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Writer Soni Brown chronicles her journey from Jamaica to New York to Los Angeles to Las Vegas. Now, she wonders if she feels like Las Vegas is really her home and reflects on the tradition of Black people who sought liberation through migration. 
BMI Shearing Fellow Natasha Tarpley grapples with the idea that violence and armed self-defense are a necessity to create a safe community for Black People. In this piece, she speaks to her neighbor Bernadette in the South side of Chicago, an older Black woman who happens to be an avid gun owner, reflects on the Black towns of the past, and imagines a future where Black people are safe. 

In this episode, writers Mary South and Alexandra Kleeman discuss writing climate crises in works of fiction. Later, writer Mason Voehl investigates a battle for a precious ore and the survival of a wildflower.

In this episode, food activists Jocelyn Jackson and Cheyenne Kyle discuss food as a means of liberation; artist Carolina Caycedo guides us through her project “Be Dammed” — a geochoreagraphy; and poet Faylita Hicks reimagines the United States through the Declaration of Independence.

In this episode, writers explore mental health; obsessions with shapes–ones with six angles, specifically; and S-H-A-R-K.

In this episode of Black Mountain Radio, producers and contributors explore how music moves us—to deep feeling, to new worlds, to each other.

In this episode, explore the high-spirited world of sign spinning and the history of Las Vegas’ Historic Commercial Center District. Later, hear Vi Khi Nao and Daisuke Shen discuss Nao’s new collection of short stories, titled Vegas Dilemma.