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Syncopate | Raising Hay and Planting Roots: A Podcast Series

Syncopate | Raising Hay and Planting Roots: A Podcast Series

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 Dr. Michelle Johnson and #C3TalkToMe Media presents the stories of Black women with farming roots in Kalamazoo, Cass, and Van Buren Counties. Raising Hay digs through layers of pride and the challenges of Black farmers and rural and urban residents’ agricultural enterprises. The episodes also explore the lives of Black women artists as they reveal the links between creativity, identity, land, farming and legacy. Moments pieced together before and during the pandemic - and linked to broad-based Black activism in the United States - reveal the essential nature of Black people’s relationships with the land. The series adds (Add the title for the Water podcast), a Seth Bernard (check spelling) interview with Dr. Michelle S. Johnson on the eve of the 2017 (?) election. Johnson discusses her environmental roots in Saginaw and the intersection of industry, toxicity, development and stewardship. The Lecture Land Legacy: A Black Kalamazoo Land and Ethic will contextualize the 5 podcasts, including my interview from the State of Water. The conversation will articulate a distinctive environmental perspective at the intersection of place, ancestry, food and cultural insistence.Copyright 2020 All rights reserved. Music Social Sciences World
Episodes
  • State of Water (ft.Dr. Michelle S. Johnson aka DJ Disobedience)

    State of Water (ft.Dr. Michelle S. Johnson aka DJ Disobedience)
    May 1 2022

    Dr. Johnson was featured in this series and her words ring true to the theme of Raising Hay.

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    42 mins
  • Black Resorting in Michigan: The Syncopate Pilot

    Black Resorting in Michigan: The Syncopate Pilot
    Apr 25 2022

    In Black Resorting in Michigan:The Syncopate Pilot, Dr. Michelle S. Johnson highlights Michigan’s "other" Black resort, Paradise Lake in Cass County Michigan. One of many Black resorts in western Michigan, Johnson roots her discussion in resistance to slavery and her own family history.
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    11 mins
  • Heather Mitchell and It Made Us Trust Plants More: Work Family Healing, and the Land

    Heather Mitchell and It Made Us Trust Plants More: Work Family Healing, and the Land
    Apr 24 2022

    Talking with Heather Mitchell is a perfect way to spend time! On this episode of Syncopate's Raising Hay series, Heather elevates a unique and representative history of Black land and culture as she paints the legacy of joy in family, land, food and art.
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    1 hr
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