Detroit to Ukraine, Surviving Skinheads, and How the Hood Prepared Me for Diplomacy w/ Terrell Jermaine Starr | Ep 101

About this episode

Terrell Jermaine Starr shares his journey from Detroit to Ukraine, discussing his experiences with racism, police encounters, and the impact of his upbringing on his diplomatic career.

In this episode I sit with Terrell Jermaine Starr, a journalist and CNN contributor living in Ukraine during the war. We talk about how a Detroit kid from an all-black world ended up deep in Eastern Europe. We also talk about being stopped by police 30 times, surviving a skinhead encounter in Russia, and how his American passport opened doors that closed for African students at the same border. And Terrell shares how growing up around drug dealers in Detroit was actually his first lesson in f...

People in this episode

Host: Nya Yeanafehn

Guest: Terrell Jermaine Starr

Topics covered

• diplomacy
• journalism
• personal experiences
• race
• immigration
• war

Keywords

• Detroit
• Ukraine
• diplomacy
• skinheads
• journalism
• race
• immigration
• war

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Detroit, Ukraine, Russia

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