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Black History Year

A Liberated Black Imaginary with adrienne maree brown (March 2021)

Black History Year

PushBlack

History, Society & Culture

4.32.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Everything humanity has ever created – the good and the bad – started with imagination. But what if we could harness the power of imagination — tap into a “Black imaginary” — to build a truly just future for Black people, unique in the audacity of its reach? A dream? A simple fantasy? We don’t think so, nor did our guest, author-activist-afrofuturist adrienne maree brown, who sat down with Jay in March 2021 to explore visionary ways to construct our joyful, liberated future. Enjoy. To learn more about the work of adrienne maree brown, visit www.adriennemareebrown.net Black History Year (BHY) is produced by PushBlack, the nation's largest non-profit Black media company. PushBlack exists to amplify the stories of Black history you didn't learn in school and explore pathways to liberation with people who are leading the way. You make PushBlack happen with your contributions at BlackHistoryYear.com — most people donate $10 a month, but every dollar makes a difference. If this episode moved you, share it with your people! Thanks for supporting the work. Hosting BHY is Jay (2020-2023) and Darren Wallace (2024). The BHY production team includes Jareyah Bradley and Brooke Brown. Our producers are Cydney Smith and Len Webb for PushBlack, and Lance John with Gifted Sounds edits and engineers the show. BHY’s executive producers are Julian Walker and Lilly Workneh. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, this is Leonard Pushed Black, and this is another episode of the best of Black History a year.

0:10.0

Everything humanity has ever created, the good and the bad, started with imagination.

0:16.4

But what if we could harness the power of imagination, tap into a black imaginary, to build a truly just future for black people unique in the audacity of its reach.

0:28.0

A dream, a simple fantasy? We don't think so and neither did our guests author, activist,

0:36.4

Afro-Futurist Adrian Marie Brown who sat down with Jay in March of 2021 to explore visionary ways to construct our joyful

0:47.5

liberated future.

0:49.5

Enjoy. She woke up from a dream.

0:53.0

She woke up one day with a strategy.

0:58.0

She woke up from a dream.

1:00.0

She saw that her people were free, right? They were what, seven, eight generations into slavery at that point? There was no

1:07.2

guidelines to be like, yeah, we can be free. She imagined it and then she bent reality and I think we all have to do that.

1:17.3

What if I told you that the ability to imagine is humanity's most powerful tool and our most dangerous weapon.

1:27.0

Oppressors used imagination to build a world where black bodies were enslaved as chattel.

1:34.3

After hundreds of years of enslavement,

1:36.6

Harriet Tubman imagined and manifested

1:40.0

what seemed impossible, A life of freedom.

1:44.0

What if we could do the same?

1:45.9

What if, like Tubman, we could bend reality

1:49.9

to fit a more just beautiful liberated vision for black life unlike anything we've ever seen

1:56.1

in our lifetimes.

1:58.7

I'm Jay from Push Black and today we're talking about the future.

2:07.0

So we talk a lot about history on this podcast, but it's just as important to talk about the future.

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