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Join us for the last episode of the winter season as I talk with Page Thomas. Page and I go into how a neighborhood becomes a "Black neighborhood", how to develop real estate equity, and the anti-masturbatory effects of Corn Flakes. Basically, you don't want to skip this! - For full episodes and extras visit whatisblackpodcast.com. Feel free to sha…

Join me and award winning writer Brian Broome (IG=@bbromb, FB=brian.broome.5) as we wax and wane about getting older, avoiding people for our mental health (and the inevitable post-social exhaustion when we can’t), and overcoming trauma. Brian’s book “Punch Me Up to The Gods” is available digitally, in print, and audio on multiple platforms. If you…

What a better way to close out 2021 than with verbal violence. Join Terry and I as he slanders catfish, and we talk about how The South is "different..." We also talk about how the common motivating factor in xenophobia, racism, anti-Blackness, anti-LGBTQ, anti-women, and anti-critical thinking is fear, and how you can organize against that fear to…

Join me and Aaron as we talk about pivoting from law enforcement to crime stories. Also how Marvel's Blade movie proved it pays to always bet on the Black(ness of Wesley Snipes). Aaron's book Under Color of Law is now available as paperback and Kindle on Amazon, and audiobook on Audible. For more info, visit AaronPhilipClark.com. This mixcast is br…

Welcome back for another season of the What Is Black? Podcast. Join me and Jessica as we talk protecting Black autonomous spaces and Archie comics. Jessica also has a dope exhibit at the August Wilson Cultural Center in Downtown Pittsburgh called The Black Box Test that everyone should be checking out starting November 17 (the same day this ep drop…

Welcome to the AKAC: All Kinks Allowed Crowd! for the season finale. For more info, episodes, and ways to support visit whatisblackpodcast.com. Don’t forget to rate us 5 stars and review us on Apple Podcasts, and share with your friends and enemies. Ray Smiling and I open things up talking about Tilda Swinton (if you don’t know, educate yourself) a…

*CW: Sh*t talking* For more info, episodes, and ways to support visit whatisblackpodcast.com. Don’t forget to rate us 5 stars and review us on Apple Podcasts, and share with your friends and enemies. For this episode, inventor, entrepreneur, yoga instructor, sculptor, mother, and friend Alecia Dawn and I start out talking sh*t (literally), continue…

*NOTE: This episode was recorded during the winter storm that rocked The South in February 2021* For more info, episodes, and ways to support visit whatisblackpodcast.com. There is so much that can be said about photographer, chair sculptor, burgeoning musician... You know what, you'll have to listen to the episode to hear the myriad things Cary ca…

For more info, episodes, and ways to support visit whatisblackpodcast.com. *CW: brief talk about suicide* Building things from your brain: that's what guest Kristen McIntosh does. We talk about how her visual arts journey lead to architecture, a field with approximately 2% Black representation. Then we transition into the really heady territory of …

For more info, episodes, and ways to support visit whatisblackpodcast.com. Wrasslin’, ‘Rona, and Relationships: the three pillars of modern society. Poet and author Linsay Phillipe-Auguste and I continue the convo we started on her podcast waxing poetic about what makes an alpha female an Alpha Female, showing all the ugly bits, and sidepiece life.…

Welcome back, and welcome Black for season two, the next revolution around that gas giant. This episode, we are joined by Jez. A multitalented, multifaceted, human that maybe the closest we come to interacting with a living myth as possible. THEY ARE THE REALEST! They do it all, and they do it with aplomb and grace. We get into it about music, the …

*Starting off the new year by ending season 1. We'll be back in March 2021, though.* WARNING: Off the ripcord, we open the new year with chitlin slander. I apologize in advanced to all the chitlin eaters out there. Kelsey is one of those rare people you meet and you're like, "Did I just meet a hologram?" because the amount of dopeness she outputs i…

Might as well call us Black Santa, because we're gifting you with several jewels and gems this holiday season. Kahlil Haywood and I, with our wonderfully deep voices are leaving 2020 behind with a dope conversation on creative writing, breaking into the the blogging/journalism industry, and basically being steadfast and powering through the worst o…

Cyberpunk 2077 is nigh and goodbye to being social! Shoutout to Mike Pondsmith and CD Projekt Red for ruining so many relationships and making so many people broke at the end of 2020. Who knew Cyberpunk 2077 was a self-fulfilling prophecy? This episode I sit down with Gail D Taylor and talk about the fate of Black people, from Jim Crow, to Alisha W…

F-ck Pilgrims... Get turkey! Pardon the technical difficulties and sound quality at certain points. Satan tried to stop us, but we shan't be stopped! Kandaka can do anything. Kandaka knows everything. Even the stuff she doesn't know, she knows; she just hasn't learned it yet. Join us for this so-much-knowledge-you-don't-need-to-go-to-college episod…

Senator Kamala Harris and former Vice President Biden are presidents elect. I think... Now what? What Is Black? Podcast is a bi-weekly podcast where we talk with Black creatives from varied disciplines, whilst defying the myth of a Black monolith. I have a propensity to feel like I almost never know what I’m doing. Most of that is because I have di…

What Is Black? Podcast is a bi-weekly podcast where we talk with Black creatives from varied disciplines, whilst defying the myth of a Black monolith. This episode, we’re a step over joyous to welcome Quincy Ledbetter to the microphone. Quincy is a renaissance filmmaker, composer, writer, and quite possibly one of the coolest dudes you will ever ha…

*NOTE: This episode was recorded the week of Chadwick Boseman's (may he Rest In Peace and Power) passing* What Is Black? Podcast is a bi-weekly podcast where we talk with Black creatives from varied disciplines, whilst defying the myth of a Black monolith. SHEBA can't draw a straight line but in this episode we talk about how she IS the art. From b…

Welcome to the first, GIANT SIZED episode of What Is Black? Podcast. WIB?P, as it’s been promoted ad nauseum is a bi-weekly podcast where we talk with Black creatives from varied disciplines in whilst defying the myth of a Black monolith. To kick things off, we talk with Musician/Singer + Songwriter/Creative Director Stéfon Charlot who is a “bad bi…

What Is Black? Podcast is a bi-weekly podcast where we attempt to define “Black art and artistry” with a bunch of dope Black creatives, whilst defying the myth of a Black monolith. We'll have conversations with everyone from painters to designers, performers to musicians that would be considered fringe, outsider, non-traditional folk, and/or intuit…

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