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All Episodes

Afropolitan Dialogues — 67 episodes

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Episode 67 — Digital erasure and the fight to remember with Eddy (DaOriginalOne) David

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Episode 66 — Windrush in Canada: Wendy Vincent on preserving the stories that shaped Black Commonwealth life

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Episode 65 — An abandoned crisis: Canada's Secretary of State on Sudan's fourth year of war

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Episode 64 — Allison Edwards-Crewe: Triple threat, fully embodied

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Episode 63 — Rebuilding the bridge: Truth, accountability, and care in Ontario’s social work and social service work

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Episode 62 — Soul, storytelling, and Divine Brown’s UnCovered journey

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Episode 61 — Caribbean Flamingo: Reequal Smith on dance, resilience, and cultural reclamation

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Episode 60 — Full circle: d’bi.young anitafrika on 20 years of the Sankofa Trilogy

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Episode 59 — Finding voice and joy: Mary Antonini on Blues for an Alabama Sky

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Episode 58 — R.T. Thorne’s 40 Acres: Reimagining the future through ancestral memory

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Episode 57 — Bridging the digital divide with Eric McRae

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Episode 56 — Inside ‘A Glimpse of Quincy’: Larnell Lewis on curating a tribute to a legend

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Episode 55 — Melanie Fiona: The power of saying yes to your journey

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Episode 54 — Shedding expectations: Vanessa Sears on redefining strength in solo performance

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Episode 53 — Amplifying Black Canadian voices: A conversation with Michelle Joseph

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Episode 52 — Olympic FOMO: Mark & Jem bring you all the tea from Paris

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Episode 51 — Telling stories about people who look like me

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Episode 50 — Giving yourself over to your art

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Episode 49 — Revolutionizing Shakespeare: Stephen Jackman-Torkoff on the bold interpretation of Richard II at Stratford

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Episode 48 — Black on trial: The journey of tackling tokenism in theatre

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Episode 47 — From Detroit to Stratford: Sam White on her creative journey and directing "Wedding Band"

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Episode 46 — Playing Rent at Stratford

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Episode 45 — Being enough as a Black storyteller

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Episode 44 — My kinky hair on stage at Stratford

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Ahmed Hussen on addressing Canada's housing crisis

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Episode 42 — Talking about Emancipation

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Episode 41 — Black love on stage at Stratford

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Episode 40 — A Chicago production for our time

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Episode 39 — To be or not to be traditional

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Episode 38 — Answering the call of journalism

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Episode 37 — Building a global community for Black professionals

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Episode 36 — Capturing the soul of Scarborough through art

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Episode 35 — Breaking down barriers through entrepreneurship

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Episode 34 — Supporting Black creators on YouTube

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Episode 33 — On reclaiming the Black beauty ideal

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Episode 32 — Confronting HIV/AIDS stigma in Ontario's Black community

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Episode 31 – Using television for social change and enlightenment

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Episode 30 — Doing the right thing at Uber

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Episode 29 — The BOF's Craig Wellington on serving the intersection of Canada's Black communities

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Episode 28 — RACE AGAINST TIME: The Politics of a Darkening America

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Episode 27 — Oscar Peterson: Black + White

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Episode 26 — Who are you writing this play for?

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Episode 25 — What's cooking with Chefs Kareema and Noel

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Episode 24 — Haiti at the crossroads of history

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Episode 23 — Behind the scenes at Afrofest

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Episode 22 — On using the power of film to change the narrative

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Episode 21 — TESSEL: Celebrating Black victories through dance

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Episode 20 — Where are you from? A Black Canadian's search for identity through discovering her African roots

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Episode 19 — Building a Black arts space for Canada

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Episode 18 — Community empowerment through the Black Opportunity Fund

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Episode 17 — Keeping arts & culture alive during the pandemic

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Episode 16 — Dance for the people

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Episode 15 — Before the Black Lives Matter movement

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Episode 14 — Actor Tristan D. Lalla on doing what you love

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Episode 13 — Africa is not a country and nor is its music

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Episode 12 — Kenneth Montague and curators on wedging a space for African-Canadian visual artists

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Episode 11 — Mark Beckles on preparing Canadian youth for the future of work

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Episode 10 — Odeen Eccleston from HGTV Canada’s Hot Market

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Episode 9 — A conversation with Angela Britto, executive director of the Regent Park Film Festival

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Episode 8 — Tonya Williams on the 19th ReelWorld Film Festival

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Episode 7 — Jimmy Jean-Louis: The Haitian unplugged

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Episode 6 — OCAD's Dori Tunstall on decolonizing design education

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Episode 5 — Jenny Okonkwo: Mentoring black female accounting professionals

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Episode 4 — Anne-Marie Woods: How Black History saved my life

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Episode 3 — A conversation with Ashley McKenzie-Barnes

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Episode 2 — An interview with Mumbi Tindyebwa Otu, the director of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

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Episode 1 — An interview with Holla Jazz artistic director Natasha Powell