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KPFA - Hard Knock RadioVoices of Spirit, Resistance, and Revival: Jennifer Johns and Rev. Dereca Blackmon on Unity, Media, and Movement-BuildingVoices of Spirit, Resistance, and Revival: Jennifer Johns and Rev. Dereca Blackmon on Unity, Media, and Movement-Building
In this episode of Hard Knock Radio, host Davey D speaks with singer-activist Jennifer Johns and Reverend Dereca Blackmon about the upcoming East Bay Freedom Revival, a four-day celebration blending Juneteenth, Pride, Winter Solstice, and cultural resistance. The conversation moves from media distortion of LA protests to deep spiritual reflections on collective healing, justice, and the need to reclaim sacred joy in movement spaces.
Jennifer Johns critiques sensational media narratives and emphasizes the spiritual and strategic grounding behind m...
2025-06-1159 min
Mystic MagicInclusion DesignSend us a textRev. Dereca Blackmon is the new Senior Minister at the East Bay Church of Religious Science a Center for Spiritual Living (ebcrs.org) in Oakland, CA where she has dedicated over 25 years of service to the spiritual transformation of the entire planet. Her sermons, lectures and workshops have provided over 100,000 participants in 20 countries with opportunities to expand their consciousness around issues of inclusion, forgiveness, self-love and radical healing. She has taught the Science of Mind philosophy in a wide variety of settings ranging from teen church to Holmes Institute. She has d...
2024-07-0441 min
Glocal CitizensEpisode 167: Herstories 2023: What is your Craft?Greetings Glocal Citizens!
This week on the podcast, rather than one last guest rounding out our March 2023 herstories series, I went into our archives with a specific goal of putting together a salon of sorts about craft. I think of craft as how vocation, location, persistence and passion fulfill us. According to Merriam-Webster, it is skill in planning, making, or executing.
I always ask this question because I feel it allows my guest to share more than what they do on a day-to-day basis for economic returns i.e. work, and gets closer to the...
2023-03-2858 min
Hella Black PodcastTales of The Town EP 9: The Life & Killing of Oscar GrantOn Episode 9 of Tales Of The Town we look at the life of Oscar Grant and how his death laid the foundation for the Black Lives Matter Movement that sparked years later.
Uncle Bobby: Uncle of Oscar Grant. Organizer. Co-founder of Love Not Blood Campaign, which supports families who are victims of police violence
Pendarvis Harshaw: journalist, author, educator. Oakland Native. Staff writer and Podcast host at KQED
Dereca Blackmon: activist and organizer during the movement for Oscar Grant. Equity and Inclusion consultant.
2022-11-1527 min
Glocal CitizensEpisode 132: Uncommon Conversations with Dereca Blackmon Part 2Greetings Glocal Citizens!
This week on the podcast I have the first of a handful of interviews that came about in a back to the future-esque way. This spring, the Stanford National Black Alumni Association biennale summit took place in Washington, D.C. and I organized my spring trip back to the U.S. around reconnecting with my fellow friends and alum and sharing my insights as a Glocal Citizen on a panel entitled, "Africa: Bridging the Diasporic Divide." A propos, my guest, Detroit native, Dereca Blackmon has career-wide experience bridging divides. As Co-Founder and President of the...
2022-07-0530 min
Glocal CitizensEpisode 131: Uncommon Conversations with Dereca Blackmon Part 1Greetings Glocal Citizens!
This week on the podcast I have the first of a handful of interviews that came about in a back to the future-esque way. This spring, the Stanford National Black Alumni Association biennale summit took place in Washington, D.C. and I organized my spring trip back to the U.S. around reconnecting with my fellow friends and alum and sharing my insights as a Glocal Citizen on a panel entitled, "Africa: Bridging the Diasporic Divide." A propos, my guest, Detroit native, Dereca Blackmon has career-wide experience bridging divides. As Co-Founder and President of the...
2022-06-2835 min
Conscious Living RadioEnvisioning a Racially Just World with Rev. Dereca BlackmonIn Vancouver, BC Tune in every Wednesday 6 – 7 PM to CFRO – 100.5 FM
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Join Tasha Simms and Marc Caron as they speak with speaker, facilitator & national expert on topics of diversity, equity & inclusion, Rev. Dereca Blackmon. Dereca believes that racial healing begins when we, as individuals, do the work to understand the wounds...
2021-07-0559 min
Real Ballers Read7. Why The Big Leap Is Always With Me with Dereca BlackmonIn this episode, we’re talking about The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks, which for our guest Dereca Blackmon, is "The Book That Is Always With Me". The Big leap is about eliminating the barriers to success by overcoming false fears and beliefs, and this is central to our conversation with Dereca, as well as finding your true genius and healing the disease of racism.
Dereca's website
The Big Leap on Bookshop.org
Real Ballers Read on IG
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2021-06-281h 16Real Ballers Read7. Why The Big Leap Is Always With Me with Dereca BlackmonIn this episode, we’re talking about The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks, which for our guest Dereca Blackmon, is "The Book That Is Always With Me". The Big leap is about eliminating the barriers to success by overcoming false fears and beliefs, and this is central to our conversation with Dereca, as well as finding your true genius and healing the disease of racism.
Dereca's website
The Big Leap on Bookshop.org
Real Ballers Read on IG
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Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/realballersread/support
2021-06-281h 16
The Bunk BoysConversations Part 8: Let’s Mix It Up w/ Dereca BlackmonAt that's wrap! Here we finish out our miniseries with an amazing interview with Dereca Blackmon, CEO of Inclusion Design Group, who is pushing forward conversations that need to be had surrounding diversity and inclusion.
2020-10-1533 min
Stanford Pathfinders with Howard WolfUncommon Conversations with Dereca BlackmonFor over 25 years, Dereca Blackmon has taught corporate, educational, and nonprofit communities how to have “uncommon conversations” on issues of race, gender, class and social justice. In this conversation, she explains how to cut through “diversity fatigue” and discusses how uncommon conversations can create change.
2020-06-2228 min
SoundingsExperiencing SankofaWhat are you supposed to do after a noose is found on your campus? Stanford’s answer to that question was, in part, to invite The Experience Sankofa Project, a living museum on black history to campus. This story details what the Project can teach us about racism, activism, and (maybe most importantly), community.
Producer: Adesuwa Agbonile
Featuring: Venus Morris, Dereca Blackmon, Mizan Alkebulan-Abakah, Sizwe Andrews-Abakah, Frank Omowale Satterwhite, Jeanette Smith-Laws, Persis Drell
Music: “Multiple Crystal Bowl Rhythm - Freesound.org - Geerose
“All the Answers” - Lee Rosevere
“It’s a Mystery” - Lee Rosevere
“You’re Enough Version C” - Lee Rosevere
2020-06-1020 min
State of the HumanGathering (full episode)What do we gain from gathering? In this episode, we’re thinking about how coming together can change us. We’ll hear about a citizen-led clean-up movement in India, a Bay Area artist who forms an unlikely friendship with a church in Colorado, and a student who experiences the power of connection at a living museum on Stanford campus.
Producers: Isabella Tilley, Tanvi Dutta Gupta, Regina Ta, Adesuwa Agbonile, Aparna Verma, Victoria Yuan, Patricia Wei, Hannah Scott, Jenny March
Featuring stories produced by Tanvi Dutta Gupta, Regina Ta, and Adesuwa Agbonile. The stories feature the work of the Experience Sankofa Proj...
2020-06-021h 01