BLKFLA Podcast

Our hosts, Chanae Jackson and Jamal STEELE, bring to you a SPECIAL EPISODE where we weigh in on the past week's decisions of the United States Supreme Court on Birthright Citizenship and how it effects the political landscape here in the state of Florida as we head in to a CRUCIAL election season.

The Power of the Black Press Jamal Steele The Black press has been a long-standing tradition of ensuring that our stories are told with the delicacy and authenticity that we deserve. In this current era of resistance we are in, this administration from a Federal and Statewide perspective is disrespecting, condemning, and outright ostracizing our stories and our presence in media spaces. How do we...

On this episode of BLKFLA, we begin a pivotal series for our podcast entitled "Allow Me To Introduce..." where we have honest, in depth conversations with candidates running in this year's election cycle on the State and municipal level, as we feel it's important to shine light on many of the candidates that may not get as much love on the mainstream cycle. For our first episode of this new series...

Legislative Session is OVER in the state of Florida... Or is it. I mean, Florida will ALWAYS be Florida, so we brought State Representative Michele Rayner and State Senator Shevrin Jones to help us make sense of it all. Florida has it's own State SAVE Act, yet we don't have a State budget for this year. Oh yeah, AND there's still this mess of MID DECADE REDISTRICTING! Join Jamal STEELE, Rhyane Wag...

On this episode of BLKFLA: The Podcast, our hosts Jamal STEELE and Rhyane Wagner dig deep into the importance of local and municipal politics with Sean Shaw, who ran for Hillsborough County Commission in 2024, and newly re-elected Commissioner Shan Rose, District 5 of the City of Orlando, FL. It was an amazing time as we dive deep into why your city council, county commission, and many other munic...

We are in the middle of the longest government shutdown this country has experienced, which has caused 42 million Americans to lose SNAP benefits, which includes 3.5 million Floridians without access to funds for FOOD. Instead, our state Legislature wants to use this opportunity to possibly gerrymander our already egregious congressional map to gain an even more unfair advantage for this administr...

Jesus Is Blk Jamal Steele, Anthony Davis, Tyler Burns It's THE RETURN of BLKFLA! Before we dig deep into our political bag, we have to set the atmosphere right. Pastor Anthony Davis and Pastor G Tyler Burns join us for an in depth conversation on how the destructive force of using Christ as a weapon of White supremacy is damaging our country and what we can do to fight back to show how Jesus is Bl...

On this episode of BLKFLA, we invite Ieshia Williams, Neuteyshe Felizor, Jenay Green, and Jonathan Garrett Green to join our hosts, Natasha Sutherland and Jamil Davis, for an in-depth conversation on why Black women are never dealt the same protection, empathy, and grace as other folk when they face abuse, neglect, and trauma in their lives. It's BLKFLA!! LET'S TAP INTO IT.

Our podcast prides itself as being THE INTERSECTION OF BLACK POLITICS AND BLACK CULTURE and THIS FILM EMBODIES THAT PERFECTLY. Currently sitting at $122 million domestically, 161 million internationally, Sinners, directed by Ryan Coogler and starring Michael B. Jordan is a CULTURAL EVENT FOR ALL THE RIGHT REASONS. On this episode, our hosts, Jamil Davis and DJ Hale, bring Rhyane Wagner and Dwight...

On the first episode of the #TeamBLKFLA era, Jamal STEELE and Natasha Sutherland dig deep into the 60 days that can change the course of the State of Florida: Legislative Session. State Representative Angie Nixon, State Representative Michele K. Rayner, and State Senator Shevrin Jones join us as we break down key pieces of legislation, issues that affect our folk, and how we engage the community a...

Before we begin, we have to reflect. So, DJ Hale and Jamal STEELE brought a few friends for the ride. Join us along with our friends State Representative Angie Nixon, Natasha Sutherland of Florida Watch, Dwight Bullard of Florida Rising, and Rhyane Wagner of Black Voters Matter to see HOW EVERYONE IS DOING AFTER A ROLLER COASTER OF AN ELECTION and the beginning of THE FINAL SEASON OF AMERICA. We g...

