How is your Map? A Front Porch Talk

You Ain't Imagining This! · Sep 17, 2026 · 27m

What if the map you've been using to understand the world—and yourself—is wrong?

Come sit with Ama-Robin for a Front Porch Talk, a place to get comfortable, share honest thoughts, and enjoy a hibiscus tea. Beginning with the Mercator map drawn in 1569—which makes Greenland appear almost as large as Africa, although Africa is approximately 14 times larger—she considers the other distorted maps we have learned.

There is a map of Black history that begins with enslavement, centers white people who supposedly freed us and diminishes Black resistance and achievement.

There are survival maps passed…