Podcast appearances and mentions of Mychal Denzel Smith

Original Air Date: 8/8/2020 Today we take a look at the concept of defunding the police; what it means, what it doesn't and what the goals of the movement are.  Be part of the show! Leave us a message or text at 202-999-3991 or email Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com BestOfTheLeft.com/Support (Members Get Bonus Clips and Shows + No Ads!) Join our Discord community! SHOW NOTES Ch. 1: Race, Police, & The Pandemic - FRONTLINE - Air Date 6-2-20 Jelani Cobb describes how the relationship between black Americans and the police has become a “barometer” for race relations in the country and that explosive tensions are “overwhelmingly” in response to an issue of police use of force. Ch. 2: Panel Discussion on Radical Police Reform - The Daily Show - Air Date 6-10-20 Trevor hosts a panel on movements to radically reimagine policing in the U.S. with Patrisse Cullors, Josie Duffy Rice, Sam Sinyangwe, Mychal Denzel Smith and Alex S. Vitale. Ch. 3: The Racial Justice Uprising in the U.S. is Taking Hold Overseas - The Takeaway - Air Date 6-8-20 Explaining that an overburdened police system that takes on way too much, including much that is outside the realm of their training, is something that no one should want. Ch. 4: The End of Policing with Alex Vitale - The Bastani Factor, Novara Media - Air Date 6-3-20 Aaron Bastani interviews author of ‘The End of Policing', Alex Vitale, to ask just how bad law enforcement is in the United States, and what can be done about it. Ch. 5: Defunding the Police Is Only the Beginning - The Mother Jones Podcast - Air Date 6-17-20 Josie Duffy Rice joins Jamilah King for a discussion about the recent police killing of Rayshard Brookes in Atlanta, the deep racist and classist structural issues with policing in America, and why defunding the police is only step one. Ch. 6: Defund Police What It Means & How It Would Really Work - News Beat - Air Date 6-16-20 In the wake of the police slaying of George Floyd in Minneapolis, protesters have not only flooded the streets, but they're actively pushing reforms that go well beyond traditional solutions. Ch. 7: How to Defund the Police - Boom! Lawyered - Air Date 6-11-20 Racism is baked into the U.S. model of policing. More and more people are starting to believe that no amount of "reform" will help; a full tear-down is required. But what does "defunding the police" actually mean? Ch. 8: Is It Time To Defund the Police? - Deconstructed with Mehdi Hasan - Air Date 6-11-20 Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors joins Mehdi Hasan to discuss the future of policing and community-oriented systems of public safety in the United States. Ch. 9: The Politics of "Defund the Police" - Politics with Amy Walter, The Takeaway - Air Date 6-12-20 Congress is reckoning with how to respond to the protests and calls for police accountability. Two national reporters join to discuss the Justice in Policing Act of 2020. Ch. 10: We Can't Let The Uprising Get Co-opted - The Michael Brooks Show - Air Date 6-10-20 Notes on the uprising and how we move forward without allowing the forces of neoliberalism to co-opt the movement. Ch. 11: Angela Davis: Abolishing police is not just about dismantling. It's also about building up. - Democracy Now - Air Date 6-12-2020 Amid a worldwide uprising against police brutality and racism, we discuss the historic moment with legendary scholar and activist Angela Davis. EDUCATE YOURSELF & SHARE The Movement for Black Lives Introduces the BREATHE Act (Colorlines) What Exactly Does It Mean to Defund the Police? (The Cut, NY Mag,) What Does It Mean to Invest in Black Communities? (The Nation) How to Defund the Police (The New Yorker) How to Make Defunding the Police a Reality (The Nation) Defunding the Police Will Actually Make Us Safer (ACLU) Researched & Written by BOTL Communications Director Amanda Hoffman  MUSIC (Blue Dot Sessions) Produced by Jay! Tomlinson Visit us at BestOfTheLeft.com ​ ​ ​

This isn't therapy...it's the episode about the morality of therapy-seeking. Recently some therapists have noticed that clients are showing up to therapy without a problem to solve or a goal to work on. They are showing up because “that's what good people do.” Does going to therapy make you a “good” person? Let's get into it.Hello, hi! Join us on Instagram: @notatherapypodcast⁣Jake Ernst: @mswjakeSimon Paluck: @directedbysimon ⁣⁣Episode Mixed by Jordan PaluckArticle discussed: “Why do people think going to therapy makes you a good person?“ by Mychal Denzel Smith. 

Welcome to Open Form, a weekly film podcast hosted by award-winning writer Mychal Denzel Smith. Each week, a different author chooses a movie: a movie they love, a movie they hate, a movie they hate to love. Something nostalgic from their childhood. A brand-new obsession. Something they've been dying to talk about for ages and their friends are constantly annoyed by them bringing it up. In this episode of Open Form, Mychal talks to Zakiya Dalila Harris (The Other Black Girl) about the 1978 film The Wiz, directed by Sidney Lumet. Zakiya Dalila Harris spent nearly three years in editorial at Knopf/Doubleday before leaving to write her debut novel The Other Black Girl. Prior to working in publishing, Zakiya received her MFA in creative writing from The New School. Her essays and book reviews have appeared in Cosmopolitan, Guernica, and The Rumpus. She lives in Brooklyn. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Open Form, a weekly film podcast hosted by award-winning writer Mychal Denzel Smith. Each week, a different author chooses a movie: a movie they love, a movie they hate, a movie they hate to love. Something nostalgic from their childhood. A brand-new obsession. Something they've been dying to talk about for ages and their friends are constantly annoyed by them bringing it up. In this episode of Open Form, Mychal talks to Ross Gay (Inciting Joy) about the 1990 film Dreams, directed by Akira Kurosawa. Ross Gay is the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Delights: Essays and four books of poetry. His Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude won the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Award; and Be Holding won the 2021 PEN America Jean Stein Book Award. He is a founding board member of the Bloomington Community Orchard, a non-profit, free-fruit-for-all food justice and joy project. Gay has received fellowships from Cave Canem, the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He teaches at Indiana University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Open Form, a weekly film podcast hosted by award-winning writer Mychal Denzel Smith. Each week, a different author chooses a movie: a movie they love, a movie they hate, a movie they hate to love. Something nostalgic from their childhood. A brand-new obsession. Something they've been dying to talk about for ages and their friends are constantly annoyed by them bringing it up. In this episode of Open Form, Mychal talks to Chantal V. Johnson (Post-Traumatic) about the 1999 film Magnolia, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Chantal V. Johnson is a tenant lawyer and writer. A graduate of Stanford Law School and a 2018 Center for Fiction Emerging Writers Fellow, she lives in New York. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Open Form, a weekly film podcast hosted by award-winning writer Mychal Denzel Smith. Each week, a different author chooses a movie: a movie they love, a movie they hate, a movie they hate to love. Something nostalgic from their childhood. A brand-new obsession. Something they've been dying to talk about for ages and their friends are constantly annoyed by them bringing it up. In this episode of Open Form, Mychal talks to Dawnie Walton (The Final Revival of Opal & Nev) about the 1989 film Say Anything, directed by Cameron Crowe. Dawnie Walton is a fiction writer and journalist whose work explores identity, place, and the influence of pop culture. She has won fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and the Tin House Summer Workshop, and earned her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Previously, she worked as an executive-level editor for magazine and multimedia brands, including Essence, Entertainment Weekly, Getty Images, and LIFE. A native of Jacksonville, Florida, she lives with her husband in Brooklyn. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Open Form, a weekly film podcast hosted by award-winning writer Mychal Denzel Smith. Each week, a different author chooses a movie: a movie they love, a movie they hate, a movie they hate to love. Something nostalgic from their childhood. A brand-new obsession. Something they've been dying to talk about for ages and their friends are constantly annoyed by them bringing it up. In this episode of Open Form, Mychal talks to Ryan Lee Wong (Which Side Are You on) about the 1997 film Princess Mononoke, directed by Hayao Miyazaki. Ryan Lee Wong was born and raised in Los Angeles, lived for two years at Ancestral Heart Zen Temple, and currently lives in Brooklyn, where he is the administrative director of Brooklyn Zen Center. Previously, he served as program director for the Asian American Writers' Workshop and managing director of Kundiman. He has organized exhibitions and written extensively on the Asian American movements of the 1970s. He holds an MFA in fiction from Rutgers University-Newark. Which Side Are You On is his first book. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Open Form, a weekly film podcast hosted by award-winning writer Mychal Denzel Smith. Each week, a different author chooses a movie: a movie they love, a movie they hate, a movie they hate to love. Something nostalgic from their childhood. A brand-new obsession. Something they've been dying to talk about for ages and their friends are constantly annoyed by them bringing it up. In this episode of Open Form, Mychal talks to Sophia Benoit (Well, This Is Exhausting) about the 2001 film Legally Blonde, directed by Robert Luketic and starring Reese Witherspoon, Luke Wilson, Selma Blair, and Jennifer Coolidge. Sophia Benoit is a writer and comedian who grew up in Missouri and was correctly voted “Most Likely to Never Come Back.” She writes sex and relationship advice for Bustle and has had bylines in Allure, Refinery29, The Cut, The Guardian, and more. She writes an advice newsletter Here's the Thing where she tries to get everyone to ask their crush out. Sophia lives in Los Angeles with her boyfriend Dave, but usually only spouses make it into author bios, so forget about him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Open Form, a weekly film podcast hosted by award-winning writer Mychal Denzel Smith. Each week, a different author chooses a movie: a movie they love, a movie they hate, a movie they hate to love. Something nostalgic from their childhood. A brand-new obsession. Something they've been dying to talk about for ages and their friends are constantly annoyed by them bringing it up. * In this episode of Open Form, Mychal talks to Chelsea Martin (Tell Me I'm an Artist) about the 1988 film My Neighbor Totoro, directed by Hayao Miyazaki. Chelsea Martin is the author of the essay collection Caca Dolce and the novella Mickey, among other books. She lives in Spokane, WA with her husband and child. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Open Form, a weekly film podcast hosted by award-winning writer Mychal Denzel Smith. Each week, a different author chooses a movie: a movie they love, a movie they hate, a movie they hate to love. Something nostalgic from their childhood. A brand-new obsession. Something they've been dying to talk about for ages and their friends are constantly annoyed by them bringing it up. * In this episode of Open Form, Mychal talks to Elaine Hsieh Chou (Disorientation) about the 2002 film Better Luck Tomorrow, directed by Justin Lin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week's episode is a celebration of opinion, of boldly stating what you mean and what matters to you and why. Writing is an exercise in truth-telling, and when it's your personal truth—no matter what your genre—it's scary as hell. And while this week centers memoir, the episode is for anyone who's trying to write what they think. It's about why it matters that writers synthesize, interpret, make meaning, extrapolate, and also examines consequences—for you as a writer, and also for the world outside of you. If you're wrestling with truth, with fallout, with consequences, with what's at stake—Mychal Denzel Smith will provoke many questions and leave you inspired. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Open Form, a weekly film podcast hosted by award-winning writer Mychal Denzel Smith. Each week, a different author chooses a movie: a movie they love, a movie they hate, a movie they hate to love. Something nostalgic from their childhood. A brand-new obsession. Something they've been dying to talk about for ages and their friends are constantly annoyed by them bringing it up. In this episode of Open Form, Mychal talks to Deesha Philyaw (The Secret Lives of Church Ladies) about the 1976 film Car Wash, directed by Michael Schultz and starring Franklyn Ajaye, Bill Duke, George Carlin, The Pointer Sisters, and Richard Pryor. Deesha Philyaw's writing on race, parenting, gender, and culture has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, McSweeney's, the Rumpus, Brevity, TueNight, and elsewhere. Originally from Jacksonville, Florida, she currently lives in Pittsburgh with her daughters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Open Form, a weekly film podcast hosted by award-winning writer Mychal Denzel Smith. Each week, a different author chooses a movie: a movie they love, a movie they hate, a movie they hate to love. Something nostalgic from their childhood. A brand-new obsession. Something they've been dying to talk about for ages and their friends are constantly annoyed by them bringing it up. In this episode of Open Form, Mychal talks to Chloe Cooper Jones (Easy Beauty) about the 1978 film Coming Home, directed by Hal Ashby and starring Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, and Bruce Dern. Chloé Cooper Jones is the author of Easy Beauty. She was awarded a 2020 Whiting Nonfiction Grant and was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Open Form, a weekly film podcast hosted by award-winning writer Mychal Denzel Smith. Each week, a different author chooses a movie: a movie they love, a movie they hate, a movie they hate to love. Something nostalgic from their childhood. A brand-new obsession. Something they've been dying to talk about for ages and their friends are constantly annoyed by them bringing it up. In this episode of Open Form, Mychal talks to Ingrid Rojas Contreras (The Man Who Could Move Clouds) about the 1972 film Solaris, directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. Ingrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia. Her debut novel, Fruit of the Drunken Tree, was the silver medal winner in First Fiction from the California Book Awards, and a New York Times editor's choice. Her essays and short stories have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The Believer, and Zyzzyva, among others. She lives in California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Open Form, a weekly film podcast hosted by award-winning writer Mychal Denzel Smith. Each week, a different author chooses a movie: a movie they love, a movie they hate, a movie they hate to love. Something nostalgic from their childhood. A brand-new obsession. Something they've been dying to talk about for ages and their friends are constantly annoyed by them bringing it up. * In this episode of Open Form, Mychal talks to Elif Batuman (Either/Or) about the 2017 film Get Out, directed by Jordan Peele and starring Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Bradley Whitford, Caleb Landry Jones, Stephen Root, and Catherine Keener. Elif Batuman's first novel, The Idiot, was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize, and was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction in the UK. She is also the author of The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them, which was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism. She has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2010 and holds a PhD in comparative literature from Stanford University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Auf der High School zu schlecht für die Schulmannschaft, sollte Dennis Rodman nur dank einer Reihe glücklicher Umstände den Weg in die NBA finden. Dort wurde er zu einem der besten Defensiv-Spieler und Rebounder der Basketball-Geschichte. An der Seite von Michael Jordan sorgte er in den 90ern für Furore. Doch die größten Schlagzeilen machte Rodman mit Skandalen und Eskapaden auf und neben dem Platz. Ob schrille Outfits, eine Affäre mit Madonna, Auftritte als Wrestler oder Gewaltausbrüche während den Spielen Rodman wurde genauso berühmt, wie berüchtigt. Das ist er auch nach seiner Karriere noch, beispielsweise mit kontroversen Reisen nach Nordkorea. Shownotes Highlights aus Rodmans NBA-Karriere vom offiziellen NBA-YouTube-Kanal https://youtu.be/XBoVDIvOrfI Bad Boy im Brautkleid (Spiegel-Artikel von Sven Simon aus dem Jahr 2005) https://www.spiegel.de/sport/ussports/dennis-rodman-bad-boy-im-brautkleid-a-355761.html Dennis Rodman, der ewige Bad Boy (GQ-Artikel von Mychal Denzel Smith zu Rodmans 60. Geburtstag aus dem Jahr 2021) https://www.gq-magazin.de/entertainment/artikel/dennis-rodman-bad-boy-fuers-leben-der-basketball-nba-star-im-portraet Folgt uns auf Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/schattenseiten_podcast/ Schreibt uns per Mail: schattenseiten.podcast@gmail.com Du möchtest deinen Podcast auch kostenlos hosten und damit Geld verdienen? Dann schaue auf www.kostenlos-hosten.de und informiere dich. Dort erhältst du alle Informationen zu unseren kostenlosen Podcast-Hosting-Angeboten.

