.lorondacgiddens.com  

Tune in this coming Thursday at 6pm est as we discuss Self Care in the African American Community with our special guest Anana Harris Parris The Most High is aligning this in such an amazing way. We need this Divine Feminine Energy right NOW!!! Subscribe to listen to the show on iTunes and Spotify. Anana Harris Parris is the Director of Operations and Community Affairs for the Davis Bozeman Law Firm, founder of the AfriSalsa Cultural Organization, the AfriSalsa fights HIV/AIDS Campaign, the SisterCARE Alliance, the Self Care Day Campaign and the Self Care Agency. As the Director of Operations and Community Affairs, Ms. Parris overseas all internal operations, the legal internship program and the Community Affairs Division. Ms. Parris is responsible for organizing collaborative community projects such as: “Respect Black Life: I am Trayvon Martin March” of over 5000 marchers from Atlanta University Center to the CNN Center, “Remembrance March for Charleston Victims”, the Self Care Matters Tour and the New Beginnings Re-entry Mentoring Program in partnership with the Urban League, Morehouse School of Medicine and the U.S. Attorney General's Office of Northern District of Georgia --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thesacredspace/support

Anthony and Eddie talk about the HBCU community's reaction to the Atlanta Journal Constitution's op-ed about merging the Atlanta University Center schools and the occasional re-emergence of the HBCU vs. PWI debate on social media, exchanges throughout the HBCU community can become quickly heated. They discuss ways to galvanize the HBCU community through public discourse and how that could bring more productive results in terms of advocacy and maybe even giving. Eddie is a former HBCU public relations director where he created a marketing platform at one institution while more than quadrupling their positive media exposure. He is the former host of the HBCU Lifestyle Podcast, publishes the Identity and Value blog, and currently hosts the podcast For Our Edification. Eddie is the author and presenter of the Black Greek Success Program and is currently pursuing his Master of Professional Studies at Tennessee State University where he is researching narcissism in leadership. Find out more about him at EddieFrancis.com.

Guests: Anne Collins Smith, Leatrice Ellzy, and Shantrelle Lewis Shannon talks with leaders from the Spelman Museum and Hammonds House about their history, the state of black art institutions, and the important exhibits they currently feature. Spelman Museum has two exhibits: Amy Sherald returns to her roots at the Atlanta University Center after rocketing to fame when she painted the now famous Michelle Obama portrait in the National Gallery. At the same time, our guest Anne Collins Smith curates "PRESENCE: Meditations on the Spelman College Collection." Hammonds House currently features "Dandy Lion: (Re) Articulating Black Masculine Identity." Host: Shannon M. Turner

