After School Talk Podcast

Melvin and ShaRon catch up with their friend Chris Baxter and have a conversation on white privilege, white fragility and creating safer spaces for minority students. 

Melvin and ShaRon grew up as church kids and after watching The Clark Sisters film on Lifetime, they decided to team up with Jhaniqua Palmer to breakdown some practices of the church and how they can affect students. 

While on quarantine, Melvin and ShaRon decide to check out Tiger King. So catch up with them to wrap up Self-Made and discuss the foolishness of Joe Exotic and Carol Baskin. 

Melvin and ShaRon move on to Parts 2 & 3 of the Netflix series "Self-Made: Inspired by the Life of Madame CJ Walker". 

Melvin and ShaRon discuss the Netflix series that has flipped the game on our original black history books and triggered our thoughts on colorism. Let's talk about Self-Made:Inspired by the life of Madame C.J.Walker. 

Melvin and ShaRon weigh in on argument that all children with good wi-fi can learn. Wait .. say that again?! Does the "rona" have us rethinking traditional school?

Melvin and ShaRon discuss the COVID-19 on education while sipping on their favorite drink ... margaritas! 

On this episode, Melvin and ShaRon talk about their latest trip to the National Youth At-Risk Conference and how educators are handling the coronavirus. 

This episode is dedicated to Louie and Keith. Two people our friends and family suddenly lost this week.

After many days of sadness and confusion, Melvin and ShaRon decided they needed the best therapy ... laughter! Find out how Melvin got dragged during a girl fight while ShaRon found herself with the ultimate bubble guts during a meeting. 

Melvin and ShaRon chop it up with K. Gladney, former hiphop blogger, podcast host and high school mentor. As a follow-up to the last episode, they discussed how Gladney used hiphop in a high school mentoring program and the influence of the music in the new generation.