Audio Nuggets: Mining For Gold

• Bravery is Freedom- Black Men Sharing How They Became

  Welcome to the cypher! Audio Nuggets is where you will find a symbiotic force; both the heaviness of the air to breathe, and the light of freedom of liberation. Where human consciousness is alive. Each voice has a moment to spotlight their IT; their shine; their journey; their truth; their gold. We are honored to be joined by Jason Williamson for this episode, Bravery is Freedom- Black Men Sharing How They Became.Jason D. Williamson has served as Executive Director of the Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law since June 2021. Prior to this, he served as the Deputy Director of the ACLU’s Criminal Law Reform Project. He began his legal career in New Orleans in the months following Hurricane Katrina. Jason serves as an adjunct clinical professor at New York University School of Law, where he teaches the Racial Justice and Abolition Clinic. As of August 25, 2025, Jason assumed the role of Executive Director with the National Center for Law and Economic Justice, based in New York City. This conversation is about more than résumés or institutions. Our conversation is rooted in Jason’s lifestyle and daily practice of abolitionism—seeing beyond punishment and militarized policing toward a world organized around care, dignity, and collective responsibility. Together, we explore what it means to navigate the stereotype threat of being a Black man and Black father in these Americas, and how Jason’s journey has been shaped by faith, family, and a profound sense of responsibility to those who came before—and the generations he has yet to meet. You’ll witness how legacy shapes responsibility, how expectation becomes fuel, and how the devastation in New Orleans twenty years ago catalyzed Jason’s lifelong commitment to racial justice and liberation.Take a deep breath. Let this conversation rush in—unsettling what must be unsettled, stirring your bravery, and daring you to imagine abolitionism and liberation not as distant realities, but as the work of NOW.This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.

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• Adoption: A Lifetime of Preventable Pain

  Welcome to the cypher! Audio Nuggets is where you will find a symbiotic force; both the heaviness of the air to breathe, and the light of freedom of liberation. Where human consciousness is alive. Each voice has a moment to spotlight their IT; their shine; their journey; their truth; their gold. We are honored to be joined by Annalisa Toccara-Jones for this episode, Adoption: A Lifetime of Preventable Pain.Annalisa Toccara-Jones is a researcher, writer and communications strategist based in the UK. She’s currently completing a PhD in Journalism at the University of Sheffield, where she explores how adoptees utilise digital media to challenge dominant narratives of adoption, as well as the legacies of colonialism in UK adoption practices. Annalisa also runs Family Narratives, a consultancy focused on ethical storytelling and adoption. Her work centers on race, care, identity, and resistance, both online and offline.This episode explores the "not so popular" discussion of adoption, specifically trans-racial adoption.  Adoption is all too often wrapped in a tidy bow—a story of love, rescue, and happy endings. But what’s missing from that picture is the truth: adoption, and especially transracial adoption, sits at the crossroads of family separation, racial and systemic injustices. To build awareness of the harms of the “civil death penalty”—the legal termination of parental rights—we must talk about adoption. We have to face the reality that many adoptions begin not with willing surrender, but with state violence and the racist practice of family policing institutions. Transracial adoption, in particular, carries the weight of cultural erasure and identity loss, layered on top of the trauma of separation. If we are committed to racial justice, we cannot separate these conversations. Adoption is not an isolated act—it’s part of a larger system that decides who gets to parent, who gets to be a child, and whose families are seen as worth preserving.Breathe in.... let your shoulders soften, and open wide the windows of your heart and mind. Allow the conversation to flow in, inviting reflection, bravery, and tenderness.  You can learn more about Annalisa and Family Narratives on their website:   Our Story – Family NarrativesThis show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.

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• Black Liberation Community Vigil: What is Freedom and Healing for Stolen Children?

