The Economic Arc of Black America

The Economic Arc of Black America

I recorded this episode in New Orleans, a city whose story runs through Haiti, France and the Louisiana Purchase, which felt like the right setting. The assignment I gave myself was ambitious: four hundred years of Black economic history, from 1619 to now, told in...
3 Tribes, 1 Future

3 Tribes, 1 Future

A short clip from an interview I did with the Texas Black Expo traveled much farther online than I ever expected. The question behind it was simple and a little dangerous: are African Americans, Black Africans and Black Caribbeans the same or different? My answer was...