DeRay, Kaya, and Myles cover the underreported news of the week — including the DEA illegally purchasing customer data, DeSantis war on immigration, and the influential photographer who proclaimed 'Black is Beautiful'. DeRay interviews comedians David Gborie & Langston Kerman about their iHeartMedia podcast ' My Momma Told Me '. DeRay The DEA Bought Customer Data from Rogue Employees Instead of Getting a Warrant Kaya DeSantis Pushes Toughest Immigration Crackdown in the Nation Myles Kwame Brathw...
Apr 11, 2023•1 hr 17 min
DeRay, De’Ara, Kaya, and Myles cover the underreported news of the week — including secret funds funneled by the spouse of a Supreme Court Justice, the growing price of electronic messaging for imprisoned people, Questlove's Disney directorial debut, and a historical festival celebrating Black women filmmakers. News DeRay SMH: The rapid & unregulated growth of e‑messaging in prisons Myles Questlove To Direct Live-Action/Hybrid Adaptation Of ‘The Aristocats’ For Disney De’Ara Sojourner Truth Fest...
Apr 04, 2023•50 min
DeRay, De’Ara, Kaya, and Myles cover the underreported news of the week — including Dollar Store's predatory tactics in urban communities, a NYC park built on top of a dark history, Stacey Abrams’ depart from campaign politics, and the end of a partnership with Beyoncé and Adidas. DeRay interviews author and educator Nicole Tucker-Smith about teacher shortages, book banning, and the evolution of learning. News: DeRay New Report: The Dollar Store Invasion Dollar Tree CEO--Who Made Over $10 Millio...
Mar 28, 2023•2 hr 45 min
DeRay, De’Ara, Kaya, and Myles cover the underreported news of the week — including the short tenure of banking's sole Black C.E.O., extreme criminalization of abortion &miscarriage, transphobic behavior from Lil Nas X, and a deep dive into Black homes. DeRay interviews author and scholar Daniel Hatcher about his new book Injustice, Inc.: How America's Justice System Commodifies Children and the Poor. News De’Ara The Interior Lives of Black Homes DeRay The Short Tenure and Abrupt Ouster of Banki...
Mar 21, 2023•2 hr 35 min
DeRay, De’Ara, Kaya, and Myles cover the underreported news of the week — including hyper-relaxed police hiring practices, a 2023 ruling based on a 19th century law governing the treatment of enslaved people, federal efforts to bypass local governance, and transphobia within the queer community. DeRay interviews award-winning author and reporter Chip Jones about his new book The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South. News DeRay How a Growing Poli...
Mar 14, 2023•1 hr 21 min
DeRay, De’Ara, Kaya, and Myles cover the underreported news of the week — including essential items invented by Black women, an end to SNAP emergency benefits, movement within the Biden administration, and an homage to ordinary Black life. DeRay interviews award-winning author and filmmaker Nick Brooks about his young adult mystery novel Promise Boys . News De’Ara 7 Things You Didn't Know were Invented by Black women DeRay As SNAP Emergency Allotment benefits end, local food banks prepare for 'h...
Mar 07, 2023•1 hr 19 min
DeRay, De’Ara, Kaya, and Myles cover the underreported news of the week — including 'Dilbert' comic dropped from newspapers after creator's racist rant, the hidden history of Aunt Jemima, contrasting views on luxury tiny homes and Charlie Mitchell, the first Black Michelin starred chef of New York. Pod Save the People closes out Blackest Book Club programming with Sovereignty of Quiet by Kevin Quashie. News Op-Ed Your Discomfort with Ebony's Jonathan Majors Cover Reveals More about You Than You ...
Feb 28, 2023•1 hr 4 min
DeRay, De’Ara, Kaya, and Myles cover the underreported news of the week — including an attempt to eliminate paper mail for imprisoned people, conservative Republicans pushing a new form of cash welfare, a Black professor resists DeSantis’ Black history prohibition, and Pharrell Williams succeeds Virgil Abloh as Louis Vuitton menswear designer. Pod Save the People continues Blackest Book Club programming with Faces at the Bottom of the Well by Derrick Bell. DeRay interviews author and host of Cro...
Feb 21, 2023•2 hr 31 min
DeRay, De’Ara, Kaya, and Myles cover the underreported news of the week— including Florida’s overzealous book censorship, thousands of kids missing from the post-pandemic school system, a Black city in America under all white jurisdiction, and the legacy of Paco Rabanne. Pod Save the People continues Blackest Book Club programming with All About Love by bell hooks. News Myles Paco Rabanne: Designer who embodied the spirit of the Sixties Kaya Thousands of kids are missing from school. Where did t...
Feb 14, 2023•1 hr 10 min
DeRay, De'Ara, Kaya, and Myles cover the underreported news of the week— including a young Black budding scientist honored by Yale University, the IRS racist auditing practices, disproportionate mortality rates amongst Black and white mothers, and contrasting thoughts on the promise of Pyer Moss. Pod Save the People launch their Blackest Book Club reading list in collaboration with Reconstruction and Campaign Zero. Download now! News: DeRay Study: Wealthiest Black Moms More Likely To Die In Chil...
