Perpetual Blackness Nichelle Calhoun

This is the opening episode of Season II: The Case for Prince George's County. Every episode in this season will look at this unique space in the African Diaspora: P.G. County. This first episode sets the stage as to why Prince George's County is a rare place in the American landscape.  Joining us is an intro to the season's first guest: Angie Martinez.  Also, is a trailer to the podcast, Rebuilding Peace by the Washington Office on Latin America -which focuses on the stories of Afro-Colombian leaders fighting for peace and equality.

Sources:
Smithsonian Anacostia Museum; Maryland Archives; Atlanta Black Star, and National Park Service.

Music By:
Missed U by Cospe
WeyVee by _91Nova
HeartStrings by Madison York
TrapCloud by _91Nova
Sweet Talk by Tyra Chantey

Atlanta-based, millenial antique dealer and appraiser, Tanzy Ward comes through and puts a whole lot of light on our great-great-grandmothers and grandfathers in this episode of Perpetual Blackness. She also gives us inspiration with taking the anguish of  2020 to pursue the past. 

Guest: Tanzy Ward

Music by:  
The French Library by Franz Gordon; They Don't Know by Damma Beatz;  Sweet Talk by Tyra Chantey.  

U.S.A is the last installment in a 3-part series where I look at my own experience walking through the "Diaspora."  In the last episode, I reflect on the conflicted experience I had living in Miami, Florida for 12 years; the white supremacist rhetoric that influenced my day-to-day and my eventual decision to really go back and get academic understandings of the Black experience in Latin America.  This episode contains a call-to-action to support part of a Afro-Colombian collective in Buenaventura, Colombia.  It also contains racially sensitive material and views.

Guest Host: Jonathan Glover
Music by:  Theme Music for Show - Power by Kudo NYC; Careless Conditon by Norman Sann;  La Coqueteria by Dylan Joseph; Hidden Hills by Damma Beetz; They Don't Know by Damma Beetz; Agua y Llama by Cuba Quartet.

In this episode, I continue with my personal reflections on the inception of my love affair with Diasporic Blackness.  I channel the spirit of Zora Neale Hurston and sit firmly in the passenger seat as I am interviewed as a continuation of a 3-part series. 

Guest Co-Host: Jonathan Glover

Music: Theme Song, Power by Kudo NYC; The Lustful Ones by the Chalalatas; Mandeville Banton by Calisto Young;  Wrong Love by Cleo Kelly.

Archive Sound: The Late Prime Minister of Grenada, Maurice Bishop via the Freedom Archives. 

Ancestral stories start somewhere, but the most definitive starting place is you.  In this episode, my good friend Jonathan Glover reverses the mic and interviews me on what brought me to Blackness. We discuss colorism, family deities, Roots and one of my favorite places in the Diaspora, the Black DC and Maryland area.

Special Guest Host: Jonathan Glover 

Music: Unlucky Woman by Helen Fumes and Leonard Feather; Power by Kudo NYC; Talk to Me, Talk to Me by Little Willie John; Stranger by Yung Kartz; Addicted by Makaih Beats; Picture Perfect by Yung Kartz and Ara Lee Live. 

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