Myra Flynn
Host and Executive Producer, HomegoingsMyra Flynn joined 开云体育 in March 2021 and is the DEIB Advisor, Host and Executive Producer, Homegoings. Raised in Vermont, Myra Flynn is an accomplished musician who has come to know the lay of dirt-road land that much more intimately through touring both well-known and obscure stages all around the state and beyond. She also has experience as a teaching artist and wore many hats at the Burlington Free Press, including features reporter and correspondent, before her pursuits took her deep into the arts world. Prior to joining 开云体育, Myra spent eight years in the Los Angeles music industry.
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Juan Coleman, a Black man who lives in Vermont, voted for Donald Trump in the past and is planning to vote for him again in this election cycle. And he鈥檚 not alone. Though we won鈥檛 know the actual numbers until the election, there is an uptick of Black voters aligning with the GOP, Black men in particular. Why? In this season finale, we speak with Juan about his concerns for the Democratic party, and hear from CNN national politics correspondent Eva McKend about the history of the Black vote, and how no demographic is a monolith. -
How do you talk about Black death, in the media, in a way that is consistent, and intentional? How do you memorialize and humanize Black grief without perpetuating trauma? Here on Homegoings, we believe the answer is, and always has been, art. In this episode, we revisit some of the very first episodes of Homegoings, and embark on a quest with Vermont-based musicians to find out: Does grief have a sound? -
In our fourth and final episode of the special series 鈥淪tereo-anti-types,鈥� we tackle one of the 鈥渂iggest鈥� stereotypes out there about the Black body today: the myth of the big Black penis. Host Myra Flynn speaks with Black men, including a porn star, about how this myth affects their lives and their profession, and a female sexologist who knows a lot about the origin of this stereotype that plagues Black men. A heads up that this episode is explicit, and maybe even hard to listen to. But here on Homegoings we believe most of the important stuff usually is. -
Dianne Bondy is a yoga teacher and social justice activist who works to make wellness accessible for everyone 鈥� no matter their shape, size, level of ability or ethnicity. In this episode Laura Cathcart Robbins, host of the podcast The Only One in the Room, speaks with Dianne to unpack the world of wellness, and the many barriers to it. -
鈥淪tereo-anti-types鈥� is a special series from Homegoings examining some of the most troubling, most profound and most dangerous stereotypes that apply to Black men. In part three of the series, 鈥淭he myth of the stupid Black person鈥� host Myra Flynn speaks with Tinotenda Charles Rutanhira, who came to the United States as a refugee from Zimbabwe. When he arrived, he already had a bachelor鈥檚 of commerce in business and information systems from Rhodes University in South Africa, and went on to more schooling in the U.S. to obtain a computer science degree. And still 鈥� no one would hire him. -
鈥淪tereo-anti-types鈥� is a special series from Homegoings examining some of the most troubling, most profound and most dangerous stereotypes that apply to Black men. In part two of the series, 鈥淭he myth of the scary Black man鈥� host Myra Flynn speaks with Kris Brown, a 6-foot-2, former drug dealer who was nearly fated to become a life-long statistic in the prison system, until his life took a turn that surprised even him. -
鈥淪tereo-anti-types鈥� is a special series from Homegoings examining some of the most troubling, most profound and most dangerous stereotypes that apply to Black men. In this first episode, host Myra Flynn and colleague Bryant Denton get up close and personal with podcaster Pendarvis Harshaw and comedian Marlon Fisher to tackle the myth of deadbeat dad. Both of these men have bucked societal bias and are anything but deadbeat 鈥� but as you'll hear, it wasn't always easy. -
Back in January, host Myra Flynn sat down with Saidu Tejan-Thomas Jr. in front of a live audience at 开云体育 studios to practice what we do best here on Homegoings: They had a very candid conversation. Together they broke down the realities of what it鈥檚 like to be a Black podcaster in a 鈥淧ost-Floyd era,鈥� the differences in African and American Blackness, and their push-pull relationship with the ever mercurial New York City. They asked each other, well 鈥� just about anything and everything. That fruitful night became a two-part video series and now, this revealing podcast episode. -
What is freedom? What does it sound like? How do you know when you have it? In this episode, Homegoings talks the complexities of freedom with Todd 鈥淪peech鈥� Thomas, lead MC and singer of the band Arrested Development. We also take to the streets of Randolph and Burlington, Vermont, on July Fourth, seeking out BIPOC strangers and family members to ask them a simple question: 鈥淲hat makes you feel free?鈥� We鈥檒l see if we get some simple answers. -
Myra Flynn of the podcast Homegoings and other Vermonters share their reflections on the biracial experience.
