The Last Dope Intellectual

Unfortunately, LDI is coming to an end. We thank all our supporters over the past year who have given us love. In this episode, Dr. CBS lays out the origins of the show, why it's time to move on and what's coming next. Starting May 16th there will be a blog for The Last Dope Intellectual Blog at dr-cbs.com. For our patrons you have not been charged but we encourage you to support our producer Too Black's podcast, The Black Myths Podcast (https://www.patreon.com/creator-home), as well as Millennials are Killing Capitalism, Erica Caines, Dev Springer, and Danny Haiphong. Also, donate to Donate to Black Alliance for Peace, Black Agenda Report, Hood Communist, Community Movement Builders, and No Name Book Club. Again, we greatly appreciate the love you all have shown us and wish you all well moving forward!

In our last episode of season 2, co-hosts Dr. CBS and Dr. Layla Brown, start by shooting the shit with producer, Too Black, about bloopers from season 2. In her "Planting Thoughts" segment, Layla breaks down Alocasia Wentii (New Guinea Shield) also known as the hearty elephant ear - does well in bright indirect light, extensively grown in SE Asia. Next, the two co-hosts and Too Black, reflect on their favorite episode and segment from season 2 as well as offer some self criticism. For Part 2 of highlighting Radical Black Women, we introduce our Top 5 Dead or Alive: Radical African/Black Women Edition segment. Co-hosts Dr. CBS and Dr. Layla Brown are joined by two special guests from the Groundings podcast, Devyn Springer and Darian Alexander Williams, to discuss their top 5 radical Black/African women . In Risse’s Rants, Dr. CBS employs more people to watch and appreciate season 2. Tap in to this episode of LDI--and be sure to subscribe to the channel and consider becoming a Patreon! Ashley Farmer’s pieces: https://www.aaihs.org/the-power-of-dr... https://www.aaihs.org/heed-the-call-b... Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LDIpodcast Twitter: @ldipodcast Instagram: @ldipodcast

In episode nineteen of season two, co-hosts Dr. CBS and Dr. Layla Brown, start by shooting the shit with producer, Too Black, about their seminar with the Monthly Review going over Kwame Nkrumah's book Consciencism. In her "Planting Thoughts" segment, Layla breaks down the Euphorbia Trigona (African Milk Tree). Next, the two co-hosts and special guest Erica Caines, conduct an interview with Dr. Monique Bedasse, Associate Professor of History and African & African American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, about her book Jah Kingdom: Rastafarians, Tanzania, and Pan-Africanism in the age of Decolonization. Returning our segment from season 1, Left Disquisition, we read and analyze the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC) statement on Ukraine. In Risse’s Rants, Dr. CBS reminds everyone why it's okay to STFU if you don't know or understand a social issue or current event. Tap in to this episode of LDI--and be sure to subscribe to the channel and consider becoming a Patreon! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LDIpodcast Twitter: @ldipodcast Instagram: @ldipodcast

In episode eighteen of season two, co-hosts Dr. CBS and Dr. Layla Brown, starts by shooting the shit with producer, Too Black, about the true origins of International Women's Day. In her "Planting Thoughts" segment, Layla breaks down the Variegated Rubber Tree. We interview Dr. Stephanie Y. Evans, Professor of Black Women's Studies in the Institute for Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Georgia State University about Black women’s traditions of self-care, communal care, structural care, and social justice as models of sustainable model for human rights. For the She Gather Me segment Dr. Layla speaks with her mentor Dr. Baiyina Muhammad, associate professor of History at North Carolina Central University, about disability justice, raising children with disabilities her organization North Carolina Black Disabilities Network, and their upcoming conference. In Risse’s Rants, Dr. CBS discusses checking your eurocentrism is a must. Tap in to this episode of LDI--and be sure to subscribe to the channel and consider becoming a Patreon! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LDIpodcast Twitter: @ldipodcast Instagram: @ldipodcast

In episode seventeen of season two, co-hosts Dr. CBS and Dr. Layla Brown, starts by shooting the shit with producer, Too Black, about the concept of collaboration in Black radical work. In her "Planting Thoughts" segment, Layla breaks down the Echeveria Elegans. In this episode and the following, for our History of the Present of the Present segment, we highlight Black radical women. To discuss this segment we are joined by two special guests from the Groundings podcast, Devyn Springer and Darian Walker. In Risse’s Rants, Dr. CBS discusses checking your eurocentrism is a must. Tap in to this episode of LDI--and be sure to subscribe to the channel and consider becoming a Patreon!

