What is Unlocking Our Voices
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The worst thing we can do is to stay silent. When we’re silent, no one can understand our suffering. No one can feel our pain. No one can hear about our struggles, our courage, our pride, and our heritage. When we stay quiet, we hurt ourselves, we hurt the people who came before us and fought for a better today, and we hurt the generations who will follow us, who deserve a better tomorrow.
Silence keeps the world from knowing the story of the Black diasporas and its current state of affairs, both domestically and around the world. The Black diasporas is the totality of Black communities around the globe, including African-Americans, Afro-Asians, Afro-Latinos, Afro-Caribbeans, and native African communities. We are determined to be silent no longer.
Unlocking Our Voices is a podcast that focuses specifically on the Black diasporas, the issues, the stories, the controversies, the cultures, and the ongoing oppression and injustices faced by our people around the world. Unlocking Our Voices aims to connect people of the Black diasporas in new and exciting ways, giving them the chance to seek empowerment by tracing their history and understanding how the past influences the present they live in, and how they hold the keys to shaping everyone’s future. We seek to enhance and evolve ourselves socially, politically, economically, and physically by having face-to-face, constructive conversations with a diverse, far-reaching list of guests from around the world.
While this podcast will focus on the struggles and triumphs of Black people, it will not engage in conversations that demean other racial or ethnic groups. Nor will we exclude the experiences of those who consider themselves to be of the Asiatic, Caucasian, or Latino descent or members of any other race. However, the primary focus is to explore Black issues, view history through the lens of Black people, and focus on the social justice causes that leaders of the global Black communities are championing.
- Dive down Black men and dig. Reach up Black men and women
- and pull all nature’s knowledge to you. Turn ye around and make a conquest of everything North and South
- East and West. And then when you have wrought well, you will have merited God’s blessing
- you will have become God’s chosen people, and naturally, you will become leaders of the world