Red Clay Podcast

Red Clay Cooperative
  • 5.0 (2)
  • Society & Culture

Weekly podcast from Red Clay Cooperative. We're trying to figure out how to be black in this world given everything we know about it. Not self-help, but it's like the conversations about the things you talk to your people about when you're trying to figure something out. Not a politics show, but politics is in it, it's not a philosophy podcast, but philosophy is part of it, and its not a comedy podcast, but we funny and we know a lil sum. New episodes every week. Subscribe to our Youtube Channel www.youtube.com/@RedClayCoOp Follow us on Instagram @redclaymade

Episodes

  1. Feb 1

    Red Clay Podcast S1:E6 - The Speaking Truth To Power Patriots Finding Their Voice To Defend Democracy While Processing Collective Trauma And Reclaiming Judeo-Christian Heritage Through Accountability Snowmageddon Bonanza Extravaganza Special

    Trapped inside during the ice storm, Dana and Micah deliver a special episode connecting J. Cole's retirement, the state of R&B with Jill Scott and Ari Lennox, and the terrifying escalation of ICE violence that has white liberals finally confronting what Black communities have always known. We break down J. Cole's The Fall Off and why he remains hip-hop's bronze medalist, the lost art of R&B performance in the streaming era, the murders of Alex Pretti and Renee Good, multiracial fascism, imperial violence coming home (boomerang theory), Nat Turner's revolutionary calculus, and what revolutionary potential actually requires when the system keeps you just comfortable enough not to resist. This episode analyzes the material conditions of late-stage U.S. American empire through the lens of Black radical thought, hip-hop culture, and the reality that we've been warning y'all for 400 years.

    Red Clay Podcast S1:E6 - The Speaking Truth To Power Patriots Finding Their Voice To Defend Democracy While Processing Collective Trauma And Reclaiming Judeo-Christian Heritage Through Accountability Snowmageddon Bonanza Extravaganza Special

  2. Jan 15

    Red Clay Podcast S1:E5 - Sleeping Dogs Get Buried Or Dug Up

    Episode 5: How People Become Stone: Legacy, Memory, and the Weight of Being Remembered Dropping on Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, this episode meditates on what happens when revolutionaries die and memory begins: when the flesh becomes symbol, blood becomes narrative, and the human becomes monument.How do icons bear the weight of being remembered? What does it cost to be frozen in time, your words, your image, your legacy weaponized by forces you opposed?We examine the divergent afterlives of MLK and Malcolm X. Martin succeeded materially, securing tangible civil rights gains, but his memory has been sanitized, co-opted, Santa-Claus-ified. He belongs to everyone, which means he's used by anyone. Malcolm achieved less in conventional terms, yet he remains sacred in Black radical imagination—ours, untouched, forever preserved in the autobiography and in Spike Lee and Denzel Washington's film. Both revolutionaries faced what H. Rap Brown described: they no longer belonged to themselves, but to the people and the revolution. Their legacies are determined not by their intentions, but by how we remember, interpret, and deploy them. As Fanon and others understood, the revolutionary is condemned, to fight, to give everything, and to be re-made after death. This episode wrestles with difficult questions: Is being remembered a prison? Does immortality through legacy grant freedom or steal it? How do we honor our martyrs? What do Martin and Malcolm, and their contested memories, teach us about recognition, narrative, and the burden of iconography? Follow and support Red Clay Cooperative: Instagram: @redclaymade | YouTube: Red Clay Cooperative | Patreon: Red Clay Cooperative

    Red Clay Podcast S1:E5 - Sleeping Dogs Get Buried Or Dug Up

  3. Jan 8

    Red Clay Podcast S1:E4 - All Eyez On Me

    This episode, Dana, Micah, and returning guest Siatta, ahead of the Golden Globes, explore themes of performance, excellence, asking questions about whether being recognized the same as being respected, or just being managed? Can you be excellent in a system designed to extract from you? Who benefits when Black genius gets an award? & What it means to "show up" vs. to "show out." The difference between being good at something and being seen being good at it. Who's watching, and what does that do to the work?

    Red Clay Podcast S1:E4 - All Eyez On Me

  4. Jan 3

    Red Clay Podcast S1:E3 - They Say You Can't Take It With You

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    Red Clay Podcast S1:E3 - They Say You Can't Take It With You

  5. 12/26/2025

    S1:E2 - Much Is Required

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    S1:E2 - Much Is Required

  6. 12/25/2025

    S1:E1 - To Whom Much Is Given

    Yeahhh idk, it's a podcast, follow us on social media, Patreon, all that. Maybe I'll come back to edit this and add more to it maybe I won't, we'll both find out together 🤷🏾‍♂️♥️

    S1:E1 - To Whom Much Is Given

  7. Season 1 Trailer

    why the youth so violent?

    test episode

    why the youth so violent?

Trailer

Ratings & Reviews

5
out of 5
2 Ratings

About

Weekly podcast from Red Clay Cooperative. We're trying to figure out how to be black in this world given everything we know about it. Not self-help, but it's like the conversations about the things you talk to your people about when you're trying to figure something out. Not a politics show, but politics is in it, it's not a philosophy podcast, but philosophy is part of it, and its not a comedy podcast, but we funny and we know a lil sum. New episodes every week. Subscribe to our Youtube Channel www.youtube.com/@RedClayCoOp Follow us on Instagram @redclaymade

Information

  • Creator
    Red Clay Cooperative
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    7
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Show Website
    Red Clay Podcast