In this episode we discuss race, police brutality, Black Lives Matter, Hoarding Intellectual Property, The Overuse of the term Duboisian Scholars and Dr. Ray's amazing life growing up in Memphis and the ATL.

Why Do the  Police Kill Us With Impunity Episode? ft. Dr. Rashawn Ray, Professor, Univ of Maryland

The episode was a long time in the making. Straight outta Greensboro, NC, 1/3 of the incredible Hip Hop group Lil Brother, 1/2 of Foreign Exchange we bring to you Phonte'. We chop it up about his early career and current relationship with Lil Brother, birthing the current wave of rap singers (who can sing), his forray into the TV screen as a actor, writer, producer and gives game on relationship perspectives. This is one for the digital books for sure. Tigallo Tigallo! 

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The Phonte Episode

In this episode we have Atlanta's own Jeezy in the building dropping gems about his life and career. This is the episode everyone has been asking for and we finally did it. Also in the studio we have the educated and beautiful sister Sofi Green (@IAMSOFIGREEN)filling in as special guest host. This is the episode you sit back and light one too.

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The Jeezy Episode

In this episode Howard University Professor Dr. Bahiyyah Muhammad takes a seat at the table to discuss her work with children of incarcerated parents, the coloring book she created for children of incarcerated parents and the Inside Out Programs she teaches at the DC Jail (one student in her class happens to be returning student Nick Cannon), New Beginnings Juvenile Detention Center and with the Baltimore Police Department. We also engage in a unfiltered uncensored and heated debate about the Nas track Second Childhood. The realest episode we've recorded thus far.

Children of Mass Incarceration Episode ft. Howard University Professor  Dr. Bahiyyah Muhammad

In this episode we chop it with DC Native from the legendary Hanover Place, Tony Lewis Jr, about his incredible autobiographical book Slugg: A Boy's Life in the Age of Mass Incarceration. For those who do not know, Tony is the son of Tony Lewis Sr, a legendary hustler on the streets of DC who is now incarcerated for life in federal prison. At a young age, Tony experienced his father getting sentenced to life, an event which totally altered his life as a boy growing up in DC's Hanover Place. While he could have followed his father's footsteps and their were many challenges along the way, which we discuss in-depth in this episode, Tony eventually became an advocate against mass incarceration and his committed himself to assisting people coming out of prison and getting young buls to putting the guns down. We cover everything in this episode: children of incarcerated parents, parenting, uncles, social fathers, mental health, mass incarceration, hustling, gun violence, DC's rapid gentrification and the impact of crack on DC neighborhoods/families, Black masculinity, and more. Once again Good Wine and Good people make good conversation. His book is a classic and is a must read for everyone to understand how mass incarceration affects the lives of children told through the lens of someone who experienced it.

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Slugg: A Boy's Life in the Age of Mass Incarceration ft. Author & Activist Tony Lewis Jr

In this episode, we go to therapy with Psychotherapist Edward McCurty about how men and Black men in particular deal and cope with their mental health. We discuss topics often not discussed among Black men such as suicide, depression, stress and the effects of it on your body, intergenerational historical and violent trauma, PTSD, self-medicating, addiction, help seeking behaviors, social support, the role of the spirituality and the church in mental health and coping mechanisms to deal with the day to day stress we experience as men. On the low Edward took us to therapy and we didn't even know it. We tackle the issue of mental health and men head on in an open and honest conversation that could be fruitful and helpful for my brothers because we often suffer in silence but going to therapy is cool no shame in that and we explain why and how you can get better. Oh yeah and why does our therapist Edward McCurty actually remind us of the the Therapist Dr. Siri Sat Nam Singh from Vice same height cool beard cool clothes and demeanor that's crazy.

The Therapist: Black Men & Mental Health Episode ft. Psychotherapist Edward McCurty

This podcast is dedicated to the unsung  working class intellectuals from my neighborhood in Philadelphia, the school teachers, store owners, construction and postal workers, janitors, bus and truck drivers, cops, firefighters, babysitters, musicians, artists, first generation college students, ball players, coaches, hustlers, killers, addicts, gamblers, thieves, petty criminals, pimps, prostitutes, and old heads who provided the most insightful and revolutionary commentary on how the world really works.

The Therapist: Black Men & Mental Health Episode ft. Psychotherapist Edward McCurty

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