Episode 5: Home
The Light Ahead Podcast
Episode 5: Home
Read the full transcript here.
What does "home" truly mean? In particular for African American families and individuals that have so often faced displacement from physical homes, driven by economic forces, for generations? In this episode of The Light Ahead, we venture to Brooklyn in the year 2030, where a young woman convinces her grandmother to visit her childhood neighborhood, a neighborhood that has changed drastically since their family was forced to move out decades before. What they find there changes their idea of home forever and is beyond anything they ever dared to dream. Tune in to hear this poignant story exploring what it could look like to take reparative steps in our neighborhoods and communities toward reckoning with injustices of our past.
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Home Episode Credits
The Light Ahead is a Beloved Economies and Avalon: Story production made in partnership with FRQNCY Media.
Co-creators: Jess Rimington (Tw. IG.) and Naomi McDougall Jones (Tw. IG.), who is also our showrunner
Executive Producers: Naomi McDougall Jones (Avalon: Story | Tw. IG.), Joanna L. Cea and Jess Rimington (Beloved Economies | Tw. IG.), Lila Yomtoob (Tw. IG.), and Michelle Khouri (FRQNCY Media | Tw. IG.)
Producer: Heidi Roodvoets (IG.)
Co-producers: Lauren Ressler (Tw. IG.) and Sonia Sarkar (IG.) of Beloved Economies.
Fictional Portion of Episode
Producer: Avalon: Story
Writer and Director: Melissa V. Murray
Performers: Rodney Greene, Jennifer Jackson (IG.), Miara Simpson (Tw. IG.), and Brandon Smith
Production Coordinator: Marlee Newman
Sound Designer: Samantha Doyle
Sound Mixer: Ric Schnupp
Sound Intern: Allen Linsey
Non-Fiction Portion of Episode
Producer: FRQNCY Media
Dialogue editor: Sidney Evans (Tw. IG.)
Mixer: Matthew Ernest Filler (IG.)
Theme Music: written and performed by Alicia Kaye Hall, Jeffrey Archie, and B.I.G Patty (Tw. IG.)
Episode graphics: illustrations by Rae Robinson (website. IG.); other graphics by FRQNCY Media
