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**Free Black Thought Podcast**

Shining a light on black viewpoint diversity.

https://freeblackthought.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast (freeblackthought.substack.com)

Latest Episodes:

Ep. 36 - Creating a [Black] Marriage Culture (Delano Squires) Feb 14, 2024

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Delano Squires tells Connie Morgan how to create a marriage culture within black America.

Stuff referenced:

Delano on X: @DelanoSquires
Black and Married with Kids
Ralph Wiley
Authentically Black: Essays for the Black Silent Majority by John McWhorter
Is Bill Cosby Right?: Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mindby Michael Eric Dyson
Men Ain’t Boys
Voddie Baucham’s The Children of Caesar Part 1
Voddie Baucham’s The Children of Caesar Part II
Delano’s “America Needs a 'Black Wives Matter' Movement To Rebuild the Black Family,” in Newsweek
Delano’s favorite musical: FELA!

Ep. 35 - Bucking the Narrative (Kendall Qualls) Feb 07, 2024

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Host Connie Morgan discusses what’s wrong with the culture and how to fix it with Kendall Qualls. Mr. Qualls is a businessman and president of the non-profit Take Charge. Take Charge responds to suspected arson.

Stuff referenced in this episode:

Take Charge
Mr. Qualls’s book: The Prodigal Project
Mr. Qualls’s “SCOTUS Affirmative Action Decision Ignores Elephant in the Room,” in Real Clear Politics
Take Charge on X: @TakeChargeMN
Take Charge on Facebook
Take Charge on Instagram: @takechargemn
Outliers: The Story of Successby Malcolm Gladwell
Mr. Qualls’s favorite movie that others may not like: The Last Dragon

Ep. 34 - Bowen + Twyman, Ep. 3 Feb 01, 2024

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Episode 3 of our new series featuring FBT co-founder Michael David Cobb Bowen and author Winkfield Twyman Jr. Mike and Wink compare their respective imagined roles as King(s) of (black) History Month.

"Mirrors on the ceiling

The pink champagne on ice

And she said, "We are all just prisoners here

Of our own device"

And in the master's chambers

They gathered for the feast

They stab it with their steely knives

But they just can't kill the beast."

---- Hotel California lyrics by the Eagles (released February 22, 1977)

References and Resources:

White Bucks and Black-Eyed Peas: Coming Of Age Black In White Americaby Marcus Maybry
The Rage of a Privileged Class: Why Are Middle-Class Blacks Angry? Why Should America Care?byEllis Cose
Civilityby Stephen L. Carter
Lure and Loathing: Essays on Race, Identity, and the Ambivalence of Assimilationedited by Gerald Early
Blues People: Negro Music in White Americaby LeRoi Jones
Cane (Kabnis) by Jean Toomer
The American Evasion of Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatismby Cornel West
Oxherding Taleby Charles R. Johnson
High Cottonby Darryl Pinckney
Duties, Pleasures, and Conflicts: Essays in Struggleby Michael Thelwell
The White Boy Shuffleby Paul Beatty
Captain Blackman by John A. Williams
Jazz by Toni Morrison
Heavy Daughter Blues: Poems and Stories 1968-1986by Wanda Coleman
Understand Thisby Jervey Tervalon
Notes of a Hanging Judge: Essays and Reviews, 1979-1989by Stanley Crouch
Flyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary Americaby Greg Tate
Wink’s “Black Enterprise Magazine, Or, How I Became Black”
Wink’s “Reparations No. 30”
Wink’s “No Caricatures and Stereotypes Allowed”

Ep. 33 - An IDF Soldier Speaks Out (Dmitri Shufutinsky) Jan 31, 2024

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American and Israeli citizen Dmitri Shufutinsky talks what it means to be black, American, Israeli and Jewish, debunks some of the lies around Israel, explains how IDF service works and outlines how Aliyah is made.

Stuff referenced in this episode:

Dmitri on X: @dmitrishuf
Dmitri on Facebook
Dmitri’s “Black Excellence Is Not White Supremacy,” in the Journal of Free Black Thought

Ep. 32 - Family Man Musician (JoDavi) Jan 24, 2024

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An interview with musician JoDavi on living a traditional lifestyle while working as a professional musician. He and host Connie Morgan touch on his work in the pro-Israel space as well. We finally talk with the guy behind our theme song! Get tickets for JoDavi’s upcoming performance in Manhattan on March 28th and be part of his first live album recording.

