Introducing a couple new voices to the fold (Deng, Nate, and Ty), our main discussion asks the question, “how art affects political consciousness,” and how that informs the role of Black artists in our past, present, and future. Later, Nate puts us on to Larry June, a Bay-area rapper with a health-conscious kick. Labelled a “lifestyle rapper,” we explore what this subgenre of hip-hop means to him, allowing us to further examine the a Black artist’s role and their actionable efforts.

Today, our guest host Caleb is joined by Robyn Maynard, author of Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present. First published in 2017, this book stands as a seminal text on the struggle for Black life in Canada. We'll be discussing the revised and expanded edition, due out in October 2025 in context with the political and social regressions and evolutions we have witnessed in the 8 years since the books original release.

Dr. Toivo Asheeke who is a scholar-activist and author of “Arming Black Consciousness: the Azanian Black nationalist tradition and South Africa’s Armed Struggle.” In this episode, we discuss the armed liberation movements in Southern Africa, diving into Azanian Black nationalism, the black consciousness movement, and how they contributed to the liberation of southern African countries from Portuguese colonialism and white settler rule.

Welcome to the first episode of our Pan-Africanism series, our guest today is Dr. Layla Brown who is a Pan-Africanist and organizer with the All Africans People's Revolutionary Party GC, an assistant professor of cultural anthropology and Africana studies at Northeastern University in the United States and co-host of the Life Study Revolution YouTube show. We have some more interviews and events on Pan-Africanism planned over the next couple of months so please tune in for more if you're interested, or reach out to find out how to get involved with our organization.

This conversation on our political foundation details the different projects and programs we have worked on, how to get involved with 1919, and why we are motivated to continue pursuing long term revolutionary action alongside our community.

Setting this year off with our first collab with ACCRACITYNICE who worked with us to curate a selection of mostly contemporary Afrobeats and Afro-fusion sounds that explored the why of our last issue homecoming for a new DJ set on 1919radio.

To commemorate Prisoner Justice Day, we are hosting Matthew Campbell-Williams and Fiona Bailey to have a wide ranging conversation on the realities of incarceration in Canada.

In the fourth and final episode of our Black Geographies Podcast Series, our host Mohamed Nuur sits down with Dr. Brian Jefferson, an Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign and author of Digitize and Punish: Racial Criminalization in the Digital Age.