"The Chocolate Scoop" Podcast With Nikki Williams Producer/Host

“The Chocolate Scoop” Podcast #17 “SistahSpeak on a Soul’s Solstice Summer Day” – Beth Turner, Founder of Black Mask Magazine Speaks with Nikki Williams, Producer/Host of "The Chocolate Scoop" about the Dream and the Journey Recorded June 21, 2026 The song was not made famous until the super group “Boyz II Men” made it into a hit song back in 1991. “It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday,” origi...

“The Chocolate Scoop” TM Podcast #16 “Rockin' with the Role and Rollin' with the Rock” Two Black Theater Veterans speak About Their Reversed Migration Creative Journey from New York to North Carolina Recorded June 7, 2026 Copyright 2026  All Rights Reserved Tennessee Native, Byron Saunders and Philadelphia Native, Elizabeth Flax Branch made names for themselves as top notch Theater Artists in New...

“The Chocolate Scoop” Podcast #15 “Jazz Vespers, and Jazz Consortiums, and Jazz Musicians, in Brooklyn, Oh My!” Nikki Williams in Conversation with Ms. Bonda Cunningham Celebrating Brooklyn as a Wonderland of Jazz during June, Black Music Month Recorded June 4, 2026 Had Dorothy been given the choice of going to Jazz Vespers at Emanual Baptist Church or an event at the Central Brooklyn Jazz Consort...

“The Chocolate Scoop” Podcast #12 “The PJ's: Peanut Butter & Jelly Poetry & Jazz - A Natural Combination” A National Poetry Month and Jazz Appreciation Month Celebration April 26, 2026   “Like any good peanut butter on a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, jazz should stick to the resonate roof of your Soul”  Two questions about game changing and earth-shaking world events: Whose idea was it...

 “The Chocolate Scoop” Podcast #9 “Holding God in Her Throat” – Black Women Serving in the Clergy March 22, 2026, Nikki Williams Producer/Host Inspired by the deeply moving and reflective poem, “Our Grandmothers” written by Dr. Maya Angelou and her personal remembrances of her own Grandmother Mrs. Irene Ivey, whose deferred dream and life ambition was to serve God as a member of the Clergy, Produc...

“The Chocolate Scoop” Podcast #10 “Heart to Art” - A Divine Dialogue Between Dad and Daughter Creatives March 29, 2026 Sharing more than just genetics.  Sharing more than their last names.  Multi-GRAMMY®-nominated Saxophonist, Composer, Bandleader, Educator and Producer, Bobby Watson and Award-Winning Physical and Digital Artist Developer, Educator, and AR Content Creator, Lafiya Watson, share the...

“The Chocolate Scoop” Podcast #9 “Holding God in Her Throat” – Black Women Serving in the Clergy March 22, 2026, Nikki Williams Producer/Host Inspired by the deeply moving and reflective poem, “Our Grandmothers” written by Dr. Maya Angelou and her personal remembrances of her own Grandmother Mrs. Irene Ivey, whose deferred dream and life ambition was to serve God as a member of the Clergy, Produce...

“The Chocolate Scoop Podcast Episode #8 – “And So, Yet Shall They Speak” A Presentation during Women’s History Month   Nikki Williams, Producer and Host of “The Chocolate Scoop” is joined in an extremely informative and fact-packed conversation with Ms. Cheyney McKnight, Founder and Owner of “Not Your Momma’s History,” a firm that consults and aids museums, historical sites, historical societies,...

“The Chocolate Scoop Podcast Episode #8 – “And So, Yet Shall They Speak” A Presentation during Women’s History Month   Nikki Williams, Producer and Host of “The Chocolate Scoop” is joined in an extremely informative and fact-packed conversation with Ms. Cheyney McKnight, Founder and Owner of “Not Your Momma’s History,” a firm that consults and aids museums, historical sites, historical societies,...

"The Chocolate Scoop" Podcast #7 "The Rhythm and Rhyme Of It All" - Music and the Shaping of Black Manhood Recorded March 1, 2026 Join Producer/Host Nikki Williams as she is reunited with former Bronx Writers Corp members Mr. Azekiwe Providence and Mr. Steven Sapp . Mr. Providence is a Photographer, Performance Poet, Documentarian, Educator, and Community Curator. Mr. Sapp is a Writer, Poet, Direc...

"The Chocolate Scoop" Podcast #7 "The Rhythm and Rhyme Of It All" - Music and the Shaping of Black Manhood Recorded March 1, 2026 Join Producer/Host Nikki Williams as she is reunited with former Bronx Writers Corp members Mr. Azekiwe Providence and Mr. Steven Sapp . Mr. Providence is a Photographer, Performance Poet, Documentarian, Educator, and Community Curator. Mr. Sapp is a Writer, Poet, Direc...

"The Dreams Eye See" - A vibrant vocalizing of Visions with two veterans working in the visual medium (theater, film, photography). Join Producer/Host Nikki Williams Producer/Host of "The Chocolate Scoop," with her guests Ms. Barbara Chirinos, the Inaugural Artistic Director of the Mary Schmidt Campbell Center for Innovation and the Arts (CI&A) and the LaTonya Richardson Jackson and Samuel L....

"The Chocolate Scoop" podcast #5 premiers with the first podcast of "Brother's Gonna Work it Out" - Black Men in the Arts Speak about Roles and Responsibilities as Black Male Creators. The first podcast starts with a conversation with Jamaican born Mr. E. Lloyd Napier, Educator, Actor, Director, Playwright, Visual Artist. Mr. Napier speaks about his Jamaican roots, his professional career in New Y...

The Chocolate Scoop" Podcast #1:  "The Gift of Beginning Again"  - A Conversation with Innovators and Creators, Dr. Venis Wilder Henry and Attorney Kevin Sylvan. Both Dr. Venis Wilder and Attorney Kevin Sylvan are Artists as well as Professionals with their own Practices. In this inaugural "The Chocolate Scoop" podcast, the audience learns how Dr. Venis Wilder and Attorney Kevin Sylvan balance Pra...

"The Chocolate Scoop" Podcast #4 In this continuing celebration of the Artistic Spirit, we welcome you, the audience to be part of a personal and revealing Creative Conversation with Authors, Poets, and Performance Artists, Josefina Baez, and Tumani Ra'ine Jordan.  In this inspirational and Heartfelt episode, two dynamic Women Artists of the African Diaspora - one African Dominican, the other Afri...

"Love & Passion: The New LP" In this third episode of "The Chocolate Scoop" podcast, Nikki Williams' Room for Living , is filled with the Joyful Spirit of three fabulous Jazz Musicians, North Carolinian born and bred, Trombonist Tyrone Jefferson, and born and bred South Carolinian Vocalist and Lyricist Terri Davis. Adding to the sparkling conversation is Tyrone's wife and collaborator, Vocalis...

"They'll Be Singing Over Me" - A Melanin Melodic Conversation with Authors: Dr. Kevin McGruder, Associate Professor of History at Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, Author of  Race and Real Estate: Conflict and Cooperation in Harlem, 1890-1920, Ms. Lorraine Currelley, Author, NY USA Lifetime Beat Poet Laureate, Executive Director for the Bronx Book Fair aka The People’s Book Fair and Founder a...