Welcome to It’s Culture Podcast. I am Mark Stevenson, a 20 year veteran of the US Navy, Community Activist and your host. This isn’t a channel for passive sc…
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ELECTION NIGHT 2026 IS HERE! WHO WILL CONTROL CONGRESS? Join Mark Stevenson on It's Culture Podcast for LIVE coverage of the 2026 Midterm Elections as Americans decide the balance of power in Washington and the direction of the country.
1:17:57284 views · 1w ago · 1:17:57
One week out from Election Day, Democrats are sending in the big names to win over Black voters in Michigan and Texas. Why? And what has actually been reported, versus what's just a feeling?
📰 Mentioned news: CNN, Oct 20, 2026 Democrats fear slippage with Black voters in Michigan
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A 1-year-old is dead. The state says the shooting was "justified." The family still has questions. On June 14, 2026, a Senatobia, Mississippi police officer fired into a car outside a Walmart after a call about stolen diapers. Kohen Wiley, age 1, was in his mother's arms and was killed. On Oct 19, the Mississippi Attorney General's office ruled the use of force justified and filed no charges. Then the footage came out.
Topics: THE RECEIPT: The timeline, June 14 to Oct 22 · Watching the footage (viewer discretion) · THE ANALYSIS: "Justified" is a legal word, not a moral one · The officer's paper trail (allegations, not findings) · The department and the process · COMMUNITY: What the family is asking for now
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Two Black elected officials. Two federal indictments. One day. On Thursday, Oct. 22, 2026, Virginia state Sen. Louise Lucas and Fort Bend County, Texas Tax Assessor-Collector Carmen Turner were each indicted in separate federal cases. In this episode of It's Culture, I break down the receipts, the politics, and what it means for how FBA votes and for our push for lineage-specific reparations.
Topics: What you're getting tonight · Receipts: Louise Lucas · Receipts: Fort Bend County · Analysis · Community + The Receipts Test · Close
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Federal agents searched Rep. Ilhan Omar's home. Her relatives got subpoenas. The Wall Street Journal reports officials want to build a case to strip her citizenship. But as of October 15, 2026, she has not been charged, and no citizenship lawsuit has been identified. Omar denies wrongdoing.
Topics: Don't poke the bear · The receipts: what actually happened · The actual allegation: age, a father, and derivative citizenship · Why the bear line hits (and where it breaks) · Could citizenship really be challenged? The law, plain · The strongest case against overreach, and for enforcement
📰 Mentioned news: AP, search and DHS statement · Wall Street Journal, reported objective · CNN, judge limits and status
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Guests: It’s Culture, Atlanta Eviction Crisis
Metro Atlanta leads the nation in eviction filings: 142,047 cases in one year across five counties, about 1 filing for every 4 renter households. Is Atlanta's reality-TV and social-media culture pushing people to live above their means, or is that framing too simple?
Topics: The numbers: 24% filing rate vs. 7% nationally · The "Housewives effect" and the soft life · Personal responsibility without victim-blaming
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A headline said a Somali community blamed American culture for gang violence in Minnesota. We went to the tape. And we put the sheriff's own numbers on the screen. In this episode of It's Culture: what was actually said at the October 7 Eden Prairie press conference, what law enforcement says is happening, and why collective blame is a playbook Black America knows well.
Topics: The headline vs. the tape · What happened in Eden Prairie and Bloomington · The sheriff's numbers · What the tape actually says · Analysis: denial, demonization, and the playbook · Community: 5 questions to ask before you share
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Da'Vinchi's comments on Cam Newton's Funky Friday have been all over your timeline since Friday. Tonight we went to the full 79-minute interview to separate what's on the tape from what's only in the headlines, and to explain why this hit Foundational Black Americans the way it did.
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Rev. Mark Thompson told Joy Reid the FBA reparations argument was "manufactured" and "never put forward before 2019." Tonight we take every claim in the clip, one at a time, and ask: where's the receipt? Receipts over reputation. Keep it culture.
Topics: The 30-second contract + disclosure · Segment 1: The Receipt · What Ghana actually asked for · Segment 2: The Analysis · Segment 3: The Community · Live Q&A: three questions you'll get
📺 Mentioned TV series: Uniting the Diaspora
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Ghana’s president just appointed Dr. Ron Daniels to the Global Advisory Council on Reparatory Justice. His commission, NAARC, has put in writing that “lineage-based” reparations “create additional barriers.” Tonight: the announcement, the documents, and what a “unified voice” means for American descendants of chattel slavery.
Topics: The receipt: Ghana, Daniels, and the word “nativist” · What happened Sept. 29 (and who announced it) · The three receipts (2022, 2023, 2023) · Positions travel: the Council and the lineage claim · Who speaks for us? Four things to watch
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A Mississippi grand jury heard 43 witnesses, issued 132 subpoenas, and unanimously declined to charge anyone in the death of 18-year-old Nolan Wells. Al Sharpton says a no-bill isn't an answer. He's right. But "undetermined" isn't an answer either.
Topics: Act 1: The case as we actually know it · Act 2: Undetermined is not a blank check · Act 3: The grand jury record · Act 4: Al Sharpton and the advocacy question · Act 5: How narrative overrides evidence · Act 6: What real accountability looks like
📰 Mentioned news: NPR
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A 5K almost ran straight through the heart of Black LA — and it took FBA organizing to stop it in five days flat. In this episode I break down the full timeline, the receipts, and why this was never really about a running route. It's about who gets to decide what happens to FBA space — and what it actually takes to protect it when outside organizing shows up uninvited.
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Guest: Chris Lodgson
The receipts are in. We're breaking down where reparations actually stand state by state — not the headlines, the actual bills, the actual movement, and the actual stalls. Joining me this episode: Chris Lodgson and Tamara Johnson-Shealey, two of the sharpest voices tracking this fight on the ground, to lay out what's real progress and what's political theater.
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Brandon Tatum went after Michelle Obama's looks on camera — and the backlash was immediate. We're breaking down what he said, why it fits a pattern going back to 2019, and what it really means when a Black conservative commentator makes his platform by diminishing a Black woman in front of millions.
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Master P sat down with Forbes and told Black America to stop "harping on" slavery — said all you need is integrity and good business, and doors will open up. Then the backlash hit, and instead of walking it back, he reposted the exact same clip with the exact same line.
Topics: The Clip + Community Reaction · Segment 1: The Receipt · Segment
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