Another Round

Episode 24: Ida Bae Wells (with Nikole Hannah-Jones) – Encore

This week, we bring you an encore episode featuring Tracy’s Animal Corner, Six Degrees of Housing Segregation with Gene Demby of NPR’s Code Switch podcast, and an interview with investigative reporter extraordinaire and MacArthur Genius Award winner Nikole Hannah-Jones.  If you’re interested in pigeons, pumpkin spice, and affirmative action, this episode is for you.  …

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Episode 104: Keep Them Socks On, Playa (with Brittany Luse and Eric Eddings)

This week, Brittany Luse and Eric Eddings of the Gimlet podcast, The Nod, join us for a spirited PewPewPew session.  Brittany comes clean about her longtime use of transitions lenses, Eric explains whether or not casseroles are “good for the blacks,” and we all celebrate the literary genius that is Zane.   Follow Brittany Luse…

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Episode 103: Reclaim Your Bootyhole (Live from London)

On this week’s episode, we bring you our first international live show ever!  We went to London for the Shout Out Live Podcast Festival where we sang the praises of British television (namely Tracy’s newfound favorite show, “Embarrassing Bodies”).   Then we chatted with writer Bolu Babalola about the beauty of creating dark-skinned black women…

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Episode 6: Lit Like Bic (with Desus Nice) – Encore

This week we bring you an encore of perhaps our tipsiest episode yet featuring the one and only Desus Nice.  We share some questions we have for white people, then chat with Desus about people misunderstanding his Twitter jokes, the wedding episode of A Different World, and Richard Wright.  Come for the riveting conversation, stay…

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Episode 102: Our Bonus Celebration!

This week we bring you some bonus material celebrating over 100 episodes of Another Round!  First, our fabulous Production Fellows aka Fellies, Agerenesh Ashagre and Alex Laughlin, surprise us with some listener stories.  Then we share with you a special edition of PewPewPew, featuring…you guessed it…us!  And keep listening till the end if you want…

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Our 101nst Episode Celebration!

This week we celebrate our 101nst episode!  That’s right, the 101nst.  Having made over 100 episodes, we wanted to take some time to reflect on where we’ve been, what we’ve learned, and how our airhorn noises have improved (tremendously).  Join us as we interview some very special guests (their names rhyme with Shmeben and Shmacy),…

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Episode 100: Kunta in the House (with LeVar Burton)

This week, we’re bringing you our wide-ranging conversation with the one and only LeVar Burton.  He tells us the life lesson he learned from Dr. Maya Angelou while working on Roots, what he wishes he could say to Star Trek writers about his character Geordi La Forge, and how his love of reading led him…

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Episode 99: Bounce Music As Praxis (with April Ryan, feat. HaSizzle)

This week, we take some time to process what happened in Charlottesville, and talk about how to persevere in the age of emboldened white supremacy.  Then we chat with April Ryan, the National Association of Black Journalists’ “Journalist of the Year,” on twenty years spent in the White House press briefing room. We check in…

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Episode 98: The Anne Hathaway of Politics (with Cory Booker)

This week we bring you our conversation with Senator Cory Booker, taped live at Fairleigh Dickinson University.  Booker chats with us about reformative justice (and whether he’s a prison abolitionist), fundraising with Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump for his Senate campaign in 2013, and whether he ever feels like the Anne Hathaway of politics. Come…

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Episode 39: The Betrayer of the Patriarchy (with Anil Dash) – Encore

This week we’re bringing you an encore episode featuring friend of the show and OG tech guy, Anil Dash!  First we have a little What Had Happened Was featuring young Heben (and the headaches she gave her parents), followed by a long conversation with Anil Dash about mangoes, representation on screen and in tech, and…

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