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Legal Talk from Bruce Strauch and Bill Hannay All of us at Against The Grain - The Podcast have been busy lining up great new content and interviews for future episodes. Due to scheduling issues and Leah Hind’s trip to France for a conference, we had a gap to fill in the podcast schedule. Fortunately two of our regular contributors to the Against The Grain journal, Bruce Strauch and Bill Hannay were able to step in and put together a quick conversation around banned books (specifically D. H. Lawrence’s “Lady Chatterley’s Lover”) and the resulting litigation that ensued. Bruce Strauch, The Citadel, Professor of Business Law (Retired) Bruce Strauch, J.D. is a Professor of Business Law and Director of the Citadel Mentors Program. He holds degrees from UNC-Chapel Hill and Oxford, is extensively published in the field of copyright and trademark, is the author of nine novels and the publisher of a trade journal of the scholarly publishing industry. His wife Katina is the founder of the Charleston Conference and Assistant Dean for Technical Services and Collection Development at the College of Charleston (SC) Libraries; his son is a U.S. Army major and his daughter a medical doctor. Bill Hannay Partner, Schiff, Hardin, LLP William M. Hannay regularly represents corporations and individuals in civil and criminal matters, involving federal and state antitrust law and other trade regulation laws. He is an Adjunct Professor, teaching courses at IIT/Chicago-Kent law school in antitrust, intellectual property, and international business transactions, and is the author or editor of several books on antitrust and intellectual property law, including "The Corporate Counsel's Guide to Unfair Competition," soon to be published by Thomson Reuter's West Publishing. He is a frequent lecturer at The Charleston Conference. Mr. Hannay is active in the American Bar Association and is currently Co-Chair of the Joint Editorial Board for International Law, which is co-sponsored by the Uniform Law Commission and the ABA. He served as an Assistant District Attorney in the New York District Attorney's Office and was a law clerk for Justice Tom Clark on the U.S. Supreme Court. He is a graduate of Yale College and Georgetown University Law Center. We also have another weekly update from Katina Strauch from her rumors segment. Katina’s Notes: As you all might suspect it is getting HOT in Charleston! Air conditioning becomes essential and it’s time for flip flops and shorts and t-shirts. Speaking of t-shirts, I signed up for one from AAAS online to support science. I also noticed that Gale (and probably others) are into the t-shirt movement. Let’s pull out all our old Charleston Conference t-shirts! We are gearing up for the 37th Charleston Conference – What’s Past Is Prologue. As you all know, the dates have been moved up slightly making many of you very happy! November Nov 6 – 7: Pre-conferences; November 7: Vendor Showcase, November 8 – 10: Main Conference. Our keynote speakers are – Brewster Kahle Founder of the Internet Archive, the San Francisco–based nonprofit digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge". Loretta Parham (CEO and Director of the Atlanta University Center). Loretta is the 2017 ACRL Academic/Research Librarian of the Year, and Georgios Papadopoulos, the founder and CEO of Atypon which recently sold to John Wiley. More speakers will be announced soon! charlestonlibraryconference.com PS Did you see that Loretta Parham is on the cover of the April, 2017 College & Research Libraries! The Charleston Conference Call for Papers was posted this week. Submit your proposal! Please! http://www.charlestonlibraryconference.com/call-for-papers/ Listen up! The innovator extraordinaire, Mark Sandler has won the 2017 Hugh Atkinson Award. Mark is the principal in Novel Solutions Consulting. He is indeed a leader of great vision with exceptional persuasive skills! Congratulations, Mark! Hip Hip Hooray! When I talked to Mark the other day, he and his wife were headed to Canada where they are planning to board a flight to Scotland! Just got an email from Mark Herring, the Director of Libraries at Winthrop. For those of you who are looking for a position in libraries, Mark has a few good ones. Head of Content Services and Library Development (http://bit.ly/2oRpBPv) And Acquisitions and Collections Management Librarian (http://bit.ly/2plFmzq). These are now posted on the ATG Newschannel at: http://www.against-the-grain.com/category/jobs/ ”Naked Lunch: The Musical” will be performed at St. Sebastian Players Theatre in Chicago June1, 2, and 3. It features the likes of Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Norman Mailer who are portrayed by several of Bill’s Yale Class of 1966. Naked Lunch is about one of the last landmark decisions on obscenity in the 20th Century and was just featured on Broadwayworld.com! http://www.broadwayworld.com/chicago/article/NAKED-LUNCH-THE-MUSICAL-Comes-to-St-Sebastian-Players-Theatre-20170420 Just reading about the Houghton Library at 75, A Celebration of its Collection a new book by Heather Cole and John Overholt which is due to be released on my mother’s birthday May 8. Houghton Library ― the primary repository for Harvard University’s rare books, manuscripts, and much more ― celebrates its 75th anniversary in 2017. Houghton’s holdings span nearly the entire history of the written word, from papyrus to the laptop. This anniversary volume presents a snapshot of the unique items that fill the library’s shelves. From miniature books composed by a teenage Charlotte Brontë to a massive medieval manuscript hymnbook; from the plays of Shakespeare to costume designs for Star Trek; and from the discoveries of Copernicus to the laptops of twenty-first century writers, the selections celebrate great achievements in many and diverse fields of human endeavor. I Hope to buy a copy! www.amazon.com Meanwhile, talk to y’all next time and happy summer! Katina  

XPLICIT LYRICS WARNING salty language in abundance Meltdown Presents: On Some Hip Hop Sh!t: #02! The Blokhedz Episode In a sprawling conversation that is definitely not for fragile ears, the Street Legends Ink crew recounts grifting textbooks in Atlanta, Lisa Left Eye Lopes, Ninja Scroll and work for the Killaarmy of the Wu tang. We swing this ep with the Madtwiinz and Self Uno where we accidentally launch into Lando Calrisian and his importance as a figure in Star Wars Cannon. B Schultz officially gets renamed "Brando Calrissian" after his action figure story. Cloud City stand up! In the same breath we talk we discuss Nas and Hennesy concoctions in the the "Sippin On" segment. We talk the relevance of Alize in 2013 and Adam pops his Henessy cherry. We shout out Morris Brown, Morehouse the Atlanta University Center and Mad Dog 20/20. We talk Sean Price R.I.P and we pitch the "on some hip hop shit" album of the month club. Mark takes 10% of all ideas, especially the hypothetical 'album of the month club' which spans eras and regions of classic hip hop -- must listen for any true school hip hop heads. Parents threw away our N.W.A tapes and the rest is history. Oh yeah, and we also talk Blokhedz the comic , the animation, the toys influences and Harvard Hip Hop Archive Finally we CONNECT with the Marvel Hip Hop Cover homage to "Illmatic" and Miles Morales. produced by B. Schultz of Street Legends Ink and Adam Silverstein Presented by Meltdown Comics Engineered by Mason Booker and recorded at The Meltcast studios, 7522 Sunset blvd in Hollywood, CA Our theme is Produced by King SMO of the Animal Crackers Artwork by Self Uno. tweet to us @ our brand new handle @onsomehiphopshit.

