All Shades of Chocolate from The State News

Host Jada Vasser and guest Janae Vasser discuss the emergence of Black directors and actors in the film industry, detailing the struggles and challenges they face as they deal with pay inequality and discrimination from audiences.

Host Jada Vasser and guest Reiel Ghiglia discuss the importance of seeing yourself in different book genres, along with highlighting the importance of Black authors in the space of literature. They also discuss the pertinence of staying up to date with the news, and how book bans target authors of marginalized identities. 

Host Jada Vasser and guest Destinee Alston dive into the importance of representation in the business world and learning about finances. 

On today's episode host Jada Vasser with guest Victoria Winfield, give anecdotes and tips about navigating the party scene at MSU as a Black student including which parties and bars Black students visit based on how welcoming it is. 

Host Jada Vasser, along with reporter Demonte Thomas, dive into Kendrick Lamar’s 2025 Super Bowl performance and pay respect to Michael Jackson’s 1993 performance to emphasize how Black artists use their music as an avenue to challenge society's ideas about how the community is treated.

In this very special installment, the hosts discuss topics from life to love to music with Angel Brooks, former radio personality for 92.7 WDZZ Flint. 

In this episode, Jada, Anthony and Shakyra celebrate spooky season by talking about their favorite horror movie franchises and villains. 

Hosts Jada, Shakyra & Anthony discuss their future travel plans and why traveling is so important to them.

Co-hosts Shakyra, Jada and Anthony delve into their experience in leadership and what they've learned from it.

The hosts delve into the negativity society places on weight, focusing on plus size body types.

In this episode, the hosts express their hopes for the future, discuss the Curious Book Shop story and the importance of DEI.

For us, YouTube has been a impactful platform that has allowed us to grow up with creators on the platform who helped us feel understood and heard as we were growing up, and even still to this day. This week, we wanted to highlight some of our favorite content creators and express how these content creators played a huge part into making us who we are today. 

In celebration of Women's History month, we wanted to shed light on the experiences Black women may face in their everyday lives and the importance of expressing and feeling that "Black is beautiful." 

Our long anticipated interview with Demonte is here!! We learned a ton about him during this interview and we addressed some serious issues as well, hopefully you guys enjoy our episode.

Grab your controllers and your headsets, it's time to play the game (brownie points if you get the WWE reference too). This week, we're gonna talk about all things game related from our favorite gaming systems, favorite gaming franchises and more. 

As we've discussed before on our platform, music has meant a lot to us in our lives. Well this week, we wanted to highlight our own musical backgrounds and the impact our musical backgrounds had on our lives and our musical perspectives. 

Our long-awaited and anticipated tribute episode to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. There's only so much we could say to acknowledge the impact his legacy had on us as Black students, but we tried our best to give him justice and we made sure to give him his flowers. 

One of the best forms of relaxing is binge watching or binge reading. In this episode, hosts Shakyra Mabone, Jada Vasser and Anthony Brinson III will talk about their favorite Black TV shows, movies or books and discuss the impact it had on them growing up or even the impact it still has on them till this day. 

We'll always joke around and we'll always have a laugh, but whether we're joking around or being serious, we will express those things in the best way we know how. The way we speak has many layers to it, and it can be light hearted when referring "Black sayings." For example, "Don't touch nun when we go into this grocery store" or it can become serious when we are trying to be understood when navi...

We're back guys! With the return, hosts Shakyra Mabone, Jada Vasser and Anthony Brinson III have some amazing news to share towards the end of the episode.  We're also going to talk about productivity during this time of the year, overcoming hardships and getting through things the best way we know how. 

We're happy to release the first episode of our "Culture to Culture" series. This series will be us reaching out to people across MSU's campus coming from various ethnic backgrounds. On this week's episode of All Shades of Chocolate, we interviewed Yasmeen "Yazzy" Amjad, and she talks about being a mixed Black woman on campus, her experience as a 5th year senior and more.

We're happy for Dr. Christina Myers to join us once again this week! In this episode, Dr. Myers gives advice on navigating through the field of journalism as a Black woman, talking about the growth of her faith and more during the interview. 

Just like the title says, hosts Shakyra Mabone, Jada Vasser and Anthony Brinson III will talk about some random topics. We discussed things about Black hair and perms, how we prefer to make sandwiches and anything else we thought of. Also, if you get the title reference, you're so cool!

Who doesn't love food? Hosts Shakyra Mabone, Jada Vasser, Anthony Brinson III and guest Elle Fromm dive into their joy of cooking food, its cultural significance, how they grew up with food and the types of dishes they enjoy eating. 

The "King of Pop" and arguably the greatest artist of all time, hosts Jada Vasser, Shakyra Malone and Anthony Brinson III are talking about Michael Jackson and how he became one of their favorite artists ever.