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Join host Rogiérs in this insightful analysis of Black history, faith traditions, non-belief and the ways those dynamics play on Black communities in the United States and abroad. This podcast uses an Africana studies framework to examine and celebrate the history of religious dissent in the African diaspora and serves as the companion to the ”LEGACY series” with support from the American Humanist Association.
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Monday Jan 20, 2025
Monday Jan 20, 2025
Today, in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s holiday we break hiatus and continue the "Abroad Series" stopping in Brasil and a tour of Africa. We delve into entertainment, the shifting sands of Catholicism to Evangelical Christianity and Pentecostalism, and how they are changing the faces and legacies of colonialism on the continent. Criss-crossing the globe, we begin with Nollywood (Nigeria), jet to Brasil and return to Africa on a world tour of religion(s), changing culture(s) and bold, modern-day dissent.
Continuing our journey of the African Diaspora, Episode 23 showcases the changing tides of religious stories through industry, empire, colonialism and modern-day trends which shape societies and personally impact millions of people, indigenous faiths, minorities and marginalized people.
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(Ep. 23)
Show Notes
Host: Rogiérs
Written by: Rogiérs
Narration: Rogiérs
Production & Editing: Fibby Music Group, LLC
Recorded at: FMG Studios, Washington, DC
Cover Artwork: Emily Wilson
Music Licensing: Storyblocks, Fibby Music (ASCAP)
Additional Music: "Ocean of Love" V. Richardson (ASCAP)/L. Johnson (BMI), Richard Bona - Bassist/Composer, @Robarousal (Pianist, IG), @Naijagospel (Hymn-Choir, IG), "Clarinet Soufleé" - Paquito D'Rivera (Brasilian Rhythms), The 1997 Batch”, J Dilla & Vintage Vibez Music Group
Resources & Mentions
Abbot Subbah, Liberian Elder
Afro Queer Podcast (Season 4, Ep. 4 "Shivanah's Story")
The Condition of Nonbelievers in Africa. United States Commission on International Religious Freedom.
"Faith Under Fire" Documentary, BBC - Africa Eye
Ghana's Anti-LGBTQ Bill/African LGBTQ Advocate, Joy News
Humanist Action Ghana, Non-Profit Organization (Ghana)
Elle Hardy, "Beyond Belief: How Pentecostal Christianity is Taking Over the World" (2022)
Harrison Mumia, Atheists in Kenya
Liberia 1820-1847: "From Colony to Republic", Library of Congress
Pastor Walter Magaya, (Zimbabwe) via Hopewell Chin’ono
Pastor Daniel Mgogo
Sarah Peace, Nollywood on the Pulpit: Performance and Magic in Pentecostalism (2020)
Soldiers of Jesus: Armed Pentecostals Target Brazil's Religious Minorities - The Washington Post, (2019)
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Additional Content:
Find the entire LEGACY catalogue of programs online (TBA)
Find Black Secular Collective-DC online on Facebook and also on Meetup.
Support WWH Podcast on Patreon and follow us on 🦋 BlueSky and Twitter!
Additional support provided by the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities and the American Humanist Association.
(c) 2025 Fibby Music Group, LLC www.FibbyMusic.net
Friday Aug 11, 2023
Friday Aug 11, 2023
This week we continue our abroad series-opening with special insights from co-host Verdell Wright on the importance of centering Black narratives of religious freedom and experience. We briefly visit the plight of despised Nigerian atheist/activist Mubarak Bala who in-secret was unjustly sequestered in Nigeria for nearly a year only to be sentenced to 24 years for the invisible crime of blaspheming Allah by clerics in northern Islamic Nigeria.
Finally we center the spotlight in an interview with activist speaker, Mohmmed Cisse -an expat born and raised in Ivory Coast, West Africa. Cisse recounts his upbringing in a cultural milieu heavily controlled by religious affiliations, poor mental heath education, patriarchy and misogyny, and HIV death and stigmatization. However, all is not lost-Cisse discusses his transformative work with The Clergy Project and shares his stories of the bright light of hope for his family and community abroad.
