Audio Nuggets: Mining For Gold

We are BACK in the cypher! What does it mean to fight for Black families in a system designed to annihilate them? And who must we become in the cracks, in the rupture, and in the struggle? In this episode of Audio Nuggets, we welcome back movement lawyer Miriam Mack to the cypher, now in her role with Movement for Family Power. Miriam brings us into her own self-inquiry about what it means to show up as a movement lawyer within the ecosystem working to abolish family policing. Together, this conversation wrestles with what it means to build power—power rooted in history, values and Black Chicano liberation movements.
We are here about the civil death penalty— termination of parental rights—and we confront the racialized narratives that determine whose knowledge is valued, whose truth is contaminated, and whose humanity is made disposable. We examine what it means for a lawyer to breach the racial contract by challenging the very narratives the legal system relies upon to justify family separation. This conversation calls us to reckon with this country's long lineage of attempting to sever Black families from their histories, their people, and their bonds. Drawing on Bryan Stevenson's position that the state's power to punish must be challenged regardless of innocence, we ask what it means to defend a parent's right to family. Full stop.
What would it look like to enter a termination trial prepared to put everything on the line? What conditions make radical defense possible, and what must attorneys be willing to endure, embody, and sacrifice to practice it?
This is a conversation about movement lawyering, yes, but even more about who we are willing to be in the struggle. 
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We are back in the cypher. And this is Black August. Black August calls us into remembrance, study, discipline, resistance, and the ongoing struggle for freedom. It asks us to remember those who fought for liberation, and to reckon with what freedom requires of us now.  This season on Audio Nuggets, we have been excavating True Narratives—and during Black August, that excavation takes us deeper. We are tracing the lineage of racialized assault that is patterned through kidnapping, terror, segregation, and incarceration. 
Tasha Patterson is back in the cypher forTrue Narratives: Part II Kidnapped, Terrorized, and Still Coming. Tasha invites us to confront the parallels between enslavement and family policing—including the terror that occurs when Black children are separated from their families and placed into the custody and control of the state. We ask what it means when a system can remove a child, regulate the parent-child relationship, change a child’s legal status, and ultimately declare them to a civil death. 
Assata Shakur reminds us: “It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win.” We must love and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains." Her words are remembrance. Her words are instruction. Let's build glue and build a bigger WE. To learn more about True Narratives, visit us at TRUE NARRATIVES - MINING FOR GOLD
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We are back in the cypher! Welcome to Audio Nuggets. This season, we are excavating True Narratives. Truth requires presence, witness, and it requires us to grow and BE BIG.
We are joined by Tasha Patterson for this episode; True Narratives: Kidnapped, Terrorized, and Still Coming. In this episode, we engage with the true narratives of kidnapping, terror, and the moment of rupture. 
Tasha Patterson is a mother, an advocate, and the force behind Patterson's Law- landmark legislation effective on July 1, 2026. This law was named because the state kidnappers won't acknowledge that they got it wrong. Her fight now enlarges the stage for more families to stand in solidarity for freedom.  
The invitation is to build a bigger US. To learn more about True Narratives, visit us at TRUE NARRATIVES - MINING FOR GOLD
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Welcome back to Audio Nuggets. To proclaim and honor June as Stolen Children’s Month, we gather to tell the truth about what has survived. This season, we are inside True Narratives — a call to listen differently, to witness more deeply, and to make room for the messiness that is necessary for solidarity and liberation.
We are joined by Ashley Albert, Tanesha Grant, and Courtney Dowe for this episode; True Narratives: The Kind of Love Termination Can’t Destroy!
In this episode, we enter a sacred conversation about the collective cost of termination of parental rights — the civil death penalty — and what happens when the state uses violence and power to rupture families and then asks people to heal from what was never attempted to be repaired. This conversation is about collective mourning, grief, and love. The kind of mourning that lives in the body. The kind that shakes without warning. The kind that moves through generations. The kind that sits underneath survival, underneath art, underneath testimony, underneath the love that never disappeared.
We want to honor and thank everyone who helped shape this episode through their artistry, truth-telling, and creative offerings. Deep gratitude to Elijah Lee and Kazeem Coleman on drums, April Lee for her spoken word, Courtney Dowe for singing, Tanesha Grant for reading, Ashley Albert for storytelling, and Sarah Katz for helping set the context that grounds this conversation collective memory.
The invitation is to build a bigger US. To learn more about True Narratives, visit us at Mining For Gold – True Narratives
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Welcome back to Audio Nuggets. As we approach Mother's Day 2026, we are grateful to be joined by Toia Potts for this episode, True Narratives- I Will Always Be Your Mother.
Toia Potts is a fierce activist and organizer in North Carolina. After being falsely accused of child abuse, she spent more than eight months in Durham County jail on an unattainable bond. She was later fully exonerated, with all charges dismissed. Today, she continues her healing and leadership as Co-founder of Carolina Parent Defenders, Founder of Thrive Tribe NC, and Family Advocate/Organizer with EmancipateNC, fighting alongside Black mothers experiencing forced family separation.
This episode brings forward a love story, a truth-telling, and a living record of motherhood that endures across every condition. Anchored by the love for her children, this conversation holds the depth of a mother’s love, the sacredness of family bonds, and the power of speaking truth in one’s own voice. Toia shares a lineage of connection, remembrance, and refusal to let her children’s story be disconnected from their people, their history, and their origin. At the heart of this episode is a declaration: I will always be your mother. That truth carries memory, belonging, devotion, and the enduring bond between parent and child. It offers listeners a powerful witness to love that lives in the body, in the spirit, and across time. 
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