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Issa Rae is Still Rooting for Everybody Black

'As usual, Issa Rae is out here doing the most. She joins Rebecca Carroll to talk about the return of Insecure, how she’s supporting the next generation of black artists, and why black audiences matter the most to her. And how cookie dough is getting her through coronatine.' -- Come Through with Rebecca Carroll

A Moment of True Decolonization #31: Ruth Wilson Gilmore on Beginning of a Perfect Decolonial Moment

'Ruth Wilson Gilmore is Professor of Geography and Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at the City University of New York Graduate Center. A co-founder of many grassroots organizations including California Prison Moratorium Project, and Critical Resistance, she works on racial capitalism, organized violence, organized abandonment, changing state structure, criminalization, environmental justice, and labor and social movements. She is the author of Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California and soon-to-be published Change Everything: Racial Capitalism and the Case for Abolition (forthcoming February 2021).' --The Funambulist Podcast
The Funambulist Podcast · A Moment of True Decolonization #31 Ruth Wilson Gilmore /// Beginning of a Perfect Decolonial Moment

TC Carson Reveals He Was Fired From 'Living Single': "We Were Getting Less Than"

'Veteran actor and musician TC Carson sits down for his first one on one with Comedy Hype and opens up about his role as Kyle Barker on Living Single and why he ultimately left the series.' -- Comedy Hype
 

Unladylike2020: Entrepreneur Maggie Lena Walker

'Maggie Lena Walker was a civil rights activist and successful businesswoman. She gained national prominence when she became the first African-American woman to own a bank.' -- American Masters PBS
 

Don Cheadle on His Early Acting days and Being Selective in Choosing Roles

'During an online seminar at the AFI Conservatory in April 2020, Don Cheadle talks to AFI Fellows about his early acting days and being selective in choosing roles.' -- American Film Institute

Artist Kadir Nelson's "After the Storm"

'Painters often take moments in history and capture them on canvas, and the current COVID-19 crisis is no exception. The paint is barely dry on one work by artist Kadir Nelson, who revealed his painting "After the Storm," a celebration of the strength of the human spirit, to correspondent Lee Cowan.' -- CBS Sunday Morning
 

We All Deserve An Income Floor: Why the Bold Policy of Guaranteed Income Works

'How would a universal basic income open up the potential of all people in this country?  If guaranteed income is an attempt to provide people with more resources—resources that come with very few restrictions—it demands a conversation with the people who would most benefit from it. It also demands a conversation about deservedness. When we ask “How much would it be?” “Who would get it?” And “How would we pay for it?” what we are really asking is who deserves more and who doesn’t.' -- Mia Birdsong for More Than Enough

  

Is Social Media the Future of Epidemiology?

'News and social media are changing the way we learn about and track the spread of infectious diseases. The Takeaway spoke to Dr. Marjorie Pollack, a physician, medical epidemiologist, and deputy editor of ProMED, about how she used local news reports and social media to alert the international community to what we now know as COVID-19, in late December 2019.' 

DJ Dahi Unpacks His Spiritual Samples for Pusha T and Kendrick Lamar

'Spinning records backwards was once condemned as satanic. But when DJ Dahi reverses samples — or alters his voice — to produce hits for the likes of Pusha T, Kendrick Lamar or Childish Gambino, it's a ministry of texture and sound.'

In New Film About Gospel Pioneers The Clark Sisters, The Music Comes First

'Director Christine Swanson's new film is about the celebrated Detroit gospel group, The Clark Sisters. She talks to host Rachel Martin about being adamant about casting women who could actually sing.'