This podcast episode examines how AI (Artificial intelligence), principally CHAT-GPT, challenges faculty and students in higher education by “crowd sourcing” extant digital knowledge and how it defines concepts like racism.Key Words: Racism, Hi

Episode 37: Racist Political Rhetoric as Bloodsport and Human Equality

Oct 23rd, 2022 20m 47s

Episode Description—This podcast episode briefly examines selected examples of public political racist rhetoric leading up to the 2022 U.S. Midterm election season. The episode highlights Alexander Hamilton Stephens’s March 21, 1861 “Cornerston

Episode 36: The Racist Negation of Enslaved and Free Black Women

Jul 1st, 2022 27m 10s

This podcast episode, “The Racist Negation of Enslaved and Free Black Women,” briefly examines the erasure of the Black woman’s body, highlighting the period of slavery and the case of Pauline (Rabbeneck) of New Orleans, Louisiana in 1845.Key W

Episode 35: The Discreet Knowledge of Crypto-Racism

Apr 30th, 2022 29m 8s

This episode, “The Discreet Knowledge of Crypto-Racism,” reexamines three disturbing historical examples of racial violence in the U.S. history (past and recent) in order to offer a working definition of the term crypto-racism.Key words: Racism

Episode 34: A Primer on White Supremacy: It’s About the Blood

Mar 31st, 2022 20m 28s

This podcast episode, “A Primer on White Supremacy: It’s About the Blood,” recounts two events in 1944 Mississippi history: the lynching of the Reverend Isaac Simmons; and Senator Theodore Bilbo’s speech on White Supremacy found in the Congress

Episode 33: Rumors of a Race War

Feb 28th, 2022 26m 25s

This podcast episode, “Rumors of a Race War,” briefly examines the idea of a race war in the American mind. Two disparate yet related events highlighted in the long history of American race relations is the Helter Skelter race war motive used i

Episode 32: Black Women, SCOTUS, and the Politics of Post-Truth Racism

Jan 31st, 2022 26m 33s

This podcast episode, “Black Women, SCOTUS, and the Politics of Post-Truth Racism,” looks at the preliminary racist reaction to a Black woman nominee for the United States Supreme Court—with brief notes on the SCOTUS nomination’s connection to

Episode 31: The Racist Great Replacement Theory and Preemptive Retaliation

Dec 31st, 2021 24m 15s

This podcast episode considers the Far-Right racist philosophy known as the “Great Replacement Theory” with a note on the concept, Preemptive Retaliation. Key words: Racism, Great Replacement Theory (GRT), White Supremacy, Native Americans, Afr

Episode 30: Incidental Notes on Racism and the Rittenhouse Murder Trial

Nov 30th, 2021 28m 22s

Episode Description—This podcast episode explores the immediate aftermath of the 2021 Rittenhouse Murder Trial. Key words: Racism, Rittenhouse Murder Trial, Jacob Blake Shooting, World To Come: The Baltimore Uprising, Militant Racism And Histo

Episode 29: A Brief Note on the Paradigm of Racist Predation

Nov 1st, 2021 11m 4s

This podcast episode briefly covers the Paradigm of Racist Predation. Key words: Racism, Racist Predation, Human Predatory Behavior, Leslie’s Weekly, Lynching, NAACP, The Crisis, Animal Biology, World to Come: The Baltimore Uprising, Militant R

Bonus

Bonus Episode 6: An Historical Account of the Ida B. Wells-Barnett Anti-Lynching Texts, Kawaida Womanism, and the Sacred

Oct 15th, 2021 5m

Episode Description—This bonus podcast episode (live) is for those who follow Dr. Bankole-Medina’s scholarly endeavors!Key words: Dr. Jennifer Williams, Racial Violence (Lynching), Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Kawaida Philosophy, Kawaida Womanism, The

Episode 28: The Authoritarian Racist Personality (ARP)

Oct 1st, 2021 20m 44s

Episode Description—In this episode we consider The Authoritarian Racist Personality.Key words: Racism, Rhineland Germany, J.A. Rogers, Edward Scobie, Ivan Van Sertima, World War I, Afro-German, Nazi Third Reich, Rhineland Bastards, Theodor W.

