The AphroChic Podcast

On Juneteenth 2025, live from Brooklyn, Hip-Hop artist Ace Clark joined us for Sounds Sessions. Joined by Edson Sean, Ace performed his latest album, “It Ain’t All Love,” in its entirety, blending smart insightful lyrics with R&B vocals and smooth instrumentals. A blend of great music and good conversation, we chatted about his life in music, his commitment to mentoring and education and his g...

Arriving in Philadelphia after deejaying in her native New York and Washington D.C., where she was known for a time as “Ebony Moonbeams,” Dyana Williams established the popular radio show “Love on the Menu” for radio station WDAS and later Soulful Sundays for Classix 107.9. The latter show lasting for 12 years before signing off for the last time in 2020. Even with her luminous on-air career, Dyan...

Thavius Beck’s story started in Minneapolis and led him to California, into the Golden age of Los Angeles’ underground Hip-Hop culture through legendary venues like The Good Life, Project Blowed and Low End Theory. Emerging as a respected producer, emcee and electronic music performer, Thavius continued to walk the road laid out for him by his creativity, following it to Brooklyn and a new role as...

Candice Luter is an Iowa-based furniture designer and artist, creating furnishings and accessories for the home that are a perfect balance of beauty and functionality. The latest artist to join the AphroChic Art Shop, Candice is using design as something transformative for herself, while also creating a safe space for women in the furniture design world to work together, build together, and create...

We’re revisiting our summer of 2020 conversation with one of New York’s most prominent chefs, JJ Johnson, that was held on Instagram Live. We discussed the James Beard Award winning chef’s heroic work feeding those in need during lockdown and his focus on developing a creative ecosystem that supports Black farmers, restaurants and consumers. 

Spanish fine art photographer Fares Micue's surreal photographs literally transport the viewer to new worlds. Over the past year, AphroChic has worked on a an exclusive collection with Fares. Created in the Canary Islands as well as featuring images from her latest trip to Korea, we speak with the photographer about the new pieces and the inspiration behind each of them. Read more about our c...

Christa Barfield is the founder of FarmerJawn . The agricultural center in the Philadelphia region is focused on regenerative farming practices and reclaiming the legacy of Black farming. Christa shares her incredible story with us - leaving her job in health care administration and embracing a new perspective that quickly connected her to the social issues that surround Black and Brown communitie...

Haitian-born, New York sculptor Jessica Jean-Baptiste, sits down with us to discuss her practice, her evolution as an artist and her exclusive collection for the AphroChic Art Shop . In the tradition of artists such as Edmonia Lewis, Elizabeth Catlett and Augusta Savage, Baptiste's latest works, The Keisha and Jamal Busts are a celebration of the beauty of Black life and Black bodies. These n...

If you’re a fan of reality cooking shows, chances are you know who Rock Harper is. In 2007 he exploded onto the the public stage as the season 3 winner of Gordon Ramsay’s popular Hell’s Kitchen competition. Since then Rock’s career has flourished, culminating in the opening of Queen Mother’s. But where many of the giants in the chicken game lean on plantation owners and mammy figures to symbolize...

We sit down with Lara Downes, who’s star currently shines in the world of classical music as one of its most innovative figures and most energetic activists. Lara shares the inspiration behind her latest work, Reflections: Scott Joplin Reconsidered , a modern reflection on Joplin’s musical legacy. Along the way we explore her own musical journey, the importance of cultural memory and how the music...

Greg Banks has been bringing music straight to the people through his Concert on the Block series. The series began two years ago, at the start of the pandemic, as Banks’ way of fighting against the darkness and fear we all felt in 2020. Since then, it’s grown beyond his block, taking him around the globe as he uplifts a populous weary of disease and war with music that stirs the soul. We had the...

In the summer of 2020, AphroChic spoke with Janelle Jones on Instagram Live about Black Women's Equal Pay Day, economics, and racial inequality. Janelle is the first African American woman to serve as chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor and is currently the chief economist for Service Employees International Union. Here we present the edited conversation from two years ago in hono...

In the summer of 2020 AphroChic chatted on Instagram Live with Chef Alexander Smalls about his latest book, Meals, Music & Muses and his diverse journey through the worlds of music, food and business. Here we present the edited conversation, where we talked about his journey, which started in rural South Carolina and took him around the world as a celebrated opera singer before bringing him to...

We're sitting down with Ron Frazier, the founder of A Tribe Called Camp, discussing his outdoor lifestyle concept - a movement that encourages Black people to get outside, travel and camp. 

Interdisciplinary artist Fabiola Jean-Louis weaves a narrative that blends past and future, fact and fantasy, afro-futurism and Black girl magic in her photographs and paper sculptures. We sit down with Fabiola to discuss her Re-Writing History series.

AphroChic presents One Story Up, a celebration of the culture of the African Diaspora and the stories that create it. This month we sit down with Nikia Phoenix to discuss modeling, activism, and the journey to self-love. 

Live from Dumbo House in Brooklyn, NY, we celebrate the launch of AphroChic Magazine by sitting down with stylists James Bianca, Donnell Baldwin, Courtney Arrington-Baldwin, and fashion designer Nana Yaa Asare-Boadu, to discuss the culture of the African Diaspora as a major influence on the world of fashion, issues with diversity in the industry and ways to create a more equitable fashion industry...

We sit down with Jerome LaMaar, fashion designer, trend forecaster and futurist, to discuss fashion and futurism. It's a discussion that leads us from his start as a 15-year-old designer for Baby Phat and into Afro-futurism and his groundbreaking showcase, Afri-Collision.  

A talk with filmmaker Adepero Oduye on radical creativity and her groundbreaking film, To Be Free, where Oduye transforms into the legendary Nina Simone. 

Chef Rashad Frazier Highlights a Little Known History Between Black and Japanese Americans Through His Food Concept, Yoshi Jenkins, a Fusion of History, Cultures, and Delicious Bites.