Pop Politics with Monique A. Gamble

Trinidad Sour - Cocktail for grownups https://robbreport.com/food-drink/spirits/best-trinidad-sour-recipe-bitters-rye-cocktail-giuseppe-gonzalez-1234639197/ 30 x Adele -https://open.spotify.com/album/21jF5jlMtzo94wbxmJ18aa?si=BU8-YPpUSh-76ouO5OrzDA Ventriloquism x Meshell Ndegeocello - https://open.spotify.com/album/31HcIpZ9GOo9aKUPYwV3kG?si=e2mbnGR0Rl2yCEC2bYfukg Passing - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trwq3CNCMkU The Harder They Fall - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Poc55U2RPMw King Richard - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKP_0z52ZAw The Path Made Clear x Oprah Winfrey - https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250307507 Parable of the Sower x Octavia Butler - https://www.newyorker.com/books/second-read/octavia-butlers-prescient-vision-of-a-zealot-elected-to-make-america-great-again Children of Blood and Bone: Legacy of Orisha - https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250170972/children-of-blood-and-bone

The Alliance Group (T.A.G.) 2019 Demand for All Gender Restrooms UDC Center for Diversity, Inclusion and Multicultural Affairs (CDIMA)HBCU Queer Pioneer: Bayard Rustin, Wilberforce University HBCU Queer Pioneer: Lucy Diggs Slowe, Howard UniversityHBCU Queer Pioneer: Paul Murray, Howard University

Crime Junkie - Alice Crimmins https://open.spotify.com/episode/21PlOTLFPuBXHx1gZZhNH8?si=6_ZW67OlQheYt5bkzelWgw&dl_branch=1Root of Evil: The True Story of the Hodel Family and the Black Dahlia - https://open.spotify.com/show/5pi39okDAFEW9h9d3iA9Z1?si=rd85bh_fQhO441dxvGq4Wg&dl_branch=1Atlanta Monster - https://open.spotify.com/show/6cmQg2V4wSyhTCavjDFiiN?si=iGhb2HL3Swy7gb4FCXqKkg&dl_branch=1

The Master's Tools, Audre Lorde“My presence is enough.” TikTok Iyanla VanzantBayard Rustin: An Architect of the Civil Rights Movement You May Have Never Heard OfGirl x The Internet

With folks like Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, and countless teachers, doctors, and business people living and commiserating in DC's famed U Street Corridor, the DC Renaissance was born. And it was DC that paved the way for Harlem.

My colleague, Dr. Shiela Harmon-Martin, and two of my students join me in conversation about the 2020 presidential election and beyond.

Episode 5: https://www.hbo.com/lovecraft-country/season-1/5-strange-case Frank Ocean’s “Bad Religion”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMpypbtrcCg Black Feminist Thought, Patricia Hill Collins (2002)“For Colored Girls Who Have Consider Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf, Ntozake Shange: https://www.playbill.com/article/in-celebration-of-ntozake-shange-revisit-for-colored-girls-who-have-considered-suicide-when-the-rainbow-is-enuf

Resources and Info: Check out these individuals and orgs who are among the cohort of visionary leadership blazing across the South:New Georgia Project https://newgeorgiaproject.org/leadership-at-ngp/Ashley Shelton, Power, and Equity Coalition in Louisiana: https://powercoalition.org/Step Up Louisiana: https://www.stepuplouisiana.org/Nsombi Lambright, OneVoice Mississippi, http://onevoicems.org/

Resources: Check out Ms. Kendrick's works in your local indy bookstore:Women of the Plums: Poems in the Voices of Slave WomenWhy the Woman is Singing on the CornerNow is the Thing to PraiseThrough the Ceiling Work from Dr. Gabbin: Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American PoetryFurious Flower: African American Poetry from the Black Arts Movement to the Present https://www.jmu.edu/furiousflower/ https://www.facebook.com/FuriousFlower/https://furiousflower.org/dolores-kendrick/

This show is about the fusion of politics and pop culture from music, television, and film. I started this podcast with Black Feminist principles at its center. That means the Pop Politics Pod is about reclaiming power by amplifying diverse and inclusive voices and stories.