Uncertain with DL Hughley

Ben Crump brings new evidence in the Nolan Wells case—and D.L. Hughley has one question: HOW MANY ANSWERS DOES THIS FAMILY HAVE TO FIND THEMSELVES? New cellphone findings. Unanswered autopsy questions. A family still fighting to understand how their son died. In Episode 48 of UNCERTAIN, D.L. takes on the evidence presented by Ben Crump’s team—and challenges whether authorities have done enough to...

Macklemore was dropped from Ed Sheeran’s tour—and then every remaining supporting act walked away. Ed says it was the promoters. Macklemore points to billionaire Patriots owner Robert Kraft and powerful venue owners. D.L. Hughley follows the money, the pressure and the excuses to ask the question nobody wants to answer: When billionaires control the buildings, do they also get to control who speak...

Lindsey Clancy admitted to killing her three children. Her trial ended without a verdict after 11 jurors reportedly believed she should be found not criminally responsible because of mental illness. Now women across the country are rallying around her—seeing a mother failed by the mental-health system rather than simply a defendant accused of an unthinkable crime. But D.L. Hughley asks the questio...

In Episode 41 of Uncertain, D.L. Hughley connects the dots between Medicaid cuts threatening working families, Louisiana criminalizing homelessness, attacks on public education, and politicians using culture wars to distract voters from policies hurting their own communities. This isn’t just politics. It’s healthcare disappearing, poverty becoming a crime, and vulnerable Americans paying the price...

Why has attacking Black women become everybody’s favorite pastime? Laura Loomer launched a racist tirade against Angie Nixon, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and other powerful Black women. Brandon Tatum went after Michelle Obama’s appearance—and dragged DL Hughley’s wife into it. Different messengers. Same tired target. DL breaks down the ugly pattern behind these attacks: Black women are mocked when they...

Black women warned Target. We organized. We boycotted. We took our money elsewhere. Target still refused to hear us—and now the same company that gutted DEI somehow approved a children’s costume evoking blackface and minstrel imagery. That wasn’t one person’s “mistake.” That costume passed through design, marketing, photography, merchandising, legal and corporate approval—and apparently nobody in...

Brandon Tatum called Michelle Obama ugly—and DL Hughley is about to give him all the smoke and show him what ugly really looks like: desperation, hypocrisy, and begging for white approval in public. In Episode 38 of Uncertain, DL tears into Tatum’s obsession with attacking Black people for applause, then turns to Stephen A. Smith, who says his critics still haven’t produced the “receipts.” Oh, the...

The military is dealing with turmoil. ICE keeps pushing the limits. The DOJ is facing questions over wrongful investigations. Public-health concerns are resurfacing. Thousands of Ethiopians could lose deportation protections. And overseas, Iran and the Strait of Hormuz are adding another potentially explosive problem to the pile. This week on UNCERTAIN, DL Hughley looks at the growing trail of Tru...

Stephen A. Smith is furious after the NABJ called out what it says is his recurring pattern of disparaging prominent Black women. But DL has a question: Where was all this smoke when Donald Trump came for YOU? And Stephen A. running to Sean Hannity to complain about Black journalists? Oh, DL has something to say about THAT. From Serena Williams, Kamala Harris, Jasmine Crockett and Joy Reid to his...

This week on Uncertain, DL Hughley opens the mailbag — and then closes the beaches. After the death of Nolan Wells on Horn Island and a summer of Black men turning up in trees and rivers with "no foul play suspected," DL makes the case nobody wants to say out loud: part of Jim Crow had a point. Marriage? Fine. Family reunions? Fine. But no swimming, no camping, no hiking — because we never lose wh...

America turned 250 and celebrated the only way it knows how: a few hundred masked white nationalists riding the Metro to the Capitol. DL breaks down white supremacy on a budget — racists take the train too — why you can't tell the Patriot Front from the ICE agents (they shop at the same store, and they mask up for the same reason), and the cosmic karma of MAGA families sheltering from the storm in...

DL is back and nobody is safe — not the Black Trump supporter who cornered him at a Chicago bus stop (and missed his bus AND the point), not Clarence Thomas, who DL calls “the Stephen A. Smith of the Supreme Court” after his 91-page dissent in the birthright citizenship ruling, and definitely not Megyn Kelly, who claims “we built this country” when her family didn’t clear customs until the party w...

In this episode of Uncertain, DL Hughley opens on a president who started a war but can't clean a pool — the vandalized reflecting pool, the peroxide, and what it says that the country swearing it can beat Iran can't beat algae — before getting into the "two Americas" gap between the detective who called DL back about a storage locker and the bank fraud nobody ever called Alex about. From there DL...

