Disruption Now
Join us on the Disruption Now podcast as we challenge the status quo and advocate for digital equity, ownership, and responsible technology.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 42 minutes
- Episodes
- 182
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
EP: 22 - Governor Deval Patrick: Breaking Barriers
Deval Laurdine Patrick is one of only 2 African-Americans to ever be elected governor in the United States. Born and raised by a single mother on the South Side of Chicago, Patrick earned a scholarsh…
00:52:49 |
Wed 19 Jun 2019
EP: 21 - What They See 'When They See Us'
The story for wrongfully convicted
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/ava-duvernay-s-when-they-see-us-not-just-about-n1005151
Oprah hard to watch hard to live
00:56:29 |
Wed 12 Jun 2019
EP: 20 - Lil Nas X: Only In America
Country Fans Outraged Lil Nas X
https://blackamericaweb.com/2019/05/24/country-music-fans-outraged-over-lil-nas-xs-jean-collection-with-wranglers/
The Roots of Country Music
https://www.chicagotribune…
00:21:31 |
Thu 06 Jun 2019
EP: 19 - Mueller Drops The Mic
Mueller tells Congress it’s your job to impeach. Republicans and Democrats have to decide will they do what’s politically convenient or will they fight for the rule of law and America. We are a natio…
00:20:45 |
Fri 31 May 2019
EP: 18 - Kirk Perry on Faith & Leading With Values
Kirk Perry is an example of what opportunity can and should be in America. From the outside looking in Kirk Perry looks as if he had a seamless path. Working for two decades at Proctor and Gamble and…
00:34:17 |
Wed 29 May 2019
EP: 17 - Maxine Waters on Impeachment and Fighting for America
Maxine Waters was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the fifth of 13 children reared by a single mother. She began working at age 13 in factories and segregated restaurants. After moving to Los Angeles, sh…
00:35:56 |
Thu 23 May 2019
EP: 16 - Shawn Holley: On Kim K, OJ & justice
Holley learned the ropes from Johnny Cochran during the Oj Simpson trail dubbed “the trial of the century.” In May 2018, Ms. Holley and Kim Kardashian West met with President Donald Trump at the Whit…
01:03:12 |
Mon 20 May 2019
EP: 15 - Does Black Male Privilege Exist?
Does black male privilege exist? If you talk to most black men they will openly agree that privilege is a real thing among their white male counterparts. However, if you ask is their black male privi…
00:33:26 |
Wed 15 May 2019
EP: 14 - Privilege and Subtle Racism
Privilege is a loaded word that invokes strong reactions; especially from white people. After a Jazz fan got into a heated argument with Russel Westbrook, it was later discovered the fan had made rac…
00:36:20 |
Mon 06 May 2019
EP: 13 - Divided We Fall
Something that was overlooked by the mainstream media in the coverage of the Mueller Report was how Russia focused on fueling racial tensions to influence the election. The Internet Research Agency w…
00:23:44 |
Mon 06 May 2019
EP: 12 - The Injustice of Kerry Lathan
According to Michelle Alexander, author of the New Jim Crow, more black men are in prison or jail, on probation or parole than were enslaved in 1850, before the Civil War began. The recent Kerry Lant…
00:08:02 |
Mon 22 Apr 2019
EP: 11 - Laura Ingraham’s Lack of Humanity with Nipsey Hussle
Laura Ingraham’s coverage of Nipsey Hussle continues to demonstrate her lack of skills as a journalist and as a human being. She can’t understand why others would mourn Nipsey’s death. This is becaus…
00:08:47 |
Fri 19 Apr 2019
EP: 10 - Nipsey Hussle Conspiracies
Conspiracy theories popped up all over black Twitter and social media following the murder of Nipsey Hussle. Why did so many think his death was a conspiracy? Perhaps the answer is America has confir…
00:28:45 |
Thu 11 Apr 2019
EP: 9 - Nipsey Hussle - Life, Legacy and Lessons
Nipsey Hussle was in many ways the personification of the American dream. He started off in the streets, joining the gang the 60s (Crips), going to prison but eventually turning his life around and h…
00:49:32 |
Mon 08 Apr 2019
EP: 8 - Mayor Andrew Gillum-On failing forward and fighting for others.
Andrew Gillum was not supposed to be the Democratic nominee for Florida governor. For the entire century nearly every gubernatorial candidate Democrat and Republican were millionaires. So when the po…
00:32:02 |
Mon 01 Apr 2019
EP: 7 - Does Diversity and Democracy Mix?
Governing is hard but leading a diverse nation is even harder. More homogeneous democracies often have greater levels of social welfare (e.g. Sweden, Switzerland) Can anything be done about the disc…
00:34:49 |
Fri 29 Mar 2019
EP: 6 - What to do with Gentrification
Growth in urban communities has been accelerating in the last decade. Areas that were for years considered unattractive and crime ridden have become the areas of economic growth and activity. This ha…
00:52:06 |
Thu 21 Mar 2019
EP: 5 - Rigging the System in College
We are used to hearing scandals involving the recruitment of NCAA athletes. However, I have never heard of a scandal involving students posing as athletes. That is until actresses Felicity Huffman an…
00:59:06 |
Mon 18 Mar 2019
EP: 4 - Jussie Smollett, Bill Maher, Robert Kraft and Social Media Bias
The human brain is wired to be bias. The science is clear, everyone is bias without exception. Our minds tend to default to what we think know or what makes sense to us versus exploring the facts of …
00:46:33 |
Fri 01 Mar 2019
EP: 3 - Socialism, Capitalism, All Out Skepticism
The fear of socialism is nothing new in America; But beyond the name what actually is socialism? How did the word socialism become such a tainted word? Now with Bernie Sanders and AOC socialism gaini…
01:15:51 |
Sat 23 Feb 2019
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