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The Black Male Archives' Podcast

The Black Male Archives

The Black Male Archives' podcast exists to show the many characters, professions, and perspectives of Black Men across the world and to curate our journey and Promote a positive narrative! Visit our website at TheBlackMaleArchives.com
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Stateway's Garden Stories
Stateway's Garden Stories
Mar 7 2022
43 mins
Stateway's Garden Stories
Stateway's Garden Stories
In this episode, we talk with Author Jasmon Drain. Please see an excerpt from Penguin Random House Before being torn down in 2007, the Stateway Gardens public housing projects on Chicago’s South Side were ridden with deprivation and crime. But for some, like Tracy, the shy, intelligent young boy at the center of this enthralling collection of linked stories, they are simply home. Set in the mid-1980s and taking readers up to the point of the destruction of the infamous Cabrini-Green housing projects—a set of buildings similar in design to Stateway Gardens to the south—this collection gives an intimate look at the hopes, dreams, failures, and fortunes of a group of people growing up with the deck always stacked against them. Through Jasmon Drain’s sensitive and often playful prose, we see another side of what we have come to know as “the projects.”  Stateway’s Garden is a coming-of-age story told in short stories, through the lens of a childhood made rough by the crush of poverty and violence, with the crack epidemic a looming specter ahead. And yet, through the experiences and ambitions of Tracy and other young characters, Drain reveals a vibrant community that creates its own ecosystem, all set in a series of massive, seemingly soulless concrete buildings. Not shying away from the darkness of life for his characters, Drain shows the full complexity of their human experiences. Exquisitely detailed and novelistic in scope, this collection of stories will linger in your mind long after you have turned the final page.
Mar 7 2022
43 mins
Transformational Executive Coach Don Carter
Transformational Executive Coach Don Carter
We talk with Don Carter of Transformational Executive Coach where he believes in empowering heart-centered high-performing executives and entrepreneurs to create more revenue and personal fulfillment in 90 days
Mar 7 2022
29 mins
The Black Man Can
The Black Man Can
Brandon Frame started The Black Man Can as a blog; over the last seven years, TBMC has evolved into a conscious social community that reflects positive images of black boys and men of color.Raw in our reflections, we are here to show the world that a positive image is not always about being polished, but it is about being intentional.+Intentional in doing Good+Intetional is always striving to be your best self+Intentional in not being who others think you are but being who you areWe are architects, constructing a framework for how the world perceives, interacts, and embraces men and boys of color--taking us from a world of you can't to a world that truly believes we can.
Feb 3 2022
27 mins
Black Boy Fly
Black Boy Fly
As a first-generation American and a child of Ghanaian immigrants, Isaac’s journey was one filled with struggle and a quest to triumph over the many obstacles he faced. Throughout his life, he dreamt of taking flight toward his dreams, yet faced many obstacles and challenges that kept him on the ground. Isaac wants everyone that reads this book to know one thing, you were born to fly! Life is truly a journey, and with every battle you fight, you gain the strength you’ll need to soar.
Feb 3 2022
16 mins
Dare To Be King
Dare To Be King
In 1999, David Miller received the prestigious Open Society Foundation’s Community Fellowship Award to research and design a curriculum to engage young, Black males. The fellowship, founded by George Soros (affluent philanthropist), was created to promote social entrepreneurship and community change. The Dare to Be King curriculum was published in 2003 as an innovative project focusing on teaching and training in the area of Black, urban life and survival skills.In 2014, the curriculum was revised to enhance efforts working with boys of color around life/survival skill development.As a result of the fellowship, Mr. Miller co-founded the Urban Leadership Institute (ULI), a consulting firm specializing in youth development. ULI leveraged the success of the Dare to Be King curriculum in 2003 to build a nationally recognized firm respected among community-based organizations, schools, and faith-based organizations.For 11 years, ULI developed an impressive list of partners (grassroots, philanthropic, state, and federal) focused on working with urban youth.In 2014, Miller and his team created Dare to Be King Project, LLC to create greater energy and support to advance organizations and practices focused on impacting boys of color.The Dare to Be King Project, LLC provides an array of services and products (books, curricular material, and workshops) intentionally targeted toward boys of color.*Our latest edition of the Dare to Be King curriculum was launched on February 10, 2014. It offers 52 weeks of life and survival skills for young males.
Feb 3 2022
25 mins
Miracle librarian
Miracle librarian
From the archives, we talk with Sammy Johnson about being shot several times and serving the horrible ordeal
Jan 17 2022
48 mins
Gentleman's Ambition
Gentleman's Ambition
We Interview the creator of Gentleman's Ambition. A company started by Jourdon B. Ferdinand, Gentleman's Ambition focus on helping young professionals reach their true potential by sculpting, motivating, and empowering their ambitions to help drive them in the right direction that only leads to success! Where Stylish Education and Motivation meets Helping with Pride! The company provides public and motivational speaking, business advice, positive outreaching, fashion consulting for men(ladies coming soon), style tips, and affordable dress clothing with discounted options to have them tailored for a custom fit!
Jan 11 2022
15 mins
The Professor
The Professor
We're interviewing Dr. Devan Ray Donaldson, an Assistant Professor of Information Science in the Department of Information and Library Science (ILS) in the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University Bloomington, where he directs the Master of Library Science program as well as specializations in Archives and Records Management and Digital Curation. Donaldson is also Affiliated Faculty with the Data Science Program and the Data to Insight Center (D2I) at Indiana University. He is an internationally known digital curation researcher. His research interests include: digital repositories, data sharing practices, data quality, mass digitization, research data management, trust, security, and users’ perceptions of archives and archival content. His research has been funded by the University of Michigan, Indiana University, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Regenstrief Institute, and the United States Department of Energy.He holds a Ph.D. in Information from the University of Michigan, a M.S. in Library Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a B.A. in History from the College of William and Mary in Virginia. In 2005, he studied abroad at Oxford University, Hertford College.
