Yoshiko Ueda, 33, prepared the audio equipment while Domonique Meeks, 30, closed a window to drown out music from an Ethiopian diner across the street.
The 100-square-foot room in Seattle’s Hillman City neighborhood was barely large enough for two people, let alone a podcast studio space. A fan placed in front of a bowl of ice cubes helped combat the unusually sunny day, as Meeks sat down underneath his books about social justice, posters promoting equality and multiple motifs from the Marvel film “Black Panther.”
“I’m into ‘Black Panther’ for the idea of understanding Afro-Futurism,” Meeks said. “Someone had this idea of whenever folks saw comic books of the future they never saw black people in them… I feel like ‘Black Panther’ to me represents a call to representation in mass media.”
Meeks and Ueda are using their show No Blueprint to answer that call. The podcast, now in its second season, gives a platform to local artists and entrepreneurs of…