In episode sixteen of season two, co-hosts Dr. CBS and Dr. Layla Brown, starts by shooting the shit with producer, Too Black, about if there is such a thing as ethical consumption. In her "Planting Thoughts" segment, Layla breaks down the cca Gigantea (or spineless Yucca). For our interview, Dr. CBS and Dr. Layla Brown, talk with Associate Professor at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa, Nyasha Mboti, where he heads the department of Communication Science. We discuss his 4 volume book titled Apartheid Studies: A Manifesto, published by Africa World Press. In Risse’s Rants, Dr. CBS discusses the continued sinophobia towards China in the New York Times and by America in general. Tap in to this episode of LDI--and be sure to subscribe to the channel and consider becoming a Patreon! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LDIpodcast Twitter: @ldipodcast Instagram: @ldipodcast

In episode thirteen of season two, co-hosts Dr. CBS and Dr. Layla Brown, starts by shooting the shit with producer, Too Black, about how a settler colony is a settler colony and how the US is not an exceptional colony. In her "Planting Thoughts" segment, Layla breaks down the Dracaena Fragrans - also known as the “corn plant” native to the tropical regions of Africa. For our interview, Dr. CBS, Dr. Layla Brown and Too Black, talk with Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Knox College, Yannick Giovanni Marshall about his essays, voting, settler colonialism, organizational formation, and Africana Studies. For the Class in Session segment, Dr. CBS and Dr. Layla Brown interview Jorge Banuelos, a first-year doctoral student in the Religious Studies department at Yale University in the Religion & Modernity subfield. In Risse’s Writing Reflections, Dr. CBS discusses genres of writing, what do we choose and why. Tap in to this episode of LDI--and be sure to subscribe to the channel and consider becoming a Patreon! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LDIpodcast Twitter: @ldipodcast Instagram: @ldipodcast  

In episode fourteen of season two, we dedicate this episode to the late journalist Glen Ford and the publication of his book, The Black Agenda. In Shoot the Shit we explore Ford's truth-telling journalism and the importance of holding the principled line. In our segment, History of the Present, we analyze and discuss specific essays from the text. Tap in to this episode of LDI--and be sure to subscribe to the channel and consider becoming a Patreon! Purchase book https://www.orbooks.com/catalog/the-b... Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LDIpodcast Twitter: @ldipodcast Instagram: @ldipodcast

In episode thirteen of season two, co-hosts Dr. CBS and Dr. Layla Brown, start by shooting the shit with producer, Too Black, about "In-the-Room Privilege" -- when members of marginalized groups falsely believe they represent their group simply by being in the room where decisions are made. In her "Planting Thoughts" segment, Layla breaks down the Diffenbachia seguine - native to the tropical Americas (from Mexico - to Brazil). For our interview, co-hosts Dr. CBS and Dr. Layla Brown, talk with Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò about his new book, Reconsidering Reparations (January 2022) and forthcoming book Elite Capture (May 2022). In Risse’s Rants, Dr. CBS goes in about major limitations in supporting choosing a Black women for the Supreme Court. Tap in to this episode of LDI--and be sure to subscribe to the channel and consider becoming a Patreon! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LDIpodcast Twitter: @ldipodcast Instagram: @ldipodcast

In episode twelve of season two, co-hosts Dr. CBS and Dr. Layla Brown, start by shooting the shit with producer, Too Black, about the devastation of sanctions in relation to Guinea, Mali and the global south. In her "Planting Thoughts" segment, Layla breaks down the peperomia Polybotrya “raindrop”; Southern America, Columbia, and Peru which can tolerate low light, but prefers bright, indirect light. For our interview, co-hosts Dr. CBS and Dr. Layla Brown, talk with lawyer, activist, and author Derecka Purnell about her new book, Becoming an Abolitionist. In Risse’s Rants, Dr. CBS goes in about the ineptitude of the 5g rollout in the US and the decline of empire. Tap in to this episode of LDI--and be sure to subscribe to the channel and consider becoming a Patreon! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LDIpodcast Twitter: @ldipodcast Instagram: @ldipodcast

We're back from mid-season break! We're kicking it off with an MLK episode. In episode 11 of season two, co-hosts Dr. CBS and Dr. Layla Brown, start by shooting the shit with producer, Too Black, about Holi-deification -- the worshiping effects of holidays in relation to icons like Dr. Martin Luther King and beyond. In her "Planting Thoughts" segment, Layla breaks down the Dracena Compacta: native to central and southeast Africa, slow-growing, but it is a tree and can grow up to 6 feet tall; it will branch at any branch where its pruned; slightly poisonous. In our History of the Present segment, we anchor our conversation in an MLK text, Why We Can’t Wait. Next, for the She Gather Me segments, Dr. Layla examines a Corretta Scott King speech “Ten commandments in Vietnam,” delivered 23 days after Dr. King's assassination. Finally, in Risse’s Rants, Dr. CBS tells everyone to stop calling everything the New Jim Crow. Tap in to this episode of LDI--and be sure to subscribe to the channel and consider becoming a Patreon! 0:00:25 - Shoot the Shit 0:24:44 - Planting Thoughts 0:25:55 - History of the Present 1:52:47 - She Gather Me 2:02:06 - Risse's Rants 2:04:07 - Closing Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LDIpodcast Twitter: @ldipodcast Instagram: @ldipodcast

