Side Effects of Combating Erasure (with Savannah Wood)

Smart Funny & Black Productions

Amanda Seales

Education, News Commentary, News, Politics, Comedy, Self-improvement

4.8 • 9.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

This week, artist and Executive Director of Afro Charities Savannah Wood joins us to discuss the functional purpose of archives, why digitizing isn't a replacement for physical media, how independent Black newspapers across the country are staying afloat, and why it's so important to have a record of what our ancestors cared about in their own words.

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0:00.0	Small doses.
0:04.6	Self help from the hit.
0:06.0	Small doses.
0:07.1	We're talking at shit.
0:08.6	Small doses.
0:09.8	And keeping it real.
0:11.2	Small dose sex.
0:12.4	With me and in Seals.
0:14.2	It's so funky.
0:17.0	Small doses podcast.
0:19.5	So have you noticed that the erasure,
0:23.1	these people really want folks to forget,
0:24.8	which is so odd because they think it's going to actually happen.
0:28.8	I don't know that it's actually really possible,
0:30.4	but they're really bad about it trying to play pretend
0:33.8	about this United States.
0:36.5	Not just in like the sideways stuff that has happened in this country, but also in
0:41.1	the people who have been here, who have lived here, who have expanded here, who have
0:46.6	grown here.
0:48.1	And so I'm really happy to have Savannah Wood on the show today.
0:51.7	Savannah is working to create an archive of the Afro newspaper in D.C.
0:58.7	That has over 3 million entries and photos and pieces of black American history of our existence
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