2019 - Yndia Lorick-Wilmot, PhD

S1, Ep 002 with Masauko Chipembere of BLK Sonshine on music and the legacy of Malawian Freedom Fighters Henry Masauko and Catherine Chipembere(part 2)

06 December 2019 Belonging to Blackness Podcast: Episodes

S1, Ep 002: Part 2. In this episode, host Yndia continues her conversation Masauko Chipembere, internationally renowned jazz musician and son of Malawian freedom fighters, as he talks about his parents' legacy of Malawian liberation and their influence on his latest music and work with NGO WIN Malawi.

S1, Ep 001 with Masauko Chipembere of BLK Sonshine on music and the legacy of Malawian Freedom Fighters Henry Masauko and Catherine Chipembere(part 1)

06 December 2019 Belonging to Blackness Podcast: Episodes

Season 1, Ep 001: Part 1. In this episode, host Yndia Lorick-Wilmot chats with internationally renowned jazz musician and son of Malawian freedom fighters, Henry Masauko and Catherine Chipembere, about the legacy of his parents' liberation movement and their influence on his life, new album and environmental justice work via ...

My NYT Interview and Talking My Own Journey of Belonging to Blackness

16 November 2019 SHOUT-OUTS: Announcements and Other Musings

A few weeks ago I wrote an op-ed published in the Brooklyn Eagle that shared the significance of my family history, particularly that of my grandfather, the history of my childhood home in Clinton Hill Brooklyn, and my thoughts and emotions regarding a racist Halloween art display that hung in ...

Talking Journeys of Belonging 2 Blackness Podcast: Announcement

01 November 2019 Belonging to Blackness Podcast: Episodes

New! Check out this new podcast show with Yndia Lorick-Wilmot called "Talking Journeys of Belonging to Blackness," which debuts December 2019. Listen in for show description!

Racist Art Display + Halloween 2019

31 October 2019 SHOUT-OUTS: Announcements and Other Musings

It’s Halloween y’all! For folks who have been following this news story in the NYT, Amersterdam News, the NY Post and the Brooklyn Eagle, I was horrified to find out my childhood home was defiled with racist Halloween art decor in its windows last week. As promised, I wrote ...

Fall: The Season of Transition and Preparation

30 September 2019 SHOUT-OUTS: Announcements and Other Musings

As much as I enjoy the sun and beach weather, drinking margaritas with friends and a slower pace of life that often accompanies summer time schedules, the months of September and October always seem to remind me of the change ahead. Indeed the days begin to get shorter, the weather cooler, and because I ...

June is Caribbean American Heritage Month

28 June 2019 SHOUT-OUTS: Announcements and Other Musings

For folks that know me, celebrating my Caribbean heritage is an important aspect of my ethnic and personal identity that I am proud to talk about and display at every opportunity. Whether it is blasting the latest soca and calypso song through my car’s speakers, cooking Caribbean meals for my ...

The Nostalgia of School Daze

27 May 2019 SHOUT-OUTS: Announcements and Other Musings

If you are an aficionado of Black “coming of age” comedies and commentaries that embed Black culture of the late 1980s and early 1990s, then you can appreciate my reference to Spike Lee’s 1988 film School Daze and NBC’s TV sitcom A Different World (1987-1993). Both were firsts (on the ...

Musings on Black Love as Self-Love

27 April 2019 SHOUT-OUTS: Announcements and Other Musings

In celebration of April as National Poetry Month, I went through the exercise of identifying and framing, for my desk, three quotes from up and coming African descended women poets: Alexandra Elle, Upile Chisala and Cleo Wade. Claim it. All of it. Release what no longer serves you. Journey forward. Be unanswered. Be ...

Hair, Hair, oh,Glorious Hair is NOT Innocuous

02 April 2019 SHOUT-OUTS: Announcements and Other Musings

Hair, hair, hair, hair... Grow it, show it... Long as I can grow it... My hair.. I want it long, straight, curly, fuzzy, snaggy, shaggyRatty, matty, oily, greasy, fleecy, shining, gleamingStreaming, flaxen, waxen, knotted, polka dottedTwisted, beaded, braided, powdered, flowered and confettiedBangled, tangled, spangled and spaghettied..."Hair" by ...

Sisterhood is Family

06 March 2019 SHOUT-OUTS: Announcements and Other Musings

Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.Oprah Winfrey We often set aside the month of March to celebrate and acknowledge the accomplishments of women, both the sung and unsung sheroes in history, culture and innovation. I particularly enjoy taking the time to pay homage to the ...

If you think Blackface is cool, then you support white supremacy–and we can’t be friends…

13 February 2019 SHOUT-OUTS: Announcements and Other Musings

Full stop. Wearing bronzer and foundation 7+ more shades darker than your natural skin tone, exaggerating and bastardizing certain physical features, dress, music, vernacular in a Sambo-like fashion, whether it’s for Halloween, your yearbook page, for an office party, or a “fun” prank—is Intolerable. Full stop. I, too, am including you if you are a ...

Black History Month 2019: A Reflective Essay

05 February 2019 SHOUT-OUTS: Announcements and Other Musings

seize the opportunity to honor the too-often neglected accomplishments of black Americans in every area of endeavor throughout our history.President Gerald R. Ford (1976) Since 1976, the month of February has been designated as Black History Month, a time in which the U.S. (and now the U.K, Canada and the ...

The Journey Begins…

29 January 2019 SHOUT-OUTS: Announcements and Other Musings

I once read somewhere that writers who don't accept they're on a journey into the unknown will never produce works that last in the hearts and minds of their audience. My journey as a writer or storyteller is one that demonstrates how I, as a reader myself, am drawn to enduring ...

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