Beyond Borders – Rewind – Episode 3 – with award winning photojournalist Ozier Muhammad
Judy Talaugon, Martha Cinader, Jay Rodriguez Sierra, Tony Robles
Episode 3
June 14, 2025, November 8, 2025
We are taking the opportunity during the holiday months to highlight some of our favorite episodes from the first season of Beyond Borders, while we work on Season 2 just for you, beginning January 17, 2026.
Martha Cinader, Judy Talaugon, Jay Rodriguez Sierra and Tony Robles are joined by award winning photo journalist Ozier Muhammad. The conversation begins with Judy talking about the native history and the names of the tribes who lived and came during the roundup period where she lives in California, and Ozier talking about his experiences in Chicago in the Nation of Islam, as the grandson of Elijah Muhammad. We move on to Ozier’s career as a photojournalist beginning as a staff photographer for Ebony.
We also compare the politics of the sixties, seventies and eighties to present-day and how the arts have always been a place of refuge and resistance.
We take a music break in the middle of the show with Ghost Dancer – composed and arranged by Jay Rodriguez Sierra.
CREDITS– HOSTS: Martha Cinader, Jay Rodriguez Sierra, Judy Talaugon, Tony Robles. Special Guest: Ozier Muhammad. Sound Design and Theme Music: Mana Luca, arranged by Jay Rodriguez Sierra. Ghost Dancer, Jay Rodriguez – tenor, flute , Billy Harper – tenor, the late great Larry Willis – piano , Eric Wheeler- bass, JT Lewis – drums , Billy Martin- percussion
Ozier featured on The Darkroom Masters: https://thedarkroommasters.com
Special Guest
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Ozier Muhammad, Photojournalist
Read more: Ozier Muhammad, PhotojournalistOzier Muhammad graduated with a B.A., in photography from Columbia College in Chicago. He has been a photojournalist for more than 3 decades. His first job was as a staff photographer at Ebony Magazine. Ozier joined The Charlotte Observer in 1978, went to Newsday in 1980 and has been at the New York Times since…
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David Levering Lewis – W.E.B. Du Bois, 1919-1963
Read more: David Levering Lewis – W.E.B. Du Bois, 1919-1963The second volume of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography that The Washington Post hailed as “an engrossing masterpiece.”In this final magisterial volume, fifteen years in the research and writing, David Levering Lewis stunningly recreates the second half of W.E.B. Du Bois’s charged and brilliant career. Beginning with the return of World War I African American veterans to the…
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