Podcast appearances and mentions of Roland Martin

On this new episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast Omar Moore on the importance of listening to Black People (we haven't steered you wrong yet.) Also: Voting is fundamental. And: A waste of Hillary Clinton's time. Plus: The curious case of Katie Couric.WARNING: This episode contains foul language and racist epithets. Listener discretion is advised.Recorded February 26, 2026.OMAR'S NEW SUBSTACK WRITING: The Age Of Discernment Must Take Place Now: https://substack.com/@popcornreel/note/p-188766703?r=275tyr&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-actionVIDEO: When Ann Curry said goodbyehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y83MU00aXZ4Subscribe on Substack: https://popcornreel.substack.comSubscribe on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@thepoliticratpodBUY MERCH FROM THE POLITICRAT STORE: https://the-politicrat.myshopify.comBUY BLACK!Patronize Black-owned businesses on Roland Martin's Black Star Network: https://shopblackstarnetwork.comBLACK-OWNED MEDIA MATTERS: (Watch Roland Martin Unfiltered daily M-F 6-8pm Eastern)https://youtube.com/rolandsmartin

On this new episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast Omar Moore on the BAFTAs, anti-Black racism, Delroy Lindo, Michael B. Jordan, Tourette's Syndrome, John Davidson, Alan Cumming, The BBC and society. SCORCHED EARTH. And more.WARNING: This episode contains foul language and racist epithets. Listener discretion is advised.Recorded February 23, 2026.OMAR'S NEW SUBSTACK WRITING: The Age Of Discernment Must Take Place Now: https://substack.com/@popcornreel/note/p-188766703?r=275tyr&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-actionSubscribe on Substack: https://popcornreel.substack.comSubscribe on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@thepoliticratpodBUY MERCH FROM THE POLITICRAT STORE: https://the-politicrat.myshopify.comBUY BLACK!Patronize Black-owned businesses on Roland Martin's Black Star Network: https://shopblackstarnetwork.comBLACK-OWNED MEDIA MATTERS: (Watch Roland Martin Unfiltered daily M-F 6-8pm Eastern)https://youtube.com/rolandsmartin

Are we ignoring the dark side of Greek life, or are we just blinded by the networking benefits?In this episode of the Palm Wine Central Podcast (@PWCCast), Uncle AK, Tutu, & Hannah dive into the uncomfortable truths of modern society, pop culture, and personal finance. We start with a tribute to civil rights icon Jesse Jackson before exposing a serious lack of Black history knowledge during a heated trivia debate about figures like Roland Martin. We then unpack the controversial Michael Jordan viral video, questioning celebrity behavior and societal paranoia in an era of hyper-vigilance.The conversation takes a raw turn as we discuss the brutal reality of the cost of living, wishing for PPP loans, and the extreme lengths people go to survive this economy. Finally, we tackle the highly debated HBCU vs PWI experience, exploring the cultural isolation of PWIs and the controversial, sometimes "evil" realities of pledging Black fraternities and sororities.Smart Timestamps• 0:00 The tragic reality of public safety today.• 2:04 Jesse Jackson's legacy & the uncomfortable Roland Martin debate• 11:40 Test your cultural knowledge: Black History Month Trivia• 23:12 The Michael Jordan video: Are we reaching or is it a valid concern?• 32:42 The PPP loan regret & identifying the financial habits keeping you broke• 41:32 What you actually don't know about the history of Mardi Gras• 53:18 HBCU vs PWI: Finding the right cultural environment for success• 1:02:40 The dark side of pledging & why people denounce their Greek letters• 1:18:20 40 Days of Discipline: Fasting, breaking bad habits, and finding peace #blackculture #HBCUvsPWI #financialliteracy Produced by: Palm Wine Central ProductionsListen On: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTube | Amazon MusicWatch more: https://www.youtube.com/@pwcpodcast

On this special new episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast Omar Moore on Jasmine Crockett's campaign for the US Senate in Texas, including audio of her town hall in Richardson, Texas. Also: Andrew arrested in Norfolk, England. Plus: The shallow attitudes exhibited by some white people about racism in American society, and contextualizing and spelling out the Black realities that refute those attitudes.WARNING: This episode contains foul language and racist epithets. Listener discretion is advised.Recorded February 20, 2026.Subscribe on Substack: https://popcornreel.substack.comSubscribe on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@thepoliticratpodBUY MERCH FROM THE POLITICRAT STORE: https://the-politicrat.myshopify.comBUY BLACK!Patronize Black-owned businesses on Roland Martin's Black Star Network: https://shopblackstarnetwork.comBLACK-OWNED MEDIA MATTERS: (Watch Roland Martin Unfiltered daily M-F 6-8pm Eastern)https://youtube.com/rolandsmartin

On this special new episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast Omar Moore honors and celebrates the life of legendary civil rights leader, organizer, political strategist and counselor Reverend Jesse Jackson Sr.WARNING: This episode MAY contain foul language. Listener discretion is advised.Recorded February 18, 2026.TWO OF REVEREND JESSE JACKSON'S MOST NOTABLE SPEECHES:"I Am Somebody" (1971) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MABLNerK_GwDemocratic National Convention speech, Atlanta, GA (1988)https://youtu.be/6RCARIpVDLU?si=awiU7Avy2G1ziloEBUY MERCH FROM THE POLITICRAT STORE: https://the-politicrat.myshopify.comBUY BLACK!Patronize Black-owned businesses on Roland Martin's Black Star Network: https://shopblackstarnetwork.comBLACK-OWNED MEDIA MATTERS: (Watch Roland Martin Unfiltered daily M-F 6-8pm Eastern)https://youtube.com/rolandsmartin

On this new episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast Omar Moore on the passing of civil rights leader and legend Rev Jesse Jackson. Plus: The Latino anti-Black racism, as exhibited by some Latina celebrities. Also: The economic cost of ICE invading Minneapolis. Extra: The imperative - you must vote! Additionally: More on the Epstein Files and new investigations.WARNING: This episode contains foul language. Listener discretion is advised.Recorded February 16, 2026.READ THESE BOOKS:"Before The Mayflower: A History Of Black America", by Lerone Bennett Jr"Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias And The Struggle For Equality" by Tanya Kateri HernandezNEWS STORIES:New Mexico votes to start probe of Epstein and his crimes at his Zorro Ranch in the state (Feb 16, Reuters)https://www.reuters.com/world/us/new-mexico-approves-comprehensive-probe-epsteins-zorro-ranch-2026-02-17/House Oversight Dems to hold Shadow Hearings in Palm Beach Florida on April 14 on Epstein - survivors will testify (Feb 11, via Rep Robert Garcia)https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/news/press-releases/ranking-member-robert-garcia-announces-oversight-democrats-to-hold-shadow-field-hearing-on-epstein-investigation-in-palm-beach-florida SUBSCRIBE: https://popcornreel.substack.com - please be a paid subscriber (or a free subscriber)SUBSCRIBE: https://youtube.com/@thepoliticratpodBUY MERCH FROM THE POLITICRAT STORE: https://the-politicrat.myshopify.comBUY BLACK!Patronize Black-owned businesses on Roland Martin's Black Star Network: https://shopblackstarnetwork.comBLACK-OWNED MEDIA MATTERS: (Watch Roland Martin Unfiltered daily M-F 6-8pm Eastern)https://youtube.com/rolandsmartin

On this new episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast Omar Moore on shattering voting lies with the FACTS. Also: Countering the BS of Kristi Noem, The Puppy Killer around Arizona and voting. Who are the "right people" when it comes to voting, Kristi? Plus: Full audio of the 2018 BBC Panorama documentary "Is (Donald Trump) A Sex Pest?"WARNING: This episode contains foul language. Listener discretion is advised.Recorded February 15, 2026.READ THESE BOOKS:"Before The Mayflower: A History Of Black America", by Lerone Bennett Jr"A Protest History Of The United States", by Gloria Browne-Mitchell"One Person, No Vote", by Prof. Carol Anderson"Our Unfinished March", by Eric Holder"Racial Innocence: Unmasking Anti-Black Latino Bias" by Tanya Kateri HernandezNEWS STORIES:Arizona indicts 18 in election interference case, including Giuliani and Meadows (AP, Apr 24, 2024)https://apnews.com/article/arizona-fake-electors-charges-2020-election-9da5a7e58814ed55ceea1ca55401af85SUBSCRIBE: https://mooreo.substack.com - please be a paid subscriber (or a free subscriber)SUBSCRIBE: https://youtube.com/@thepoliticratpodBUY MERCH FROM THE POLITICRAT STORE: https://the-politicrat.myshopify.comBUY BLACK!Patronize Black-owned businesses on Roland Martin's Black Star Network: https://shopblackstarnetwork.comBLACK-OWNED MEDIA MATTERS: (Watch Roland Martin Unfiltered daily M-F 6-8pm Eastern)https://youtube.com/rolandsmartin