03/03/2015. Rev. Kimberly S. Jackson, Episcopal Chaplain to the Atlanta University Center & Interim Vicar of Emmaus House Chapel, delivers the sermon. Scripture reading: John 2:13-22.

Atlanta native Kenny Leon already had an impressive resume—and after Sunday night, he can add Tony Award winner. He took home the award for best direction for his work on "A Raisin in the Sun." (which also won for best revival of a play). Leon was a guest on WFPL's Strange Fruit last year, and told us he hadn't always planned on a career in the arts. "Basically when you grow up poor in the South, your parents are itching for you to do something that they know something about," he explained. "My choice was to be a teacher, a preacher, a doctor or lawyer, something like that—and being the first person in my family to go to college." He headed to Atlanta, where his involvement in the Atlanta University Center introduced him to people like Spike Lee, Samuel L. Jackson, and LaTanya Richardson. Soon he was teaching theatre workshops in the prison system and nursing homes, and working with and for the homeless in Atlanta. "That really rewarded me," he said. "I thought God had put me here to have a life in the arts."Photo: kennyleon.com

A Night in Harlem was the vision of Quinterrence Bell ’12. The production’s phenomenal growth and development is a tribute to the academic village that is Morehouse College. In its first year, the program of poetry reading and singing was a part of Perdue Hall’s Annual Harlem Renaissance Week. The following year, Quinterrence decided that the program should be a production that included live acting, singing, and dancing. With this in mind, he wrote the production, informed by the Harlem Renaissance Literature course taught by Dr. Leah Creque, to enrich the academic depiction of the Harlem Renaissance. He solicited the help of Jireh Holder ‘12 to direct and Dwight Holt Jr. ’12 to choreograph the show. The production took place on February 24, 2011 in Historic Sale Hall Chapel. Highlights of the show included the performances of Langston Hughes’ “Mother to Son” by Britny Horton, Claude McKay’s, “If We Must Die” by Ulato Sam, and Ella Fitzgerald’s “Summertime” by Lauren Wicker. After the show’s huge success, Quinterrence and his production crew, decided that next year’s show should truly be a staple event in the Atlanta University Center. They began planning the show in early March and obtained sponsorship from Morehouse College’s Office of Housing and Residential Life, the English Department, and Student Life. They also received continuous advisement from Dr. Leah Creque and Mrs. Anita Whatley for theatrical direction. In support of the Harlem Renaissance class and production crew, Mrs. Whatley hosted the first Harlem Renaissance Lunch and Learn in Douglass Hall’s Learning Resource Center.

Atlanta University Center Symphony Orchestra Spring Performance 2013 @ the Ray Charles Performing Arts Center

2011 Performance at The Ray Charles Performance Arts Center

In January of 1969, WCBS-TV in New York City began to broadcast a series of half-hour lectures under the banner of Black Heritage: A History of Afro-Americans. The series, which ran six days a week until June of 1969 (108 episodes in all), was produced by historians John Henrik Clarke, Vincent Harding and political scientist William Strickland—the later two who were founding members of the Institute of the Black World, a groundbreaking thinking tank that was based at the Atlanta University Center. According to historian Martha Biondi, by providing “ordinary Americans access to the Black history courses beginning to be offered on college campuses…these men personally bridged the gap between scholarship and activism.” Left of Black is proud to be of the many progeny of this visionary project, born during an era in which Black student activism on American college campuses helped transform institutions that less than a generation earlier, Black students were largely denied access to. This moment is chronicled in Martha Biondi’s new book The Black Revolution on Campus (University of California Press). A historian at Northwestern University, Biondi joins Left of Black via Skype to talk about what she describes as “an extraordinary chapter in the modern Black freedom struggle.” Biondi is also the author of To Stand and Fight: the Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar New York City (Harvard University Press, 2003).

Atlanta University Center Symphony Orchestra Spring Performance 2012 @ the Ray Charles Performing Arts Center