Down Home

Homegrown hip hop artists J-Bru and his son Levon take us through their Scotian journey.

#LevonThePrince

Nicole Johnson, host of the community radio show A Seat At The Table, shares her Scotian story with Jay and D

The Down Home Podcasts explores the life of one of Canada's civil rights icons, Viola Desmond. Also in this episode Jay talks with his Aunt Jean Clayton about her memories of Viola.

Sources: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/viola-desmond-bio-1.3886923 https://www.historicacanada.ca/content/heritage-minutes/viola-desmond https://origins.osu.edu/milestones/remembering-viola-desmond?language_content_entity=en https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/explore/exhibitions/past-exhibitions/a-noteworthy-woman/ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/halifax-explosion-viola-desmond-wanda-robson-disaster-killed-1.4393272 #ViolaDesmond

#civilrightsicon #novascotia #canada #jimcrow

In this episode Jay and D give listeners a sneak peak at clips from their development meetings. The first clip is from one of their first development meetings back in 2020, so excuse the audio quality. In the second clip they discuss the horrible mass shooting in Buffalo that happened in May of 2022

In this episode D's Mom, Heather Chandler, discusses why CRT is such a hot button issue. Heather has an extensive 30 plus year resume working in Equity and Diversity.

If you listen to Down Home in the past you might remember Heather, she joined Jay and D in episode four to talk about Halifax back in the 1970's:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YNYQYttO2I&t=416s

(this is one of the early episodes of Down Home, audio quality isn't great)

#equity #criticalracetheory #crt

Jay and D take time to fully explain the origins of their friendship over the years, from the church to high school, through their twenties and separate moves to Toronto. In this episode they also explore what it means to them to be Scotian.

In this episode Jay and D have a conversation with two time Canadian National Poetry Slam Champion Dwayne Morgan about how he started performing spoken word, mentoring, and his talent production company Up From The Roots.

Dwayne Morgan

https://dwaynemorgan.ca/

#spokenword #artist #entrepreneur #poetry

Jay and D have a conversation with Augy Jones about his path to mentoring and social activism.

Check out Augy's Empathize Others Platforms: https://empathizeothers.com/

Jay and D have a conversation with homegrown Scotian comedic talent Travis Lindsay.

Travis is a winner of the CBC Open mic Comedy Contest at the HUBCAP Comedy Festival. His debut album called “The Kid is Alright” hit number one on the iTunes Comedy Charts, and he has joined the cast of This Hour Has 22 Minutes as an on air correspondent.

Listen to Travis's very funny debut album https://music.apple.com/ca/album/the-kid-is-alright/1492935970

#comedy #novascotia #canadiantalent

Jay and D discuss The Black Battalion, and the heroic military service Jay's great grandfather, Sydney Morgan Jones, performed as a member of the 106th Battalion during World War 1

#Blackbattalion #WWI #militaryservice #novascotia #africannovascotia