Go Black Boy Go

Jalen shares stories about growing up in the black church with guest Emmanuel Woolard.

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Follow Go Black Boy Go on Twitter / Instagram @goblackboygo, the host on Twitter @jalenthompso and Emmanuel on IG @EdSayHi. Listen on iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, and Podbean!  

Jalen and his best Judy Will discuss The Snatch Game of Love.

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Music-DJ Tony Playboi-I Was Waiting On You At The Door: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxbE6nnoKkA / Follow the Judys: Will’s Instagram @willyum.jpeg; Jalen’s Podcast on Instagram & Twitter @goblackboygo 

Jalen and his best Judy Will chat about the fourth episode of All Stars 5.

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Music-DJ Tony Playboi-I Was Waiting On You At The Door: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxbE6nnoKkA / Follow the Judys: Will’s Instagram @willyum.jpeg; Jalen’s Podcast on Instagram & Twitter @goblackboygo

Before we actually recorded the episode, guest John-Chris and I discussed random topics from how our lives were in the COVID era to Black Lives Matter. Listen in on our short and honest conversation.

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Follow Go Black Boy Go on Twitter / Instagram @goblackboygo, the host on Twitter @jalenthompso and John-Chris on IG @john.chris.ward. Listen on iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, and Podbean!  

Jalen and his best Judy Will chat about the third episode of All Stars 5.

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Music-DJ Tony Playboi-I Was Waiting On You At The Door: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxbE6nnoKkA / Follow the Judys: Will’s Instagram @willyum.jpeg; Jalen’s Podcast on Instagram & Twitter @goblackboygo

Jalen discusses straight black men's problematic ways with actor, director, and playwright John-Chris Ward. Together they share experiences of homophobia from black men, address black men's transphobia, and lead into a conversation about the queerness of black folks.

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Follow Go Black Boy Go on Twitter / Instagram @goblackboygo, the host on Twitter @jalenthompso and John-Chris on IG @john.chris.ward. Listen on iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, and Podbean!  

Best Judys Will and Jalen discuss the first two episodes of All Stars 5. 

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Music-DJ Tony Playboi-I Was Waiting On You At The Door: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxbE6nnoKkA / Follow the Judys: Will’s Instagram @willyum.jpeg; Jalen’s Podcast on Instagram & Twitter @goblackboygo

Jalen has a conversation about queer media representation with his friend and filmmaker, Fred Bouie. 

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Media Discussed:

The Golden Girls

Will & Grace

My So Called Life

The Real World: San Fransisco

That’s So Raven

Noah’s Arc

Queer as Folk

Please Like Me

Brokeback Mountain

Glee

Drag Race

Moonlight

Call Me By Your Name

Love, Simon

Alex Strangelove

If Beale Street Could Talk

Pain and Glory

Filmmakers Mentioned:

Marlon Riggs

Issac Julien

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Follow Go Black Boy Go on Twitter / Instagram @goblackboygo, the host on Twitter @jalenthompso and Fred on IG @bouie.fred.l. NonFiction & Animated Mind:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoj_Twpszz8snixT-xwEhCA/featured. Listen on iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, and Podbean!  

This week Jalen brings in Pride month with his friend and newly admitted PhD student, Erin Green.

In Teaching/Grad School School Corner (2:12), they cover Erin’s plan for his first semester of grad school, teaching anxieties and their feelings about showing up in the classroom as black queer men. In Classic Sh*t (21:18), they discuss “Bussin’” by Taye Money, Tik Tok addiction, and problematic white rappers. In What’s the Tea? (30:10), they think about how they want to celebrate pride during a pandemic in a way that centers black queer folx. And finally in they tell you what they are SO Done (1:11:52) with for the week: people on facebook.

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Follow Go Black Boy Go on Twitter / Instagram @goblackboygo, the host on Twitter @jalenthompso and Erin on Instagram / Snapchat @artistguy1. Listen on iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, and Podbean!  

Jalen chats with his former college roommate and fraternity brother, Bryant Thurman, about what it means for black life to matter and what lives usually get to matter in national media coverage. / Media referenced in this episode: Flint (Netflix), Tales of the Grimm Sleeper (Amazon), and Dem Trumps (SNL sketches on YouTube).

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Follow Go Black Boy Go on Twitter / Instagram @goblackboygo, the host on Twitter @jalenthompso, and Chocolate Bar on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/chocolatebar31620/. Listen on iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, and Podbean!