On this new episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast Omar Moore on two very important things that aren't being talked about enough: the SAVE Act (voting) and the Trump regime's plan to mass revoke your U.S. citizenship, naturalized or otherwise.WARNING: This episode contains foul language. Listener discretion is advised.Recorded February 12, 2026.READ THESE BOOKS:"One Person, No Vote", by Prof. Carol Anderson"Our Unfinished March", by Eric Holder"Racial Innocence" by Tanya Kateri HernandezNEWS STORIES:Trump regime looking to strip your citizenship especially if you are naturalized (NBC News, Feb 12, 2026)https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/trump-administration-working-expand-effort-strip-citizenship-foreign-b-rcna255427Trump regime aiming to strip more foreign-born US citizens of their citizenship (NY Times, Dec 17, 2025) https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/us/politics/trump-immigration-citizenship-denaturalization.htmlSUBSCRIBE: https://mooreo.substack.com - please be a paid subscriber (or a free subscriber)SUBSCRIBE: https://youtube.com/@thepoliticratpodBUY MERCH FROM THE POLITICRAT STORE: https://the-politicrat.myshopify.comBUY BLACK!Patronize Black-owned businesses on Roland Martin's Black Star Network: https://shopblackstarnetwork.comBLACK-OWNED MEDIA MATTERS: (Watch Roland Martin Unfiltered daily M-F 6-8pm Eastern)https://youtube.com/rolandsmartin

On this new episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast Omar Moore on the 1960s Profumo affair in the UK and how the Mandleson mess and Epstein files and the crimes contained therein make for a far more serious scandal and cover-up than the events in Harold McMillan's England in 1963.WARNING: This episode contains foul language. Listener discretion is advised.Recorded February 9, 2026.SUBSCRIBE: https://mooreo.substack.com - please be a paid subscriber (or a free subscriber)SUBSCRIBE: https://youtube.com/@thepoliticratpodBUY MERCH FROM THE POLITICRAT STORE: https://the-politicrat.myshopify.comBUY BLACK!Patronize Black-owned businesses on Roland Martin's Black Star Network: https://shopblackstarnetwork.comBLACK-OWNED MEDIA MATTERS: (Watch Roland Martin Unfiltered daily M-F 6-8pm Eastern)https://youtube.com/rolandsmartin

On this new episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast Omar Moore on Bad Bunny Sunday, the imperative of voting, the Epstein Files as seen via the excellent coverage by BBC News and news of the last 48 hours.WARNING: This episode contains foul language. Listener discretion is advised.Recorded February 8, 2026.SUBSCRIBE: https://mooreo.substack.com - please be a paid subscriber (or a free subscriber)SUBSCRIBE: https://youtube.com/@thepoliticratpodBUY MERCH FROM THE POLITICRAT STORE: https://the-politicrat.myshopify.comBUY BLACK!Patronize Black-owned businesses on Roland Martin's Black Star Network: https://shopblackstarnetwork.comBLACK-OWNED MEDIA MATTERS: (Watch Roland Martin Unfiltered daily M-F 6-8pm Eastern)https://youtube.com/rolandsmartin

On this new episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast Omar Moore on white guilt and defensiveness. Time for a better response from white people at large and a new way forward. And then some.WARNING: This episode contains foul language. Listener discretion is advised.Recorded February 6, 2026.SUBSCRIBE: https://mooreo.substack.com - please be a paid subscriber (or a free subscriber)SUBSCRIBE: https://youtube.com/@thepoliticratpodBUY MERCH FROM THE POLITICRAT STORE: https://the-politicrat.myshopify.comBUY BLACK!Patronize Black-owned businesses on Roland Martin's Black Star Network: https://shopblackstarnetwork.comBLACK-OWNED MEDIA MATTERS: (Watch Roland Martin Unfiltered daily M-F 6-8pm Eastern)https://youtube.com/rolandsmartin

On this new episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast Omar Moore plays sizable amount of audio from Don Lemon's livestream when he was at Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota on January 18, 2026. You decide if Don was a journalist or an activist. HINT: The answer is self-evident.WARNING: This episode contains foul language. Listener discretion is advised.Recorded February 5, 2026.SUBSCRIBE: https://mooreo.substack.com - please be a paid subscriber (or a free subscriber)SUBSCRIBE: https://youtube.com/@thepoliticratpodBUY MERCH FROM THE POLITICRAT STORE: https://the-politicrat.myshopify.comBUY BLACK!Patronize Black-owned businesses on Roland Martin's Black Star Network: https://shopblackstarnetwork.comBLACK-OWNED MEDIA MATTERS: (Watch Roland Martin Unfiltered daily M-F 6-8pm Eastern)https://youtube.com/rolandsmartin

Let it be known, that it's Black History Month…and Crowned ReRe and Mr. Al Pete have a double dose of flowers to give!It's been a minute since ReRe and Pete have given flowers to a person/place/thing/idea. On this episode, they share two recipients each. ReRe handles the ladies (Mabel King and Oprah Winfrey) and Pete holds it down for the fellas (Roland Martin and D-Nice).  Per usual, they go through their segments (A Rose Is A Rose and Cactus), Pete shares an exciting story of him meeting Ari Lennox and D-Nice, and ReRe always blesses the FFTC Gang with new music and intellectual introvert thoughts. Also, Alyce Rose makes a quick appearance on the show!Enjoy the show and be on the lookout for the 6 year anniversary of the show. February 25th! Something special will happen!Stay connected and keep the flowers blooming. Follow the podcast and hosts: https://www.mpn-llc.com/fftcpodcast @fftcpodcast on all socialsFollow Crowned ReRe and Mr. Al Pete on their websites and platforms to see what's next in their journeys!Crowned ReRe: https://crownones.com | Instagram: @crowned_re_re_becca Mr. Al Pete: https://mralpete.com | Instagram: @mralpete Recorded and produced by The MPN Network/Mr. Al Pete.