Dec 23 2021
25 mins
Nonprofit Leadership
Nonprofit Leadership
Interview with Kevin D. Strowder of American Library Association
Dec 23 2021
22 mins
Assets Are King
Assets Are King
I talk with Anttonieo Madison, founder of Assets Are King, a company, to help promote the importance of investing through apparel branding.
Dec 23 2021
31 mins
Where Do I Go from Here?
Where Do I Go from Here?
Butler’s inspirational memoir recounts how he triumphed over obstacles ranging from an absent father and birth defects to academic troubles and periods of homelessness, eventually creating a successful and stable life as a commissioned Navy officer and proud father. His passion for telling his story drives the memoir, as does his belief that everyone’s story matters and that he can be a model to inspire the reader to tell their own. The included photos flesh out the narrative, giving readers a glimpse of Butler’s world growing up.Even though the details of how he grew up are unique, Butler’s conversational voice makes it easy for readers to connect and even relate. The book encourages and advises readers, focusing on the idea that “anyone can be somebody, but it’s up to you to decide what you will be.” Butler’s discussion of fatherhood is particularly moving. He recounts feeling the absence of his own father deeply, addressing him directly early in the book, and later revisits that lack when describing how he missed his daughter’s birth because he was deployed.
Dec 21 2021
23 mins
NI@$AS AIN'T ASTRONAUTS
NI@$AS AIN'T ASTRONAUTS
As an educator, Murphy has seen firsthand “the beauty, and ugliness, of life,” particularly in the experiences of his Black students. He recalls one pupil who was caught smoking marijuana at school. After seeing the anguish on the student’s face when his mother warned him about “ending up like his father,” the author decided to write this book. Murphy wanted to recount his own struggles to overcome the pain of growing up with an absentee father and grappling with his racial identity in America. This story focuses on an average Black youngster growing up in 1970s Detroit whose unassuming life included a stern mother with an acerbic tongue (a “vulgar Shakespeare”) and an extended family known by an assortment of nicknames. While many chapters explore the morose urban life of the ’70s, including learning the “rules of survival” and earning “Hood credibility,” some of the book’s strongest moments address the innocence of childhood.
Dec 21 2021
26 mins
BMEN
BMEN
Martin Henson, community organizer, and activist, speaker, and executive director of BMEN, an inclusive organization bringing Black Men together to talk about and work through issues that often aren’t discussed openly. Martin has spent the last ten years advocating for Black lives, addressing the systemic issues that affect Black and marginalized groups through both conventional and unconventional avenues. Using his background as a mental health counselor, Martin is able to add nuance and clarity to the way we support the livelihood of Black people. Through seminars, community events, rallies, and curriculum development, Martin has worked with thousands of people around prison abolition, the fight against white supremacy, and lifting up Black communities. Martin has worked extensively with the Black Lives Matter Boston chapter and is also a restorative justice coach working with various institutions in and around Boston.
Dec 21 2021
21 mins
My Scars Are My Birthmark
My Scars Are My Birthmark
In his book of poems and short stories, the new poet Orlando Taylor works to address trauma in his and that in the community where he grew up.With powerful, moving wordplay, Orlando Taylor’s My Scars Are My Birthmark looks at the various types of love we experience, inter-relationships, and the fight for a relevant life as a black man in the USA. In these poems of life, the poet explores the definitions of love, the types of relationships we enter, and the war that goes on internally and externally in America for African Americans.Written over the past two decades, these poems are emotionally and spiritually charged with the trauma of growing up black in the United States. At other times there are insights into the community he was born into. He addresses the issues he's had to deal with such as violence in the black community, USA politics vs. black people, racism, otherism, black men feelings of inadequacy, the drug culture, domestic violence, being both black and SGL (same gender loving), and what family togetherness looks like. This new writer’s collection is powerful, with vibrant and moving wordplay, that calls out to you.
Oct 19 2021
27 mins
WE ARE HERE: A Literary Space for Black Boys & Young Black Men
WE ARE HERE: A Literary Space for Black Boys & Young Black Men
WE ARE HERE brings together a community approach to gathering knowledge, supporting programming, and addressing issues towards increasing Black boys engagement with literacy, from birth to 18
Oct 19 2021
27 mins
Wendell Smith The Man Who Had A Plan
Wendell Smith The Man Who Had A Plan
In this episode, we'll talk with author Ke'Aundra Anderson the great-granddaughter of Wendell Smith, a sportswriter who was influential in the choice of Jackie Robinson to become the first African American player in Major League Baseball.
Oct 19 2021
29 mins
First Class Cutz
First Class Cutz
Interview with founder of First Class Cutz
Oct 5 2021
33 mins
Tea With Our Fathers
Tea With Our Fathers
Interview with the founder of Tea Tea and Company, Dr. Janet Walsh
Oct 5 2021
27 mins
The Impact of Influence
The Impact of Influence
The Impact of Influence, Using Your Impact to Create a Life of Influence, is overflowing with wisdom from visionary author Chip Baker and 19 other powerful influencers who have discovered their paths to success. They are influencing many and impacting generations. The inspirational stories within the pages of this book will inspire you to make a positive difference for those around you.
Aug 24 2021
46 mins
History Before Us
History Before Us
Interview with Frederick Murphy founded History Before Us, a project centered on capturing, preserving, and advocating influential history. At the beginning of 2017, he started traveling the Southeastern region of the United States interviewing survivors of Jim Crow, the courageous individuals who didn’t make the headlines. These untold stories prompted him to complete the award-winning documentary The American South as We Know It.
Jun 21 2021
29 mins