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Ayana Explains It All — 102 episodes

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Title
1

Kitchen Table Issues and The Affordability Crisis

2

Making the Case for Black History Month--STILL

3

We Don't Always Do What We're Told

4

2025: The Year Courage Chose Me

5

Spin Cycle: America's Political Laundry

6

The Affordable Healthcare Government Shutdown Postgame

7

Cracking the Caste Code

8

Recycling Inequality: it's easier than you think.

9

Pollution Privilege, Toxic Truths, and Color-Coded Contamination

10

The Great American Grievance

11

"Are We Resting or Resisting: The Duality of Black Fatigue"

12

When Belief Meets Bureaucracy: Zoning, Faith, and Freedom

13

After the Fall - How the Democratic Party Lost — And How It Can Rebuild

14

'Oh Really?' The Art of Calling Out Baloney

15

The Chronicles of an Unelected Bureaucrat: Laugh or Cry?

16

He may be your husband, but he ain't ya man.

17

Fed Up Talk: Trump, Executive Orders, and the Art of Government Zen

18

Social Media v. The Banhammer

19

Check out our exciting new Trailer!

20

Unpacking 2024's Resilience: The Reality Check that Clears

21

Special Bonus Episode: Post-Election Reflections with Jarrett Terrill

22

Black and Blue: Post-Election Reflections

23

Brains, Ballots, and Bandwidth: Pick Your Fighter

24

Injustice Interrupted/Reinstated: The Case of Marcellus "Khalifa" Williams and The Societal Damage of Wrongful Convictions

25

Pandermonium: Why Nobody Is Wooing the Black Male Voter

26

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

27

The 'Silent' Invaders: How Implicit Bias Hijacks Elections

28

The SCOTUS Drops the Gavel on the Homeless

29

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

30

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

31

The Price of Silence: Navigating Free Speech in Academia

32

Burning Sins and Suckas

33

Jingoism Unchained and Nationalist Velvet

34

Rosa Parks' Husband had a Car and Frederick Douglass had a White Wife, Still I Rise

35

STOP! In the Name of Self-Love!

36

Dr. King's NIGHTMARE

37

Who is WE?!

38

The Times...They're Not'a Changin'

39

The United States and Israel Go Together Real Bad.

40

What The He*l are They Doing Over There?

41

The Government Sh*t Down

42

The EPA Doesn't Clean Up Spills of Toxic Masculinity

43

Ayana Explains The Other F Word

44

On Issue 1 and The Ohio Republican Party

45

On Respectability Politics

46

On Protecting Black Women

47

Tori Bowie and The Epidemic of US Black Maternal Mortality and Morbidity

48

Freshman Diaries

49

Ayana Explains Florida's Race Problem

50

Ayana Explains Asylum in the Post-Title 42 Era

51

Ayana Explains Freshman Year

52

Ayana Explains Health Inequity in the US

53

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

54

Ayana Explains Ramadan: The Re-Explained and Reuploaded

55

Ayana Explains the Culture War over Wokeness

56

Ayana Explains Why Child Labor is Not Making a Comeback

57

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

58

Ayana Explains The Gutting of Public Education in the US

59

Ayana Explains Pathological Lying and the Deceptions of George Santos

60

Ayana Explains The Racial Bias in Crime Reporting

61

Ayana Explains Loss and Grief

62

Ayana Explains Why You Should Teach Your Children to Jump

63

Ayana Explains Why You Should Ditch Your New Year's Resolutions

64

Ayana Explains the Dangers of Hate Speech

65

Ayana Explains Healthy Boundaries

66

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

67

Ayana Explains The Problem with Weight Management

68

Ayana Explains Why Slavery Is on the 2022 Midterm Ballot

69

Ayana Explains The Importance of Voting in Midterm Elections

70

Ayana Explains America's Water Crisis

71

Ayana Explains The Hysteria Over Hijabs and Hair Bonnets

72

Ayana Explains The Killer Queen Reign of Elizabeth, II

73

Ayana Explains the Student Loan Forgiveness Plot to Takeover America!

74

Ayana Explains Why Critical Thinking Needs to Make a Comeback

75

Ayana Explains the United States' 4th Amendment Problem (Warrants, Searches and Seizures, OH MY!)

76

Ayana Explains The Keys to Healthy Romantic Relationships

77

Ayana Explains the Temerity of White Privilege

78

Ayana Explains Why Young People Need a Tool Kit

79

Ayana Explains Why it's Tough Being Black and Muslim in the US

80

Ayana Explains Why The 4th of July IS CANCELLED.

81

Ayana Explains the Toxicity of Traditional Gender Roles

82

Ayana Explains PTSD

83

Ayana Explains America's Gun Problem

84

Ayana Explains What Makes Her Crazy!

85

Ayana Explains the Hypocrisy of the Infant Formula Shortage Crisis

86

Ayana Explains The Recent Assault on Reproductive Rights in the US

87

Ayana Explains What's Ailing Black Men

88

Ayana Explains Ohio's Wrongful Conviction Problem

89

Ayana Explains the US Black Maternal Health Crisis

90

Ayana Explains the Myth of "Protecting Black Women"

91

Ayana Explains Ramadan

92

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

93

Send me your questions!

94

E7: Teaser

95

The One Where Ayana Explains MICROAGGRESSIONS

96

E6: A Microaggressions Teaser

97

The One Where Ayana Explains Empathy

98

The One Where Ayana Explains Narcissism

99

The One Where Ayana Explains Codependency

100

The One Where Ayana Explains Why Muslims Do Not Celebrate Valentine's Day.

101

Ayana Explains It All (Trailer)

102

An Introduction