Native Land Pod

In the spirit of the last stanza of the Black National Anthem, we rise from the past, rooted deeply in the soil of ancestral struggles, to build a home, to claim our space. On Native Land Pod, Angela Rye, Bakari Sellers, and Andrew Gillum guide us through the political landscape, wielding insights and unapologetic analysis, unraveling the threads that connect Black Americans and marginalized communities to a place they courageously call home. In each episode, Angela, Bakari, and Andrew embark on a journey of reflection, taking stock of the news of the week and the country's road to the polls. Join us each week as we navigate the dance between past and present, weaving a narrative of hope, empowerment, and the unyielding strength that defines the journey to reclaim 'Native Land.' This isn't just news analysis; it's a movement, a conversation, and a testament to the power of those who dare to rebuild and redefine the meaning of home.    Talk to us: Angela Rye @angelarye Andrew Gillum @andrewgillum Bakari Sellers @bakarisellers

  1. 20h ago

    Republican Candidates Are Quiet. Too Quiet

    Many candidates for national office on the Republican side are not showing up to debates, and generally don’t seem to be making a big effort to get elected. What’s their play? Do they have something else in mind besides getting votes?? Y’all, we have to be TOO BIG TO RIG.    Join hosts Angela Rye, Bakari Sellers, and Andrew Gillum for episode 154 of Native Land Pod. We are 12 days away from the midterm elections. Welcome home y’all!  FYSA HEADLINES   –On Polymarket, you can bet on whether any of the “Cornell 7” accused of raping a student will get a felony sex crime charge.    – WA Governor Ferguson has declined to grant a single commutation for early prisoner release.    – NFL QB Jalen Hurts plays through a “superficial blood clot,” after staying up all night on the doctor’s orders.    – $470 million stolen from SNAP recipients in 2025.   – Climate activists make a melting statue of Governor Ron DeSantis.   – ICE arrests the owner of a food pantry in the Bronx.  LINKS AND RESOURCES   SNAP benefits stolen with skimmers: https://www.propublica.org/article/food-stamp-snap-benefits-theft-skimmers-fraud   Rachel Maddow segment on DeSantis Melting Statue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqlFgytteyw   SoloPod with North Carolina A&T: https://www.youtube.com/live/4NGpVRys4oE   SUBMIT A QUESTION   Have a question for our hosts? Send a 60-second video to @nativelandpod and they may answer it on the show!    Tutorial video for submitting questions: http://www.instagram.com/reel/C5j_oBXLIg0/   —--------- We want to hear from you! Send us a video @nativelandpod and we may feature you on the podcast.    Instagram  X/Twitter Facebook NativeLandPod.com   Watch full episodes of Native Land Pod here on YouTube. Native Land Pod is brought to you by Reasoned Choice Media.   Thank you to the Native Land Pod team:    Angela Rye as host, executive producer, and cofounder of Reasoned Choice Media; Andrew Gillum as host and producer, Bakari Sellers as host and producer, and Lauren Hansen as executive producer; LoLo Smith is our research producer, and Nikolas Harter is our editor and producer. Special thanks  to Chris Morrow and Lenard McKelvey, co-founders of Reasoned Choice Media.    Theme music created by Daniel Laurent. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    Republican Candidates Are Quiet. Too Quiet
  2. 2d ago

    Mississippi’s A.G. Says 1-Year-Old Shot by Police was Justified | Angela Rye SoloPod