  Welcome to the cypher. Audio Nuggets is where you will find a symbiotic force; both the heaviness of the air to breathe, and the light of freedom of liberation. Where human consciousness is alive. Each voice has a moment to spotlight their IT; their shine; their journey; their truth; their gold. Tanesha Grant, Executive Director of Parents Supporting Parents in New York, joins Mining For Gold to co-host this revelatory episode- Black Liberation Community Vigil: What is Freedom and Healing for Stolen Children?The Black Liberation Community are beloved comrades who have come together in a brave, sacred space over the past two years — to laugh, cry, talk shit, hold each other through the pain of losing loved one, to imagine and practice new worlds while abolishing our internalized beliefs, and loving on each other in ALL Black. This practice supports our collective healing. The Black Liberation Community is live in the cypher to publicize a vigil as a part of our duty and commitment to Stolen Children’s Month. We are joined by Edwin from Iowa, Samara from Arizona, Latoya from Arkansas and Courtney from Washington DC. In the background, America celebrates freedom and independence while carcerality reigns, and imperialism continues to inflict horrific family separation.  As you listen, you will feel the beautiful rhythm and the vibrations of the Black Liberation Community coming together to reclaim our liberated rights. To heal…to love…to commune...to challenge…and to grow.This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.

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• Stolen Children's Month - The Visionary

  Welcome to the cypher! Audio Nuggets is where you will find a symbiotic force; both the heaviness of the air to breathe, and the light of freedom of liberation. Where human consciousness is alive. Each voice has a moment to spotlight their IT; their shine; their journey; their truth; their gold. We are excited to be joined by Ashley Albert for this episode, Stolen Children’s Month- The Visionary.Ashley Albert is a visionary mother, abolitionist, and founder of Stolen Children’s Month. Through Stolen Children’s Month, Ashley seeks to reclaim what has been stolen from us: our children, our joy, our lineage, and our rights to raise our babies in peace. Born into loss and raised through systems designed to break her, Ashley’s story is one of survival, power, and reclamation.This episode deeply explores Stolen Children’s Month; a call for the abolition of all systems that steal children and separate families, including the family policing, adoption, and foster industries; the ICE detention and deportation machine; and the prison-industrial complex. Throughout June, impacted leaders across the country are organizing vigils, love letter gatherings, storytelling projects, and healing circles to honor stolen children and build towards healing justice.Ashley embodies liberation and freedom. She is encouraging all of us to become the deep medicine of decolonization. Stolen Children’s Month is a rediscovery, a mourning, a dreaming, a commitment and an action. We can find our way to cultivate the change within ourselves and within our collective.  You can learn more about Stolen Children’s Month and all the ways to be involved and practice solidarity at June 2025: Stolen Children's Month. This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.

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• Birthing Black- The Shared Fight

  Welcome to the cypher! Audio Nuggets is where you will find a symbiotic force; both the heaviness of the air to breathe, and the light of freedom of liberation. Where human consciousness is alive. Each voice has a moment to spotlight their IT; their shine; their journey; their truth; their gold. And through the tenderness of love, we will aggressively claim our voice and own our right to humanity. We are excited to be joined by Toshira Maldonado for this episode, Birthing Black- The Shared Fight.Toshira Maldonado is fueled by passion for Black maternal health and racial justice. She is an international birthworker, community organizer, and educator. Toshira co-founded a maternal wellness group that grew out of her church group in 2004. Today it is known as Most Beautiful W.O.M.B. Inc., (Women Overcoming Major Barriers), flourishing as a grassroots community led organization. Her professional experience with family policing in Philadelphia for over seven years added purpose to what she describes as her life mission to support women. Along with 26 years as a community birth worker, she holds four generations of holistic healing and birth keeping close to her heart. This episode explores Toshira's journey as a birthworker for freedom and liberation. Toshira's liberation is fortified by being a descendent of ancestors who birthed this nation, African spirituality, the power of communal midwifery, and healing. Toshira lives in her purpose of seeing the full humanity of Black women, and experiencing the love of people who came from generations of systemic abuse, inhumane treatment, and the legacy of enslavement.  Toshira reminds us..free people, free people...that want to see people free!This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.

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