Rebecca W. Walston: https://rebuildingmyfoundation.comAt Solid Foundation Story Coaching, we believe that stories shape our lives. Our experiences—both joyful and painful—define how we see ourselves and interact with the world. Story Coaching offers a unique space to explore your personal journey, uncover patterns of hurt and resilience, and gain clarity on how your past shapes your present. Unlike therapy, Story Coaching is not about diagnosis or treatment. Instead, it's about having someone truly listen—without judgment or advice—so you can process your story in a safe and supportive space. Whether you choose one-on-one coaching or small group sessions, you'll have the opportunity to share, reflect, and grow at your own pace.Jenny McGrath: https://www.indwellcounseling.comI am Jenny! (She/Her) MACP, LMHC I am a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, Certified Yoga Teacher, and an Approved Supervisor in the state of Washington.  have spent over a decade researching the ways in which the body can heal from trauma through movement and connection. I have come to see that our bodies know what they need.  By approaching our body with curiosity we can begin to listen to the innate wisdom our body has to teach us.  And that is where the magic happens! Danielle S. Rueb Castillejo: www.wayfindingtherapy.comDanielle (00:06):Welcome to the Arise Podcast, conversations on faith, race, justice, gender, spirituality. We're jumping here and talking about this current moment. We just can't get away from it. There's so much going on, protest kids, walking out of schools, navigating the moment of trauma. Is that really trauma? So I hope you enjoy this conversation with Danielle, Jenny and Rebecca,Rebecca (00:28):A sentence that probably I'm going to record us. Maybe it's fair, maybe it's not. But I feel like everyone is, is traumatized, and I'm only using the word traumatized because I don't have a better word to say. I think there's very little time and space to give this well reasoned, well thought out, grounded reaction to everything because there's the threat level is too high. So trying to ground yourself in this kind of environment and feel like you're surefooted about the choices that you're making feels really hard. It is just hard. And I don't say that to invalidate anybody's choice. I say that just to say everything feels like it's just difficult and most things feel like there are impossible choices. I don't know. It just, yeah, it's a crazy maker.Jenny (01:45):I agree with you. And I also feel like it's like we need a new word other than trauma, because Bessel Vander Kott kind of came up with this idea of trauma working with veterans who had gone through the war. We are actively in the war right now. And so what is the impact of our nervous system when we're not going, oh, that's a trauma that happened 10 years ago, 20 years ago, but every single day we're in a nervous system. Overwhelmed. Is there a word for that? What is that that we're experiencing? And maybe trauma works, but it's almost like it doesn't even capture what we're trying to survive right now.Rebecca (02:31):Yes. And even when you just said the idea of nervous system overwhelmed, I wanted to go, is that word even accurate? I have lots of questions for which I don't have any answers, like minute to minute, am I overwhelmed individually? Is my people group overwhelmed? I don't know. But I feel that same sense of, it's hard to put your finger on vocabulary that actually taps into what may or may not be happening minute by minute, hour by hour for someone. Right? There might be this circumstance where you feel, you don't feel overwhelmed. You feel like you could see with startling clarity exactly what is happening and exactly the move you want to make in that space. And 30 seconds later you might feel overwhelmed.Danielle (03:35):I agree. It's such a hot kettle for conflict too. It's like a hot, hot kettle. Anytime it feels like you might be at odds with someone you didn't even know it was coming. You know what I mean? Jude, which just amplifies the moment because then you have, we were talking about you got your nervous system, you got trauma, whatever it is, and then you're trying to get along with people in a hot situation and make decisions. And also you don't want to do things collectively. You just want to, and also then sometimes it needs to be all about this long process, but if ice is banging at your door, you don't have time to have a group talk about whistles. It's just like you can't have a group meeting about it. You know what I'm saying? Right, right.Speaker 2 (04:37):I think if you, and I remember us having this conversation in a total other setting about what's the definition of trauma? Is trauma this event that happens or is it the feeling of your system being overwhelmed or any other host of things? But I think if we think about it from the frame of, are the support systems that I have in place either individually or collectively overwhelmed by a particular moment in time or in history, maybe that's a decent place to start. And what I think is interesting about that is that the black community is having this conversation. We are not overwhelmed. This is not new to us. This whether it's true or fair or not. There's a lot of dialogue in the black community about, we've been here before, and so there is this sense of we may not be overwhelmed in the way that someone else might be. And I still don't know what I think about that, what I feel about that, if that feels true or right or fair or honest. It just feels like that is the reaction that we are having as a collective culture right now. So yeah.It means to be resisting in this moment or taking care of yourself in this moment? Just for you, just for Rebecca. Not for anybody else. Honestly,Rebecca (06:25):I have been in a space of very guarded, very curated information gathering since the night of the election back in November of 2024. So part of my selfcare sort of for the last, I don't know what is that, 18 months or something like that, 15 months or something has been, I take in very little information and I take it in very intentionally and very short burst of amount of time. I'm still scanning headlines, not watching the news, not taking in any information that's probably in any more than about 32nd, 62nd clips because I cannot, I can't do this.(07:38):Someone, Roland Martin who is this sort of member of the Independent Black Press, said this generation is about to get a very up close and personal taste of what it feels like and looks like to live under Jim Crow. And I was scrolling to the puppies, I cannot absorb that sentence seriously, scroll on the Instagram clip because that sentence was, that was it. I was done. I don't even want to hear, I don't want to know what he meant by that. I know what he meant by that, but I don't want to know what he meant by that.(08:36):I a lovely neutral grass cloth, textured, right? The way the light lights off of it be the very little imperfections. It does something to make a space feel really special, but it's still very ated it. Yes. And I would say this is like if you want to try wallpaper, if you don't want the commitment of a large scale pattern just is a great way to go. I think if there's here the jaguar off the top.Danielle (09:16):It's interesting when you pose a question, Rebecca in our chat this morning about white America waking up. The people that I've noticed that have been the most aware for me outside of folks of color have been some of my queer elders, white folks that have been through the marches, have fought for marriage equality, have fought for human dignity, have fought as well, and they're just like, oh shit, we're going, this is all happening again.Rebecca (09:59):I think that that comes, again, a lot of my information these days is coming from social media, but I saw a clip of a podcast, I don't even know what it was, but the podcast was a black male talking to someone who appeared to me to be a white female, but she could have been something else. She didn't exactly name it, but whatever it was they were discussing like the dynamic between men and women in general. And the male who is the host of the podcast asked the female, what gives you the authority as a woman to speak about men and how they do what they do. And her answer was, and I'm going to paraphrase it, the same thing that gives you the authority as a black person to talk about white people, if you are the marginalized or the oppressed, everything there is to know about the oppressor, things about the oppressor that they don't know about themselves because you need to in order to survive. And so that is what qualifies. That was her answer. That's what qualifies me as a woman to speak about men. And when the sentence that you just gave Danielle, that's what I thought about. If you've ever had to actually live on the margins, something about what is happening and about what is coming from experience, you've seen it. You've heard it, you've heard about it. AndDanielle (12:00):I was just thinking about, I was just talking about this yesterday with my editor, how for Latinx community, there was this huge farm workers movement that ran parallel to the what Martin Luther King was doing, the civil rights movement and how they wrote letters and solidarity and Dolores Huta, these people in 90, they're in their nineties. And then there was this period where things I think got a little better and Latinos made, it's like all of that memory in large pockets of the United States, all that movement got erased and traded in for whiteness. And then that's my parents' generation. So my mom not speaking Spanish, raised not to speak Spanish, all these layers of forgetting. And then it's me and my generation and my kids we're like, holy shit, we can't tolerate this shit. That's not okay. And then it's trying to find the memory, where did it go? Why is there a big gap in this historical narrative, in recent memory? Because says Cesar Chavez and all those people, they started doing something because bad things were happening for centuries to our people. But then there's this gap and now we're living, I think post that gap. And I think you see that with the two murderers of Alex Preti were Latinos from the Texas border that had come up from Texas and they're the actual murderers and they unli him. And people are like, what happened? What happened?Are they perpetrating this crime? What does all of this mean? So I think when we talk about this current moment, it just feels so hard to untangle. JustRebecca (14:01):I think you said, I think you said that there was this period where there's all this activism that's parallel to the civil rights movement and then all that disappeared in exchange for whiteness, I think is what you said.(14:23):And if I said, if I heard that incorrectly through my cultural lens, please let me know that. But I think that that phrase is actually really important. I think this notion of what whiteness requires of us and what it requires us to exchange or give up or erase it, is something that we need to meander through real slow. And in this moment, we're talking about people of Latino descent in the United States, but we could easily be talking about any other number of cultural groups. And I have to ask that same question and wrestle with those same answers. And I think I saw recently that, again, this probably could have happened anywhere of a dozen places, some part, somewhere in the country, there's some museum that has to do with African-American history and the markers were being taken down.(15:52):But you can watch it in real actual time, the required eraser of the story. You can watch it in actual time. If you lay a clip of Alex Pertti's murder up against the Play-by-play that came out of the Department of Homeland Security, and you can watch in real time the rewriting of what actually happened. So your sense of there's this gap where the story kind of disappears. What has it been 60 years since the timeframe and history that you're talking about 1960s. It makes me wonder what was on the news in 1960? Where were they? Where and how did they intentionally rewrite the story? Did they erase markers? Did they bury information?Jenny (17:16):Where I have a few thoughts. I'm thinking about my Polish great-grandfather who had an engineering degree, and to my understanding of the family's story, because it's not often told, and he worked in a box factory, not because he wanted to or that's what he was trained for, but in the time that my great grandfather was here, Polish people were not considered white. And even my dad spent most, he spent his childhood, his early childhood, his family was the only not black family in his community. And his nickname was Spooks growing up for his first few years in life because he was the only light-skinned kid in his neighborhood. And then with the GI Bill, Polish people got adopted into whiteness. And that story of culture and community and lineage was also erased. And just the precarity of whiteness that it's like this Overton window that shifts and allows or disallows primarily based on melanin, but not just melanin based on these performances of aligning with white supremacy. And we don't tell these stories because I think going back to nervous systems, I do think,And I don't think a lot of white bodies want to contend with them. And so then we align more with the privileges that being adopted into whiteness floor to ceiling.Rebecca (19:47):You had just finished telling the story with the GI Bill that Polish people got adopted in to whiteness. And that story and that sort of culture, that origin story disappeared off the landscape. And you might not have said the word disappear. That might be my paraphrase.Jenny (20:07):Yeah. And I think on a visceral level, on a nervous system level, white bodies, whatever that means, know that story, whether that story is told or not. And so I think white bodies know we could be Renee, Nicole Goode or Alex Prety any day if we choose not to fall in line with what whiteness expects of us. And I think there are many examples through abolition, through civil rights, through current history, it is not the same magnitude of bodies of color being killed. And white bodies know if I actually give up my white privilege, I'm giving up my white privilege. And that the precarity that whiteness gives or takes away is so flimsy, I think. Or the safety that it gives is so flimsy.Rebecca (21:15):I mean, I agree with you times a thousand about the flimsy ness and the precariousness of whiteness. Say more about the sentence, white bodies know this because if the me wants to go, I don't think they do. So yeah, say more.Jenny (21:41):Well, I will say I don't think it's conscious. I don't think white people are conscious of this, but I think the epigenetic story of what is given up and what is gained by being adopted into whiteness is in our bodies. And I think that that's part of what makes white people so skittish and disembodied and dissociated, is that the ability to fully be human means giving up the supposed safety that we're given in whiteness. And I think our bodies are really wise and there is some self-preservation in that, and that comes to the detriment and further harm because we are then more complicit with the systems of white supremacy.(22:46):That's what I think. I could be wrong. Obviously I'm not every white body, but I know that the first time I heard someone say that to me in my body, I was like, yep, I know that fear. It's never been named, but having someone say white bodies probably know, I was like, yep. I think my body does know. And that's why I've been so complicit and agreeable to whiteness because that gives me safety. What do you think, Rebecca?Rebecca (23:32):I am probably I'm that am the ambivalent about the whole thing, right? Partly I get the framework that you're talking about. I've used the framework myself, this idea that what your body knows and how that forms and shapes how you move in the world and how that can move from one generation to the next epigenetically without you or spiritually without you necessarily having the details of the story. And also, I'm super nervous about this narrative that I'm nervous that the narrative that you're painting will be used as an excuse to step away from accountability and responsibility. And because I think this sort of narcissistic kind of collapse is what tends to happen around whiteness, where you're so buried under the weight of everything that we can't continue the conversation anymore. And this is the whole why we cannot teach actual American history because some white kids somewhere is going to be uncomfortable.