Speakers
- Nichelle Calhoun
- Perpetual Blackness
Nichelle Calhoun is a researcher/podcaster with the Afro-American Historical Association of Fauquier County, Virginia, an area where her family has lived for over 200 years. Through her podcast Perpetual Blackness, whose pilot was developed by the Washington DC affiliate of NPR – WAMU, she shares and parallels the voices of the Washington, DC area’s many layers of Blackness as she traces her own family story over 9 generations from enslavement in rural Virginia to contemporary life in one of the Blackest locales in the country, the Washington, DC area. Nichelle is the editor of Songs of Yemaya, an anthology hailing Black women’s voices and is currently creating Songs of Oshun, an anthology of Black women’s love stories. Nichelle Calhoun formerly lived in Miami, Florida where she did extensive community outreach promoting equity and access in early education.