Go Black Boy Go

Born and raised in Alexandria, Louisiana, Afro Sensei is an artist who combines a mix of genres from gospel, house, R & B and metal to produce his own distinct sound that never loses its black, queer and southern roots. In this interview, he discusses how the pandemic has affected his music, he talks about his process for creating a song, and he reveals his musical influences. 

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Follow Go Black Boy Go on Twitter / IG @goblackboygo, the host on Twitter @jalenthompso and the guest Afro Sensei on IG and YouTube @afrosensei. Listen to Afro Sensei on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/73bxSCZzaIHLcLEomqNb7v?si=dca7vRr5SL-lWqTHvS7gHQ

In the last installment of this series, Jalen chats with his colleagues in the English department about the election week and dealing with graduate school. These interviews were recorded between November 12 - November 15.

Guests in the order you first hear them:

Teresa Hernández 

Madhura Nadarajah

Emalydia Flenory

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Thank you Teresa for these resources! For more information on resources and advocacy for immigrants and refugees, check out these sites -- Raices: https://www.raicestexas.org/ / Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project: https://firrp.org / https://southtexashumanrights.org/ / No More Deaths: https://nomoredeaths.org/ / Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center: https://las-americas.org/ / San Diego Rapid Response Network: http://www.rapidresponsesd.org/

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Jalen chats with a few guests about their thoughts on the election week. These interviews were recorded between November 9 - November 14.

Guests in the order you first hear them:

Bryant Thurman

Kahlil Kyles

Will Henry 

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Jalen chats with a few guests about their thoughts on the election week. These interviews were recorded between November 9 - November 14.

Guests in the order you first hear them:

Connor Ryan

Isaac Devine

Erin Green

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Jalen and his partner Chad chat about the horror genre and some of their favorite horror movies. 

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Welcome to Season 3!

In this episode, Jalen chats with Nick Machuca who works for a LGBTQ civil rights organization. Nick shares his experiences working with voters and his thoughts on this election season.  

Make sure to have a plan to vote: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/how-to-vote-2020/

https://www.rockthevote.org/how-to-vote/ 

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Jalen recounts his time studying for his breadth exams.

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Jalen talks about his past week dealing with the wildfires on the west coast and celebrates two years of the podcast with his very first podcast recording (24:28) featuring guests Keontez Mitchell and Isaac Devine. 

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Producer CJ Bell and director David Parker stop by to talk about their new virtual, theatrical film Is Anybody Out There? 

Purchase tickets for Is Anybody Out There? (Sept. 25 - Sept. 29) at https://thebbrtc.ticketleap.com/iabot/. The BBRTC is giving out free tickets to 100 Black Queer people; go to [email protected] to receive a voucher code. Preference is given to Black Queer Trans/GNC and/or Black people living with HIV.

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Follow Go Black Boy Go on Twitter / IG @goblackboygo and the host on Twitter @jalenthompso. You can contact CJ @ https://www.carltonvbell.com, find info on the Birmingham Black Repertory Theatre Company at https://www.thebbrtc.com/ and follow David on IG @davidhparker_. Listen on iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, and Podbean and wherever else you get your podcasts. DON'T FORGET to leave a review on iTunes and share the episodes on your social medias!

Award winning Black gay comedian, writer, filmmaker, and activist Sampson McCormick talks with Jalen about his early beginnings in as a black gay man in the comedy industry and his new film stand up concert comedy film “Church Boy.” With almost 20 years in the business, Sampson is one of the first openly Black gay comedians, one of the first LGBTQ headliners at the historic Howard Theatre, and the first comic to headline at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C.

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Follow Go Black Boy Go on Twitter / IG @goblackboygo, the host on Twitter @jalenthompso, and Sampson McCormick on Twitter @OfficialSampson and IG @sampsonmccormick. You can watch “Church Boy” on YouTube along with over 10 years of his stand up: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuulRZKEaeKgd2FrtIcV2Wg. For more info about Sampson’s work go to sampsoncomedy.com.

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