BLKFLA Podcast

On this episode of BLKFLA: The Podcast, our hosts Jamal STEELE and Rhyane Wagner dig deep into the importance of local and municipal politics with Sean Shaw, who ran for Hillsborough County Commission in 2024, and newly re-elected Commissioner Shan Rose, District 5 of the City of Orlando, FL. It was an amazing time as we dive deep into why your city council, county commission, and many other municipal areas of government are important for the care of your community AND for Black people to win in our communities across the state. It's BLKFLA! LET'S GET INTO IT.

We are in the middle of the longest government shutdown this country has experienced, which has caused 42 million Americans to lose SNAP benefits, which includes 3.5 million Floridians without access to funds for FOOD. Instead, our state Legislature wants to use this opportunity to possibly gerrymander our already egregious congressional map to gain an even more unfair advantage for this administration to complete enacting Project 2025 into law. And OH YEAH... THE GREATEST SOUL SINGER OF THE MODERN ERA HAS BECOME AN ANCESTOR IN THE MIDST OF THE WORLD SLOWLY BURNING. So, our hosts Jamal STEELE and Natasha Sutherland called our friends Rhyane Wagner, Senior Policy Manager of Black Voters Matter, music artist and host of On The Ave Podcast, Broadway Louie, and State Representative Michele K. Rayner to discuss Mid decade redistricting in Florida, the Government Shutdown and it's implications on SNAP benefits being cut, and the untimely passing of Michael Eugene Archer, better known to the Soul music culture as D'Angelo. It's BLKFLA: The Podcast! Join us!

It's THE RETURN of BLKFLA! Before we dig deep into our political bag, we have to set the atmosphere right. Pastor Anthony Davis and Pastor G Tyler Burns join us for an in depth conversation on how the destructive force of using Christ as a weapon of White supremacy is damaging our country and what we can do to fight back to show how Jesus is Black, not just in person, but in movement. It's BLKFLA!!!

On this episode of BLKFLA, we invite Ieshia Williams, Neuteyshe Felizor, Jenay Green, and Jonathan Garrett Green to join our hosts, Natasha Sutherland and Jamil Davis, for an in-depth conversation on why Black women are never dealt the same protection, empathy, and grace as other folk when they face abuse, neglect, and trauma in their lives. It's BLKFLA!! LET'S TAP INTO IT.

Our podcast prides itself as being THE INTERSECTION OF BLACK POLITICS AND BLACK CULTURE and THIS FILM EMBODIES THAT PERFECTLY. Currently sitting at $122 million domestically, 161 million internationally, Sinners, directed by Ryan Coogler and starring Michael B. Jordan is a CULTURAL EVENT FOR ALL THE RIGHT REASONS. On this episode, our hosts, Jamil Davis and DJ Hale, bring Rhyane Wagner and Dwight Bullard along for the ride to discuss what many have already declared to be THE FILM OF THE YEAR and the sociopolitical impact in this Era of Resistance that we are in. Tune in on The MPN Network!