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Ayana Explains It All — 107 episodes · page 1 of 2

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Empty Nest, Full Life.
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Bonus Episode: How Charisma Becomes Control
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Why Broke Decisions Quietly Keep Women Stuck
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Cultivating Joy as a Boring Plant Lady
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The Black American Recession
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Kitchen Table Issues and The Affordability Crisis
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Making the Case for Black History Month--STILL
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We Don't Always Do What We're Told

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2025: The Year Courage Chose Me
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Spin Cycle: America's Political Laundry
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The Affordable Healthcare Government Shutdown Postgame
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Cracking the Caste Code
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Recycling Inequality: it's easier than you think.
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Pollution Privilege, Toxic Truths, and Color-Coded Contamination
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The Great American Grievance
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"Are We Resting or Resisting: The Duality of Black Fatigue"
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When Belief Meets Bureaucracy: Zoning, Faith, and Freedom
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After the Fall - How the Democratic Party Lost — And How It Can Rebuild
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'Oh Really?' The Art of Calling Out Baloney
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The Chronicles of an Unelected Bureaucrat: Laugh or Cry?
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He may be your husband, but he ain't ya man.
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Fed Up Talk: Trump, Executive Orders, and the Art of Government Zen
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Social Media v. The Banhammer
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Check out our exciting new Trailer!
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Unpacking 2024's Resilience: The Reality Check that Clears
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Special Bonus Episode: Post-Election Reflections with Jarrett Terrill
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Black and Blue: Post-Election Reflections
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Brains, Ballots, and Bandwidth: Pick Your Fighter
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Injustice Interrupted/Reinstated: The Case of Marcellus "Khalifa" Williams and The Societal Damage of Wrongful Convictions
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Pandermonium: Why Nobody Is Wooing the Black Male Voter

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Not Ready to Make Nice: Ayana's Tornado of Truth

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The 'Silent' Invaders: How Implicit Bias Hijacks Elections

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The SCOTUS Drops the Gavel on the Homeless

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Color Me Skeptical: The Fool's Gold of Race Neutral Policies

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Living Vividly: The ADHD Experience Through Voices featuring Victoria Rashid and Jarrett Terrill

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The Price of Silence: Navigating Free Speech in Academia
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Burning Sins and Suckas
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Jingoism Unchained and Nationalist Velvet

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Rosa Parks' Husband had a Car and Frederick Douglass had a White Wife, Still I Rise
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STOP! In the Name of Self-Love!
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Dr. King's NIGHTMARE
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Who is WE?!
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The Times...They're Not'a Changin'
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The United States and Israel Go Together Real Bad.
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What The He*l are They Doing Over There?

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The Government Sh*t Down

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The EPA Doesn't Clean Up Spills of Toxic Masculinity

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Ayana Explains The Other F Word

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On Issue 1 and The Ohio Republican Party
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On Respectability Politics

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On Protecting Black Women

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Tori Bowie and The Epidemic of US Black Maternal Mortality and Morbidity
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Freshman Diaries
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Ayana Explains Florida's Race Problem
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Ayana Explains Asylum in the Post-Title 42 Era

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Ayana Explains Freshman Year
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Ayana Explains Health Inequity in the US

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Ayana Explains the Decline of the East Cleveland, Ohio Police Department

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Ayana Explains Ramadan: The Re-Explained and Reuploaded
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Ayana Explains the Culture War over Wokeness

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Ayana Explains Why Child Labor is Not Making a Comeback

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Ayana Explains the Train Derailment in East Palestine, Ohio and What it Means for the Future of The US Railway System

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Ayana Explains The Gutting of Public Education in the US

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Ayana Explains Pathological Lying and the Deceptions of George Santos

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Ayana Explains The Racial Bias in Crime Reporting

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Ayana Explains Loss and Grief

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Ayana Explains Why You Should Teach Your Children to Jump
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Ayana Explains Why You Should Ditch Your New Year's Resolutions

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Ayana Explains the Dangers of Hate Speech

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Ayana Explains Healthy Boundaries
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Ayana Explains Why Your Thanksgiving May Look a Little Strange This Year

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Ayana Explains The Problem with Weight Management

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Ayana Explains Why Slavery Is on the 2022 Midterm Ballot

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Ayana Explains The Importance of Voting in Midterm Elections

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Ayana Explains America's Water Crisis
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Ayana Explains The Hysteria Over Hijabs and Hair Bonnets

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Ayana Explains The Killer Queen Reign of Elizabeth, II

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Ayana Explains the Student Loan Forgiveness Plot to Takeover America!

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Ayana Explains Why Critical Thinking Needs to Make a Comeback
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Ayana Explains the United States' 4th Amendment Problem (Warrants, Searches and Seizures, OH MY!)
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Ayana Explains The Keys to Healthy Romantic Relationships

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Ayana Explains the Temerity of White Privilege

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Ayana Explains Why Young People Need a Tool Kit
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Ayana Explains Why it's Tough Being Black and Muslim in the US

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Ayana Explains Why The 4th of July IS CANCELLED.

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Ayana Explains the Toxicity of Traditional Gender Roles

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Ayana Explains PTSD

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Ayana Explains America's Gun Problem

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Ayana Explains What Makes Her Crazy!

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Ayana Explains the Hypocrisy of the Infant Formula Shortage Crisis

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Ayana Explains The Recent Assault on Reproductive Rights in the US
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Ayana Explains What's Ailing Black Men

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Ayana Explains Ohio's Wrongful Conviction Problem
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Ayana Explains the US Black Maternal Health Crisis
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Ayana Explains the Myth of "Protecting Black Women"

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Ayana Explains Ramadan
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The One Where Ayana Explains The Gender Wage Gap and Equal Pay

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Send me your questions!
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E7: Teaser
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The One Where Ayana Explains MICROAGGRESSIONS

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