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Black People Need to Stop Waiting for the System to Save Us! -- Ben Crump & Gary Chambers
Ben Crump is one of America’s most prominent civil rights attorneys, known for representing the families of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and many others in landmark c...
Why Black Women Aren’t Your Metaphor! -- Tia Williams
Tia Williams: Tia Williams is the New York Times bestselling author of Seven Days in June and a veteran beauty editor who has spent decades centering Black joy and mod...
Are You REALLY Safe at the Doctor? Dr. Uché Blackstock Explains The Real Reason We Mistrust Hospitals
Dr. Uché Blackstock is a renowned emergency medicine physician and the founder of Advancing Health Equity, whose memoir Legacy tackles the deep-seated racial dispariti...
Black History Is Buried—Literally. Here's Who's Digging It Up From the Water. -- Tara Roberts & Alexandra Jones
Dr. Alexandra Jones is a seasoned archaeologist and educator dedicated to empowering communities through the preservation and excavation of African American history.Ta...
Why Justice Terrifies White Supremacist More Than Revenge -- Kellie Carter Jackson & Shennette Garrett-Scott
Kellie Carter Jackson is a historian and writer (author of 'We Refuse') whose work centers Black resistance, abolition, and the political meaning of freedom in America...
Why Do Black People Define Blackness & Black Progress So Narrowly? - Kehinde Andrews & Sean Goode
Sean Goode is a writer and cultural thinker whose work interrogates Black identity, power, and the political meaning embedded in popular culture.Kehinde Andrews is a s...
The Most Dangerous Lie: “The Water Is Fine” - Phyllis R. Dixon & Cecilia Guillen
Phyllis R. Dixon is the author of Something in the Water, a gripping novel that blends political intrigue, environmental justice, and deeply human stakes.Cecilia Guill...
Trump Didn't Break America...This Did. -- Jamelle Bouie & Nathan Robinson
In this wide-ranging but sharply focused conversation, Nathan J. Robinson and Jamelle Bouie argue that the central danger facing American democracy is not mass apathy ...
Education Was Never the Goal, Knowledge Is. -- Daniel Black & Michael Harriot
Dr. Daniel Black and Michael Harriot delivered a spiritually charged, intellectually fierce, and soul-deep conversation that cracked open the Black experience in Ameri...
Why America Chose White Supremacy Over Democracy - Jamelle Bouie & Carla Laroche
In a discussion held in New Orleans on February 3, 2026, New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie and Tulane law professor Carla Laroche explored the haunting parallels ...
Is Striving For Black Excellence Killing Us? Dr. Uché Blackstock SOUNDS OFF on Working 2x as Hard!
Dr. Uché Blackstock and journalist Jarvis DeBerry engaged in a piercing, personal, and deeply emotional conversation about race, medicine, education, and the invisible...
The Moment Pain Becomes Identity, Freedom Starts Losing Bids -- Shaka Senghor & Jerid P. Woods
Shaka Senghor is a leading voice on criminal justice reform, a tech investor, and the author of Writing My Wrongs and Letters to the Sons of Society.Is society addicte...
When Injustice Becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty! - Kellie Carter Jackson
Kellie Carter Jackson is a historian, author, and professor whose work explores Black resistance, abolition, and the intellectual history of Black political thought in...
They Want to Erase Us: A "Season of Destruction" -- Eddie Glaude Jr & Imani Perry
We are living through what Dr. Imani Perry calls a "season of destruction," a deliberate era where the legacy of the freedom movement is being erased. In this riveting...
Why Vulnerability Makes Better Art & The Thing About Falling - Tank Ball
In a candid, laughter-laced conversation, Tarriona "Tank" Ball pulls back the curtain on vulnerability as both artistic method and emotional necessity. Discussing her ...
What Firstborn Girls Carry - Bernice McFadden
Bernice L. McFadden is an award-winning American novelist and memoirist whose work explores Black womanhood, ancestry, trauma, and survival through lyrical, historical...
Why Working Hard Will Keep You Poor - Earn Your Leisure + Larry Morrow + David Shands
What happens when four of the most influential forces in entrepreneurship, media, and culture sit down for a raw, unfiltered conversation at one of the country’s most ...
Art Is Not Decoration—It’s Declaration. - Charly Palmer & Tonya Boyd-Cannon
Grammy-nominated vocalist Tonya Boyd-Cannon and celebrated visual artist Charly Palmer engage in a riveting, soul-baring conversation that moves between art, ancestry,...
This Should Scare Us! - Malcolm Gladwell & Mitch Landrieu
In a wide-ranging, unguarded conversation, Malcolm Gladwell and former New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu use the city itself as a lens to examine America’s deeper fract...
The Language White America Can't Hear: Dr. Daniel Black & Avery Young
Dr. Daniel Black and Avery Young" "This conversation is a masterclass in Black language, music, spirituality, and survival. Dr. Daniel Black and Avery Young explore ho...
