Versus Mike History (The Series)

This week we get into a few topics such as Michael B Jordan’s Superman project, Revolt’s new music countdown show, Charlemagne’s new talk show, the Kanye listening event and more. Enjoy! Opening Clip  https://twitter.com/theblackdetour/status/1410571379808817152?s=21  Black Spotlight https://theblackdetour.com/19-year-old-hbcu-student-opens-vegan-bakery/ _________________ Sound Selection: Clash -...

This week we touch on Howard University adding more star power to its faculty, Black executives advancing at WarnerMedia & Netflix, and Broadway’s array of plays by Black writers. Enjoy! Opening Clip  N/A  Black Spotlight https://twitter.com/espn/status/1413320250326753280?s=21 _________________ Sound Selection: Sinners - Adekunle Gold, Lucky Daye Podcast Intro by E. Jones Twitter: @vsmikehistory...

This week we touch on creators winning awards such as Katori Hall winning a Pulitzer, a 10 year old starts a doll line to promote positivity in young black boys, Keith Sweat-Bobby Brown Verzuz, and more. Enjoy! Opening Clip  https://www.instagram.com/p/CQk-NLzp5Nx/?utm_medium=copy_link  Black Spotlight https://www.bustle.com/style/soul-caps-afro-hair-swimming-cap-has-been-barred-from-the-olympics/...

This week we get into all the exciting events that took place over the weekend as well as getting into some stories that broke over the week including the BET Awards, the Bow Wow -Soulja Boy Verzuz, Pyer Moss being appointed Creative Director at Reebok, Ciara fighting cervical cancer with new campaign and more. Enjoy!  Opening Clip  n/a   Black Spotlight https://twitter.com/i/events/14093835151419...

This week we recap the festivities surrounding Juneteenth. We cover topics such as Roc A Fella suing Dame Dash, Sha’Carri Richardson’s performance, Naomi Osaka’s decision to withdraw from Wimbledon and more. Enjoy! Opening Clip  https://twitter.com/pplsrevolution_/status/1395021473304260611?s=21  Black Spotlight https://sports.yahoo.com/tokyo-olympics-sha-carri-richardson-dominates-100-m-reveals-b...

This week we have a few things to cover. We get into Pharrell’s private school for low income families, Square donates 1 BTC to Black Bitcoin Billionaires, Teyana Taylor is the first Black woman to be “Sexiest Woman Alive”, and more. Enjoy! Opening Clip  https://twitter.com/naacp_ldf/status/1269785671121752064?s=21  Black Spotlight https://afrotech.com/black-owned-dairy-free-ice-cream Sound Select...

This week we celebrate our Black Spotlight in Simone Biles, as she wins seventh all-around U.S. Gymnastics Championships title. We show love to all the Jersey creatives and touch on topics such as Twitter being banned in Nigeria, Mayweather vs Paul, Issa Rae joining Spiderverse 2 and more. Enjoy! Opening Clip  https://twitter.com/theblackdetour/status/1394283230245933056?s=21  Black Spotlight Simo...

This week we celebrate our Black Spotlight in Auda B, the first Black owned nail polish to be sold in Nordstrom. Additional topics include Newark piloting a $500 a month in pilot income program, Phylicia rashad becoming Dean of fine arts college at Howard University, Joe Budden Podcast Drama & More. Enjoy! Opening Clip https://twitter.com/pplsrevolution_/status/1392737764408545282?s=21 Black Spotl...

This week we celebrate our Black Spotlight in Jeff Badu who is teaching his community financial literacy after being a former gang member. We honor the mothers for Mother’s Day and talk about Master P securing an endorsement for his son, New York restoring voting rights to felons, and OWN’s plans to celebrate Black fathers. Enjoy! Opening Clip https://twitter.com/pplsrevolution_/status/13858243853...

This week we celebrate our Black Spotlight in Andrea Drummer, a Black woman who opened the first weed infused cafe in America. We pay respects to Shock G & MaKhia Bryant. We also touch on the Oscars, Juvenile, and more, enjoy! Opening Clip https://twitter.com/bb_ebe/status/1385505818322341892?s=21 Black Spotlight Andrea Drummer https://afrotech.com/meet-andrea-drummer-the-black-chef-behind-the-fir...

