JAN 10

Reparations and Healing: Connecting Movements for Liberation

Picking up on our conversation around building modern reparation movements, our discussion with Edgar Villanueva and Nat Chioké Williams sparks ideas about the meaning of restitution and healing and its connection to movements for liberation. We also dive into politics and power within institutions funding Black and Indigenous-led movements and about pain points for progressive leaders working in these spaces.

1h 1m

08/08/2023

S2 Ep4: A Conversation on Reparations

In this special episode, BOLD’s Jonathan Stith speaks with Richard Wallace, Executive Director of Equity and Transformation Now and our first guest in Season 1, to get his take on reparations for the War on Drugs in Chicago and other strategies for reparative justice in the US. We also connect with podcast Producer Nyasha Laing about her time at the UN Permanent Forum on Afrodescendant Persons, where reparations was central on the agenda. We highlight these urgent discussions and local d...

27 min

07/10/2023

S2 Ep 3: The Trees, Our Relatives

This episode takes us along the life path of Ife Kilimanjaro, Ph.D, the Spirit-Healer-Warrior, Climate Activist, scholar, and Writer who is currently serving as the Co-Executive Director of Soul Fire Farm, the BIPOC-centered community farm located in upstate New York that uses organic and ancestral farming techniques to combat racism and injustice in the food system. In this episode, Ife - a native of Detroit now living in Virginia - speaks about her work to build spaces that can nourish...

25 min

SEASON 2 TRAILER

S2: How We Breathe Returns!

How We Breathe Returns!In this episode of season 2, Jonathan Stith, National Field Organizer for BOLD (Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity) and a host of How We Breathe, welcomes us back to the show and shares more about the work BOLD has been engaged with for the past several months. Jomo has recently returned from BOLD’s new land in rural Georgia and where he co-led a training of over 30 Black lead organizers and directors - focusing on BOLD’s three critical domains: transformative ...

3 min

01/09/2023

S2 Ep 2: Standing in the Gap with Santra Denis

Our first episode of the year features the dynamic leader Santra Denis, Executive Director of the Miami Workers Center an organization building equity for Miamians. Santra's story takes us back to pivotal moments in the crisis in Haiti and roots us in the linked spiritual and political futures of Black people across the diaspora. She calls us to stand in the gap with communities fighting against their erasure in the face of displacement, public health crises, and climate change.The voice of M...

20 min

09/28/2022

S2 Ep 1: Rooted in Our Selves with Yamani Yansa Hernandez

Season 2 of How We Breathe opens with our first host Adaku Utah. Adaku is a facilitator, healer, coach, artist, and is the Organizing Director for the National Network of Abortion Funds (NNAF). Adaku takes us on a journey with her friend and colleague Yamani Yansa Hernandez who served as the first Black Executive Director of NNAF. Yamani is a visionary who has lead in the social sector at neighborhood, city, state, and national levels for over 25 years. Yamani now builds the capacity of ...

29 min

09/23/2022

S2 Ep 0: How We Breathe is Back!

Jonathan Stith, National Field Organizer for BOLD (Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity) and a host of How We Breathe, welcomes us back to the show as he shares the upcoming themes of the podcast: bodily autonomy, care, sovereignty, safety, sovereignty, safety, and our “maroon” land.How We Breathe invites social justice organizers from across the nation to reflect on powerful gatherings of the past to explore new political tactics for modern Black resistance. Our hosts and guests share...

3 min

03/29/2022

Ep 4: Free the Land, with Rukia Lumumba

In this episode, we speak with Rukia Lumumba, Executive Director of the People's Advocacy Institute in Jackson, Mississippi. Lumumba's worldview is shaped by revolutionary struggles for equal rights, self-determination, and community healing. She is the daughter of the late Chokwe Lumumba - the radical attorney and Black nationalist leader who served two terms as Mayor of Jackson. In her work, she is molding a vision of community-led governance, justice and transformation born fro...

23 min

01/11/2022

Ep 3: Love Over Fear, with Zach Norris

In this episode, Zach Norris, the Executive Director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights and the author of Defund Fear: Safety Without Policing, Prisons and Punishment, shares his story. Born and bred in Oakland, California and trained as a lawyer, Zach shares personal insights on collective efforts to dismantle California's oppressive carceral system. We hear challenges and victories over 20 years organizing inside and outside of California prisons and working with youth, families and ...

24 min

11/09/2021

Ep 2: Growing Well Together, with Kandace Montgomery

In this episode, we hear from Kandace Montgomery, co-founder of Black Visions Collective, a group working to shape a political home for Black people across Minnesota since 2017. Kandace shares her pathway to organizing as well as the challenges and pitfalls of being thrust into the limelight as a young organization. She tells us of her experience organizing around the murder of George Floyd in 2020 and where she and Black Visions are headed in the future. We also hear from police ...

18 min

09/09/2021

Ep 1: Walking with Our People, with Richard Wallace

In this episode, we hear from Richard Wallace, a Chicago native and organizer with Equity and Transformation (EAT), working with system-impacted individuals in the informal economy. He shares his journey, from incarceration to poetry to leadership. We gain insight into how young Chicago leaders like Richard, Fresco Steez and Charlene Carruthers are building on the legacy of Black freedom fighters like Mama Akua and Fred Hampton - while finding new political tactics to meet this moment.

25 min

07/27/2021

Ep 0: How We Breathe

On the first episode, we hear from Jonathan Stith, National Field Organizer for BOLD (Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity), as he gives as a preview of this upcoming podcast. How We Breathe will share intimate conversations with organizers from around the nation, looking into power centers of movements for justice in cities like Chicago, Minneapolis, Oakland, and Jackson, Mississippi. We explore how young leaders are building on the legacy of Black resistance while finding new p...

3 min

How We Breathe

Episodes

Reparations and Healing: Connecting Movements for Liberation

S2 Ep4: A Conversation on Reparations

S2 Ep 3: The Trees, Our Relatives

S2: How We Breathe Returns!

S2 Ep 2: Standing in the Gap with Santra Denis

S2 Ep 1: Rooted in Our Selves with Yamani Yansa Hernandez

S2 Ep 0: How We Breathe is Back!

Ep 4: Free the Land, with Rukia Lumumba

Ep 3: Love Over Fear, with Zach Norris

Ep 2: Growing Well Together, with Kandace Montgomery

Ep 1: Walking with Our People, with Richard Wallace

Ep 0: How We Breathe

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S2: How We Breathe Returns!

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