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(Ep. 22)
Show Notes
Host: Rogiérs
Co-Host: Verdell Wright
Written by: Rogiérs
Narration: Rogiérs
Interview: Mohmmed Cisse
Production & Editing: Fibby Music Group, LLC
Recorded at: FMG Studios, Washington, DC
Cover Artwork: Emily Wilson
Music Licensing: Storyblocks
Additional Music: David “Preach” Balfour (Piano),
Ismael (Gaddafi Mosque-Kampala, Uganda/Call to Prayer), The 1997 Batch”, J Dilla & Vintage Vibez Music Group
Resources & Mentions
Verdell Wright (TikTok @VeeAyeDubz)
TCP, The Clergy Project
“Nigeria: Atheist Activist Mubarak Bala sentenced to 24 years in blasphemy case” (Africa News)
“The Cost of Being an Atheist” BBC Africa Documentary
BBC Kaduna Book Festival 2018-Humanism in Nigeria with Leo Igwe
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Twitter: @WWHPodcasting
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Additional Content:
Find the entire LEGACY catalogue of programs online (TBA)
Find Black Secular Collective-DC online on Facebook and also on Meetup.
Support WWH Podcast or follow it Twitter!
Additional support provided by the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities and the American Humanist Association.
(c) 2022 Fibby Music Group, LLC www.FibbyMusic.net
Friday Mar 17, 2023
Friday Mar 17, 2023
Admittedly one of our more atheist-y episodes, today we offer the second installment of our “Abroad Series”. This show takes a deep-dive, critical look into the phenomenon of missionary work-mostly of the Christian/Evangelical variety. From New York to Brasil, West Africa to Uganda, India to the Caribbean and back, we scrutinize the mission field; its presumptions of good faith and nobility and a religious ideology too easily associated with virtue, cultural diversity and community uplift.
Our story is told in three parts: A personal narrative; a trenchant critique on a missionary ripped from the headlines and a culminating, feature interview with Dr. Adria Armbister. She is a distinguished professional in International Development, hails from a denomination well-known for its reputation abroad and both member and ally of the BSC-DC organization.
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(Ep. 21)
Show Notes
Host: Rogiérs
Written by: Rogiérs
Narration: Rogiérs, Drai Salmon
Contributing Writer: Dan Savage for Savage Lovecast
Interviewer: Dr. Adria Armbister
Production & Editing: Fibby Music Group, LLC
Recorded at: FMG Studios, Washington, DC
Cover Artwork: Emily Wilson
Music Licensing/Episode Musical Credits courtesy of: Storyblocks
Additional Music: "theShedding" (Courtesy of Fibby Music Group, LLC), Stanley and the “12 Sleepless Nights”, “The 1997 Batch”, J Dilla & Vintage Vibez Music Group, “God Great God”, Kurt Karr (Zomba Gospel, LLC)
Resources & Mentions
Leonard Ostrander, The Clergy Project
“Call Me Kuchu” (Documentary)
“We Had the Land, They had the Bible” (Monique White)
“Beyond Belief: How Pentecostal Christianity is Taking Over the World” (Elle Hardy)
Missionary's harrowing last diary entries before he was killed by Sentinelese tribe (Mirror Magazine)
Ama Ata Aidoo, Afrogoats
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Twitter: @WWHPodcasting
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Additional Content:
Find the entire LEGACY catalogue of programs online (TBA)
Find Black Secular Collective-DC online on Facebook and also on Meetup.
Support WWH Podcast or follow it Twitter!
Additional support provided by the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities and the American Humanist Association.
(c) 2022 Fibby Music Group, LLC www.FibbyMusic.net
Friday Feb 10, 2023
Friday Feb 10, 2023
We’re back with a new season as this February marks the first anniversary of the WWH podcast!! To celebrate, we’re launching Season 2 with our Abroad series. In this first episode our first stop is to the Caribbean: the USVI 🇻🇮, Jamaica 🇯🇲 - and ultimately hitting the US mainland (after a stopover in Brasil 🇧🇷). We’re highlighting Black (and Indigenous) music as "dissent" and sharing this insightful interview with Ro by Jack Matirko from the TST-TV show and #ONPBreakpoint.
Jack and Ro talk about the demonization of African culture in the West Indies as a cultural product and dynamic in religious practices on a landscape long shaped by Christian missionaries both Catholic and Protestant in colonial settlements where Black and indigenous people were forced to give labor. We also briefly the demonizing of Black musical forms throughout key periods of American music history and how they differ from Caribbean musical landscapes, from past to present.