(25:04):And so I get it. I got it. And it makes me super nervous about what will be done with that information. And I think I also think that, and this could be that my frame is limited, so I don't want this comment to come off a, but I think there's not enough work around perpetrator categories and buckets. And so where we tend to go with this is that we go, that harm moves you to victim status and then victims get a pass for what they did because they were hurt. There's not enough to me work, there's not enough vocabulary in the public discourse for when that harm made you become a perpetrator of harm as a collective group and as a consistent collective narrative for hundreds of years. And so that makes me nervous too. What I don't want is, and this is I guess part of the same sort of narcissistic collapse is that we go from cows harmed, and I do believe there's significant harm that happens to a person and to a people when they are required to be complicit in their own eraser in order to survive that. I absolutely believe there's massive harm in that. But how do we talk about then that the reaction to that is to become the perpetrator of harm versus the reaction to that is to learn to move through it and heal from it and not become the group that systematically harms someone else. And there's some nuance in there. There's probably all kinds of complexities there, but that's what my head is around all that, what I just said.Danielle (27:18):I have a lot of thoughts about that. I think I would argue that it's a moral injury, meaning? Meaning that the conditioning over time of attachment instead of what I wrote to y'all, the attachment isn't built as an attachment to one another. It was reframed as an attachment to hierarchy or system. And therefore for a long time, you have a general population of people that don't have a secure attachment to a caregiver, to people that it's been outsourced to power, basically a church system or a government system that's protecting them versus a family and a community, their culture. And in that you have a lot of ruptures and it leaves a lot of space. If your attachment is to power versus belonging to one another, you're going to do a lot of violent damage. And I would argue that that's a repeating perpetrating wound in the collective white society, that attachment to power versus attachment to community.(28:48):That's what I think. I could be wrong, but that's what I've been writing about.Rebecca (28:56):That's a pretty brilliant application of individual attachment theory to collective identity and yeah, that's pretty brilliant actually.(29:09):That's a very nuanced way to talk about what happens in that exchange of a cultural identity for access to the category. White is to say that you advertise to community and family and you tether and attach yourself to power structures, and then you hold on for dear life.Danielle (29:32):You can see it playing out across the nation. It's not that republicans and evangelicals aren't, they're actually arguing against an attachment to community and belonging and saying, we can do these things because we have power now and we're attached to that power. Jesus. They're not attached, I would argue. They're not attached to Jesus either.Rebecca (30:00):Now you want to start a whole fight. How is that attachment structure that you're identifying? And I'm going to steal that by the way, and I will quote you when I steal it. How is that a moral injury?Danielle (30:18):Well, for me, immoral injury is like someone who goes to war or goes into a battle or goes into a situation and you, at some point, someone consciously violates what they know is right or wrong. And so someone took a whole boat over here, a whole journey to do that. So even the journey itself, there's no way, it doesn't matter if they didn't have social media. It doesn't matter if the pilgrims of whatever we want to call them, colonizers didn't know what was here. They know that on lands there are people, and in that journey, they had a decision that was separating themselves saying, when I get there, I deserve that land no matter what's there. So they had all, I don't know how many months it takes to sail across the sea. It was like a month or a couple months or something. You have all that time of a people becoming another kind of people. I think(31:25):That's what I think. You talk about the transatlantic slave trade and that crossing of the water. I think in some ways white people put themselves through that and there's no way, I don't know a lot of ways to explain a complete detachment from morality, but there's something in that passageway that does it for Yeah,Rebecca (31:51):I get it. I mean, you're talking about maybe even on the pilgrim ship that landed in Jamestown passage. But(32:02):If you read, I saw this in a book written by an author by the name of Jamar Tis. He's talking about the earlier colonial days in the United States, and he's talking about how there's a series of letters that he recounts in the book. And so there's this man that is making the journey from England to the colonies, and he professes to be a missionary of Christianity. And what he's discussing in these letters is sort of the crisis of faith that if I get here and I proselytize someone that I encounter a Native American or an enslaved African I do in their conversion to Christianity, am I compelled to grant them their freedom(33:04):And the series of letters that are back and forth between this man and whoever he's conversing with on the con, and you'll have to read his book to get all the historical details. They basically have this open debate in the governing days of the colony. And the answer to the question that they arrive at both legally and religiously or spiritually is, no, I do not. Right? And whatever it is that you had to do to yourself, your faith, your understanding of people to arrive at the answer no to that question feels to me like that moral injury that you're talking about.(34:07):Cardiovascular system powers, everything we do.Jenny (34:10):I mean, it makes me think, Danielle knows that this is one of the few Bible verses that I will always quote nowadays is Jesus saying, what good is it for someone to gain the world and lose their soul? And I see that as a journey of forfeiting. Whatever this thing we want to call the soul might be for power and privilege.Rebecca (34:42):It reminds me of my kids were young and we were having a conversation at the dinner table and something had happened. I think there might've been a discussion about something in the history class that opened my kids' eyes to the nature of racism in the United States. And one of my children asked me, doesn't that mean that we're better than them?(35:17):And as vehemently as I could answer him, I was like, absolutely not. No, it does not. It does not mean that, right? Because you feel that line and that edge for a kid, a fourth grader who's learning history for the first time and that edge that would push them over into this place of dehumanizing someone else, even if it's the proverbial they and my insistence as his mother, we don't do that and we're not going to do that. And no, it does not mean that. And my whole thing was just, I cannot have you dehumanize an entire group of people. I can't, I'm not raising kids who do that. We're not doing that. Right. Which is back to Michelle Obama saying when they go low, right?Rebecca (36:37):It is that sense of that invitation to a moral injury, that invitation to violate the inherent value of another human being that you have to say, I'm not doing that. I refuse to do thatJenny (37:18):I know I'm a few years late and watching this movie, but I just watched the Shape of Water. Have you ever seen it(37:26):And there's this line in it where they're debating whether or not to save this being, and the man says it's not even human. And she says, if we don't do something, then neither are we. And this really does feel like a fight for my humanity for what does it look like to reject dehumanization of entire people groups as much as I even want to do that with ice agents right now, and things like that that make it so hard to not put people in these buckets. And how do I fight for my own humanity and willingness to see people as harmful and difficult as they may be as sovereign beings, and what potentials can come if we work to create a world that doesn't split people into binaries of victim or perpetrator, but make space for reparative justice? I don't know.Rebecca (38:58):You used the phrase reparative justice, and my thought was like, I don't even know what that is. Trying to even conceptualize any sense of that in this moment is, I mean, again, I heard a podcast of this some white man who I think is probably famous, but it's not in a cultural circle that I run in, not this race, but however he is major Trump supporter publicly in his celebrity is a Trump supporter. And he's talking on the podcast about how watching what has happened with ICE the last couple weeks has changed his perspective that he feels like it's this tipping point in his sentiment that I didn't think things like this were possible in America. And now they are. And the person that he's talking to is a black man who's pissed that you even are saying the sentence, I didn't think this was possible.(40:04):Pissed in a way of, we've been telling you this shit for 400 years, excuse my French, you can edit that out and you didn't listen. And if you had listened, we might not actually be here in this moment. And so even that conversation to me feels like attempting to do something of repair in some capacity. And you can feel the two people that are trying to engage each other just be like, I mean, you can feel how they're trying. They're sitting in the room, they're talking, they're leaving space for each other to finish their sentence and finish their thought. And you still just want to go, I want to beat the shit out of you. And I am sure they both felt that way at different moments in the conversation. So yeah,Danielle (41:12):We were in the I know. Because it's all like, I know there's all that we talk about, and then when we walk off the screen, when we get into the world, I know Rebecca, you mentioned someone got stopped at a checkpoint or my kids marching around town or Jenny, I know you're out in the wilds of Florida or wherever. I just(41:38):Yeah. Yeah. I just think there's all of this we talk about, and then there's the live daily reality too, of how it actually plays out for us in different ways. Yeah. Now I saw you take a breath. Yeah.Rebecca (41:59):Do they feel like really disconnected?(42:19):I actually think this conversation, I think, and I don't mean this one, I mean this sort of ongoing space that we inhabit in each other's lives is actually a pretty defiant response. I think there's every invitation for us to be like, see, when I see you,(43:03):I know that you some stuff going on personally, and you picked up the phone and called me the other night, Danielle, just to say, I'm just checking on you. And I was like, crap. Right. I mean, with everything that I know that you have going on both collectively and personally for you to pick up the phone and call me and go like, I'm just checking on you.(43:41):Right? But there's this swirl of, there's a whole conversation the black community is having with the Latino community right now that is some version of, screw this. And you, we not we're, it's not entirely adversarial, but it's not entirely we're doing this dance around each other right now that you could have easily just have been like, I'll talk to you in 27. You could easily have been like, I have too much going on that can't actually tend to this. Whatever it is that you heard in my voice or read on my face that made you call me, you could have chosen not to and you didn't. And that's not small.Danielle (44:49):Yeah. Thanks for saying that. I really do believe love is bigger than all of what we say is the hate and the crimes against us. I really do believe every day we wake up and we get to be the best. We get to do the best we can. Jenny,Jenny (45:26):I just feel very grateful to know you both. Yeah. I think this to me is part of what fighting for our humanity looks like and feels like in the midst of systems, creating separation of who we should or shouldn't commune with and be with. And I just feel very grateful that I get to commune and be with both of you.Danielle (46:18):Oh, good question. Do you ever feel like you're your own coach? So I have the Danielle that's like sometimes I get into trouble that Danielle, and then there's also the part of me that's like, you can do it. You got this, you got it. You can do it, so you're going to make it. So I got the coach. I had to bring her out a little bit more later lately. Also, just like I just got back from watching my kids do this walkout and man, just hearing them scream the F word and jumping around town, blowing whistles and being wild, it just made me, I feel so happy. I'm like, oh, we're doing something right. The kids, they're going to be okay. They know. So I think just I've really tried to just focus on my family and my off time. Yeah, that's kept me going. What about you two?Jenny (47:31):I have been doing standup comedy, open mic nights in Pensacola.(47:40):And it has been a very nice place for me to release my healthy aggression. Aside from the hosts, I've pretty much been the only woman there. And most of the comedians are racist and sexist, and I get up and give lectures basically. And I've been really enjoying that. It has been a good way of off-gassing and being defiant and giving me some sense of fight, which I've liked to, that has been self-care for me.Rebecca (48:30):I would probably say, actually I had to, I have this elliptical, one of those under the desk kind of pedal thingies that, and the other night I had to get on it. I feel like my whole inside was just racing, but then on the outside, I'm just sitting here, all right. And I was like, I have got to get whatever this is out of me. So there was this moment where, and it took probably 15 minutes for my body to actually start to exhale and for my breathing to kind of normalize. And that isn't because I was exerting so much energy. It took that long of just moving to get whatever it is out of me. And then also, I had this really, really great moment with my son, how you're saying, Danielle, that your kids, and then you feel like, oh, they're going to be fine. He was watching a documentary or he is watching a movie, some movie about black history, what he does. And the movie referenced this written communication between two slave traitors, one of whom was in the United States and the other one who was in the Caribbean. And they were discussing how to basically break the psyche of a person so they would remain in slavery,(50:15):Which is a crazy sentence to say, but literally they're discussing it back and forth. They're talking about how you bake a cake. And my son read it, and then he came and sat next to me and he was like, did you know about this? Not about the letter itself, the letters, but about the content in them. He was like, did you know this is what they think about us? Did. These are the things that they say and do that are purposely designed to mess with our psyche. And it just spawned this really great conversation for an hour about all kinds of things that made me go, he's going to be all right. In the sense of where I ended up, where I ended up going as his mom was like, yes, I knew. And now the fact that I raised you to do this, or I raised you to do that, or I taught you this or that, or I kept you from this or that. Does that make sense now? And then, yeah, it was just actually a very sweet conversation actually.Danielle (51:38):I love that. I do too. It's been real.   Well, first I guess I would have to believe that there was or is an actual political dialogue taking place that I could potentially be a part of. And honestly, I'm not sure that I believe that.