Episode 27: Racist Game Theory

Aug 31st, 2021 22m 40s

This episode explores Racist Game Theory. Key words: Racism, White Supremacy, White Privilege, Game Theory, Racist Game Theory, Black Men, Voter Suppression, Brennen Center for Justice, Attempted Murder, Critical Race Theory, Racism In Mortgage

Episode 26: Narcissistic Racism—The Trials and Triumphs of Cori Bush

Jul 31st, 2021 34m 21s

Episode Description—This podcast episode, “Narcissistic Racism—The Trials and Triumphs of Cori Bush,” explores what constitutes the idea of Narcissistic Racism, and how this concept highlights the recent death threats levied against U.S. Congre

Episode 25: The First Rule of Racism…

Jun 30th, 2021 25m 14s

This episode explores the reproduction of racism through silence and the restriction of knowledge and information by looking at the pop culture film Fight Club and the famous tagline: "The first rule of fight club is you do not talk about fight

Episode 24: #WhenRacistsMisLabelThings—The Myths Surrounding Critical Race Theory

May 31st, 2021 23m 15s

This episode explores the racism inherent in the current public discussion over, and attacks against, Critical Race Theory. Key words: Racism, Critical Race Theory, War, Myth, Mislabeling, Brown v. Board of Education, Southern Manifesto, Neo-co

Episode 23: Racist Surrealism, The Chauvin Verdict, and the Plea for Justice

Apr 28th, 2021 31m 13s

This podcast episode, “Racist Surrealism, The Chauvin Verdict, and the Plea for Justice,” is a recap (with commentary) of the recent court decision which convicted former Minneapolis, Minnesota police officer Derrick Chauvin for the 2020 murder

Episode 22: Racecraft and the Idea of African American Vaccine Hesitancy

Mar 14th, 2021 31m 8s

In this episode we join the discussion surrounding the COVID-19 vaccine and the public notion of vaccine hesitancy in the Black community. Key words: Race, Racism, Racecraft, Dr. Esther Hill Hawks, A Woman Doctor’s Civil War, Gerald Schwartz, v

Bonus

Bonus Episode 5: Toward of A Methodology for Honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. in the New Age

Feb 4th, 2021 27m 8s

In this bonus episode, Dr. Katherine Bankole-Medina delivers the keynote lecture at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Virtual Celebration hosted by San Diego State University. This even was recorded Friday, January 22, 2021. Key words: Racism, Martin

Episode 21: White Privilege and the Messy Coup

Jan 11th, 2021 37m 56s

This episode looks briefly at White privilege and the coup attempt that occurred in the United States on January 6, 2021. Key words: Racism, United States Coup, Domestic Terrorism, White Privilege, Racial Double Standards, Joy Ann Reid, Kamala

Episode 20: Hood Racism--The KKK Cypher

Dec 25th, 2020 15m 26s

This episode, “Hood Racism—The KKK Cypher,” takes a brief look at the early history of the Ku Klux Klan in the United States with emphasis on the role of secrecy. Key topics: Racism, Ku Klux Klan, KKK, secrecy, Confederacy, Psychological manipu

Episode 19: A Good Deed and the White Supremacist Online Surveillance of Black People

Dec 13th, 2020 25m 59s

This episode, “A Good Deed and the White Supremacist Online Surveillance of Black People,” relates a personal narrative about being threatened online with militant racism in the time of COVID-19. Key words: Race, Racism, White Supremacy, Survei

Episode 18: Racism Has Always Been a Public Health Crisis

Dec 5th, 2020 30m 12s

This episode explores the basic concept of public health; the recent phenomenon of cities, counties, and national organizations declaring racism a public health crisis; important questions and concerns about the declaration that racism is an ur

Episode 17: The Racist Pedagogics of Prejudice and Privilege

Nov 29th, 2020 30m 3s

This episode explores “The Racist Pedagogics of Prejudice and Privilege” by briefly surveying, through four case summaries, how racist ideas are taught, maintained, and reinforced among White people. Key words: Racism, Race Relations, White Sup

Episode 16: Rituals of Racism—False Accusations and the Attack on Black Lives Matter

Nov 19th, 2020 25m 9s

Episode Description—This episode explores one of the many “Rituals of Racism.” One ritual is the phenomenon of False Accusations made against Black people; and how this practice, in one recent example, is related to the attack on the Black Live