53 episodes

We’re the friend you call after a long day. The one who gets it. Through soul-nourishing conversations, host Tonya Mosley explores Black liberation with some of the greatest thinkers of our time. Season 5 explores what the latest psychedelic renaissance means for the Black diaspora. Truth Be Told is a TMI Production in association with American Public Media. We are @DearTruthBeTold on Twitter and @deartbt on Instagram. Reach out to us using the hashtag #DearTBT.

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    • Society & Culture
    • 4.2 • 979 Ratings

We’re the friend you call after a long day. The one who gets it. Through soul-nourishing conversations, host Tonya Mosley explores Black liberation with some of the greatest thinkers of our time. Season 5 explores what the latest psychedelic renaissance means for the Black diaspora. Truth Be Told is a TMI Production in association with American Public Media. We are @DearTruthBeTold on Twitter and @deartbt on Instagram. Reach out to us using the hashtag #DearTBT.

    Overture

    Overture

    If freedom is a birthright, host Tonya Mosley is on a journey to experience the depths of it. Season 5 explores emerging science that shows psychedelics like MDMA and psilocybin mushrooms can help to heal racial trauma, whether it’s diagnosed PTSD or the kind of trauma that comes from the pain of living as a Black person in a racist world. Join us on the journey, beginning April 13th.

    • 5 min
    TBT Rewind: The Womb

    TBT Rewind: The Womb

    Hey fam, Truth Be Told will be back for a new season this spring! In the meantime, enjoy this timely encore conversation about body autonomy with journalist and abortion activist Anoa Changa. If you haven't listened to seasons 3 and 4, get on it! Season 5 of Truth Be Told is coming in April.

    LINKS:
    deartbt.com
    Twitter: deartruthbetold
    Instagram: deartbt
    TikTok: tonyatbt
    Email: tonya@deartbt.com

    • 11 min
    PREVIEW: History Is US

    PREVIEW: History Is US

    We want to turn you on to a new show that you should consider adding to your podcast queue: History is US. It’s a 6-part documentary podcast from C13-Originals Studios and Jon Meacham — the team behind the 2021 Webby Award-Winning Best Podcast Series “It Was Said.“
    It’s written and narrated by Dr. Eddie Glaude, who is a friend of Truth Be Told. You might remember him as a Wise One from Season 2. Eddie is an award-winning author and professor of African American Studies at Princeton University – and he’s such a deeply reflective and generous thinker.
    It’s a limited series that aims to help us understand how we got here, and how we can all use history to clarify the choices before us.

    • 3 min
    How Good Can It Get?

    How Good Can It Get?

    Bad habits, toxic relationships, soul-sucking jobs — our inner voices tell us the truth, but are we listening? A moment of nakedness in the vastness of the ocean helped restaurant owner Kristi Brown slow down enough to hear what her inner voice was telling her. On this episode of Truth Be Told, we explore how listening to ourselves can lead us to joy and our ultimate purpose.

    • 23 min
    Renewal

    Renewal

    #MeToo founder Tarana Burke is known as a truth-teller. In this episode of Truth Be Told she goes even deeper, revealing for the first time the depths of despair she’s felt over the last few months, and the ways during these dark times she’s chasing joy and renewal. 
    And grab your notebook! Mental health counselor Rian Roberson steps in to give us our own mini-therapy session. 

    • 39 min
    Numb

    Numb

    What are the words - when there are no words?
    In the face of so much violence, death, and heartbreak, minister and writer Danté Stewart joins us to talk about what he calls “little experiments of liberation.”

    GUESTS:
    Danté Stewart, minister, writer and author of Shoutin’ Into The Fire: An American Epistle. 
    TW: @stewartdantec

    LINKS:
    deartbt.com
    Twitter: deartruthbetold
    Instagram: deartbt
    TikTok: tonyatbt
    Email: tonya@deartbt.com

    • 17 min

Customer Reviews

4.2 out of 5
979 Ratings

979 Ratings

Kimberly MR ,

Perfect salve for the Black soul, heart and mind

I only just learned about #TBT from a promo in a Fresh Air podcast — and I couldn’t be more grateful and elated. TBT is all things Black turbo/charged, led by the most brilliant, insightful, well-read and down-home voices from U.S. Blackness far and wide. Brava, Mz. Mosley! I am seriously digging’ you like an old soul record. 🖤

Rjacksxu ,

Discovered last summer!

So many topics covered that are usually unspoken in the black community! Who knew that I can feel seen and heard through a podcast! Such a blessing! Can’t wait for the next season to start! Thanks, Tonya and all of the well informed guest you have on the show.

AK Ajijic ,

Trailer was enough

Having been fat myself and now fit for 15 years… any fat person saying it’s ok is lying.
I am happy riding bikes, rowing, hiking, looking amazing in clothes. I have curves not knew replacements or diabetes.

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