Revolutionary Baddies Podcast

SURPRISE!!!! Revolutionary Baddies wanted to give the listeners a little gift in return of the support received all August 2026. In this episode, Brittany and Dee Dee break down the ups and downs of planning another LIVE show during Black August in the Park weekend with a very special guest. Hope you enjoy this one! 

Links for the show: Season 2. Episode 23

Sugar by Bernice L. McFadden

Black August in the Park

The Black August In The Park: An Archive of Radical Joy and Resistance in the City of Durham by Dare Kumolo-Johnson

Discourse on Colonialism by Aime Cesaire

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The Baddies Have Delivered, Again!! After an incredible seven month run, Season 2 of the Revolutionary Baddies Podcast is coming to a close. DO NOT PANIC! This is only the Season Finale. So let’s break down the season’s accomplishments. We have recorded 22 episodes, surpassed 6,000 downloads, reached listeners in 473 cities and 59 countries, and hosted 2 in person events through our book club series, “Read and Yap”, and gained 50 new Patreon members.. Most importantly, we’ve continued to build organic relationships with our listeners, established ourselves as trusted voices/sources of knowledge, and ignited meaningful conversations that push our collective consciousness forward. This season was all about understanding what makes a revolution and how history can be used as a tool in the process. Brittany and Dee Dee hope you have enjoyed this season more than they did. Thank you thank you thank you!

Questions for our listeners

What was your favorite episode from Season 2?

What was your favorite moment from Season 2?

Links for the show: Season 2. Episode 22

Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler

Hood Wellness by Tamela J. Gordon 

Women’s Freedom and the African Freedom Struggle by Thomas Sankara

From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century by Wlliam A. Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Miller

Assata: An Autobiography

The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson

Survival Is A Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde by alexis pauline gumbs

Return to the Source: Selected Speeches by Amilcar Cabral

Stokley Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism by Stokely Carmichael/Kwame Ture

All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks

Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells by Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Ada B. Wells

Baracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” by Zora Neale Hurston

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde

The Conjure Workbook Volume 1: Working the Root by Starr Casas

Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation by Beth Richie

Black. Single. Mothering: Real Life Tales of Longing and Belonging by Jamilah Lemieux 

Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson by George Jackson

Ella Baker and the Radical Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision by Barbara Ransby

The American Revolution: Pages from a Negro Worker’s Notebook by James Boggs

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As Revolutionary Baddies wind down Season 2, they bring to life an old story of ordinary people doing revolutionary things. The story of Local 22 in Winston-Salem is a story of Black working class power and unapologetic spirit to fight and demand better conditions, pay, and respect. The 1960s Civil Rights Movement tends to receive all of the glory, but the 1930s- 1940s struggle across the Black working class built the foundation for those movements. North Carolina is home to some of the largest and most influential historical resistance movements. Local 22 is one of those moments, led by Black women that believed in maintaining their dignity, organizing class solidarity, and growth. Hopefully, this episode brings you a deeper connection to Black workers struggles and how we all could be playing a better role for the sake of freedom. 

Links for the show: Season 2. Episode 21

Black Scare/Red Scare by Charisse Burden-Stelly

Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 by W.E.B. Dubois

The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution by Eric Foner

Democratic Socialists of America

Party for Socialism and Liberation

Durham Association of Educators

Proposed City of Durham Budget is Full of “Trade-Offs”

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In 1968, revolutionary freedom fighter Grace Lee Boggs wrote an essay speaking to the definition and need for a Black Revolution. She provides us with a grounded assessment of what a revolution in the US means for our collective work. In this episode, Revolutionary Baddies dissect her essay, which is featured in “Black Women: An Anthology” by Toni Cade Bambara. Grace Lee Boggs was a Chinese-American organizer, writer, and educator moving through and with the Black Liberation Struggle in 1940s- 1970s. She advocated for evolution and developed a reputation alongside her husband, James Boggs, who was also a revolutionary organizer in Detroit. More than ever, the political and economic climate is calling for a new sense of urgency and a deeper understanding of what a revolution requires. 

Questions for our listeners

Who will lead the revolution?