Mentioned in this podcast:

JoDavi on X: @JoDaviMusic
JoDavi on Instagram: @JoDaviMusic
JoDavi’s Substack: JoDavi’s Newsletter
JoDavi’s website: JoDavimusic.com
JoDavi Show Dates
JoDavi’s “Why I Am Thankful,” in the Journal of Free Black Thought
Beauty and the Beast Prologue Music
The infamous Nickleback Reel
Robert Glasper
Tommy Sims

Theme music by the star of this episode.

Ep. 31 - No Such Thing As Black Fantasy (Dylan Morgan) Jan 17, 2024

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Fantasy author, self-proclaimed dork and brother of Connie Morgan joins the show for a dose of nepotism and geeking out over the joy of reading fiction.

Stuff referenced in this episode:

Dylan’s website: dylanfmorgan.com
Dylan’s Substack
An introductory chapter of Godfall in the Journal of Free Black Thought
Dylan on X: @DFMorganAuthor
Dylan on Instagram: @DylanFMorgan
Watership Down by by Richard Adams
The Deryni Series by Katherine Kurtz
The Adjustment Bureau (movie)
The Book that Inspired the Adjustment Bureau: Adjustment Team by Philip K. Dick.
Matt Corby
Book that Connie referenced featuring different viewpoints: The Exiles by Christina Baker Kline

Ep. 30 - BONUS: "Doctor-King" (Elton Frank) Jan 15, 2024

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MLK Day weekend 2024

“DOCTOR-KING”

Spoken word honoring the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Elton Orlando Frank II

Elton Orlando Frank II was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to parents of Caribbean and African-American ancestry. Though raised in the Baptist Church, he now is a Messianic Believer who enjoys studying, teaching, and preaching. He is a musician (vocals, trumpet) who doubles as a “word-smithing” poet. Elton also enjoys working-out at the gym, shooting hoops, playing soccer, swimming, and bouldering. He currently resides in Virginia. Elton doesn’t have an online presence at this time but can be reached at eltonorlandofrankii@yahoo.com.

Ep. 29 - Bowen + Twyman, Ep. 2 Jan 14, 2024

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Episode 2 of our new series featuring FBT co-founder Michael David Cobb Bowen and author Winkfield Twyman Jr. Mike and Wink compare an episode of The West Wing with former Harvard University President Claudine Gay and her inability to speak with moral clarity about genocide of Jews in real time before Congress.

Other fun stuff:

The West Wing clip
Wink’s “Claudine Gay Made a Career of Attacking Black Scholars. Don't Defend Her for Being Black” in Newsweek
“The Policy Excuse” by Mike
“The Next President of Harvard Must Be A...” by Wink
“Please Resign Harvard University President Claudine Gay” by Wink
“Book Publication Rate of Harvard Presidents” by Wink
“Toby Ziegler and a Moral Moment” by Wink
“Holiday Greetings for Harvard University President Claudine Gay” by Wink
Bowen + Twyman, Ep. 1
Mike’s FBT podcast episode: “Your Friendly Neighborhood Stoic”
Wink’s FBT podcast episode: “A New Correspondence on Race”

Ep. 28 - Birth Work While Black (Racha Tahani Lawler) Jan 10, 2024

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Racha Tahani Lawler and host Connie Morgan discuss what it means to be a black midwife supporting and promoting holistic birth. Racha owns the first and only Black owned birth cottage (center) in Central Virginia.

Mentioned in this podcast:

Racha’s website: gathergroundedmidwifery.com
Racha’s GoFundMe
Racha hosts monthly open houses for expecting parents the first Saturday of every month at the birth cottage in Midlothian, Va.
Racha’s favorite movie that others don’t like: Babette’s Feast

Ep. 27 - Canceled for Challenging Gender Ideology (Tiffanie Jones) Jan 03, 2024

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Dr. Tiffanie Victoria Jones shares the story of her cancelation at an American university following her refusal to solely teach post modernism theories on gender.

Stuff referenced in this episode:

The David Reimer story
On Christopher Dummit making up the idea that gender is a social construct
Christopher Dummit’s “Confessions of a Social Constructionist,” in Quillette
Tiffanie’s favorite book this year: The Choice: The Issue of Black Survival in America by Samuel F. Yette

Podcast Theme Music by JoDavi

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