Rooted in African-centered perspectives, this podcast explores themes of education, identity, literature, and liberation—bridging the wisdom of the past with the solutions for our future. Whether you're an educator, reader, or community builder, Rooted Dialogues invites you to grow with us—one episode at a time.
Rooted Dialogues S02 E09 | Rooted and Ready for What Comes Next
Send us Fan Mail Season Two, Episode 9: Rooted and Ready for What Comes Next Join Victoria Brown and LaVon Gordon for the Season Two finale of Rooted Dialogues—a celebration of where we’ve been and a look toward what comes next. In Today’s Dialogue, we revisit eight conversations exploring identity, cultural wisdom, education, family traditions, and African-centered rites of passage. Together, we reflect on how these ideas can shape the ways we nurture young people, strengthen community, and ...
27 Sept 2026
Rooted Dialogues S02 E08 | Building the Process
Send us Fan Mail Building the Process: Practical Strategies for Creating Rites of Passage Who is teaching our children who they are—and how are we preparing them for what comes next? Co-hosts Victoria Brown and LaVon Gordon welcome Dr. Lathardus Goggins II once again as the featured guest for a conversation about education, identity, and the responsibility families and communities share in human development. In an extended Today’s Dialogue, the hosts and Dr. Goggins discuss Nikole Hannah-Jone...
26 Sept 2026
Rooted Dialogues S02 E07 | Valuing Our Culture
Send us Fan Mail If we don’t value our culture, why should our children? In episode seven of Rooted Dialogues, co-hosts Victoria Brown and LaVon Gordon explore how the ways adults live, learn, and participate in community shape what the next generation understands as valuable. Today’s Dialogue asks us to examine how we practice cultural transmission. What stories do we tell? What books do we read? Who do we honor? And what do our children learn by watching what we make time for? In From the P...
21 Sept 2026
Rooted Dialogues S02 E06 | It Takes a Village: Building the Rites of Passage Process
Send us Fan Mail It Takes a Village: Building the Rites of Passage Process What does it really mean to say, “It takes a village to raise a child”? In Season Two, Episode Six of Rooted Dialogues, co-hosts Victoria Brown and LaVon Gordon welcome Dr. Lathardus Goggins II back to the conversation for a deeper exploration of Chapter Two of Bringing the Light into a New Day: African-centered Rites of Passage — 25th Anniversary Edition. This episode moves beyond the familiar idea of “community” to a...
11 Sept 2026
Rooted Dialogues S02 E05 | Bringing It Home — Family Traditions and the Wisdom Closest to Us
Send us Fan Mail Episode 5: Bringing It Home — Family Traditions and the Wisdom Closest to Us What family traditions shaped who you are—even if no one ever called them traditions? In Episode 5 of Rooted Dialogues, Victoria Brown and LaVon Gordon are joined by Dr. Lathardus Goggins II, author of Bringing the Light into a New Day: African-centered Rites of Passage, for a deeply personal conversation about family traditions, cultural inheritance, and the wisdom passed through everyday practices....
11 Sept 2026
Rooted Dialogues S02 E04 | Collective Cultural Wisdom and the Meaning We Make
Send us Fan Mail What does the next generation deserve to inherit from us besides possessions? In Episode 4 of Rooted Dialogues, co-hosts Victoria Brown and LaVon Gordon explore how collective cultural wisdom gives us more than information—it provides a framework for understanding who we are, interpreting our experiences, and making conscious decisions about what we carry forward. Drawing from Dr. Lathardus Goggins II’s Bringing the Light into a New Day: African-centered Rites of Passage, the...
17 Aug 2026
Rooted Dialogues S02 E03 | Sankofa in Practice: Purpose, Preparation, and the Field We Cultivate
Send us Fan Mail In Episode 3 of Rooted Dialogues, Victoria Brown and LaVon Gordon are joined by Dr. Lathardus Goggins II for a deeper look at Chapter One of Bringing the Light into a New Day. The conversation explores the purpose and function of rites of passage, the Ten Basic Assumptions, Sankofa, and the difference between potential and preparation. The episode also connects these ideas to Dr. Timothy D. Goler’s Liberated Mind and the question of how identity, culture, and environment shap...
11 Aug 2026
Rooted Dialogues S02 Episode 02 | Twenty-Five Years of Bringing the Light: Voices, Vision, and the Beginning
Send us Fan Mail In Episode Two of Rooted Dialogues, Victoria Brown and LaVon Gordon continue their journey through Dr. Lathardus Goggins II’s Bringing the Light into a New Day: African-centered Rites of Passage by looking at the voices that helped frame the book’s significance across more than twenty-five years. The conversation highlights early endorsements, including the late Dr. Myles Munroe’s 1998 reflection on value, worth, and significance, as well as perspectives from Paul Hill Jr., P...
2 Aug 2026
Rooted Dialogues — Season 2, Episode 1 (Reboot)
Send us Fan Mail Bringing the Light: Returning to the Root Rooted Dialogues returns for Season Two with a renewed format, new conversations, and a deeper exploration of the connections between culture, identity, education, community, and purpose. Cohosts Victoria Brown and LaVon Gordon welcome listeners back and introduce the new recurring segments that will shape the season: Root Check, Black Nugget of the Week, Today’s Dialogue, From the Pages, Deep Dive, Take Root Challenge, and Community ...
5 Feb 2026
Rooted Dialogues — Season One (All Episodes)
Send us Fan Mail Rooted Dialogues — Season One Season One of Rooted Dialogues is a nine-episode, African-centered exploration of rites of passage, education, identity, history, and human development. Grounded in scholarship and community wisdom, this season examines how education functions—both as a tool for liberation and as a mechanism of control—and what it means to reclaim learning as a culturally rooted, humanizing process. Across the season, hosts Victoria Brown and LaVon Gordon, join...
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