The Intersection 's Podcast
Oppressed and marginalized communities often use culture as a resistance mechanism, a platform to assert their attitudes and discuss issues relevant to them. Culture is often used to resist dominant ideologies and oppressive situations. Culture was and continues to be a resistance mechanism utilized by Blacks in America since slavery. The Intersection: Where Black Popular Culture Meets Social Justice,This podcast will examine and discuss the multitude of ways Black popular culture has resisted injustice within the United States.Black popular culture includes, Black literature, poetry, art, music, television, films
Episodes
12 episodes
Hip Hop is 50!
On this episode, we pay homage to Hip-Hop culture by discussing the significance, growth, changes and longevity of the genre. We pay particular attention to Chuck D's PBS documentary "Fight the Power: How Hip-Hop Changed the World!"...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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1:24:52
Rap Lyrics as Evidence
In courtrooms across America, defendant-authored rap lyrics are being introduced as incriminating evidence. Prosecutors describe these lyrics as an admission of guilt. Please join us as we speak with McKinley "MAC" Phipps, a rap art...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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1:46:51
FN Meka: The Avatar Rapper
The story of FN Meka — a fictitious character billed as the first musical artist partly powered by artificial intelligence to be signed by a major record label — might seem like a bizarre one-off if you have not been paying attention to the dig...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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1:07:22
Examining the intersection between Hip-Hop and Queer Identity
This episode begins by detailing controversial positions taken by Hip Hop artists including Da Baby and Lil Boosie and homophobic social media as well as performance made comments, while also discussing the rise of queer identified artists such...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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1:02:00
The 1619 Project
Throughout history African Americans have enacted numerous forms of resistance including violent and non-violent tactics in all arenas, political, social and economic. Media, both broadcast and print in the Black community has always represente...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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1:14:41
Karen
Racism is nothing new, and continuous media representation never fails to remind us of that. In this episode, we discuss the controversy of "Karen," microaggressions in modern-day society
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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58:53
COVID Revisited
Episode one of season two of the Intersection revisits COVID. This season, the conversation will focus more on current socioeconomic problems we face with Vaccines, Mask Mandates, and other issues currently being debated across the nation.
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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1:20:06
Summer 2020
It is described as a summer that changed the lives of millions. A summer that opened the eyes of a nation. A summer that helped propel a movement. As we get ready to enter the Summer season and reflect on the events of the past few weeks...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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1:36:28
Black Music & Social Justice
Although social justice is typically thought of as a political agenda, many justice movements have used music as a way of inviting and maintaining broad-based participation in their initiatives. Join us in our conversation with multi-Gram...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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1:48:50
Representation and Cultural Exchange in Anime and Animation
The relationship between anime and hip hop culture and in turn Asian and black American culture is a long one. This timely episode examines the cross-cultural exchange between Black and Asian cultures, featuring interviews with Dr. Dawn E...
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1:29:15
Athletes and Social Justice
Two weeks ago, America sat down to watch the championship game of the National Football League, otherwise known as the Superbowl. On this episode we discuss how athletes fight for social justice within the sports industry (another form of...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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1:24:15
Cancel Covid: Blacks, resistance and medicine
Prompted by a social media post by Black Panther star Letitia Wright concerning the COVID vaccination, this episode discusses the history of Blacks and the medical industry and why some may be skeptical of the new vaccinations.
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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56:36