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#41: New World Water.

Sun, 03 Apr 2016 13:00:00 GMT

We wanted to get to some of the larger questions raised by the story of the ongoing water crisis in Flint. So we got some context from some people who follow this stuff for a living: Brentin Mock of CityLab and Talia Buford of the Center for Public Integrity.

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#40: Dating While Black Excellent.

Tue, 09 Feb 2016 00:00:00 GMT

Our second annual Valentine's Day episode! Ko and Gene hear stories of a woman who survives a disastrous Tinder date with a superstar athlete, a young man whose shoe fails him at inopportune time, and woman who finds exactly the man of her dreams, thanks to a fortune teller. (Sorta.) Some salty language. Thanks to Morgan Jerkins, Decker Ngongang and Bee Quammie for telling us about their dating stories. Shouts to the people who agreed to read their tweets about their bad dates: Danielle Lavore Evans, Twila Ann, Christina Hernandez Brown, Jordan Pelavin, Caroline Edgar, Victoria Walker, and Lenore.[Our theme music is 'Nic's Groove' by The Foreign Exchange, and used with permission. This week's outro music is "Something to Behold,' by F.E.]

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#39: Angela Flournoy's Big-Ass Year.

Sat, 14 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMT

When Angela's sprawling, keenly observed debut novel, "The Turner House," dropped last spring, it won rave reviews in big, important outlets like The New York Times. The novel picks up in 2008, with the housing market in full swoon. The many siblings of the huge Turner family in Detroit are fighting over what to do with the home in which they grew up: their matriarch is elderly and fading; the house is practically worthless. The novel hopscotches across the decades, telling the story of the Turners and the big, messy city they call home. Six months after it dropped, "The Turner House" is on the fiction shortlist for the National Book Award, the winner of which will be announced this Wednesday. Angela has been part of the PostBourgie family since nearly the beginning, and we were amped that she sat down to talk with G.D. about writing dialogue, channeling the very different POVs of her characters, and her otherwise big-ass year.

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Loosie #1: Trina, Spike Lee, and the Power of the Pussy.

Thu, 12 Nov 2015 04:28:10 GMT

Spike Lee's forthcoming flick, "Chi-Raq." is a satire about a woman who rallies the other women in her neighborhood to stop having sex with their male lovers in order to use it as leverage and get them to Stop The Violence™ . Oddly enough, that happens to the very same plot of a low-budget 2003 movie called "A Miami Tail" starring Trina. (Actual tagline: "Until they lay down their guns, this gang ain't banging!") In this mini-episode, G.D. sat down to watch and discuss "Tail" with Akoto Ofori-Atta of The Trace and Soraya Nadia McDonald of the Washington Post so you wouldn't have to.

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#38: Race Is Always The Issue. (November 1, 2015)

Thu, 29 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMT

#38: Race Is Always The Issue. (November 1, 2015) by PostBourgie

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#37: "This is the Last Thing I'm Going to Say About Jason Whitlock." (October 18 2015)

Mon, 19 Oct 2015 01:06:26 GMT

We were originally planning to have Deadspin’s Greg Howard on the podcast to talk about race and sports journalism — with our peg being the series of articles he wrote about the woes of The Undefeated, the troubled, much-delayed race, culture and sports site from ESPN helmed by Jason Whitlock. Whitlock had been one of the most famous and controversial sportswriters in America, having built his polarizing career on his essays connecting sports to the evils of black pathology. He could be petty and ugly, like when he wrote that Serena Williams would never be an all-time great because she was fat and lazy ("[S]eriously, how else can Serena fill out her size 16 shorts without grazing at her stall between matches?" he wrote). And he could be simplistic and scolding, as in diatribes about the evils inherent to female basketball players dunking or black people's use of the word "nigger.") Howard’s articles argue that the enmity Whitlock earned from black journos and writers for this schtick made it nearly...