Feb 07, 2023•1 hr 7 min
DeRay, De'Ara, Kaya, and Myles cover the underreported news of the week— including a Chicago-based gun manufacturer marketing rifles to children, Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes' depart from ABC network, an online community where home-schoolers learn how to turn their kids into Nazis, and Robert Townsend’s evolution from actor to director. DeRay interviews VICE's award-winning national security reporter Ben Makuch about his podcast " American Terror ". News DeRay Inside The Online Community Where Hom...
Jan 31, 2023•1 hr 20 min
DeRay, De'Ara, Kaya, and Myles cover the underreported news of the week— including the GOP restricting certain foods from SNAP recipients, huge success from the first HBCU gymnastics team, a controversial Beyoncé concert and the shocking truth about early abortion. DeRay interviews investigative reporters Ali Winston & Darwin BondGraham about their new book The Riders Come Out At Night: Brutality, Corruption, and Cover-up in Oakland. News DeRay Early Abortion Looks Nothing Like What You’ve Been ...
Jan 24, 2023•2 hr 39 min
In celebration of MLK Jr. Day — DeRay, Kaya, and De'Ara cover the underreported news of the week: a new memorial honoring the Martin Luther King family opens on Boston Common, Pittsburgh police ignore city ordinances against traffic stops, and a submission for Saint Omer, a French drama film following the true events of a Black immigrant mother, is accepted by the Academy Awards. DeRay Pittsburgh Police resume secondary traffic stops despite city ordinance against them Kaya 'A representation of ...
Jan 17, 2023•27 min
DeRay, Kaya, and De'Ara cover the underreported news of the week— including the killing of LGBTQ activist Edwin Chiloba, Arizona prisons inducing labor against mother's will, and miscarriages punishable under post-Roe v Wade legislation. DeRay interviews investigative reporter Chris Gelardi about his report Lesser Infractions Aren’t Supposed to Land You in Solitary Confinement. They Do Anyway. News: Deray Arizona inducing the labor of pregnant prisoners against their will Kaya Bleeding and in pa...
Jan 10, 2023•59 min
DeRay, Myles, De'Ara and Kaya cover the underreported news of the week— including organ thieves, former slaveowners in US Congress, Native American business directory and Lizzo recreates the famous Annie Lee painting Blue Monday . News: Myles https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11552525/Lizzo-opens-flood-emotion-creates-beloved-piece-art-SNL-performance.html DeRay https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/12/18/black-mistrust-healthcare-00060324 Kaya https://www.washingtonpost.com/hi...
Dec 20, 2022•49 min
DeRay, Myles, De'ara and Kaya cover the underreported news of the week— including the first Black women on Minnesota's senate, schools mandatory JROTC enrollment, thieves targeting EBT snap funds, Will + Jada broadway buyout. DeRay interviews Ricki Lake and Kalen Allen about their joint podcast Raised by Ricki. News DeRay https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/thieves-are-stealing-snap-funds-electronically-states-victims-never-ge-rcna60172 De’Ara https://www.mprnews.org/episode/2022/11/29/finally-...
Dec 13, 2022•1 hr 29 min
DeRay, Myles, and Kaya cover the underreported news of the week— including unexploded bombs on Hawaiian lands, US army bases named after Confederate traitors, and a Strange Loop broadway play review. DeRay interviews Sam Quinones about his newest book The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth. News: Myles https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/11/theater/strange-loop-broadway-closing.html DeRay https://www.propublica.org/article/native-hawaiians-land-housing-army-...
Dec 06, 2022•50 min
DeRay, Myles, De'Ara and Kaya cover the underreported news of the week— including a hip-hop store ran by undercover cops, Chance the Rapper's free music festival in Ghana, top universities boycott school rankings, and a pedophilic Balenciaga ad campaign. DeRay interviews Wendy Sawyer of the Prison Policy Initiative and her most recent report titled All Profit, No Risk: How the bail industry exploits the justice system . News DeRay https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy74jk/fake-record-store-operatio...
Nov 29, 2022•1 hr 23 min
DeRay, Myles, De'Ara and Kaya cover the underreported news of the week— including the newest additions to the national portrait gallery, youth voters turn back midterm red wave, an out of touch Broadway play, and a UK law that will make you do the time even if you were not present for the crime. DeRay interviews Kevin Hazzard about his newest book American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics. News: De’Ara https://deadline.com/2022/11/national-portr...
Nov 15, 2022•1 hr 24 min
DeRay, Myles, De'Ara and Kaya cover the underreported news of the week— including Black women Republicans in Congress, the correlation between Black women's health and retirement planning, a Native American adoption law in Supreme Court, and an unusual casting for Rihanna's Savage Fenty show. DeRay interviews Dr. Rebecca Kavanaugh about her recent Teen Vogue op-ed about the reemergence of the D.A.R.E. program in school districts across the nation. https://www.teenvogue.com/story/dare-program-bac...
