Our Podcast is Back! | Blackness Beyond Borders

We are thrilled to share that we are launching the second season of our podcast – Race Beyond Borders. It’s a podcast that seeks to “trouble” conventional understandings of race and Blackness, and open new lines of inquiry beyond geographical divides.

Season Two

In Season Two, Race Beyond Borders explores race outside South Africa and the United States, in search of underexplored experiences of Blackness across the globe. Released monthly, each episode spotlights a thinker-doer-creative who reflects on the political and the personal dimensions of Black life in their country. In charting the global African diaspora, from each continent – from Italy to Iran, Martinique to Colombia, we will raise new questions about what it means to be Black beyond conventional notions.

Poetry is a new feature of the podcast. Using the format of Beverly Tatum’s “I Am From” exercise, each guest offers us a poetic window into their lived experience, conveying the sounds, sights, and sayings they associate with home. In it, there is a palpable intimacy and invitation to travel to the places that shaped them.

 
 

Episode 1

 

In the inaugural episode, we travel to Milan, Italy, where we’re joined by CEO of the Moleskine Foundation, Adama Sanneh. In this conversation, we discuss Blackness in Milan, the politics of race in Italy, the search for language to express the Black Italian experience, and the urgent need for criticality – a term he uses to refer to thoughtful and continual inquiry. You can listen to our conversation here.

 

Launching Moya, AFRE’s new magazine

 
 
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Season 2 of Race Beyond Borders is part of AFRE’s new magazine on planetary Blackness, Moya. Launching in November 2021, Moya expands this search for Blackness beyond borders – through the written word, visual art, and more.

Join us for a conversation that will launch the publication and draw on the themes in the inaugural edition. Our panel discussion will engage speculative readings of Black life over the next 20 years. Featuring two authors from the launch issue and other thought leaders, the event will be held at 5pm to 6:30pm SAST / 11am to 12:30pm ET / 4pm to 5:30pm BST on Tuesday, 26 October 2021. Click here to register.

 
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Make sure to catch the first episode of Race Beyond Borders today – Tuesday, 19 October 2021, and to subscribe on Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Podchaser, and RadioPublic.

Let’s beyond!

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Atlantic Fellows for Racial EquityOctober 19, 2021