Politini - BLIS.FM

From Black-ish to How to Get Away with Murder to Gotham and more, our television shows are finally starting to mirror the shifting demographics of our society. In this episode we wonder if the revelation, that people of color can actually exist in a multi-dimensional way on the small screen will become our new normal? With guest Emil Wilbekin, Creative and Strategic Marketing Professional and Chief Creative Officer of World of Wilbekin.

When TMZ released the second video of NFL Player Ray Rice knocking out the mother of his child the incident went viral on social media spawning the hashtags 'Why I Stayed' and 'Why I Left' making the public's outrage go viral. In this episode we ask has violence against women become our new normal? And if so does social media have the power to stop it? With guests Dr. Kaila Story, assistant professor of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Louisville and Chantal Barlow, founder of the Unconventional Apology Project.

Style and smarts are not mutually exclusive entities. Remember the movie Legally Blonde when Elle Woods ditched her hot pink ensembles for black frocks and glasses to fit in at Harvard? What about Olivia Pope? Would she wield as much power and presence on Scandal if her style game wasn't equally as fierce as her political fixing? Politini went to the center of fashion power, VOGUE magazine, to get the scoop on how a younger generation of women are redefining what it means to be stylish and powerful.

Many may still balk at twitter-activism and it's ability to produce real-life solutions, but solutions can't be hatched without an initial spark and realization that there IS a problem. In this episode we ask has #hashtag activism become our new normal? With guests Nina Smith, Director with Impact and Risikat Okedeyi, Founder of LSP, a cultural architecture firm and English Professor at Prince George's Community College.