❤️ Black History Month 🖤 Never Stops 💚

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Welcome to Sounds Like Impact!

This week is a special curation related to Black History Month, which truly continues throughout the year :-)

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ICYMI: Last week I interviewed Kevin Blackistone and Dr. Robert Greene II from Our New South podcast!

Quick Updates + Interview with Our New South

#SoundsLikeImpact Community

• Kattie Laur, writer of

  Pod the North
  and previous guest curator, has helped produce the second season of Playing With Marbles, a podcast about the complicated interplay between the brain and the rest of the body. Check it out!

• Previous #SoundsLikeImpact interviewee Ruxandra Guidi and Mia Lobel—my former colleague at Degrees podcast and writer of

  Freelance Cafe
  —have teamed up to bring audio workers a FREE fireside chat on March 14th: An Audio Pep Talk: Learn to Love Your Craft During and Beyond Rough Times

Reminder: To guest curate, be interviewed, advertise and more, click here.

🎧 Special Curation

A #SoundsLikeImpact Black Podcaster Round-up

In almost one year of writing Sounds Like Impact, I have had the pleasure of featuring incredible Black podcasters. I would love to take some time to re-amplify their work, so that’s what this curation is about.

As a Black (sometimes) podcaster myself, I feel an immense privilege to be part of an amazing group of creators—especially creators, like those below, who highlight societal problems that we need address together across racial divisions. I also want to shout-out

BlkPodNews™

for continuously highlighting Black creators covering all genres in podcasting, and I encourage you to check out their Substack.

I hope you find some new shows and creators to discover through this list!

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Interviews

🎤 Interview: Chris Colbert & Adell Coleman

🎤 Interview: Tenijah Hamilton

🎤 Interview: Jaime Albright

🎙Interview: Ronald Young Jr.

🎙Interview: Dr. Montinique "Money" McEachern

🎙Interview: Avril Speaks

🎙Interview: Kevin Blackistone & Robert Greene II

Guest Curators

Jamie Albright, Freeway Phantom

'Missing, Murdered & Forgotten' + Birding with Tenijah Hamilton

Tosin Sulaiman, Made For Us

🦾 Inclusive Design 🦮 & Urban Preservation 🌆

Features

• Unreformed: The Story of Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children Hosted by Josie Duffy Rice

• You Didn’t See Nothin’ Hosted by Yohance Lacour

• Freeway Phantom Hosted by Celeste Headlee

• Buffalo Extreme Hosted by Na’kya McCann

• Weight for It Hosted by Ronald Young Jr.

• Truth Be Told Hosted by Tonya Mosley

• I Am America Hosted by Tracee Ellis Ross

• Louder Than A Riot Hosted by Sidney Madden and Rodney Carmichael

• National Emergency Co-hosted by Nashia Williams

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💟 Other Media to Check Out

📺 I’ve mentioned previously that I am a documentary watcher. I seriously cannot get enough and hope to one day work on documentary films. I also just love watching TV and movies in general, so for this February I had decided to create a watch calendar of documentaries and movies I had not seen. Now I’m sharing with you all in case you want to watch any!

📚And lastly, I’ve been making more of an effort to read this year. Here’s what I’ve read so far:

• Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor (SciFi)

• The Book of Delights by Ross Gay (Essays / Memoir)

• Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments by Saidiya Hartman (Nonfiction)

And below are some books on my pre-order list. I recently read this post by poet and writer

Frederick Joseph

that has made me understand the importance of pre-ordering. I never knew, and just figured I would wait to buy the books when they come out. I watched the movie American Fiction (not necessarily an endorsement on my end; my feelings are complicated about it), but it is worth re-emphasizing that while getting published is difficult in general, Black writers do have a particularly rough go of getting their stories out there. So with that, consider pre-ordering to support them.

• We Alive, Beloved: Poems by Frederick Joseph (Poetry)

• Troubled Waters by Mary Annaïse Heglar (Fiction)

• What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures by Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson (NonFiction & Historical Fiction)

Snapshot of an appeal video from two Black sisters who are fundraising for their Black food literature focused bookstore and community space.

And on the topic of books, friends of mine are trying to open a brick and mortar for their bookstore BEM Books & More, and the space will provide more than just a literary experience. Please learn more about their fundraiser and support if you can! (or consider ordering online from their bookstore).

🌟 Classifieds

Nothing to promote but still want to support? You can donate here.

Happy Black History Month 365! ❤️🖤💚

Cover photo by Glodi Miessi on Unsplash