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#36: What It Means To Lose A School. (September 20 2015)

Sun, 20 Sep 2015 19:01:30 GMT

G.D. and Terryn talk to Jelani Cobb of the New Yorker, who went back to his former high school in Queens, which was recently closed down. Jelani was trying to figure out how the diverse, highly regarded school quickly deteriorated quickly after he graduated in the 1980s and soon became, to many, an example of why big, neighborhood schools can't work. (Hint: HOUSING SEGREGATION.) And Eve Ewing of Seven Scribes talks to G.D. about the fight to save Walter Dyett High School, the last public school open to everyone in Bronzeville, a historic black neighborhood on Chicago's South Side. Protesters there had been staging a month-long hunger strike to keep Dyett's doors open, and Eve says that the fight over the school has huge implications for the neighborhood, where so many local public schools have been shut down by the city over the last decade.

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Digging In The Crates: #20: Losing Football And A Language. (May 28 2012)

Sat, 12 Sep 2015 04:03:08 GMT

It's the beginning of football season, so we decided to re-up a favorite old episode of ours where we spoke to Ta-Nehisi Coates of The Atlantic about his decision to stop watching the NFL after the evidence of the effects of football-related brain injuries became too hard to ignore.

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#35: 'Straight Outta Compton' And the Unkillable Biopic Genre. (August 23 2015)

Mon, 24 Aug 2015 01:46:06 GMT

The N.W.A. movie "Straight Outta Compton" is the latest entrant into the anemic hip-hop biopic genre. It's crushing at the box office even as controversies around who was cast in it and which details were left out of it. (Namely: all of the women, ever.) Jalen Coats (@jvcoats), a writer and DJ from LA, joins GD to figure out what it all means, and argue over which great female MCs should get a biopic of their own, and also why biopics should never exist.

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#34: 'How The $%*!& Is That Good Enough?' (August 15 2015)

Sat, 15 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT

On a recent two-part story on This American Life, Nikole Hannah-Jones of The New York Times Magazine went to Normandy High School — the struggling St. Louis County school from which Michael Brown graduated just weeks before he was killed last year in Ferguson. Normandy is the lowest-ranked high school in Missouri and nearly entirely black, and when a series of events opened the door for hundreds of Normandy kids to be bussed to Francis Howell High School, a high-performing, mostly-white high school a few towns over, the Normandy kids were greeted with massive opposition from white parents.Nikole and G.D. talked about her reporting on the seemingly insurmountable problem of school segregation in America's schools, and why it makes sense to be pessimistic about America achieving racial equality.

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#33: Detroit vs. Everybody. (July 26 2015)

Sun, 26 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT

Terryn is packing up and moving to the D for a new gig! To help get her ready, we convened some folks who have Big Thoughts about the state of the Motor City. Angela Flournoy, the author of the critically acclaimed new novel, "The Turner House," set her book there, the city where her father grew up. And Siwatu Moore, a writer in Brooklyn, is a Detroit native. Will Detroit have to morph into something unrecognizable in order to survive? And does Detroit have more cat daddies per capita than any city in the world?

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#32: #GrowingUpSouthern. (July 15 2015)

Wed, 15 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT

Gene and Terryn discuss Gene's recent reporting for NPR on those Southerners, black and white, for whom the Confederate flag is a genuine signifier of identity. Terryn breaks down what well-meaning Northerners don't get about the South; she also references Walker, Texas Ranger at least once.

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#31: Attica Locke, from this little show 'Empire.' (May 11 2015)

Mon, 11 May 2015 00:00:00 GMT

The novelist and screenwriter Attica Locke joins Gene and Terryn to explain why she left Hollywood to write novels — her third, "Pleasantville," is out now — and how she got bit by the showbiz bug again to become a writer and producer for Fox's mega-hit "Empire." Drip drippety drop.

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#30: Dyson Vs. West. (May 8 2015)

Sat, 09 May 2015 05:37:40 GMT

Jamil Smith, senior editor at the New Republic, joins Gene, Terryn and Jamelle to discuss That Michael Eric Dyson Article About Cornel West. As the article's editor (!), he dishes some inside dirt on the politics behind the politics, on wrangling Dyson down to 10,000 words, and on taking over at a publication best known for its defenses of racism.

