Anderson Emerole and Elijah Agurs sat down with your favorite 2 Black Runners for an insightful conversation about their experience in Magic Boost covering the 2022 PRE Classic as African American content creators. Anderson has a podcast, youtube, and instagram where he highlights track & field black history and any current running news. While Elijah is a 19yr old photographer who just finished his first year of college but already has a clear direction of where he wants to take his art. In this episode hear about how they ended up falling in love with track and field, their experiences as Black storytellers at the PRE Classic, their admiration for the program Magic Boost, and much more.
*This is somewhat of a BOUNS episode so no full YouTube video to go along with it. ENJOY!!
TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - Intro
1:45 - Meet Elijah Agurs
4:39 - Meet Anderson Emerole
6:48 - What is Magic Boost
9:10 - Do you feel like you belong at a Diamond League meet as a 19yr old creator
11:54 - How Anderson got his start in T&F media
13:41 - We need to acknowledge Black History in T&F more
18:10 - Elijah's experience in XC living in Baltimore
20:50 - The importance of representation in T&F
22:19 - The key to hooking teenagers onto T&F
24:33 - the problem with paywalls
26:08 - Anderson's T&F love story
28:26 - The differences as a Black Creator in T&F
31:25 - Elijah's odd music taste
32:56 - Elijah's portrait series at the PRE Classic
34:36 - Anderson's work for Track and Field Black History and Podcast episode at PRE Classic
36:48 - Thank you Magic Boost
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