Jeff Baraka's Planet Boom!

Happy New Year! Enjoy the above track; here’s the backstory (and some real talk)… 2025 was heavy. The current, stressful sociopolitical theatre has dealt me a couple direct blows re: my UNESCO-related media project. Plus, I haven’t been able to move around like I’m used to, since taking on primary caregiver responsibility for my octogenarian … Continue reading By Any Other Name (...

I really enjoyed the first season of Rainn Wilson and the Geography of Bliss, his travel docuseries based on the book by Eric Weiner. As an independent creator/producer —and something between a “serious journalist” and a humorous presenter— I pay close attention to programs like this. I’ve been plotting my own travelogue since my early … Continue reading BLISSOON

Historian, Sir Hilary Beckles is Vice-Chancellor of the University of the West Indies and Chair of the CARICOM Reparations Commission. Zeinab Badawi, one of my favorite international journalists, traveled to Barbados to interview him for Hardtalk (BBC). They discussed reparations and justice for the descendants of enslaved Africans, and I thought: “Big Bro is straight … Continue readin...