Writing Black is an entertaining and compelling podcast featuring Black writers and showcasing the myriad of ways Black people tell their stories, by interviewing writers from across the diaspora. Each week, host Maiysha Kai, theGrio’s lifestyle editor, talks to some of the best Black playwrights, songwriters, comics, journalists, authors and more about process, popular culture, publishing, and how race inherently inspires and informs their work.
Episode 17
Rhiannon Giddens explains Folk music has always been blackity Black
February 20, 2024 - 44:00
Episode 42
theGrio’s Natasha Alford is a proud American Negra standing on truth & authenticity
February 13, 2024 - 44:19
Episode 39
Slutty Vegan Founder Pinky Cole has mastered the power of the pivot
January 9, 2024 - 43:21
Episode 39
NBA legend Chris Paul shares his love for his “Papa” with the world
November 5, 2023 - 35:22
Episode 36
Iconic model Bethann Hardison single-handedly changed the model industry
September 15, 2023 - 40:01
Episode 34
Renowned journalist Michelle Miller on family, race, and identity
July 30, 2023 - 44:44
Episode 24
Laughter unleashed: comedian KevOnStage and his hilarious better half Mrs. KevonStage
July 16, 2023 - 44:00
Episode 2
Comedian Sam Jay is making space In Hollywood for others like her
July 9, 2023 - 32:44
Episode 33
We’re Live at the Los Angles Times Festival of Books with Ty Hunter, Clarkisha Kent and Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton
July 2, 2023 - 49:25
Episode 11
Political commentator and author Keith Boykin is a big fan of quiet quitting
June 25, 2023 - 42:05
Episode 3
Author Robert Jones, Jr. is not afraid to show Black LGBTQ love
June 18, 2023 - 33:03
Episode 9
Tony Award winner Michael R. Jackson has a “Big, Black And Queer-Ass American Broadway Show”
June 11, 2023 - 40:15
Episode 32
Music executive Danyel Smith gives Black women in pop their flowers
June 4, 2023 - 44:37
Episode 30
Life, Poems and Family With New York Times Best Seller Clint Smith
April 9, 2023 - 44