Future Memory Podcast
1) Civil War Memory and Monuments to White Supremacy with Art Historian Kirk Savage
Professor and Art Historian Kirk Savage is one of the nation’s foremost experts on monuments and memorials. Savage is the author of several books including Monument Wars and Standing Soldiers, Kneelin...Show More
2) Stewarding Sound and Ancestral Memory with Nathan Young
Episode 46 of Future Memory features artist, scholar, and composer, Nathan Young. Young is a member of the Delaware Tribe of Indians and a direct descendant of the Pawnee Nation and Kiowa Tribe, curre...Show More
3) MING MEDIA is the Message with Jon Kaufman and El Sawyer
Future Memory welcomes El Sawyer and Jon Kaufman of MING Media. MING stands for Media In Neighborhoods Group – words that speak to WHERE Jon and El have been focusing their documentary work and the co...Show More
4) Teaching Truth with Jesse Hagopian
In this episode co-host Li Sumpter receives a history lesson from Jesse Hagopian, Seattle-based educator, activist, and die-hard advocate for antiracist education. He shares childhood memories that im...Show More
5) Plot of Land - Ep. 10: We Have to be Creative as Hell
Concluding the Plot of Land series, we look at the work being done across the United States to repair our relationship with the land, from the Tongva conservancy in Los Angeles to the Sea Islands of S...Show More
6) Plot of Land - Ep. 9: Rotten Eggs & Gasoline
We return to Louisiana and the Joneses, where in recent decades family members have moved away for work and to escape the increasingly toxic air and water leaking from the neighboring chemical plants ...Show More
7) Plot of Land - Ep. 8: 66 Acres Down by the River
We learn the incredible story of Sedonia Dennis, a woman once enslaved in Louisiana, who came to own a piece of the plantation that had once claimed ownership of her family. And we explore how, over t...Show More
8) Plot of Land - Ep. 7: The Sad Part Is That It Was Successful
We’re looking at what happened after subsidized affordable housing programs expired in the 2000s on New York’s Roosevelt Island. Some residents managed to buy in, build equity and stability. Others ex...Show More
9) Plot of Land - Ep. 6: Tucked Between Those Two Boroughs
New York’s Roosevelt Island was imagined as an idyllic, multi-racial, multi-income community, developed as part of the social housing movement in the 60s and 70s. But by the 1980s, socially-minded inv...Show More
10) Plot of Land - Ep. 5: We’re Out Here at our Homeland
At one point Oklahoma had 50 Black townships and 1.5 million acres of Black-owned farmland. Today only 13 Black towns survive and the majority of Black farmers have retired or lost their land, discour...Show More