Audio Nuggets warmly welcomes our dear brother and friend, Matthew Stewart. Matthew is liberated and shares that his becomING is family justice. This conversation unpacks the relationship between Black bodies and anti-Black ideology in child welfare and how that has impacted him directly.

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Audio Nuggets is honored to welcome Derrick Stephens. Derrick brings his uniqueness and dreaming to the cypher. This conversation unpacks the shoulders to stand on and obligations of Black bodies of this generation to “get into a lot of good trouble,” acknowledging that planting seeds for tomorrow requires liberation. Derrick reveals that from a young age, he was always dreaming of freedom and liberation.

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Audio Nuggets welcomes Takkeem Morgan. In this conversation, Takkeem shares and unpacks his value with our listeners around people who are closest to the pain ought to be the architects of all the solutions. Families have the data, and they have better and less expensive ideas on how to spend government resources to help communities in a meaningful and impactful way. Takkeem outlines what he identifies to be the three major challenges faced by current child welfare.

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Welcome to the Mining For Gold cypher for this explosive, special Black History Month 2023 edition of Audio Nuggets with Joyce McMillan, of JMACForFamilies. Joyce embodies justice, humanity and belonging in her life’s mission for abolition of the family policing system, educating the listeners that abolition is the removal of the parts of the system that are harmful, destructive, and creating outcomes that are horrific for Black families.

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Audio Nuggets ushers in ’23 with special guest, Ivory Bennett. Through love, Ivory is reclaiming her voice and right to speak. Her right to full humanity. Her right to heal, practice empathy, and engage in the healing process for herself, so that she can then show up for the collective mission of justice as the throughline.

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In our final episode for 2022, Audio Nuggets is overjoyed that Angela Olivia Burton joins the cypher. Her personal liberation journey and using her power, influence, and liberated voice, is the core of her work, as she leverages these experiences to elevate the voices of Black parents, who are fighting to protect their families from unwarranted government intrusion and destruction of their families.

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Audio Nuggets welcome Shrounda Selivanoff to the cypher in this episode. Shrounda shares her humanity in describing the impact that the coercive nature of the violent family policing system has had on her family’s life. In this conversation, Shrounda shares that one coercive tactic of the family policing system’s goal is to erase family history, and ultimately extinguish hope for parents. We examine and ask why this violent system tears children apart from blood lines and family.

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Audio Nuggets is proud to announce that Professor Dorothy Roberts has joined us back in the cypher for Part 2: Family Policing and the Journey to Reproductive Justice. In this conversation, MFG and Professor Roberts dive into the post-Roe era, and how the historical legacy of Black women and families have been the centrality of her work for the past 25 years.

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Audio Nuggets is honored and filled with gratitude to be joined by the legendary racial and family justice scholar and activist Dorothy Roberts for Episode 5: Part 1: The Analysis of Anti-Black Ideology.

Dorothy utilizes her critical analysis of Roe, reproductive justice, and family policing to demonstrate how interconnected systems and racist policies have had a devastating and violent impact on Black families.

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OperationStopCPS joins MFG in the cypher to provide vivid clarity around why they know the child welfare system destroys Black families. It is through their own lived experiences as a CPS case manager and Mental Health Clinician, that Amanda and KeKe became a force in a growing movement to abolish the current child welfare system. This Audio Nugget will explore how they do this work, where they do this work and the impacts this has had on families. You will experience liberation and hopefully be inspired to tap into your power to ensure that your stance is visible and fueled by love for the people.

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