In this episode of Uncertain, DL Hughley spends Father's Day making the case nobody wants to hear: every time somebody asks "where are the Black fathers at," the answer is Jalen Brunson winning a Knicks championship with his own father right beside him. From Jeff Metcalf's comments about Black dads to Boomer Esiason and the "respect the office" crowd, the Karmelo Anthony verdict and what "stand yo...

DL Hughley is back, and this week the Temu Trump came for LA — and LA said no. DL breaks down Karen Bass's primary win over Spencer Pratt, why Los Angeles was never going to elect a mayor named Spencer, and how a city bigger than 40 states became the target of a DOJ investigation for counting too slow. Plus: the homelessness money nobody can find, who's really stealing it (hint: it ain't poor peop...

DL's back in New York at Gotham Podcast Studio — a wall of liquor, a Knicks/Spurs/Giants debate nobody asked for, an Odell Beckham story that ended the second money came up, and Alex catching strays over a dude-wipe ad. Plus a shout-out to Jay-Z for still being slick, still relevant, and still holding onto all that hair. Then the heavier stuff: one last word on the Kevin Hart roast — Gary Owen, Jo...

In this episode of Uncertain, DL Hughley pours one out for Rob Base before getting into the most contentious writers' room the show has ever had. Two weeks in, the panel still can't let go of the Kevin Hart Roast, and DL stakes out the unpopular ground: a comedian should never apologize for a joke, let alone one he didn't tell. But Jasmine, Austin, and Alex aren't having it — if Hart cut 18 jokes...

In this episode of Uncertain, DL Hughley pays tribute to Barney Frank — the first openly gay congressman, a Freedom Summer volunteer, and a civil rights champion whose passing marks the end of an era — before turning to the death of Mark Fuhrman and what his career revealed about the LAPD, the most deadly police department in the country. From a sheriff's department gang that recruits from the Sou...

In this episode of Uncertain, DL Hughley unpacks the Kevin Hart Netflix Roast and why putting Tony Hinchcliffe on stage to tell a seven-year-old George Floyd joke wasn't edgy — it was the plan. DL breaks down how the original Dean Martin roasts came from people who actually liked each other, how the MAGA crowd that called for Jimmy Kimmel's head over a Charlie Kirk joke suddenly discovered free sp...

In this episode of Uncertain, DL Hughley and the crew break down why Spirit Airlines might be the purest reflection of modern America: chaotic, underfunded, loud, and somehow still functioning. From “you get there when you get there” customer service to aisle fights, baggage fees, and airport survival stories, DL explains why flying Spirit feels less like air travel and more like entering a televi...

In this episode of Uncertain, DL Hughley borrows from Napoleon to diagnose what's wrong with this White House: there are no bad soldiers, only bad officers. And right now, the officers are cosplaying. DL breaks down Pete Hegseth running a war he can barely wear the uniform for, JD Vance lecturing the Pope, Linda McMahon bringing WWE energy to the Department of Education, and Kristi Noem getting wa...

In this episode of Uncertain, DL Hughley breaks down why political violence isn't a glitch in the American system—it's the operating system. From Andrew Jackson getting jumped on the Capitol steps to the 13 attempts on Obama's life, DL takes you through a history this country tries hard to forget. He gets into King Charles coming to America to give us a civics lesson on a Constitution this adminis...

On this episode of Uncertain, DL Hughley breaks down Tucker Carlson’s sudden apology—and why the only people surprised by Trump were the ones who wanted to be. Then it goes off the rails. From Trump’s reported attempt to access nuclear codes to the DOJ trying to drop charges against Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, DL dives into what happens when power protects itself. The crew also gets into Kash Pat...

On this episode of Uncertain with DL Hughley, DL breaks down Trump’s viral “Fake Jesus” moment—and why MAGA drawing the line at a cartoon says everything about where we are right now. DL gets into what Jesus actually looked like, what he actually stood for, and why Trump couldn’t be further from either. Then the conversation takes a serious turn. DL dives into the escalating conflict with Iran—why...

In this episode we break down Donald Trump’s shocking Easter meltdown and the escalating conflict with Iran—including the threat that stunned the world and the fragile ceasefire that followed. DL dives into what the U.S. actually gained (or didn’t), the dangerous rise of misinformation, and why America might be looking more like a rogue nation than a global leader. We also get into Tucker Carlson...