More About TIAND – Tomorrow Is A New Day Podcast

Tomorrow Is A New Day is podcast for the capstone project of Jaylyn Long. Long is a senior, biomedical science major with a minor in African American Studies at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, VA.

This project is under the advisement of Dr. Mary Beth Mathews, a professor of Religious Studies in the department of Classics, Philosophy, and Religion at the University of Mary Washington

The picture above is of podcast host Jaylyn Long on the central walkway through the University of Mary Washington campus next to a lamppost with signage that highlights the university’s community values ASPIRE. ASPIRE are values that exude Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, topics very near and dear to Jaylyn.

The podcast is under the purview of Jaylyn’s minor, the African American Studies Minor in conjuction with her scholarship as a student in the University of Mary Washington Honors Program.

TIAND Season One

In the first season of the podcast, which is Long’s capstone, Long will talk briefly about the history of the Tulsa Race Massacre and argue that tensions around the Massacre started before the Massacre itself. The bulk of Long’s arguement will be in the aftermath of the Massacre. Long will argue that the Tulsa Race Massacre sought to disenfranchise black property and generational wealth, a trend that was affirmed in the framing of Tulsa as a Race Riot. However, with the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter Movement after the Murder of George Floyd in 2020, there was a greater push for a shift to massacre because it strengthens the arguments for justice and reparations.

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FAQs

Why the podcast format?

I had never been able to do a project before in this form of digital media or digital storytelling, so I wanted to gain this skill before I graduated from my undergraduate institution.

Why is your focus specifically on the Tulsa Race Massacre?

When I first heard about the Tulsa Race Massacre in 2020 I was shocked. I also just felt robbed as a black individual. I felt like my public school system had every opportunity to tell me not necessarily about the Massacre itself, but that there was a time in the 1920s were black people were affluent. My younger black self needed to hear and know that there was time where black people thrived in entrepreneurship before the 2000s. I wanted to be the one who continued to educate young black people on topics that we deserve to know in a form of media that would be engaging, such as a podcast.

How did you go about this capstone project?

Fortunately, I have done some form of research on the Tulsa Race Massacre over the past four years, so I had some previous resources and research to go off of. For me, the hardest part was about adding something new to my previous discussion. This is why I decided to add more personable moments in the research and present the information in a different format, such as digital storytelling. Additionally, I decided to add details that I do not add into my other research, as well as, I decided to add another layer such as generational wealth in the context of Tulsa. In the process itself, I started with the deep diving into the research. Then, I organized the research into written episodes. After the research and writting was done, I worked on recording and editing the podcast episodes. Following the completion of the episodes, I worked on this website to house the podcast.

What would be next in the research?

In looking at the scope of the research, I would want to do more of a deep dive into the insurance cases. I will briefly mention a few in terms of dismantling generational wealth, but I would do more in terms of research on specific cases. I would also do more research into the now of the Greenwood district. I would want to look into how they are rebuilding and extending the legacy of Black Wall Street and how does this work support the many court cases that demand reparations for the survivors of the massacre and their families.

Thank You.

“The past is gone, the present is now, but tomorrow we can start anew” -Jaylyn Long

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