Brown & Black

Our episode this week focuses on the subject of cultural appropriation or cultural appreciation. Legendary actor Louis Gossett Jr. plays Luis Garcia in Sergio Navarretta's 'The Cuban,' which centers around a former Cuban jazz musician who changes the life of a young caretaker after he's diagnosed with dementia. In a time where our country is sensitive about actors playing roles not native to their...

On this episode, we are discussing, in-depth, the fate of movie theaters. Will they re-open, will home-theaters replace them, or will they disappear altogether. We spoke to several moviegoers, and theater-owner Emelyn Stuart, who shared their feelings about their current relationship with movie theaters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jack and Mike take a look at the recent growing number of hired Black media executives and ask if they will fulfill the promise of transforming the content we see in 2021. And will Latinx executives be left behind?  The guys also begin a new movie review segment focusing on Brown and Black movies with "The Wall of Mexico" starring Esai Morales. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/...

We welcome award-winning costume designers Michelle Cole and Sharen Davis whom are both nominated for Primetime Emmys this year for Outstanding Costume Designing. But before Mike and Jack interview Michelle and Sharen, they discuss the mindset of Latino Republicans and Latinos for Trump, plus they're thoughts on the profusion of Blacks and women nominated against the backdrop of no Latinx nominate...

This week Jack and Mike welcome the one and only John Leguizamo who is debuting as a director on the big screen with Latinx chess film, ' Critical Thinking '. Leguizamo who gave an unfiltered and uncensored interview, discussed the challenges of financing Latinx films, why major studios rarely release them anymore, the enduring influence of 1988's 'Stand and Deliver,' the psycho-social erasure of...

"We don't own history, the history owns us," "POV is critical to storytelling in history," "I had a producer literally tell me once, 'white people don't want to see movies where all the white people are bad," "The promise of America and the reality of America... that's what '24th' is all about." These are some of the quotes you'll hear in this latest episode of 'Brown & Black' where our features g...

This week Jack and Mike share their thoughts on the DNC and the division, hate, and animosity that news networks have commercialized for profit, ratings and so much more. Also, they discuss the "Blackifying" of white Hollywood movies with the news that Will Smith and Kevin Hart are remaking "Planes, Train and Automobiles". Plus, did you hear about Susan B. Anthony's racist past? Subscribe, share a...

Our guest today is music composer Amanda Jones, the first African-American woman to be nominated in the Outstanding Music Composition for a Documentary Series or Special for Original Dramatic Score for the episode "Maine" from Apple TV+'s documentary series Home . Black female composers are rarely ever nominated for Emmys and are less than 1% of the industry, which is why Jones's nomination is so...

Our featured guest this week is Estuardo Rodríguez, President and CEO of the Friends of the American Latino Museum, a campaign to create the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Latino in Washington DC's National Mall. Jack and Mike ask him the questions that are on all of our minds - when will the museum open, how much it will cost to build, will all Latino culture be included, and why was...

Our guest this week is millennial Mayor Michael Tubbs who at 26 years-old became the youngest Mayor of a major American city in 2016, and the first African American mayor of Stockton, California. Now at age 29, Jack and Mike catch up with him to discuss his new HBO Documentary Stockton On My Mind, reparations, being in the room where it happens, brown and black unity amongst many and if he has any...

Comedian, actor, producer George Lopez joins our show to discuss his new Netflix show We'll Do It For Half . In the interview, Jack Rico and Mike Sargent ask Lopez about why he has never worked with Netflix before until now, why Covid-19, George Floyd and Black Lives Matter were not a part of his special, the role and responsibility of comedy and comedians beyond making us laugh, why comedians can...

This week, Jack and Mike discuss how social media has created a visible and actionable generation of young, multicultural American political activists (Trump never saw it coming in Tulsa) that will become of voting age in the next 2-4 years; Also, after watching Damon Lindeloff's 'Watchmen' on HBO, Mike and Jack debate whether white storytellers should still be allowed to tell Black, Latinx or div...

Mike and Jack interview Afro-Latino children's book author and illustrator, Eric Velasquez, about the power and context of Afro-Latino images in media. They also tackle the age-old question: is he more Black than Latino or more Latino than Black? If both, how? Follow Mike Sargent Twitter @mikeonscreen Follow Jack Rico on Twitter @jackricofficial Follow us on Twitter @brownblackpod Learn more about...

White media has taken a beating this week after many of its magazine and digital platforms have seen their main figureheads toppled by accusation of racism and bias. But will all the remorseful apologies last and create true industry change of equality ? Jack and Mike get into why image representation matters more than federal policy changes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/ad...

On this fourth episode, Jack and Mike get real about being Black in a Latino group and being Latino in a Black group. They also discuss Afro-Latino identity and if they're black enough to feel they have enough skin in the BlackLivesMatter cause.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this first episode of our new series on the future of America's cultural and entertainment industry post covid-19, Mike Sargent and Jack Rico explore what our world will look like after we re-open our cities and communities. To answer that, we first take a look at the history of consumerism and how, like a virus, it has spread its disease in our environment and our American worth. The mission o...

Mike Sargent and Jack Rico discuss the pressures to constantly be productive and how it affects minorities the most. The root could be somewhere within the profit machine of America, sports, and how black and Latino athletes are the guinea pigs. Also, AMC theaters vs. Hollywood studios, how are we ultimately affected? Quibi has been having a tough time getting subscriptions. Will it fail? CEO Jeff...

On this debut episode Jack and Mike discuss life under quarantine, how consumption habits are changing before our eyes and tease a future series of what the world of entertainment will look like post Covid-19. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

'Brown & Black' is a new podcast exploring the convergence of race and pop culture, hosted by two diverse voices, one Latinx and one Black, to fill a needed void in rethinking how pop culture news and opinion is conveyed in America today. Jack Rico and Mike Sargent, two national film and culture critics seen on TODAY and FOX Business News, interview filmmakers, artists and journalists to examine t...