Black Diplomats
100 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago -Founded in 2020 and led by Terrell Jermaine Starr, Black Diplomats is the go-to podcast for those who want relatable content on global affairs that doesn’t center the perspectives of white male experts.
Few foreign policy shows are led by Black people or center the opinions, experiences and expertise of people of color. Black Diplomats is one exception. Guests are mostly people of color and people who are indigenous to the regions the episodes focus on.
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Producer's Note
May 20, 2021 13:00 - 1 minute - 1.66 MBHello everyone, Mike here, the producer of Black Diplomats. We have a couple of short announcements this week, so I thought I’d jump on your feed for the update. Terrell is dealing with a family emergency right now, so our regular episodes are postponed for a couple weeks. Please keep him in your thoughts. In more lighthearted news, we recently received a grant from the Ploughshares Fund to do a series on the Iran nuclear deal and the nuclear program in North Korea. Ploughshares has suppor...
Recognizing the Armenian Diaspora
May 08, 2021 13:00 - 36 minutes - 50.4 MBAfter 100 years of lobbying the US government has finally recognized the Armenian genocide, carried out by the Turkish government in the transition out of the Ottoman empire. On this episode of Black Diplomats host Terrell Starr talks to Sophia Armen, a scholar and activist who lost eight members of her family in the genocide. She is the third generation of activists in her family who have fought to keep the memory of those bloody days alive. Armen talks about some of the details of the s...
Jewel of the Caucasus
May 02, 2021 05:45 - 1 hour - 88.9 MBThe Republic of Georgia has a storied history in the heart of the Caucasus mountains. Host Terrell Starr first went there after the fall of the Soviet Union when they were still struggling to figure out a new way of life. In today’s episode of Black Diplomats he talks about that critical time, for him and for the nation of Georgia. He talks about living in the region as a Black man, and how he found ways to connect with his neighbors. Then Terrell talks to Eka Gigauri, a native Georgian w...
Ukraine, Navalny, and other people Putin is trying to kill
April 24, 2021 13:00 - 58 minutes - 79.7 MBThis week on Black Diplomats we’ve got a new format and new guests, but have faith - we’re still taking aim at white supremacist imperialism, and there’s nothing new about that. We’re all about giving platform to people who don’t get invited into mainstream media, and we’ve done a great job of it. We also want to broaden the foreign policy conversation by bringing in new audiences. One of the barriers for a lot of folks is basic context and geography, so we’re going to start filling in some...
Vets Want U.S. Out of Afghanistan
April 18, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour - 102 MBPresident Biden announced that he wants all US troops out of Afghanistan by 9/11/21, two decades after the attack that ostensibly launched our global war on terror. As usual, we’re hearing plenty of opinions from people who’ve never been there and don’t know what they’re talking about. This week on Black Diplomats host Terrell Starr is talking to three vets who have multiple tours in Afghanistan and Iraq. Isiah James was a “door kicker” as he calls it, a frontline grunt who saw the horrors ...
Pam Keith on Matt Gaetz and Dems in Florida
April 10, 2021 13:00 - 34 minutes - 46.8 MBThere’s a lot happening in Florida right now! From whatever the hell is going on with Matt Gaetz, to the governor acting like the pandemic is over, and the state legislature trying to restrict voting. Of course there are progressives all over the state fighting back, but where are the Democrats? This week Black Diplomats welcomes Pam Keith to try to make sense of it all. Keith ran for congress in Florida and has a plan for how to turn the state blue. Her razor sharp observations of the imp...
Black Diplomats on The Power Vertical
April 04, 2021 13:00 - 58 minutes - 79.7 MBOn this week’s episode of Black Diplomats we’re sharing an interview Terrell did on The Power Vertical, a podcast about Russian politics hosted by Brian Whitmore. They talk about Terrell’s op-ed in The Washington Post on Alexi Navalny, how race works in the former Soviet states, and what the US has to do to weaken Russian government interference in our society. How can we deal with urgent issues like race, without letting the Kremlin dictate the terms? Whitmore also asks about Terrell’s up...
