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The Drop Squad is a society and culture podcast featuring three friends (@qaomene, @RezistansM, @RenyTurer) who chop it up weekly on everything from news and politics to culture and entertainment. Jokes >>> facts, data over anecdotes, don’t argue with us if you got no citations.

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Episode 22: What's Real?

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11/27/20 • 86 min

This week, Ali, Q, Nina, Reny and Jamel talk the Gucci - Jeezy Verzuz, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris' GoFundMe, millionaires needing financial literacy classes not bailouts, police, prison, and death penalty abolition and Meg thee Stallion's album while contemplating the fact that we may or may not be in a simulation right now.

Rezistans Nwa: Launching Soon

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07/13/20 • 2 min

Rezistans Nwa is a project that recognizes the diverse nature of Blackness, one that recognizes liberation cannot wait, and that recognizes we will never liberate ourselves by assimilating into relationships of power created by and maintained for the benefit of our oppressors.

We’re here to collaborate, synthesize, and most importantly, learn and grow together.

To support us, go to www.patreon.com/RZNWA and become a patron of our network.

Episode 20: The Internet is Not Your Friend

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11/06/20 • 90 min

Nina, Jamel, Q, Reny and Ali talk about rappers who can't rap, the inconsistency and selectiveness of "cancelling" people and what it actually accomplishes, and this circus of a failure of an election cycle, as well as why it's good to be distrustful of folks online and in online political spaces because these folks are not our friends.

Episode 5: (Part 1 of 2) Pan-Africanism for Beginners w/ Milton Allimadi

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07/23/20 • 78 min

In part 1 of a 2 part interview, journalist Milton Allimadi (@allimadi), founder of Black Star News and African History professor at John Jay College joins the Drop Squad to talk about the history of pan-Africanism, the democratic primaries, and the roots of the Black Power tradition.

Cheikh Anta Diop Interview: https://youtu.be/c5pDjJTUnb8
Walter Rodney: Race and Class in Guyanese Politics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9szjOu-yIPs

Episode 18: The League of Revolutionary Black Workers

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10/23/20 • 111 min

Reny and Ali speak with Darryl "Waistline" Mitchell - cofounder of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers and the Communist Labor Party - as he walks us through the history of 1960s Detroit and the conditions that set the tone for Black freedom movements.

Episode 12: A Post-Hollywood Analysis

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09/18/20 • 100 min

Ali, Nina and Reny are joined by friend of the pod Keyma discussing music, Black political unity, Netflix's "Cuties" and what role Hollywood should play in Black political and social futures as a means of representing Black experiences and telling our stories.

Episode 25: This Is How Politics Work

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12/18/20 • 81 min

Jamel, Reny, Nina and Q roast Black Lives Matter global network's demand letter to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris (and the way they paid them dust), Joe Biden disrespecting and chastising Black activists, and how liberals have been wielding "you just don't know how politics work" against Black people voicing disenchantment with the democratic party and political dissent in an effort to maintain their "managers of Black people" status.

Episode 19: A Very Conspiracy Episode

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11/06/20 • 74 min

Jamel, Nina, Reny and Ali get into conspiracy theories, speak to which ones we believe are real and the validity and utility of conspiracy theories as a means of questioning the movements and motivations of our government and powerful people and groups. We also speak to our own political journeys, how we developed our politics, and how we hold grace for each other and Black people throughout our growth. #justiceforJaboukie https://twitter.com/jaboukie ! Give his Blue Check back! https://dailytargum.com/article/2020/03/jaboukie-suspended-for-cnn-tweet

Episode 16: Saying Nothing is Always an Option

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10/10/20 • 88 min

Reny, Q, Nina and Ali return to our roots laughing at the contradictions in electoral politics and neoliberal support of Joe Biden, the "Get Well Fascism" campaigns from Ava Duvernay and other Black folks in the entertainment class when Trump was announced to have COVID, Trump as the Typhoid Mary of the Republican party, and the weird democratic allegiance to "decorum" and "honor" with folks who have neither.

2-03: The Inauguration

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02/11/21 • 81 min

Q, Reny, Ali and Nina talk about Joe Biden's inauguration - including Bernie memes and "The Hill We Climb" poem - and how liberal striverism and desperation for "representation" will be the death of us.

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