Another very special episode for our mid-season break. This time featuring a discussion from season 1 when our co-host Layla Brown joined LDI for the first time to discuss her piece "The Pandemic of Racial Capitalism: Another World is Possible." Also, we feature is Dr. Brown's 'She Gather Me Segment.' Tap in! Patreon https://www.patreon.com/LDIpodcast https://www.researchgate.net/publication/346563059_The_Pandemic_of_Racial_Capitalism_Another_World_is_Possible

Even during our mid-season winter break we’re bringing the heat for a very special episode of the the Last Dope Intellectual with Dr. Quito Swan speaking about the Black Pacific! Support our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/LDIpodcast Bio: Quito Swan is Professor of African American and African Diaspora at Indiana University Bloomington. An award-winning historian of Black internationalism, Black Power, and the Black Pacific, he is a scholar of race, public policy, and the African Diaspora. He is the author of three major monographs, Black Power in Bermuda: The Struggle for Decolonization (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), Pauulu's Diaspora: Black Internationalism and Environmental Justice (University Press of Florida, 2020), and the forthcoming Pasifika Black: Oceania, Anticolonialism, and the African World (New York University Press, 2022). Pauulu's Diaspora was awarded the African American Intellectual History Association's (AAIHS) 2021 Pauli Murray Book Prize and a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) 2021 Fellowship Book Award Prize. Swan's next book project Born As A Sufferah: The Insurgent Soundscapes of Dancehall Music, which explores Black internationalism at the turn of the twenty first century through Reggae, Dancehall and Sound System cultures.

In episode ten of season two, co-hosts Dr. CBS and Dr. Layla Brown, start by shooting the shit with producer, Too Black, about the importance of fostering relationships beyond social media. In her "Planting Thoughts" segment, Layla breaks down the Satin Pothos plant and just giving the right amount of attention. In Risse’s Rants, Dr. CBS demonstrates the "decency" of the Biden Administration. Next, for the interview segment, Dr. CBS and Layla speak with writer and journalist Amandla Thomas-Johnson on his new book Becoming Kwame Ture. Returning to a segment from last season, Top 5 Dead or Alive, Dr. CBS discuss the top five moments of drafting her manuscript, Black Scare, Red Scare. Tap in to this episode of LDI--and be sure to subscribe to the channel and consider becoming a Patreon! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LDIpodcast Twitter: @ldipodcast Instagram: @ldipodcast

In episode nine of season two, co-hosts Dr. CBS and Dr. Layla Brown, start by shooting the shit with producer, Too Black, about how gossip can be misappropriated as our values and politics. In her "Planting Thoughts" segment, Layla breaks down the Hoya Kerrii plant. Next, for the interview segment, Dr. CBS and Layla speak with urbanist, historian, and cultural critic Dr. Davarian L. Baldwin on his new book In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities are Plundering Our Cities. Returning to a segment from last season, History of the Present, Dr. CBS, Dr. Layla, and Too Black discuss the significance of Amílcar Cabral's theory of class suicide. In Risse’s Rants, Dr. CBS explains why 'classism' is not a thing. Tap in to this episode of LDI--and be sure to subscribe to the channel and consider becoming a Patreon! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LDIpodcast Twitter: @ldipodcast Instagram: @ldipodcast

In episode eight of season two, co-hosts Dr. CBS and Dr. Layla Brown, start by shooting the shit with producer, Too Black, about what constitutes as an intellectual and how the academia does not hold a monopoly on intellectualism. In her "Planting Thoughts" segment, Layla breaks down the Calathea Zebrina (Zebra Plant). Next, for the She Gather Me segment, Dr. CBS interviews Dr. Iyelli Ichile on the relevance of African spirituality to the now, Kemetic Yoga, and how the material is spiritual as well. For our interview, Dr. CBS and Dr. Layla interview assistant professor in Ohio State’s Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Dr. Treva Lindsey about her upcoming book America Goddman. In Risse’s Rants, Dr. CBS breaks down how solidarity has be more than a shakedown. Tap in to this episode of LDI--and be sure to subscribe to the channel and consider becoming a Patreon! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LDIpodcast Twitter: @ldipodcast Instagram: @ldipodcast Summit for Socialist Democracy Tickets https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-summit-for-socialist-democracy-tickets-213591837937

