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Dear Culture TheGrio Black Pod Network
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Welcome to Dear Culture, the podcast version of the conversations you’re already having with the people you don’t even realize you know. Every week, cultural commentator and editorialist Panama Jackson will be a tour guide through some intersection of Blackness and culture. Bringing his years of experience writing and commentating on the culture from an educational and entertaining viewpoint, Dear Culture will engender everything Don King meant when he uttered the words, “...and that’s the Blackness.” We might not know where we’re going when we start, but what we do know is that by the time you get to the end, you will undoubtedly say, that was Black and that was the culture. Dear Culture is the podcast for all of the people who know the appropriate call-and-response for when somebody enters the room and says, “God is good…” because that is the culture.
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Rissi Palmer Explains The Highs, The Lows, and The Racist Undertones in Country Music
As Dear Culture continues to celebrate Black Music Month, host Panama Jackson has an enlightening conversation with country music artist Rissi Palmer. The pair talk about the repeated racist incidents Palmer has been forced to endure and discuss what's needed to bridge the racial gap in country music, something she's working towards with her Apple Music Radio show "Color Me Country." Palmer also shares the stories of Black musicians who helped the pioneers of country music find their sound and gives historical detail about the efforts to erase their contributions from the genre.
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The Great Hip-Hop Debate
Dear Culture kicks off Black Music Month with an epic debate that covers everyone from Nas and Lauryn Hill to Ice Cube and Drake. Both self-proclaimed hip-hop heads, host Panama Jackson and veteran music journalist Touré can't seem to agree on pretty much anything.
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Honoring & Healing Our Veteran Heroes
This Memorial Day Dear Culture speaks to a pair of veterans serving the Wounded Warrior Project about military life and the resources and support available to those in need. Internal struggles are often overlooked as veterans focus on physical injuries but Tonya Oxendine and Wilton Williamson stress that mental health care is vital to a successful recovery and productive future post-combat.
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Hip-Hop, Politics, Drugs and Black Life in the 1980s
Legendary music journalist Touré and Black Studies Professor Dr. Stefan Bradley join Panama Jackson to discuss the birth of hip-hop and its role in shaping the political and cultural climate of the 1980s.
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From Spider-Man to Wu-Tang, Actor Shameik Moore is Booked and Busy
Since exploding onto the scene in 2015 with the film 'Dope' Shameik Moore has solidified his place in Hollywood. The Atlanta-born actor joins Dear Culture to talk about his decision to pause his music career for acting and how he's landed some of the biggest roles impacting Black culture including voicing the Spider-Man Miles Morales character and portraying Raekwon in Hulu's 'Wu-Tang: An American Saga.'
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Smart, Opinioned, and Funny, The Culture Needs More W. Kamau Bell
Award-winning writer, producer, director, comedian, and TV host W. Kamau Bell joins Dear Culture to talk about his latest project for HBO Max. The documentary '1000% Me' shines a light on mixed raced children. In true Bell style, the doc provides laughs and hard truths.
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Customer Reviews
Kwanzaa Episode
Great Episode! I like how you interrogated why Kwanzaa hasn’t been accepted and practiced in the greater black community..
and shared examples of how a living , breathing celebration could look like.
What was especially illuminating were ways the principles were put into ACTION as fun activities for individuals or a family or a bigger community
Though I haven’t celebrated since I was a very small child, I have been Kwanzaa-curious in the last couple of years. I thought our celebration had to be meditative, and consist of having solemn discussions over the dinner table as we light candles. This episode created a paradigm shift for me and I will be looking for different ways to celebrate with my family this year.
I will be looking for the Kwanzaa play list and the 7 Principles movie suggestions!
I will also be sharing this episode with friend, family and some affinity groups I belong to.
Thank you!!
New listener to the pod
Two americas awesome gonna go back in time and catch up.
A Must Listen
Please keep the Dear Culture podcast. It’s informative and entertaining.