Welcome back to Audio Nuggets. As we approach Mother's Day 2026, we are grateful to be joined by Toia Potts for this episode, True Narratives- I Will Always Be Your Mother.

Toia Potts is a fierce activist and organizer in North Carolina. After being falsely accused of child abuse, she spent more than eight months in Durham County jail on an unattainable bond. She was later fully exonerated, with all charges dismissed. Today, she continues her healing and leadership as Co-founder of Carolina Parent Defenders, Founder of Thrive Tribe NC, and Family Advocate/Organizer with EmancipateNC, fighting alongside Black mothers experiencing forced family separation.

This episode brings forward a love story, a truth-telling, and a living record of motherhood that endures across every condition. Anchored by the love for her children, this conversation holds the depth of a mother’s love, the sacredness of family bonds, and the power of speaking truth in one’s own voice. Toia shares a lineage of connection, remembrance, and refusal to let her children’s story be disconnected from their people, their history, and their origin. At the heart of this episode is a declaration: I will always be your mother. That truth carries memory, belonging, devotion, and the enduring bond between parent and child. It offers listeners a powerful witness to love that lives in the body, in the spirit, and across time.

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We are back in the cypher. We are grateful to be joined by Tanesha Grant for this episode, “True Narratives—Foreseeable Complexities.” Tanesha has been walking this journey with us. She is a mother of three, grandmother of four, and a Black woman whose life has been shaped by the family policing system since birth. She is the founder and Executive Director of Parents Supporting Parents NY and Moms United for Black Lives New York City, and she has been in deep support with MFG in the creation of the True Narratives campaign.

Today’s conversation lives in the tension of what is emerging—and what we must be honest about. Because with emergence comes complexity. One of those complexities is the idea of healing—how systems position “fixing” as care, shaping how we come to understand the brokenness of our collective being. And alongside that is another foreseeable complexity: unlearning all the bad teaching and relearning freedom.

This episode is where we practice fugitive discovery. When we talk about fugitivity, we are talking about discernment—the bravery to move outside the rules that were never built for our freedom. Underground is a network forming in the crack, building love, imagination, and possibility together. We are committed to the practice of being in the crack with one another—listening, churning, imagining, and unlearning together. Because before a movement can declare what it demands, it must first remember what it is fighting for. This is the work of emerging realities. Love taking form through the collective. Truth organizing how we return to center—and to each other.

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We are back in the cypher! Audio Nuggets is where True Narratives calls us to listen more deeply. In this listening, we are tending to the meanwhile. True Narratives are the throughline — a living mosaic of resistance, love, creativity, and becoming. During Black Futures and beyond, we are asking ourselves: Who must we be for the future we say we want?
We welcome Courtney Dowe for this episode, “True Narratives: I Am Because She Is.” Courtney is a songwriter, a poet and a lover of art and self expression. Courtney has breathed life and music into places and spaces between subway stations and the Kennedy Center. In protest, prayer and houses of healing. Always guided by her mother’s musical spirit, Courtney has grown her voice into a vessel for human rights, dignity, and collective memory — naming brutality, confronting persecution, and fighting for justice.

Her liberation is practiced, embodied, and disciplined by love and sharpened by truth. Courtney reminds us that art is testimony, and despair will not have the last word. This conversation is an invitation. An offering. An invitation to recognize that our voices are not just expressions — they are responsibilities. We are building base. We are people who arrive whole — with joy, grief, humor and memory. We are a people who refuse to be contained by myths.

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