On this new episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast Omar Moore on why you must vote, and vote in every election in your jurisdiction.WARNING: This episode contains foul language. Listener discretion is advised.Recorded February 4, 2026.SUBSCRIBE: https://mooreo.substack.com - please be a paid subscriber (or a free subscriber)SUBSCRIBE: https://youtube.com/@thepoliticratpodBUY MERCH FROM THE POLITICRAT STORE: https://the-politicrat.myshopify.comRECOMMENDED READS:Trump Regime Quietly Seeks To Build National Voter Roll (Sept 9, 2025, NY Times) :https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/us/politics/trump-voter-registration-data.htmlFederal And State Election Laws Ban Federal Forces From Polling Places (Oct 22, 2025, Brennan Center) :https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/federal-and-state-election-laws-ban-federal-forces-polling-placesBUY BLACK!Patronize Black-owned businesses on Roland Martin's Black Star Network: https://shopblackstarnetwork.comBLACK-OWNED MEDIA MATTERS: (Watch Roland Martin Unfiltered daily M-F 6-8pm Eastern)https://youtube.com/rolandsmartin

On this new episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast Omar Moore on Don Lemon's unjust arrest by the Feds. Plus: Full audio of Don Lemon on Jimmy Kimmel Live. Also: News of the last 72 hours and much more. Extra: What is your voting plan in 2026?WARNING: This episode contains foul language. Listener discretion is advised.Recorded February 2, 2026.OMAR'S NEW MUST-READ ON SUBSTACK: The history we live in is continuous, and we are the pendulum:https://open.substack.com/pub/mooreo/p/the-history-we-live-is-continuous?r=275tyr&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlaySUBSCRIBE: https://mooreo.substack.com - please be a paid subscriber (or a free subscriber)SUBSCRIBE: https://youtube.com/@thepoliticratpodBUY MERCH FROM THE POLITICRAT STORE: https://the-politicrat.myshopify.comBUY BLACK!Patronize Black-owned businesses on Roland Martin's Black Star Network: https://shopblackstarnetwork.comBLACK-OWNED MEDIA MATTERS: (Watch Roland Martin Unfiltered daily M-F 6-8pm Eastern)https://youtube.com/rolandsmartin

On this new episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast Omar Moore on wielding your everyday economic power to bring to heel corporations who do injurious things. Also: The Super Negro Chronicles and L.A. mayor Karen Bass. Plus: Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson says that Greg Bovino will be prosecuted, in a demand for accountability. And: Voting is fundamental -- and the need to be strategic not reactionary, in our voting choices or dilemmas.WARNING: This episode contains foul language. Listener discretion is advised.Recorded January 28, 2026.OMAR'S NEW MUST-READ ON SUBSTACK: The history we live in is continuous, and we are the pendulum:https://open.substack.com/pub/mooreo/p/the-history-we-live-is-continuous?r=275tyr&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlaySUBSCRIBE: https://mooreo.substack.com - please be a paid subscriber (or a free subscriber)SUBSCRIBE: https://youtube.com/@thepoliticratpodBUY MERCH FROM THE POLITICRAT STORE: https://the-politicrat.myshopify.comBUY BLACK!Patronize Black-owned businesses on Roland Martin's Black Star Network: https://shopblackstarnetwork.comBLACK-OWNED MEDIA MATTERS: (Watch Roland Martin Unfiltered daily M-F 6-8pm Eastern)https://youtube.com/rolandsmartin

On this new episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast Omar Moore on the latest news surrounding the execution by several ICE agents of Alex Pretti. And: Remembering Keith Porter Jr. Also: The white "progressives" problem is anti-Black racism. Plus: Audio of the Jasmine Crockett-James Talarico U.S. senate Democratic primary debate from this past Saturday in Texas. EXTRA: So *now* you want to abolish ICE???WARNING: This episode contains foul language. Listener discretion is advised.Recorded January 26, 2026.OMAR'S MUST-READ ON SUBSTACK: The time to plan to vote is NOWhttps://substack.com/@popcornreel/note/p-185692962?r=275tyr&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-actionSUBSCRIBE: https://mooreo.substack.comSUBSCRIBE: https://youtube.com/@thepoliticratpodSUBSCRIBE: https://politicrat.substack.comBUY MERCH FROM THE POLITICRAT STORE: https://the-politicrat.myshopify.comBUY BLACK!Patronize Black-owned businesses on Roland Martin's Black Star Network: https://shopblackstarnetwork.comBLACK-OWNED MEDIA MATTERS: (Watch Roland Martin Unfiltered daily M-F 6-8pm Eastern)https://youtube.com/rolandsmartin

On this new episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast Omar Moore on the execution by several ICE agents of Alex Pretti, who didn't do anything but defend a woman who ICE shoved to the ground in Minneapolis.WARNING: This episode contains foul language. Listener discretion is advised.Recorded January 25, 2026.OMAR'S MUST-READ ON SUBSTACK: The time to plan to vote is NOWhttps://substack.com/@popcornreel/note/p-185692962?r=275tyr&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-actionRECOMMENDED BOOK: Howard Zinn, "A People's History Of The United States"SUBSCRIBE: https://mooreo.substack.comSUBSCRIBE: https://youtube.com/@thepoliticratpodSUBSCRIBE: https://politicrat.substack.comBUY MERCH FROM THE POLITICRAT STORE: https://the-politicrat.myshopify.comBUY BLACK!Patronize Black-owned businesses on Roland Martin's Black Star Network: https://shopblackstarnetwork.comBLACK-OWNED MEDIA MATTERS: (Watch Roland Martin Unfiltered daily M-F 6-8pm Eastern)https://youtube.com/rolandsmartin

On this new and belated episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast Omar Moore on the mission on Dr. King Day. Plus: Roland Martin's key message in Columbus, Ohio. And: The art of doing service. Also: An audio flashback from 1983.WARNING: This episode contains foul language. Listener discretion is advised.Recorded January 16, 2026.OMAR'S MUST-READ ON SUBSTACK: American culture and Renee Nicole Good https://substack.com/@popcornreel/note/p-184284395?r=275tyr&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-actionSUBSCRIBE: https://mooreo.substack.comSUBSCRIBE: https://youtube.com/@thepoliticratpodSUBSCRIBE: https://politicrat.substack.comBUY MERCH FROM THE POLITICRAT STORE: https://the-politicrat.myshopify.comBUY BLACK!Patronize Black-owned businesses on Roland Martin's Black Star Network: https://shopblackstarnetwork.comBLACK-OWNED MEDIA MATTERS: (Watch Roland Martin Unfiltered daily M-F 6-8pm Eastern)https://youtube.com/rolandsmartin

On this new episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast Omar Moore on Dr. Martin Luther King's 97th birthday, plays two key audio sections of Dr. King, one in 1957 (in a speech many people have never heard) and in 1967. Plus: Remembering the late Claudette Colvin, a legendary forerunner to Rosa Parks in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955. And: News items of the day.WARNING: This episode contains foul language. Listener discretion is advised.Recorded January 15, 2026.OMAR'S MUST-READ ON SUBSTACK: American culture and Renee Nicole Good https://substack.com/@popcornreel/note/p-184284395?r=275tyr&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-actionSUBSCRIBE: https://mooreo.substack.comSUBSCRIBE: https://youtube.com/@thepoliticratpodSUBSCRIBE: https://politicrat.substack.comBUY MERCH FROM THE POLITICRAT STORE: https://the-politicrat.myshopify.comBUY BLACK!Patronize Black-owned businesses on Roland Martin's Black Star Network: https://shopblackstarnetwork.comBLACK-OWNED MEDIA MATTERS: (Watch Roland Martin Unfiltered daily M-F 6-8pm Eastern)https://youtube.com/rolandsmartin

On this new episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast Omar Moore on California governor Gavin Newsom seeking to fight against a wealth tax of billionaires that may make it to the ballot for a vote this November. And: Why white men are failing all over the place in the U.S., whether downward or upward. Plus: Some of the news of the day.WARNING: This episode contains foul language. Listener discretion is advised.Recorded January 13, 2026.OMAR'S MUST-READ ON SUBSTACK: American culture and Renee Nicole Good https://substack.com/@popcornreel/note/p-184284395?r=275tyr&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-actionSUBSCRIBE: https://mooreo.substack.comSUBSCRIBE: https://youtube.com/@thepoliticratpodSUBSCRIBE: https://politicrat.substack.comBUY MERCH FROM THE POLITICRAT STORE: https://the-politicrat.myshopify.comBUY BLACK!Patronize Black-owned businesses on Roland Martin's Black Star Network: https://shopblackstarnetwork.comBLACK-OWNED MEDIA MATTERS: (Watch Roland Martin Unfiltered daily M-F 6-8pm Eastern)https://youtube.com/rolandsmartin