Auf der High School zu schlecht für die Schulmannschaft, sollte Dennis Rodman nur dank einer Reihe glücklicher Umstände den Weg in die NBA finden. Dort wurde er zu einem der besten Defensiv-Spieler und Rebounder der Basketball-Geschichte. An der Seite von Michael Jordan sorgte er in den 90ern für Furore. Doch die größten Schlagzeilen machte Rodman mit Skandalen und Eskapaden auf und neben dem Platz. Ob schrille Outfits, eine Affäre mit Madonna, Auftritte als Wrestler oder Gewaltausbrüche während den Spielen Rodman wurde genauso berühmt, wie berüchtigt. Das ist er auch nach seiner Karriere noch, beispielsweise mit kontroversen Reisen nach Nordkorea. Shownotes Highlights aus Rodmans NBA-Karriere vom offiziellen NBA-YouTube-Kanal https://youtu.be/XBoVDIvOrfI Bad Boy im Brautkleid (Spiegel-Artikel von Sven Simon aus dem Jahr 2005) https://www.spiegel.de/sport/ussports/dennis-rodman-bad-boy-im-brautkleid-a-355761.html Dennis Rodman, der ewige Bad Boy (GQ-Artikel von Mychal Denzel Smith zu Rodmans 60. Geburtstag aus dem Jahr 2021) https://www.gq-magazin.de/entertainment/artikel/dennis-rodman-bad-boy-fuers-leben-der-basketball-nba-star-im-portraet Folgt uns auf Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/schattenseiten_podcast/ Schreibt uns per Mail: schattenseiten.podcast@gmail.com Du möchtest deinen Podcast auch kostenlos hosten und damit Geld verdienen? Dann schaue auf www.kostenlos-hosten.de und informiere dich. Dort erhältst du alle Informationen zu unseren kostenlosen Podcast-Hosting-Angeboten.

Auf der High School zu schlecht für die Schulmannschaft, sollte Dennis Rodman nur dank einer Reihe glücklicher Umstände den Weg in die NBA finden. Dort wurde er zu einem der besten Defensiv-Spieler und Rebounder der Basketball-Geschichte. An der Seite von Michael Jordan sorgte er in den 90ern für Furore. Doch die größten Schlagzeilen machte Rodman mit Skandalen und Eskapaden auf und neben dem Platz. Ob schrille Outfits, eine Affäre mit Madonna, Auftritte als Wrestler oder Gewaltausbrüche während den Spielen – Rodman wurde genauso berühmt, wie berüchtigt. Das ist er auch nach seiner Karriere noch, beispielsweise mit kontroversen Reisen nach Nordkorea. Shownotes Highlights aus Rodmans NBA-Karriere vom offiziellen NBA-YouTube-Kanal https://youtu.be/XBoVDIvOrfI Bad Boy im Brautkleid (Spiegel-Artikel von Sven Simon aus dem Jahr 2005) https://www.spiegel.de/sport/ussports/dennis-rodman-bad-boy-im-brautkleid-a-355761.html Dennis Rodman, der ewige Bad Boy (GQ-Artikel von Mychal Denzel Smith zu Rodmans 60. Geburtstag aus dem Jahr 2021) https://www.gq-magazin.de/entertainment/artikel/dennis-rodman-bad-boy-fuers-leben-der-basketball-nba-star-im-portraet Folgt uns auf Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/schattenseiten_podcast/ Schreibt uns per Mail: schattenseiten.podcast@gmail.com

Auf der High School zu schlecht für die Schulmannschaft, sollte Dennis Rodman nur dank einer Reihe glücklicher Umstände den Weg in die NBA finden. Dort wurde er zu einem der besten Defensiv-Spieler und Rebounder der Basketball-Geschichte. An der Seite von Michael Jordan sorgte er in den 90ern für Furore. Doch die größten Schlagzeilen machte Rodman mit Skandalen und Eskapaden auf und neben dem Platz. Ob schrille Outfits, eine Affäre mit Madonna, Auftritte als Wrestler oder Gewaltausbrüche während den Spielen Rodman wurde genauso berühmt, wie berüchtigt. Das ist er auch nach seiner Karriere noch, beispielsweise mit kontroversen Reisen nach Nordkorea. Shownotes Highlights aus Rodmans NBA-Karriere vom offiziellen NBA-YouTube-Kanal https://youtu.be/XBoVDIvOrfI Bad Boy im Brautkleid (Spiegel-Artikel von Sven Simon aus dem Jahr 2005) https://www.spiegel.de/sport/ussports/dennis-rodman-bad-boy-im-brautkleid-a-355761.html Dennis Rodman, der ewige Bad Boy (GQ-Artikel von Mychal Denzel Smith zu Rodmans 60. Geburtstag aus dem Jahr 2021) https://www.gq-magazin.de/entertainment/artikel/dennis-rodman-bad-boy-fuers-leben-der-basketball-nba-star-im-portraet Folgt uns auf Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/schattenseiten_podcast/ Schreibt uns per Mail: schattenseiten.podcast@gmail.com Du möchtest deinen Podcast auch kostenlos hosten und damit Geld verdienen? Dann schaue auf www.kostenlos-hosten.de und informiere dich. Dort erhältst du alle Informationen zu unseren kostenlosen Podcast-Hosting-Angeboten.

