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Education is Elevation — 106 episodes

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

2

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

3

Juneteenth Proves Black Folks Never Been Free in America For Real

4

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

5

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

6

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

7

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

8

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

9

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

10

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

11

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

12

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

13

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

14

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

15

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

16

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

17

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

18

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

19

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

20

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

21

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

22

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

23

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

24

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

25

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

26

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

27

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

28

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

29

The 14th Amendment Is Now a Weapon Against Black Voters

30

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

31

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

32

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

33

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

34

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

35

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

36

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

37

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

38

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

39

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

40

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

41

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

42

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

43

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

44

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

45

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

46

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

47

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

48

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

49

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

50

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

51

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

52

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

53

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

54

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

55

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

56

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

57

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

58

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

59

Iran, Reagan and Crack in The Hood

60

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

61

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

62

WORLD WAR EPSTEIN | KRISTI NOPE | 50 Shades of TI

63

Iran and Trump not mathing

64

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

65

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

66

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

67

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

68

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

69

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

70

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

71

White People and Weaponized Time

72

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

73

Racial Illiteracy and the Architecture of Whiteness in America

74

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

75

George Conscious Lee and Black History

76

Black MAGA loves to Protect Massa Trump!

77

Democracy Inherently Flawed or Redeemable??

78

Talking with Virginia Congressional Nominee Salaam Bhatti

79

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

80

Whats going on in Minnesota? Update

81

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

82

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

83

Senator Corey Booker Pump Faked Me on Conversation

84

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

85

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

86

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

87

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

88

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

89

Protecting “The Children” — Just Not Those Children

90

What will Democrats do??

91

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

92

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

93

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

94

Somali talk with a Somali American

95

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

96

Nobody Can Do Everything, But Everybody Can Do Something

97

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

98

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

99

JD Vance Calling Grown Ass White Folks Kids

100

Being a Creator Shouldn’t Cost Your Sanity

101

They Fear Black History

102

What Happens When You Debate the Best?

103

Dismantling Federal Education

104

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

105

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

106

Let’s talk about it with Joy Reid