Imagine that you are the host of a podcast. The main focus and style, including purpose and intended audience, of your podcast are totally of your own
intentional choosing. For this journal you are first briefly explaining (3 sentences) these details about your podcast – give it a name!
1619 Project must be included!!!
Second (the main part of the journal), please create a meaningful conversation (up to 1.5 pages) of exchange between you, the podcast host, and Nikole
Hannah-Jones, the creator of The 1619 Project. Which of the many aspects of GOOD TROUBLE does Hannah-Jones’ history most effectively or provocatively
incite? Which ones would you like a listener of your podcast to learn about in this interview? Very likely, as host, you will be carefully constructing the
questions you’d like to ask Hannah-Jones, but you might also offer her some provocative ideas of your own to invite her to engage with your views. Show a
coherency – how the questions and responses are connected to a larger agenda you have for your podcast in general and this one, specifically. See below to
get you started on these specifics.
This writing exercise asks that you bring Hannah-Jones to life – to think about her as a live human conscience and consciousness. What rhetorical choices
of H-J would you like her to discuss in your podcast episode? What aspects of her research and its documentation would you like to learn more about to
share with your audience? What aspects of her scholarship as a female Black journalist would you enjoy discussing with her? What details of her storytelling
(content and podcast choices) would you like H-J to discuss? Compose your questions so that her answers are not “yes” and “no” but grant her room to
explore her intended meaning, choices, and idealized effects/purpose. Be sure you’ve selected a very specific audience so that your questions as well as the
language choices reflect your intent to connect with this audience in meaningful and memorable ways.
You do NOT need to cite or document sources for this journal, but at the end, please be sure to write this:
This imagined podcast is inspired by The 1619 Podcast and transcriipt, created by Nikole Hannah-Jones in [provide date]. It might be accessed – [provide the
link]).
Give this episode of your podcast a title as well as indicate an appropriate date. If you like, indicate the music or other auditory effects that begin and end
your podcast. Give careful thought to each line of dialogue, including the last line in which perhaps you indicate how you will extend this conversation into a
second episode OR who might be joining Hannah-Jones on your next episode.