The big man on campus is a group of good trouble making students who shall not be moved. The kids are alright. Sources:"Freedom is a Constant Struggle" by Angela Y. Davis.https://www.insidehighered.com/news/students/free-speech/2024/04/

Burning Sins and Suckas

Mar 16th, 2024 46m 39s

Ramadan is the month Muslims burn away our sins and I've been known to keep some of that fire for the unwashed and "rent payment is late" opinions on the animal farm that is social media. It's the Holy Month, not the "Holier than Thou month," s

Jingoism Unchained and Nationalist Velvet

Mar 11th, 2024 1h 12m

Or, how conservative Whites are are having a "terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day" and want us all to suffer because of it. But when it comes to the US, they don't know her.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/p

Rosa Parks' Husband had a Car and Frederick Douglass had a White Wife, Still I Rise

Feb 20th, 2024 47m 8s

Black Excellence is a sign on a t-shirt and I'm buying two of them but not before I school you on why excellence is a double-edged sword in the Black community. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ayana-fakh

STOP! In the Name of Self-Love!

Jan 29th, 2024 1h 31m

Until dating apps come with a coupon for a free therapy session, you'll settle for this podcast episode that'll help you find the greatest love of your life--YOU!Works used in the making of this episode: just one! "The Gifts of Imperfection"

Dr. King's NIGHTMARE

Jan 14th, 2024 1h 25m

We all know Dr. King had a dream, but he had fears, fears that in the years since his death have been realized and embody the ugly parts of ourselves, infecting our communities and all facets of our society; injustices that he and thousands of

Who is WE?!

Dec 5th, 2023 1h 12m

Muslims in the United States are burning our voter registration forms for warmth and revolution! But...woah...not so fast. We need some resolutions to go with our revolution. Work

The Times...They're Not'a Changin'

Nov 20th, 2023 1h 2m

Just left Pound Town, turns out it's a place where you get beat with a sock full of coins by your unfulfilled hopes and dreams for a better tomorrow. *Sigh*--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ayana-fakhir6/m

The United States and Israel Go Together Real Bad.

Oct 31st, 2023 56m 18s

And it's their Diamond Anniversary! What do you give the couple that's been together for 75 years? Taxpayer-funded genocide, apparently. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ayana-fakhir6/messageSupport this

What The He*l are They Doing Over There?

Oct 14th, 2023 1h 8m

It's been a year, with inflation, no Women's World Cup title and the fact that I'm still not a millionaire, I'm ready to put on the no vacancy sign and sleep for some months. Now there's a war, another war, a big one, and people are being obtus

Bonus

The Government Sh*t Down

Sep 30th, 2023 48m 2s

A Bonus Episode! The one where I read Congress and the US down to the ashy white paint on The Lincoln's Memorial's knuckles.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ayana-fakhir6/messageSupport this podcast: htt

The EPA Doesn't Clean Up Spills of Toxic Masculinity

Sep 24th, 2023 1h 12m

You'll have to do it yourselves, misters. Take responsibility, take stock, take a chance, take a drive to your dad's house and slap him in the face for not raising you right. Works used in the making of this episode:https://loneconservativ

P is for "your Pumpkin-colored President is Probably going to Prison"

Sep 1st, 2023 56m 37s

No, but seriously, the US prison system needs some upgrades, like your dad's hair plugs and your mom's veneers. From Georgia to Ohio, to New York and points west of the Mississippi, I'll expose the flaws and suggest ways to improve it, in time

Ayana Explains The Other F Word

Aug 14th, 2023 1h 9m

We are all gravitationally blessed, unfortunately, the floor wants to know why it can't catch a break from us walking to the kitchen for snacks. *I'm not a doctor, I'm a lawyer, that's not close enough to substitute anything in this episode

On Issue 1 and The Ohio Republican Party

Jul 31st, 2023 52m 39s

Vote NO on Issue 1, Ohioans. That's it.Sources used in the making of this episode:https://www.commoncause.org/ohio/democracy-wire/background-on-issue-1/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gop-megadonor-pours-millions-into-effort-to-hinder-ohio

On Respectability Politics

Jul 16th, 2023 1h 8m

Is that time again! That time of year when children are out of school, beaches are full and Black Women have to defend our choices. Works used in the making of this episode:"Beyoncé and the End of Respectability Politics." By Myles E. Joh

On Protecting Black Women

Jul 2nd, 2023 1h 6m

This one is heavy, like the weight of all the Black Women society subjugates. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ayana-fakhir6/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ayana-fak

Tori Bowie and The Epidemic of US Black Maternal Mortality and Morbidity

Jun 20th, 2023 44m 26s

US Olympic Gold Medalist Tori Bowie died during childbirth but what is not talked about is the epidemic that consumed her and her fetus--the epidemic of Black maternal mortality and morbidity in the United States. What killed her is killing mor

Freshman Diaries

Jun 11th, 2023 53m 39s

On this very special episode of Ayana Explains It All, we hear from my favorite former high school freshman, my daughter. She regales us with stories of life in the 9th grade spot, feeling sometimes confident, and other times freshie. The trans

Ayana Explains Florida's Race Problem

May 29th, 2023 54m 53s

Summertime, summertime, sum-sum-sum of the time you should skip traveling to places where your race is an indignity to the state. I'm talking about Florida, a usual suspect in the denial of basic human rights, but the entire United States is gu

Ayana Explains Asylum in the Post-Title 42 Era

May 16th, 2023 1h 4m

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers sang "everybody's had to fight to be free, you see. You don't have to live like a refugee," that is, unless, you landed at the Southern US border and you had to use an smartphone/computer app to apply for asylum, a

Ayana Explains Freshman Year

May 3rd, 2023 49m 32s

It's that time of year, the kids are back from college and looking at the world through an adult lens, but their cerebral prefrontal cortex is still forming so maybe they're kids after all. Join me as I query my own son about being a college fr

Ayana Explains Health Inequity in the US

Apr 25th, 2023 1h 13m

Happy Hollandaise! It's Minority Health Month, that special time of year again when families gather round the fireplace, embrace, sing songs, and compare A1C numbers. Sugar, we are not well. Health inequities in the United States work hard to k

Ayana Explains the Decline of the East Cleveland, Ohio Police Department

Apr 5th, 2023 1h 2m

East Cleveland, Ohio is a city of a bygone era. The stretch of city along Euclid Avenue reveals dilapidated 19th Century mansions, hallmarks of a town with a storied past, but now desperate and dreary future from decades of fiscal mismanagement

Ayana Explains Ramadan: The Re-Explained and Reuploaded

Mar 22nd, 2023 1h 41m

Ramadan Mubarak! Sit back, stand up, run, walk to this re-examined, re-explained, reuploaded episode from Season 1 all about Ramadan. It is the holiest month of the Islamic calendar, and when the new moon drops on the 9th month, every bodily de