Belonging to Blackness

Host Yndia is in conversation with Glory Edim, founder of #WellReadBlackGirl, author of Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves, and the recipient of the Madam CJ Walker award from the Hurston/Wright Literary Foundation, the Innovator’s award from the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and an Outstanding Literary Work nomination from the NAACP Image Awards. Listen in as they discuss their love for books and the importance of celebrating African descended narratives in the current climate of #BlackLivesMatter globally.

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In this episode, Yndia chats with award-winning documentarian and producer, Victorious DeCosta about his latest film and t.v projects, including “Digging for Weldon Irvine,” “L.A. Gold Rush,” and his forthcoming HBO movie “Storm Over Brooklyn: The Yusef Hawkins Story,” as well as the significance of Black mental wellbeing and suicide, and Victorious’ local and national community advocacy and social justice activism against racial profiling and police brutality.

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In this episode, host Yndia sits down with Courtney Desiree Morris, visual/conceptual artist for exhibits “Exploring Passages Within the Black Diaspora” and “Adjust Yo’ Eyes For This Darkness,” activist, and professor of social anthropology at UC Berkeley to chat about “art as ministry,” ancestor veneration, and life as an artist and Black feminist scholar in the academy.

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In this episode, host Yndia is talking about all things Fire! with award-winning Chef Michael Poole, master chocolatier of Hot Chocolat artisan chocolates and recently retired FireHouse Lieutenant based in Seattle, Washington. Chef Poole recounts his experiences trained in Paris at Le Cordon Bleu, being featured on national cooking programs such as Rachael Ray, and his passion for making others happy through his food. Yum!

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In this episode, host Yndia is engaged in a fun, intellectually stimulating and titillating conversation with Dr. Kathryn Sophia Belle, philosopher, writer and coach on issues of Black self-empowerment, being a high achiever, happily unmarried, and erotic and ecstasy empowerment.

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Part 2: In this episode, host Yndia continues the conversation with Alicia Anabel Santos “La Santera” as they discuss what it means to “stand in the fullness of one’s Blackness,” the Hollywood-ization of African descended rituals, and La Santera Spiritual Consultancy’s upcoming trips to Cuba.

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Part 1: In this episode, host Yndia Lorick-Wilmot sits down with Alicia Anabel Santos “La Santera” author, podcaster, producer and documentarian of the film AfroLatinos and writing midwife to discuss Black identity, African spiritual practice and the #WritersLife.

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In this episode, host Yndia sits down with Michele Simms-Burton, PhD, scholar of African American history and literature, certified instructional designer, author, and founding board member of the Toni Morrison Society to discuss her love for literature and the arts, what it was like growing up around James Baldwin, travel noir, and her upcoming Feb 2020 Smithsonian seminar on the life and works of her colleague, Toni Morrison.

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S1, Ep 002: Part 2. In this episode, host Yndia continues her conversation Masauko Chipembere, internationally renowned jazz musician and son of Malawian freedom fighters, as he talks about his parents’ legacy of Malawian liberation and their influence on his latest music and work with NGO WIN Malawi.

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Season 1, Ep 001: Part 1. In this episode, host Yndia Lorick-Wilmot chats with internationally renowned jazz musician and son of Malawian freedom fighters, Henry Masauko and Catherine Chipembere, about the legacy of his parents’ liberation movement and their influence on his life, new album and environmental justice work via permaculture with NGO WIN Malawi. Enjoy!

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