Auf der High School zu schlecht für die Schulmannschaft, sollte Dennis Rodman nur dank einer Reihe glücklicher Umstände den Weg in die NBA finden. Dort wurde er zu einem der besten Defensiv-Spieler und Rebounder der Basketball-Geschichte. An der Seite von Michael Jordan sorgte er in den 90ern für Furore. Doch die größten Schlagzeilen machte Rodman mit Skandalen und Eskapaden auf und neben dem Platz. Ob schrille Outfits, eine Affäre mit Madonna, Auftritte als Wrestler oder Gewaltausbrüche während den Spielen Rodman wurde genauso berühmt, wie berüchtigt. Das ist er auch nach seiner Karriere noch, beispielsweise mit kontroversen Reisen nach Nordkorea. Shownotes Highlights aus Rodmans NBA-Karriere vom offiziellen NBA-YouTube-Kanal https://youtu.be/XBoVDIvOrfI Bad Boy im Brautkleid (Spiegel-Artikel von Sven Simon aus dem Jahr 2005) https://www.spiegel.de/sport/ussports/dennis-rodman-bad-boy-im-brautkleid-a-355761.html Dennis Rodman, der ewige Bad Boy (GQ-Artikel von Mychal Denzel Smith zu Rodmans 60. Geburtstag aus dem Jahr 2021) https://www.gq-magazin.de/entertainment/artikel/dennis-rodman-bad-boy-fuers-leben-der-basketball-nba-star-im-portraet Folgt uns auf Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/schattenseiten_podcast/ Schreibt uns per Mail: schattenseiten.podcast@gmail.com Du möchtest deinen Podcast auch kostenlos hosten und damit Geld verdienen? Dann schaue auf www.kostenlos-hosten.de und informiere dich. Dort erhältst du alle Informationen zu unseren kostenlosen Podcast-Hosting-Angeboten.

Auf der High School zu schlecht für die Schulmannschaft, sollte Dennis Rodman nur dank einer Reihe glücklicher Umstände den Weg in die NBA finden. Dort wurde er zu einem der besten Defensiv-Spieler und Rebounder der Basketball-Geschichte. An der Seite von Michael Jordan sorgte er in den 90ern für Furore. Doch die größten Schlagzeilen machte Rodman mit Skandalen und Eskapaden auf und neben dem Platz. Ob schrille Outfits, eine Affäre mit Madonna, Auftritte als Wrestler oder Gewaltausbrüche während den Spielen Rodman wurde genauso berühmt, wie berüchtigt. Das ist er auch nach seiner Karriere noch, beispielsweise mit kontroversen Reisen nach Nordkorea. Shownotes Highlights aus Rodmans NBA-Karriere vom offiziellen NBA-YouTube-Kanal https://youtu.be/XBoVDIvOrfI Bad Boy im Brautkleid (Spiegel-Artikel von Sven Simon aus dem Jahr 2005) https://www.spiegel.de/sport/ussports/dennis-rodman-bad-boy-im-brautkleid-a-355761.html Dennis Rodman, der ewige Bad Boy (GQ-Artikel von Mychal Denzel Smith zu Rodmans 60. Geburtstag aus dem Jahr 2021) https://www.gq-magazin.de/entertainment/artikel/dennis-rodman-bad-boy-fuers-leben-der-basketball-nba-star-im-portraet Folgt uns auf Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/schattenseiten_podcast/ Schreibt uns per Mail: schattenseiten.podcast@gmail.com Du möchtest deinen Podcast auch kostenlos hosten und damit Geld verdienen? Dann schaue auf www.kostenlos-hosten.de und informiere dich. Dort erhältst du alle Informationen zu unseren kostenlosen Podcast-Hosting-Angeboten.

Auf der High School zu schlecht für die Schulmannschaft, sollte Dennis Rodman nur dank einer Reihe glücklicher Umstände den Weg in die NBA finden. Dort wurde er zu einem der besten Defensiv-Spieler und Rebounder der Basketball-Geschichte. An der Seite von Michael Jordan sorgte er in den 90ern für Furore. Doch die größten Schlagzeilen machte Rodman mit Skandalen und Eskapaden auf und neben dem Platz. Ob schrille Outfits, eine Affäre mit Madonna, Auftritte als Wrestler oder Gewaltausbrüche während den Spielen Rodman wurde genauso berühmt, wie berüchtigt. Das ist er auch nach seiner Karriere noch, beispielsweise mit kontroversen Reisen nach Nordkorea. Shownotes Highlights aus Rodmans NBA-Karriere vom offiziellen NBA-YouTube-Kanal https://youtu.be/XBoVDIvOrfI Bad Boy im Brautkleid (Spiegel-Artikel von Sven Simon aus dem Jahr 2005) https://www.spiegel.de/sport/ussports/dennis-rodman-bad-boy-im-brautkleid-a-355761.html Dennis Rodman, der ewige Bad Boy (GQ-Artikel von Mychal Denzel Smith zu Rodmans 60. Geburtstag aus dem Jahr 2021) https://www.gq-magazin.de/entertainment/artikel/dennis-rodman-bad-boy-fuers-leben-der-basketball-nba-star-im-portraet Folgt uns auf Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/schattenseiten_podcast/ Schreibt uns per Mail: schattenseiten.podcast@gmail.com Du möchtest deinen Podcast auch kostenlos hosten und damit Geld verdienen? Dann schaue auf www.kostenlos-hosten.de und informiere dich. Dort erhältst du alle Informationen zu unseren kostenlosen Podcast-Hosting-Angeboten.