    Mississippi’s attorney general, Lynn Fitch, and her office have cleared the Senatobia police of wrongdoing after one of their officers shot and killed a 1-year-old in a Walmart Parking lot last summer.    The A.G.’s office said the use of force was “justified” since the officer felt threatened, alleging that the child’s mother was in  a vehicle driving toward them. The Senatobia police have not released any footage from the event.    READ MORE: https://www.mississippifreepress.org/police-shooting-of-1-year-old-kohen-wiley-was-justified-mississippi-attorney-general-says/ Want to ask Angela a question? Subscribe to our YouTube channel to participate in the chat.    Welcome home y’all!    —--------- We want to hear from you! Send us a video @nativelandpod and we may feature you on the podcast.    Instagram  X/Twitter Facebook NativeLandPod.com   Watch full episodes of Native Land Pod here on YouTube. Native Land Pod is brought to you by Reasoned Choice Media.   Thank you to the Native Land Pod team:    Angela Rye as host, executive producer, and cofounder of Reasoned Choice Media; Andrew Gillum as host and producer, Bakari Sellers as host and producer, and Lauren Hansen as executive producer; LoLo Smith is our research producer, and Nikolas Harter is our editor and producer. Special thanks  to Chris Morrow and Lenard McKelvey, co-founders of Reasoned Choice Media.    Theme music created by Daniel Laurent. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    Mississippi’s A.G. Says 1-Year-Old Shot by Police was Justified | Angela Rye SoloPod
  3. 6d ago

    Target Sponsored ICE Violence?! | MiniPod

    NYC officials are calling for a Target boycott after one of Target’s locations in the Bronx was used as a staging area for ICE operations.    That staging area was used before an ICE-officer-involved shooting where Oscar Belgal was shot in the neck with his young son in the backseat.    Join hosts Angela Rye, Andrew Gillum, and Bakari Sellers for this week’s MiniPod.  READ MORE: https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-officials-call-for-target-boycott-say-ice-staged-at-marble-hill-lot-before-shooting SUBMIT A QUESTION   If you’d like to submit a question, check out our tutorial video: http://www.instagram.com/reel/C5j_oBXLIg0/ and send to @nativelandpod.    Welcome home y’all!    —--------- We want to hear from you! Send us a video @nativelandpod and we may feature you on the podcast.    Instagram  X/Twitter Facebook NativeLandPod.com   Watch full episodes of Native Land Pod here on YouTube. Native Land Pod is brought to you by Reasoned Choice Media.   Thank you to the Native Land Pod team:    Angela Rye as host, executive producer, and cofounder of Reasoned Choice Media; Andrew Gillum as host and producer, Bakari Sellers as host and producer, and Lauren Hansen as executive producer; LoLo Mychael is our research producer, and Nikolas Harter is our editor and producer. Special thanks  to Chris Morrow and Lenard McKelvey, co-founders of Reasoned Choice Media.    Theme music created by Daniel Laurent. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    Target Sponsored ICE Violence?! | MiniPod
  4. Oct 15

