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 Afr...

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 WardMusic 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 i...

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 GloverMusic: 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...