Welcome to Open Form, a weekly film podcast hosted by award-winning writer Mychal Denzel Smith. Each week, a different author chooses a movie: a movie they love, a movie they hate, a movie they hate to love. Something nostalgic from their childhood. A brand-new obsession. Something they've been dying to talk about for ages and their friends are constantly annoyed by them bringing it up. * In this episode of Open Form, Mychal talks to Marlowe Granados (Happy Hour) about the 2000 film Charlie's Angels, directed by McG and starring Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, and Lucy Liu. Marlowe Granados is a writer and filmmaker. After spending time in London and New York, she now resides in Toronto. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Open Form, a weekly film podcast hosted by award-winning writer Mychal Denzel Smith. Each week, a different author chooses a movie: a movie they love, a movie they hate, a movie they hate to love. Something nostalgic from their childhood. A brand-new obsession. Something they've been dying to talk about for ages and their friends are constantly annoyed by them bringing it up. * In this episode of Open Form, Mychal talks to Mira Jacob (Good Talk) about the 1991 film Mississippi Masala, directed by Mira Nair and starring Denzel Washington, Sarita Choudhury, and Roshan Seth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Open Form, a weekly film podcast hosted by award-winning writer Mychal Denzel Smith. Each week, a different author chooses a movie: a movie they love, a movie they hate, a movie they hate to love. Something nostalgic from their childhood. A brand-new obsession. Something they've been dying to talk about for ages and their friends are constantly annoyed by them bringing it up. * In this episode of Open Form, Mychal talks to Rachel Yoder (Nightbitch) about the 1986 film Ferris Bueller's Day Off, directed by John Hughes and starring Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, and and Mia Sara. Rachel Yoder is a founding editor of draft: the journal of process. She holds M.F.A's from the University of Arizona (fiction) and the University of Iowa (nonfiction), where she was an Iowa Arts Fellow. Her stories and essays have been published in literary journals such as The Kenyon Review and The Missouri Review, as well as national outlets such as The New York Times, The Sun, and Lit Hub. She lives in Iowa City with her husband and son. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Open Form, a weekly film podcast hosted by award-winning writer Mychal Denzel Smith. Each week, a different author chooses a movie: a movie they love, a movie they hate, a movie they hate to love. Something nostalgic from their childhood. A brand-new obsession. Something they've been dying to talk about for ages and their friends are constantly annoyed by them bringing it up. In this episode of Open Form, Mychal talks to Laila Lalami (Conditional Citizens) about the 1972 film The Godfather, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, and Robert Duvall. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Open Form, a weekly film podcast hosted by award-winning writer Mychal Denzel Smith. Each week, a different author chooses a movie: a movie they love, a movie they hate, a movie they hate to love. Something nostalgic from their childhood. A brand-new obsession. Something they've been dying to talk about for ages and their friends are constantly annoyed by them bringing it up. * In this episode of Open Form, Mychal talks to Joseph Han (Nuclear Family) about the 2001 film Pearl Harbor, directed by Michael Bay and starring Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale, Josh Hartnett, Cuba Gooding Jr., Tom Sizemore, Jon Voight, and Alec Baldwin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Open Form, a weekly film podcast hosted by award-winning writer Mychal Denzel Smith. Each week, a different author chooses a movie: a movie they love, a movie they hate, a movie they hate to love. Something nostalgic from their childhood. A brand-new obsession. Something they've been dying to talk about for ages and their friends are constantly annoyed by them bringing it up. * In this episode of Open Form, Mychal talks to Chelsea Bieker (Heartbroke) about the 1991 film Sleeping With the Enemy, directed by Joseph Ruben and starring Julia Roberts, Patrick Bergin and Kevin Anderson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Open Form, a weekly film podcast hosted by award-winning writer Mychal Denzel Smith. Each week, a different author chooses a movie: a movie they love, a movie they hate, a movie they hate to love. Something nostalgic from their childhood. A brand-new obsession. Something they've been dying to talk about for ages and their friends are constantly annoyed by them bringing it up. In this episode of Open Form, Mychal talks to Leslie Jamison (Make It Scream, Make It Burn) about the 2019 film Midsommar, directed by Ari Aster and starring Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, Vilhelm Blomgren, and William Jackson Harper. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Open Form, a weekly film podcast hosted by award-winning writer Mychal Denzel Smith. Each week, a different author chooses a movie: a movie they love, a movie they hate, a movie they hate to love. Something nostalgic from their childhood. A brand-new obsession. Something they've been dying to talk about for ages and their friends are constantly annoyed by them bringing it up. On this week's episode, Mychal talks with Adam Haslett about the 1987 film Withnail and I, directed by Bruce Robinson and starring Richard E. Grant and Paul McGann. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Open Form, a weekly film podcast hosted by award-winning writer Mychal Denzel Smith. Each week, a different author chooses a movie: a movie they love, a movie they hate, a movie they hate to love. Something nostalgic from their childhood. A brand-new obsession. Something they've been dying to talk about for ages and their friends are constantly annoyed by them bringing it up. In this episode, Mychal talks to Randa Jarrar (Love Is an Ex-Country) about the 2009 film The Time That Remains, directed by Elia Suleiman and starring Menashe Noy, Elia Suleiman, and Baher Agbariya. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Open Form, a new weekly film podcast hosted by award-winning writer Mychal Denzel Smith. Each week, a different author chooses a movie: a movie they love, a movie they hate, a movie they hate to love. Something nostalgic from their childhood. A brand-new obsession. Something they've been dying to talk about for ages and their friends are constantly annoyed by them bringing it up. In this episode, Mychal talks to Melissa Lozada-Oliva (Dreaming of You: A Novel in Verse) about the 2001 film Wolf Girl, directed by Thom Fitzgerald and starring Tim Curry, Victoria Sanchez, Grace Jones, and Lesley Ann Warren. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Open Form, a new weekly film podcast hosted by award-winning writer Mychal Denzel Smith. Each week, a different author chooses a movie: a movie they love, a movie they hate, a movie they hate to love. Something nostalgic from their childhood. A brand-new obsession. Something they've been dying to talk about for ages and their friends are constantly annoyed by them bringing it up. In this episode, Mychal talks to Danya Kukafka (Notes on an Execution and Girl in Snow) about the 2002 film Spider-Man, directed by Sam Raimi and starring Tobey Maguire, Willem Dafoe, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Cliff Robertson, and Rosemary Harris. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Open Form, a new weekly film podcast hosted by award-winning writer Mychal Denzel Smith. Each week, a different author chooses a movie: a movie they love, a movie they hate, a movie they hate to love. Something nostalgic from their childhood. A brand-new obsession. Something they've been dying to talk about for ages and their friends are constantly annoyed by them bringing it up. In this episode, Mychal talks to Farah Jasmine Griffin (Read Until You Understand) about the 2018 film If Beale Street Could Talk, directed by Barry Jenkins, adapted from the novel by James Baldwin, and starring Regina King, KiKi Layne, Stephan James, and Colman Domingo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Open Form, a new weekly film podcast hosted by award-winning writer Mychal Denzel Smith. Each week, a different author chooses a movie: a movie they love, a movie they hate, a movie they hate to love. Something nostalgic from their childhood. A brand-new obsession. Something they've been dying to talk about for ages and their friends are constantly annoyed by them bringing it up. In this episode, Mychal talks to Kristen Arnett (With Teeth) about the 1997 film Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, directed by David Mirkin and starring Mira Sorvino, Lisa Kudrow, and Janeane Garofalo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Open Form, a new weekly film podcast hosted by award-winning writer Mychal Denzel Smith. Each week, a different author chooses a movie: a movie they love, a movie they hate, a movie they hate to love. Something nostalgic from their childhood. A brand-new obsession. Something they've been dying to talk about for ages and their friends are constantly annoyed by them bringing it up. In this episode, Mychal talks to Marie-Helene Bertino (Parakeet) about the 1987 film Moonstruck, directed by Norman Jewison and starring Cher and Nicolas Cage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Open Form, a new weekly film podcast hosted by award-winning writer Mychal Denzel Smith. Each week, a different author chooses a movie: a movie they love, a movie they hate, a movie they hate to love. Something nostalgic from their childhood. A brand-new obsession. Something they've been dying to talk about for ages and their friends are constantly annoyed by them bringing it up. In this episode, Mychal talks to Ashley C. Ford (Somebody's Daughter) about the 1993 film The Joy Luck Club, starring Tsai Chin, Kieu Chinh, Lisa Lu, France Nuyen, Rosalind Chao, Lauren Tom, Tamlyn Tomita, and Ming-Na Wen, and directed by Wayne Wang. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Open Form, a new weekly film podcast hosted by award-winning writer Mychal Denzel Smith. Each week, a different author chooses a movie: a movie they love, a movie they hate, a movie they hate to love. Something nostalgic from their childhood. A brand-new obsession. Something they've been dying to talk about for ages and their friends are constantly annoyed by them bringing it up. In this episode, Mychal talks to Min Jin Lee about the 1988 award-winning, coming-of-age classic Cinema Paradiso, directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Dario sits with award-winning author and activist Darnell Moore. Moore's scholarship weaves effortlessly between the role of the colonial state, the depraved church and the destitutes of patriarchy on political, spiritual, and social freedoms of Black, queer and marginalized people. A leading voice in culture, media, and movement, Moore antagonizes any Black liberation thought that colors freedom inside of the lines of cis, straight, and able-bodied Black people.  In today's conversation, we'll explore Moore's definition of a “costly grace” in transforming our justice systems, the role and relevance of Black churches in queer lives, and what it means to unbecome a man in community of menfolk. Sensitive topics in this conversation include suicide and domestic abuse.  Mentioned In This Episode:  https://www.boldtypebooks.com/titles/darnell-l-moore/no-ashes-in-the-fire/9781549168727/ (No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America) by Darnell Moore https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e23-the-hidden-costs-of-racism-with-heather-mcghee/id1516680750?i=1000508951395 (Heather McGhee) - Ep.23 The Hidden Cost of Racism, Institute of Black Imagination Podcast  https://www.boldtypebooks.com/titles/mychal-denzel-smith/invisible-man-got-the-whole-world-watching/9781568585291/ (Invisible Man Got the Whole World Watching : A Young Black Man's Education )by Mychal Denzel Smith  Darnell's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mooredarnell/?hl=en (@mooredarnell) This conversation was recorded on February 8, 2021 Original Music composed by Dario Calmese, Show Art by River Wildmen, Social Art by Stéphane Lab

