Louisiana voters reject far-right constitutional amendments, sudden influx in foreign recruitment of American scientists, Black expats share why they're happier living outside the U.S. DeRay interviews author and law professor Derek W. Black about his new book Dangerous Learning : The South’s Long War on Black Literacy. News Louisiana voters reject all four constitutional amendments, despite Gov. Jeff Landry's support Countries boost recruitment of American scientists amid cuts to scientific fun...
Apr 01, 2025•2 hr 36 min
FDA targets popular gay party drug, majority-Black town starts armed protection group, and Dems draw thousands at 'Fighting Oligarchy' rally. Myles interviews filmmakers Charlyn Griffith-Oro and Jeannine Kayembe-Oro to explore their short film The Aunties which shares the story of Black land stewards & culture bearers Donna Dear and Paulette Greene . News A majority-Black town starts armed protection group after neo-Nazi rally FDA crackdown on poppers prompts rush on popular gay party drug AOC a...
Mar 25, 2025•2 hr 47 min
White House ignores federal orders, Fulbright scholars left stranded internationally, and California cannabis contaminated with pesticides. Myles interviews world renowned artist and model Ebonee Davis about her journey toward authorship of her book titled Daughter. News Exclusive: How the White House ignored a judge's order to turn back deportation flights Many Fulbright scholars say they feel stranded after the Trump administration suspended their funding Contamination fears drive push to rema...
Mar 18, 2025•1 hr 27 min
The dark history of retinol, the causal myth of bacterial vaginosis, and Abel Selaocoe crosses time and cultures in new album. DeRay interviews Nic Stone about her new book, Dear Manny . News Retinol: The Skin-Care Ingredient With a Horrifying History A Third of Women Get This Infection. The Fix: Treat Their Male Partners. South African cellist Abel Selaocoe fosters dialogue across time and cultures in a new album House votes to censure Rep. Al Green with Democrats' help Louisiana college studen...
Mar 11, 2025•2 hr 31 min
Dems veer right, Trump-Zelensky heated exchange, and Curry J. Hackett use of AI in art, design, and urban planning. DeRay interviews former Lieutenant Governor Brian Benjamin. News Playbook: Democrats in despair 'It never should have happened': Americans frustrated by Trump-Zelensky spat Curry J. Hackett has a vision for Black futurity that drives his work in art, design, and urban planning Follow @PodSaveThePeople on Instagram....
Mar 04, 2025•2 hr 45 min
Jury finds Alabama police force operated as a 'criminal enterprise', Joy Reid's MSNBC show canceled, Luigi Mangione's lawyer receives key evidence from HBO doc, and Voletta Wallace, mother of Notorious B.I.G., passes at 78. In the final week of Blackest Book Club , Kaya interviews author Michael Harriot about his book titled Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America . News Alabama police force put on leave after grand jury says it operated like a "criminal enterprise" Luigi Mangione'...
Feb 25, 2025•2 hr 31 min
AI program jails innocent man for 17 months, Katt Williams imperialist rant, Congress members denied access to Department of Education. Pod Save The People is back with the Blackest Book Club reading list in collaboration with Reconstruction and Campaign Zero. DeRay interviews author Dr. Brittany Friedman about her new book titled Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons. News Man jailed over police AI program, then freed 17 months after victim raised doubts Trump says...
Feb 11, 2025•2 hr 57 min
Trump rewrites history on White House website, study on Harvard finds 43 percent of white students are legacy, athletes, or related to donors/staff, and the rise of Black educators on TikTok. Pod Save The People is back with the Blackest Book Club reading list in collaboration with Reconstruction and Campaign Zero. DeRay interviews author Aaron Robertson about his new book titled The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America . News The Rewriting of a Pioneering Fema...
Feb 04, 2025•2 hr 36 min
Automated grocery prices increase depending on the shopper, Target follows suit in abandoning DEI initiatives, ICE officers issued an arrest quota, and the legacy of Florence Price - the first Black women to premiere works by a US orchestra. News Automation in Retail Is Even Worse Than You Thought Meet Florence Price, the first Black woman to have her work premiered by a US orchestra Target rolls back DEI initiatives, the latest big company to retreat Trump officials issue quotas to ICE officers...
Jan 28, 2025•59 min
Whistleblower exposes Russian political interference operation, Louisiana governor evicts homeless people ahead of Super Bowl, Mississippi infrastructure neglect leads to parasites in impoverished residents, and Doechii stuns in Black sitcom inspired music video. DeRay interviews Andrew Bakaj and Naomi Seligman of Whistleblower Aid. News The Westminster whistleblower: how my friend Sergei tried to expose the Kremlin plot against Britain Governor forces removal of homeless people by New Orleans S...
