Revolutionary Baddies Podcast

The Baddies Have Delivered, Again!! After an incredible seven month run, Season 2 of the Revolutionary Baddies Podcast is coming to a close. DO NOT PANIC! This is only the Season Finale. So let’s break down the season’s accomplishments. We have recorded 22 episodes, surpassed 6,000 downloads, reached listeners in 473 cities and 59 countries, and hosted 2 in person events through our book club seri...

As Revolutionary Baddies wind down Season 2, they bring to life an old story of ordinary people doing revolutionary things. The story of Local 22 in Winston-Salem is a story of Black working class power and unapologetic spirit to fight and demand better conditions, pay, and respect. The 1960s Civil Rights Movement tends to receive all of the glory, but the 1930s- 1940s struggle across the Black wo...

In 1968, revolutionary freedom fighter Grace Lee Boggs wrote an essay speaking to the definition and need for a Black Revolution. She provides us with a grounded assessment of what a revolution in the US means for our collective work. In this episode, Revolutionary Baddies dissect her essay, which is featured in “Black Women: An Anthology” by Toni Cade Bambara. Grace Lee Boggs was a Chinese-Americ...

The underlying theme of this season of Revolutionary Baddies is to articulate what makes a revolution. This analysis must include what destroys a revolution. Liberalism is the ideology that carries history of negotiating, obliging, coddling, pacifying, and coercing with imperialism. Liberalism is also the default political ideology of most Black people in this country. This essay, “The Pitfalls of...

As Ella Baker gave her class valedictorian speech at Shaw University, she left these words and these words led her life. Arguably, one of the most effective and committed grassroots organizer of the 20th century. Ella Baker was an architect behind the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, and a leader that believed in the power of everyday people doing extraordinary things. In this episode, Revoluti...

First things first. Free All Political Prisoners!! Secondly, this episode grants permission for all of us to dream and vision a world beyond policing and prisons. Prisons are American history, and we are yet to a place to recognize and dismantle that reality. Revolutionary Baddies hold a discussion surrounding the many many ways our capitalist determines who is punished and who are not. Through th...

Happy Mother’s Day! The Baddies dedicate this episode to some of the greatest contributors to society- Black mothers. In this episode, Brittany and Dee Dee dive into their lived experiences of the mothers that raised them and  how dynamic and expansive our family structures could be. And just like everything else- Motherhood is political and worth our understanding. Hope you enjoy this episode.  A...

TRIGGER WARNING. Over the past couple of months, there have been several alarming and saddening cases of Black women being murdered by their husbands, fiances, boyfriends, and exes. We cannot shy away from uplifting the names and stories of these Black women and how pervasive  and insidious patriarchal violence is. In order to see a revolution forward, we must address how patriarchy suffocates the...

This planet is all we have yall. Revolutionary Baddies covers a lively discussion on the damages of capitalism on this Earth and how we need to resist. In order for any opportunity of revolution to be realized, we must take our relationship to the land seriously. Brittany and Dee Dee draw the connection of land to the necessity of wellness. Wellness is not an individual process but a North Star fo...

Audre Lorde left this world with an incredible gift of honesty, hope, and some deliberate lessons of the 1960s. More of our lessons of navigating patriarchy and capitalism needs to root in the very real and evil decisions of a few. In this episode, Revolutionary Baddies breaks down Lorde’s reflective and sobering essay, “Lessons from the 60s”, which explores the complexity of a time of great resis...

What would this world be without Black Culture? Music, writing, films, fashion, language, archive, photography, architecture, inventions, dance, film, theater, cuisine, you name it! In every corner of this world, you can find Black influence on culture. In this episode, Revolutionary Baddies dream and discuss how the world currently tries to villianize and erase Blackness while embracing and harve...

“The more I studied the situation, the more I was convinced that the Southerner had never gotten over his resentment that the Negro was no longer his plaything, his servant, and his source of income.”- Ida B. Wells-Barnett. In this episode, Revolutionary Baddies attempts to highlight and convert new fans of Ida B. Wells-Barnett. Wells-Barnett is a giant in both Black history and Women’s history eq...

