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Fresh Catch 2.0Tenderhearted LiesSend us a textOne of the things we pride ourselves in delivering through our FC2.0 podcasts is a willingness to dive into our conversational walk-abouts without holding back. We fancy ourselves as comfortably authentic. No spin that's not exposed. That's why we might need to apologize for today's episode. As it turns out, David's desire to chat about "fibby-fibs" may have been a veiled attempt to coax Dr. Dave from his sleepy state for the sake of a more energetic, entertaining listening experience. Alas, this truth was left unsaid during our recording. Pray for us.2024-07-2531 min
Where We’re HeadedIvory Coast Abroad: Mohamed Cisse & IslamThis week we continue our abroad series-opening with special insights from co-host Verdell Wright on the importance of centering Black narratives of religious freedom and experience. We briefly visit the plight of despised Nigerian atheist/activist Mubarak Bala who in-secret was unjustly sequestered in Nigeria for nearly a year only to be sentenced to 24 years for the invisible crime of blaspheming Allah by clerics in northern Islamic Nigeria.
Finally we center the spotlight in an interview with activist speaker, Mohmmed Cisse -an expat born and raised in Ivory Coast, West Africa. Cisse recounts his upbringing in a c...2023-08-1145 minWhere We’re HeadedThe Mission FieldAdmittedly one of our more atheist-y episodes, today we offer the second installment of our “Abroad Series”. This show takes a deep-dive, critical look into the phenomenon of missionary work-mostly of the Christian/Evangelical variety. From New York to Brasil, West Africa to Uganda, India to the Caribbean and back, we scrutinize the mission field; its presumptions of good faith and nobility and a religious ideology too easily associated with virtue, cultural diversity and community uplift.
Our story is told in three parts: A personal narrative; a trenchant critique on a missionary ripped from the headlines and a cu...2023-03-171h 05Where We’re Headed”Devil’s Music” 🎼: Black & Indigenous Sounds vs. ChristianityWe’re back with a new season as this February marks the first anniversary of the WWH podcast!! To celebrate, we’re launching Season 2 with our Abroad series. In this first episode our first stop is to the Caribbean: the USVI 🇻🇮, Jamaica 🇯🇲 - and ultimately hitting the US mainland (after a stopover in Brasil 🇧🇷). We’re highlighting Black (and Indigenous) music as "dissent" and sharing this insightful interview with Ro by Jack Matirko from the TST-TV show and #ONPBreakpoint.
Jack and Ro talk about the demonization of African culture in the West Indies as a cultural product and dynamic in religious prac...2023-02-1032 minWhere We’re HeadedWhere We’re Headed in 2023! (PSA)In keeping with our show title, we owe it to the listeners to comment on where we're really headed...and it's in a new direction! The new year has brought about some changes behind the scenes. Going forward this podcast will be an independent production-produced by the Fibby Music Group, LLC and both promoting and endorsing the newly formed Black Secular Collective.
To find more information on the Black Secular Collective, please visit and follow our Twitter page. More details will be coming soon!
In the meantime, more information about WWH's departure from the Black N...2023-02-0603 min
Freethought RadioSecular LegislatorsWe hear a sneak preview of the Godless Gospel song “You Don’t Need to Be Ashamed,” written by Andre Forbes, soloists DeAngela Morant and Rogiérs Fibby, with Godless Gospel singers in the chorus. Then we speak with New Hampshire state Representative Sherry Dutzy, who formed the Secular Values Legislative Caucus in her state and who is on the board of the new national Association of Secular Elected Officials.2022-10-2049 minFreethought RadioSecular LegislatorsWe hear a sneak preview of the Godless Gospel song “You Don’t Need to Be Ashamed,” written by Andre Forbes, soloists DeAngela Morant and Rogiérs Fibby, with Godless Gospel singers in the chorus. Then we speak with New Hampshire state Representative Sherry Dutzy, who formed the Secular Values Legislative Caucus in her state and who is on the board of the new national Association of Secular Elected Officials.2022-10-2049 min
Papa Moet Het DoenS2 Aflevering 26 - Op reisDeze week gaan we op reis. Vakantie mogen we niet zeggen, want het avontuur ligt aan onze voeten. We bespreken de voorbereiding, de vliegreis en de gadgets. En met maar liefst 2 Hulplijnen hebben we genoeg tips om je de zomer door te helpen. Verder komen Elon Musk en Russell Crowe met hun kroost nog even voorbij. Reden genoeg dus om deze laatste aflevering van seizoen 2 op de speaker te zetten op weg naar Zuid-Frankrijk. Bon voyage!
