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In this episode, Dr. Goodwin is joined by Dr. Amara Enyia to unpack slavery’s global legacy and the international implications for the African diaspora. In August, the United Nations General Assembly moved to create a Permanent Forum on People of African Descent — and there was pushback. But on an international level, the demand for a reckoning with anti-Blackness reverberates around the world. Advocates know learning about the African diaspora, histories of anti-Blackness and the need for reparations is more important than ever.

How are these colonial legacies continuing to affect members of the African diaspora today — and how can the international community begin to address these longstanding injustices? Dr. Goodwin and Dr. Enyia will answer these questions and more. 

“When you have a system in which corporations are driven to higher and higher profits, where they exploit the land, where they exploit natural resources, and where they exploit human capital, human people, for the purposes of profit, it is not sustainable.” 

“Black women have been really just so much of a backbone in this work… at the front lines of many of these major fights. Also, when we talk about who has been affected, it’s been largely Black women. I mean, even after we’re talking about Ahmaud Arbery, it was also Breonna Taylor. Before both of them, it was Sandra Bland. It was Korryn Gaines.” 

“I feel so optimistic about where we are, mainly because I’ve seen us coming together in ways that I’ve never seen before. And we have tools in this day and age that we didn’t have in the past, that can really connect the diaspora across geography, across language, and even across culture. That’s a powerful thing.”

—Dr. Amara Enyia, public policy expert and strategist.

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