On Theme
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Black stories are more than a fad or fodder for opportunistic outsiders. We know them. We love them. We’re moved by them. They change our lives. And on this podcast, Black stories are the default.
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Episodes
Becoming Armchair Archivists
19m · PublishedKatie and Yves talk with Ambar Johnson, an oral historian who created a guide specifically to help collect family stories. We discuss the dos and don’ts of gathering family histories, and Yves uses the guide to interview a family member.
Download Ambar Johnson’s guide on collecting family stories atdandelyonsstudios.myflodesk.com
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The Rap-to-Act Pipeline
28m · PublishedSome rappers put the brakes on their music careers and flipped the script — literally. In this episode, Katie and Yves discuss three different hip-hop artists who made their way down the rap-to-act pipeline and consider how we can reflect on their reinventions.
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Everybody Got A Hot Sixteen
24m · PublishedWith hip-hop in its 50th year, the music genre and cultural phenomenon has gone from the block to the world’s stage.
In this episode, Katie and Yves are taking it back to the block (and the cubicle and the classroom and the grocery store checkout line) and delving into the role of amateur rappers play in storytelling.
Discover how these part-time rappers become modern-day griots, chronicling the highs, lows, and hidden truths of their neighborhoods.
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For Great Art, We Grateful
30m · PublishedHere at On Theme, the season to give thanks for Black stories is year-round, ya dig? As a small token of gratitude, Katie and Yves dedicate an episode to their appreciation for Carrie Mae Weems’s “Kitchen Table Series” and Fannie Lou Hamer’s 1964 speech at the Democratic National Convention.
Check out Carrie Mae Weems’s Kitchen Table Series
Read “Carrie Mae Weems by Dawoud Bey” in Bomb Magazine
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Advice For The Wise…And Otherwise
29m · PublishedWho do you go to for advice? In this episode, Katie and Yves revisit Princess Mysteria’s 1920s advice column and speak with author and podcast host Damon Young about advice, storytelling, and faulty iPhone chargers.
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Raising Our Glasses
19m · PublishedOh, shoot! Your best friend’s wedding is tomorrow and you didn’t prepare a toast. No worries. In this episode, Katie and Yves break down the key ingredients of the perfect toast using examples from their favorite movies and TV shows.
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We Might Regret This Episode Later
40m · PublishedIf you’re an artist, it’s pretty much guaranteed that you’re going to create art that you’re not happy with at some point. But when Black artists have to look back at past works that didn’t age well on the race front, the regret can run deep. In this episode, Katie and Yves dive into Octavia E. Butler’s, Viola Davis's, and Ernest Hogan’s stories of remorse and reckoning.
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Toward the Danger
44m · PublishedIn today’s episode, Yves has beef with jokes about Black people running away from danger in horror movies. But the best stories have dramatic reversals, and even the most stubborn minds can be changed. Katie and Yves get into the complexity of the well-intentioned jokes and speak with Dr. Robin R. Means Coleman, a horror expert who isn’t afraid to look in the mirror and say “Candyman” five times.
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The Other OTHER Magical Negro
34m · PublishedThere are Black folks who are real-life colleagues with the supernatural. Then there are Black folks who are sacrificial fictional characters in problematic storylines. Then there’s the other other “magical Negro”: the one who performs the art of magic. Katie and Yves delve into the history of Black magicians and the significance of the stories they told. Then they return to the present for a conversation with modern-day magician Nicole Cardoza.
Keep up with Nicole Cardoza:
- blackgirlmagician.com
- @nicoleacardoza on Instagram
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Addicted to Anti-Blackness
36m · PublishedKatie and Yves are joined by journalist and author of “When Crack Was King,” Donovan X. Ramsey. They discuss his new book, the media’s role in exacerbating the devastating effects of crack, how hip-hop artists memorialized the early days of crack in their rhymes, and the unhinged PSAs put out during the crack era. (Ahem, looking at the Partnership for a Drug Free America PSA: “Make no mistake — drug abuse is the new slavery.”)
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On Theme has 34 episodes in total of explicit content. Total playtime is 17:55:18. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on October 22nd 2023. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on May 10th, 2024 14:40.
