S5, Ep 043 with Hannah Drake and Josh Miller of (Un)Known Project on using art to unearth the names of enslaved African descendants
Kicking off the new year, this episode features co-founders and leaders of (Un)Known Project, Hannah Drake and Josh Miller. (Un)Known Project is a Louisville, Kentucky artist-run nonprofit collaborative of IDEAS x Lab, whose mission is to use art to unearth the names, stories, histories and experiences of U.S. enslaved African descendants in order to support […]
S5, Ep 042 with Terysa Ridgeway, computer scientist and author of the children’s book series “Terysa Solves It”
‘Tis the Season! It’s December and this month commemorates Computer Literacy and Computer Science Education. This episode features guest Terysa Ridgeway, a computer scientist, previously a rocket scientist who developed code for Exoatmospheric Spacecraft and currently a software engineering program manager at Google. She is also author and creator of the children’s book series, “Terysa […]
S4, Ep 032 with Javaka Steptoe, award-winning children’s book author & illustrator, about Black storytelling through art
In this episode, host Yndia is in conversation with nationally-renowned children’s book author and illustrator, Javaka Steptoe. Listen in as they discuss several topics, including: the intention and impact of his award-winning and NYT best-seller books “In Daddy’s Arms I Am Tall” and “Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat” and collaborations […]
JourneysB2B YouTube Channel, Episode 4: The Imposition of Blackness
This episode discusses the “imposition of Blackness” as it relates to the white supremacy project of racialization, racial schema and racial hierarchy, and how it infiltrates public understanding. Features interviews with participants who explain the impacts of the “imposition” and how they choose to define Blackness for themselves; and leadings race scholars in sociology, anthropology, […]
S2, Ep 013 with Vilna Bashi Treitler, sociologist and visual artist, on being named to the Zora Canon in 2020 for one of the best 100 books ever written by an African American woman and her forthcoming memoir “Schooled”
In this episode, your host Yndia talks with Vilna Bashi Treitler, PhD, author, sociologist and visual artist. A curator and contributor to several mixed media art exhibits nationally, Vilna’s books were also named to the Zora Canon in 2020 for one of the best 100 books ever written by an African American woman. Debuting her […]
JourneysB2B YouTube Channel, Episode 3: Blackness is, Blackness Ain’t
In this episode, we begin to explore how Blackness is an aspect of the human experience and what it means to belong to a diaspora where there are competing and contested meanings of what it is to be “Black” and to self-identify as such. This episode focuses on 4 participants (Alan, Ruby, Shanta and Joel) […]
JourneysB2B YouTube Channel, Episode 2: Sankofa
Episode 2 “Sankofa” highlights the significance of “the call of belonging” for African descendants as seen in the Year of Return 2019 and AfroChella New Year’s Festival in 2020 and their collective efforts to support politics of solidarity, politics of memory and for becoming active, global citizens. Also, Yndia briefly shares how her own journey […]
JourneysB2B YouTube Channel, Episode 1: Stories They Tell
Episode 1 “Stories They Tell” briefly discusses the African descended “origin story” as negatively depicted in popular culture and the ways African descendants look to use family folklore, genealogy and DNA ancestry to tell their own narratives– of their past, present and of their future actions. (4min:55sec)
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