Artwork

Content provided by Kenneth Woodward and Ken Woodward. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Kenneth Woodward and Ken Woodward or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://ppacc.player.fm/legal.
Player FM - Podcast App
Go offline with the Player FM app!

Dr. Latorial Faison

2:05:57
 
Share
 

Manage episode 501480046 series 3639368
Content provided by Kenneth Woodward and Ken Woodward. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Kenneth Woodward and Ken Woodward or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://ppacc.player.fm/legal.

Episode Notes

00:00 Introduction and Personal Reflection

01:57 Guest Introduction: Dr. Latorial Faison

03:58 Early Life and First Questions

06:36 Organizing Pain and Finding Purpose

09:25 Challenges and Resilience

15:30 Responsibility and Representation

20:17 Reflections on Race and Upbringing

26:51 Writing and Grief Work

30:39  Mama Was a Negro Spiritual Poem

37:16 Memories and Cultural Traditions

40:06 Returning Home and Final Thoughts

46:13 Reflections on Military Family Life

47:03 Settling Down Post-Retirement

47:43 Pursuing Personal Goals

48:20 Balancing Family and Education

49:39 Dedication to Family and Heritage

52:13 Teaching and Student Struggles

54:02 Honoring Grandparents' Sacrifices

55:45 The Power of Memory and Storytelling

56:29 Sundays a Haiku

01:01:15  Abominations, a Poem By Latorial Faison

01:08:38 Researching Black Education History

01:25:44 Reflecting on Historical Figures and Social Change

01:28:16 The Great Undoing and Rebuilding

01:28:44 Hope Amidst Chaos

01:29:15 Introduction to Wintergreen Women's Writers Collective

01:32:43 Joining the Wintergreen Women's Writers Collective

01:34:05 The Impact of Nikki Giovanni

01:39:47 The Symbolism of Quilts

01:43:47 Current Challenges and Reflections

01:47:07 The Importance of Community and Legacy

01:49:36 Like An Ancestor Poem

02:00:40 Final Reflection and Takeaways

Resources Mentioned

University of Virginia

Virginia Tech

Virginia State University

The Missed Education of the Negro: An Examination of the Black Segregated Experience in Southampton County, Virginia 1950-1970

Riverview High School

Nursery Rhymes in Black by Latorial Faison

Blood at the Root by Latorial Faison

Johnson C. Smith University

Mama Was a Negro Spiritual by Latorial Faison

Tom Howard Poetry Prize

Nikki Giovanni

Engrams Funeral Home

Nat Turner Slave Revolt

Sundays a haiku by Latorial Faison

Mr. Pete Ballard's farm

Abominations by Latorial Faison

Lucille Clifton

Permafrost Prize

University of Alaska

University Press of Colorado

Sonia Sanchez

Black Pastoral by Ariana Benson

Cave Canem Poetry Prize

Phillis Wheatley Festival

Spelman University

Lauren K. Alleyne

Furious Flower

James Mason University (JMU)

Virginia Humanities Fellowship

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Joshua Doss

Martin Luther King Jr.

Wintergreen Women Writers Collective

Amiri Baraka

Maya Angelou

Toni Morrison

Val Gray Ward

Dr. Trudy Harris

Dr. Maryemma Graham

Dr. Joanne Gabbin

Amanda Gorman

National Museum of African American History and Culture

Rita Dove

Virginia (Jenny) Fowler

Collected Poems by Nikki Giovanni

Renee and Jay by JJ Murray

Original Love by JJ Murray

James Baldwin

Barack Obama

Grey's Anatomy

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Beauty Pill

Producer Ben Ford

Questions Asked

When did you first understand the power of questions?

Why me?

Why in that way?

Why was my life on this trajectory?

Why am I here?

What is my purpose?

Do you internalize "always someone watching" as a burden?

How many of you feel that you have a responsibility to your race?

If the lady offers us a cookie or a lemonade, why can't we take it?

How did questions play a role in challenging things early on?

Will you write about me one day?

How can you all come out of the same house, and kids end up so different?

What is a specific smell or color that reminds you of your grandmother?

How did questions work in that research for you?

What did black educators do?

What did they do in those classrooms to motivate African American students through Jim Crow?

Were they providing culturally relevant teaching; was that a key?

What can we learn from the students? What can we learn from the teachers?

What can we learn from this totally black segregated education experience to transfer into the now?

What is ground zero going to look like?

Who's going to even be here anymore?

What has the Wintergreen Women's Writers collective meant to you?

What is your Right Now Question?

What have I gotten myself into as department chair?

What do I do next?

What matters most in the moment that I'm in now?

How can I make the biggest difference?

It's not, will they like me? Will they help me? It's, what do I do? How do I move in this moment?

And that's how I try to live my life. Yeah. How do I live in this moment?

What pain in your life, if shaped into a story, might become a gift of healing for you and perhaps others?

What place from your past still holds untold stories, and how might sharing them illuminate both where you’ve been and where you’re going?

What place from your past still holds untold stories, and how might sharing them illuminate both where you’ve been and where you’re going?

Are your questions keeping you tethered to the past, or are they propelling you toward the life and impact you’re meant to create?

  continue reading

46 episodes

Artwork
iconShare
 
Manage episode 501480046 series 3639368
Content provided by Kenneth Woodward and Ken Woodward. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Kenneth Woodward and Ken Woodward or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://ppacc.player.fm/legal.

