The Black Sub-World Podcast with/ DeWayne R. Stallworth

  In this episode of The Black Sub-World Podcast , host DeWayne R. Stallworth confronts a complex and layered question: What happens when whiteness enters spaces historically created for Black survival, leadership, and advancement?  Drawing on historical, spiritual, and psychological analysis—and insights from his book The Problem of Black Skin —Stallworth examines the growing trend of Divine Nine...

In Part 2 of The Black Sub-World Podcast , DeWayne R. Stallworth takes us deeper into the systems quietly shaping our world —from DARPA’s experiments and Snowden’s revelations to the military-industrial complex, corporate power, and AI itself. We explore how technology, algorithms, and surveillance tools are controlling movement, thought, and opportunity — particularly in Black communities. Linkin...

In Part I of this episode of the Black Sub-world Podcast , DeWayne R. Stallworth delivers a quiet but unrelenting examination of the forces reshaping Black life in the 21st century. From the historical roots of surveillance (e.g., slave patrols, branding, and COINTELPRO) to the emergence of digital ID systems, biometric monitoring, and global AI-driven control, Stallworth lays bare the structures...

In this powerful episode, host DeWayne R. Stallworth unpacks the complex inner world of Black consciousness and the unseen struggle between liberation and internalized limitation. Through a blend of storytelling, history, and critical reflection, Stallworth examines how centuries of psychic division continue to shape Black identity, and how privilege, whether Black, white, or both, can be reclaime...

In this transformative episode, Stallworth explores what keeps us stuck in life, how to recognize the unlocked doors that surround us, and the courage it takes to step fully into our authentic selves and calling. Too often, we’ve been taught that life should unfold effortlessly, that God or fate will smooth our path. But actual growth, freedom, and purpose require action, responsibility, and consc...

In this deeply introspective episode, DeWayne R. Stallworth explores the silent, ancestral tension that stirs within the collective Black soul when witnessing a Black woman with a White man. This is not a conversation about judgment or ownership (i.e., it is about memory, spirit, and the echoes of history that live in the body). DeWayne unpacks what he calls the soul conflict. This visceral, almos...

In this powerful and unflinching episode, DeWayne R. Stallworth explores the language, history, and psychology behind two of the most charged words in the English language:  Nigga and Nigger. Drawing from James Baldwin’s testimony before Congress, Supreme Court rulings, hip-hop culture, and personal experience, Stallworth examines how these words have shaped, wounded, and been reclaimed within Bla...

 In this episode of The Black Sub-World Podcast , host DeWayne R. Stallworth returns from a spiritual sabbatical to unpack what he calls the “low pitch” of Black life today. From poisoned food and music to compromised politics and clergy to the ongoing commodification of Black bodies under capitalism, Stallworth explores why our collective vibration remains muted. Drawing on ancestral wisdom, Afri...