Stepping Into Truth: Conversations on Race, Gender, and Social Justice

Season 3 Episode 18

Kerra Bolton

In this conversation award winning filmmaker Kerra Bolton and I discuss telling Black stories, and the challenges of doing so, including her latest project which will have her diving sunken slave ships. We also talk about her life as an expat and some of the surprising moments that come, like when she realized that she was the oppressor. 

I also learn about restorative practices as they are being used in a Detroit school.

Another rich conversation for you. Enjoy!

Kerra Bolton is an award-winning, emergent filmmaker and veteran, freelance journalist. She co-produced Detroit Rising: How the Motor City Becomes a Restorative City with Cassidy Friedman. The lauded docuseries follows Black community leaders who implement restorative practice as a means of transforming the city's culture at a time of racial reckoning. A former CNN.com contributor, she examined the intersection of race, gender, politics, and pop culture. Kerra’s articles have been named among the year's top culture stories, featured on CNN's international channels, and translated into Portuguese. She is co-directing and co-producing the feature documentary, Return of the Black Madonna, now in production. The film chronicles her effort to learn to swim and dive for sunken slave ships. It is my pleasure to welcome Kerra to the program.

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Harmonica music courtesy of a friend