a LATTO thought podcast

05/08/2022

14/09/2021

Voice over artist David Kelley ( ) beautifully performed the Narragansett's Testimony against US (second-class) citizenship in 1876 for the third episode of . When faced against the United States as they pushed for detribalization of all Indigenous nations, the Narragansett refused specifically because of America's one drop rule and Jim Crow. In fact, they were the only tribe to use the idea of one-dropness in reverse, claiming that all those who mingled with Narragansett blood were "the heirs of Ninagret," no matter how dark their skin.
If you haven't yet, go check out a LATTO thought's first miniseries via the or your favorite podcast app today!

05/09/2021

Councilwoman LeEtta Osborne-Sampson has an inspiring and important message to : the Seminole were always one people, independent of the racial categories the U.S. assigned them.
Learn about how the "undefeated" Seminole Nation were broken apart by america's by following the and listening to the miniseries on your favorite app today

03/09/2021

Ariel's Gross explains the reason why she titled her book on the and "What Blood Won't Tell" and the underlying truth that we all have been taught to forget—that there is no essential racial identity or biology.
Listen to the whole miniseries on your favorite app today and follow for continued updates on the Freedmen's fight for civil rights within their Indigenous nations.

02/09/2021

Marilyn Vann and the Descendants of Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes Association have been leading the fight for civil rights within the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee/Creek, and Seminole nations for the past *fifty years* and this year... They are finally starting to achieve their goal of equal rights and closing a long era of Native Nationalism that has divided these Indigenous nations for over a century.
Head to the to listen to the finale of In Our Blood today, available wherever you listen to .
Follow the for more updated on the Freedmen's continued fight for equality

02/09/2021

Marilyn Vann speaks on the gravity of the Cherokee Freedmen's situation that evolved decades after Cherokee Nation regained their self-governing powers as a result of the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934.
Head to the to listen to the finale of In Our Blood today, available wherever you listen to .

29/08/2021

LeEtta Osborne-Sampson tells us about the painful realities for the descendants of Freedmen in Seminole Nation, namely how the tribe will count their Black kin for acquiring resources from the federal government but then withhold them from their Black kin when distributing those resources within the tribe.
Go to the to listen to the finale of IN OUR BLOOD today!

19/06/2021

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12/06/2021

Check out the for a longer written piece centered on the and the and Black Natives and Freedmen whose land allotments helped syphon wealth into the Greenwood District, fueling the growing white rage that would ravage the fabled "Black Wall Street." And, stay tuned for the final chapter of "In Our Blood"!
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18/04/2021

provides a clear example of how laws can uphold racial inequity while claiming to be "not about race." Listen to the second chapter of "In Our Blood" today to learn how laws like vagrancy laws impacted and devastated Black communities during and after Reconstruction.

18/04/2021

is back again to help breakdown the infamous Plessy vs. Ferguson case, where a white skinned African American man and the Comité des Citoyens tried to challenge the absurd logic undergirding racial segregation laws in the post-Reconstruction era south. Listen to the second chapter of "In Our Blood" by following the today!

18/04/2021

Eli Grayson, the former President of the California Muscogee Creek Association, helps explain how a flat racial category was used to embolden and fortify white supremacy during the formation of Oklahoma statehood in the second chapter of "In Our Blood." Follow the to listen now!

16/04/2021

In Our Blood, Chapter Two, out today! - https://mailchi.mp/9b66b6fb8746/in-our-blood-chapter-two

15/02/2021

Lou Mensah (my good friend, collaborator, and host of ) gave a glowing recommendation for a LATTO thought during her interview with this past week. Thank you, Lou! If you haven't already, go start listening to her show where artists, art critics, photographers, and magazine editors talk about race and identity within an art world dominated by white businesses.

16/01/2021

a special release from LATTO thought! - https://mailchi.mp/c907c53563d0/a-special-release-from-latto-thought

27/11/2020

18/11/2020

Wow. What an incredible and eye-opening conversation I just had with Marilyn Vann, President of Descendants of Freedmen of the Five Tribes, who discusses how what started as shared kinship between Native and Black people was torn apart by white supremacist ideology and politics. Cannot wait to bring these episodes to everyone!

08/10/2020

A surprise ~little~ LATTO thought! Kaneesha Cherelle Parsard and Nitasha Sharma speak on the impact of Kamala Harris' presence in American politics on racial consciousness, nonwhite mixed ancestry, creole nationalism, and Asian indentureship in American and Caribbean history.

In this ~little~ LATTO thought, Nitasha Sharma (Northwestern University) and Kaneesha Parsard (University of Chicago) speak on the impact of Kamala Harris' presence in American politics on racial consciousness, nonwhite mixed ancestry, creole nati...

06/10/2020

06/10/2020

Gina Paige, Co-Founder and President of , relays the significance, power, and importance of ancestral survival of black descendents of slavery. Gina and African Ancestry were generous enough to offer a promocode (LATTOthought) for $25 off either their paternal or maternal lineage test at checkout, valid through the end of the year. But before you do, check out episode 2 and see if a DNA ancestry test is right for you.
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06/10/2020

What do the 2020 US presidential election, an unending obsession with ancestry tests, and COVID19 have in common? The same thing we all have in common—99.9% in common, to be precise. Join CA as he traces the long winding thread that wrongfully misleads us to believe that race is determined by DNA. (Spoiler... Race is not a matter of DNA.)

Guests include Rina Bliss (Rutgers), Agustín Fuentes (Princeton), Doug Kiel (Northwestern), Gina Paige (AfricanAncestry.com), Kaneesha Parsard (U of Chicago), Nitasha Sharma (Northwestern), and Myrna Perez Sheldon (Ohio Univeristy).

‎Show a LATTO thought, Ep kinfolk, not skinfolk - Sep 30, 2020

05/10/2020

What this article is not making clear is the reason why racial groups are affected so disproportionately when compared to white people. We are more likely to be frontline workers, live in multigenerational homes (increased risk of spreading), and lack the attention and quality healthcare necessary for this devastating illness. Where's the presidential suite for these nurses who are literally giving their lives to save others?

The data on Filipino nurses from a major nurses union sheds light on one of the ways that Asian Americans have suffered from the COVID-19 pandemic.

05/10/2020

A coming US presidential election. A global pandemic. An unending obsession with DNA ancestry tests. What do these things have in common? The same thing we all have in common—99.9% in common, to be precise. Listen the second episode to find out!
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05/10/2020

05/10/2020

Clipped from episode 102 — "kinfolk, not skinfolk" — 👆
Nitasha Sharma and Kaneesha Parsard discuss how Kamala Harris changes the US public's perception of race and reveals a shared history of intimacy and kinship among immigrants and descendants of slavery.
Original artwork by Tracie Ching on behalf of the Harris 2020 presidential campaign.

03/08/2020

People aren't mixed. But, history is.

Contrary to what a "postracial" America believed when Barack Obama was elected, mixed race people are older than the New World itself. Three origins—New Spain throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, the Virginian Commonwealth in 1655, and Africa's Gold Coast at the start of the transatlantic slave trade—reveal how the concept of race was constructed in the name of empire, which birthed the very idea of "mixing" races.

Contrary to what a "postracial" America believed when Barack Obama was elected, mixed race people are older than the New World itself. Three origins—New Spain throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, the Virginian Commonwealth in 1655, and Africa's...