On this new episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast Omar Moore on staying focused on the most important variable of 2026: voting. Do you have a plan to vote ahead of the primaries and the midterms? Also: Iran and the state of play globally. Plus: Fed Chair Jerome "Jay" Powell as Cool Hand Luke.Recorded January 12, 2026.OMAR'S MUST-READ ON SUBSTACK: American culture and Renee Nicole Good (January 12, 2026)https://substack.com/@popcornreel/note/p-184284395?r=275tyr&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-actionSUBSCRIBE: https://mooreo.substack.comSUBSCRIBE: https://youtube.com/@thepoliticratpodSUBSCRIBE: https://politicrat.substack.comBUY MERCH FROM THE POLITICRAT STORE: https://the-politicrat.myshopify.comBUY BLACK!Patronize Black-owned businesses on Roland Martin's Black Star Network: https://shopblackstarnetwork.comBLACK-OWNED MEDIA MATTERS: (Watch Roland Martin Unfiltered daily M-F 6-8pm Eastern)https://youtube.com/rolandsmartin

On this new episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast Omar Moore takes Jim Acosta to task on a couple of racist statements. Also: A fulsome analysis of the Department Of Homeland Security policy on use of force, last updated in 2023. ICE executioner Jonathan Ross violated at least two provisions of it. Plus: News and an important analysis by the New York Times on the last seconds of Renee Nicole Good's life.WARNING: This episode contains foul language, racist epithets, sounds of gunshots and screaming. Listener discretion is advised.Recorded January 10, 2026.MUST-READ: The 2023 Dept. Of Homeland Security Use Of Force Policy - violated by Jonathan Rosshttps://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2023-02/23_0206_s1_use-of-force-policy-update.pdfJim Acosta's January 9, 2026 show in full: https://jimacosta.substack.com/p/breaking-news-new-video-in-ice-killing?publication_id=3775894&post_id=184065268&r=275tyr&triedRedirect=trueSUBSCRIBE: https://mooreo.substack.comSUBSCRIBE: https://youtube.com/@thepoliticratpodSUBSCRIBE: https://politicrat.substack.comBUY MERCH FROM THE POLITICRAT STORE: https://the-politicrat.myshopify.comBUY BLACK!Patronize Black-owned businesses on Roland Martin's Black Star Network: https://shopblackstarnetwork.comBLACK-OWNED MEDIA MATTERS: (Watch Roland Martin Unfiltered daily M-F 6-8pm Eastern)https://youtube.com/rolandsmartin

On this new episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast Omar Moore on two mayors: Karen Bass of Los Angeles and Jacob Frey of Minneapolis. Also: Self-care in these times.Recorded January 9, 2026.SUBSCRIBE: https://mooreo.substack.comSUBSCRIBE: https://youtube.com/@thepoliticratpodSUBSCRIBE: https://politicrat.substack.comBUY MERCH FROM THE POLITICRAT STORE: https://the-politicrat.myshopify.comBUY BLACK!Patronize Black-owned businesses on Roland Martin's Black Star Network: https://shopblackstarnetwork.comBLACK-OWNED MEDIA MATTERS: (Watch Roland Martin Unfiltered daily M-F 6-8pm Eastern)https://youtube.com/rolandsmartin

On this new episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast Omar Moore on the execution by a white male ICE agent of a white woman named Renee Nicole Good, 37. WARNING: Contains some distressing audio.Recorded January 7, 2026.NEW MUST-READ: The First Of The Year (January 1, 2026)https://open.substack.com/pub/mooreo/p/the-first-of-the-year?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=webSUBSCRIBE: https://mooreo.substack.comSUBSCRIBE: https://youtube.com/@thepoliticratpodSUBSCRIBE: https://politicrat.substack.comBUY MERCH FROM THE POLITICRAT STORE: https://the-politicrat.myshopify.comBUY BLACK!Patronize Black-owned businesses on Roland Martin's Black Star Network: https://shopblackstarnetwork.comBLACK-OWNED MEDIA MATTERS: (Watch Roland Martin Unfiltered daily M-F 6-8pm Eastern)https://youtube.com/rolandsmartin

On this new episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast Omar Moore on the criminal act of Donald Trump in bombing Venezuela (and for an hour and a half) and kidnapping and overthrowing a sitting head of state. Also: The long U.S. history of overthrowing democratically elected governments around the world.Recorded January 4, 2026.NEW MUST-READ: The First Of The Year (January 1, 2026)https://open.substack.com/pub/mooreo/p/the-first-of-the-year?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=webSUBSCRIBE: https://mooreo.substack.comSUBSCRIBE: https://youtube.com/@thepoliticratpodSUBSCRIBE: https://politicrat.substack.comBUY MERCH FROM THE POLITICRAT STORE: https://the-politicrat.myshopify.comBUY BLACK!Patronize Black-owned businesses on Roland Martin's Black Star Network: https://shopblackstarnetwork.comBLACK-OWNED MEDIA MATTERS: (Watch Roland Martin Unfiltered daily M-F 6-8pm Eastern)https://youtube.com/rolandsmartin

Roland Martin is one of the most influential and successful figures in the history of professional bass fishing. A nine-time B.A.S.S. Angler of the Year and winner of 19 Bassmaster tournaments (19 times runner up as well), Martin helped define competitive bass fishing during its formative decades. Known for his versatility, consistency, and deep understanding of bass behavior, he was a dominant force across multiple fisheries and techniques. Beyond competition, Martin expanded the sport's reach through television, most notably as the longtime host of Fishing with Roland Martin, educating and inspiring generations of anglers. Inducted into the Bass Fishing Hall of Fame, his legacy extends far beyond trophies—he is widely regarded as a pioneer who helped turn bass fishing into a modern professional sport. Martin's impact goes well beyond his tournament resume. He developed a scientific, pattern-based approach to bass fishing that was far ahead of its time. Roland became known for adapting quickly to changing conditions and mastering a wide range of techniques, from shallow vegetation to offshore structure. His sustained success helped him become one of the first professional bass anglers to exceed one million dollars in career tournament prize money, a milestone that reflected both his dominance and longevity in the sport. Off the water, Martin played a major role in shaping bass fishing's legacy and credibility. He became the first angler ever inducted into all three major fishing halls of fame: the Bass Fishing Hall of Fame, the International Game Fish Association (IGFA) Fishing Hall of Fame, and the National Fresh Water Fishing Hall of Fame. Through television, seminars, and decades of competition across multiple generations, Martin helped elevate bass fishing into a modern professional sport. Today, he is remembered not just as a champion, but as a pioneer whose influence continues to define professional angling.

On this new episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast, the first in 2026, Omar Moore talks about goals -- the goals you set for yourself this year, and how to go about accomplishing them. How do you execute your vision for the year ahead? What do you wish to accomplish? Also: How many books did you read in 2025--and, what is a "book"?Recorded January 2, 2026.NEW MUST-READ: The First Of The Year (January 1, 2026)https://open.substack.com/pub/mooreo/p/the-first-of-the-year?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=webSUBSCRIBE: https://mooreo.substack.comSUBSCRIBE: https://youtube.com/@thepoliticratpodSUBSCRIBE: https://politicrat.substack.comBUY MERCH FROM THE POLITICRAT STORE: https://the-politicrat.myshopify.comBUY BLACK!Patronize Black-owned businesses on Roland Martin's Black Star Network: https://shopblackstarnetwork.comBLACK-OWNED MEDIA MATTERS: (Watch Roland Martin Unfiltered daily M-F 6-8pm Eastern)https://youtube.com/rolandsmartin

On episode 112 of Native Land Pod, host Tiffany Cross announces that this will be her last NLP episode as co-host. Angela Rye, Andrew Gillum, and Bakari Sellers are left with the reins for 2026! We celebrate Tiffany’s time on NLP (we will see her again), and look back on some of our favorite moments from 2025. CLIP LIST: Nelly and Snoop at Trump’s Inauguration: https://youtu.be/MfHODsO5l_w?si=poYnfoX6ON9o1X61 Tiffany Fights a Karen: https://youtu.be/e23bI9w0aL8?si=bg-MonPj2DWT0zqz Angela’s Phoenix Award Speech: https://youtu.be/MQHyNddPEOc?t=4452 Bakari Joins on Our 100th Ep: https://youtu.be/kWU0OZqC3eY?si=XCtCXfjjoy-InXfh The Budden Pod and Charlamagne Response: https://youtu.be/fm5TnpSk9MU?si=GIRJx7u3RPMwRqkV https://youtu.be/juFahNFerZg?si=ym6fcov9m96Pb3ml Andrew calls out Jillian Michaels, Finds Silver Lining: https://youtu.be/vBkUlckJccE?si=H1nKqHnm5SQPB7Ko Tiffany on Toxic Masculinity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JclfwDMHPR8&t=1048s Roland Martin’s Black Bank of Justice: https://youtu.be/x1gw-TvXb2c?si=0hReHNcE2icS1E64 If you’d like to submit a question, check out our tutorial video: http://www.instagram.com/reel/C5j_oBXLIg0/ and send to @nativelandpod. We are 306 days away from the midterm elections. Welcome home y’all! —--------- We want to hear from you! Send us a video @nativelandpod and we may feature you on the podcast. Instagram X/Twitter Facebook NativeLandPod.com Watch full episodes of Native Land Pod here on YouTube. Native Land Pod is brought to you by Reasoned Choice Media. Thank you to the Native Land Pod team: Angela Rye as host, executive producer, and cofounder of Reasoned Choice Media; Tiffany Cross as host and producer, Andrew Gillum as host and producer, Bakari Sellers as host and producer, and Lauren Hansen as executive producer; LoLo Mychael is our research producer, and Nikolas Harter is our editor and producer. Special thanks to Chris Morrow and Lenard McKelvey, co-founders of Reasoned Choice Media. Theme music created by Daniel Laurent.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this new episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast Omar Moore reviews the year that was 2025, on this special edition.Recorded December 31, 2025.SUBSCRIBE: https://mooreo.substack.comSUBSCRIBE: https://youtube.com/@thepoliticratpodSUBSCRIBE: https://politicrat.substack.comBUY MERCH FROM THE POLITICRAT STORE: https://the-politicrat.myshopify.comMUST-READ: "Some Ways To Improve Your Mental Health..." (Written on August 24, 2025) : https://open.substack.com/pub/mooreo/p/here-are-some-of-the-ways-you-can?r=275tyr&utm_medium=iosBUY BLACK!Patronize Black-owned businesses on Roland Martin's Black Star Network: https://shopblackstarnetwork.comBLACK-OWNED MEDIA MATTERS: (Watch Roland Martin Unfiltered daily M-F 6-8pm Eastern)https://youtube.com/rolandsmartin

