Malik Shakur

The Black Tax

Society EN ↓ 129 episodes

What is The Black Tax? The Black Tax is a podcast about the fine print attached to Black success in America. Produced, and hosted by Malik Shakur, the show moves through corporate America, entrepreneurship, entertainment, music, law, politics, and culture to explore what it means to be simultaneously Black, ambitious, creative, educated, and highly visible in rooms built to tolerate only one version of you at a time. Some conversations are about work. Some are about art. Most are about power. The podcast began with stories from corporate America and big law. It evolved into a broader examinati...

Author

Malik Shakur

Category

Society

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Latest episode

Jul 7, 2026

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Episodes

TBT EP 55 The Great Escape 13.01.2025

The Great Escape

TBT EP 54 Take Your Bow 30.12.2024

The end of season one 

EP 53 The Exit 23.12.2024

Sometime we need to hear it ok to take you education and career and go in a different diretion. 

EP 52 I Sure Did 16.12.2024

When getting your lick back becomes the mission

EP 51 How Did Your Get This 09.12.2024

I swear white people be nosey AF

EP 50 Your Just Like Your Father 02.12.2024

I am who I am beacuse of the man who raised me so if you have a problem take it up with them!

EP 49 When They Think Y'all Are The Same But Realize Y'all NOT 25.11.2024

How being a keeping it real New Yorker living in the land of La La people get in their feelings really quick.

EP 48 Corporate Buck Breaking 18.11.2024

White men always think they can talk to Black people anyway they want and expect Black me to bo ok with it.... NOT ME!

EP 47 Sometime the Greatest Hate Comes From Your Own Family 11.11.2024

When they gang up on you to make you go away, but need you to fix the bullshit they fucked up... NOT TODAY, NOT TA-DAY

EP 46 Your Gonna Learn Today Motherfucka 04.11.2024

When you have to get a new work wardrobe and da Black sales people wont help but get mad when the White boy get all the commissions

EP 45 Dat's Not My Name 28.10.2024

When the new boss Call Your the wrong name then tries to Gasslight you in believing the meaning of your name.

EP 44 Some of Y'all Got Friends Who Ain't Shit.. Me too 21.10.2024

When the dick is good you'll let go of the ones that held you down.

EP 43 If You Don't Ask, Don't Be Mad Because I did. 14.10.2024

When a new network is about to launch and you ask for your worth and get it but it upsets the team because they didn't know what to ask for. 

EP 42 Its Not For Sale 07.10.2024

For some odd reason Some people (I mean White people) think Black people will sell them anything and everything including our soul.

EP 41 I Said What The Fuck I Said Video 30.09.2024

When you do your best to stay out of conversation with White women but once you say what you got to say then the get in their feelings at what I said!

EP 40 I'm Not Begging For Shit 23.09.2024

When They Want Your To Beg For Your Job BUT you know better

EP 39 Your Character Always Wins 16.09.2024

When students get caught cheating and don't like you but you still have to defend them oy vey

EP 38 If I said How I Really Felt 09.09.2024

Learning how to say a lot without saying nothing

EP 37 Not Knowing What Your Want 02.09.2024

When you don't know what you need but get in your feelings when someone steps up to the plate to save the day!

EP 36 Your Could Never 26.08.2024

How easy bonds can be broken when you believe you're the master

EP 35 Sometime You Need To Learn The Hard Lessons 19.08.2024

In life you got to find your tribe if you want to find like minded people and when you do you got to walk away from those who don't feed your soul anymore.

EP 34 You Be Doing The Most 12.08.2024

When you're Black, White people always have the lowest expectations of you and then get surprised when they think you aren't who you are.

EP 33 Say What? 05.08.2024

Dancing to you own beat is never a sometime thing, it an all day, every day thang!

EP 32 She Think's She Better 29.07.2024

When you believe your better because you went to an Ivy

EP 31 Everything Is Worth A Shot 22.07.2024

Taking a risk in business sometime means going it alone

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