Links for the show: Season 2. Episode 20

W.E.B.Dubois: A Rebel With A Cause. Full Documentary

American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs. Full Documentary

The Black Woman: An Anthology by Toni Cade Bambara

The American Revolution: Pages from a Negro Worker’s Notebook by James Boggs 

“Mortal Man”, Kendrick Lamar

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The underlying theme of this season of Revolutionary Baddies is to articulate what makes a revolution. This analysis must include what destroys a revolution. Liberalism is the ideology that carries history of negotiating, obliging, coddling, pacifying, and coercing with imperialism. Liberalism is also the default political ideology of most Black people in this country. This essay, “The Pitfalls of Liberalism” by Kwame Ture was written in 1969 and carries lessons for all of us today. Building organization and unity towards freedom becomes impossible with liberalism unchecked. In the episode, Brittany and Dee Dee provide a relevant discussion of the ways we see liberalism play out today and how we can combat it. 

Question for our listeners:

How are you combatting liberalism?

Links for the show: Season 2. Episode 19

Over 100 Campus Police Departments Got Military Equipment Through This Federal Program

Stokley Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism by Stokely Carmichael/Kwame Ture

Combat Liberalism. by Mao Zedong

The Founding Fathers Feared Political Faction Would Tear The Nation Apart

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As Ella Baker gave her class valedictorian speech at Shaw University, she left these words and these words led her life. Arguably, one of the most effective and committed grassroots organizer of the 20th century. Ella Baker was an architect behind the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, and a leader that believed in the power of everyday people doing extraordinary things. In this episode, Revolutionary Baddies attempt to capture this hero and how she navigated the decades of powerful change. From her time as a student at Shaw University, the oldest HBCU in the South, to her founding of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Mrs. Baker brought tenacity, resilience, clarity, and resourcefulness to her vision of freedom. Her life and legacy deserves celebration, study, and praise. Hope you enjoy!

Links for the show: Season 2. Episode 18

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Dubois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

The Slave Market by Ella Baker and Marvel Cooke, NAACP

Young Negroes Cooperative League

In Friendship, a fundraising organization founded by Ella Baker, Bayard Rustin, and others

Ella Baker and the Radical Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision by Barbara Ransby

Black Scare/Red Scare by Charisse Burden-Stelly

Ella Baker Organizes NAACP Chapters in the South

Royal Ice Cream Parlour Sit-In

Southern Christian Leadership Conference, S.C.L.C.

Ella Baker’s Impact On Civil Rights Movement

Congress of Racial Equality, C.O.R.E.

Robert F. Williams

Want To Start A Revolution? By Dayo F. Gore, Jeanne Theoharis, Komozi Woodard

Freedom Summer by Doug McAdam

Black Visions: The Roots of African-American Contemporary Ideologies by Michael C. Dawson

Brother Hollis: The Sankofa of A Movement Man by Hollis Watkins

This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible by Charles E. Cobb Jr

On The Freedom Side: How Five Decades of Youth Activists Have Remixed American History by Wesley Hogan

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First things first. Free All Political Prisoners!! Secondly, this episode grants permission for all of us to dream and vision a world beyond policing and prisons. Prisons are American history, and we are yet to a place to recognize and dismantle that reality. Revolutionary Baddies hold a discussion surrounding the many many ways our capitalist determines who is punished and who are not. Through the decades of brainwashing propaganda regarding the benefits of police and prisons, combined with the capitalist opportunities of the private prison industry, plus our malapportioned government system has led to a recipe of injustice. Slavery still exists legally in the United States- which means our society should know and learn more about the many ways slavery still exists. At the same time, prison abolition is about visioning and implementing new systems and institutions that prioritize humanity. We deserve so much more.

Questions for our listeners

What  is a world without prisons?

Links for the show: Season 2. Episode 17

Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon

FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS

Why Crime Rates Are Falling Across The U.S.

The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale

They Lied About “Black on Black Crime”. Here’s The REAL Cause and Solution

We Were Eight Years In Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehesi Coates

The Experiment (2001)

Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson by George Jackson

How the Attica Prison Uprising Started- And Why It Still Resonates Today

The 1994 Crime Bill and Beyond: How Federal Funding Shapes The Criminal Justice System

Durham Beyond Policing

Critical Resistance

A Soldier’s Story: Revolutionary Writings of a New Afrikan Amarchist

The Fertile Prison: Fidel Castro in Batista’s Jails by Mario Mencia

Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protest, and the Pursuit of Rachle by Derecka Purnell

WARTIME, Fall 2025 by Black Men Build

The US states with more places for incarceration than higher education

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Happy Mother’s Day! The Baddies dedicate this episode to some of the greatest contributors to society- Black mothers. In this episode, Brittany and Dee Dee dive into their lived experiences of the mothers that raised them and  how dynamic and expansive our family structures could be. And just like everything else- Motherhood is political and worth our understanding. Hope you enjoy this episode. 

