Voices of Resilience
The Voices of Resilience podcast is a Gaylord News production. I am your host, LJ Golston. Eight of my fellow Gaylord College classmates and I spent weeks embedded in the George Floyd Square neighborhood and the Greenwood District of Tulsa. We
We are grateful to The Agape Movement, who hosted our visit in Minneapolis and the Black Wall Street Times, who did the same while we were in Tulsa. Both organizations connected us with the people directly impacted by the communities’ history.
We could not have done this without Brenda Stewart, Steve Floyd, Marquise Brown from Agape and KingDemetrius Penndelton provided us a podcast space in his Listen Media Gallery. In Tulsa, Eddie Washington and Nehemia Frank were instrumental in connecting us to descendants of the massacre and sponsored our working space at Atento Captial.
Voices of Resilience
Protest and Art: A discussion with Jordan-Powell Karis
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Qur guest, Jordan-Powell Karis, is a visionary artist and activist who created
a powerful piece of protest art. The raised fist sculpture, standing at the heart of George Floyd Square, has become a beacon of solidarity, a rallying cry for change. It is a striking memorial for George Floyd along with countless others affected by police brutality.
We discussed healing and resistance through art and how he found himself ingrained in the 38th and Chicago community of South Minneapolis. We sat down at the Listen Media Gallery on May 25, 2024, the anniversary of Floyd's murder. Photojournalist and documentarian KingDemetrius Pendleton owns the gallery directly across the street from where George died.