In the mid-20th century, redlining, the systemic and notorious practice in the home lending industry, excluded generations of Black people from the housing market, and devalued Black and Brown communities across the United States. In response, we’re flipping the script by centering Black and Brown perspectives, highlighting how and why owning real estate is important, and giving airtime to real estate’s intersection with structural racism, hip hop, reparations, wealth building, and more.
Although we can never really know what’s in store for us in the future, AI is being embedded and pushed on us as the next big thing. We took a moment to think about various topics from this season - building community, investing differently, and planning and planting the seeds of liberation - to consider how AI could impact those. What will Black futures look like if AI is successfully integrated into multiple facets of our existence?
Chapters
00:00 Intro
04:15 Military adventurism
09:48 Economic expansion
12:33 Duty of care
18:13 Boomerang
19:52 Culture and infrastructure
25:58 Narrative
33:00 Roboticized trucking
35:00 Demystify the future
40:31 Bridge
42:36 Conclusion
17 Feb 2026
E39: Becoming Mr. Fixer
Moving with a loved one overseas to start a new life is a dream shared by lots of couples. But what would you do if the relationship ended after you moved? Would you stay in your new home, navigating in a new language and living in a new culture? That was a choice guest Nigel Lovell faced when he left Birmingham, UK for Barcelona, Spain. Not only did he sort out the details of his own life, but he also found a way to build community along the way.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
04:26 Guest intro
06:36 Nigel’s journey
13:29 Navigating
18:26 Opportunities abroad?
20:00 Diversity and racism
28:54 Classical music and curry
32:10 Barcelona’s Black community
34:19 Kwanzaa or Juneteenth?
38:18 Conclusion
3 Feb 2026
E38: Solutions for Tomorrow
Empire is global. There’s no outside place for anyone to escape. However, Joris Lechene offers seeds of hope and shares his thoughts on the places where we may begin to find antidotes to capitalist systems of control. But, he argues, we need to change how we perceive the world in order to recognize and build upon those creations. Join us on a conversation that spans the globe from Greenland to Papua New Guinea.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
05:35 Bubbles of hope
09:04 Coping mechanism
12:50 Culture
16:53 Greenland
25:00 Colonization vs Invasion
27:45 Clinging on to survival
35:42 Diaspora
42:30 Call to action
48:10 Conclusion
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