All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks

We Live For The We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood by Dani McClain

Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, China Martens, Mai’a Williams

Black. Single. Mothering: Real Life Tales of Longing and Belonging by Jamilah Lemieux 

The Negro Family: The Case For National Action

Kahlil Gurban

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TRIGGER WARNING. Over the past couple of months, there have been several alarming and saddening cases of Black women being murdered by their husbands, fiances, boyfriends, and exes. We cannot shy away from uplifting the names and stories of these Black women and how pervasive  and insidious patriarchal violence is. In order to see a revolution forward, we must address how patriarchy suffocates the Black community and our society at large. That discussion leads to an intentional discussion regarding reproductive justice. Reproductive Justice(RJ) is a framework developed by Black women and strengthened by Black Queer people over time. It is a framework that goes beyond reproductive rights and pro-choice. RJ covers all of those things plus the principle of having safe and sustainable communities. Having safe and sustainable communities guarantees a better future for our children and everyone else. Reproductive Justice is not just a “women’s issue” it is a guide for a more equitable future. Patriarchy is antithetical to all justice. This episode is dedicated to Dr. Cerina Fairfax, Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer, Pastor Tammy McCollum, Qualeshia “Saditty” Barnes, Ashlee Jenae, Davonte Curtis, Ashanti Allen, Victoria Alexander, Gabryel Ayers, Raven Edwards, Teonia Stokes, Gladys Johnson, Daneshia Heller, Imani Dia Smith, Bianca Huntley, and Barbara Deer.

Questions for our listeners:

How are you processing the headlines of patriarchial violence against Black women?

Links for the episode: Season 2. Episode 15

“Who Will Revere The Black Woman?” Remembering Nancy, Cerina, and So Many More 

Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation by Beth Richie

The Origin of Family, Private Property, and the State by Friedrich Engels

SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective

Republicans Are Mad Teen Pregnancies Are Down

Black Mamas Matter Alliance

Black Maternal Health Week

Black Midwives Sue Georgia Over Birth Laws That Harm Black Mothers

Duke Charitable Care

The Momnibus Act: The Solution to America’s Maternal Health Crisis 

Anti-Shackling Pregnant Women

Black Girls’ Guide to Menopause

Race, Religion, and Reproductive Rights: Understanding the Conservative Anti- Abortion Movement in America

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde

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This planet is all we have yall. Revolutionary Baddies covers a lively discussion on the damages of capitalism on this Earth and how we need to resist. In order for any opportunity of revolution to be realized, we must take our relationship to the land seriously. Brittany and Dee Dee draw the connection of land to the necessity of wellness. Wellness is not an individual process but a North Star for the community. This means understanding our food systems, lineage of farming and gardening, medical and health systems, and land development. This country is too rich for food deserts, and yet so many of us have grown to understand food desserts as part of the fabric of the US. We are not promoters of the Make America Healthy Again right-wing, traditionalist, capitalist movement. We are promoters of a human society that values wellness for the sake of the struggle for freedom.

Questions for our listeners:

What are some wellness practices we can do on an individual level?

Links for the show: Season 2. Episode 14

Sicko(2007) Documentary

How Many Black Farmers are there in the US? Why we doubt the government stats?

Obama era school based nutrition policy led to better diets for students but faces changes

Can We Change What A Society Eats? Feed: A food systems Podcast

The Greenwood Food Blockade

Colored Farmers’ National Alliance and Cooperative Union, 1886-1891

Black Farmers’ Market

Queen Sugar (TV Series)

Food, Inc. (2008) Documentary

The Formula: Nestle Boycott of 1977 Documentary

The Black Woman by Toni Cade Bambara

The Conjure Workbook Volume 1: Working the Root by Starr Casas

The Uyoga Farm

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