Black Future Manifest[o]

On this episode, we sit down with Gladys Washington, current Deputy Director of the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation, a philanthropic organization that serves 11 Southern states, and talk through her the past and present political climate, philanthropy, and her personal journey as an organizer and activist.

Our co-host, Micah Gilmer sits down with Nia West-Bay and Marlén Mendoza of the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) to discuss Start From the Ground Up: Increasing Support for Girls of Color, a toolkit backed with research from the new toolkit by Grantmakers for Girls of Color, designed to inform funders on how to better support low-income Black and Brown girls. Download the toolkit at bit.ly/startfromthegroundup You can learn more about CLASP on their website, www.clasp.org #G4GC #FundGirlsofColor

Happy Black History Month! On this first episode of the new year, we sit down with Napoleon Wallace and Ryan Bowers of Activest, a firm that is leveraging financial markets in order to help drive change within communities across the US. We talk municipal bonds, Black capitalists, and searching for how to be ethical within a capitalist society.

On this special spotlight episode, your host, Mariah M, profiles base building organization, the Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100), whose members are committed to tackling injustice using a Black Queer Feminist framework.

NOTE: This episode was recorded in October 2018. Since then, Charlene Carruthers has moved out of her position as National Director of BYP100. As of December 2018, BYP100 now has two National Co-Directors, D'atra Jackson and Janaé Bonsu. We at BFM would like to wish both Janaé and D'atra strength and grounding in their new positions.

We sit down with Dr. Jessica Barron (@drjessicabarron), ethnographer and author of The Urban Church Imagined, to talk about Black and POC voluntarily entering predominately white spaces and its impact on the individual and organizations. This is our FIRST crossover episode with fellow Frontline Solutions production, At The Intersection (@atthepodcast), a podcast by two friends investigating what happens at the intersection of identity, culture, and policy, with Brian Kennedy and Marion Johnson. This live recording was hosted at The Vault in Durham, North Carolina.

Join us as we sit down with Ronda Taylor-Bullock, who has dedicated her life work to decolonizing the minds of white people. We discuss whiteness, its impact on us as Black people, and how and when to call out white people on their bullsh!t.

We sit down with Omisade Burney-Scott, a healer, mother, proud crone and tribe member of SpiritHouse, to discuss how patriarchy shows up in our daily lives.