Welcome to Open Form, a new weekly film podcast hosted by award-winning writer Mychal Denzel Smith. Each week, a different author chooses a movie: a movie they love, a movie they hate, a movie they hate to love. Something nostalgic from their childhood. A brand-new obsession. Something they've been dying to talk about for ages and their friends are constantly annoyed by them bringing it up. In this episode, Mychal talks to Ilana Masad about the 2016 film Arrival, directed by Denis Villeneuve and adapted by Eric Heisserer from the short story "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang, starring Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Tzi Ma. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Open Form, a new weekly film podcast hosted by award-winning writer Mychal Denzel Smith. Each week, a different author chooses a movie: a movie they love, a movie they hate, a movie they hate to love. Something nostalgic from their childhood. A brand-new obsession. Something they've been dying to talk about for ages and their friends are constantly annoyed by them bringing it up. In this episode, Mychal talks to José Vadi about the 1993 film The Fugitive, directed by Andrew Davis and starring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Open Form, a new weekly film podcast hosted by award-winning writer Mychal Denzel Smith. Each week, a different author chooses a movie: a movie they love, a movie they hate, a movie they hate to love. Something nostalgic from their childhood. A brand-new obsession. Something they've been dying to talk about for ages and their friends are constantly annoyed by them bringing it up. In this episode, Mychal talks to Téa Obreht about the 1940 film Rebecca, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Open Form, a new weekly film podcast hosted by award-winning writer Mychal Denzel Smith. Each week, a different author chooses a movie: a movie they love, a movie they hate, a movie they hate to love. Something nostalgic from their childhood. A brand-new obsession. Something they've been dying to talk about for ages and their friends are constantly annoyed by them bringing it up. In this episode, Mychal talks to Melissa Febos about the 1986 film Labyrinth, directed by Jim Henson and starring Jennifer Connelly and David Bowie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Open Form, a new weekly film podcast hosted by award-winning writer Mychal Denzel Smith. Each week, a different author chooses a movie: a movie they love, a movie they hate, a movie they hate to love. Something nostalgic from their childhood. A brand-new obsession. Something they've been dying to talk about for ages and their friends are constantly annoyed by them bringing it up. In this episode, Mychal talks to Zaina Arafat about the 1998 film Sliding Doors, directed by Peter Howitt and starring Gwyneth Paltrow, John Hannah, John Lynch, and Jeanne Tripplehorn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Open Form, a new weekly film podcast hosted by award-winning writer Mychal Denzel Smith. Each week, a different author chooses a movie: a movie they love, a movie they hate, a movie they hate to love. Something nostalgic from their childhood. A brand-new obsession. Something they've been dying to talk about for ages and their friends are constantly annoyed by them bringing it up. In this episode, Mychal talks to Morgan Parker about the 1998 film The Faculty, directed by Robert Rodriguez and written by Kevin Williamson. It stars Jordana Brewster, Clea DuVall, Laura Harris, Josh Hartnett, Shawn Hatosy, Famke Janssen, Piper Laurie, Bebe Neuwirth, Robert Patrick, Usher Raymond, Jon Stewart, and Elijah Wood. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Open Form, a new weekly film podcast hosted by award-winning writer Mychal Denzel Smith. Each week, a different author chooses a movie: a movie they love, a movie they hate, a movie they hate to love. Something nostalgic from their childhood. A brand-new obsession. Something they've been dying to talk about for ages and their friends are constantly annoyed by them bringing it up. In this episode, Mychal talks to Esmé Weijun Wang about the 2004 film Closer, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Clive Owen, Natalie Portman, Julia Roberts, and Jude Law. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Open Form, a new weekly film podcast hosted by award-winning writer Mychal Denzel Smith. Each week, a different author chooses a movie: a movie they love, a movie they hate, a movie they hate to love. Something nostalgic from their childhood. A brand-new obsession. Something they've been dying to talk about for ages and their friends are constantly annoyed by them bringing it up. In this episode, Mychal talks to Hanif Abdurraqib about the 2002 film Brown Sugar, directed by RickFamuyiwa and starring Taye Diggs and Sanaa Lathan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Open Form, a new weekly film podcast hosted by award-winning writer Mychal Denzel Smith. Each week, a different author chooses a movie: a movie they love, a movie they hate, a movie they hate to love. Something nostalgic from their childhood. A brand-new obsession. Something they've been dying to talk about for ages and their friends are constantly annoyed by them bringing it up. In this episode, Mychal talks to Kaitlyn Greenidge about the 1982 film Cane River, directed by Horace Jenkins. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Open Form, a new weekly film podcast hosted by award-winning writer Mychal Denzel Smith. Each week, a different author chooses a movie: a movie they love, a movie they hate, a movie they hate to love. Something nostalgic from their childhood. A brand-new obsession. Something they've been dying to talk about for ages and their friends are constantly annoyed by them bringing it up. In this episode, Mychal talks to Alexandra Kleeman about the 2012 film Like Someone in Love, directed by Abbas Kiarostami. This episode's sponsor: Kings Distillery. Kings County Distillery is New York City's premier craft distillery and among the most acclaimed small distilleries in the United States. Focused exclusively on whiskeys, Kings County has made a name for its Bourbon, Peated Bourbon, Empire Rye and other creative whiskeys. Kings County can be found across the US. Go to KingsCountyDistillery.com to find out where.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Open Form, a new weekly film podcast hosted by award-winning writer Mychal Denzel Smith. Each week, a different author chooses a movie: a movie they love, a movie they hate, a movie they hate to love. Something nostalgic from their childhood. A brand-new obsession. Something they've been dying to talk about for ages and their friends are constantly annoyed by them bringing it up. In this episode, Mychal talks to Celeste Ng about the 1979 film The Muppet Movie, directed by James Frawley. This episode's sponsor: Kings Distillery. Kings County Distillery is New York City's premier craft distillery and among the most acclaimed small distilleries in the United States. Focused exclusively on whiskeys, Kings County has made a name for its Bourbon, Peated Bourbon, Empire Rye and other creative whiskeys. Kings County can be found across the US. Go to KingsCountyDistillery.com to find out where.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Open Form, a new weekly film podcast hosted by award-winning writer Mychal Denzel Smith. Each week, a different author chooses a movie: a movie they love, a movie they hate, a movie they hate to love. Something nostalgic from their childhood. A brand-new obsession. Something they've been dying to talk about for ages and their friends are constantly annoyed by them bringing it up. In this episode, Mychal talks to Eula Biss about the 1984 film Purple Rain, starring Prince, Apollonia Kotero, and Morris Day, and directed by Albert Magnoli. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's time for another installment of The Stacks Book Club. This month we're discussing The Undying: A Meditation on Modern Illness by Anne Boyer with Mychal Denzel Smith (Stakes is High). Our conversation explores the commodification of cancer, the ways sexism is entrenched in the language of breast cancer, and how form and content can work together and fight against one another in the same text.There are no spoilers in this episode. Be sure to listen until the end of the podcast to find out The Stacks Book Club pick for July! You can find links to everything we discuss on today's show on The Stacks' Website: https://thestackspodcast.com/2021/06/30/ep-170-the-undying SUPPORT THE STACKS Join The Stacks Pack on Patreon Libro.FM - get two audiobooks for the price of one when you use the code THESTACKS at checkout.  Purchasing books through Bookshop.org or Amazon earns The Stacks a small commission. Connect with Mychal: Twitter |

Ashley C. Ford is a host, podcaster, writer, and now author. Her debut book, Somebody's Daughter, was an instant New York Times bestseller, and tells the story of her childhood as it relates to her coming of age and her father's incarceration. Today we discuss therapy as part of her writing process, the ways anger can fuel passion, and what it means to be published by Oprah Winfrey's imprint.  The Stacks Book Club selection for June is The Undying by Anne Boyer. We will discuss the book with Mychal Denzel Smith on Wednesday June 30th. You can find links to everything we discuss on today's show on The Stacks' Website: https://thestackspodcast.com/2021/06/23/ep-169-ashley-c-ford/ SUPPORT THE STACKS Join The Stacks Pack on Patreon Canva - get a free 45-day extended trial of Canva Pro when you go to canva.me/stacks Purchasing books through Bookshop.org or Amazon earns The Stacks a small commission. Connect with Ashley: Twitter | Instagram | Website

Today we are joined by Clint Smith author of How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America. Clint is also a staff writer at The Atlantic and the poet behind Counting Descent. We talk about how Clint's poetry informs his nonfiction writing, the capacity to be surprised, and the recency of slavery. The Stacks Book Club selection for June is The Undying by Anne Boyer. We will discuss the book with Mychal Denzel Smith on Wednesday June 30th. You can find links to everything we discuss on today's show on The Stacks' Website: https://thestackspodcast.com/2021/06/16/ep-168-clint-smith SUPPORT THE STACKS Join The Stacks Pack on Patreon Care/Of - get 50% off your first order when you go to takecareof.com and use the code STACKS50 Read THE BLACK KIDS by Christina Hammond Hello Fresh - head to

Welcome to Open Form, a new weekly film podcast hosted by award-winning writer Mychal Denzel Smith. Each week, a different author chooses a movie: a movie they love, a movie they hate, a movie they hate to love. Something nostalgic from their childhood. A brand-new obsession. Something they've been dying to talk about for ages and their friends are constantly annoyed by them bringing it up. On this week's episode, Mychal talks to Kali Fajardo-Anstine about the 2008 film Sunshine Cleaning , starring Amy Adams and Emily Blunt and directed by Christine Jeffs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we are joined by author and activist Marlon Peterson. His book Bird Uncaged: An Abolitionist's Freedom Song is out now and is both a memoir of Marlon's time in prison and an indictment of a system that fails its citizens. We talk today about possibility, asking different questions, and romantic comedies.  The Stacks Book Club selection for June is The Undying by Anne Boyer. We will discuss the book with Mychal Denzel Smith on Wednesday June 30th. You can find links to everything we discuss on today's show on The Stacks' Website: https://thestackspodcast.com/2021/06/09/ep-167-marlon-peterson SUPPORT THE STACKS Join The Stacks Pack on Patreon Plum Deluxe - get 10% off your purchase when you go to plumdeluxe.com and use the code THESTACKS at checkout. Purchasing books through Bookshop.org or Amazon earns The Stacks a small commission.Connect with Marlon: Instagram

Welcome to Open Form, a new weekly film podcast hosted by award-winning writer Mychal Denzel Smith. Each week, a different author chooses a movie: a movie they love, a movie they hate, a movie they hate to love. Something nostalgic from their childhood. A brand-new obsession. Something they've been dying to talk about for ages and their friends are constantly annoyed by them bringing it up. On this week's episode, Mychal talks to Kiese Laymon about the 1982 film Rocky III, starring Sylvester Stallone and Mr. T and directed by Sylvester Stallone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our guest this week is Mychal Denzel Smith, the author of one of Traci’s favorite books from 2020, Stakes is High. Mychal’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and many other publications, and now he hosts the Open Form podcast. Today we talk about the difference between accountability and punishment, abolition, and what it means to want better for America. The Stacks Book Club selection for June is The Undying by Anne Boyer. We will discuss the book with Mychal Denzel Smith on Wednesday June 30th. You can find links to everything we discuss on today's show on The Stacks' Website: https://thestackspodcast.com/2021/06/02/ep-166-mychal-denzel-smith/ SUPPORT THE STACKS Join The Stacks Pack on Patreon Purchasing books through Bookshop.org or Amazon earns The Stacks a small commission.Connect with Mychal: Twitter | Instagram | Website | Open Form...

