In this episode of Trains of Thought, host Khaya Salmon explores the emotional and cultural realities of Caribbean-Canadian immigration through intimate conversations with her mother, Jackie, and best friend, LaTonya. Inspired by the stories found in Stanley Grizzle’s personal archive, Khaya reflects on what has and hasn’t changed since the days of the sleeping car porters and their families who migrated north in search of opportunity. Through shared memories, moments of culture shock, and reflections on belonging, this episode offers a heartfelt look at the weight and wonder of building a life far from home and what it means to carry one’s roots across borders.

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On this episode of Trains of Thought, Jephte Joseph explores pilgrimage as more than a journey and sits down with Andrew Jackson. A search for solace in spaces once sustained by determination, moulded to help us face reality, yet haunted by the urge to relive a past grown blurry. What happens when the place we seek slips away, leaving us scattered and returning only to fragments? In those fragments, we find not wholeness, but traces that remind us some returns can never be complete, yet still shape how we carry the past

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On this episode of Trains of Thought, Kristian Rouse-Robinson sits down with Marty Lewis, diversity-in-travel advocate, content creator, and author of The ABC Travel Green Book. 

From chance airport meetings to global adventures, Marty has become one of the leading voices of today’s Black travel movement, making sure Black travelers are seen, supported, and celebrated. 

Together, they dive into Black travel, the spaces we’re reclaiming, and the often-overlooked stories of Black Canadian history. 

Inspired by her great-grandfather’s letters from his days as a sleeping car porter, Kristian connects past and present to explore the Black travel movement, the legacies we’ve inherited, and the ones we’re building right now.

On this episode of Trains of Thought, Kayla Garnett conducts a meaningful conversation with Dr. Abel Bartley, and African American Studies and History professor at Clemson University. They delve into the stories of women who bolstered the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, exploring themes of resistance, perseverance, and resilience fostered by the wives, sisters, and daughters of the men at the vanguard of sleeping car porter unionization efforts.

This podcast is for the curious... those who are open and receptive to movements in the past that inform our present.

On this episode of Trains of Thought, Jean-Philippe Djehoury speaks with Dr. Stacey Zembrzycki, an oral historian and author of According to Baba, about two unlikely yet powerful oral historians: her Ukrainian-Canadian grandmother, Olga Zembrzycki, and Stanley Grizzle, a Black Canadian porter and civil rights leader.