Having Cord Jefferson on was such a full circle moment for both of us & we had an amazing conversation. Here Cord talks about the book "Erasure," the parallels between his own life & the main character 'Monk' & how that informed the script for "American Fiction."
You know that trope of a very hardened strict mother-figure that is actually just an embarrassingly sweet mess in closed doors with the people she trusts? Yeah
Institutional racism & its deep effect on mental health in the black community
Journalist Antonia Hylton & I talk about the history of institutional racism and the twisted way black people's health and well-being was, and to some degree still is, deeply impacted by those views.
Fuck all love letters except whatever Cardan Greenbriar had going on when he wrote “my heart is buried with you in the strange soil of the mortal world, as it was drowned with you in the cold waters of the undersea. it was yours before i could admit it, and yours it shall ever remain”