Travels of a Wounded Goose

The shame of Black manhood is carrying centuries of wounds we did not create. We live with the weight of history—our women violated, our children slaughtered, our families broken—by white terror that has not ended. That shame runs deep, even when it is not ours to own. It lingers in silence, grief, and rage, passed from generation to generation, hidden beneath survival. It is a heavy inheritance t...

They love to say the South wore the chains and the North broke them. But in this episode, I explain how the North wasn’t the savior — it was the silent partner in Black bondage. From Ivy League schools built on slavery to Wall Street built over the bodies of Africans, I follow the blood money, the myths, and the buried truth. The Emancipation Proclamation didn’t free the North’s enslaved. Lincoln...

In 1968, there were fewer than half a million people locked up across America. Today, that number has exploded to over 2.1 million behind bars — and nearly 7 million under correctional control. This isn’t just a system. It’s a business. A political tool. A pipeline built to cage Black, Brown, Indigenous, and poor people in the name of safety and profit. In this episode, I break down the history, t...

In this fiery episode of Wounded Goose, J.C. pulls the mask off the narcissists who run the world — from global empires to petty power players in our homes and communities. Through history’s biggest ego-driven collapses and today’s unchecked greed, we explore how power corrupts, how silence enables, and how resistance plants the seeds of liberation. Their fall is inevitable — but only if we keep s...

In this episode of The Wounded Goose podcast, we open the gates of Louisiana's Angola Prison — the largest maximum-security prison in America, built on the same soil that once bound generations of enslaved Africans. From the horrors of convict leasing to modern forced prison labor and corporate profits, "The Last Massive Plantation" reveals how slavery didn’t end in 1865 — it adapted. Join host J....

In Fruit of the Lash, J.C. Faulk pulls no punches, uncovering under-told stories that so many would rather bury. Black Americans don’t just carry the names of enslavers—we carry their DNA.   Through the story of his great-great-grandmother Millie and countless other women and girls brutalized on Southern plantations, J.C. confronts generational trauma, forced bloodlines, and the question:   What i...

Haiti, the first Black nation to win its freedom through blood and fire, was punished for daring to break the chains of colonialism. In Sugar, Blood, and Haiti, J.C. Faulk takes you from the revolutionary past to the sugar fields of today, revealing how colonial powers, debt, and betrayal have kept Haiti under siege for centuries.   This episode connects brutal history, personal witness, and resis...

This episode cuts deep into the cost of so-called clean energy. It is about cobalt—what it is, where it comes from, and how it’s soaked in the blood of Congolese children. Six million dead, and the world shrugs, as they are made invisible to make it easy for colonizers to raid their riches.   This week's episode takes you from King Leopold’s genocide to modern-day corporate complicity. If you’ve e...

Powder and Punishment dives into the crack era’s devastating impact on Black communities, exploring how a government-fueled drug war shattered families, criminalized addiction, and built private prison empires.   Politicians on both sides of the aisle colluded to railroad Black people into cages, fueling mass incarceration for political gain. This episode challenges the myths we've been told and e...

In this deeply personal and searing episode, I take you with me to the dungeons of Cape Coast Castle in Ghana, one of the primary sites of the transatlantic slave trade. I walk through the suffocating darkness of a chamber built to break the spirits of men labeled “rebellious,” where between 1,200 and 1,500 human beings were packed together in unspeakable conditions. They slept in their feces. The...

In this episode of Wounded Goose, J.C. Faulk takes you to Burkina Faso, where a young president is helping lead a quiet revolution. From kicking out colonial forces to building nuclear power, gold reserves, and pan-African alliances, Africa is rising—and doing it without Western permission. This moment reveals what happens when Black nations claim their power, their resources, and their future. Th...

This week, Wounded Goose confronts the relentless ways America scorches Black creativity, brilliance, and dreams—how this country has long feared what it cannot control or steal. Through policy, violence, erasure, and silence, Black genius is too often met with fire. And yet, generation after generation, we rise from those embers—still building, still imagining, still moving toward the ever-elusiv...

Given the troubling trajectory of recent American aggression, it’s deeply concerning to consider where this country may be headed if it continues along a path so devoid of empathy. Millions are already suffering—families are being torn apart, and the emotional toll is immense. Without a dramatic shift, there is a very real risk of a powerful and painful backlash. Across the nation, hundreds of tho...

There’s a sound that’s louder than sirens and protests — it’s the silence that follows them. This episode of Wounded Goose explores what happens in America when we look away, when the news cycle moves on, and the pain of marginalized people is left to echo in the quiet.   We'll talk about the violence of indifference. The weight of unspoken grief. And how silence and inaction aren’t peace—it’s per...

In this episode, I examine the fact that there is no house for Black people in America. Yes, there are two parties, but neither Democrats nor Republicans gives us full access to our rights. We no longer have a visible Black Freedom Movement, and we have never moved forward without it. Until we create systems that elevate Black people, we depend upon white people to lead our movement toward freedom...

The initial episode of the Wounded Goose Podcast explores the concept of freedom, as will all future episodes. I explore freedom through the lens of a journey rather than a destination. Through my travels, I have witnessed and documented experiences from around the world. I will continue to do this and share what I find along the way. So far, freedom is different than what I imagined it would be.