In this episode, Anton and BC discuss MacArthur fellow Joseph Drew Lanham, THE farmer Ken Sparks, and their personal experiences gardening, hiking, and cam ...
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Check out our empowering companion podcast, Year of Ujamaa. Ujamaa means cooperative economics in Swahili, and BC and Anton have taken on the challenge of supporting black-owned businesses as much as they possibly can. “It’s not easy,” they have found. “But we do believe, and hope to prove, that there is a black-owned company that can handle almost everything we need. Where is the black-owned coffee shop? Where is the black-owned doughnut shop? Where is the black-owned appliance store? Where is the black-owned hotel? We know some of these answers, but there is still so much to discover, and put into practice. Because that’s where Ujamaa begins for us - with information. As they say, ‘Knowledge is power.’”
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Episode #41 – Farmer Ken Sparks
BC and Anton welcome visionary agriculturalist Ken Sparks for a conversation about food deserts, community gardens, and the future of urban farmi ...
Wakanda Welcomes a New Museum
It is impossible for us to be more excited about the opening of the new Museum of Science and Technology in Addis Ababa. Engage.
The OSIB|VIAIE
Who is in the SKY IS BLACK Hall of Fame of Artists? For us, an entire wing must be dedicated to our brother and breathtaker, FANUEL LEUL. If you haven't se ...
Just Phenomenal
We are enthralled with author-architect Lesley Lokko. And with good reason. She is the founder of the African Futures Institute, which has a mission to transfo ...
Ohio, stand up. Ohio, stand up!
Black Tech Week is almost here. Coinciding with the Cincinnati Music Festival, Black Tech Week is designed for tech professionals, funders, enthusiasts, and al ...
SPOTLIGHT: Aisha Nyandoro
Aisha Nyandoro is Chief Executive Officer of Springboard To Opportunities, gaining national attention, in part, for being the designer of Magnolia Mother's Tru ...
We’re Coming Home!
Some of us, at least. On June 13, the Smithsonian Institution voted to return a portion of Benin's artistic heritage to Nigeria. Their statement reads: ...
It’s one thing when black people aren’t discussed in world history. Fortunately, teams of dedicated historians and culture advocates have chipped away at the propaganda often functioning as history for the world’s students to eradicate that glaring error. But when, even in the imaginary future—a space where the mind can stretch beyond the Milky Way to envision routine space travel, cuddly space animals, talking apes, and time machines—people can’t fathom a person of non-Euro descent a hundred years into the future, a cosmic foot has to be put down." ― Ytasha L. Womack
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Wakanda Welcomes a New Museum
It is impossible for us to be more excited about the opening of the new Museum of Science and Technology in Addis Ababa. Engage.
Shout Out: RASHIQ FATAAR
Rashiq is an urbanist and the founder and director of Our Future Cities. Our Future Cities works with communities, governments, and business to create more vis ...
Kenya StartUps! Kenya…StartUps!
TechCrunch reports that Kenya has the highest funding growth so far in 2022. Shout out to our sister, Ciiru Waweru, founder of Funkidz, even though she has not ...
Freetown. Really?
A very important story from the New York Times regarding the future of Sierra Leone. Communities will decide for themselves whether or not to engage in mining ...
Black Homes Matter
In the big picture, the development of affordable housing is critical for the global, Pan-African community. We will continue to highlight key players, and ke ...
Cash Rules Everything
One of the primary objectives of SKY IS BLACK is to empower entrepreneurs of African descent. We believe venture capital has a HUGE role to play in fulfilling ...
Making BAD
We revere Malene Barnett and the Black Artists + Designers Guild. What's not to love? Malene Barnett founded BADG in 2018 to create a space where Black artists ...
The African Skyline
The future of Addis, preserving contemporary architecture, and signature Ethiopian design were just some of the issues we discussed with architect and professo ...
There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.” - Octavia Butler
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And how dare I disrespect that history, profane all my ancestors’ suffering and struggles, by giving up the freedom to imagine that they’ve won for me.” ― N.K. Jemisin
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