Sankofa & Solidarity: Uncovering Black and Native Legacies for Health Equity Episode 1

Questions You Didn't Ask by Niasha Fray

Episode notes

Welcome to Season 4 of Questions You Didn’t Ask! We're opening with a bold and necessary four-part series: Sankofa & Solidarity: Uncovering Black and Native Legacies for Health Equity.

In this premiere episode, Niasha Fray sits down with award-winning historian and author Dr. Alaina E. Roberts to explore what it really means to "look back in order to move forward." Drawing on her acclaimed book, I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land, Dr. Roberts challenges the sanitized narratives we were taught in school and reveals how the histories of Black and Native American communities are deeply intertwined—through land, enslavement, survival, and resistance.

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Sankofa and SolidarityBlack and Native historyBlack freedom on Native landAlaina E. RobertsI’ve Been Here All the WhileNative American slaveholdingQuestions You Didn’t AskHealth equity podcastNiasha FrayDecolonize health