Podcasts Podcasts Season 15 Episode 2 | Lamont Jones on the Card Game from Black Culture: BID WHIST! Have you ever played a game of Bid Whist before? Is it like playing spades or is there a significant difference? Author Lamont Jones, a lawyer in the professional boxing… Read More Season 15 Episode 1 | Author Aaron Robertson on The Black Utopians What does it look like to not only survive, but to thrive, in a society that surrounds you and your community with hostility and detriment? For many, this is the… Read More Season 14 Episode 19 | Poet Camille Dungy on a Black Mother’s Garden in a White Neighborhood When African American poet Camille Dungy decided to move her family to the predominantly White community of Fort Collins, CO, she did not expect to embark on a seven-year journey… Read More Season 14 Episode 18 | Small Talk at FHI with Scholar Bakari Kitwana on Hip-Hop at 50! A random back-to-school party in 1973 Brooklyn, New York ended up being ground zero for the birth of hip-hop culture at the electrifying fingertips of 18-year old local legend, DJ… Read More Season 14 Episode 17 | Dr. Orisanmi Burton on the Long Attica Revolt & Prisons as an Ongoing Site of War Living conditions for incarcerated people in upstate New York’s Attica Correctional Facility were nothing short of dehumanizing. Black inmates were especially brutalized by the nearly all-white guard staff who were… Read More Season 14 Episode 16 | Black Vaudeville in Jazz-Age America with Dr. Michelle R. Scott The Theater Owners’ Booking Association, or T.O.B.A., a theater network that employed Black entertainers to perform for African American audiences across the country, was a key player when vaudeville was… Read More Season 14 Episode 15 | J.T. Roane on the History of Black Urban Placemaking Black organizing in urban spaces, particularly following The Great Migration onward, has always courted intense scrutiny from the powers-that-be. Black organizing in urban spaces, particularly following The Great Migration onward,… Read More Season 14 Episode 14 | The Black Working Class with Blair LM Kelley Too often, the drive for upward mobility and the desire to identify with the middle class causes us to discredit the value of blue collar workers, particularly those African Americans… Read More Season 14 Episode 13 | Dr. Jennifer Nash on Motherhood and Black Feminism Black mothers and birthing people are shown to be grossly neglected and misunderstood by the medical industrial complex that is our current healthcare system. And beyond bringing life into the… Read More Season 14 Episode 12 | Discovering Blackness in Antiquity with Dr. Sarah Derbew What are the intersections between Ancient Greece and Africa and how does this shared history de-center the Transatlantic Slave Trade in a more expansive view of Blackness in the world?… Read More Season 14 Episode 11 | Dr. Daniel McNeil on A Contrarian Blackness What happens when you take the incendiary reviews of an embattled film critic and juxtapose that against the intellectual work of a little-known, yet highly influential academic from the U.K…. Read More Season 14 Episode 10 | “The Sisterhood” of Black Feminist Writers with Dr. Courtney Thorsson Picture celebrated authors Toni Morrison and Alice Walker getting together with famed playwright and actress Ntozake Shange at the poet and essayist June Jordan’s Brooklyn apartment to be fed Jamaican… Read More 1 2 3 … 53 Next »