Jan 21, 2025•2 hr 39 min
Meta makes up with MAGA, Black students barred from empowerment clubs, tow companies allowed to sell people's cars, and the legacy of Dada Masilo. Support California wildfire relief efforts with a donation to Vote Save America & Crooked Ideas Action Fund Displaced Black Families GoFundMe Directory News Behind the Curtain: Meta's make-up-with-MAGA map Gone in 15 Days: How the Connecticut DMV Allows Tow Companies to Sell People’s Cars World of dance mourns death of ‘brilliant light’ Dada Masilo at...
Jan 14, 2025•1 hr 25 min
An inside look into a white supremacist militia, GOP Congress member goes missing, housing costs force employed people into homelessness, and a new documentary on the late Luther Vandross. News The Militia and the Mole Critically acclaimed Luther Vandross documentary now streaming: How to watch High Housing Costs Force Many Employed People Into Homelessness Driver who exploded Tesla Cybertruck at Trump hotel in Las Vegas was an active-duty Army Green Beret, source says Texas Rep. Kay Granger, 81...
Jan 07, 2025•1 hr 25 min
Trump rolls back on campaign promises, Black feminist artist Lorraine O'Grady becomes an ancestor, and a debate on the future of the Democratic Party. News Lorraine O’Grady, Conceptual Artist Who Advocated for Black Women’s Perspectives, Dies at 90 Why aren’t Black women in the conversation to lead the Democratic Party? Trump now says bringing down grocery prices, as he promised, will be 'very hard' Comcast Plans Massive Cable Spin-Off, Separating USA, MSNBC and More From NBC, Theme Parks Luigi ...
Dec 17, 2024•1 hr 19 min
Conspiracies unfold as Florida prosecutors vacate convictions for people who bought crack made by the Sheriff's Office, Biden urged to empty federal death row before Trump presidency, and the most-known cause for depression debunked. News Florida prosecutor seeks to clear records of people charged with buying police-made crack in 1980s Biden urged to empty federal death row before Trump takes office Depression Is Not Caused by Chemical Imbalance in the Brain Follow @PodSaveThePeople on Instagram...
Dec 10, 2024•1 hr 24 min
A deep dive into the self harm occurring within a Virginia Supermax prison, Putin's efforts to market Russia to Africans, and the declining reputation of the Black church. News Prisoners Intentionally Burned Themselves at Troubled Virginia Supermax The Black Church is Cooked Joe Biden Pardons His Son Hunter Inside the Effort to Market Russia and Putin To Africans Cynthia Erivo on Bringing Her Black Queer Identity to ‘Wicked’: ‘It’s a Love Letter to Everyone Who Feels Different’ Follow @PodSaveTh...
Dec 03, 2024•2 hr 34 min
Schools eerily quiet about election results, Bernice King 2017 election advice resurfaces, an ode to Ella Jenkins legacy in children's music and Malcolm Peacock uses art to push boundaries. News Schools Are Eerily Quiet About the Election Results, Educators Say Ella Jenkins, Chicago's first lady of children's music, dies at 100 Malcolm Peacock Asks, “When Is the Last Time You Trusted Yourself?” | Studio Museum in Harlem Bernice King: Post-Election Advice Follow @PodSaveThePeople on Instagram....
Nov 19, 2024•1 hr 16 min
Hosts gather for a post-election reflection episode. Myles interviews author Brit Barron about her new book Do You Still Talk to Grandma? . Follow @PodSaveThePeople on Instagram.
Nov 12, 2024•2 hr 48 min
Election day is here: Kamala Harris makes SNL appearance, jury convicts former officer Brett Hankison of using excessive force on Breonna Taylor, a debate on celebrity in politics, and an ode to late music icon Quincy Jones. Kaya interviews Cassandra Welchlin , executive director of Mississippi Black Women’s Roundtable . News 2024 Pre-Election Cold Open - SNL Quincy Jones, musical titan and entertainment icon, dead at 91 Off With Their Instagram! The Death of Celebrity Worship Jury convicts form...
Nov 05, 2024•2 hr 30 min
Tensions high as the presidential election draws near, personal phones lawfully tracked to abortion clinics, and influential hip-hop producer Clark Kent passes from colon cancer. Myles interviews award winning author and producer George Johnson about their newest book titled Flamboyants: The Queer Harlem Renaissance I Wish I’d Known . News DJ Clark Kent, influential hip-hop producer, reportedly dies after battle with colon cancer It’s Possible to Track Someone’s Personal Phone to an Abortion Cli...
Oct 29, 2024•1 hr 27 min
Death row inmate receives life-saving subpoena, member of the school-integrating Little Rock Nine passes at 83, and Black US surfers reclaim the waters. DeRay interviews Ohio Congresswoman Emilia Sykes about her ongoing advocacy around issues related to Black maternal health, domestic violence, abortion, and more. News Robert Roberson set to testify before Texas lawmakers days after they saved him from execution Central Park 5 Sue Trump For Defamation After He Again Blamed Them For Crime During ...
