I listened to a podcast between Hakim Tafari and Rich Roll while I was living in Nashville. When I moved to LA, I learned he was teaching free classes at the Line Hotel every Sunday. I’ve been going for the last four years,

I’m experimenting with watercolor as a new way to image and envision historical events. I’m teaching myself watercolors with the intention of doing a series of drawings of the UNIA parade in Harlem, and then the various Black Star Line voyages.

This is a watercolor created by MORRIS, LEONARD FRANKLIN in the 1960s or 70s and sold at auction at Swann Galleries. I have one of the original photos.

One of our elder Mrs. Muse mentioned wanting a lego set of the Black Star Line ships. I reached out to a number of people and eventually decided to just commission a model myself. I have models of the SS Frederick Douglass and the SS Antonio Maceo coming and I bought pre-existing models of some of the ships I’ve worked on and slave ships : the Clotilda, the Amistad, a P39Q Aircobra (Tuskegee Airmen Plane), and the Queen Anne’s Revenge.

This image includes the work of artist Tavares Strachan who installed a large-scale model of the SS Frederick Douglass for a London exhibit.

I recently joined the Board of the Aquatic Futures Foundations. Check it out!

Listening to an interview with Jack Dorsey, I decided to dive into Nostr. I’m not big on twitter or text-based social apps but I’m captivated by the premise of nostr. Feel free to follow me through my public key npub1nm746qpvfgq39multrjyp0c6e2k4jxwzw39lmjws2ptsfwlvxpesw8kpku