Happy Black History Month!! Heading towards the holiday for love, Revolutionary Baddies brings an analysis of Black love and the concept of communal love. So much of Western society’s fixation on love is only in the context of romantic love and marriage. While those are important and irreplaceable aspects of love, it's critical for us to expand our practices of love to include our friends and...

Happy Black History Month!! Revolutionary Baddies are so excited to celebrate and educate the mass during this month. This month’s episodes will cover topics that are not easily associated with history, but bring historical context on topics such as love, family, and the idea of being Black and unconventional. Pan-Africanism is a political movement that traces directly to the heart and resistance...

“Always bear in mind that the people are not fighting for ideas, for the things in anyone’s head. They are fighting to win material benefits, to live better and in peace, to see their lives go forward, to guarantee the future of their children…” – Amilcar Cabral, Revolution in Guinea, written in 1965. Amilcar Cabral was a freedom fighter, writer, and leader of The African Party for the Independenc...

In the US and around the world, binaries and exclusivity dominate the discussions and systems surrounding people and borders. In this episode, Revolutionary Baddies guides an understanding of homophobia and transphobia as white supremacy. Throughout history in many cultures of color there have been non-nuclear families and multiple gender expressions, but that history has been criminalized and div...

How do we define community in 2026? What is our responsibility to define a community? How much of an impact did the War on Drugs and 1994 Crime Bill have on the preservation and sustainability of the Black community across the United States. In the sixth episode of Season 2, Revolutionary Baddies discusses the history of Black communities, and what is necessary in the community presently. While sh...

"From the first, I made my learning, what little it was, useful every way I could." -Mary Mcleod Bethune This episode establishes the very purpose of the Revolutionary Baddies Podcast. Education and critical thinking are increasing under attack in the United States. This looks like the divestment of public education and the dismantling of the Department of Education. This looks like the...

Welcome Welcome Welcome to 2026!!! Queue the champagne and fireworks!! 2025 has been a year of immense joy, confusion, realization, growth, heartbreak, and change. On May 7th, the first episode “Shooters & Looters” released and birthed a new voice for the people via podcast. Revolutionary Baddies Podcast birthed through sisterhood, study, and a desire to push our people and community towards l...

I need my check!”. What are reparations? How do we achieve this? What transformations will be required for reparations to be actualized? Who will receive it? How much is too much? In this episode, Revolutionary Baddies explores these questions around reparations. African Americans across the US and Caribbean have always demanded and fought for repair, remembrance, and reconciliation of centuries o...

This episode is all about the purpose of launching this podcast- to illuminate the very essence of revolution. Revolutionary Baddies deepens the context and conversation of what it will require of us to build the next American Revolution- which we desperately need. The next American Revolution needs to be the Radical Feminist Revolution, otherwise we will be stuck advancing the same cycles of viol...

Season 2 is HERE!!!! Revolutionary Baddies  are kicking off the six month anniversary of the Podcast by releasing our second season. HUGE THANK YOU TO ALL OF YOU!!! Since Season 1, Brittany and Dee Dee have been busy growing the RB Universe through the LIVE Show in honor of Black August and “Read and Yap”, which is our community book club.  Other than catching up with the audience, this episode co...

Happy Black August!! The final episode of this very special Black August series, Revolutionary Baddies delves into this question of the future. Generally, each episode is dedicated to honoring powerful history but our visions for the future can be just as powerful. Grounding in the words of brother George Jackson, “If we fail through fear and lack of aggressive imagination, then the slaves of the...

Happy Black August!! In the second episode of the very special Black August series, Revolutionary Baddies contend and bring to life a dialogue about political consciousness. A big, complex topic that spans across generations and often determines our future. In society, we often hear someone say, “I don't do politics.” or "I'm not the political type.”. In reality, what folks really m...

Happy Black August!! Welcome to the beginning of Revolutionary Baddies Podcast Black August Series. This month, Brittany and Dee Dee have crafted a series of episodes dedicated to the Black August Tradition. Black August is an annual commemoration of Black radical resistance throughout our history. From the Nat Turner Rebellion to the attempted escape and assassination of political prisoner John J...