This week we talk to author Layla Saad about how talking to white people about racism can be exhausting AF. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sep 16, 2020•58 min•Ep. 134
This week we drop a pin on where we’re at in the world right now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sep 09, 2020•39 min•Ep. 133
This week we get honest about apologizing with author Sonya Renee Taylor, founder of The Body Is Not An Apology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sep 02, 2020•54 min•Ep. 132
This week, we talk to organizer and political strategist LaTosha Brown about why Black votes and voters matter, and what it means to take the power. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Aug 26, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 131
This week we run it back to that one time I hosted the 2020 BET Awards to give you the behind the scenes and drama and tea on how the innovative ground breaking show came to life!With guests: Jesse Collins, Dionne Harmon, Renee Sanganoo, Bryon Javar, and Nicky B! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Aug 19, 2020•2 hr 35 min•Ep. 130
This week we re-introduce and revisit the conversation about how we have conversations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Aug 12, 2020•58 min•Ep. 129
This week, Sunny Hostin, lawyer and host of The View, let's us in on the fun and the fails of raising Gen Z kids! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Aug 05, 2020•58 min•Ep. 128
This week, we talk to Eddie S. Glaude Jr., author of Begin Again, about the depth, value, and necessity for James Baldwin and his work in our current time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jul 29, 2020•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 127
This week, we delve into the deep canon of Black cinema with Desmond Thorne, film expert and host of Adventures in Black Cinema, the debut show on the Smart Funny and Black podcast network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jul 22, 2020•49 min•Ep. 126
In true Cancer season fashion, it’s only right that we not only get in our feelings, but get real about why so many of us are scared of them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jul 15, 2020•46 min•Ep. 125
This week, we connect with Errin Haines, journalist at The 19th ( https://www.19thnews.org/ ), to assess where journalism as a medium exists in the current media landscape. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Jul 08, 2020•59 min•Ep. 124
This week, we are joined by author and journalist Tiffany D. Cross, and uncover a bunch of ways we affect voting and voting affects us that we never considered. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jul 01, 2020•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 123
This week, we talk to iconic actor Blair Underwood about what it means to be brotha in showbiz. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 24, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 122
This week, actress Tika Sumpter joins us to speak on creating a much-needed sweet space for Black mamas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 18, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 121
Part 2 of our first Small Doses Forum, where we discuss the multiple ways in which the nation's eruption of consciousness can effect change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 11, 2020•46 min•Ep. 120
In part 1 of our first Small Doses Forum we discuss the multiple ways in which the nation's eruption of consciousness can effect change. Come back next week for part 2. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 04, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 119
This week, author, professor, and pundit Marc Lamont Hill joins us to illuminate the realities and sometimes contradictions of being smart, funny, and Black. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 27, 2020•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 118
This week, I take a solo look at livin’ solo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 20, 2020•40 min•Ep. 117
This week, CNN correspondent Angela Rye schools us on the necessities of being politically engaged and why your vote matters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 13, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 116
This week Joy-Anne Reid, journalist and host of AM Joy, let’s us in on the unspoken conversations around how Corona is indiscriminately impacting Black America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 06, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 115
This week, we bounce down to the Big Easy with musician and community leader PJ Morton to learn about all things NoLa. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Apr 29, 2020•59 min•Ep. 114
This week I get down in the dirt with what makes up the soil that you grow from as a person, and how it affects the way we interact with the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Apr 22, 2020•41 min•Ep. 113
This week, we get awkward with writer, producer, actress Issa Rae about how confidence and being insecure make a leader. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Apr 15, 2020•59 min•Ep. 112
This week I take y'all on a ride of the do's, don'ts, and dopeness of hittin the road solo! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Apr 08, 2020•52 min•Ep. 111
This week, writer, director, and Blackspert, Prentice Penny joins us to decant the process of making his new hit Netflix film, Uncorked. Warning: spoilers ahead! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Apr 01, 2020•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 110
This episode we talk about what everybody is talking about, BEING STUCK INSIDE THE GOT DANG HOUSE! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 25, 2020•40 min•Ep. 109
On this week’s show, we connect with writer extraordinaire Kenya Barris on creating your favorite -ishes and the nuance of nuance. Kenya's new show #blackaf debuts on April 17th on Netflix! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 18, 2020•46 min•Ep. 108
This week, we sit with Brandon McEachern, creator of Broccoli City Festival, and talk all the reasons why safe spaces for black celebration are necessary. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 11, 2020•51 min•Ep. 107
This week we get down to Town Biz with Oakland MC and entrepreneur, Mistah F.A.B. to talk Bay Area things and the Hyphy Movement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 04, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 106
This week, we're joined by my The Real cohost Adrienne Houghton to talk leaving the mean streets of NY for La La Land. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 26, 2020•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 105