On this week’s podcast, Nicole, Jamelle, Monica and G.D. sit around an actual dinner table to discuss some depressing new stats about the academic woes of black boys. They also try to make sense of some high-profile attempts to regulate food purchases (including a push to forbade people on government assistance from buying soda, a Read More
What’s good, everybody? On this week’s podcast, Jamelle, Monica and Nicole discuss Juan Williams‘s firing from NPR and a new viral video by Baracka Flocka Flame, before trying to make sense of hipsters. (When you listen to that last bit, you’ll hear them coming to certain begrudging self-realizations.) PostBourgie: The Podcast – #11: Hard in Read More
Apologies for the delay on this week’s podcast. There were a grip of technical issues we had to straighten out. But without further ado… This week, Jamelle, Nicole, Joel and Monica discuss the reaction to Inez Sainz‘s reports of sexual harassment, the surprising D.C. mayoral primary and its implications, and why (or whether) black folks Read More
PostBourgie: The Podcast #9: The Notorious B.M.I. This week, Shani, Jamelle, Monica and Nicole discuss Monica’s controversial post on the body mass index at Feministe, Jamelle’s much-discussed review of Markos Moulitsas‘s book, American Taliban, and then they try to figure out why POTUS’s casual gear is so sorry.
PostBourgie: The Podcast #8: N-word, Please! In this week’s podcast, Monica, Joel and Jamelle discuss the way people misunderstand culture and poverty, “emerging adulthood,” and Dr. Laura’s hilarisad use of the n-word on her radio show. Key Links: A Daily Dish reader blames the disparate life outcomes between blacks and whites on a dysfunctional culture, Read More
PostBourgie: The Podcast #7: The CBC, Ground Zero and Prop 8. Shani, Joel and Monica discuss the corruption investigations of several prominent black lawmakers, The “Ground Zero Mosque,” and the repeal of California’s ban on same-sex marriage. Key Links: Charlie Rangel: List of Charges. (CBS) Ethics Panel Outlines Charges Against Waters. (NYT) The Problem With Read More
What up, my mulattoes? On this week’s rollicking podcast, Monica, Joel and I discuss Arizona’s new immigration law, Thomas Chatterton Williams’s head-scratcher of an essay on Obama, Drake and the evils of hip-hop, and Stephanie Grace, the Harvard 3L whose racist e-mail set the Internet on fire over the past week. PostBourgie: The Podcast – Read More
PostBourgie: The Podcast, Episode 5: “Dirty South.” Monica, Jamelle and G.D. talk about Virginia’s resurrection of Confederate History Month, the new health care law’s bolstering of abstinence-only education funding, and the unkillable idea of “acting white.” “How Is It That We Hear the Loudest Yelps for Liberty Among the Drivers of Negroes?” Stop Speaking in Read More
