Maori chats with Blitz Bazawule, the musician, filmmaker, writer and painter. Topics include Black Atlantic and Kwame Nkrumah, moving to middle America from Ghana, finding a creative tribe, and the multi-dimensional power of film as a tool for Afro diasporic storytelling.

Filmmaker and artist Arthur Jafa joins Maori to discuss freedom, collective action as counter culture, the Black cinematic trajectory, and the importance of geography in forming our pictorial and musical traditions.

Writer and poet Jason Reynolds posits literature as a form of radical worldmaking. We talk about our kindred experiences in the late 90s D.C. spoken word scene, our hippie parents, his love of Queen Latifah (and not so secretly 90 Day Fiancé) and so much more!

Maori is joined by filmmaker Janicza Bravo. Their chat encompasses everything from accountability and friendship, to her hands-on creative process and the importance of choosing your battles, to her latest feature Zola and a shared childhood obsession with Barbies!

Maori is joined by friend, writer and filmmaker dream hampton, for a talk that evokes the intimate dimensions, costs and rewards of being committed to a Black radical politics.

Learn more about the inspiration behind Many Lumens in this short conversation between host Maori Karmael Holmes and journalist Dyana Williams.

A sneak peek at Season 1 of Many Lumens, a new podcast by BlackStar, hosted by Maori Karmael Holmes.