Brown & Black

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! 🦃 As opposed to leaving you with a repeat episode on this holiday, we decided to keep you company with a new episode! We're bringing along three of our friends too - Comedian, writer, and actress Leighann Lord, Eduardo Vilaro, Artistic Director/CEO Ballet Hispanico and Puerto-Rican electronic musical project ÌFÉ. Sit back, relax, and oh, please pass the turkey and mash potatoes. 😉

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"No self-respecting government is going to teach you a history that's going to allow you to have the tools to change the system."

Paul Ortiz, historian and author of the book "An African-American and Latinx History of the United States" joins the show to discuss with Mike and Jack about the plethora of historical contributions Brown and Black people have made in America. He also touches upon our own self-hatred and why it still affects us, why the educational system doesn't favor Black and Latinos, and why Hollywood is a bastion for white propaganda and how Broadway's Hamilton is the last thing you should revere as fact.

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On today's episode Mike and Jack talk to about the Eva Longoria anti-black comments that created a backlash with Black Twitter. Journalist, political commentator and scholar-activist Rosa Alicia Clemente, who served as Eva's advisor throughout the fiasco, joins the show to discuss what happened and provide context on anti-black history with Latinos and Blacks. Rosa argues everyone is anti-black, but if so, can some be forgiven? She also sounds-off on why we should seek historians and professors for enlightenment and stop looking at celebrities like John Leguizamo and Lin-Manuel Miranda as Latinx leaders.

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Welcome to the last episode of the daily election series of the Brown and Black podcast. We have a new President of the United States and his name is Joe Biden.

On this episode Jack and Mike explore the "now what" scenario - what will a Biden Presidency mean for Latinos and Blacks ? How will Biden meet the challenge of unifying the country?

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Day 2 of our daily series where Mike and Jack distill the election chaos of the US Presidency from a Brown and Black perspective. They also discuss racial implications from Trump's briefing towards pollsters and is the media complicit in aggrandizing Trump?

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Jack and Mike are going to do daily podcasts to discuss the circus that is The White House until we officially call who the next President of the United States is. Here's the first of hopefully a few episodes.

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Our episode this week focuses on the subject of cultural appropriation or cultural appreciation. Legendary actor Louis Gossett Jr. plays Luis Garcia in Sergio Navarretta's 'The Cuban,' which centers around a former Cuban jazz musician who changes the life of a young caretaker after he's diagnosed with dementia. In a time where our country is sensitive about actors playing roles not native to their culture, did Mr. Gossett Jr. commit cultural appropriation or cultural appreciation? We asked Mr. Gossett Jr. point blank just that.

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On this episode, we are discussing, in-depth, the fate of movie theaters. Will they re-open, will home-theaters replace them, or will they disappear altogether. We spoke to several moviegoers, and theater-owner Emelyn Stuart, who shared their feelings about their current relationship with movie theaters.

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Jack and Mike take a look at the recent growing number of hired Black media executives and ask if they will fulfill the promise of transforming the content we see in 2021. And will Latinx executives be left behind?

The guys also begin a new movie review segment focusing on Brown and Black movies with "The Wall of Mexico" starring Esai Morales.

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We welcome award-winning costume designers Michelle Cole and Sharen Davis whom are both nominated for Primetime Emmys this year for Outstanding Costume Designing.

But before Mike and Jack interview Michelle and Sharen, they discuss the mindset of Latino Republicans and Latinos for Trump, plus they're thoughts on the profusion of Blacks and women nominated against the backdrop of no Latinx nominated in any major category.

Michelle Cole is nominated this year for Outstanding Contemporary Costumes for ABC's Blackish. This is the 3rd year in a row that she's nominated, and this is also her 7th overall Emmy nomination in her career. Sharen Davis is a two-time Academy Award and Emmy-nominated costume designer who is nominated this year for Outstanding Fantasy/Sci-Fi Costumes for the HBO's Watchmen and already won as of the time of this recording. The power ladies discuss with Jack and Mike how they got into costume designing, differences designing wardrobe for a white character than it is for a Black character, the differences between fashion design and costume design, where they get their Inspirations from, and Sharen Davis's prescient design of face masks in 'Watchmen' before Covid-19.

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