With your host Asia Dorsey
Healing Black Futures is a podcast for Black and white reparationists alike, dedicated to exploring both our shared history of oppression as well as the liberatory path forward. A part of our education series Modern Vectors of Economic Transformation, each episode explores a single topic and features Black activists on the cutting edge of repair. Many episodes also feature advice for white reparationists wishing to invest in direct repair. Hosted by herbalist Asia Dorsey, who co-developed the Modern Vectors curriculum with Lotte Lieb Dula.
Episode 1 : Reparations & Food Justice
Food justice is an important element of the movement for reparations; it necessitates both access to land and economic redress in a variety of forms, given the historic connections much of our farmlands have to slavery, sharecropping and other injustices. Food justice includes redress for Black farmers, the development of urban agriculture projects and neighborhood kitchens, and programs that demystify food production and model healthy ways of preparing food. Our guest today is Damien Thompson, PhD., of Frontline Farming
Episode 2 : Reparations, Afro-Futurism & Houisng Justice
Housing justice is an important element of the movement for reparations, given this country’s history of housing discrimination, including redlining, credit and appraisal fraud, blockbusting and many other discriminatory practices. Repairing what’s broken requires both an understanding of current housing policy as well as grounding in an afro-futuristic vision of what’s possible.
Episode 3 : Reparations, Liberation and Black Spiritual Traditions with Joy Tabernacle Kmt
Episode 4 : Reparations, Transportation and Infrastructure with Kristen Jeffers
Episode 5 : Reparations & Financial Justice
Financial justice is an important element of the movement for reparations, given this country’s history of slavery and the many years of Black codes and Jim Crow laws, which effectively blocked Black economic progress for generations. As a result, Black wealth is now just 1/10th that of white wealth. Our guest today is Enith Williams, Founder and Managing Director of the Reparations Finance Lab.