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In this archive conversation, we examine the creative origins and cultural vision of Ruth E. Carter, whose work has helped redefine the visual language of Black cinema and global storytelling. Long before “Afrofuturism” entered the mainstream lexicon, Carter was constructing worlds — drawing from history, diaspora, imagination, and memory — to articulate identities too often left unseen.
Together with our Global I Am hosts, they explore the discipline behind her craft, the intentionality required to design for cultural specificity, and the responsibility inherent in rendering Black life with depth, dignity, and possibility.
What emerges is a meditation on vision — how it is formed, how it is protected, and how it ultimately helps a people see themselves anew.
"i am deep/blk/soil
they have tried to pollute me
with a poison called America.
they have tried to
scorch my roots
with dope
they have tried to
drown my dreams with alcohol
with too many men who spit
their foam on top of my fruit
till it drops
rotten in America's
parks.
but i am deeeeeEEEp
blue/blk/soil
and you can hear the
sound of my walken
as i bring forth green songs
from a seasoned breast
as i burn on our evening bed
of revolution.
i, being blk
woooOOOMAN
know only the way of the womb
for i am deep/red/soil
for our emergen Blk Nation." - Sonia Sanchez,
A Blk/Woman/Speaks
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Global I AM Conversations is an ongoing and archived podcasts of the world's builders, artists, entrepreneurs, thinkers, innovators, public servants, and cultural architects whose lives remind us that people—not capital—remain our greatest investment.
Hosted by Patrick A. Howell, Founder & CEO of Global Market Intelligence & Media (GMIQ). Co-hosts include Max Rodriguez of the Harlem Book Fair, Bill Huston of Crowd Max and Tara Frater, a wealth advisor and attorney in Barbados.
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