Oct 22, 2024•1 hr 17 min
Alaska exposed as state with the highest rate of women killed by men in the nation, Harris releases campaign agenda for Black men, pushback against racism's classification as health threat, and the resurfaced story of the soul group Superiors. DeRay interviews New York State Senator Zellnor Myrie about his ongoing Congressional efforts and NYC mayoral campaign. News Domestic Violence, Child Abuse and DUI Cases Are Being Dismissed en Masse in Anchorage Harris releases agenda for Black men as she ...
Oct 15, 2024•2 hr 43 min
Elite college students struggle with literacy, U.S. Supreme Court kicks off a new term, Mississippi voter suppression, and Israel marks one year since Oct. 7 Hamas attack. Myles interviews Herb Murrell of the Stylistics about their October 11th return to Carnegie Hall. News The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books Call her Daddy Podcast with VP Kamala Harris ‘Voting feels like a battle’: In Mississippi, a group of Black women is reimagining voter turnout Six Former Mississippi Law Enforce...
Oct 08, 2024•2 hr 31 min
New York City Council decriminalizes jaywalking, Black New Orleanians reclaim historical beach, and Questlove to direct documentary on Earth, Wind, and Fire. News NYC Mayor Eric Adams indicted on 5 federal public corruption charges, including bribery and wire fraud Modified ‘Jaywalking’ Repeal Passes Council In New Orleans, a ‘Black Beach’ Is Being Rescued From the Ruins Questlove To Direct Earth, Wind & Fire Documentary Follow @PodSaveThePeople on Instagram....
Oct 01, 2024•49 min
Bodies of the poor leased for cash without family consent, independent grocery stores suffer under inflation, and a 1833 meteor shower falls on America's Deep South. DeRay interviews Jessica Pishko about her new book THE HIGHEST LAW IN THE LAND : How the Unchecked Power of Sheriffs Threatens Democracy. News Cut up and leased out, the bodies of the poor suffer a final indignity in Texas Small grocers feel squeezed by suppliers, and shoppers bear the pain ‘They thought it was judgment day’: The ni...
Sep 24, 2024•2 hr 33 min
A study exposes superfluous hiring of D.C. patrol officers, a grant program for Black women disbanded after right-wing pushback, and an overdue conversation about the depreciation of journalism. News Study Finds D.C. Doesn’t Need More Police Officers Walking the Beat. Will Anyone Listen? Fearless Fund settles with DEI foes, ends grant program for Black women Katy Perry Defends Collaboration With Dr. Luke On New Album: “I Understand It Started A Lot Of Conversations” James Earl Jones' Comments Di...
Sep 17, 2024•1 hr 15 min
Harris campaign releases initiatives ahead of presidential debate, American adults struggle with illiteracy, childcare funding under attack, a nonprofit newsroom receives past due support, and Sade teases new music as part of Transgender Awareness Compilation. News Harris/Walz: A New Way Forward A Fifth of American Adults Struggle to Read. Why Are We Failing to Teach Them? Project 2025 plan calls for shifting funding for childcare to in-home care The 19th wanted to ‘normalize’ women in power. In...
Sep 10, 2024•1 hr 26 min
The police tell us they are here to protect us. But what if their original purpose was something else altogether? Peabody Award-winning host Chenjerai Kumanyika takes listeners on a journey to uncover the hidden history of the largest police force in the world – from its roots in slavery, to rival police gangs battling across the city, to everyday people who resisted every step of the way. As our society debates where policing is going, Empire City: The Untold Origin Story of the NYPD explores w...
Sep 09, 2024•45 min
Myths uncovered: The 1994 Crime Bill, Democratic National Convention, and Black horror films. The Biggest Myth About the 1994 Crime Bill Still Haunts Joe Biden. It Shouldn’t. Minyon Moore Helped Harris Rise. Now She’s Leading Her Convention. Ganja & Hess: The 50-year-old vampire movie masterpiece critics got all wrong Follow @PodSavethePeople on Instagram....
Aug 27, 2024•1 hr 3 min
Hosts debate the prominence of celebrity culture in politics, a historic payout to Black farmers, and wealthy Arizonians blow threw the state budget. News Trump says presidential civilian award is 'better' than top military honor whose recipients are 'dead' or 'hit' by bullets Kerry Washington, Mindy Kaling and more will serve as DNC hosts School Vouchers Were Supposed to Save Taxpayer Money. Instead They Blew a Massive Hole in Arizona’s Budget. Republicans scrambled to get Cornel West on the Ar...
Aug 20, 2024•1 hr 4 min
Black men rally for Kamala Harris, new map shows the deadliest neighborhoods for police killings, a fashion historian unveils a hidden archive, and a debate on politician accountability. News New map unveils the deadliest neighborhoods for police killings Black Men Rally for Kamala Harris, and Confront an Elephant in the Room ‘I Am Speaking Now’: At a Rally in Detroit, Harris Stares Down Her Detractors Through Bill Cunningham’s Lens, the Glitz and Drama of an Era-Defining Fashion Show Follow @Po...
Aug 13, 2024•1 hr 13 min