Welcome to Open Form, a new weekly film podcast hosted by award-winning writer Mychal Denzel Smith. Each week, a different author chooses a movie: a movie they love, a movie they hate, a movie they hate to love. Something nostalgic from their childhood. A brand-new obsession. Something they've been dying to talk about for ages and their friends are constantly annoyed by them bringing it up. On this week's episode, Mychal talks to R.O. Kwon about the 2020 film Minari, directed by Lee Isaac Chung and starring Steven Yeun, Yuh-Jung Youn, Yeri Han, Alan S. Kim, and Noel Cho. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Open Form, a new weekly film podcast hosted by award-winning writer Mychal Denzel Smith. Each week, a different author chooses a movie: a movie they love, a movie they hate, a movie they hate to love. Something nostalgic from their childhood. A brand-new obsession. Something they've been dying to talk about for ages and their friends are constantly annoyed by them bringing it up. On this week's episode, Mychal talks to Nate Marshall about the 1991 film The Five Heartbeats, starring Robert Townsend, Michael Wright, Leon, Herry Lennix, and Tico Wells, and directed by Robert Townsend. Nate Marshall is an award-winning author, editor, poet, playwright, performer, educator, speaker, and rapper. His book, Wild Hundreds, was honored with the Black Caucus of the American Library Association's award for Poetry Book of the Year and The Great Lakes College Association's New Writer Award. He is also an editor of The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop and he also co-curates The BreakBeat Poets series for Haymarket Books. Marshall co-wrote the play No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks with Eve Ewing, produced by Manual Cinema and commissioned by the Poetry Foundation. He also wrote the audio drama Bruh Rabbit & The Fantastic Telling of Remington Ellis, Esq., which was produced by Make-Believe Association. His last rap album, Grown came out in 2015 with his group Daily Lyrical Product. His most recent book, FINNA, came out in 2020 from One World/Random House. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Open Form, a new weekly film podcast hosted by award-winning writer Mychal Denzel Smith. Each week, a different author chooses a movie: a movie they love, a movie they hate, a movie they hate to love. Something nostalgic from their childhood. A brand-new obsession. Something they've been dying to talk about for ages and their friends are constantly annoyed by them bringing it up. On this week's episode, Mychal talks to Nadia Owusu about the 2016 film Hunt for the Wilderpeople, starring Sam Neill and Julian Dennison, and directed by Taika Waititi. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Open Form, a new weekly film podcast hosted by award-winning writer Mychal Denzel Smith. Each week, a different author chooses a movie: a movie they love, a movie they hate, a movie they hate to love. Something nostalgic from their childhood. A brand-new obsession. Something they've been dying to talk about for ages and their friends are constantly annoyed by them bringing it up. On this week's episode, Mychal talks to Tracy O'Neill about the 1941 film Ball of Fire, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Gary Cooper, and directed by Howard Hawks. This week's sponsor: This week is presented by WW Norton, publisher of The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock. Available wherever books are sold. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Open Form, a new weekly film podcast hosted by award-winning writer Mychal Denzel Smith. Each week, a different author chooses a movie: a movie they love, a movie they hate, a movie they hate to love. Something nostalgic from their childhood. A brand-new obsession. Something they've been dying to talk about for ages and their friends are constantly annoyed by them bringing it up. On the first episode, Mychal talks to Brit Bennett about the 2002 film Undercover Brother, starring Eddie Griffin and directed by Malcolm D. Lee. This week's sponsor: This week is presented by WW Norton, publisher of The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock. Available wherever books are sold. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Listen to the trailer for the new podcast Open Form, hosted by award-winning author Mychal Denzel Smith. Each week, a different author chooses a movie: a movie they love, a movie they hate, a movie they hate to love. Episodes begin April 22, 2021. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I'm starting a book club! The reading list will be the books that have shaped me and my outlook on the world. Current Book: In Defense of Looting by Vicky OsterweilWhy I chose it: Both capitalism and policing are actually relatively recent inventions that are built upon racial notions of property. It helped me to see that property is not about effort and fairness, but exploitation and exclusion. With the fog cleared it's easier for me to advocate for human dignity that not only guarantees basic human needs like food, water, shelter, but also joy and happiness. Vicky also provides insight to how "news" media is propagandistic and common fallacies. "A reflection on violence as a form of social protest that can lead to social change." ―New York Journal of Books"[In Defense of Looting] is as much an argument for the possibilities of a riot as it is a reckoning between history as it happens and history as it is read.... [Osterweil's] readings of history lend the book its exhilarating quality and make anything seem possible." ―Frieze"In Defense of Looting is a clear and damning indictment of the origins and evolution of property rights, race, and policing in the United States. Ultimately, Osterweil demands we not only overcome the respectability politics animating our desire for 'peaceful protests,' but that we ambitiously work to abolish the racial capitalist logics at the heart of American empire." ―Zoé Samudzi, coauthor of As Black As Resistance"In engaging and accessible prose, Vicky Osterweil lays out an intellectual defense of looting that is as thorough and compelling as it is necessary and revolutionary. The history here is alive and vital, and Osterweil's grasp of it pushes any reader who has doubted the legitimacy of looting as a political action to search deeply and reconsider their position." ―Mychal Denzel Smith, author of Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream"With the right ideas at the right time, Vicky Osterweil has given us a powerful tool for resistance in the 21st century. In Defense of Looting could change American politics forever." ―Malcolm Harris, author of Kids These Days: The Making of Millennials"A passionate, in-depth study of one of history's most radical-and reviled-forms of direct action. In clear, precise prose, Osterweil lays bare the racialized settler-colonial roots of policing and property in the US, outlines the possibilities of militant resistance, and emphasizes the necessity of Black and Indigenous liberation. In Defense of Looting is a bracing and necessary read, written with great care and radical hope. As Osterweil herself says, 'The future is ours to take. We just need to loot it.'" ―Kim Kelly, labor columnist, Teen Vogue"In this book the act of looting is the starting point for challenging the conventional beliefs around people, property, and justice. How we treat looting, whose acts are considered looting, and what is looted frame essential interventions in understanding uprising. The stakes are not of 'stuff,' TVs, and clothes; they're about ourselves and our communities. Whether at the policy level or in our personal daily politics, the historical insights and moral clarity of this book illuminate a way forward from the real crimes that structure our society." ―Ayesha A. Siddiqi, writer and emeritus editor-in-chief of The New Inquiry

In the last few years, many Americans have had to square the idea of the American Dream with the realities they face that seem to offer little hope. Mychal Denzel Smith is a fellow at Type Media Center, and he joins host Krys Boyd to talk about his thoughts on how he wrestles to understand the current moment studied against the long lens of American history. His new book of essays is “Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream.” This show first aired in September 2020.

As we prepare for the 2021 season of Thresholds, we took a look back at some of our favorite conversations from 2020 including excerpts from interviews with Mira Jacob, Ocean Vuong, Natalie Diaz, Carmen Maria Machado, Alexander Chee, and Mychal Denzel Smith. New episodes of Thresholds coming every Wednesday, starting 1/13/21! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Set squarely in the context of an America ravaged by a pandemic and racial and political violence, Mychal Denzel Smith's discussion of his book Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream with novelist Brit Bennett is a fierce, brilliant and unapologetic conversation, leavened with gallows humor. Mychal delineates the distinction between being forgetful of history and being intentionally committed to delusions,  discusses selective ideas of American identity, and describes struggling against the futility of writing in the face of injustice, while noting "it's important that we leave a record of the alternative to what has been the dominant discourse."  (Recorded September 14, 2020)

Episode 43! Buy Stakes Is High by Mychal Denzel Smith! This week's episode begins with my thoughts on the election and where we go from here. Congrats to Kamala Harris for becoming the first woman to hold one of the two highest positions in our government and the first Black and South Asian VP. Please, please. please don't tell me you're looking forward to things going "back to normal". The interview in this episode is with Dennis Gillan. Dennis has been working for decades to end the stigma around discussing issues of Mental Health and Suicide and helping prevent those tragic deaths. You can learn more at his website. The Shout Out is from Aphroditi (Didi) Mamaligas! Follow her on Twitter and Instagram. Stick around after the interview for today's Choose Your Card and Good Egg. This week's Good Egg: Read something by a Black author! Keep filling out the survey (link below, or at the podcast website, www.JayShifman.com) and leave a review (link below or at https://ReviewThisPodcast.com/Choose-Your-Struggle) to get up to two entries per person for the 2nd giveaway. You have until the last episode of the season (early December) to enter. Winner gets a Choose Your Struggle Tank Top! Speaking of which, Tank Tops are in! You can see what they look like on the website (thanks to my wife for modeling the women's cut). Reach out through the website to order. Patreon supports get a discount so join Patreon! Podcast Survey: https://forms.gle/9xbdZUHvcSrxHEEt6. Support the Podcast: https://www.patreon.com/ChooseYourStruggle?fan_landing=true. Review the Podcast: https://ReviewThisPodcast.com/Choose-Your-Struggle. Support the Podcast, a different way: https://podhero.com/401017-ikv. My Sponsor Boston Hempire: https://www.bostonhempire.com/?ref=jayshifman My Sponsor Mountain Made: https://mountainmadecbd.com/ My Sponsor Four Sigmatic (10% off with Code Choose Your Struggle) My Sponsor Pair of Thieves (Use Code RAKUTENTHIEVES For 20% Off) My Sponsor KeaBabies: www.keababies.com As always, you can find more at my links: https://jay.campsite.bio/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jay-shifman/message

On this special episode of Coffee and Books, Marc dives into what motivated him to write his latest book; "We Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest and Possibility." He is interviewed by his friend, and fellow New York Times Best selling Author, Mychal Denzel Smith. The two break down the book and the importance of why Marc wrote the book in this current climate. Also, Mychal gets a shot at revenge when the tables are turned on Marc for the tortuous Buy It, Borrow It, Burn It.

For election night 2020, while cable news had white boards and talking heads, the OTM crew hosted comedians, singers and friends for some great conversation with occasional updates on what was happening in the presidential race. In this podcast extra we highlight one of those conversations. Mychal Denzel Smith is a writer and fellow at Type Media Center. Brooke spoke to him about his most recent book titled Stakes Is High: After The American Dream which focuses on the perils, for the individual, and the nation of embracing the American myth, better known as the American Dream, the idea that everything is possible for those who work hard. And she asked him what kind of changes the outcome of this election might herald. To round out the broadcast, Bob and Brooke answered some audience questions...and revisited some of the issues in the conversation they had the day after the 2016 election, Now What? 

Mychal Denzel Smith, author of the New York Times bestseller Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching, talks about whether it is better to have racism out in the open, whether times today are more dangerous than before, and what we can do if there isn't a peaceful transfer of power after the November election. Mychal's latest book is Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream.

This week, Marc is in conversation with New York Times best selling author, Mychal Denzel Smith, dissecting his recent book; Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream. The two examine the American identity...who we think we are versus who we actually are, when Mychal first identified as a writer, and also Marc puts Mychal through arguably the most difficult, but wildly fun "Buy It, Borrow It, Burn It" yet!

The year was 2016. Election Day. Mychal Denzel Smith was asked to be a guest on Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now to provide election night coverage. Originally, his plans were to give a lukewarm welcome to the incremental possibilities of a Hillary presidency whilst also remaining skeptical of maintaining the system. But a Trump presidency was […] The post Stakes is High appeared first on WORT 89.9 FM.

In the last few years, many Americans have had to square the idea of the American Dream with the realities they face that seem to offer little hope. Mychal Denzel Smith is a fellow at Type Media Center, and he joins host Krys Boyd to talk about his thoughts on how he wrestles to understand the current moment studied against the long lens of American history. His new book of essays is “Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream.”

