Audio Nuggets: Mining For Gold

Welcome to the cypher! On Audio Nuggets, we give ourselves rooted permission to tell a collective story of the principled struggle for liberation and freedom. We are honored to welcome Joyce James to the cypher for Episode 32: In The Fight to Undo Racism. Joyce James has been leading and supporting anti-racism and justice in multiple systems and institutions across the country for almost three dec...

Welcome to the cypher! Audio Nuggets is grateful and blessed to bring you Episode 31: Singing My Song with April Lee. April is a leader, community activist, advocate, artist, poet and believer of freedom. April is a lover of her people and her community.  April hips the audience to the political analysis that we can SEE the truth of the destruction that the family policing system causes Black fami...

We are back in the cypher with our anchor #4 for FREEDOM in Black History ’24.  We are joined by Aubrey Edwards-Luce for Episode 30: Dreaming Sanctuary. In Dreaming Sanctuary, Aubrey moves us to become filled. Filled with dreaming; filled with an energy to chase the vision of freedom, filled with a drive to nurture connections with others, and truly filled with a desire to love all people. Sanctua...

Audio Nuggets is back in the cypher and expanding Black History with #3 for FREEDOM. Episode 29: Notes For Freedom with Dr. Jessica Pryce will push you to embrace a reckoning.    For over 15 years, Dr. Pryce has worked with multiple angles in child protection, encompassing direct practice, academia, policymaking and research.   This episode unpacks just a few of Dr. Pryce's contributions to f...

In the cypher we bring you,  #2 for FREEDOM with our dear friend Dawn Blagrove for Episode 28: Loyalty To Truth. Dawn is a freedom fighter, movement attorney, and a beautiful human being. She has a sharp political analysis.  And a bullshit detector that helps discern who she builds with.  She epitomizes leadership in the struggle for freedom. Dawn tells it as it should always be told--with breadth...

We are back in the cypher for Black History Month '24. Audio Nuggets has curated the most magnificent series to commemorate 60 years post-civil rights. We are honored to level UP with THE jasmine Sankofa for Episode 27: Radically Practical. jasmine is the Executive Director of Movement For Movement Power. She joins us embodying many roles in the quest for freedom.  She's a passionate mov...

We are back in the cypher! Welcome to Audio Nuggets in January '24 for Episode 26: Part 2--Phenomenon of Whiteness with DaWayne Judd. Another beginning, a new season for many, and for some, and a lot of us; so much work to be done. Phenomena are occurrences in the natural and human-made world that can be observed and cause one to wonder and ask questions. DaWayne continues to guide our conver...

2023 is gone, and here we are, right back in the cypher for Audio Nuggets in 2024. This introduction shapes what’s in store for ’24, reflects on the journey behind and ahead, and unfolds what freedom and liberation means to MFG. We gift our courageous audience with an invitation, our motivation, our long view, and how we believe MFG’s piece of the struggle will continue to permeate our collective...

Welcome back to the Mining For Gold cypher! In this Black container, we witness and experience how traveling the stoney road toward freedom is a journey trekked with love, resistant abolitionism, dignity, and revolutionary muse makers. If you’ve eavesdropped on the political analysis, you’ve come to know that on Audio Nuggets we strive to bend the arc on non-linear modes through conversations that...

Welcome to Audio Nuggets, right here in the cypher, we are honored to be joined by Keshia Adeniyi-Dorsey for Episode 23: Love and Liberation. Keshia has advocated and served as a family defender for thousands of families who have been ensnarled by family policing and the Civil Death Penalty, commonly known as TPR.  Keshia is a human being who enjoys spending time with her husband and beautiful bab...

We are honored to be joined by Tanesha Grant, a mother of three, grandmother of four and an impacted child of the family policing system from birth. Tanesha is the founder and Executive Director of two community based organizations, Parents Supporting Parents NY, and Moms United for Black Lives New York City. This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org...

We are joined with Tehra Coles for Episode 21: Defending Justice Against Family Policing.   Tehra Coles is the Executive Director of the Center for Family Representation, a public defender office in New York City that represents parents in family policing cases in Queens, Manhattan, and the Bronx.  In this episode, we glimpse Tehra’s journey of discovery. With all the zeal at her command while adv...

Judge Aurora Martinez Jones presides over the historical 126th District Court in Travis County, Texas, where she co-founded the Child Welfare Race Equity Collaborative (CWREC). Currently, Judge Martinez Jones is leading a community effort in a local pilot to Re-Imagine the Child Welfare system.  Through this episode, listeners experience Your Honor’s embodiment of full humanity, justice and libera...

Cordelia Cranshaw Skeete is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, representing the District of Columbia. Despite the odds stacked against Cordelia as an adolescent, she guides others on their healing journey and believes that the journey is just as important as the destination. This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org . 

Erin Miles Cloud is the co-founder and co-director for Movement For Family Power. MFP works to end the family policing system and punishment of families to create a world where the dignity and integrity of all families is valued and supported. This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org . 

We are back in the cypher with Tewabech Genet Stewart for the much-anticipated Episode 17: Part 2- Reconcile With Terminating The Institution’s Rights. This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org . 

The conversation is rooted in the transformation of Black fathers from being “the impacted”, to being leaders that influence change and know the value of co-design with people. All while challenging the ideology that Black skin has never been the issue, that it is racism that is the issue. This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org . 

Tewabech Genet Stewart, an Ethiopian-American, was born and raised in Liberia, West Africa. Tewabech spent 22 years in Florida’s child welfare system, and now she advocates for justice-centered practices that support families. This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org . 

We are honored to be in conversation with Lisa Sangoi. Lisa is a founding co-director of Movement For Family Power, an organization that supports organizing and movement building to abolish the family regulation system. This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org . 

Audio Nuggets warmly welcomes our dear brother and friend, Matthew Stewart. Matthew is liberated and shares that his becomING is family justice. This conversation unpacks the relationship between Black bodies and anti-Black ideology in child welfare and how that has impacted him directly. This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org . 

Audio Nuggets is honored to welcome Derrick Stephens. Derrick brings his uniqueness and dreaming to the cypher. This conversation unpacks the shoulders to stand on and obligations of Black bodies of this generation to “get into a lot of good trouble,” acknowledging that planting seeds for tomorrow requires liberation. Derrick reveals that from a young age, he was always dreaming of freedom and lib...

Audio Nuggets welcomes Takkeem Morgan. In this conversation, Takkeem shares and unpacks his value with our listeners around people who are closest to the pain ought to be the architects of all the solutions. Families have the data, and they have better and less expensive ideas on how to spend government resources to help communities in a meaningful and impactful way. Takkeem outlines what he ident...

Welcome to the Mining For Gold cypher for this explosive, special Black History Month 2023 edition of Audio Nuggets with Joyce McMillan, of JMACForFamilies. Joyce embodies justice, humanity and belonging in her life’s mission for abolition of the family policing system, educating the listeners that abolition is the removal of the parts of the system that are harmful, destructive, and creating outc...

Audio Nuggets ushers in ’23 with special guest, Ivory Bennett. Through love, Ivory is reclaiming her voice and right to speak. Her right to full humanity. Her right to heal, practice empathy, and engage in the healing process for herself, so that she can then show up for the collective mission of justice as the throughline. This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at Saf...

In our final episode for 2022, Audio Nuggets is overjoyed that Angela Olivia Burton joins the cypher. Her personal liberation journey and using her power, influence, and liberated voice, is the core of her work, as she leverages these experiences to elevate the voices of Black parents, who are fighting to protect their families from unwarranted government intrusion and destruction of their familie...