So here is my second step in new direction for #DaRundown South. In this episode I wanted to look into the behavior of Rachel Dolezal as she took over the headlines on the nightly news, The Today Show, and lead to plenty of old people on Skype calls on TV. This is a white woman who basically rose up the ranks of black society, like an undercover cop infiltrating a caretel, to be the head of a NAACP chapter in Spokane, WA. I know it might be a little late but I take more time to digest what's going on. I had more questions than answers. I was more interested on how we got here in the first place.

I wanted to know the role that having black adopted siblings played in her getting here. Why were parents so easily convinced to out her? Why was she so convincing playing black and how loyal can a hair stylist be? To get some answers I enlisted the help of Professor Wizdom Powell, PhD, She works at University of North Carolina's Gillings School of Global Public Health. Her research focuses primarily on investigating psychosocial determinants of African American men’s mental and physical health across the life-course. Within the field she investigates the contribution of gender (e.g., social constructions of masculinity), intergenerational transmission, socioeconomic status, socioenvironmental processes (e.g., racial discrimination), health-related attitudes (e.g., medical mistrust) and behavior to African American men’s mental and physical health status.

With her assistance I got educated on few things and you can to by listening to this episode. If you want to get in contact with Professor Wizdom or view here work, here a few links

Read Professor Wizdom Powell's complete profile here

Twitter @wizdomisms

Email: [email protected]

Topics

5:35 Intro to Professor Wizdom Powell

9:55 Black by Generation

15:51 Rachel Dolezal Timeline

30:11 How did Rachel pull it off?

35:03 Black Female Psyche

40:25 Charleston Church Shooting/Systemic Racism

47:49 Outro/Parting words

Since I don't write much, I guess you can call this an Audio Blog post.

Golden State Warriors pulled it of in 6 like most predicted. Congratulation to the whole and especially to my "hometown Hero Draymond Green for putting in the work and having it pay off.

Now what? I jump into what will stop this from being a rematch next year. From where I sitting at this current time, not much.

Couple with those takes is the reporting Lil Wayne signing a deal with Jay-Z. Not Roc Nation but with Tidal as a part owner. Could this be the first step? July 4th could really have some fireworks if we get "Free Weezy". Definitely a name not to sleep on.

Hey its that time again. We have some new friends on the podcast this week. I have KC and Chris Lehman from BlackisOnline.com. On the site they leave no subject off the table from the bevy of podcast they offer. Some infrequent and a few mainstays they touch on music, sports, entertainment, relationships and the list goes on, in my own words, all from the perspective that it is different to be black in America.

Why KC and Chris?

I had the husband and wife team on podcast to help with the transition of #DaRundown Sports will be making that to the #DaRundown South and if you wonder why the name change, stayed tuned you will surely find out why. You can count on having more entertainment laced discussion as well going to that uncomfortable subject of social matters. We will still have sports though.

What we discussed

On this episode we get to know KC and Chris. I asked about the household dynamic that most couples struggle with. Life with sports. I have some views on blacks on television and the perception it creates for us in real life. So when I heard one of their podcast speaking on the subject, I wanted to jump in the conversation, so I brought it over to #DRDS. I 'm also on a mission to get some answers about Tyler Perry. All of this send us down a road about black comedians in America and what the landscape is for the films. We wrap up the podcast by talking a bit about relationships, parenting, and when leadership needs to be delegated.

Thanks for listening!

On this holiday special edition of the #DaRundown Sports podcast, I got in a conversations with the homey J. Hicks on Twitter about Matthew Dellave-"diver" getting tangled up with Al Horford. J is a Cavs fan and I am down here caping for the hometown Hawks so both sides of the fence are represented.

Three points on that topic.

Should Al Horford been ejected?

Why was Dellavedova hit with the technical foul?

Is Delly in any way a dirty player?

Instead of spending all those characters on it, I thought it be better served as a podcast. We also look ahead to the NBA Finals and discuss the things that bother us about LeBron.

Thanks for listening!

NFL came down on Tom Brady and the Patriots. How Tom Brady came out like Lil Wayne. NBA coaching is at a premium and somehow the Falcons are still haunted by Michael Vick.

Tom Brady Suspended/Goodell intentions 1:47

NBA Playoffs 6:54

Falcon's Curse of Michael Vick 11:22

Hey after a week off I run it down with homey Eazys Life from GrindMode Entertainment. We watch the fight and we weren't disappointed, so why is everyone else? Randy Gregory is committed to the Dallas Cowboys, as seen by his new arm tat, but is the feeling mutual? Isiah Thomas running basketball in New York, start the jokes. Still go the same teams in the NBA Finals? We answer all these and more on this episode of #DaRundown Sports - Gotta Know That.

Thanks for listening.

This week on the podcast I have J. Hicks from the Hip-Hop Sports Report. As you can see J and I have a lot in common. So after keeping some tabs on him I decided to have him on. Between the two we cover a lot. We jump all in with the NBA playoffs. He is a Cleveland Cavaliers fan and as you I am in Atlanta so there was plenty to speak on. We go into "The Tebow Effect", Mayweather Pacquiao, his piece Mike Tyson and Tiger Woods comparison, and 2015 HIp-Hop so far. There was so much to talk about I had to "break the brick down" into two parts.

Wudup people. We're back with part 2 of the podcast with NBA.com's Hangtime Blog and Podcast own Sekou Smith. We pick up on conversation by asking about his co-hosts, wrap a bow on the Hawks Danny Ferry issue and some general NBA talk. Enjoy and thanks for listening

Wudup people? #DRDS is back with a new episode. On this edition we are joined by Sekou Smith NBA.com's Hangtime Blog.He also host a podcast with Lang Whitaker and Rick Fox with the same name. Sekou spent time as an Atlanta Hawks beat writer for the AJC and now covers the whole league. I felt like Smith would have some perspective in the culture shift that Hawks have and why they can't seem to command the respect a #1 seed. This is part 1 on of the interview. Thanks listening.

Feels great to be dropping a fresh new episode for the first time since December. I had to get some things in order but #DRDS back up and will try hard to go hard every week.

This week I bring on Nadine Liverpool bka Naynay from Sportsnaytion.com. I spoke with the former UAB soccer player and graduate about her recent trip to NBA All-Star Weekend, I check in on her preseason NBA predictions at this point in the season and ask her about her hometown of Toronto. As an added bonus I did figure out if your from Toronto your pretty much a couple degrees of separation from Drake.