Ubuntu Peoples Podcast, #80--Dr. Blair Kelley: Sailing Black Dissent in The Constancy of America

UbuntuPeoplesPodcast, #83-Rissi Palmer: Detours, Revival & Color Me Country

Ubuntu Peoples Podcast, Ep #83-Rissi Palmer: Detours, Revival & Color Me Country In 2007, country singer Rissi Palmer became the first Black female with a song on the charts in 20 yrs with her hit Country Girl. The fame and notoriety that followed was the culmination of years of hard work and faith. But the country music business didn't know what to do with a Black woman. Rissi felt like her color was a problem to the solved by industry folk who never saw her. A prolonged court battle with her label, having to work retail for minimum wage, moving back home with her family, finding solace at the bottom of a bottle; it's the lyrics country songs are made of for a woman who's now going through revival. After a detour, a spiral, love, marriage, leaving Nashville, two kids and now a new show called Color Me Country on Apple Music Country, Rissi Palmer is where she wanted to be: an important voice in country music. https://rissipalmermusic.com/ TOPICS 01:45... Return to the Grand Ole Opry after 13 yrs, Musical Influences, Summerville 07:10... Not seeing Black folk in country, Being discovered, Life in St. Louis, Nelly and Hip Hop, Team 11 17:00... Saying no to a record deal with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, Shut out from the industry for 7 yrs, Record company drama 24:25... Recording with Brian McKnight, Working with Prince for 3 yrs, Owning your rights, Country Girl, Being  Black problem 38:00... Stardom costs, No Air, Drinking hard, Fling Bankruptcy, Court battle, Earning minimum wage, Sympathy for the working poor 47:00... Bye bye Nashville, New man, Marriage and motherhood, Children's album, The itch to sing again 51:05... New album in 209, The Revival, Losing fans for speaking Black truths, Cookies for white artists, Mickey Guyton 61:10... BIPOC artists, Creating support for and granting new talent, Putting Black back in country 73:20... Julie Williams and the new consciousness, Color Me Country on Apple Music

Ubuntu Peoples Podcast, #82--TO KELLY: AND ALL THE OTHER WHY WHY WHITE WOMEN WHO SAW LAST WEEK FOR THE FIRST TIME

ARMAUD ARBERY. BREONNA TAYLOR. GEORGE FLOYD... With America's cities in flames by the hands of the inflamed, charged over yet another and another and another Black death, here's my response to the week that was... to the weak, this is. A friend posted on her Facebook page about her moment of clarity after watching events unfold. She wondered why it took her entire 45 yrs to see and apologized to Black people. I woke up Sunday morning, read her post and reached out to her. My note  summarized the week, where I'm at.

Ubuntu Peoples Podcast, #81-Jerry Jameel Wilson: Black Educator @ The End of His Rope

Ubuntu Peoples Podcast, Ep #81-Jerry Jameel Wilson: Black Educator @ The End of His Rope

Ubuntu Peoples Podcast, #80--Dr. Blair Kelley: Sailing Black Dissent in The Constancy of America

Ubuntu Peoples Podcast, Ep #80--Dr. Blair Kelley: Sailing Black Dissent in The Constancy of America  Dr. Blair L.M. Kelley is the Assistant Dean for Interdisciplinary Studies and International Programs for the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at NC State University. She is also Associate Professor of History and is on the faculty of the Public History graduate program. She is the author of Right to Ride: Streetcar Boycotts and African American Citizenship in the Era of Plessy v. Ferguson, which won the 2010 Letitia Woods Brown Best Book Award from the Association of Black Women Historians.  TOPICS DISCUSSED 3:00 SoulJa Boy 6:00 Snoop Dogg's gospel album 10:15 Right to Ride, Black Dissent, Jim Crow 23:00 The Obama Effect in Stacy Abrams, FL and Capitol Hill 29:00 Cultivating Black Excellence on campus 35:00 Mama and early childhood days 38:50 Scholar, Dean and Administrator at NC State 43:00 The Black Church ain't dead 51:00 A "just" person may not be successful but...

Ubuntu Peoples Podcast, #79--Germaine Parra: Searching for the Caravan

Ubuntu Peoples Podcast, Ep#79--Germaine Parra: Searching for the Caravan Born in Iowa, raised a good catholic girl in a family of 11 children, young Germaine felt she never belonged there. Determined to discover her place in the world, Germaine left, got educated, lived and worked from Paris to Pakistan to the Philippines, where a heart attack, nee dream, nee awakening, transformed her daze, and opened a door to the metaphysical sciences--Feng Shui and BaZi. Germaine has been finding and refining love and balance between the God she grew up with, the science she earned a living doing and the Love, energy, vibration and frequency she lives on now.