In episode seven of season two, co-hosts Dr. CBS and Dr. Layla Brown, start by shooting the shit with producer, Too Black, about the meaning (if there is one) of wokeism vs wokeness and the contradictions and misappropriations of what is seemingly understood as woke. In her "Planting Thoughts" segment, Layla breaks down the Tradescantia plant. Next, the two co-hosts, conduct an interview with Briahna Gray Joy, the former National Press Secretary for the Bernie Sanders 2020 campaign and host of the Bad Faith Podcast. They discuss political ideology as Black women, dating on the left, and the political strategy of calling out racism. In Risse’s Rants, Dr. CBS destroys the Omicron variant travel ban hypocrisy. Tap in to this episode of LDI--and be sure to subscribe to the channel and consider becoming a Patreon! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LDIpodcast Twitter: @ldipodcast Instagram: @ldipodcast    

In episode two of season two, co-hosts Dr. CBS and Dr. Layla Brown, start by shooting the shit with producer, Too Black, about the trials of Kyle Rittenhouse and Ahmaud Arbery's killers as well as updates from. In her "Planting Thoughts" segment, Layla breaks down the Pilea peperomioides plant. Next, the two co-hosts, conduct an interview with Bob Brown, an organizer, lecturer, researcher and writer. They discuss his new book "We Demand the Full Disclosure and Digitization of All Slavery Era Records" in concert with the popular reparations narrative, the history of slavery documentation, and the need for full digitization of the archives. Returning to a segment from season 1, ”The Dr's In,” Dr. CBS and Layla discuss how the their Incite Seminar from the previous week went and answer questions from LDI faithful relating to their particular affiliation with Revolutionary Pan-Africanism. Tap in to this episode of LDI--and be sure to subscribe to the channel and consider becoming a Patreon! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LDIpodcast Twitter: @ldipodcast Instagram: @ldipodcast

In episode two of season two, co-hosts Dr. CBS and Dr. Layla Brown, start by shooting the shit with producer, Too Black, about the backlash against the notion that Black men experience gendered violence. In her "Planting Thoughts" segment, Layla breaks down the Zamioculcas zamiifolia (ZZ) - native to eastern/southern Africa, poisonous for pets, easy to care for, tuber root systems, can be propagated through stem or leaf cuttings. Next, Dr. Layla Brown and Too Black, conduct the "Interview in Session" segment with Fravia V Marquez Silva, a career diplomat at the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry, and Geo Maher, radical political theorist and Visiting Associate Professor at Vassar College, about the detainment of Alex Saab, the election process in Venezuela from both the left and the right, and the threat of US sanctions on left governments in Latin America. In "Live From the Streets," Dr. Layla Brown and Too Black then speak about the state of the Nicaraguan election with Banbose Shango, a member of the Political Secretariat of the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC), who was an election observer, to the December 2020 Venezuelan National Assembly Elections, and a member of the election accompaniment delegation to the Nov 6, 2021 Nicaragua election. In ”What We On” Dr. CBS and Layla discuss their process behind their Incite Seminar, Revolutionary Pan-Africanism Against Racial Capitalism: Lessons for Our Present Moment. Tap in to this episode of LDI--and be sure to subscribe to the channel and consider becoming a Patreon! Next week's Reading: We Demand the Full Disclosure and Digitization of All Slavery Era Records https://inciteseminars.com/revolutionary-pan-africanism/?mc_cid=3646c0a4a0&mc_eid=8dbc77a3bc Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LDIpodcast Twitter: @ldipodcast Instagram: @ldipodcast  

In episode four of season two, co-hosts Dr. CBS and Dr. Layla Brown, start by shooting the shit with producer, Too Black, about what makes something a social media page vs platform. In her "Planting Thoughts" segment, Layla breaks down the Monstera Deliciosa (Swiss Cheese plant) and how it relates to making sure we all are taken care of. and how as life changes sometimes we need to not necessarily let go of things but pay more attention. Next, the two co-hosts conduct the "Class in Session" segment with Ph.D. students, Ashley Torres Carrasquillo and Chloe D. Ricks, about the importance of mentorship in graduate school, trusting in your scholarship, and linking scholarship to community work. In "Live From the Streets," the co-hosts then speak about student demands at Atlanta University Center with Co-founder of the ATLUjimacollective, Ellis Sawyer, Black Alliance for Peace, Tunde Osazua, and Assistant Professor of International Political Economy at Clark Atlanta University, Dr. Tamanisha John. "In these Tweets" is back by popular demand. We explore the neoliberalization of everything, cooking, struggling for the people, and the myth of the "First Black." Tap in to this episode of LDI--and be sure to subscribe to the channel and consider becoming a Patreon! Revolutionary Pan-Africanism Against Racial Capitalism: Lessons for Our Present Moment https://inciteseminars.com/revolutionary-pan-africanism/?mc_cid=3646c0a4a0&mc_eid=8dbc77a3bc Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LDIpodcast Twitter: @ldipodcast Instagram: @ldipodcast