Ranked #1
Episode 4: Lets Talk About White Privilege...and You
Episode 4: Lets Talk About White Privilege...and You
In this episode, I get deep into white privilege, what it is, what it isn't, its three powers, historical constructions,... Read more
7 Aug 2019
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1hr 7mins
Ranked #2
Episode 9: White Fragility...and You
Episode 9: White Fragility...and You
In this episode, I discuss white fragility, what it is, and the problem with centering white feelings in conversations a... Read more
11 Sep 2019
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54mins
Ranked #3
James Baldwin: A Voice That Still Resonates
James Baldwin: A Voice That Still Resonates
This episode focuses on truth-telling, racism confronting, excerpts and quotes by James Baldwin, one of the most eloquen... Read more
31 Jul 2019
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47mins
Ranked #4
Friday Five: Stop Doing These Things
Friday Five: Stop Doing These Things
One of this week's Friday Five is to stop telling Black people how to feel about racism. You want to hear the other four... Read more
24 Jan 2020
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7mins
Ranked #5
Your Heroes Are Not Mine: The Problematic Whitewashing of Women's Suffrage
Your Heroes Are Not Mine: The Problematic Whitewashing of Women's Suffrage
This year is the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment, but much of the history of the women's suffrage movement leave... Read more
4 Mar 2020
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47mins
Ranked #6
Friday Five: What Are You Doing Differently?
Friday Five: What Are You Doing Differently?
Happy Friday! If you're saying nothing, you're saying something. The film "Just Mercy." Listening to Black voices and pe... Read more
17 Jan 2020
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11mins
Ranked #7
Diversity Is Not Inclusion, and Other Thoughts
Diversity Is Not Inclusion, and Other Thoughts
In this week's episode, I discuss the popularity of the buzzwords 'diversity' and 'inclusion' and go into how they are n... Read more
18 Mar 2020
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36mins
Ranked #8
The ABCs of Anti-Slavery in 1846 & Teaching Actual Truth to Children Today
The ABCs of Anti-Slavery in 1846 & Teaching Actual Truth to Children Today
What if when you learned your ABCs, you also learned why slavery was horrible? The Anti-Slavery Alphabet did just that a... Read more
29 Jan 2020
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46mins
Ranked #9
The Jim Crow Series: Intro
The Jim Crow Series: Intro
This week's episode is the first of the Jim Crow series! A brief history of the origins of Jim Crow laws, where the name... Read more
25 Sep 2019
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33mins
Ranked #10
The Jim Crow Series: Racial Terror, Violence, & Lynching (Part 1)
The Jim Crow Series: Racial Terror, Violence, & Lynching (Part 1)
In this week's episode, I explain why and how black Americans were victims of racial violence, terror, and lynching. I s... Read more
20 Nov 2019
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1hr 14mins
Ranked #11
Episode 5: "Wow, you speak so well!": Tone Policing & Microaggressions
Episode 5: "Wow, you speak so well!": Tone Policing & Microaggressions
This week's episode looks at how people derail discussions with tone policing and how microaggressions are oppressive in... Read more
14 Aug 2019
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47mins
Ranked #12
The Jim Crow Series: Laws, Racism, & Miscegenation
The Jim Crow Series: Laws, Racism, & Miscegenation
Episode 2 of the Jim Crow Series is all Jim Crow laws and etiquette that kept races divided, beginning in 1877 after the... Read more
9 Oct 2019
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1hr 8mins
Ranked #13
The Jim Crow Series: Traveling While Black
The Jim Crow Series: Traveling While Black
Traveling in Jim Crow America was met with annoyances, inconveniences, and dangers, if you were black. In this episode, ... Read more
23 Oct 2019
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54mins
Ranked #14
Words for 2020, Watch Night, & the History of New Year's Day
Words for 2020, Watch Night, & the History of New Year's Day
Happy New Year! In this first episode of 2020, and season 3, I discuss what New Year's Eve and Day meant for enslaved pe... Read more
1 Jan 2020
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34mins
Ranked #15
Friday Five: Said By Nina Simone
Friday Five: Said By Nina Simone
In this week's Friday Five episode, I share my five favorite quotes by Nina Simone and provide a little background on he... Read more
21 Feb 2020
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5mins
Ranked #16
Episode 8: The Color Blind Problem, "Difficult" Names, & Invalidating Identities
Episode 8: The Color Blind Problem, "Difficult" Names, & Invalidating Identities
This week, I talk about the problem with people saying, "I don't see color" and how this and other colorblind-related ph... Read more
4 Sep 2019
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35mins
Ranked #17
The Jim Crow Series: The Activism of Wells, Du Bois, & More
The Jim Crow Series: The Activism of Wells, Du Bois, & More
This week, I give a glimpse of what activism in Jim Crow America was by discussing Ida B. Wells, W. E. B. Du Bois, Marcu... Read more
6 Nov 2019
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58mins
Ranked #18
The Jim Crow Series: Racial Terror, Violence, & Lynching (Part 2)
The Jim Crow Series: Racial Terror, Violence, & Lynching (Part 2)
Public spectacle lynchings. The black body as souvenir. I read lynching accounts and, I warn you, a few of them are grap... Read more
4 Dec 2019
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52mins
Ranked #19
My Visit to the Lynching Memorial & the Legacy Museum in Montgomery
My Visit to the Lynching Memorial & the Legacy Museum in Montgomery
I had the opportunity to go on a Legacy Trip this past weekend to visit Montgomery, Alabama and go to The National Memor... Read more
19 Feb 2020
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35mins
Ranked #20
Friday Five: Nathaniel Woods
Friday Five: Nathaniel Woods
Alabama executed an innocent Black man last night, Nathaniel Woods. My stream of conscious thoughts are in this episode.
6 Mar 2020
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12mins