Pop Politics with Monique A. Gamble: Recent Episodes

Monique A. Gamble

The Pop Politics Pod is a show that fuses pop culture and the state of U.S. politics.

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Trinidad Sour - Cocktail for grownups https://robbreport.com/food-drink/spirits/best-trinidad-sour-recipe-bitters-rye-cocktail-giuseppe-gonzalez-1234639197/

30 x Adele -https://open.spotify.com/album/21jF5jlMtzo94wbxmJ18aa?si=BU8-YPpUSh-76ouO5OrzDA

Ventriloquism x Meshell Ndegeocello - https://open.spotify.com/album/31HcIpZ9GOo9aKUPYwV3kG?si=e2mbnGR0Rl2yCEC2bYfukg

Passing - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trwq3CNCMkU

The Harder They Fall - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Poc55U2RPMw

King Richard - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKP_0z52ZAw

The Path Made Clear x Oprah Winfrey - https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250307507

Parable of the Sower x Octavia Butler - https://www.newyorker.com/books/second-read/octavia-butlers-prescient-vision-of-a-zealot-elected-to-make-america-great-again

Children of Blood and Bone: Legacy of Orisha - https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250170972/children-of-blood-and-bone

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The Alliance Group (T.A.G.) 2019 Demand for All Gender Restrooms

UDC Center for Diversity, Inclusion and Multicultural Affairs (CDIMA)

HBCU Queer Pioneer: Bayard Rustin, Wilberforce University

HBCU Queer Pioneer: Lucy Diggs Slowe, Howard University

HBCU Queer Pioneer: Paul Murray, Howard University

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Crime Junkie - Alice Crimmins https://open.spotify.com/episode/21PlOTLFPuBXHx1gZZhNH8?si=6_ZW67OlQheYt5bkzelWgw&dl_branch=1

Root of Evil: The True Story of the Hodel Family and the Black Dahlia - https://open.spotify.com/show/5pi39okDAFEW9h9d3iA9Z1?si=rd85bh_fQhO441dxvGq4Wg&dl_branch=1

Atlanta Monster - https://open.spotify.com/show/6cmQg2V4wSyhTCavjDFiiN?si=iGhb2HL3Swy7gb4FCXqKkg&dl_branch=1

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The Master’s Tools, Audre Lorde

“My presence is enough.” TikTok Iyanla Vanzant

Bayard Rustin: An Architect of the Civil Rights Movement You May Have Never Heard Of

Girl x The Internet

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With folks like Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, and countless teachers, doctors, and business people living and commiserating in DC’s famed U Street Corridor, the DC Renaissance was born. And it was DC that paved the way for Harlem.

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My colleague, Dr. Shiela Harmon-Martin, and two of my students join me in conversation about the 2020 presidential election and beyond.

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Episode 5: https://www.hbo.com/lovecraft-country/season-1/5-strange-case

Frank Ocean’s “Bad Religion”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMpypbtrcCg

Black Feminist Thought, Patricia Hill Collins (2002)

“For Colored Girls Who Have Consider Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf, Ntozake Shange: https://www.playbill.com/article/in-celebration-of-ntozake-shange-revisit-for-colored-girls-who-have-considered-suicide-when-the-rainbow-is-enuf

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Resources and Info: 

Check out these individuals and orgs who are among the cohort of visionary leadership blazing across the South:

New Georgia Project https://newgeorgiaproject.org/leadership-at-ngp/

Ashley Shelton, Power, and Equity Coalition in Louisiana: https://powercoalition.org/

Step Up Louisiana: https://www.stepuplouisiana.org/

Nsombi Lambright, OneVoice Mississippi, http://onevoicems.org/

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Resources:

Check out Ms. Kendrick's works in your local indy bookstore:

Women of the Plums: Poems in the Voices of Slave Women

Why the Woman is Singing on the Corner

Now is the Thing to Praise

Through the Ceiling

Work from Dr. Gabbin:

Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry

Furious Flower: African American Poetry from the Black Arts Movement to the Present

https://www.jmu.edu/furiousflower/ 
https://www.facebook.com/FuriousFlower/
https://furiousflower.org/dolores-kendrick/

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This show is about the fusion of politics and pop culture from music, television, and film. I started this podcast with Black Feminist principles at its center. That means the Pop Politics Pod is about reclaiming power by amplifying diverse and inclusive voices and stories.