Georgian political crisis with George Khelashvili
March 29, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour - 84.4 MBThe political crisis in the Republic of Georgia continues. Parliament still isn’t functioning, and the accusations of creeping authoritarianism against the ruling party are getting louder. On this episode of Black Diplomats host Terrell Starr talks to George Khelashvili, an MP in the ruling Georgian Dream party. Khelashvili compares the situation in Georgia to the polarization in the United States, and he’s willing to get into details. From political prisoners to unfair elections, Khelashv...
Georgian political crisis with Sergi Kapanadze
March 20, 2021 06:00 - 48 minutes - 66.2 MBThe country of Georgia is one of the former Soviet states still fighting for autonomy from the Kremlin. With the ongoing Russian military occupation of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, it’s not just an academic discussion. Today on Black Diplomats we have Dr. Sergi Kapanadze, a professor and politician in the Georgian opposition party. Kapanadze explains why his party has decided not to take their seats in Parliament, their allegations of voter fraud in the last election, and how the United Stat...
Matt Duss has advice for Bernie Sanders
March 13, 2021 05:30 - 1 hour - 84.4 MBMatt Duss is one of the good ones. A foreign policy advisor for Sen. Bernie Sanders, Duss is one of the folks in Washington trying to lead our government away from neoliberalism. After a career in progressive think tanks and left-leaning media, Duss started working for Bernie Sanders shortly after Trump was elected. They’ve got a lot done by D.C. standards, including the first invoking of the War Powers Resolution, to end U.S. assistance in the war in Yemen. Host Terrell Starr has plenty o...
Navalny, Race & Russia
March 06, 2021 05:30 - 1 hour - 91.5 MBOn this episode of Black Diplomats, host Terrell Starr convenes a panel of experts to talk about the recent decision by Amnesty International to revoke the “prisoner of conscious” status from Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Starr wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post about the decision this week, criticizing the simplified discourse in the West. In order to bring some nuance to the conversation Starr hosts Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon, Dr. Rano Turaeva-Hoehne, and Irina Kuznetsova, ...
Rep. Karen Bass Wants Diversity in the State Department
February 27, 2021 07:00 - 48 minutes - 66.2 MBThis is the episode of Black Diplomats where Rep. Karen Bass starts the soft diplomacy on Terrell, trying to talk him into joining the State Department! Bass represents California’s 37th district in Los Angeles, and is a fierce advocate for all the good things. As Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa she has regular contact with folks from the Continent and a lot of good ideas for how we can improve our behavior on their behalf. She’s involved in the Represent America A...
Black & Asian Solidarity with Alicia Garza and Shaw San Liu
February 24, 2021 06:00 - 53 minutes - 73.5 MBToday on Black Diplomats we’re honored to host Alicia Garza, one of the three co-founders of the Black Lives Matter Global Network, and Shaw San Liu, Executive Director at the Chinese Progressive Association. They’ve known each other for many years, after meeting as on-the-ground organizers from their respective communities who were looking to find solutions to common problems. Host Terrell Starr asks them about the recent spate of racist violence against Asian people, the way divisions are...
Building Peace with Iran
February 20, 2021 13:00 - 59 minutes - 81.2 MBOn this week’s episode of Black Diplomats, host Terrell Starr does what very few American journalists do - talk to Iranians about Iran. Iran is surrounded by nuclear armed adversaries and American military bases. It is reasonable for them to feel threatened, but that’s a perspective we rarely hear in the U.S. media, because we keep being force fed the same crewcut white boys going on about the mullahs. Today we have two Iranians and a nuclear policy analyst on to provide some context to th...
Turning Florida Blue with Pam Keith
February 17, 2021 06:00 - 58 minutes - 80.8 MBPam Keith has a unique perspective from growing up in Turkey, Morocco, Syria, Brazil, and several U.S. cities, as the daughter of Ambassador Kenton Keith. She was an Officer in the Navy and a lawyer with some of the largest firms in the nation, before running for Congress from the 18th district in Florida. Host Terrell Starr has lots of questions! Their conversation went for more than two hours, so we’ve broken it up into two parts. Part one went out earlier this week. In part two they tal...
Impeaching White Supremacy with Pam Keith
February 13, 2021 13:00 - 56 minutes - 77.2 MBPam Keith has a unique perspective from growing up in Turkey, Morocco, Syria, Brazil, and several U.S. cities, as the daughter of Ambassador Kenton Keith. She was an Officer in the Navy and a lawyer with some of the largest firms in the nation, before running for Congress from the 18th district in Florida. Host Terrell Starr has lots of questions! Their conversation went for more than two hours, so we’ve broken it up into two parts. In part one, they start by talking about the white suprem...
