To Colombia with Love — Perpetual Blackness - A Podcast that Tells Black Stories from Here, There, Then and Now.

Welcome to a journey through the African Diaspora over time and space through my eyes.

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Jul 29 To Colombia with Love

Nichelle Calhoun

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@native_son_1111 offered to interview me and I was reticent to be on the other side of the mic. His insistence reminded me that I am an essential thread in this tapestry and that Perpetual Blackness is as much other people's stories as it is my gaze.

On this Monday morning,

Neighbor, wipe me down😉.

#PerpetualBlackness

These bold registered Black women of the past.

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#ShondaBuchanan
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#BlackVirginia
#becauseofthemwecan
#aahafauquier
#VirginiaisforLovers

To the past and present of the Diaspora, make me a vessel.

Prayers.

#PerpetualBlackness

In love with these voting ladies. The moment I received their pictures and voter registration information, I was anxious to tie them to the land.. I had to lay them over my own stash of Fauquier photos. These bold voting Black women of Fauquier Coun

Registering to vote for Black women was an act of courage. They potentially faced the same violent and economic repercussions that Black men faced. In 1920, the renowned Black educator, Mary Mcleod Bethune drove the state of Florida registering Black

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It is in preparing for this Sunday that I experienced another shift. I had not fully imagined that the ratification of the 19th amendment readily positioned some Black women to vote in 1920. But working with the faces of these Fauquier County, Virgin

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