We wanted to get to some of the larger questions raised by the story of the ongoing water crisis in Flint. So we got some context from some people who follow this stuff for a living: Brentin Mock of CityLab and Talia Buford of the Center for Pu

#41: New World Water.

Apr 3rd, 2016 42m 49s

#40: Dating While Black Excellent.

Feb 9th, 2016 37m 13s

Our second annual Valentine's Day episode! Ko and Gene hear stories of a woman who survives a disastrous Tinder date with a superstar athlete, a young man whose shoe fails him at inopportune time, and woman who finds exactly the man of her drea

#39: Angela Flournoy's Big-Ass Year.

Nov 14th, 2015 33m 4s

When Angela's sprawling, keenly observed debut novel, "The Turner House," dropped last spring, it won rave reviews in big, important outlets like The New York Times. The novel picks up in 2008, with the housing market in full swoon. The many si

Loosie #1: Trina, Spike Lee, and the Power of the Pussy.

Nov 12th, 2015 13m 18s

Spike Lee's forthcoming flick, "Chi-Raq." is a satire about a woman who rallies the other women in her neighborhood to stop having sex with their male lovers in order to use it as leverage and get them to Stop The Violence™ . Oddly enough, that

#38: Race Is Always The Issue. (November 1, 2015)

Oct 29th, 2015 27m 40s

#38: Race Is Always The Issue. (November 1, 2015) by PostBourgie Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

#37: "This is the Last Thing I'm Going to Say About Jason Whitlock." (October 18 2015)

Oct 19th, 2015 53m 15s

We were originally planning to have Deadspin’s Greg Howard on the podcast to talk about race and sports journalism — with our peg being the series of articles he wrote about the woes of The Undefeated, the troubled, much-delayed race, culture

#36: What It Means To Lose A School. (September 20 2015)

Sep 20th, 2015 46m 29s

G.D. and Terryn talk to Jelani Cobb of the New Yorker, who went back to his former high school in Queens, which was recently closed down. Jelani was trying to figure out how the diverse, highly regarded school quickly deteriorated quickly after

Digging In The Crates: #20: Losing Football And A Language. (May 28 2012)

Sep 12th, 2015 1h 3m

It's the beginning of football season, so we decided to re-up a favorite old episode of ours where we spoke to Ta-Nehisi Coates of The Atlantic about his decision to stop watching the NFL after the evidence of the effects of football-related br

#35: 'Straight Outta Compton' And the Unkillable Biopic Genre. (August 23 2015)

Aug 24th, 2015 23m 38s

The N.W.A. movie "Straight Outta Compton" is the latest entrant into the anemic hip-hop biopic genre. It's crushing at the box office even as controversies around who was cast in it and which details were left out of it. (Namely: all of the wom

#34: 'How The $%*!& Is That Good Enough?' (August 15 2015)

Aug 15th, 2015 33m 52s

On a recent two-part story on This American Life, Nikole Hannah-Jones of The New York Times Magazine went to Normandy High School — the struggling St. Louis County school from which Michael Brown graduated just weeks before he was killed last y

#33: Detroit vs. Everybody. (July 26 2015)

Jul 26th, 2015 37m 4s

Terryn is packing up and moving to the D for a new gig! To help get her ready, we convened some folks who have Big Thoughts about the state of the Motor City. Angela Flournoy, the author of the critically acclaimed new novel, "The Turner House

#32: #GrowingUpSouthern. (July 15 2015)

Jul 15th, 2015 34m 19s

Gene and Terryn discuss Gene's recent reporting for NPR on those Southerners, black and white, for whom the Confederate flag is a genuine signifier of identity. Terryn breaks down what well-meaning Northerners don't get about the South; she als

#31: Attica Locke, from this little show 'Empire.' (May 11 2015)

May 11th, 2015 38m 57s

The novelist and screenwriter Attica Locke joins Gene and Terryn to explain why she left Hollywood to write novels — her third, "Pleasantville," is out now — and how she got bit by the showbiz bug again to become a writer and producer for Fox'

#30: Dyson Vs. West. (May 8 2015)

May 9th, 2015 45m 6s

Jamil Smith, senior editor at the New Republic, joins Gene, Terryn and Jamelle to discuss That Michael Eric Dyson Article About Cornel West. As the article's editor (!), he dishes some inside dirt on the politics behind the politics, on wrangli

#29: Ben Carson At The Barbershop. (March 20 2015)

Mar 21st, 2015 44m 38s

Joel Anderson (BuzzFeed) and Jenée Desmond-Harris (Vox) join Gene and Terryn to discuss their recent reporting on Dr. Ben Carson, professional inspirational figure-turned-Republican presidential hopeful. Related reads:"How Ben Carson went from

#28: Little Known Black History Facts. (February 28 2015)

Feb 28th, 2015 39m 22s

On the last day of Black History Month™, we talk to Tracy Clayton (aka Brokey McPoverty), a staff writer at BuzzFeed and the creator of all those viral, satirical Little Known Black History Facts. She joins Jamelle, Terryn and G.D. to talk abou

#27: Bad Romance. (February 14 2015)

Feb 14th, 2015 43m 1s

It’s everyone’s least-favorite Hallmark holiday, so Terryn and Gene called up some folks who tweeted us their worst date stories. (Big thanks to Genie, Tamara, Ko and Tracy for baring their souls.) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mor

#26: Selma. (January 24 2015)

Jan 24th, 2015 37m 18s

NPR's Bilal Qureshi and the writer Joshunda Sanders join G.D. to chop it up about "Selma," the much-discussed historical drama by the director Ava Duvernay. (Alas, we recorded this a week before the Academy Award nominations were announced, so

#25: The Two Michael Sams. (December 11 2014)

Dec 5th, 2014 45m 54s

Michael Sam made history this year when he became the first openly gay player drafted into the NFL — or any of America's major pro sports, for that matter. In the sports media, his estrangement from his family was characterized as simple homoph

#24: #Ferguson. (September 17 2014)

Sep 17th, 2014 20m 43s

Joel, Jamelle and Gene were all in Ferguson covering the aftermath of the Michael Brown shooting for their respective jobs. In this episode, they compare notes on what they saw and heard and what, if anything, happens next. Hosted on Acast. See

#23C: Bless Your Heart! Of Brazilians and Bar Fights. (February 5 2014)

Jan 31st, 2014 51m 20s

A day of adventure for Nichole and Tracy begins with bikini waxes and ends with one of them almost getting into an altercation with a stranger. Some salty language. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

#23B: Bless Your Heart! The Stars and Bars and #TeamJake. (December 14 2013)

Dec 14th, 2013 52m 55s

On the second episode of the "Bless Your Heart" podcast, Nichole and Tracy discuss what Northerners don't get about Southerners — like the Confederate flag. Plus: observations on how cute Jake from 'Scandal' is, 'The Best Man Holiday' and the h

#23A: Bless Your Heart! Pics Of Dicks & Porn For Chicks. (November 3 2013)

Nov 4th, 2013 33m 23s

It's been a long time, we know. But here's something new and fun and different — the inaugural episode of the Bless Your Heart podcast! Our own Tracy "Brokey McPoverty" Clayton and Nichole Perkins talk about the tyranny of the dick pic, women-c

#22: Django Unpacked. (January 8 2013)

Jan 8th, 2013 1h 2m

On this week's ep, Joel, Jamelle and G.D. are joined by Slate's Aisha Harris and Prof. Sarah Jackson of Northeastern University to discuss Quentin Tarantino's messy, subversive, confounding slavery revenge flick, "Django Unchained." Hosted on A

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