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Education is Elevation — 109 episodes

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George Washington Bought Human Teeth. Obama Calls Him Great. I Got Questions.

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White or Black, Pick One: The Court Cases That Built the Latino Whiteness Pipeline

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The 14th Amendment Was Built for the Freed Slaves, Not Ellis Island

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The First Drag Queen in America Was Born Enslaved — And They're Trying to Erase Him

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They Banned This Pig Drug in 160 Countries. America Said “Pass the Bacon.”

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Juneteenth Proves Black Folks Never Been Free in America For Real

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The American Lawn Is a Colonial Project: Grass, the Dream, and Ecological Collapse

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AT&T Promised Us $10 Million — Then Sold Us Out for a Billion

9

Quare vs. Queer Theory: What E. Patrick Johnson’s Grandmother Knew That the Academy Forgot

10

Two Black Children, Two Verdicts, One Lesson — Breaking Down Karmelo Anthony & Cyrus Carmack-Belton

11

he Man Who Bought the Supreme Court: Leonard Leo, $1.6 Billion, and the Dark Money Maze Explained

12

Before the Binary: How Igbo Women Became Sons, Inherited Land, and Ran Families

13

The Queer African History They Never Taught You: Uganda’s Mudoko Dako, Explained

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Was Homosexuality “Un-African”? The 40+ Societies That Say Otherwise

15

The Emperor Has No Map: Why Greg Abbott’s “Lock” on Texas Is a Lie They Taught You

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From Latasha Harlins to Cyrus Carmack-Belton: The Long History of Anti-Blackness in Black-Asian America

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Are You a Comedian First or a Black Man First? The Kevin Hart Question America Won't Answer

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Imperial Sugar, Convict Leasing, and Why the Reparations Conversation Has to Include Jim Crow

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Reparations Can’t Be Real While Slavery Is Still Legal: A Conversation With Vic Mensa

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The 14th Amendment Was Never Yours: How Citizenship Was Built In Opposition To Black And Native Humanity

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When Mexican Kids Bust a Pinata of Two Flags: Indigenous Solidarity, Settler Colonialism, and What School Won't Teach

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From Plessy to Callais: How the Supreme Court Mastered the Art of Weaponizing Race While Banning Race Consciousness

23

Pissing On Our Leg And Calling It Rain: The Netanyahu Wean-Off Speech, Decoded

24

Iran Was Never Two Weeks Away — Empire Just Needed a New Bedtime Story

25

Cory Booker Jumped on a Table and Lectured Black Content Creators — Then He Tried to Make Sudan a Shield. I Was There.

26

Black Daddies, the School System, and What the Research Actually Says

27

Black Women, HIV, and the Lie of the "Down Low": What the Data Actually Says

28

Liberalism Is a Hell of a Drug: How We Clap for Bezos and Cuss Out the Single Mama on EBT

29

Stephen A. Smith Voted for Kamala, Regretted It, and Got Endorsed by Trump — Now He Wants to Be President

30

When Chickens Come Home to Roost: Why I'm Not Defending Candace Owens From Laura Loomer

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White by Law: Why Italians Weren't White Until the 1940s — And What That Means for Black Folks Today

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The 14th Amendment Is Now a Weapon Against Black Voters

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Mental Health Is Not the Explanation: Intimate Partner Violence, Technofascism, and the Crisis of American Democracy

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Why Black Men Who Slut-Shame Megan Thee Stallion Are Running a Slaveholder's Playbook—And Don't Even Know It

35

Purity Politics Is a Slur for Refusing to Settle: A Leftist Breakdown

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Everton Blair vs. David Scott: Why Georgia's 13th Congressional District Is the Most Important Black Primary in America

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Fox News Ran 5X More Headlines on Trans Policy Than Epstein Files—Here's Why That Matters

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Black Doulas, Maternal Health, and the Erasure We've Never Talked About

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161 Years Later: Virginia Ends Public Funding for Confederate Groups—Why This Matters Now

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A 9th Grader Did What $55 Million in Government Spending Could Not: The Demi Johnson Story

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The Master Teacher Crashed Out: Why KRS-One's Defense of Afrika Bambaataa Is a Betrayal of Hip-Hop's Own Values

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While 850 Anti-LGBTQ Bills Were Filed, Fox News Was Covering for Convicted Predators — The Numbers Don't Lie

43

Festus, Missouri Just Showed America How to Fight Back Against Big Tech

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The Tulsa Race Massacre Was Not a Riot — It Was a Government-Backed Land Grab (And the Receipts Prove It)

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No Kings, No Excuses: From Conservative Hypocrisy to Predator Pipelines — What This Moment Demands of Us

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500 Broken Treaties and No War Was Fought: The Garrison Dam and the Theft of Fort Berthold

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Democracy Was Never Meant for You: The History They Don’t Teach About Who Really Gets to Vote

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The System Is Crumbling: Why Socialism Isn't a Dirty Word — It's the Next Evolution

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“She Was Old Enough to Get It”: How Wanya Morris’s Own Words Exposed the Grooming Playbook

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The Problem With Cory Booker: A 25-Hour Speech, Zero Bills Passed, and a Book Tour

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Plantation Politics Never Left: Machine Politics, Over-Policing, and the Soul of Small-Town Texas

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White Christian Nationalism Is Thriving and Black People Are Being Recruited as Foot Soldiers: The Jaden Ivey Case Study

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Your Grandparents' Neighborhood Was Designed to Exclude Black People. Let's Talk About It.