Episode Notes

00:00 Introduction and Personal Reflection

01:57 Guest Introduction: Dr. Latorial Faison

03:58 Early Life and First Questions

06:36 Organizing Pain and Finding Purpose

09:25 Challenges and Resilience

15:30 Responsibility and Representation

20:17 Reflections on Race and Upbringing

26:51 Writing and Grief Work

30:39  Mama Was a Negro Spiritual Poem

37:16 Memories and Cultural Traditions

40:06 Returning Home and Final Thoughts

46:13 Reflections on Military Family Life

47:03 Settling Down Post-Retirement

47:43 Pursuing Personal Goals

48:20 Balancing Family and Education

49:39 Dedication to Family and Heritage

52:13 Teaching and Student Struggles

54:02 Honoring Grandparents' Sacrifices

55:45 The Power of Memory and Storytelling

56:29 Sundays a Haiku

01:01:15  Abominations, a Poem By Latorial Faison

01:08:38 Researching Black Education History

01:25:44 Reflecting on Historical Figures and Social Change

01:28:16 The Great Undoing and Rebuilding

01:28:44 Hope Amidst Chaos

01:29:15 Introduction to Wintergreen Women's Writers Collective

01:32:43 Joining the Wintergreen Women's Writers Collective

01:34:05 The Impact of Nikki Giovanni

01:39:47 The Symbolism of Quilts

01:43:47 Current Challenges and Reflections

01:47:07 The Importance of Community and Legacy

01:49:36 Like An Ancestor Poem

02:00:40 Final Reflection and Takeaways

Resources Mentioned

University of Virginia

Virginia Tech

Virginia State University

The Missed Education of the Negro: An Examination of the Black Segregated Experience in Southampton County, Virginia 1950-1970

Riverview High School

Nursery Rhymes in Black by Latorial Faison

Blood at the Root by Latorial Faison

Johnson C. Smith University

Mama Was a Negro Spiritual by Latorial Faison

Tom Howard Poetry Prize

Nikki Giovanni

Engrams Funeral Home

Nat Turner Slave Revolt

Sundays a haiku by Latorial Faison

Mr. Pete Ballard's farm

Abominations by Latorial Faison

Lucille Clifton

Permafrost Prize

University of Alaska

University Press of Colorado

Sonia Sanchez

Black Pastoral by Ariana Benson

Cave Canem Poetry Prize

Phillis Wheatley Festival

Spelman University

Lauren K. Alleyne

Furious Flower

James Mason University (JMU)

Virginia Humanities Fellowship

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Joshua Doss

Martin Luther King Jr.

Wintergreen Women Writers Collective

Amiri Baraka

Maya Angelou

Toni Morrison

Val Gray Ward

Dr. Trudy Harris

Dr. Maryemma Graham

Dr. Joanne Gabbin

Amanda Gorman

National Museum of African American History and Culture

Rita Dove

Virginia (Jenny) Fowler

Collected Poems by Nikki Giovanni

Renee and Jay by JJ Murray

Original Love by JJ Murray

James Baldwin

Barack Obama

Grey's Anatomy

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Beauty Pill

Producer Ben Ford

Questions Asked

When did you first understand the power of questions?

Why me?

Why in that way?

Why was my life on this trajectory?

Why am I here?

What is my purpose?

Do you internalize "always someone watching" as a burden?

How many of you feel that you have a responsibility to your race?

If the lady offers us a cookie or a lemonade, why can't we take it?

How did questions play a role in challenging things early on?

Will you write about me one day?

How can you all come out of the same house, and kids end up so different?

What is a specific smell or color that reminds you of your grandmother?

How did questions work in that research for you?

What did black educators do?

What did they do in those classrooms to motivate African American students through Jim Crow?

Were they providing culturally relevant teaching; was that a key?

What can we learn from the students? What can we learn from the teachers?

What can we learn from this totally black segregated education experience to transfer into the now?

What is ground zero going to look like?

Who's going to even be here anymore?

What has the Wintergreen Women's Writers collective meant to you?

What is your Right Now Question?

What have I gotten myself into as department chair?

What do I do next?

What matters most in the moment that I'm in now?

How can I make the biggest difference?

It's not, will they like me? Will they help me? It's, what do I do? How do I move in this moment?

And that's how I try to live my life. Yeah. How do I live in this moment?

What pain in your life, if shaped into a story, might become a gift of healing for you and perhaps others?

What place from your past still holds untold stories, and how might sharing them illuminate both where you’ve been and where you’re going?

What place from your past still holds untold stories, and how might sharing them illuminate both where you’ve been and where you’re going?

Are your questions keeping you tethered to the past, or are they propelling you toward the life and impact you’re meant to create?

  continue reading

46 episodes

All episodes

×
 
Loading …

Welcome to Player FM!

Player FM is scanning the web for high-quality podcasts for you to enjoy right now. It's the best podcast app and works on Android, iPhone, and the web. Signup to sync subscriptions across devices.

 

Quick Reference Guide

Copyright 2025 | Privacy Policy | Terms of Service | | Copyright
Listen to this show while you explore
Play