Nov 08, 2022•1 hr 26 min
DeRay, Myles, and Kaya cover the underreported news of the week— including an abortion pill network, higher mortality rate for Babies born to Black mothers who use fertility treatments die at far higher rates, fresh trial for Black Panther Mumia, and a thread of anti-Semitism from rapper Kanye West. DeRay interviews Dr. Lawrence T. Brown about his newest book The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America. News: Kaya https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/18/ille...
Nov 01, 2022•1 hr 9 min
DeRay, De'Ara, Kaya, and Myles cover the under-reported news of the week - including the shortage of Black sperm donors, anti-colorism protests erupting throughout Mexico, housing rights for squatters, and racism within cardiac care. News Kaya https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/10/20/black-sperm-donors/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=wp_dmv7&wpsirc=nl_dmv7 De’Ara https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2022-10-20/mexico-anti-racism-movement-protests-colorism DeR...
Oct 25, 2022•58 min
DeRay, Myles, De'Ara and Kaya cover the underreported news of the week— including stock increases for companies hiring Black CEOs, a school board's attempt to hijack a Black student podcast, poor ventilation in nail salons impact on reproductive health, and Angelica Ross makes history on Broadway. News: De’Ara https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/10/12/black-ceo-appointments-market-reaction-study-diversity/ Kaya https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/09/22/black-students-podcast-laws...
Oct 18, 2022•57 min
DeRay, Myles, De'Ara and Kaya cover the underreported news of the week— including accountability for celebrities and online harassment, the predatory nature of the parent plus loan, single mothers forced to reveal sexual histories or forfeit welfare benefits and a case for leaving America to escape racism. News: Myles https://www.thedailybeast.com/nicki-minaj-fans-came-for-youtuber-kimberly-nicole-foster-so-shes-suing-them https://www.vice.com/en/article/4axq5b/can-you-sue-nicki-minaj-stans-for-...
Oct 04, 2022•1 hr 5 min
DeRay, Myles, and Kaya cover the underreported news of the week— including non-profit hospitals exploit poor patients, the working class Black men who pioneered emergency medicine and the life and legacy of Pharoah Sanders. DeRay interviews Jelani Anglin and Kim Belizaire about their 24/7 emergency arrest hotline, Good Call NYC. News: Kaya https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/24/business/nonprofit-hospitals-poor-patients.html Myles https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/pharoah-sanders-obituary/ DeRay https:...
Sep 27, 2022•1 hr 6 min
DeRay, Myles, and De’Ara cover the underreported news of the week— including mismanaged funds within the Homeowner's Association, the Jackson, Mississippi water crisis, and pedophilic accusations against Tiffany Haddish. DeRay interviews author and journalist to chat his new book Inheritance: An Autobiography of Whiteness. News: DeRay https://www.propublica.org/article/colorado-hoa-management-companies-investigation De'Ara https://www.salon.com/2022/09/02/there-are-no-people-there-jacksons-water...
Sep 20, 2022•1 hr 18 min
DeRay, De’Ara, Myles and Kaya cover the underreported news of the week— including private schools flushed with private money, pandemic impact on math and reading progress, the conservative evolution of rapper Jay Z, and Samuel Jackson's broadway debut. News: Myles https://www.nme.com/news/music/jay-z-hits-back-at-criticism-of-his-wealth-we-fucking-killed-ourselves-to-get-to-this-space-3303357 De’Ara https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/newyork/news/samuel-l-jackson-the-piano-lesson-broadway-august-wilson...
Sep 13, 2022•1 hr 17 min
DeRay, De'Ara, Myles, and Kaya cover the underreported news of the week— including the first Black woman to compose music for NYC ballet, affirmative action's return to the Supreme Court, Torrance police officer's racists text messages exposed, and an unexpected motivator for Democrats voting in the November election. DeRay interviews activist and founder Dwayne Betts about his non-profit organization Freedom Reads. News: Myles https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/solange-knowles-becomes-first-bl...
Aug 30, 2022•1 hr 22 min
DeRay, Myles, Kaya and De’Ara cover the underreported news of the week— including U.S postal workers dying from heat stroke, Minneapolis plan to fire white teachers, Kanye West on Fox News, and artist Isaac Julien breathes new life into the Harlem Rennaisance. DeRay interviews award winning investigative reporter J.David McSwane about his new book Pandemic Inc.: Chasing the Capitalists and Thieves Who Got Rich While We Got Sick. News DeRay https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/20/business/ups-postal-w...
Aug 23, 2022•2 hr 33 min
DeRay, Myles, and Kaya cover the underreported news of the week— including stolen skulls of Black Philadelphians displayed in Ivy League schools, the massive effort to change the way kids are taught to read, and the life and legacy of Issey Mayake. DeRay interviews activist and founder Elizabeth Pfiester about T1International and the Insulin4All movement. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/08/08/insulin-price-cap-diabetes-senate-republicans/ News: DeRay https://time.com/6205084/phonics-s...
Aug 16, 2022•1 hr 17 min
