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Podcast: The Maverick Show: Global Travel Stories & Life Beyond Borders
Episode: Destination Diaspora: Connecting African Cultural Roots Across the Caribbean, Brazil, Ghana and Beyond with Melissa Noel
Description: Learn about African diasporic identity, migration, cultural memory, and building a global Black storytelling project.
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ON THIS EPISODE
Award-winning journalist and media entrepreneur Melissa Noel starts by sharing her first impressions of Brazil and attending the Black Travel Summit in Rio, where she won the BET+ Passport to Storytelling pitch competition for her Destination Diaspora docuseries. She reflects on growing up in a Guyanese immigrant household in Ne...