Patterns Of Our Diasporas

Festivals are more than celebrations — they're living archives of culture, memory, and resistance. In this episode of Patterns of Our Diasporas , host Monica O. Montgomery sits down with three Philadelphia festival organizers to explore how community events preserve identity across generations. Gerardo Coronado of the Association of Mexican Business Owners (AEM) shares how Día de los Muertos a...

The following is the full audio from the Save Philly Festivals Bus Tour by Diaspora DNA Story Center - first speaking is the founder of Monica O Montgomery, Sarah Everly from the DRWC, Shekhinah B. from Women's Coalition for Empowerment, LindoYes! The Poet, and Edgar Ramirez from Philatinos Media.

In honor of Women's History Month, host Monica O. Montgomery brings together four extraordinary Philadelphia women who are reshaping what it means to empower community through storytelling, culture, and healing. In the first conversation, Judith Robinson (North to the World) and Chrissy Watts (Philly Experiences) discuss the art of the tour guide — not as a formulaic experience, but as a deepl...

This episode, “Curation of the Arts” is a powerful conversation about Black art and reclaiming our narratives. We’re joined by two brilliant guests: Angela Caroll - author of "No Solace in the Shade" which is t he first major publication on Baltimore-based painter Jerrell Gibbs, whose contemplative portraits of Black sitters thrum with a vivid sense of place and reflect the complexity and...

This episode, “Kinkeeping & Genealogy: Creatively Inserting You and Your Family Into History,” is a powerful conversation about ancestry, identity, creative confidence and the art of reclaiming our narratives. We’re joined by two brilliant guests: Eboni Zamani — documentarian, family lineage tracer and founder of Pearl’s Girl Productions, whose work blends film and lineage research to illumina...