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Check out this special preview of the new podcast, Well-Read Black Girl from Pushkin Industries. Well-Read Black Girl is the literary kickback you never knew you needed. Glory Edim, author and founder of the Well-Read Black Girl community, sits in deep, honest and close conversation with authors like Tarana Burke, Anita Hill, Gabrielle Union, Nikole Hannah-Jones, and more. You’ll also meet book club members, literacy advocates, and Black booksellers to hear what they’re reading and what it means to be well-read. In this preview, you'll get a peek behind the page and hear how these authors, thinkers, and makers found their voices, honed their crafts, and showed up in the world. You can listen to Well-Read Black Girl at https://podcasts.pushkin.fm/wrbgdcp. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today is a moment of celebration that we will not let the right wing take away from us. Today is a double dose of Danielle, as White House attorney Danielle Conley joins to discuss the historic confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as Supreme Court Justice. Support Woke AF Daily at Patreon.com/WokeAF to see the full video edition of today's show, and over 100 more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

America is a shaken up soda can waiting for someone to come along and pop the tab. Support Woke AF Daily at Patreon.com/WokeAF to see the full video edition of today's show, and over 100 more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We are living in a nation of disease - not just sickness but overall uneasiness. Dr. Jonathan Metzl joins to give us his political diagnosis. Support Woke AF Daily at Patreon.com/WokeAF to see the full video edition of today's show, and over 100 more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The concept of "neutrality" is BS, designed by cisgendered heterosexual white men to enforce THEIR version of what is normal and neutral. We have to push back on conversations that sacrifice progress for the sake of so-called neutrality. Support Woke AF Daily at Patreon.com/WokeAF to see the full video edition of today's show, and over 100 more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We have a literal rogue Justice in the Supreme Court, and our actual Department of Justice is nowhere to be found. Glenn Kirschner takes 30 minutes to break it all down. Support Woke AF Daily at Patreon.com/WokeAF to see the full video edition of today's show, and over a hundred more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our current politics are made for TV, not for good governance. And "journalists" are failing us by printing PR puff pieces instead of news. Support Woke AF Daily at Patreon.com/WokeAF to see the full video edition of today's show, and dozens more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We are in a wake up call moment. What was normal and acceptable to joke about 10 years ago no longer is. What worked for winning elections 10 years ago no longer does. It's time to get with the program or get left behind. Support Woke AF Daily at Patreon.com/WokeAF to see the full video edition of today's show, and dozens more.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Republicans have a theory of power. Democrats have no theory at all. Dying of Whiteness author Dr. Jonathan Metzl joins for an in-depth conversation about how and why we got here, and what the 2022 midterms may bring. Support Woke AF Daily at Patreon.com/WokeAF to see the full video edition of today's show, and dozens more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

There is much being made of the slap heard 'round the world, when Will Smith hit Chris Rock openhanded at this year's Academy Awards ceremony. There is much less being made of Chris Rock's joke about Jada Pinkett Smith's alopecia and how disabled women - especially disabled Black women - are seen in society. Let's talk about it! Disability advocate and journalist Cara Reedy joins to break it down. Support Woke AF Daily at Patreon.com/WokeAF to see the full video edition of today's show, and dozens more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.