Have you heard of Project 2025? If not, you better learn fast. It's the GOP's 900-plus page conservative manifesto aimed at dismantling the federal government and the Democratic Party has no answer for it. Here to talk about 2025 is Anne Nelson, who read the entire document and is traveling the country to educate communities about the dangers that lie ahead if Trump wins in November.  Host: Terrell Jermaine Starr Guests: Anne Nelson Producer: Mike Hull Support us financially! Venmo: @BlackDiplomats  CashApp: $BlackDiplomats PayPal: https://paypal.me/blackdiplomatspod  ..read more

This week, Black Diplomats Podcast speaks with Christopher Shell, a fellow in the American Statecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment. At Carnegie, Christopher’s work studies how Black Americans feel about foreign policy issues. We talked about how Black folks feel about Ukraine, Gaza and other foreign policy issues, based on his research Host: Terrell Jermaine Starr Guest: Chris Shell  Producer: Mike Hull Support us financially! Venmo: @BlackDiplomats  CashApp: $BlackDiplomats PayPal: https://paypal.me/blackdiplomatspod  Patreon: patreon.com/blackdiplomats Read Some of Chri ..read more

Today, I speak with two young Georgians under 30-years-old who have been hitting the streets every day in protest of their ruling government’s introduction of a “foreign agent” law that critics say will restrict the work of organizations and independent media that safeguard free and fair elections and other services that depend on foreign financial support.  Read more about the controversial bill here. Ana Lazariashvili, 24 and Giorgi Vachnadze, 28, told Black Diplomats that it has mostly been young people who’ve been facing off aggressive police officers that target them with tear gas an ..read more

This week, I spoke with two Ukainians who support Palestine and why they feel it is important for their countrymen and women to understand colonialism in other parts of the world. Rita Adel, a humanitarian analyst, and Vladyslav Starodubtsev, a socialist leader and historian, and I talked about Ukrainian socialism, what progressives in the west don’t get about Ukraine and NATO and why Ukrainians aren’t privileged because they are “white.” Host: Terrell Jermaine Starr Guests: Rita Adel and Vladyslav Starodubtsev  Producer: Mike Hull Support us financially! Venmo: @BlackDiplomats  Cas ..read more

Warning: This week’s episode will focus on sexual violence committed by Russian soldiers. Reader, listener and viewer discretion is advised This week, I talk about Ukrainian civilians who survived sexual assault from Russian troops during the war. Ukraine is investigating  nearly 300 cases of sexual assault, but that number is likely much higher. Today, I am talking with Nadiia Volchenska, co-founder of the Sylni foundation, which was founded soon after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 202s to support survivors of sexual assault.  Translating for Nadiia is Vira Stadnyk - communi ..read more

This week’s episode is about the ongoing protests in Georgia in response to the country’s ruling political party, Georgia Dream, moving forward with its “foreign agent.” Officially titled “On the Transparency of Foreign Influence," the bill, if passed into law, would require organizations in the country receiving more than 20% of their funding from overseas to register as “foreign agents” or face large fines. Protesters say it is similar to laws spearheaded in Russia by Vladimir Putin. Here this week to talk about the protests and why the bill is driving so many people to the streets around Ge ..read more

#ukraine #russia #putin #warinukraine #blackdiplomats #ukrainianhistory #history #harvard  Terrell J. Starr spoke with Havard Professor of Ukrainian History Serhii Plokhii about Putin’s obsession with fake Ukrainian history, Ukrainian resistance against Russian colonialism, Stepan Bandara, fighting Kremlin disinformation and more. Host: Terrell Jermaine Starr Guest: Serhii Plokhii Producer: Mike Hull Support us financially! Venmo: @BlackDiplomats  CashApp: $BlackDiplomats PayPal: https://paypal.me/blackdiplomatspod  Patreon: patreon.com/blackdiplomats Time stamps 00:00: Welcom ..read more

#crimea #crimeantatars #ukraine #russia #ukrainianhistory #history Terrell spoke with Tamila Tasheva, the Permanent Representative of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea about liberating Crimea, human rights violations on the peninsula, Crimean history and what people get wrong about what’s happening there.  Host: Terrell Jermaine Starr Guest: Tamila Tasheva Producer: Mike Hull Support us financially! Venmo: @BlackDiplomats  CashApp: $BlackDiplomats PayPal: https://paypal.me/blackdiplomatspod  Patreon: patreon.com/blackdiplomats Time Stamps 00:00:Welc ..read more

#ukraine #russia #putin #zelensky #warinukraine #blackdiplomats Terrell J. Starr spoke with Ukrainian security expert Maria Avdeeva about Russia’s ongoing missile attacks against civilian targets, Germany’s reluctance to send Taurus missiles, why Russia doesn’t want peace, her own work documenting war crimes and so much more. Host: Terrell Jermaine Starr Guest:. Maria Adveeva Producer: Mike Hull Support us financially! Venmo: @BlackDiplomats  CashApp: $BlackDiplomats PayPal: https://paypal.me/blackdiplomatspod  Patreon: patreon.com/blackdiplomats Time stamps 00:00: Welcome 01:30: M ..read more

I spoke with Christopher Shell and Nola Haynes about Vladimir Putin’s nuclear threats, why Black people should care about foreign policy, Andrew Tate’s arrest, uncommitted voter movement and more. Host: Terrell Jermaine Starr Guests: Christopher Shell is a fellow at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Nola Haynes is a national security and foreign affairs analyst.  Producer: Mike Hull Support us financially! Venmo: @BlackDiplomats  CashApp: $BlackDiplomats PayPal: https://paypal.me/blackdiplomatspod  Patreon: patreon.com/blackdiplomats Time stamps: 00:00: Welcome 01 ..read more