GO THERE with Tresha Lionel

Asha Lovelace is a filmmaker, CEO, and Director of the Caribbean Film Festival, and the daughter of Earl Lovelace, one of the most defining literary voices of the region. In this conversation, we move beyond the ease of legacy and into demanding weight of it. Asha reflects on finding her own voice while adapting her father’s work across mediums and generations, and what it means to create in a mom...

In this episode of  Go There with Tresha Lionel , I sit down with Eleanor Shearer, author of River Sing Me Home. In it, a runaway slave moves across the Caribbean in search of her children taken from her.  We dive into the challenges of writing about lives erased or reduced by history. What does it mean to rebuild stories from records that saw people as property or numbers? And what responsibility...