Rethinking America with Malcolm Nance
February 07, 2021 04:15 - 55 minutes - 76.6 MBMalcolm Nance is a security specialist, intelligence analyst, author, military vet, and much more. He’s also a Black man in America, and a Black Diplomat overseas. On today’s episode host Terrell Starr asks Nance-stradamus to break down the missteps of the Trump administration, and what Biden will have to do to repair the damage. As two people who have a deep understanding of the history of global affairs, they put modern conflicts with places like Russia and Iran into historical context. So...
Black Diplomats on Pod Save the World
February 03, 2021 13:00 - 27 minutes - 38.1 MBTerrell appeared on the excellent show Pod Save the World, a podcast by Tommy Vietor and Ben Rhodes, two long serving members of the Obama administration. Rhodes introduces Terrell by pointing out that he isn’t just talking about changing policy, he’s helping change the whole mindset of American power. These guys get it. Rhodes talks about being in rooms where Obama was the only one who isn’t white, and asks Terrell about the importance of diversity in those rooms. Terrell points out that i...
Terrell on Press The Button
January 25, 2021 05:30 - 32 minutes - 44.1 MBThis week on Black Diplomats we’re playing a recent episode of the Press the Button podcast from the Ploughshares Fund that features Terrell Starr talking about American nuclear policy, what “healing” means for our politics, and how white supremacy colors our views of our adversaries. It’s a great episode of the PTB podcast, and a fun opportunity to hear Terrell sit on the other side of the table as a guest. An engaging podcast on nuclear policy and national security, Press the Button is co-h...
Black Diplomats on Press The Button
January 25, 2021 04:30 - 32 minutes - 44.1 MBThis week on Black Diplomats we’re playing a recent episode of the Press the Button podcast from the Ploughshares Fund that features Terrell Starr talking about American nuclear policy, what “healing” means for our politics, and how white supremacy colors our views of our adversaries. It’s a great episode of the PTB podcast, and a fun opportunity to hear Terrell sit on the other side of the table as a guest. An engaging podcast on nuclear policy and national security, Press the Button is co...
The White Supremacist Insurrection
January 16, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour - 101 MBOn today’s episode of Black Diplomats, host Terrell Starr is joined by two military vets, Arti Walker-Peddakotla and Shaniyat Chowdhury, to talk about the violent white supremacist insurrection on January 6th, where supporters of disgraced ex-president Donald Trump brutalized Federal employees and vandalized the Capitol. At this point we’ve seen there were a lot of ex-military in the crowd, so Terrell wants to know - did Arti or Shan serve with anyone who supports this movement, and what can...
Georgia Election Run-off with LaTosha Brown
January 09, 2021 13:00 - 44 minutes - 60.9 MBThe high-stakes Senate runoff in Georgia went to the Democrats - both Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff won their special election races, defeating Republican incumbents to flip the Senate. One of the people we have to thank for this outcome is Ms. LaTosha Brown, co-founder of Black Voters Matter. Brown is a world traveller who brings a global perspective to American politics. Host Terrell Starr talks to Brown about what worked for Democrats in Georgia, the foundations of America, and what we ...
Black Diplomats News Show with Asha Castleberry-Hernandez and Lovely Umayam
January 03, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour - 130 MBHappy new year, and welcome back to Black Diplomats! On this episode host Terrell Starr welcomes National Security expert Asha Castleberry-Hernandez, and nuclear policy analyst Lovely Umayam to talk about what safety means in 2021. For all the bluster of the last four years, not even the US nuclear umbrella can protect us from COVID-19. Intro: 00:00: Terell, Asha and Lovely talk about what foreign policy hopes they have for 2020. In the news: 15:02: Mike Pompeo's Swagger tweet about US...
Reimagining Safety
December 09, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 117 MBToday’s guests on Black Diplomats are Pam Campos-Palma and Melissa Bryant, two women who have complicated relationships with America. Both women are military vets, one the daughter of immigrants, one a fourth-generation service member. Both were taught that the military is a pathway to prosperity. Both experienced the racism and misogyny that are defining parts of living in America, and both persevered. They know what it’s like to love this country, even when it doesn’t love you back. Host ...
