Down Home

Africadia, with Dr. George Elliott Clarke (part one)

Award winning poet, author and University of Toronto professor, Dr. George Elliott Clarke, joins the Down Home podcast to share his Scotian story.
 
This is part one of a two part conversation, tune in next week to listen to part two.
 
 
#GEC #poet #socialjustice # #poetlaureate #UofT #orderofcanada

Social advocacy in the classroom with Rachael Myette

Jay and D have a conversation with educator Rachael Myette about her successful integration of social advocacy in her classroom

George Dixon

Jay and D review the life of legendary boxer George Dixon
 
 
 
#scotianlegend #boxinglegend #boxinghistory #boxing

A Family Thing with J-Bru and Levon the Prince

Homegrown hip hop artists J-Bru and his son Levon take us through their Scotian journey.
 
 
 
 
#LevonThePrince

A Seat At The Table with Nicole Johnson

Nicole Johnson, host of the community radio show A Seat At The Table, shares her Scotian story with Jay and D

Viola Desmond

The Down Home Podcasts explores the life of one of Canada's civil rights icons, Viola Desmond. Also in this episode Jay talks with his Aunt Jean Clayton about her memories of Viola.
 
 
 
 
Sources: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/viola-desmond-bio-1.3886923 https://www.historicacanada.ca/content/heritage-minutes/viola-desmond https://origins.osu.edu/milestones/remembering-viola-desmond?language_content_entity=en https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/explore/exhibitions/past-exhibitions/a-noteworthy-woman/ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/halifax-explosion-viola-desmond-wanda-robson-disaster-killed-1.4393272 #ViolaDesmond
 
 
#civilrightsicon #novascotia #canada #jimcrow

Outtakes

In this episode Jay and D give listeners a sneak peak at clips from their development meetings. The first clip is from one of their first development meetings back in 2020, so excuse the audio quality. In the second clip they discuss the horrible mass shooting in Buffalo that happened in May of 2022

Critical Race Theory, with Heather Chandler

In this episode D's Mom, Heather Chandler, discusses why CRT is such a hot button issue. Heather has an extensive 30 plus year resume working in Equity and Diversity.
 
If you listen to Down Home in the past you might remember Heather, she joined Jay and D in episode four to talk about Halifax back in the 1970's:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YNYQYttO2I&t=416s
(this is one of the early episodes of Down Home, audio quality isn't great)
 
#equity #criticalracetheory #crt

Better late then never

Jay and D take time to fully explain the origins of their friendship over the years, from the church to high school, through their twenties and separate moves to Toronto. In this episode they also explore what it means to them to be Scotian.

The art of the spoken word with Dwayne Morgan

In this episode Jay and D have a conversation with two time Canadian National Poetry Slam Champion Dwayne Morgan about how he started performing spoken word, mentoring, and his talent production company Up From The Roots.
 
 
Dwayne Morgan
https://dwaynemorgan.ca/
 
 
#spokenword #artist #entrepreneur #poetry