The Chop Up

In response to the Dave Chappelle Netflix stand-up special "Sticks and Stones," the crew discuss homophobia in comedy and the (lack of) boundaries within the art form.

With the passing of literary icon, Toni Morrison, the crew talks about her legacy as well as the collective responses black people have when our leaders, role models, and icons transitions into ancestry.

The crew responds to the NCAA's implementation of new rules and guidelines for incoming sports agents. The newly imposed were clearly unnecessary and targeted at keeping agents like phenom, Rich Paul out of the representation game.

Following the shootings in El Paso, Texas, Dayton, OH, and around the country, the crew explores the mental, social, and cultural dynamics of white supremacy and how they should be understood in a society of  normalized mass death.

In this segment, the hosts round out Pride Month 2019 with an in-depth discussion about the intersections of blackness and queerness, our personal moments of reckoning with black queerness, and an honest conversation about what we can do  more to support and liberate all black people, specifically black queer folks

After two nights of preliminary Democrat debates jammed packed with 20 total candidates, the hosts begin the show with their reflections on some of the best and worst performers of the evenings

Continuing the conversation about "When They See Us" on the Conscious Chop, @TheConsciousLee circles back to resolve some questions about how much the Central Park 5 should really be rewarded and the ways corrupt prosecutors like Linda Fairstein should be dealt with in the system.

With the recent news that rapper, JayZ, has become the first hip hip artist to be worth a billion dollars, the crew addresses some of the questions swirling around his fortune. Is this a win for the culture? Did he have to cozy up to whiteness to get it, and is that bad? Is he, as well as other grossly affluent black celebrities obligated to give back? Is black capitalism good?

After the show begins with the question of the day, we begin a discussion about Netflix original series, "When They See Us," and the trauma black people undergo after witnessing the historically violent acts of antiblackness on the big and small screen. Do these images influence us emotionally and psychologically? Should we still invest energy into tuning into representations like these?

In this segment, @Toyuhgee opens up a conversation about faith and the merits of spirituality as black people, millennial, and people who live and work in spaces where religious beliefs are very diverse. We tackle questions about what we believe in and why