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Welcome to Dear Culture, the podcast version of the conversations you’re already having with the people you don’t even realize you know. Every week, cultural commentator and editorialist Panama Jackson will be a tour guide through some intersection of Blackness and culture. Bringing his years of experience writing and commentating on the culture from an educational and entertaining viewpoint, Dear Culture will engender everything Don King meant when he uttered the words, “...and that’s the Blackness.” We might not know where we’re going when we start, but what we do know is that by the time yo...

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One Crisis, Two Americas: Angela Yee 07.05.2020 28:50

In this episode, the Dear Culture Podcast discusses racial bias and entrepreneurship during the Coronavirus pandemic with media mogul Angela Yee. Co-hosts, Natasha S. Alford and Gerren Keith Gaynor discuss nationwide protests to reopen local economies. And last, theGrio's entertainment writer, Cortney Wills, shares insight into how Black Hollywood is navigating health and career.

Hell No, We Won't Go...Outside: Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. 30.04.2020 20:09

This week on the Dear Culture Podcast, we talk about why so many Black people mistrust the government's lifting quarantine restrictions during the coronavirus pandemic. Esteemed historian and Harvard professor, Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., helps us understand why educating Black students during Coronavirus is so different (and how to keep sane if you've become a teacher overnight). We also dive into...

What's Really #BlackAF? :Kenya Barris 23.04.2020 26:45

In this episode of the Dear Culture podcast we examine who should be telling Black America’s stories and what it really means to be Black AF. Using Kenya Barris’ latest show release we dissect truths and opinions around the Black experience. This is an episode of Dear Culture that you do not want to miss. Guest contributors: Stephanie Guerilus Life Coach Shawn

Power (and Purpose) Moves (Featuring Daymond John) 17.04.2020 25:07

A weekly pod about news and issues impacting Black America from the reporters and producers at theGrio. Smart, relevant, and dedicated to the culture.

An Infodemic Mayhem: Soledad O'Brien 10.04.2020 27:26

A weekly pod about news and issues impacting Black America from the reporters and producers at theGrio. Smart, relevant, and dedicated to the culture.

Hustlin' Pandemic: Black Entrepreneurship in the Age of Coronavirus: Tressie McMillan Cottom, Ph.D) 03.04.2020 15:05

A weekly pod about news and issues impacting Black America from the reporters and producers at theGrio. Smart, relevant, and dedicated to the culture.