
Episode #12
12. What Shall We Call Your Sovereign
<p>This episode is personal. It's sacred. It's a threshold.</p><p>I recently visited the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, and it completely shifted something in me. As I descended into the depths of their “From Slavery to Freedom” exhibition—three basement levels below ground—I felt like I was traveling through time. And when I reached the bottom, what I saw broke something open inside me: brittle receipts documenting the sale of human lives. Names reduced to numbers, stories reduced to stock.</p><p><br></p><p>And I realized... those receipts didn’t die with s...

