Color In Spaces Podcast: Recent Episodes
Ali & Om
Color In Spaces is a podcast featuring Person of Color engaging in non-stereotypical professions, tasks, or performing extraordinary services. The goal is to seek out, interview, and highlight such persons and share with the world their challenges, optimisms, contributions, and presence in the fields in which they occupy.The hosts of the podcast are Ali and Om.
In Episode 3: Person of Color In Travel, Ali & Om talk about what propelled them into the world of travel as a Person of Color, in the many years of their travel exploration. They talk about their experiences, excitement, challenges, and attraction to sampling different cultures and what comes along with it. They also talked about different travel websites and social media brands dedicated to Black Travelers.
We hope after listening to this episode you find to courage to travel, local or foreign, and explore and share what the world has to offer, once we get a better handle on COVID and as the rest of the world opens up.
Remember to Observe, Explore, Respect and Share.
Ali & Om
Music – The Way You Did by Shoulder B. Found on Epidemicsound dot com
Show notes :
Correction[s] – at timestamp [19:10] Ali & Om talked about Black Jazz Musicians traveling to Europe because of racism in America. That is partially true. What they did not cover was that during the height of racial tensions post-Emmett Till’s lynching. Link here
Conversation time stamps –
[07:10] Cyprus and use of military bases. Link here
[07:42] Where we record. Office of Deniz ( emphasis on zzzz ) of Perpetual Wave Production. Link here
[17: 56] Nomadness Travel – mention. Link here
[28:20] Onsen in Japan. Link here
[48:50] The Green Book. Link here
[50:50] Florence, Italy police round up African migrants selling goods on the streets… This has caused tensions over the years and has boiled over where protests are inevitable. Migrants protest angrily in Florence after Italian kills street vendor. Link here
[53:10] …Asians traveling globally are experiencing some form of racism/prejudice, even subtle, due to covid. This is a current and heartbreaking topic. Time.com highlights this. Link here
[57:25] Passport Heavy – mention. Link here
[59:05] Travel Noire – mention. Link here
[59:43] …what about budget travel for people of color? I found one resource I think is relevant from Essence.com. Link here
[01:00.10] Black Passport Stamp – mention. Link here
[01:03:12] Black & Abroad – mention. Link here
[01:04:27] Black Travel Gram – mention. Link here
[01:06:56] Black Travel Box – mention. Link here
[01:06:56] Donnell Rawlings products – mention. Link here
[01:09:00] Travel And Leisure dot com – mention. Link here
In this episode, my co-host Ali Bey and I, Om, discuss Dr. Carl Hart, an American Neuroscientist, and professor of neuroscience and psychology at Columbia University. He is also the author of his controversial book 'Drug Use For Grown-ups'. We talked about Dr. Hart being and Black man promoting such a taboo subject, along with societal emotions, biases, and hypocritical norms that we all exhibit. We would surely love to get Dr. Hart on the podcast one day since he lives in NY and we do too.
Enjoy the podcast and don't forget to like and share.
Music – Floral Mind by Shiruky. Found on Epidemicsound dot com Show notes :Corrections - Om gave out the wrong Twitter handle. It's @spaces_color https://twitter.com/spaces_color
Conversation time stamps -[04:30]
[14:30] In 2001, Portugal became the first country in the world to decriminalize the consumption of all drugs. Link here
[15:11] Why we don’t use the metric system - Om says it’s because they want to be special, however, this Britannica's article says otherwise: time and money. Link here
[20:30] Dr. Hart claims the drug is not addictive. /It’s an addictive personality that drives the addiction. Link here
[20:40] The cocaine study of mice. Link here
[21:45] The state of Mind is influenced by your environment. Link here
[27:20] Private prisons keeping the beds filled determining federal funding. Link here
[30:00] Pardon and admission of guilt. Link here
[31:48] The Insider leaving out Carl Hart’s Neuroscientist title and presenting him only as a psychology professor on their image cation. This is suspect as hell. Link here
[38:02] Snorting vs injecting heroin. Link here
[38:20] Does the buccal cavity include the nasal passage. No! Link here
Ali & Om introduces Color In Spaces and banters about people they would like to interview and some of the social challenges people of color endure while trying to carve their own path in life.
Music - Floral Mind by Shiruky. Found on Epidemicsound dot com
Show notes:
Correction - Om said Richard Parsons was with the ex CEO of Chase. He was actually the former chairman of Citigroup and former CEO or AOL Time Warner.
Correction - Om mistakenly said Quincy Jones is a fan of his. Om meant he was a Huge fan of Quincy Jones.
Correction - Ali talked about the American Bison being slaughtered to starve the Native Indians. This statements was somewhat off. Here’s an article clarifying: https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/196662/were-bison-slaughtered-to-starve-american-indians-whether-it-was/
Other names mentioned in the podcast:
Samantha Josaphat
Piper Heron
Dr. Carl Hart
Dr. Alexa Canaday
Ben Carson
Daryl Davis
Jordan Vesley
Travel Noir
Condo Rice
Kanye West