The Brown Girls Guide to Politics

    Welcome to The Brown Girls Guide to Politics -- the one stop shop for women of color who want to hear and talk about the world of politics. Host A’shanti Gholar leads conversations with women changing the face of politics. Episodes include interviews with politicians, candidates, and influencers. Get ready for roundtables, analyzing current events, and more!

  • Unpacking Project 2025: For the People and the Planet

  • Unpacking Project 2025: Reproductive Justice in a Post-Roe World

  • Unpacking Project 2025: Education is an Everyone Issue

  • Unpacking Project 2025: Presidents are Not Kings

  • What Follows Brat Summer? A Deep Dive into Third Parties and the 2024 Election

  • Very Mindful, Very Demure? A Close Look at Third Parties

  • Is It All Peachy? A Case Study from Georgia

  • Third Parties and More: BGG Season 10

  • A Conversation with ActBlue’s Tamara Wilds Lawson

  • Uplifting the Black Vote with LaTosha Brown

  • America’s Inescapable Racial Violence Problem

  • Investing in the Future through Education

  • A Uniquely American Problem: the Gun Violence Epidemic

  • Immigrant Rights are Human Rights

  • Let’s Give Money to Black Women

  • The Truth About Environmental Racism

  • Rebuilding the House: A Post-Roe Conversation

  • Midterm Matters: BGG Season 9

  • BONUS: Ordinary Equality — Hanging On to a Future

  • Eyes on Georgia: A Conversation with Fair Fight Action

  • BONUS: Ordinary Equality — The End of Roe v. Wade

  • Introducing...The Accidental Activist!

  • SCOTUS and Reproductive Rights: Fighting the Same Fight

  • Women Bring the Vote

  • SCOTUS Needs Ketanji Brown Jackson

  • Lessons Learned: A Conversation with ActBlue

  • How to Make a Stronger Democracy

  • Bonus: From Getting Even with Anita Hill: Reimagining 1991

  • We Are the Backbone of Our Communities

  • Small Starts, Big Victories

  • Representation at Every Level

  • The Grace of a Trailblazer

  • Welcome to Season 8

  • Bonus Episode: Ordinary Equality, Roe v. Wade

  • Bonus Episode: Global President of Pfizer Vaccines, Nanette Cocero

  • In Their Words: COVID Survivors

  • Back to School

  • COVID and Indian Country

  • Stop Asian Hate

  • The She-Cession

  • Pro-Vaxxer

  • Welcome to Season 7

  • A House & Senate in Favor: Reproductive Healthcare & The 100 Days

  • Addressing the Black Maternal Healthcare Crisis

  • Presenting: Ordinary Equality

  • “The Floor, not the Ceiling:” The Supreme Court in 2021

  • Reproductive Justice & Women in the COVID Economy

  • Women’s Healthcare: Keeping Up The Fight

  • Vaccines, Trust, and the Global Pandemic

  • And So We Begin

  • Welcome to Season 6

  • Looking Forward: Immigration and DACA

  • What’s Next for the Biden-Harris Team?

  • And the Winner is ...Democracy

  • “Too Ambitious?” How the press covers women candidates

  • Visibility is on the ballot

  • Breonna's Law: Why we need police reform

  • Election 2020: BGG Season 5

  • Freedom Summer: Brittany Packnett Cunningham

  • Freedom Summer: D’atra “Dee Dee” Jackson

  • Freedom Summer: Barbara Lee

  • Bonus: Brown Girls Make History

  • Nana Gyamfi: "People come to America for a dream."

  • Jennifer Carroll Foy: “Let’s run and win!”

  • Montserrat Arredondo: “Always start within your community.”

  • Imara Jones: “Be brave even when you think you can’t.”

  • Jennifer Epps-Addison & Nse Ufot: “Make the vision a reality.”

  • Kabzuag Vaj: “People closest to the pain need to lead.”

  • Tram Nguyen: “Listen to your inner voice.”

  • Alexis McGill Johnson: “Everyone has a contribution.”

  • Kathryn Quintin: “Do not conform.”

  • Helen Gym: “Get local, Get active, change the world.”

  • DeJuana Thompson: “Your voice is critical.”

  • Mia Ives-Rublee: “Talk to us, not at us.”

  • Andrea Mercado & Lorella Praeli: “How we show up for people in crisis matters.”

  • Aimee Allison & Joy-Ann Reid: “Do not be afraid to show up."

  • Welcome to Season 3

  • Encyclopedia Womannica: Ida B. Wells

  • What Can We Expect in 2020?

  • Women of Color Leading Progressive Organizations

  • LaTosha Brown: “The world needs us.”

  • Women's March 2020

  • Women of Color Leading on Capitol Hill

  • Women of Color Leading National Democratic Political Committees

  • Senator Elizabeth Warren: "Persist."

  • Happy Holidays from The BGG

  • Kat Calvin & Lakshmi Sridaran: “Stay grounded.”

  • Sen. Cory Booker: “Walk by faith.”

  • Dr. Gabriela Lemus & Mayra Macías: “I know who I am and what I stand for.”

  • Rachael Lorenzo: “Take up space.”

  • Paulette Jordan: “It is our right to be here.”

  • Peggy Flanagan and Tashia Arnold: "Our ancestors believed in this day."

  • The Colored Girls: "Know your own power."

  • Welcome to Season 2

  • Season 2 Teaser & Giveaway

  • Heather Barmore: “We stand on the shoulders of giants.”

  • Leslie Herod: “Here’s who I am.”

  • Encyclopedia Womannica: Shirley Chisholm

  • Aditi Hardikar: “I’m going to just will it into the universe.”

  • Introducing: Encyclopedia Womannica

  • Ruth Buffalo: “We have a long way to go.”

  • Ayanna Pressley: “You can’t poll transformation.”

  • Jess Morales Rocketto: “I'm nobody’s token.”

  • Madalene Mielke: “You’re investing in the next generation.”

  • She the People Roundtable: "Treat us like swing voters."

  • Kiah Morris: "That is the strength we carry."

  • Deb Haaland: “It’s a community effort.”

  • Aimee Allison: “We can lift each other up.”

  • Stacey Abrams: “This is about our future.”

  • Introducing The BGG

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