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(Ep. 20)
Show Notes
Host: Rogiérs
Writing & Narration: Rogiérs
Interviewer: Jack Matirko for TST-TV and The Satanic Estate
Production & Editing: Fibby Music Group, LLC
Recorded at: FMG Studios, Washington, DC
Cover Artwork: Emily Wilson
Music Licensing/Episode Musical Credits courtesy of: Storyblocks
Additional Music: "Again" (Sine Qua Non Mix) & (Seven Davis, Jr. Mix) (Courtesy of Fibby Music Group, LLC)
Resources & Mentions
"We've Got Everything Here: A Modern Nightmare" by Jack Matirko (2023)
"Rogiérs Fibby on the demonization of African culture in the West Indies" Only Sky Media, 2021)
Rumble, A PBS Documentary (2019)
Kumina Peoples of Jamaica, Documentary (Source Unknown)
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Twitter: @WWHPodcasting
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Additional Content:
Find the entire LEGACY catalogue of programs online (TBA)
Find Black Secular Collective-DC online on Facebook and also on Meetup.
Support WWH Podcast or follow it Twitter!
Additional support provided by the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities and the American Humanist Association.
(c) 2022 Fibby Music Group, LLC www.FibbyMusic.net
Monday Feb 06, 2023
Monday Feb 06, 2023
In keeping with our show title, we owe it to the listeners to comment on where we're really headed...and it's in a new direction! The new year has brought about some changes behind the scenes. Going forward this podcast will be an independent production-produced by the Fibby Music Group, LLC and both promoting and endorsing the newly formed Black Secular Collective.
To find more information on the Black Secular Collective, please visit and follow our Twitter page. More details will be coming soon!
In the meantime, more information about WWH's departure from the Black Nonbelievers organization can be found here, here and here.
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Show Notes
Host: Rogiérs
Writing & Narration: Rogiérs
Production & Editing: Fibby Music Group, LLC
Assistant Producer, Research: Drai Salmon
Recorded at: FMG Studios, Washington, DC
Cover Artwork: Emily Wilson
Music Licensing/Episode Musical Credits courtesy of: Fibby Music Recordings, Storyblocks
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For Contact, Inquiry, Voicemail & Feedback:
Twitter: @WWHPodcasting
Black Secular Collective: @Black_Secular
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Additional Content:
Special thanks to the American Humanist Association for their support.
(c) 2023 Fibby Music Group, LLC www.FibbyMusic.net
Friday Jun 17, 2022
Friday Jun 17, 2022
After 18 episodes we're wrapping our premier season covering Black history, race consciousness, religion, freethought & liberation movements. We hope you have listened, questioned, gained perspective, empathy and enlightenment about the established Legacy of Black Freethinkers, dissenters and non-religious leaders in American Civil Rights and around the globe.
Our season I concludes with the final part of our “Conversations” series featuring co-host Verdell Wright and a very special presentation from Black atheist, author, activist, scholar and director, Dr. Sikivu Hutchinson!
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(Ep. 18)
Show Notes
Host: Rogiérs
Writing & Narration: Rogiérs
Production & Editing: Fibby Music Group, LLC
Assistant Producer, Research: Drai Salmon
Opening performed by Rogiérs, Reginald & Alesandra Ndu
Recorded at: FMG Studios, Washington, DC
Cover Artwork: Emily Wilson
Music Licensing/Episode Musical Credits courtesy of: Fibby Music Recordings, Storyblocks, Overjoyed Live in Japan (1997) feat. Dennis Montgomery, III, Kevin Terry and Predestined .
Resources & Mentions
"Why I Stopped Pursuing Ordained Ministry", Verdell A. Wright
"Black Millenials and Christian Faith", Verdell A. Wright
Sikivu Hutchinson, Official Website
“Atlanta Megachurch pastor Louie Giglio sets off firestorm by calling slavery a 'blessing' to Whites”, The Washington Post (2020), Sarah Pulliam Bailey.
“10 New findings about faith among Black Americans”, Pew Research Center (2021), Besheer Mohamed.
“Study: Black Christians see limits to Multi-Racial Churches”, Christianity Today-Religious News Service (2021), Adele Banks.
“R. Kelly’s trial has begun. The singer faces decades of Sex Abuse charges”, (2021), NPR Morning Edition.
