The Chocolate Auntie Podcast: Recent Episodes
Shewanda Riley
This multi episode podcast series will focus on engaging conversation as we explore pop culture, literature, film, and current events through the lens of the contemporary African American aunt. For example, some women embrace being an aunt and others consider it an insult. We’ll talk about the good, the better and best part of our lives as aunts and seeing the world through auntie-colored glasses.
This episode concludes the 2 part series where Tarrant County College students discuss poetry with me and poet LL Burke.
This week's episode is the first of a two part series featuring a discussion with students from my college English class about the poetry of L.L. Burke. As an added surprise, the poet joins the conversation.
This episode features Auntie Wanda discussing intersections of sisterhood and strength in the box office hit The Woman King.
This episode concludes our conversation with author Michelle Stimpson about using aunts as characters in her books as well as her personal experiences as a niece and an aunt.
This episode is part 1 of a 2 part interview featuring Essence best-selling author Michelle Stimpson. We discuss how her aunts influenced her writing as her personal life. We also discuss how she used aunts as important characters in her ground-breaking Christian fiction novel Divas of Damascus Road.
This episode features a discussion with Dr. Lisette Blanco-Cerda about her experiences as an aunt from the Latino/Chicano perspective. She shares compelling details about her relationship with her nephew and how she was influenced by her "Tias" growing up.
This is part 2 of a conversation with National Association of Black Journalist Hall of Fame inductee Cheryl Smith. In this episode we explores the importance of having a strong support system as a custodial aunt and the legacy she has created with her nieces and nephew.
This episode is an intriguing conversation with publisher, veteran journalist and National Association of Black Journalist Hall of Fame Inductee Cheryl Smith. In this episode, Cheryl describes her experiences as a custodial aunt to her nieces and nephew and how being an aunt impacted her personally and professionally. This episode is part one of a two part series.
The episode is an interview I did with my Aunt 'Nora about her experiences as an aunt and how she influenced my aunting lifestyle.
This episode explores the vibrant legacy of Black Aunts from television shows of the last 50 years.