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#29: Ben Carson At The Barbershop. (March 20 2015)

Sat, 21 Mar 2015 01:28:02 GMT

Joel Anderson (BuzzFeed) and Jenée Desmond-Harris (Vox) join Gene and Terryn to discuss their recent reporting on Dr. Ben Carson, professional inspirational figure-turned-Republican presidential hopeful. Related reads:"How Ben Carson went from black hero to Tea Party darling without changing one bit," by Jenée Desmond-Harris (http://www.vox.com/2015/2/20/8069151/ben-carson-dr)"Could Running For President Destroy Ben Carson’s Legacy?," by Joel Andersonhttp://www.buzzfeed.com/joelanderson/ben-carson-politics-legacy

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#28: Little Known Black History Facts. (February 28 2015)

Sat, 28 Feb 2015 14:50:29 GMT

On the last day of Black History Month™, we talk to Tracy Clayton (aka Brokey McPoverty), a staff writer at BuzzFeed and the creator of all those viral, satirical Little Known Black History Facts. She joins Jamelle, Terryn and G.D. to talk about #LKBHF the reaction to it, and the touchiness around Black History Month writ large.

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#27: Bad Romance. (February 14 2015)

Sat, 14 Feb 2015 15:45:38 GMT

It’s everyone’s least-favorite Hallmark holiday, so Terryn and Gene called up some folks who tweeted us their worst date stories. (Big thanks to Genie, Tamara, Ko and Tracy for baring their souls.)

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#26: Selma. (January 24 2015)

Sat, 24 Jan 2015 19:07:40 GMT

NPR's Bilal Qureshi and the writer Joshunda Sanders join G.D. to chop it up about "Selma," the much-discussed historical drama by the director Ava Duvernay. (Alas, we recorded this a week before the Academy Award nominations were announced, so we don't get into the film's perceived Oscar snubbing here.) Also, Bilal stumps hard for "Beyond The Lights," a movie that like "Selma," boasted a black woman at the helm. "Lights" tanked at the box office despite strong reviews, and Bilal said that it's in part because no one knew how to market it.

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#25: The Two Michael Sams. (December 11 2014)

Fri, 05 Dec 2014 16:13:43 GMT

Michael Sam made history this year when he became the first openly gay player drafted into the NFL — or any of America's major pro sports, for that matter. In the sports media, his estrangement from his family was characterized as simple homophobia. But when Joel went down to Texas to track down the Sam family for BuzzFeed, he found out that the picture was much more complicated.

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#24: #Ferguson. (September 17 2014)

Wed, 17 Sep 2014 03:19:29 GMT

Joel, Jamelle and Gene were all in Ferguson covering the aftermath of the Michael Brown shooting for their respective jobs. In this episode, they compare notes on what they saw and heard and what, if anything, happens next.

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#23C: Bless Your Heart! Of Brazilians and Bar Fights. (February 5 2014)

Fri, 31 Jan 2014 23:42:27 GMT

A day of adventure for Nichole and Tracy begins with bikini waxes and ends with one of them almost getting into an altercation with a stranger. Some salty language.

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#23B: Bless Your Heart! The Stars and Bars and #TeamJake. (December 14 2013)

Sat, 14 Dec 2013 20:16:00 GMT

On the second episode of the "Bless Your Heart" podcast, Nichole and Tracy discuss what Northerners don't get about Southerners — like the Confederate flag. Plus: observations on how cute Jake from 'Scandal' is, 'The Best Man Holiday' and the holiday season. Some salty language.

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#23A: Bless Your Heart! Pics Of Dicks & Porn For Chicks. (November 3 2013)

Mon, 04 Nov 2013 05:10:17 GMT

It's been a long time, we know. But here's something new and fun and different — the inaugural episode of the Bless Your Heart podcast! Our own Tracy "Brokey McPoverty" Clayton and Nichole Perkins talk about the tyranny of the dick pic, women-centered porn and "Martin." (Some salty language, obviously.)

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#22: Django Unpacked. (January 8 2013)

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 04:37:53 GMT

On this week's ep, Joel, Jamelle and G.D. are joined by Slate's Aisha Harris and Prof. Sarah Jackson of Northeastern University to discuss Quentin Tarantino's messy, subversive, confounding slavery revenge flick, "Django Unchained."

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