The Moments That Make Us: Octavia Butler, Beyoncé, & Black Storytelling Real Life

And we back, and we Black, and flyin' high off the Cowboy Carter Tour Act II tour and all the different ways we experience Black storytelling!

This week, we interrogate all those "moments that make us," thinking about the pivotal moments of catalyzation in our lives, about representation, about what it means to present stories of our own lineages and legacies, and, ultimately, about how the lines between fantasy and reality are incredibly thin, especially when it comes to Black storytelling.

Listen, representation will not save us...but sometimes, it can give us the hope to figure out how to save ourselves...Alright kinfolk, let's get it!

In this episode:

• A History of Funk Music and Black Liberation of the 1970s | Full Documentary | Independent Lens
  
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  N.E. Davenport - The Blood Trials

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  Before Central Park there was Seneca Village | Secrets of the Dead | PBS

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