Thru This

Fresh Daily is a Brooklyn born and bred emcee based in Oakland, who recently released an album with Paris-based producer DJ Parental called “These Things Take Time.” The album is the first of new music he’s released since his return from an eight year hiatus. During that time away from making music, he put more energy into himself. He moved from New York City to Oakland where his life seemed to bl...

Filmmaker Khary Saeed Jones’ documentary Night Fight offers us an opportunity to examine how racism produces various forms of violence that can seem isolated, random, or even benign to the uninitiated. In this episode, we dig in to how a disturbing encounter in rural Canada affected Jones and inspired his deeply personal project. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with oth...

I’ve been following Miriam Tinberg ( miriam_tinny ) on Instagram for some time. Her posts touch on a range of topics that get at the quirky parts of life where the language isn’t quite flushed out. With more than 160,000 followers on TikTok and Instagram, she shares podcast episodes, articles on just her thoughts on things like texting styles, friends to discuss poop with, and the nuances of work....

This episode features A.J. Ampadu aka P.So the Earthtone King, a comic book writer and publisher, and my good friend. He and I used to rap together in a crew of incredible emcees, and DJs/producers in NYC during the aughts. After years of time and effort, music as a self-sustaining career didn’t quite pan out for most of us, but we still manage to stay connected to our creativity, nonetheless. For...

Arielle Gray is an arts reporter for WBUR, an NPR station in Boston, where I used to work. We were still co-workers when I asked Ari to be my first guest for a conversation about journalism. Ari’s a Boston native, from the neighborhood of Mattapan , who works hard to cover her community with the care and respect traditional media tends to lack when covering people of color. In fact, she received a...

As some of you may know, I most recently co-created and hosted a daily news and culture podcast for WBUR, an NPR station in Boston, called The Common. Despite the vital role it played in local news and the loyal audience it amassed, the station ultimately cancelled the show before it could reach its full potential. That broke my heart. Yet, the cancellation, along with some frustrations with journ...