Former Black American CIA Operative Analyses America's Fractured Democracy
November 21, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 86.7 MBJerwayne Cook was an Operations Manager who worked at the CIA for over a decade during the height of the War on Terror. He has seen nations fall into civil war, experienced radical terror first hand, and dismantled networks aiming to destabilize governments. And that’s why he’s worried about America. Host Terrell Starr talks to Cook about what kind of assessments the Agency would be making if another country had a dictator who wouldn’t recognize the results of a free and fair election. Cook...
What do Democrats owe Black voters?
November 14, 2020 06:30 - 1 hour - 94.8 MBThe 2020 election is mostly wrapped up and one of the big takeaways is the profound effect of BIPOC organizers nationwide, from the Stacey Abrams juggernaut in Georgia, to the turnout among Native Americans in Arizona, even as Covid-19 ravages their communities. Today on Black Diplomats, host Terrell Starr talks to activist Dr. Melina Abdullah and journalist Anoa Changa about what Democrats owe BIPOC voters, how Joe Biden became the nominee in the first place, and what it’s going to take to...
Election Analysis with In The Thick
November 06, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 87.8 MBOn this episode of Black Diplomats, host Terrell J. Starr is joined by the two people who got him into podcasting: Maria Hinojosa and Julio Ricardo Varela, hosts of the In The Thick podcast. The 2020 election for President of the United States was this week, and it looks like Joe Biden is going to win the Electoral College count, as well as the popular vote. What happens in the courts is yet to be seen. All year long people have been predicting a Blue Wave that would result in control of b...
The Anatomy of a Kleptocracy, According to Gaslit Nation
October 30, 2020 13:00 - 58 minutes - 79.8 MBkleptocracy noun klep·toc·ra·cy | \ klep-ˈtä-krə-sē \ plural kleptocracies : government by those who seek chiefly status and personal gain at the expense of the governed also : a particular government of this kind On this episode of Black Diplomats host Terrell J. Starr is joined by Sarah Kendzior and Andrea Chalupa, founders of the podcast juggernaut Gaslit Nation. Terrell asks them to define what a kleptocratic government looks like for folks who might not be familiar with...
The War for Nagorno-Karabakh
October 26, 2020 13:00 - 40 minutes - 55.3 MBToday’s episode of Black Diplomats is a primer on the war in Nagorno-Karabakh, a disputed region in the mountains between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Host Terrell J. Starr talks to Lika Zakaryan, a journalist who has spent her life in Nagorno-Karabakh, known as Artsakh to the locals. Over 90% of the population of Artsakh is ethnically Armenian, but due to political wrangling in the Soviet era it is considered a territory of Azerbaijan. Zakaryan could hear bombs going off in the background duri...
Trump's White Supremacist Foreign Policy
October 24, 2020 07:00 - 58 minutes - 79.7 MBOn Black Diplomats this week, host Terrell J. Starr is joined by two experts in world affairs to talk about President Trump’s foreign policies, and how he has tried to use the State Department to further his own interests. What does having a White Supremacist in Chief mean for American relations with the countries in Africa? They also discuss the advantages of diversity in the diplomatic corps from an insiders perspective, and what it’s going to take to repair the damage done by Tump’s shall...
No More Nukes!
October 10, 2020 04:45 - 1 hour - 96.8 MBBlack Diplomats is back to talk about nuclear non-proliferation with two experts from Eastern Europe - Polina Sinovits from Ukraine, and Ekaterina Mikhaylenko from Russia. Both women study, write, and teach about the way nuclear weapons affect international relations, and the massive, stupid threat they pose to the world. Host Terrell J. Starr has interviewed many experts in the field and contributes his own analysis of the ways the so-called Nuclear Club contributes to maintaining white su...
Revolution in Belarus - Special Series
October 07, 2020 13:00 - 58 minutes - 80.4 MBThis is the third episode in our special coverage of the revolution in Belarus. After their last election was rigged to keep a dictator in power, hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets to demand he step down. Top activists have been prosecuted, causing well known politicians and journalists to flee the country in fear for their safety. Host Terrell J. Starr talked to Katsiaryna Shmatsina, a Belarusian political analyst focused on Belarusian foreign policy, regional secu...
