Host Genius Black opens the first episode of The Maine Monitor's new podcast, Maine's Black Future, with a historical look at the life of London Atus, a Machias resident in the late 1700s that purchased his freedom and fought in the Revolutionary War. Atus would help create the settlement of Atusville. 

Later in the episode, Genius sits down with Portland resident Alfine Nathalie, a holistic health provider who was born in Kenya and raised in Maine.