Perpetual Blackness

This episode continues my genealogical journey while exploring what recognition and representation means on a personal, familial and Diasporic level. Interviews with Linda White of the Smoot Family and Zann Nelson, a Culpeper Historian discuss and highlight the untold stories of Black horsemen via my ancestor, Charles Smoot.  Special guest, poet, author and educator Darius V. Daughtry of the Art Prevails Project helps us with the language to understand the grief we feel in the aftermath of losing Chadwick Boseman while hailing the resilience of the human spirit and Blackness. 

Special Guests: Zann Nelson, Linda White, Darius V. Daughtry

Music: Show Intro, Power by Kudo NYC;  Levels by Yung Kartz; Streets by Yung Kartz; Love Chances by Makaih Beats; Show Outro by Kevin Wheeler

A Revolutionary Summer joins me to say the lives of the Black women and children taken by white supremacist violence, state-sponsored and otherwise. We place them on the altar to remember and pay homage.  

Breathing those lost to white supremacy back into the land of the living, so justice can prevail. 

From Rappahannock County, the Lawsons and Smoots grow new roots and begin to intertwine. 


Special Guests: Culpeper Historian, Zann Nelson and Mary Randall

Music: Show Intro and Outro by Kevin Wheeler

Our roots are in the land and the rivers. Following my family up the Rappahannock River and through the generations.