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

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 and neither did our guests author, activist,

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

liberated future.

Enjoy. She woke up from a dream.

She woke up one day with a strategy.

She woke up from a dream.

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

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.

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

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

After hundreds of years of enslavement,

Harriet Tubman imagined and manifested

what seemed impossible, A life of freedom.

What if we could do the same?

What if, like Tubman, we could bend reality

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

in our lifetimes.

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

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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