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.

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Episode 11: The Democrats Are Never Gonna Read Your Letters

This week, Jamel, Reny, Ali and Nina get into the failings of the Democratic party to engage Black people and our political needs beyond shallow, performative displays of "solidarity" and recognition of identities, the DNC, and the harm in the idea that we can hold politicians who have never displayed any concern for or allegiance to anyone or anything but their careers "accountable."

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Episode 13: Black Politics for Black People

Jamel, Reny and Nina welcome back Q. Anthony (on a probationary, guest host basis) to talk about the current political reality for Black people and the importance of promoting Black politics that are shaped by the realities of actual Black people being impacted by them. We discuss Breonna Taylor's murder, defunding/abolishing the police, and the infantilization of Black people politically that promotes ideas that we are completely unable to contextualize, theorize around, understand our experiences on a ground level and that what we truly need is celebrities, politicians and academics to save us.