On the Edge with Eddie: Detangling our Black Identities

In this episode, I continue my discussion with Dean Wing on Multiplicative Identity and the concept of Othermothering. "I noted the dual discriminations I felt as a black female. To me that discrimination was multiplicative, not additive. In other words, I was black times a woman every day, not black plus a woman, which implies you may be able to subtract an identity. The discrimination I felt was...

The 6-3 center is agile and athletic with a tremendous work ethic. As a Nigerian native, Ugo is a 2016 Temple University master’s graduate with a degree in globalization and development communications. In college, she helped guide her team to the WNIT Elite Eight (2016) and the American Athletic Conference semifinals (2016). Nwaigwe played professionally overseas in Nigeria, Spain, Angola, Portuga...

Derek Kwadwo (D.K.) Nnuro is a Ghanaian-American fiction writer. He is a graduate of the fiction program at the Iowa Writers Workshop, where he was a recipient of the Meta Rosenberg Memorial Fellowship and a Teaching Writing Fellowship. He was awarded the Robert J. Schulze Fellowship in 2016 and is a recipient of a fellowship from the Ragdale Foundation.  In this episode we chat abo...

As a specialist in business financial crime and financial crime compliance policies in the UK, my conversation with Trudy, a Ghanaian-Londoner focuses on the diplomatic nature of racism in Europe, specifically in the UK. We also discuss the topic of i mposter syndrome as a black individual. 

Nana Ama Agyemang Asante is a Ghanaian journalist, editor and writer. She co-hosts the “Citi Breakfast Show” at the Accra-based radio station Citi FM . In 2015, she was named Radio Personality of the Year for your persistent efforts in speaking truth to power. 2017, she was awarded a Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellowship by the National Endowment for Democracy . In this episode we chat about her tra...

In this episode we start a three part series on Critical Race Theory, Social Construction Identities and Intersectionality.   Critical race theory offers a way of seeing the world that helps people recognize the effects of historical racism in modern American life. The intellectual movement behind the idea was started by legal scholars as a way to examine how laws and systems uphold and perpe...

In the first episode of On the Edge with Eddie, I have a conversation with my sisters on what it was like for us when we moved to the United States and the struggles of being an Africa in America at a young age. Hope you learn something from our shared experiences. 

In this episode, I introduce the concept of Black Identity through spoken words. Get ready for an emotional rollercoaster and all feels as we discuss black identities.

Season 1 Trailer. What to expect on the Edge with Eddie - Detangling our black identities. This trailers gives a high level of what's coming in Season 1.