On this new episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast Omar Moore remembers the late, great, eclectic and fantastic filmmaker Rob Reiner, a human being with a kind, committed heart. This special episode also features clips from some of Reiner's films, interviews and television show appearances.Recorded December 27, 2025.SUBSCRIBE: https://mooreo.substack.comSUBSCRIBE: https://youtube.com/@thepoliticratpodSUBSCRIBE: https://politicrat.substack.comBUY MERCH FROM THE POLITICRAT STORE: https://the-politicrat.myshopify.comMUST-READ: "Some Ways To Improve Your Mental Health..." (Written on August 24, 2025) : https://open.substack.com/pub/mooreo/p/here-are-some-of-the-ways-you-can?r=275tyr&utm_medium=iosBUY BLACK!Patronize Black-owned businesses on Roland Martin's Black Star Network: https://shopblackstarnetwork.comBLACK-OWNED MEDIA MATTERS: (Watch Roland Martin Unfiltered daily M-F 6-8pm Eastern)https://youtube.com/rolandsmartin

On this new episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast Omar Moore plays the full audio of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed for last Sunday's show that aired in the U.S. Also: The Justice Department is a wholly owned subsidiary of Donald Trump, especially around the Epstein files. Plus: Staying focused, avoiding distractions in a disinformation age and getting ready to vote in every election in your jurisdiction in 2026. Merry Christmas!Recorded December 24, 2025.SUBSCRIBE: https://mooreo.substack.comSUBSCRIBE: https://youtube.com/@thepoliticratpodSUBSCRIBE: https://politicrat.substack.comBUY MERCH FROM THE POLITICRAT STORE: https://the-politicrat.myshopify.comMUST-READ: "Some Ways To Improve Your Mental Health..." (Written on August 24, 2025) : https://open.substack.com/pub/mooreo/p/here-are-some-of-the-ways-you-can?r=275tyr&utm_medium=iosBUY BLACK!Patronize Black-owned businesses on Roland Martin's Black Star Network: https://shopblackstarnetwork.comBLACK-OWNED MEDIA MATTERS: (Watch Roland Martin Unfiltered daily M-F 6-8pm Eastern)https://youtube.com/rolandsmartin

On this new episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast Omar Moore on the folly and criminality of Pam Bondi, the Justice Department and the Trump regime regarding the "release" of the Epstein files. Also: A refresher course on 2025, Bondi and the files. This is a belated episode recorded two days ago (Sunday).Recorded December 21, 2025.SUBSCRIBE: https://mooreo.substack.comSUBSCRIBE: https://youtube.com/@thepoliticratpodSUBSCRIBE: https://politicrat.substack.comBUY MERCH FROM THE POLITICRAT STORE: https://the-politicrat.myshopify.comMUST-READ: "Some Ways To Improve Your Mental Health..." (Written on August 24, 2025) : https://open.substack.com/pub/mooreo/p/here-are-some-of-the-ways-you-can?r=275tyr&utm_medium=iosBUY BLACK!Patronize Black-owned businesses on Roland Martin's Black Star Network: https://shopblackstarnetwork.comBLACK-OWNED MEDIA MATTERS: (Watch Roland Martin Unfiltered daily M-F 6-8pm Eastern)https://youtube.com/rolandsmartin

Rich Paul Takes Subtle Shot at Michael Jordan to Shield LeBron James on Christmas, Klutch Sports Pushes Lakers to Trade Austin Reaves, Chaos Erupts on Piers Morgan Panel as Roland Martin Clashes With Jillian Michaels, DOJ Accidentally Leaks Epstein Files Naming Donald Trump Download the PrizePicks app today and use code CLNS and get $50 instantly when you play $5! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this new episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast Omar Moore fact-checks Trump's lying, deranged, raging, ranting mess of a speech; VP Kamala Harris on Jimmy Kimmel live; Democrats and autopsies; plus news you may have missed. Extra: The New York Knicks win the NBA Cup in Las Vegas.Recorded December 18, 2025.SUBSCRIBE: https://mooreo.substack.comSUBSCRIBE: https://youtube.com/@thepoliticratpodSUBSCRIBE: https://politicrat.substack.comRECOMMENDED BOOK:"Anti-Intellectualism In American Life", by Richard HofstadterBUY MERCH FROM THE POLITICRAT STORE: https://the-politicrat.myshopify.comMUST-READ: "Some Ways To Improve Your Mental Health..." (Written on August 24, 2025) : https://open.substack.com/pub/mooreo/p/here-are-some-of-the-ways-you-can?r=275tyr&utm_medium=iosBUY BLACK!Patronize Black-owned businesses on Roland Martin's Black Star Network: https://shopblackstarnetwork.comBLACK-OWNED MEDIA MATTERS: (Watch Roland Martin Unfiltered daily M-F 6-8pm Eastern)https://youtube.com/rolandsmartin

On this new episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast Omar Moore on decency and the need to return to it in this cruel, harsh world. Also: Rob Reiner and Michele Reiner epitomized decency and kindness. Plus: News of the day you may have missed.Recorded December 16, 2025.SUBSCRIBE: https://mooreo.substack.comSUBSCRIBE: https://youtube.com/@thepoliticratpodSUBSCRIBE: https://politicrat.substack.comBUY MERCH FROM THE POLITICRAT STORE: https://the-politicrat.myshopify.comMUST-READ: "Some Ways To Improve Your Mental Health..." (Written on August 24, 2025) : https://open.substack.com/pub/mooreo/p/here-are-some-of-the-ways-you-can?r=275tyr&utm_medium=iosBUY BLACK!Patronize Black-owned businesses on Roland Martin's Black Star Network: https://shopblackstarnetwork.comBLACK-OWNED MEDIA MATTERS: (Watch Roland Martin Unfiltered daily M-F 6-8pm Eastern)https://youtube.com/rolandsmartin

On this new episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast Omar Moore on a shocking weekend of news including the horrific shootings on Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia and Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Also: Michele and Rob Reiner are found dead in their home in Brentwood, Los Angeles.Recorded December 15, 2025.SUBSCRIBE: https://mooreo.substack.comSUBSCRIBE: https://youtube.com/@thepoliticratpodSUBSCRIBE: https://politicrat.substack.comBUY MERCH FROM THE POLITICRAT STORE: https://the-politicrat.myshopify.comMUST-READ: "Some Ways To Improve Your Mental Health..." (Written on August 24, 2025) : https://open.substack.com/pub/mooreo/p/here-are-some-of-the-ways-you-can?r=275tyr&utm_medium=iosBUY BLACK!Patronize Black-owned businesses on Roland Martin's Black Star Network: https://shopblackstarnetwork.comBLACK-OWNED MEDIA MATTERS: (Watch Roland Martin Unfiltered daily M-F 6-8pm Eastern)https://youtube.com/rolandsmartin

On this new episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast Omar Moore on various news items including new releases of Epstein photographs by the House Oversight Democrats. Plus: Black people must become more informed about the stakes and voting in every election next year and beyond. Extra: Rep Jasmine Crockett makes it plain in a campaign against disinformation. Also: Kristi Noem flails at a U.S. House hearing. And: Indiana state senate Republicans wake up and smell the coffee and align with democracy and the People against (racist) gerrymandering.Recorded December 12, 2025.SUBSCRIBE: https://mooreo.substack.comSUBSCRIBE: https://youtube.com/@thepoliticratpodSUBSCRIBE: https://politicrat.substack.comBUY MERCH FROM THE POLITICRAT STORE: https://the-politicrat.myshopify.comMUST-READ: "Some Ways To Improve Your Mental Health..." (Written on August 24, 2025) : https://open.substack.com/pub/mooreo/p/here-are-some-of-the-ways-you-can?r=275tyr&utm_medium=iosBUY BLACK!Patronize Black-owned businesses on Roland Martin's Black Star Network: https://shopblackstarnetwork.comBLACK-OWNED MEDIA MATTERS: (Watch Roland Martin Unfiltered daily M-F 6-8pm Eastern)https://youtube.com/rolandsmartin