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⚔️ Russell Crowe laat zijn kinderen zijn oude werkplek zien...2022-07-2050 minWhere We’re HeadedSikivu Hutchinson & ”Conversations” w/Verdell WrightAfter 18 episodes we're wrapping our premier season covering Black history, race consciousness, religion, freethought & liberation movements. We hope you have listened, questioned, gained perspective, empathy and enlightenment about the established Legacy of Black Freethinkers, dissenters and non-religious leaders in American Civil Rights and around the globe.
Our season I concludes with the final part of our “Conversations” series featuring co-host Verdell Wright and a very special presentation from Black atheist, author, activist, scholar and director, Dr. Sikivu Hutchinson!
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(Ep. 18)
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Host: Rogiérs
Writing & Narration: Rogiérs
Producti...2022-06-1759 minWhere We’re HeadedConversations! (Black Church Culture, Islamic Persecution & Bible Studies)On this episode, we talk everything from the Bible, to the Black Church, Islamic persecution around the globe and back! Part II of our CONVERSATIONS series features the WWH co-host: the insightful, sensitive and cool Verdell Wright. It is the continuation of an on-going dialogue stemming from Episode 6 and Episode 10 ("Good God Gone" and "Conversations!" if you missed it). This time we’re deconstructing higher New Testament criticism and what that means in for a demographic where as much as 90% of faithful Christians believe in Biblical literalism.
Former Minister and ex-seminarian Verdell Wright and host Rogiérs, a f...2022-06-101h 00Where We’re HeadedThe Black Socrates (IV) w/Jeffrey B. PerryDr. Jeffrey B. Perry brings us together with this ultimate appearance in our Legacy series on WWH. He has been active in the working class movementfor 50 years studying, writing and speaking on two of the most important thinkers on race and class in the twentieth century --Theodore W. Allen and Cruzan-American Black atheist, activist and scholar, Hubert Harrison.
Called “A brilliant masterpiece” by the American Historical Review, Perry is the author of two biographies on Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism 1883-1918 and The Struggle for Equality 1918-1927 for which he nominated a Pulitzer Prize. In this episode...2022-05-2735 minWhere We’re HeadedThe Black Socrates (III) w/Jeffrey B. PerryA giant of both Afro-Caribbean and African-American history, we rejoin Jeffrey B. Perry in his second Legacy appearance covering Volume II of his autobiography and treatment of the one and only Hubert Harrison. Called “The Black Socrates” by Joel A. Rogers, Harrison practically mentored Marcus Garvey, rubbed shoulders with A. Phillip Randolph and Arturo Schomburg and wrote the book on “militant” Negro politics for generations to come.
Harrison is a name Every Black History program should cover and that every Black freethinker should become critically aware of. But whether you know these names or not, do stick around. We’r...2022-05-2057 minWhere We’re HeadedThe ”Black Georgians” w/S.I. MartinWho and what were are the “Black Georgians” of the British empire? And how did their struggles of dissent shape our past and present freedom narratives? Author, historian and professor S.I. Martin, from our Legacy program introduces us to these international men and women of mystery, conviction and fortitude.
The Black Georgians describes Black people in The Georgian era; a period in British History from 1714 to c. 1830–37, named after the Hanoverian Kings George I, II, III and IV. It was a time of immense social change in Britain, the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution class hierarchies and continual...2022-05-131h 10Where We’re HeadedForgetfulness & ”The Momentum of Memory”"The Momentum of Memory" vs. "The Violence of Forgetting." Throughout history a well-documented feature of authoritarianism, totalitarian regimes, religious indoctrination and myth-making is the reshaping of collective and individual memory. As a person of African descent, deconstructing religion can yield epiphanies not only in science or theology but in the heavy political histories of ethnicity and provenance.