Black Nonreligious Americans: US Secular Survey (2021), American Atheists & Black Nonbelievers.
“Why no prayers for Bishop Long’s accusers?” (2021), CNN, LZ Granderson.
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For Contact, Inquiry, Voicemail & Feedback:
Twitter: @WWHPodcasting
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Additional Content:
Find the entire LEGACY catalogue of programs online (TBA)
Find Black Secular Collective-DC online on Facebook and also on Meetup.
Support WWH Podcast or follow it Twitter!
Additional support provided by the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities and the American Humanist Association.
(c) 2022 Fibby Music Group, LLC www.FibbyMusic.net
Friday Jun 10, 2022
Friday Jun 10, 2022
On this episode, we talk everything from the Bible, to the Black Church, Islamic persecution around the globe and back! Part II of our CONVERSATIONS series features the WWH co-host: the insightful, sensitive and cool Verdell Wright. It is the continuation of an on-going dialogue stemming from Episode 6 and Episode 10 ("Good God Gone" and "Conversations!" if you missed it). This time we’re deconstructing higher New Testament criticism and what that means in for a demographic where as much as 90% of faithful Christians believe in Biblical literalism.
Former Minister and ex-seminarian Verdell Wright and host Rogiérs, a former Minister of Music discuss the intense and subtle dynamics of faith and culture in-practice, and the ways in which inequities, trends and systems impact and impair healthy relationships in the Black Church, with ourselves...and each other. We also ponder what it means to “Accountable” as individuals and institutions of faith.
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(Ep. 17)
Show Notes
Host: Rogiérs
Writing & Narration: Rogiérs
Production & Editing: Fibby Music Group, LLC
Assistant Producer, Research: Drai Salmon
Opening performed by Rogiérs, Reginald & Alesandra Ndu
Recorded at: FMG Studios, Washington, DC
Cover Artwork: Emily Wilson
Music Licensing/Episode Musical Credits courtesy of: Fibby Music Recordings, Storyblocks, Tarell “BAM” Lester, Kevin Terry and Predestined
Resources & Mentions
"Why I Stopped Pursuing Ordained Ministry", Verdell A. Wright
"Black Millenials and Christian Faith", Verdell A. Wright
Muhammad Sayed, Ex-Muslims of North America on global "Persecution Tracker" & accepting & denying truth of bruatlities in Islamic Diaspora
"Blacks more likely than others in U.S. to read the Bible regularly, see it as God's word", Pew Research Center (2018)
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For Contact, Inquiry, Voicemail & Feedback:
Twitter: @WWHPodcasting
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Additional Content:
Find the entire LEGACY catalogue of programs online (TBA)
Find Black Secular Collective-DC online on Facebook and also on Meetup.
Support WWH Podcast or follow it Twitter!
Additional support provided by the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities and the American Humanist Association.
(c) 2022 Fibby Music Group, LLC www.FibbyMusic.net
Friday May 27, 2022
Friday May 27, 2022
Dr. Jeffrey B. Perry brings us together with this ultimate appearance in our Legacy series on WWH. He has been active in the working class movementfor 50 years studying, writing and speaking on two of the most important thinkers on race and class in the twentieth century --Theodore W. Allen and Cruzan-American Black atheist, activist and scholar, Hubert Harrison.
Called “A brilliant masterpiece” by the American Historical Review, Perry is the author of two biographies on Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism 1883-1918 and The Struggle for Equality 1918-1927 for which he nominated a Pulitzer Prize. In this episode we pick up where we left off previously. Jeffrey discusses Harrison’s his money woes and ultimate clash with the burgeoning socialist movement, differences with W.E.B, Dubois and his valid critiques of Marcus Garvey; all in ways that reverberate to this very day.
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(Ep. 16)
Show Notes
Host: Rogiérs
Writing & Narration: Rogiérs
Production & Editing: Fibby Music Group, LLC
Opening performed by Rogiérs, Reginald & Alesandra Ndu
Recorded at: FMG Studios, Washington, DC
Cover Artwork: Emily Wilson
Music Licensing/Episode Musical Credits courtesy of: Fibby Music Recordings, Storyblocks
Resources & Mentions
Jeffrey B. Perry, Official Website
"Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism", Jeffrey B. Perry (Columbia University Press)
Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality. 1918-1927, Jeffrey B. Perry (Columbia University Press)
*For discount on online bookstore, use “CUP20” at checkout.