Trevor covers disregard for COVID-19 health risks in the U.S., Dulce Sloan examines the history of Black hair in America, and Mychal Denzel Smith discusses "Stakes Is High." Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Mychal Denzel Smith is the author of the just-released Stakes is High: Life After the American Dream as well as the 2016 New York Times bestseller Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching. His work has appeared, online and print, in the New York Times, Washington Post, Harper’s, Artforum, Oxford American, New Republic, GQ, Complex, Esquire, Playboy, Bleacher Report, The Nation, The Atlantic, Pitchfork, Bookforum, and a number of other publications. He has appeared on The Daily Show, PBS Newshour, Democracy NOW!, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, MSNBC, CNN, NPR, and more national and local radio/television programs. He is featured in and was a consulting producer for “Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story." He was also a 2017 NAACP Image Award Nominee. He is a fellow at Type Media Center. You can follow him on Twitter at @mychalsmith. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Award-winning author Claudia Rankine joins editor-in-chief Tom Beer to discuss Just Us: An American Conversation (Graywolf Press, Sept. 8), a paradigm-shifting cross-disciplinary collection of essays, poems, and images that contend with the perceptual and experiential divide between Black and White Americans. And in a sponsored interview, host Megan Labrise talks with Swedish hip hop star Jason Diakité, author of A Drop of Midnight: A Memoir (Amazon Crossing). Then our editors join with their reading recommendations for the week, including books by Mychal Denzel Smith, Yaa Gyasi, and Helen Macdonald.

Air Date 8/8/2020 Today we take a look at the concept of defunding the police; what it means, what it doesn't and what the goals of the movement are.  Be part of the show! Leave us a message at 202-999-3991 Transcript MEMBERSHIP ON PATREON (Get AD FREE Shows & Bonus Content) Support us on PodHero Support us on Flattr EPISODE SPONSORS: Clean Choice Energy IF YOU’RE GOING TO SHOP AMAZON: Amazon USA | Amazon CA | Amazon UK SHOW NOTES Ch. 1: Race, Police, & The Pandemic - FRONTLINE - Air Date 6-2-20 Jelani Cobb describes how the relationship between black Americans and the police has become a “barometer” for race relations in the country and that explosive tensions are “overwhelmingly” in response to an issue of police use of force. Ch. 2: Panel Discussion on Radical Police Reform - The Daily Show - Air Date 6-10-20 Trevor hosts a panel on movements to radically reimagine policing in the U.S. with Patrisse Cullors, Josie Duffy Rice, Sam Sinyangwe, Mychal Denzel Smith and Alex S. Vitale. Ch. 3: The Racial Justice Uprising in the U.S. is Taking Hold Overseas - The Takeaway - Air Date 6-8-20 Explaining that an overburdened police system that takes on way too much, including much that is outside the realm of their training, is something that no one should want. Ch. 4: The End of Policing with Alex Vitale - The Bastani Factor, Novara Media - Air Date 6-3-20 Aaron Bastani interviews author of ‘The End of Policing’, Alex Vitale, to ask just how bad law enforcement is in the United States, and what can be done about it. Ch. 5: Defunding the Police Is Only the Beginning - The Mother Jones Podcast - Air Date 6-17-20 Josie Duffy Rice joins Jamilah King for a discussion about the recent police killing of Rayshard Brookes in Atlanta, the deep racist and classist structural issues with policing in America, and why defunding the police is only step one. Ch. 6: Defund Police What It Means & How It Would Really Work - News Beat - Air Date 6-16-20 In the wake of the police slaying of George Floyd in Minneapolis, protesters have not only flooded the streets, but they're actively pushing reforms that go well beyond traditional solutions. Ch. 7: How to Defund the Police - Boom! Lawyered - Air Date 6-11-20 Racism is baked into the U.S. model of policing. More and more people are starting to believe that no amount of "reform" will help; a full tear-down is required. But what does "defunding the police" actually mean? Ch. 8: Is It Time To Defund the Police? - Deconstructed with Mehdi Hasan - Air Date 6-11-20 Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors joins Mehdi Hasan to discuss the future of policing and community-oriented systems of public safety in the United States. Ch. 9: The Politics of "Defund the Police" - Politics with Amy Walter, The Takeaway - Air Date 6-12-20 Congress is reckoning with how to respond to the protests and calls for police accountability. Two national reporters join to discuss the Justice in Policing Act of 2020. Ch. 10: We Can't Let The Uprising Get Co-opted - The Michael Brooks Show - Air Date 6-10-20 Notes on the uprising and how we move forward without allowing the forces of neoliberalism to co-opt the movement. Ch. 11: TAKE ACTION:#DefundthePolice Locally via @IndivisibleTeam & Nationally with The #BREATHEAct via @Mvmnt4BlkLives Call on Local Officials to #DefundthePolice via Indivisible Ch. 12: Angela Davis: Abolishing police is not just about dismantling. It’s also about building up. - Democracy Now - Air Date 6-12-2020 Amid a worldwide uprising against police brutality and racism, we discuss the historic moment with legendary scholar and activist Angela Davis. VOICEMAILS Ch. 13: Taken on a journey - Nick from California FINAL COMMENTS Ch. 14: Final comments puncturing the myth of the individuality of whiteness TAKE ACTION LOCAL: DEFUND THE POLICE Call on Local Officials to #DefundthePolice via Indivisible Indivisible Black Lives Solidarity Action  NATIONAL: PASS THE BREATHE ACT Learn about and support the BREATHE Act Spread the word about the BREATHE Act Sign on as Community Sponsor of the BREATHE Act ELECTORAL: SUPPORT PROGRESSIVE RACIAL JUSTICE ADVOCATES Upcoming State Primaries EDUCATE YOURSELF & SHARE The Movement for Black Lives Introduces the BREATHE Act (Colorlines) What Exactly Does It Mean to Defund the Police? (The Cut, NY Mag,) What Does It Mean to Invest in Black Communities? (The Nation) How to Defund the Police (The New Yorker) How to Make Defunding the Police a Reality (The Nation) The Cities Taking Up Calls to Defund the Police (Bloomberg) Defunding the Police Will Actually Make Us Safer (ACLU) The Black Lives Matter Protests Are Working. Here’s Proof. (HuffPost) Why We’re Demanding No Cops for Veep (The Nation) Researched & Written by BOTL Communications Director Amanda Hoffman  MUSIC (Blue Dot Sessions): Opening Theme: Loving Acoustic Instrumental by John Douglas Orr  PolyCoat - The Cabinetmaker Tripoli - Pecan Grove The Wooden Platform - The Bulwark Tar and Spackle - Plaster Quaver - Codebreaker Begrudge - Darby Eventual Victory - Codebreaker Sunday Lights - Onesuch Village Cloud Line - K4 Voicemail Music: Low Key Lost Feeling Electro by Alex Stinnent Closing Music: Upbeat Laid Back Indie Rock by Alex Stinnent SHOW IMAGE “Justice for George Floyd - We Demand Change Now” by Fibonacci Blue (Flickr) | Changes: Cropped | License   Produced by Jay! 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The uprising to abolish the police asks our country, and the press, to envision a new world. But the news business is not built to accommodate ideas that would transform society. On this week's Kicker, three longtime writers and speakers on anti-Black racism and policing—Mychal Denzel Smith, Josie Duffy Rice, and Alex Vitale—discuss media coverage of recent protests, trace our use of the word crime, and urge us to focus on local activism.

In this episode we have a conversation about defunding the police: what it means, what it doesn't mean, and how the phrase raises different emotions in people depending on their personal experiences with the police and racism.How decades of consistent and pervasive defunding of community programming, healthcare, and education has harmed communities. We focus on the effects for children with disabilities.School Resource officers and police brutality in the schools that specifically targets black and brown children and children with disabilities.How policy runs on narratives, not statistics. We discuss and challenge narratives about “bad neighborhoods” and “bad children” that are steeped in anti-black racism, anti-indigeneity, and ableism and have fueled bad policy for decades. For more information about this topic: Defunding the police: Democracy NOW!:  “Defund the Police: Linda Sarsour & Mychal Denzel Smith on What Meaningful Change Would Look Like” USA Today “What does 'defund the police' mean and why some say 'reform' is not enough” Black Lives Matter Los Angeles Times “Eliminate school police, L.A. teachers union leaders say” Reading Towward Abolition: A Reading List on Policing, Rebellion, and the Criminalization of Blackness by the Abusable Past. Resources for teaching and talking about racism: EdJustice: “Black Lives Matter at School – Resources” Watson, Dyan, Jesse Hagopian, and Wayne Au. Teaching for Black Lives. , 2018. Print. The Black Lives Matter Syllabus The School to Prison Pipeline: Bullies in Blue: The Problem with School Policing [infographic] by the ACLU Cops and No Counselors: How the Lack of School Mental Health is Harming Students by the ACLU ** The image above was drawn by Akim, a 10 year African American boy expressing his feelings in this current moment of police brutality, racism, and Covid-19.

Patrisse Cullors, Josie Duffy Rice, Sam Sinyangwe, Mychal Denzel Smith and Alex S. Vitale join Trevor for a panel on movements to radically reimagine policing in the U.S. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode we have a conversation about defunding the police: what it means, what it doesn’t mean, and how the phrase raises different emotions in people depending on their personal experiences with the police and racism.How decades of consistent and pervasive defunding of community programming, healthcare, and education has harmed communities. We focus on the effects for children with disabilities.School Resource officers and police brutality in the schools that specifically targets black and brown children and children with disabilities.How policy runs on narratives, not statistics. We discuss and challenge narratives about “bad neighborhoods” and “bad children” that are steeped in anti-black racism, anti-indigeneity, and ableism and have fueled bad policy for decades. For more information about this topic: Defunding the police: Democracy NOW!:  “Defund the Police: Linda Sarsour & Mychal Denzel Smith on What Meaningful Change Would Look Like” USA Today “What does 'defund the police' mean and why some say 'reform' is not enough” Black Lives Matter Los Angeles Times “Eliminate school police, L.A. teachers union leaders say” Reading Towward Abolition: A Reading List on Policing, Rebellion, and the Criminalization of Blackness by the Abusable Past. Resources for teaching and talking about racism: EdJustice: “Black Lives Matter at School – Resources” Watson, Dyan, Jesse Hagopian, and Wayne Au. Teaching for Black Lives. , 2018. Print. The Black Lives Matter Syllabus The School to Prison Pipeline: Bullies in Blue: The Problem with School Policing [infographic] by the ACLU Cops and No Counselors: How the Lack of School Mental Health is Harming Students by the ACLU ** The image above was drawn by Akim, a 10 year African American boy expressing his feelings in this current moment of police brutality, racism, and Covid-19.

