Hope & Hard Pills

No White Saviors is an advocacy campaign lead by a majority female, majority African team of professionals based in Kampala, Uganda. Our collective experience in the development & aid sectors has lead us to a deep commitment to seeing things change in a more equitable & anti-racist direction. You can follow them on Instagram , check out their podcast , or learn more on their website .   Episode Qu...

Britt Hawthorne is a nationally recognized equity trainer in education. Britt partners with action-oriented educators, creating classroom environments that are inclusive and equitable for all learners. Her work seeks to move justice from being an idea to the authentic culture. Find out more over on her website or Instagram !   Episode Questions: • What myths were you taught about racism and other...

Rachel Ricketts is a thought leader + outspoken advocate for Black and Indigenous womxn and our healing. As a racial justice activist, lawyer, healer, speaker + author, she educates white folx on their role in perpetuating white supremacy, and helps folx of colour heal from internalized oppression. Rachel hosts online and in-person workshops including her renowned Spiritual Activism series which p...

Candice Marie Benbow is a theologian, essayist and creative who situates her work at the intersections of beauty, faith, feminism and culture. Her work gives voice to the shared experiences of healing and journeying toward wholeness. In May 2016, following the release of Beyoncé’s visual album Lemonade, Candice created the #LemonadeSyllabus hashtag and social media campaign. With contributions fro...

Zellie Imani is a writer, educator and organizer. He is also a co-founder of the  Black Liberation Collective , a Black youth Collective dedicated to transforming higher education through unity, coalition building, direct action and political education. Connect with Zellie on Twitter or Instagram . Sign up for Andre's Hope & Hard Pills Newsletter at his website . Catch up with Andre on Twitter , I...

Reema Zaman is an award-winning writer, speaker, actress, and author of the critically acclaimed memoir I AM YOURS. I Am Yours has been adopted into the curriculum of several high schools through an Innovation Grant from the Oregon Department of Education, and is being adapted into a movie by Dara Resnik and Reema. The New York Times states that "Zaman writes beautifully of the pain and frustratio...

Srdja breaks down the elements of what makes a successful movement of resistance and what that looks like in practice.   Show Notes: Srdja Popovic is the Founder and Executive director of the Center for Applied Nonviolent Actions and Strategies (CANVAS) , a non-profit organization based in Belgrade, Serbia that aims to teach the use of nonviolence to make a change. He was born and raised in Belgra...

Rob Lee is pastor of Unifour Church in Newton, NC and a public theologian. His first book was Stained-Glass Millennials (Helwys, 2017) and his second book addresses the need for a reorganizing and reckoning with faith communities and race relation, A Sin by Any Other Name (Convergent, 2019) is on shelves now. Lee is an accomplished preacher having preached around the world in such pulpits as the A...

Jill Louise Busby is a writer and filmmaker critiquing, imploding, and barrel-laughing at our personal and communal hierarchies; the myth of white fragility (and other words for racism); the endlessly-pending and highly-exclusive revolution, identity, and reaction-based illusions of societal progress; and the boundaries that all place on our lives. Believing a shift away from anti-difference begin...

Damon Young is a writer, critic, humorist, satirist, and professional Black person. He's a founder of VerySmartBrothas , a columnist at GQ, and a senior editor at The Root. His debut memoir,  What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker  (Ecco/HarperCollins) is a tragicomic exploration of the angsts, anxieties, and absurdities of existing while black in America. Episode Questions: • What feeds into ass...

Micah White, PhD is the lifelong activist who co-created Occupy Wall Street , a global social movement that spread to 82 countries, while an editor of Adbusters magazine. A frequent public speaker and prominent activist educator, he is the co-founder of Activist Graduate School , an online school taught by, and for, experienced activists and the author of The End of Protest: A New Playbook for Rev...

Dominique DuBois Gilliard is the Director of Racial Righteousness and Reconciliation for the Evangelical Covenant Church. He is the author of Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice that Restores , which won the 2018 Book of the Year Award for InterVarsity Press. Rethinking Incarceration also received a Starred Review from Publisher’s Weekly, and was named as one of the 2019 Resources of...

adrienne maree brown is author of Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds and Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good , and the co-editor of Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements . She is a writer, social justice facilitator, pleasure activist, healer and doula living in Detroit. brown has been facilitating professionally for over fifteen years, and has...

Alicia T. Crosby is a justice educator, activist, and (sometimes reluctant) minister whose work addresses the spiritual, systemic, and interpersonal harm people experience. Through her teaching, writing, speaking, and space curation, Alicia helps individuals, communities, and institutions explore and unpack topics related to identity, inclusivity, journey, and intersectional equity. This native Ne...

Onnesha Roychoudhuri is a Brooklyn-based writer, educator, and storyteller. A 2013 fellow at the Center for Fiction, her writing has appeared in publications such as Rolling Stone, n+1, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Boston Review, McSweeney’s, The Rumpus, The Nation, The American Prospect, Salon, and Mother Jones. She is the co-founder of Speech/Act, an organization working at the intersection of...

Rachel Cargle is a public academic, writer, and lecturer. Her activist and academic work are rooted in providing intellectual discourse, tools, and resources that explore the intersection of race and womanhood. Her social media platforms boast a community of over 260k where Rachel guides conversations, encourages critical thinking and nurtures meaningful engagement with people all over the world....

Austin Channing Brown made an impact with her book I'm Still Here: Black Dignity In A World Made For Whiteness. Since then, she has become an influential leader in racial justice and reconciliation. Not only has her book impacted lives, she's had the opportunity to speak across the country in a variety of platforms. Her current project, The Next Question, is for those serious about joining the rac...