    America Has a Corruption Problem: Politics, Sports, and Medicine

    Online “prediction markets” have become a multi-billion dollar industry in the U.S. As they grow, they threaten to swallow our institutions whole, from professional sports to the White House.    Do campaign ads HAVE to be unhinged to break through the noise? Our hosts play some of their favorite campaign ads, gaffs, and crash outs.   Join hosts Angela Rye, Bakari Sellers, and Andrew Gillum for episode 153 of Native Land Pod. We are 19 days away from the midterm elections. Welcome home y’all!  FYSA HEADLINES   –Trump appoints a new White House press secretary, Katie Zacharia.    –Florida state attorney Monique Worrell is investigating Medicaid funds that were allegedly funneled to a Republican PAC.   –Cherise Doyle, a trained doula, was forced to appear in Zoom court after a Florida hospital filed a complaint against her as a means of forcing her to have a C-section.   –Curtis Flowers, wrongfully imprisoned for 22 years, has died at the age of 56.    –Trump’s department of Housing and Urban Development is cracking down on race-based lending and efforts to boost Black home-ownership.    –Trump’s campaign to fire Lisa Cook, the federal reserve governor, continues.    –DHS agents raid the home of congresswoman Ilhan Omar as part of an ongoing immigration investigation.  LINKS AND RESOURCES   Cherise Doyley brought to court while in labor: https://www.propublica.org/article/florida-court-hearing-c-section   AT DraftKings, AI Targets Gamblers Likeliest to Lose: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/business/draftkings-ai.html IN THIS EPISODE:   00:00:00 Intro 00:03:17 FYSA 00:45:30 Prediction Markets, Betting on Everything 01:20:01 Campaign Ads Uncensored  SUBMIT A QUESTION   Have a question for our hosts? Send a 60-second video to @nativelandpod and they may answer it on the show!    Tutorial video for submitting questions: http://www.instagram.com/reel/C5j_oBXLIg0/   —--------- We want to hear from you! Send us a video @nativelandpod and we may feature you on the podcast.    Instagram  X/Twitter Facebook NativeLandPod.com   Watch full episodes of Native Land Pod here on YouTube. Native Land Pod is brought to you by Reasoned Choice Media.   Thank you to the Native Land Pod team:    Angela Rye as host, executive producer, and cofounder of Reasoned Choice Media; Andrew Gillum as host and producer, Bakari Sellers as host and producer, and Lauren Hansen as executive producer; LoLo Smith is our research producer, and Nikolas Harter is our editor and producer. Special thanks  to Chris Morrow and Lenard McKelvey, co-founders of Reasoned Choice Media.    Theme music created by Daniel Laurent. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    America Has a Corruption Problem: Politics, Sports, and Medicine
  5. Oct 13

    A Challenge on Barack Obama feat Dr. David Johns | Angela Rye SoloPod

    Guest Dr. David J. Johns helps Angela process comments and criticism after last week’s segment about Barack Obama, and the need for new Black leadership.    Speaking of which, you can pre-order The Black Papers now, the most comprehensive Black policy agenda produced in a generation. Angela Rye and Dr. Johns have been working for the last 18 months with the State of the People team to put this together and it’s finally coming out October 30th!   LINKS & RESOURCES    Pre-Order The Black Papers: https://www.routledge.com/The-Black-Papers-A-Policy-Agenda-for-Black-Liberation-in-the-21st-Century/Johns/p/book/9781041270904   Comments on Obama: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DeQEf1GjegP/   Want to ask Angela a question? Subscribe to our YouTube channel to participate in the chat.    Welcome home y’all!    —--------- We want to hear from you! Send us a video @nativelandpod and we may feature you on the podcast.    Instagram  X/Twitter Facebook NativeLandPod.com   Watch full episodes of Native Land Pod here on YouTube. Native Land Pod is brought to you by Reasoned Choice Media.   Thank you to the Native Land Pod team:    Angela Rye as host, executive producer, and cofounder of Reasoned Choice Media; Andrew Gillum as host and producer, Bakari Sellers as host and producer, and Lauren Hansen as executive producer; LoLo Smith is our research producer, and Nikolas Harter is our editor and producer. Special thanks  to Chris Morrow and Lenard McKelvey, co-founders of Reasoned Choice Media.    Theme music created by Daniel Laurent. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    A Challenge on Barack Obama feat Dr. David Johns | Angela Rye SoloPod
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In the spirit of the last stanza of the Black National Anthem, we rise from the past, rooted deeply in the soil of ancestral struggles, to build a home, to claim our space. On Native Land Pod, Angela Rye, Bakari Sellers, and Andrew Gillum guide us through the political landscape, wielding insights and unapologetic analysis, unraveling the threads that connect Black Americans and marginalized communities to a place they courageously call home. In each episode, Angela, Bakari, and Andrew embark on a journey of reflection, taking stock of the news of the week and the country's road to the polls. Join us each week as we navigate the dance between past and present, weaving a narrative of hope, empowerment, and the unyielding strength that defines the journey to reclaim 'Native Land.' This isn't just news analysis; it's a movement, a conversation, and a testament to the power of those who dare to rebuild and redefine the meaning of home.    Talk to us: Angela Rye @angelarye Andrew Gillum @andrewgillum Bakari Sellers @bakarisellers

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