Black Girl Nerds

In this week's episode of the Black Girl Nerds podcast, we welcome actor Rosalind Eleazar, star of the A24 film Misty Green. Years after her Hollywood breakthrough, a talented actress whose career has stalled fights for her second act. Misty Green is now streaming on Netflix. Host: Jamie Music by: Sammus Edited by: Jamie Broadnax Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In this week's episode of the Black Girl Nerds podcast, we welcome actor J Nycole Ralph of the film 'I Play Rocky'. J Nycole is an actor, producer, and storyteller drawn to the people and stories history too often overlooks. She appears in Peter Farrelly’s I Play Rocky, premiering at TIFF, as Diana Lewis, the journalist who appeared as herself in the original Rocky. A conversation with director Peter Farrelly and writer Peter Gamble about honoring Lewis by name became a small but meaningful part of the experience: the trailblazing journalist now appears by name on the film’s official cast list. J Nycole was most recently seen in The Book of Mormon on Broadway and toured nationally in West Side Story. Her television credits include Black Rabbit and That Damn Michael Che. She wrote, produced, and starred in the award-winning digital comedy series Working Out the Kinks and executive produced Lola, the first African-American female boxing film. Her stage work has also earned her a BroadwayWorld Award for Best Supporting Actress. Host: Jamie Music by: Sammus Edited by: Jamie Broadnax Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In this week's episode of the Black Girl Nerds podcast, we welcome back Orlando Jones to talk about his role as Papa Legba in American Horror Story: 13. In the episode, "The Prodigal Son", Orlando Jones plays Papa Legba.  Under threat, the witches learn of an ancient evil that has shaped history's darkest hours. Host: Jamie Music by: Sammus Edited by: Jamie Broadnax Podcast image credit: Eric Liebowitz/FX Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In this week's episode of the Black Girl Nerds podcast, we welcome filmmakers David Greaves and Liani Greaves of the film documentary Once Upon a Time in Harlem. A decade after his death, genre-defying filmmaker William Greaves has one last trick up his sleeve with what he considered the most important event he captured on film: a 1972 party he engineered with the living luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance. For four hours, this extraordinary group - many of whom had not seen each other in fifty years - reminisced, critiqued, argued, laughed and drank while wrestling with their place in a rapidly shifting cultural landscape. Shot on 16mm film, newly restored and now directed by Greaves' son David, this landmark film is at once a self-exploration and an inquiry into the heart of the critical mass of energy called the Harlem Renaissance. William Greaves' intent was not only to document these artists and intellectuals as they spoke about their lives and work but also to plumb the meaning of the extraordinary creative period in which they lived to help us better understand how culture has been passed on from one generation to another and the role that the artist plays in keeping it alive. Host: Jamie Music by: Sammus Edited by: Jamie Broadnax Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In this week's episode of the Black Girl Nerds podcast, we break down our experience at the 2026 Toronto International Film Festival and discuss the films we love and didn't love this year. We also discuss the dynamic of how the festival has changed, episodic TV shows that premiered and some inside baseball on the experience navigating the fest as a journalist. Hosts: Jamie and Chalice Music by: Sammus Edited by: Jamie Broadnax Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.