On this new episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast Omar Moore on looking deep in the mirror at yourself and what you don't want to see. Plus: ACA federal subsidy extension voted down by Republicans in the U.S. senate (make them pay at the ballot box in the 2026 midterms!) And: Who killed Tory Merton (in Wisconsin) and Trey Reed (in Mississippi)?Recorded December 11, 2025.SUBSCRIBE: https://mooreo.substack.comSUBSCRIBE: https://youtube.com/@thepoliticratpodSUBSCRIBE: https://politicrat.substack.comRECOMMENDED READS:"Remembering Tory Medley - and the need for truth" (Waukesha NAACP, Dec 3, 2025) :https://www.waukesha-naacp.org/post/remembering-tory-medley-and-the-need-for-truth"Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias And The Struggle For Equality", a book by Tanya Katerí Hernández"Why Black People Tend To Shout", a book by Ralph WileyBUY MERCH FROM THE POLITICRAT STORE: https://the-politicrat.myshopify.comMUST-READ: "Some Ways To Improve Your Mental Health..." (Written on August 24, 2025) : https://open.substack.com/pub/mooreo/p/here-are-some-of-the-ways-you-can?r=275tyr&utm_medium=iosBUY BLACK!Patronize Black-owned businesses on Roland Martin's Black Star Network: https://shopblackstarnetwork.comBLACK-OWNED MEDIA MATTERS: (Watch Roland Martin Unfiltered daily M-F 6-8pm Eastern)https://youtube.com/rolandsmartin

On this new episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast the birthday boy Omar Moore on the US Supreme Court on the verge of eviscerating congressional power for Donald Trump; farmers who keep voting for Trump and keep getting screwed over by him; and much more, including Pete Hegseth and what appears to inescapably be the outright murder by him of fishermen in the Caribbean Sea.Recorded December 9, 2025.SUBSCRIBE: https://mooreo.substack.comSUBSCRIBE: https://youtube.com/@thepoliticratpodSUBSCRIBE: https://politicrat.substack.comRECOMMENDED READ:"Federal freeze impacts: Farmers and organizations speak out" (National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, Feb 28, 2025) :https://sustainableagriculture.net/blog/funding-freeze-impacts-farmers-and-organizations-speak-out/BUY MERCH FROM THE POLITICRAT STORE: https://the-politicrat.myshopify.comMUST-READ: "Some Ways To Improve Your Mental Health..." (Written on August 24, 2025) : https://open.substack.com/pub/mooreo/p/here-are-some-of-the-ways-you-can?r=275tyr&utm_medium=iosBUY BLACK!Patronize Black-owned businesses on Roland Martin's Black Star Network: https://shopblackstarnetwork.comBLACK-OWNED MEDIA MATTERS: (Watch Roland Martin Unfiltered daily M-F 6-8pm Eastern)https://youtube.com/rolandsmartin

12.05.2025 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: 70th Anniv. of Montgomery Bus Boycott | "Where Do We Go From Here?" Live from Holt Street Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Lasting 381 days, the boycott caused the city lines to lose between 30,000 and 40,000 in daily bus fares. Tonight, we remember those who walked so we could have equal rights. Rights that are now under siege. "Where Do We Go From Here?" That's the theme of tonight's event at Holt Street. You don't want to miss it! A dynamic gathering moderated by Roland Martin, this roundtable convenes national leaders to explore the path forward for movement-building in America. Rooted in the sanctuary where the Bus Boycott began, the convening symbolizes both a homecoming and a renewed call to action. #BlackStarNetwork partner: Fanbasehttps://www.startengine.com/offering/fanbase This Reg A+ offering is made available through StartEngine Primary, LLC, member FINRA/SIPC. This investment is speculative, illiquid, and involves a high degree of risk, including the possible loss of your entire investment. You should read the Offering Circular (https://bit.ly/3VDPKjD) and Risks (https://bit.ly/3ZQzHl0) related to this offering before investing. Download the Black Star Network app at http://www.blackstarnetwork.com! We're on iOS, AppleTV, Android, AndroidTV, Roku, FireTV, XBox and SamsungTV. The #BlackStarNetwork is a news reporting platform covered under Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The feds finally crawled back to work after a 43 day shutdown, and somehow the world is still wild. We got Kristi Noem tossing TSA workers ten thousand dollar “my bad” bonuses, Epstein emails flying around with Trump's name all in the mix, Kim catching heat because North got a finger piercing at twelve, and a man ordering a forty-dollar drill set but getting a photo like Amazon is trolling for sport. Vine is rising from the dead, Klay Thompson is calling out Pat Bev over Megan, Ariana Grande got ran up in Singapore like Wicked turned wicked, a TikToker now owes 1.75 million for messing up a marriage, Cardi B and Stefon Diggs had a baby boy, Charlamagne and Roland Martin are beefing, and Rory from that podcast got exposed for talking spicy about Beyoncé. A mess. A cute mess. A delicious Friday mess. IG: itswista Podcast IG: wordswithwista Substack: wordswithwista

On this week’s (somewhat) SoloPod, Angela Rye is joined by renowned political commentator on Native Land Pod, our very own Tiffany Cross, to talk about these BEEFS between Black media outlets and figures. There are mysterious forces driving wedges between Black media figures who represent various factors of the Black community. We gotta have a meta conversation about what’s driving these beefs. For example, Roland Martin recently criticized Charlamagne for using his platform (The Breakfast Club) to call for an end to the government shutdown. Are famous Black media figures obligated to strategize together for the good of the Black community? Want to ask Angela a question? Subscribe to our YouTube channel to participate in the chat. Welcome home y’all! —--------- We want to hear from you! Send us a video @nativelandpod and we may feature you on the podcast. Instagram X/Twitter Facebook NativeLandPod.com Watch full episodes of Native Land Pod here on YouTube. Native Land Pod is brought to you by Reasoned Choice Media.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Political commentator Roland Martin reinforces the urgency, arguing that “if you’re not turning out at the ballot box, someone else will decide your future.” See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today’s episode of the Rickey Smiley Morning Show Podcast dives deep into civic and church-world vibe with the kind of clarity only Ricky and crew deliver. First up, the nation is voting in droves. The RSMS team spotlights a major push at the polls, emphasizing how local offices often decide issues like education, policing and zip-code investment. Political commentator Roland Martin reinforces the urgency, arguing that “if you’re not turning out at the ballot box, someone else will decide your future. Gary with the Tea spoke about spirituality and accountability inside the church as the team breaks down the riffs surrounding Marvin Winans. A viral clip shows him publicly questioning a congregant’s giving and sparking criticism, and it is rumored people are not showing up to his church. Finally, Alfredas acknowledges the passing of former Vice President Dick Cheney at age 84, a figure whose legacy looms large in American political history. From Gulf War secretary to Bush administration right-hand, Cheney’s death prompts reflection on public service, power and consequences. Website: https://www.urban1podcasts.com/rickey-smiley-morning-show See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Rickey Smiley Morning Show Podcast takes a heartfelt turn as Ricky Smiley opens with an emotional plea to support millions of Americans at risk of going hungry amid the government shutdown. With the Senate refusing to reconvene until Monday, federal food assistance through SNAP is set to lapse, threatening over 42 million low-income families. Ricky’s compassion takes center stage as he announces a nationwide push to partner with churches and community leaders like Pastor Jamal Bryant and Bishop Joseph Walker to host food drives and live broadcasts to refill pantries. Guest Roland Martin joins the conversation to break down the politics behind the crisis, calling out the Trump administration’s refusal to tap into a $6 billion emergency fund that could keep SNAP running. Together, they emphasize that the people most impacted are the working poor — families who hold jobs yet still can’t afford food — and urge listeners to visit HungerFreeAmerica.org to help. In entertainment news, the crew reacts to viral rumors that Megan Thee Stallion and NBA star Klay Thompson secretly tied the knot, after photos surfaced of them holding the keys to a shared mansion. The RSMS team celebrates the power of community with Sean Paul’s humanitarian efforts. The dancehall legend pledged $50,000 to match donations for Jamaica’s Hurricane Melissa relief fund through his foundation. Website: https://www.urban1podcasts.com/rickey-smiley-morning-show See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Roland Martin joins the conversation to break down the politics behind the crisis, calling out the Trump administration’s refusal to tap into a $6 billion emergency fund that could keep SNAP running. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this week’s MiniPod, our hosts Angela Rye, Tiffany Cross, and Andrew Gillum are joined by the author who coined the phrase, “Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome,” and host of Therapy for Black Girls: Dr. Joy DeGruy. You may have seen the 12 year old who caused 70K worth of damage after having his phone taken? Or perhaps you’ve seen the back and forth between Serena Williams and Megyn Kelly over cotton plant decorations in a hotel lobby. We’ll get therapist Dr. Joy to help us unpack these viral clips, PLUS we’ll hear from friend of the show, Roland Martin. If you’d like to submit a question, check out our tutorial video: www.instagram.com/reel/C5j_oBXLIg0/ Welcome home y’all! —--------- We want to hear from you! Send us a video @nativelandpod and we may feature you on the podcast. Instagram X/Twitter Facebook NativeLandPod.com Watch full episodes of Native Land Pod here on YouTube. Native Land Pod is brought to you by Reasoned Choice Media. Thank you to the Native Land Pod team: Angela Rye as host, executive producer and cofounder of Reasoned Choice Media; Tiffany Cross as host and producer, Andrew Gillum as host and producer, and Lauren Hansen as executive producer; Loren Mychael is our research producer, and Nikolas Harter is our editor and producer. Special thanks to Chris Morrow and Lenard McKelvey, co-founders of Reasoned Choice Media. Theme music created by Daniel Laurent.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.