In this episode we have a conversation about defunding the police: what it means, what it doesn't mean, and how the phrase raises different emotions in people depending on their personal experiences with the police and racism.How decades of consistent and pervasive defunding of community programming, healthcare, and education has harmed communities. We focus on the effects for children with disabilities.School Resource officers and police brutality in the schools that specifically targets black and brown children and children with disabilities.How policy runs on narratives, not statistics. We discuss and challenge narratives about “bad neighborhoods” and “bad children” that are steeped in anti-black racism, anti-indigeneity, and ableism and have fueled bad policy for decades. For more information about this topic: Defunding the police: Democracy NOW!:  “Defund the Police: Linda Sarsour & Mychal Denzel Smith on What Meaningful Change Would Look Like” USA Today “What does 'defund the police' mean and why some say 'reform' is not enough” Black Lives Matter Los Angeles Times “Eliminate school police, L.A. teachers union leaders say” Reading Towward Abolition: A Reading List on Policing, Rebellion, and the Criminalization of Blackness by the Abusable Past. Resources for teaching and talking about racism: EdJustice: “Black Lives Matter at School – Resources” Watson, Dyan, Jesse Hagopian, and Wayne Au. Teaching for Black Lives. , 2018. Print. The Black Lives Matter Syllabus The School to Prison Pipeline: Bullies in Blue: The Problem with School Policing [infographic] by the ACLU Cops and No Counselors: How the Lack of School Mental Health is Harming Students by the ACLU ** The image above was drawn by Akim, a 10 year African American boy expressing his feelings in this current moment of police brutality, racism, and Covid-19.

The Minneapolis City Council announces it will move to dismantle the police department; We look at the growing movement to defund the police with professor Alex Vitale who wrote "The End of Policing," author Mychal Denzel Smith and activist Linda Sarsour.

In this episode of 'This Is Palestine,' we shift our focus to the protests that have swept the nation, sparked by the tragic murder of George Floyd by police officers on May 25. We hear from three distinct Black American voices as they discuss systemic racism and what it means to be Black in America. First, we hear from Mychal Denzel Smith, author of the forthcoming Stakes is High: Life After the American Dream and New York Times bestseller Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, New Republic, The Nation, and more. In 2014 and 2016, TheRoot.com named him one of the 100 Most Influential African-Americans in their annual The Root 100 list. Mychal navigates us through this moment and what it means, what's different about it now, and why defunding the police is vital to gaining justice. Next, we hear from Kinjo Kiema and Khury Petersen-Smith, who speak in conversation with one another about this moment and connections to global solidarity. Kinjo Kiema is an organizer with BYP100, a Black queer feminist organization working to create justice and freedom for all Black people. She is also a leader in the reproductive justice movement, and has organized within the labor and student movements, including with Students for Justice in Palestine. Khury Petersen-Smith is the Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C. Petersen-Smith has been a leading activist for internationalist solidarity, economic justice, and racial and gender equality since he was a high school student. He traveled to Iraq in 2004 on a United for Peace and Justice delegation where he represented the Campus Anti-War Network.

Black artists, intellectuals, and writers have long been asked to process their pain for white audiences—which has led some well-intentioned white progressives to view pain as the entirety of the black experience. Recognizing this fact inevitably leads us to wonder: what would have James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time been like if he had only addressed his fourteen-year-old nephew, or included a letter to his nieces? Emily Bernard, author of Black Is the Body, and Mychal Denzel Smith, author of Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching, both seek to expand and break out of limiting narratives around race in their work. On March 7, Harper's Magazine senior editor Rachel Poser moderated a discussion with Bernard and Smith at Book Culture that weighed the delicacies of genre, the expectations of audiences, and the act of parlaying experience into art.

Hosted by Matt Pullman. Produced by Bill Shouldis.

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah sheds light on a modern day America full of racial violence, greed, and heartbreak in his debut collection of short stories, "Friday Black." Focusing on the struggles of young black men and women, his characters fight to survive with their humanity intact. In conversation with writer Mychal Denzel Smith, Adjei-Brenyah discuses his approach to writing satire, the perils of capitalism, and how to stay hopeful while creating dystopian fiction.

Although many august publications have survived the shift to digital, they have retained many of the problems in how print outlets make assignments and edit their writers' work—particularly when it comes to race. In the December issue, Mychal Denzel Smith writes, “There is power lost when the oppressor serves as interlocutor. This is not new. Navigating the constraints of white supremacy while establishing a self-definition outside of it is what being black in America has always meant. Slave narratives are powerful firsthand accounts of the horrors of slavery and important assertions of black humanity. But each one, whether Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass or Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, is compromised by the fact that its intended audience was almost exclusively white. It was never the enslaved who needed to hear about the brutality of enslavement.” In this episode, web editor Violet Lucca is joined by Smith, the author of Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education and a fellow at the Nation Institute, to consider the structural problems of the news media, and how they mirror larger problems in society.

What’s the script for black manhood? Mychal Denzel Smith unapologetically upends assumptions about black masculinity, rewriting the script for black men so that depression and anxiety aren’t considered taboo, and feminism and LGBTQ rights become part of the fight. Denzel Smith, author of of Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching, talked with Uncharted Berkeley Festival of Ideas Co-Curator Helena Brantley about black manhood today and the heightened awareness of racism in Trump’s America.

This is a recording of The Struggle Bus LIVE with special guests Josh Gondelman, Mychal Denzel Smith, Molly Knefel and surprise guest, ADVICE GIVING PUPPET Carl Mudgeon! Recorded on Wednesday, October 25th at Union Hall, Brooklyn, NY.  Special thanks to HangAndHold for donating gifts for our audience game! Find them on Etsy at HangAndHold and Instagram at @hangandhold. Hand-painted + handmade goods to hang on your wall or hold in your hand. Made with love in BK.    

Mychal Denzel Smith is a Knobler Fellow at The Nation Institute and a contributing writer for The Nation magazine. He has also written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, Salon, Feministing.com, The Guardian, The Root, theGrio, ThinkProgress, and The Huffington Post, and he has been a featured commentator on NPR, BBC radio, CNN, MSNBC, Al Jazeera America, HuffPost Live, and a number of other radio and television programs. He is the author of Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching. In this episode of Writers Who Don't Write, Mychal discusses his experience growing up black in America, and what that meant for him, his friends and his family.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

B & E sit down to talk about the things that have kept them sane this summer, then they get out of the studio for a trip to the Black Art Incubator. More Info: Park Ave Armory Youth Corps: http://youthcorps.tumblr.com/ White Girls By Hilton Als: https://www.amazon.com/White-Girls-Hilton-Als/dp/194045025X Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching by Mychal Denzel Smith: https://www.amazon.com/Invisible-Man-Whole-World-Watching/dp/1568585284 The Mothers by Brit Bennett: https://www.amazon.com/Mothers-Novel-Brit-Bennett/dp/0399184511 Black Art Incubator: http://www.recessart.org/blackartincubator/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Beyoncé. Kendrick Lamar. J Cole. Janelle Monae.  Pop artists are increasingly speaking out against police violence these days, while amplifying the demands of Black Lives Matter in the process. This is in keeping with the spirit of the 1960s and 1970s, when James Brown, Nina Simone and Marvin Gaye turned issues of segregation and poverty into artistic masterpieces like "What's Goin On?" "Music may be beautiful but it haunts you because you don’t want there to exist in the world the conditions that produce this sort of music," said Mychal Denzel Smith, author of the new book 'Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching.' "So what do we do about it?" [To hear Smith and others, click on "Listen" for this Micropolis story.] ---------------------------------------  We've created a Spotify playlist of some of our favorite protest songs. Have a suggestion? Let us know in the comments. Or tweet at us!  Tweet //     

Welcome back to #WeThePeople LIVE! As Josh is about to tell you, this is a prerecorded episode, so we took the opportunity to discuss some issues so constant that they get overlooked. Don't worry, things get just as impassioned as our previous episodes. Our panelist bringing the passion this week were Tea Hacic, Mychal Denzel Smith, and Anthony Fisher. We were also honored to have such an engaged audience at Pine Box Rockshop as you're about to hear. This episode you'll hear a discussion about ageism (or is it sexism), gentrification, who's middle class, does France matter, and will computers take over (seriously). All in a half hour! Make sure to vote who you think won the news: @WTP_Live #WeThePeopleLIVE @JoshZepps Visit our website at www.WTPLive.com Check out our sponsor's Double Cross Vodka @ doublecrossvodka.com & Speakeasy Ales and Lagers @ goodbeer.com Please leave us a review on iTunes, it makes a huge difference. Remember. It doesn't matter who's right. Only who's popular. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nicole discusses the decision handed down last night by the Ferguson Grand Jury of no indictment for the cop who killed Mike Brown. She checks in with journalists and activists who've been in Ferguson covering the protests, including The Nation's Mychal Denzel Smith, rapper Jasiri X and WeActRadio's Peter Callahan. Plus Amy Simon and @GottaLaff join in during hour two for another gathering of the Gliberal Goddesses

In this episode: The incredibly talented Mychal Denzel Smith is a contributing writer at The Nation, freelances for other major publications, makes frequent appearances on television and is prodigious on Twitter. He also spent four years at a distinguished university but never graduated. This is a story about questioning authority, why it’s so important to do so no matter what the consequences, and, like any great narrative, there is a boat explosion. Ok, he had nothing to do with the boat but he is responsible for some other big things. PLUS news about the monthly advice show Katharine co-hosts called The Struggle Bus, and tickets are available now for the next Tell The Bartender LIVE brought to you by New York ComicCon's Superweek! Get them here. Like the show? Tip The Bartender! Or give it 5 stars!

Mark Anthony Neal sits down with Rahiel Tesfamariam & Mychal Denzel Smith to talk about poverty, youth violence and the anniversay of the Occupy Movement.