Black etc podcast

New episode w/ Dr. Bobby J. Smith II: blacketcpod.com/episodes/028-bobby-smith

You can find me yapping about writing and my career at the New Orleans Film Festival this Saturday. ✌🏽😇

Friendly reminder : Paris is Burning is free to watch on Tubi! No excuse if you’ve never seen it

Hey folks - this Friday, we're virtually screening MOVE YA BODY: THE BIRTH OF HOUSE, Elegance Bratton's amazing 2025 doc about the Black, queer roots of house music. The film isn't available to stream anywhere, so this is a special chance to catch it - for FREE! ❤ RSVP: intheforeground.org/events

....So, I'm the sibling that hates AI. I'm outchea like Detective Del Spooner except I only wear Adidas, not Converse.

Reminder: I am moderating a Q&A with the great Charles Burnett tomorrow at the Aero Theater after a screening of the newly restored MY BROTHER’S WEDDING. www.americancinematheque.com/now-showing/...

Michael Jordan at Burlington Coat Factory:

Look at the size of that suit!!!!!

i used to wear this whole album on the mile-long walk to campus my first year in the basement apartment in yonkers where my "room" was just an alcove with no door. thus began my lifelong obsession with (most) things sufjan.

Before you see ONCE UPON A TIME IN HARLEM, which is a towering and thrilling work of non-fiction, check out this Greaves documentary from 1968, narrated by Ossie Davis, about the Black middle class. They make a great double feature. youtu.be/nHcusYwUofg?...

Happy Birthday to Teddy Riley! What's your favorite song or album produced by Teddy? #MusicSky

New episode w/ @mike-eagle.bsky.social. We chat about the history & influence of the L.A. hip hop collective Project Blowed, the decline of the working class "everyman" in popular rap, & Black fans' relationship to the underground & mainstream: blacketcpod.com/episodes/027-open-mike-eagle

This one hurts!!! R&B Legend Freddie Jackson has died age age 70.

Full Professor

Peace to @lamour-is-tired.bsky.social for writing this story at Today: today.com/food/news/potlikker-ai-generated-hungry-historian-black-recipes-rcna599895

ICYMI, check out our discussion of "Songs In The Key Of Life" as the world celebrates its 50th anniversary #MusicSky www.youtube.com/live/Vwx7Rdm...

New episode on the history of Black barbershops w/ Dr. Quincy T. Mills: blacketcpod.com/episodes/026-quincy-mills

NEW — This weekend, those interested in Chicago-style steppin’ can partake in what’s sure to be a good time. On Sept. 19, The 35th Annual World’s Largest Steppers Competition will take place at the Tinley Park Convention Center in the south suburb. thetriibe.com/2026/09/the-...

“When I watched it [Ghost Dog] a long time ago there was this feeling where I was like, 'Oh there's this man that lives in an urban environment that wants to follow some kind of ancient code” - Bassam Tariq, @HuffPost Ghost Dog/Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother #sidebyside

Today we remember Frankie Beverly, legendary singer, songwriter, and creative force behind Maze, on the 2nd anniversary of his passing. 🙏🏽🤎

New blog post about the new annual family tradition I started with my wife and her family several years ago: foraging for paw paws and using them to create new recipes: soulfoodetc.com/blog/the-family-paw-paw-hunt-a-new-tradition-based-on-an-old-fruit

Just wanted to note that I should have been addressing her as Dr. J.e. Franklin, as she received an honorary Doctor of Letters from Lehman College in 2024. My apologies to Dr. Franklin.

New episode with producer, writer, critic Patrick L. Riley on the history of the word "diva" to describe Black women icons. blacketcpod.com/episodes/025-patrick-riley

NEW: September is peak pawpaw season in the mid-Atlantic. As @ecwilliams.bsky.social learned, once you start looking for the tropical-tasting fruit, you'll see them everywhere. Here's where to find one for yourself — and why you shouldn't miss the window:

she’s singing on a another dimension now RIP Cassandra Wilson youtu.be/oowxVZEejgU?...

Again. Again. It was just the usual white supremecist double standard the first dozen times. After Arday‘s sad, avoidable tragedy it feels like more than the usual distraction. They want to gaslight us to death. www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...

Bomani is joined by Jason England for the final episode of his Kaepernick retrospective series! They explore whether Kaepernick's action sparked a lasting movement or if it was simply a moment in time, reflect on the public silence Kaepernick maintained after 2017, and more! 📺 youtu.be/kWdQEabUUZo

This whole series reflecting on the Kaepernick saga has been great, but this episode with Jason England was special. There are many parallels to my discussion with him re: the bankrupt "can't knock the hustle" sellout ethos in hiphop & the culture at large: blacketcpod.com/episodes/020-jason-england

I spoke with J.e. Franklin, the writer of the original "Black Girl" stage play, about this film & how it differed from her vision. blacketcpod.com/episodes/013-je-franklin

New episode with artist and scholar Dr. Paulette Richards. We explore the African roots of Black object performance and puppetry in the U.S.: blacketcpod.com/episodes/024-paulette-richards

Anyone here a fan of harvesting pawpaw fruit in and around DC? Where do you find them? And are there restaurants, shops, or pop-ups where you can find them on menus? Let me know!

…If you grow up watching Black affairs programming in your home seeing people like James Baldwin, Angela Davis, Nikki Giovanni, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, etc. and hearing MLK Jr., Malcolm X, Fred Hampton, Stokely Carmichael, etc. speeches in the music you listen to? You’re better prepared for advocacy

In 1976, The Isley Brothers struck gold once again with "Harvest For The World", a socially conscious album with two of the band's biggest ballads thrown in for good measure. For our Friday live show, we discussed the impact of "Harvest For The World" #MusicSky www.youtube.com/live/UTO7EWx...

I def am going to keep writing pieces in this note taking style. It’s rather fun to write and structure. I’ll be posting one on IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT soon. A lot of thoughts bubbled up after a rewatch about the psychological costs of so-called black excellence and the legacy of Poitier.

This summer, Black scholars in THE NEW YORK TIMES and THE ATLANTIC have become spectacles. Meanwhile, white mediocrity remains OUT of the spotlight. Notice that and save your sanity! www.korithamitchell.com/seeing-black...

New ep. w/ geographer and U. Kentucky Associate Professor, Dr. Priscilla McCutcheon: blacketcpod.com/episodes/023-priscilla-mccutcheon

There are so many incredible Black scholars in academia who have produced theoretically powerful, methodologically rigorous work & yet publications are desperate to give attention to one who has decided to leverage his grievance agenda into a career. Please learn from Black scholars doing the work

Trib Ed board deciding how to react to young people downtown

New episode with Pittsburgh jazz bassist, professor, and music educator Paul Thompson: blacketcpod.com/episodes/022-paul-thompson

man, jason is my nigga for real. a solid, solid cat. thanks for sharing this.

This piece is so on point. Jason England & I discussed this very thing (Jay-Z & other rappers as avatars for sellout values) a couple weeks ago: blacketcpod.com/episodes/020-jason-england