A Colonial settler occupation that has spanned DECADES. Multiple countries that are complicit in the destruction of a people indigenous to the land. Billions spent for the benefit of maintaining this experiment, which is the state of Israel. Media is used to control the false narrative of the actions taking place. But, as we begin our "What We Talm Bout" series for the second half of the season, w...

So... Former President Donald Trump was almost assassinated. Current President Joe Biden has decided to resign from seeking re-election. The RNC was chaos, and in two weeks, the DNC could look to be the biggest brokered convention of our lifetime. So, what do we do? WE RETURN EARLY. On the FIRST EPISODE of the Jamal STEELE/DJ Hale Co-host Era, we brought in FL State Representative Michele K. Rayne...

On this episode of #BLKFLA, it's the CROSSOVER EPISODE THAT THE STATE NEEDS as the Florida Black Girls join the crew for a two part episode. In Part 1, which is our mid-season finale, we dive deep into #Project2025 and the effects it will have on Black Communities in Florida. Join us NOW! @BLKFLAThePodcast - IG @JamalSTEELE - IG @FLBlackGirls - IG

Today, on #BLKFLA, we have the amazing Haley Morrissette aka DJ Hale on with us. During "What We Talm Bout," we discuss how North Florida has the highest population of Black folk in most of its counties along the I-10 corridor, but it's not reflective in its representation on a state, county, or municipal level. We explore briefly how to build Black Power in North Florida through working in rural...

In this week's episode of #BLKFLA, we take a different turn as Jamal is on the road in Orlando with Black Voters Matter, so we decide to bring in Marie Rattigan, Big Bend Regional Organizer, and Neuteyshe Felizor, South Florida Regional Organizer, to join the show and play "Ask Jamal Anything." Before we get into that, we always gotta see "What We Talm Bout." This time, we talked about the securit...

Next up on the show is the Big Brother of the Florida Black Organizing movement, one of the #Florida14, a former Florida State Representative AND Florida State Senator, and the Senior Policy Advisor for Florida Rising, we sit and have an incredible conversation with Dwight Bullard. Our "What We Talm Bout" segment allowed us to give an excellent social and political analysis on the beef that was, o...

On this episode of #BLKFLA: The Podcast, we sit down the amazing Florida State Representative, Michele Rayner. We start off this episode on a different note, paying tribute to Atlanta icon, Dungeon Family founding member, and 1/3 of the MIGHTY Organized Noize, Rico Wade, who recently passed on April 13th. We then go into "What We Talm Bout," where we get into the disconnect that the Black church h...

On this episode of #BLKFLA: The Podcast, we sit down with Senior Policy Manager for Black Voters Matter Fund, Rhyane Wagner. Memphis born, Orlando led, now residing in DC, Rhyane knows the ins and outs of Florida political organizing as her start in Black Voters Matter was as the Florida State Organizing Manager in 2020 when a certain scruffy beard gentleman was introduced to the organizing field...

On this episode of #BLKFLA: The Podcast, we sit down with the amazing Sean Shaw. Starting per usual with "What We Talm Bout," we get into the presidential election and how the average voter is feeling as we head into November.  Then, in our interview with Attorney Shaw, we go into how his father, Justice Leander Shaw, being the first Black Justice on the Florida Supreme Court, influenced Sean into...

On the inaugural episode of #BLKFLA: The Podcast, we are joined by State Representative Angie Nixon as we dig into her history as an organizer, her love for Sexxy Red and Chairman Elaine Brown (it’ll make sense later), her campaign in 2020 for Florida State House, as well as the “Stop The Black Attack” sit-in in 2022, and the ceasefire resolution she presented on the State House floor in 2023. We...