A Look at America from Ukraine
October 03, 2020 05:15 - 56 minutes - 77.6 MBVolodymyr Dubovyk has a resumé that is long enough to make you dizzy. He is a faculty member in the International Relations department at Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National University and an expert on the foreign policy of the US and Ukraine. As Ukraine’s leading “Americanist”, he often travels in the States to speak on Eastern Europe, and travels Eastern Europe to speak on the States. This cross-cultural communication is exactly the kind of thing we like to facilitate on Black Diplomats. On ...
Mike Espy for U.S. Senate
September 26, 2020 04:45 - 30 minutes - 41.5 MBMike Espy was born and raised in Mississippi, and was Assistant Secretary of State, then Assistant Attorney General, before becoming a Congressman in 1986. He was the first Black congressman from Mississippi since Reconstruction, and then became Secretary of Agriculture under Bill Clinton, the first Black person to hold that position in our nation’s history. Now Espy is running to replace Cindy Hyde-Smith, who was appointed by a Republican governor after Thad Cochran retired from the seat. ...
Transgender Black Women Talk Global Liberation
September 19, 2020 04:30 - 1 hour - 106 MBOn this episode of Black Diplomats we’re talking to three Transgender Black Women in three different countries about what liberation looks like for them. There is more transgender representation in media and politics than ever before, but transgender people still have to deal with hate and misgendering. Host Terrell J. Starr brings together a brilliant panel of activists from the US, Nigeria, and South Africa to fill us in on where the movement stands today, what it means for their fight to ...
Revolution in Belarus 2 - Special Series
September 15, 2020 04:15 - 47 minutes - 65.7 MBWhen asked about the security services in Belarus, journalist Hanna Liubakova has a simple message: “There are no rules.” Black Diplomats host Terrell J. Starr interviews Liubakova about the ongoing protests in her country, and the brutal methods being used to shut them down. As a frontline journalist Liubakova and her colleagues have documented the beatings, arrests, and other crowd control methods employed by a corrupt dictator to maintain his hold on power. This is a special episode of...
Revolution in Belarus
September 12, 2020 06:30 - 46 minutes - 63.8 MBThis week on Black Diplomats, host Terrell J. Starr welcomes Maryia Sadouskaya-Komlach, a media development specialist who has lived and worked all over Europe, but is from Belarus. There have been nationwide protests in her home country for more than a month at the time of this recording, with the goal of ousting dictator Alexander Lukashenko and establishing a democracy. “The constitution of Belarus still says there has to be free and fair elections!,” says Sadouskaya-Komlach in the int...
Taking a Break from American Racism in Ukraine
September 06, 2020 05:15 - 38 minutes - 52.9 MBIn this very special episode of Black Diplomats, host Terrell J. Starr takes a break from the news cycle to talk about going abroad as a Black person from America. He’s been in the Carpathian mountains in Ukraine for a few weeks, away from the hustle and noise of New York, enjoying the countryside. With the separation comes a kind of clarity. Terrell talks about the pressures of being Black, and the benefits of relieving those pressures when the opportunity arises. And he asks a simple que...
Black Veterans Project
August 29, 2020 05:45 - 1 hour - 114 MBOn this episode Black Diplomats welcomes Asha Castleberry and Richard S. Brookshire III, two members of the Black Veterans Project. They provide an insiders perspective of life on deployment, how the military industrial complex doubles as America’s biggest federal jobs program, and how they feel President Trump is doing with our armed forces. Terrell’s mother and father both served in the Army, so the issue of how Black people fit into the service is very personal to him. He also has a chan...
Terrell Speaks on Biden/Harris
August 22, 2020 09:00 - 55 minutes - 75.7 MBIn this week’s episode, I break down what I think the Biden/Harris ticket could mean for the future of American foreign policy. I cited a lot of numbers and other things dealing with climate change, defense spending and other topics to support my arguments, so I am linking out to a lot of those sources here. Remember, these links are just starting points for you to do your research. I am just citing these to point to the data I used for today’s episode. For defense spending, I cited 2019 ...
Painter Aïcha Sacha looks inside herself
August 15, 2020 06:00 - 37 minutes - 51.3 MBPainter Aïcha Sacha grew up in a little village in Germany. Her father was from Germany and her mother from Benin in Africa, and she says there were no other Black people in town. This experience of feeling as if she were on display followed her in Germany, and made its way into her paintings. Last year Sacha moved to Marseille in France as part of her effort to focus full time on her art. Her work centers Black women in a vibrant world filled with mystery and beauty, and sometimes pain. Th...