This episode covers the ways in which forgetfulness, memory laws/loss and short collective memories play into narratives that distort, demean, erase and discriminate. We cover the George Floyd "Year of Reckoning", Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln, 45, my former pastor an...2022-05-0636 minWhere We’re HeadedThe Black Socrates (II) w/Jeffrey B. PerryMore than 100 years ago a Black skeptic/atheist/agnostic/freethinker from the Danish West Indies framed a conversation on Pan-Africanism, modeled Socialist Black political organizing, advocated for labor rights and progressive Black entertainment in a vaudeville era of American life wreathed in poverty, White Supremacy, World Wars and European Imperialism. This episode continues Dr. Jeffrey B. Perry's presentation on Hubert Harrison-a bridge between Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King, The Black Panthers, Occupy Wallstreet and BLM.
Perry reveals all of these connections on with his account of the life of Harrison known as the "Black Socrates,” a freethinking orato...2022-04-2941 minWhere We’re HeadedThe Black Socrates (I) w/Jeffrey B. PerryWho is one of the greatest icons of movement history that you’ve likely never heard of? Someone who 100+ years ago conceptualized Pan-Africanism, modeled new Black political organization, labor rights advocacy, religious dissent and championed (and scrutinized) Black actors, playwrights and entertainers in ways few others would? Who literally stands as a bridge between Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King and BLM? And who both created language for subsequent Black leaders and mercilessly scrutinized icons like Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Dubois and others in their blind spots? It is Hubert Harrison.
The lifelong work of this intel...2022-04-2238 minWhere We’re HeadedConversations!Dialogue, Dialogue, Dialogue! Today’s episode is all about dialogue, reflection and conversation with the co-host and co-creator of Where We’re Headed, Mr. Verdell Wright. If you missed his compelling account of a “Good God Gone” in (Ep. 6) here’s another chance to get acquainted with Verdell and host Rogiérs as they enjoy an open dialogue and process life as a former Minister, Seminarian, Minister of Music, worship leader and SGL Black men. It’s all about the conversation!
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(Ep. 10)
Show Notes
Host: Rogiérs
Writing & Narration: Rogiérs
P...2022-04-081h 12Where We’re HeadedReimagining Community w/Sabrina Dent (II)What is the relevance of "community" at all? Why is it important to apply a critical racial lens in conversation around faith, stigma and our future? How do these dynamics show up when we're not looking?
On this episode we study the effect(s) of coercion, exclusion and "othering" through subtle acts of religious supremacy in public policy and government. We first look into rhetoric of government officials desperate to preserve cultural notions of straight, White minority and Christian rule in specific arguments contesting "unenumerated rights". Then we conclude with the voice of Religious Freedom advocate, ally to...2022-04-0152 minWhere We’re HeadedReimagining Community w/Sabrina Dent (I)Perhaps one of the biggest slept-on challenges we face moving through life and all its stages is how do we form community, maintain it, hold it accountable, reconcile it and how we discard community in/around us?Sometimes we get it right, sometimes we don’t so much.
On this episode Ro tells a story of a peculiar encounter with a random lady at Eastern Market and we study the historical relationships between American patriarchy, social class and imposition of its faith-based, foundational ideas. Then we invite the much needed voice of a Religious Freedom advocate, ally to...2022-04-0147 minWhere We’re Headed”Not my Ancestors?” - Prof. Christopher CameronTo be or not to be...our ancestors. Over the last few years of Civil Rights protests here within the United States has been common to hear the phrase “I am not my ancestors”. And increasingly, entertainers speaking for African-Americans echo these sentiments in the public sphere. Kanye West, Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube have all gone on-record to openly disclaim, mock and rebuke long-held or respected connections to our forbearers in movement history. What is behind this? Is it fair or accurate to our collective memory or are their comments better explained by cultural bias, shame, anti-blackness and/or poor...2022-03-181h 03Where We’re HeadedVerdell Wright’s ”Good God Gone”For Verdell Wright, one of the first and hardest things to let go in his journey out of faith was the idea of "Good God". Because with all that he’d seen around him concerning the historical plight of Black people alone he thought surely, there is no good reason to believe in an omni-benevolence deity. As an individual Verdell realized what he wanted more than anything was peace and freedom. He says, "I didn’t need to wait for my worthiness to be certified before God or myself"...and he’s not alone.
