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A Pod Called Quest
by Christian Davenport
A Pod Called Quest is a podcast taking on everything that people concerned about injustice care about from the wealth gap to voting rights, to police brutality, to reparations, to health and well-being, to climate change, to state repression and much more. Sage and Science want listeners to think with them about problems of injustice, just futures, and evidence-based solutions. Derrick Darby (aka Sage) is a philosopher. Christian Davenport (aka Science) is a political scientist and sociologist. Join our quest to impose logic as well as data on the struggle for justice in America and globally. Give us your time, we give you power, wealth, and culture.
Episodes
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Episode 12 – A Pod Called Quest Goes to Dartmouth
Young people have been on the frontlines of social justice movements – from the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee of years past to the Black Lives Matter movement of today. They have taken to the streets, the podiums, and to twitter in protests demanding freedom, justice, equality and…
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Episode 11 – Baby Archie, Royal Racism, and British/American Imperialism
Allegations of racism in the British royal family made big news. Meagan Markle told Oprah that royals expressed concerned about what color baby Archie would be. Royal racism is only a surprise if we forget the United Kingdom’s imperial past, a past that was shaped by different kinds of violence –...
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Episode 10 – Two Types of Violence: Political and Economic
The second impeachment of Donald Trump puts political violence in the spotlight. What is political violence? What are examples? Many black voters are wondering whether the Biden administration will support a reparations bill. The debate will highlight historical and contemporary political…
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Episode 9 – What’s a Just Future in America? The Equity Trap and the 13%ers
Biden is President and racial equity is at the top of his agenda. He wants to deliver the goods to the black community. He wants to move America to a just future. But we need to ask what this means. And we need to ask how we get there. Who are the 13%ers? What trap have they fallen in? How can we...
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Episode 8 - Arrest the President? Rappers already said this already, just rewind the tape, but what now?
For Episode 8, A Pod Called Quest takes up Trump’s seditious insurrection. Nearly 160 million Americans voted, Black women leaders and rappers turned Georgia from red to blue and secured the popular vote and Electoral College for Biden and the U.S. Senate for Democrats while the biggest loser…
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Episode 7 – It takes a nation of millions to hold us back, but does it take 20+ rappers and strippers to save democracy and set us free?
For Episode 7, A Pod Called Quest takes up the role of hip hop culture in democratic politics. The Atlanta hip hop community has been politicking hard: Jeezy and Gucci Mane got ready for a Verzuz battle at Magic City strip club as Stacey Abrams popped into the club on the big screen encouraging…
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Episode 6 – Will Blacks Finally Get Reparations During Biden’s Presidency and, If so, How Will it Matter?
For Episode 6, A Pod Called Quest takes on black reparations. The murder of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and so many other black people that spurred a national and international reckoning with systemic racism and racialized violence has many people wondering whether the time for black…
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Episode 5 – Biden's Transition to Power: Agency Review Teams, Who's at the Table? Who's not and What this says about the need for a Movement of Movements.
For Episode 5, A Pod Called Quest takes a hard look at the role of agency review teams in Biden's transition to the White House. Now that the votes are in, and he has won the election, it's time to build his governing infrastructure. He got nearly 79 million votes (and counting). He campaigned on...
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Episode 4 - Georgia on Our Mind: Du Bois, AOC, Lowering the Race-First Flag, and Politics without Labels
For Episode 4, A Pod Called Quest uncovers Georgia's dark past, shedding light on W. E. B. Du Bois's insights about why it has as much to do with wealth as with race, and asks whether it's time to lower the race-first flag, eschew politics with labels (right v. left, red staters v. blue staters,...
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Episode 3 - The Election, the Policing of Black Politics and how W. E. B. Du Bois's Darkwater provides the answer
For Episode 3, A Pod Called Quest will work on putting together the plan forward identifying who and what needs to be protested against, lobbied, sued, oped-ed, petitioned, discussed and taught. Where should we look for a solution? We look at W. E. B. Du Bois's Darkwater: Voice from within the...
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Episode 2 - The election/coup/revolution/sham of 2020 & the Future of American Democracy
In this episode, we try to understand what is about to happen next week at election time, how we should try to explore it systematically as well as try to figure out what all this means for the democracy of the United States
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Episode 1 - The Contract with or on Black America
For Episode 1 A Pod Called Quest jumped right into the controversy surrounding the rapper/writer/producer/cultural critic Ice Cube and his Contract with America. Cube argued that Black folk had been given a relatively raw deal from America and that they needed to find some way to improve that...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
A Pod Called Quest is a podcast taking on everything that people concerned about injustice care about from the wealth gap to voting rights, to police brutality, to reparations, to health and well-being, to climate change, to state repression and much more. Sage and Science want listeners to think with them about problems of injustice, just futures, and evidence-based solutions. Derrick Darby (aka Sage) is a philosopher. Christian Davenport (aka Science) is a political scientist and sociologist. Join our quest to impose logic as well as data on the struggle for justice in America and globally. Give us your time, we give you power, wealth, and culture.
HOSTED BY
Christian Davenport
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A Pod Called Quest is a podcast taking on everything that people concerned about injustice care about from the wealth gap to voting rights, to police brutality, to reparations, to health and well-being, to climate change, to state repression and much more. Sage and Science want listeners to think...
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A Pod Called Quest is created and hosted by Christian Davenport.
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