Nicole Richards

Back in 2020, after the murder of George Floyd and during the Black Lives Matter uprisings that followed, All My Relations started a journey to support the Black community and Afro Indigenous relatives through having conversations on police brutality, anti-blackness, Indian Country’s connection to chattel slavery, and Afro-Indigenous history. This first episode in the series features an interview with Harvard professor Tiya Miles. Professor Miles is a scholar, historian, and writer whose work explores the intersections of African American, Native American and women’s histories. With Dr. Miles, we focus specifically on the history and structure of Black and Native interconnection. Through the lens of early Cherokee interactions with Black people, we talk about Black and Indigenous peoples first relationships that were shaped in a settler colonial landscape.

If you’re here you probably love music. Screaming, shouting, jumping, singing. The beat moves you and you live for the sound. But how many times has this happened to you? You’re in a group, or with a friend and you want to put something you love on. Maybe it’s Rina Sawayama? Maybe it’s Harry Styles? Maybe it’s hard bop? You grab the aux, or connect to bluetooth, or whatever and it goes out the speakers and you start dancing and some dude smirks. He wants to stare at a wall and listen to the Smiths. The world is full of busy music nerds and monotone guys in front of an expensive microphone. In the studio, on stage, and in the reviews. Putting you down and pushing you out. Negativity all around. Dry detached criticism soaks up the fun. It’s a desert out there. But we want to Quench your thirst. Oasis is the passionate music podcast. Whatever the genre and whenever the time, we’ll be here on your feed giving you music that moves you. News, reviews, interviews and stories: we take up the tempo.