Welcome back! This week we celebrate our Black Spotlight in Bernard Jackson. We talk about the issues of mass shootings being back in style in America, Usher’s new residency, Jaleel White’s new cannabis brand and more. Enjoy! Opening Clip https://twitter.com/pplsrevolution_/status/1321102750739025921?s=21 Black Spotlight Bernard Jackson  Sound Selection: Stucc In The Grind - Nipsey Hussle & Bino R...

Welcome back! This week we celebrate our Black Spotlight in Tishaura Jones. We pay our respects to DMX, get into why Paul Pierce was fired from ESPN, and question Diddy’s open letter to corporate America with new music and television to touch on. Enjoy! Ft. Cecile ( @ cesthegawd ) Opening Clip https://twitter.com/newcuiture/status/1380560600812687365?s=21 Black Spotlight https://www.cnn.com/2021/0...

This week we cover the winners from the latest Grammy Awards, Anita Baker and her fight for her masters, some casting news from Marvel and more. Ces stops by the show to do a tarot reading and a Ramsey stops by to discuss the Zack Snyder’s Justice League. Check out the episode now!  Opening Clip https://twitter.com/pplsrevolution_/status/1368781974186393601?s=21 Black Spotlight https://variety.com...

A conversation with Zay Black.

This week get into Eve’s new tv show, celebrating the Black Golden Globe Winners, Hov selling off Tidal and more. Catch our episode to hear everything we had to chat about this week!  Opening Clip https://www.instagram.com/p/CL3KL4PHxXc/?igshid=1bvrayjhqrh4f Black Spotlight https://www.blackenterprise.com/maia-chaka-makes-nfl-history-as-the-first-black-female-referee/ Sound Selection: Leave The Do...

This week get into Bobby Shmurda coming home, Hov selling 50% of his Ace of Spades champagne company to LVMH, BLM raking in $90M in donations, and more. Catch our episode to hear everything we had to chat about this week!  Opening clip: https://twitter.com/pplsrevolution_/status/1351248875873579011?s=21 Black Spotlight: https://www.blackenterprise.com/21-year-old-howard-university-student-continue...

This week’s episode comes with new changes! We have a new podcast intro and our song of the week gets pushed to the end of the episode. We start our episode leading the love as usual giving a shout out to the Awkabaa Mansion. Our Black Spotlight was reserved for Baldwin & Co., a Black owned bookstore located in New Orleans. Our Off The Topics include the announcement of Dame Dash’s studio relaunch...

A conversation with the Upperclass International boss TwonDon. We discuss the creation of Upperclass International. Getting started with music vs getting started in apparel, where inspiration is drawn from, personal development, and more. Enjoy!

Cheers to episode 50! Press play to hear what's in store for this week's episode.

We open the episode with words from James Baldwin and music from Larry June. We lead with love with shout outs to educators, first responders, and grocery store workers. Our Black Spotlight is a young woman named Dorothy Jean Tillman. We get into topics such as Cicely Tyson passing, the stock market and TI & Tiny. We cover some new music from Brent Fiyas, Rich The Kid, Lil Durk, and more. We get i...

We open with words from Fred Hampton and music from Wale. We lead with love as always and get into our Black Spotlight with Nia Dennis. We then get into a few topics such as the inauguration, the most recent Verzuz battle, and Jay-Z creating opportunities for Black and Latinx in cannabis in California. We wrap with some brief coverage of what was watched over the course of the last week. Enjoy!

We get some words from Dr. Umar and sounds by Boogie to start the episode. We lead with love with a shoutout to Drop Squad Kitchen. We then lead into our Black Spotlight with Naomi Beckwith. Our Off the Topics are brief before we get into music and especially television. Enjoy!

Join us as we sit with Camden, NJ artist Jon Crawford for an in depth interview. Enjoy!

We start the episode with words from MF Doom and get some music from G Herbo. We welcome our listeners into a new year and we lead with love shouting them out. We get into the Black Spotlight of the week (Sen. Warnock), and move into our current events which consist of Flo Milli, Dr. Dre, Monogram's High Tales and the insurrection at the Capitol Building. We then talk about new releases in Jazmine...

In this episode, we sit down with designer and curator nyles to discuss his inspirations in music, his upbringing, the direction of design in today's hip-hop landscape and how we can be more responsible with our art, plus more. Enjoy!