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Nick Cannon, Amber Rose, and Trump: Why Loving Black Culture Has Never Meant Loving Black People — A Policy Analysis

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Mark Wayne Mullin Has No Security Experience. He Just Got Appointed to Run DHS. Here's What Project 2025 Says He'll Do Next.

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Pissing on Our Legs and Telling Us It’s Raining: The Politics of the Transatlantic Slave Trade Resolution

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Beyond the Master's Tools: How Black Thought Exposes the Hypocrisy of Democracy

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The FBI’s Credible Evidence: What They Found About Donald Trump and a 13-Year-Old Girl

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The Unforgivable Crime: Malcolm X, Black Nationalism, and the Hypocrisy of a Nation That Supports Zionism

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What Iowa Taught Me About American Politics, Black History, and Power

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CEOs as Kings? The Tech Oligarchy Is Telling You Exactly What It Wants

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Iran, Reagan and Crack in The Hood

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ntegration Was Never the Whole Story: Malcolm X, Structural Power, and the Myth of Equality

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"I'm Harder on Obama Than I Am on Trump": Dr. Butch Ware on Black Imperialists

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WORLD WAR EPSTEIN | KRISTI NOPE | 50 Shades of TI

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Iran and Trump not mathing

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Iowa, AI, and the $100 Billion Heist: My Talk with Andrew Yang

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The Stephen A. Smith Fallacy: Why "I Don't See Racism" is a Luxury Black People Can't Afford

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When Allegations Replace Evidence: Due Process, Propaganda, and Power Across Borders Konstantin Rudnev

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"Are we being targeted on social media?" w/ Conscious Lee

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Think Globally, Eat Locally: The Internationalism of the Black Panther Party

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He’s Heard Great Things: On LeBron, Kyrie, and the Danger of Playing It Safe

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Just for Me, Just for Us: The Complicated Legacy of the Box Relaxer

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White People and Weaponized Time

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Trusting Black Women Is a Political Position, Not a Personality Test

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Racial Illiteracy and the Architecture of Whiteness in America

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Bad Bunny, Blackness & the Super Bowl Panic: What People Still Don’t Understand About Culture

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George Conscious Lee and Black History

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Black MAGA loves to Protect Massa Trump!

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Democracy Inherently Flawed or Redeemable??

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Talking with Virginia Congressional Nominee Salaam Bhatti

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What Do Shaboozy and Jeffrey Epstein Have in Common? A Lesson on Settler Colonial Logic

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Whats going on in Minnesota? Update

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ICE, Slavery, and the American Blueprint: Rethinking Domestic State Terror

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Ilhan Omar’s Defiance, Trump’s Hypocrisy, and The Hierarchy of Humanity in U.S. Policy

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Senator Corey Booker Pump Faked Me on Conversation

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The Names We Know, The Names We Don't: ICE, Erasure, and the Interconnected Struggle

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Anti-Intellectualism is Thinking Deeply About Shallow S**t

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Conservative Contradictions: Homoeroticism, State Power, and Attacks on Education Explored

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Unpacking White Supremacy in AI: Culture, Language, and Colonial Origins

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Unpacking Texas History: Slavery, Erasure, and What Schools Leave Out

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Protecting “The Children” — Just Not Those Children

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What will Democrats do??

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Overcoming Judgment: Texas Rep. Jolanda Jones Shares Her Journey as a Black Lesbian Politician

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Whitewashed Riots and Foreign Meddling: America’s Contradictory Legacy Unpacked

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When Celebration Turns to Exploitation: Dissecting Hip Hop’s Place in Corporate America

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Somali talk with a Somali American

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Scams, Selective Outrage, and White Supremacy: From Minnesota to Iran

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Nobody Can Do Everything, But Everybody Can Do Something

100

Who Are Texas Leaders Really Representing? Power, Money, and Foreign Priorities

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White Comfort Zone, JD Vance, AIPAC-Local Politics, Kids Cant Tell Time

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JD Vance Calling Grown Ass White Folks Kids

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Being a Creator Shouldn’t Cost Your Sanity

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They Fear Black History

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What Happens When You Debate the Best?

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Dismantling Federal Education

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Why Shannon Sharpe’s Dating Controversy Isn’t Just ‘Freaky’

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Black Rest Threatens the System (and Why They Fear It)

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Let’s talk about it with Joy Reid