In this episode Verdell...2022-03-041h 21Where We’re HeadedFaith of our FearsThe “Doubting Thomas” of the Bible has special resonance for our communities. Fear of doubt will reliably illicit a negative reaction and anxiety for many regardless of the faith tradition (e.g. Islam, Christianity, Yoruba/Vodún, Pantheist, Spiritualist).
On this episode we chronicle the fear of losing faith, spotlight the exile of a groundbreaking Pentecostal Bishop turned heretic and critique Anti-Atheist bias in rhetoric, behavior and policy for Black resistance and Social Justice movements.
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Host: Rogiérs
Writing & Narration: Rogiérs
Production & Editing: Fibby Music Group, LLC2022-02-2826 minWhere We’re HeadedAndrew Seidel on ”The Founding Myth”"Life is too good to waste on bad ideas" and Andrew Seidel (author, constitutional lawyer & activist) is convinced the idea that America's foundational principles are Christian, is not only 'bad'...it's a myth.
Aside from writing, Seidel works with the FFRF to ensure that the government officials don’t use offices and power that belong to “We the people” to promote their personal religion. He has appeared on outlets from MSNBC to Fox News and his writing has been featured in Slate, ThinkProgress, Religion Dispatches, Religion News Service, The Hill, Forbes and more.
Andrew contributed his tal...2022-02-1829 minWhere We’re HeadedThe Pope, Puritans & Paula WhiteWhat do the Pope, the Puritans & Pastor Paula White have in common? Come along as we explore some of the how’s & why’s that make religion & politics a match not quite "made in heaven".
Rogiérs details the phenomena of 'colonial faith', its political underpinnings throughout history and draws links to modern American Evangelical culture and the political Right. We also discuss the ways (in theory + practice) that Black and Latino Evangelicals have propped up White Evangelical culture & Christian Nationalists...to the detriment of everyone.
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Host: Rogiérs
Writi...2022-02-1839 minWhere We’re Headed”Hidden Figures” & Black Freethinkers w/Chris CameronFor the second episode we discuss the power of myth making about "overcoming" the Civil Rights era and how cultural revisionism distorts our view of Black political movements and the people who have participated in them. Author and Professor Chris Cameron (Black Freethinkers, UNC Charlotte) joins from the Legacy program as our special guest.
Hosted by Rogiérs (artist/activist & director of BNDC), this podcast uses an Africana studies framework to examine and celebrate the history of religious dissent in Black communities. It also serves as the companion podcast to the "LEGACY series" (available on YouTube) produced b...2022-02-0454 minWhere We’re HeadedShow INTRO (Prologue)It's the WWH premier episode!! Come aboard as we look back to understand where we are, and to figure out Where We're Headed as people of African descent in the United States.
Hosted by Rogiérs (artist/activist and director of BNDC), this podcast uses an Africana studies framework to examine and celebrate the history of religious dissent in Black communities. It also serves as the companion podcast to the "LEGACY series" produced by Black Nonbelievers of DC with support from the American Humanist Association.
Join us as we embark on this exciting, insightful an...2022-02-0122 min
Buzz Adams Morning ShowMarch 11, 2020 -- BAMS PodcastCoronavirus, News, Quibi or Fibby Quiz, Alex Jones Arrest, Men's Fashion, Entertainment News, Corey Feldmen, Concert Festivals Canceling, Harvey Weinstein, Bernie Sanders
Keep up to date on all the daily madness that is the Buzz Adams Morning show -- now in easily digestible podcast form!2020-03-121h 30
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The LinkAdelaide PodcastMr FibbyWelcome to the LinkAdelaide Fringe 2011 Podcast. In this episode, we talk about the fringe show Mr Fibby.2011-02-1600 min