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For Contact, Inquiry, Voicemail & Feedback:
Twitter: @WWHPodcasting
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Additional Content:
Find the entire LEGACY catalogue of programs online (TBA)
Find Black Secular Collective-DC online on Facebook and also on Meetup.
Support WWH Podcast or follow it Twitter!
Additional support provided by the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities and the American Humanist Association.
(c) 2022 Fibby Music Group, LLC www.FibbyMusic.net
Friday May 20, 2022
Friday May 20, 2022
A giant of both Afro-Caribbean and African-American history, we rejoin Jeffrey B. Perry in his second Legacy appearance covering Volume II of his autobiography and treatment of the one and only Hubert Harrison. Called “The Black Socrates” by Joel A. Rogers, Harrison practically mentored Marcus Garvey, rubbed shoulders with A. Phillip Randolph and Arturo Schomburg and wrote the book on “militant” Negro politics for generations to come.
Harrison is a name Every Black History program should cover and that every Black freethinker should become critically aware of. But whether you know these names or not, do stick around. We’re digging in for a rich history lesson on this auto-didactic, radical Black atheist and Pan-African, socialist thought leader.
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(Ep. 15)
Show Notes
Host: Rogiérs
Writing & Narration: Rogiérs
Production & Editing: Fibby Music Group, LLC
Opening performed by Rogiérs, Reginald & Alesandra Ndu
Recorded at: FMG Studios, Washington, DC
Cover Artwork: Emily Wilson
Music Licensing/Episode Musical Credits courtesy of: Fibby Music Recordings, Storyblocks
Resources & Mentions
Jeffrey B. Perry, Official Website
"Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism", Jeffrey B. Perry (Columbia University Press)
Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality. 1918-1927, Jeffrey B. Perry (Columbia University Press)
*For discount on online bookstore, use “CUP20” at checkout.
Sarah Haider, Ex-Muslims of North America (on Twitter)
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For Contact, Inquiry, Voicemail & Feedback:
Twitter: @WWHPodcasting
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Additional Content:
Find the entire LEGACY catalogue of programs online (TBA)
Find Black Secular Collective-DC online on Facebook and also on Meetup.
Support WWH Podcast or follow it Twitter!
Additional support provided by the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities and the American Humanist Association.
(c) 2022 Fibby Music Group, LLC www.FibbyMusic.net
Friday May 13, 2022
Friday May 13, 2022
Who and what were are the “Black Georgians” of the British empire? And how did their struggles of dissent shape our past and present freedom narratives? Author, historian and professor S.I. Martin, from our Legacy program introduces us to these international men and women of mystery, conviction and fortitude.
The Black Georgians describes Black people in The Georgian era; a period in British History from 1714 to c. 1830–37, named after the Hanoverian Kings George I, II, III and IV. It was a time of immense social change in Britain, the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution class hierarchies and continual warfare. Some are well-known such as Phyllis Wheatley and Olaudah Equiano while others have been forgotten. Nonetheless, all are well regarded as extreme personalities, artists, rebels, abolitionists and even accomplices.
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(Ep. 14)
Show Notes
Host: Rogiérs
Writing & Narration: Rogiérs
Production & Editing: Fibby Music Group, LLC
Assistant Producer, Research: Drai Salmon
Opening performed by Rogiérs, Reginald & Alesandra Ndu
Recorded at: FMG Studios, Washington, DC
Cover Artwork: Emily Wilson
Music Licensing/Episode Musical Credits courtesy of: Fibby Music Recordings, Storyblocks.
Resources & Mentions
“Perfect Storm: Royals misjudged Caribbean tour, say critics" Rachel Hall & Amelia Gentelman, The Guardian
"How an Accidental Encounter brought slavery to the United States" Rick Hampson, USA Today
Slavevoyages.com* *Figures are estimates and are rounded to the nearest 100.
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Twitter: @WWHPodcasting
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Additional Content:
Find the entire LEGACY catalogue of programs online (TBA)
Find Black Secular Collective-DC online on Facebook and also on Meetup.
Support WWH Podcast or follow it Twitter!
Additional support provided by the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities and the American Humanist Association.
(c) 2022 Fibby Music Group, LLC www.FibbyMusic.net