Being Seen

Finding spaces where we can inhabit shared visions of freedom.

Featured in this episode: Quincy Mills (Professor & Author), Marc Lamont Hill (TV Host, Author & Activist), and Lorenzo Lewis (Advocate, Speaker & Author).

An exploration of marking our existence, building community and cherishing our youth. 

Featured in this episode: Shangela (Actor, Comedian & Performer), Kalen Allen (Creator, Writer & Actor), and Keiynan Lonsdale (Dancer & Singer-Songwriter).

The power of mentoring to create representative narratives, construct community and build a collective legacy.

Featured in this episode: Guest Co-Host Lena Waithe (Writer, Actor & Producer), Gina Prince-Bythewood (Writer & Director), Little Marvin (Writer & Producer) and LaDarian Smith (Writer & Producer).

An exploration of the power, the challenge, the opportunities and the experience of fatherhood.

Featured in this episode: Dennis Williams (SVP, WarnerMedia), Jericho Brown (Award-Winning Poet), and Calvin & Tim (Fathers & Advocates) joined by their daughter Grady.

Stories as freedom. Our futures. Transforming culture and ourselves through the power of narrative, community, and our connection to our pasts. 

Featured in this episode: Lena Waithe (Writer, Actor & Producer) and a special interview with James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni (courtesy of WNET and originally recorded for Soul!).

The pain of stigma and the power we have to dismantle it. Building communities that embrace and care for people living with HIV in all the ways. Giving them the love, care and consideration they have always deserved.

Featured in this episode: Dr. Kimberly Smith, Emil Wilbekin (Founder, Native Son), Tboy (Community Activist), and Antwan Matthews (Activist & Scholar).

Creating inclusive communities of faith, sexuality and the divine, the church as a “horizon for imagining the terms of Black life.” How can we create spaces of faith that expand and affirm the fullness of all of our existences? 

Featured in this episode: Mykal Kilgore (Musician & Activist), Bishop Yvette Flunder (Pastor & Activist), and Josef Sorett (Scholar & Author), and Jordan E. Cooper (Writer & Actor).

Black men loving Black men is, as the deceased Black gay writer Joseph Beam opined in the 1980s, a “revolutionary act” because every moment a Black man is transgressive enough to love what he has been socialized to hate, he commits an act of insurgency. And this is what it is to love, radically. 

Featured in this episode: Luke James (Musician & Actor).

How do we define intimacy and in what ways do we cultivate it or allow it to show up in our lives? Are our intimacies many or are they few? And do we ask the people we let into our spaces to show us the care and consideration we both need and deserve?

Featured in this episode: Zeke Thomas (Musician & Advocate), Dyllon Burnside (Actor), Kai M. Green (Scholar & Advocate), Ita O'Brien (Intimacy Coordinator).