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Global I Am Archive - A look back at 2020, Digital Nomad Marvin L. Mills, and the legacies of George Floyd and John Lewis In this special look back into the early history of Global I Am, we return to a pivotal conversation recorded in 2020 - a year that reshaped global consciousness.
Host Tori L. Reid sits with members of what was then known as the Global International A
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In this special look back into the early history of Global I Am, we return to a pivotal conversation recorded in 2020 - a year that reshaped global consciousness.
Host Tori L. Reid sits with members of what was then known as the Global International African Arts Movement back then, reflecting on the cultural, political, and spiritual forces that converged during the global uprising following the murder of George Floyd, the moral leadership of Congressman John Lewis, and a worldwide reckoning with race, justice, and human dignity. You know what? Let's get into some GOOD TROUBLE, lol...
The conversation moves fluidly across borders and ideas, including Marvin L. Mills’ life as a digital nomad, traveling across continents while living the reality that many were only beginning to articulate: that Black identity, African identity, and cultural power had long since become global.
Tori is also joined by the author of Dispatches from the Vanguard, published by London’s Repeater Books — a timely and now prophetic work capturing the emotional, cultural, and political temperature of the era. Some have compared this period to the 1920s, drawing parallels between the influenza pandemic and COVID-19. But the deeper question explored here is cultural: if the Harlem Renaissance gave rise to the Black Arts Movement, and later Hip Hop, what new renaissance was being born in 2020?
This episode traces the energetic roots of Global I Am — not as a brand, but as a movement grounded in the African diaspora, Pan-African consciousness, and a deeply human impulse to create, heal, and organize meaning in times of rupture. The discussion touches on living life as art, creating global movements, ancestral presence and healing (including reflections on Patrick Howell’s father, Dr. Bing P. Howell), and the responsibility that comes with cultural stewardship.
What emerges is a portrait of an idea before it had a name: Global I Am — an understanding that culture, capital, entrepreneurship, spirit, and creativity are inseparable, and that the African diaspora has always been at the center of shaping not only global culture but civilization.
This episode is both a time capsule and a foundation stone — a reminder of where we began, why it mattered then, and why it matters even more now.
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Erscheinungsdatum: 3.2.2026, 16:00:00