The Fight for LGBTQ+ Rights in Eastern Europe
August 08, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour - 104 MBBlack Diplomats takes a deep dive into the global struggle for human rights with an episode about LGBTQ+ pride in Russia and Eastern Europe. As activists build their movement, they watch government propaganda, religious authorities, and far-right extremists join together to protest every step toward equality, often with violent results. Pride parades are celebrations in many places around the world, but in Georgia and other former Soviet states Pride is still dangerous and rainbow flags are ...
Colonialism Goes Nuclear
August 01, 2020 06:00 - 45 minutes - 62.1 MBBeatrice Fihn is not playing. She has a Law degree from the University of London and a Bachelors in International Relations from Stockholm University. She also has a Nobel Peace Prize, accepted in her role as Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. According to her website Fihn has spent more than a decade working in disarmament diplomacy and civil society mobilization, but what that means in plain language is communication. She reminds us of the terribl...
On being a powerful Black woman...in Canada
July 25, 2020 07:15 - 1 hour - 94.3 MBCelina Caesar-Chavannes is a powerful businesswoman who lives in Whitby, Canada. In 2014 she decided to run for office and won, becoming the only Black woman in the Parliament of Canada. Caesar-Chavannes was appointed the Parliamentary Secretary to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, a highly sought-after role, but she became frustrated by the lack of aggressive action to repair Canada’s deepest wounds. By 2019, she decided she would have more flexibility and, ultimately, more influence working ...
Catch Me If You Can
July 18, 2020 05:00 - 33 minutes - 45.8 MBJessica Nabongo is the first Black woman to document traveling to every country in the world. She is a writer and photographer, and now she's added lifestyle guru to her resumé with the founding of her travel company Jet Black. Nabongo was born and raised in Detroit to parents who immigrated from Uganda. Her family thought nothing of hopping on a plane to any destination, and after getting a graduate degree from the London School of Economics, Nabongo decided to visit every country she hadn...
Disinformation and Counter-Intelligence in Ukraine
July 11, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour - 108 MBDisinformation from Russia was a big subject during the 2016 election for President of the United States, and 2020 is turning out to be no different. The US isn’t the only one dealing with this issue, in fact it’s a lively topic in former Soviet states all over Eastern Europe. Ukraine has gone so far as to ban a Russian-backed media organization, who responded by labeling it an attack on free speech. But our guests say something has to be done to combat the power of state propaganda coming ...
Romani take lessons from Black Lives Matter
July 04, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 109 MBRomani people in Eastern Europe are joining protests in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States. That seems strange to some people, but not to Terrell, or any of the guests on this episode. Host Terrell J Starr talks about his experiences being a Black man from Detroit visiting Ukraine, Georgia, and other Eastern European countries. He tells stories of meeting folk who are white but speak the language of oppressed people everywhere. Joining him are three women ...
Slavery in 2020
June 27, 2020 07:00 - 53 minutes - 73.3 MBHost Terrell J Starr talks to Banchi Yimer about the kafala system in this episode of Black Diplomats. Yimer traveled from her native Ethiopia to Yemen in search of work, and took a job as a domestic servant in Lebanon. She was promised a fair wage and the right to make decisions about her life, but she soon found herself trapped inside the house with no money or even her passport. When she was able to escape she realized she was in the middle of a growing crisis of women in similar situati...
Travel in the age of 'dat Rona
June 20, 2020 13:00 - 51 minutes - 70.8 MBIn the very first episode of Black Diplomats, host Terrell J Starr talks to Roshida Dowe and Amer-Marie Woods, two Black women who left established professional careers to explore the world. They discuss what motivated each woman to make a change in her life, and what it's like to be an international Black Diplomat. Find Amer-Marie on Instagram. Find Roshida on Instagram and YouTube. The financial readiness quiz she mentions can be found here, and her Sabbatical Planning Guide can be found...
Hello World
June 18, 2020 05:00 - 3 minutes - 4.45 MBIn this brief intro episode, host Terrell J Starr reads a few paragraphs from an article he wrote for The Washington Post about his first trip to Eastern Europe, and gives an overview of what you can expect from Black Diplomats.