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Morning, dear Scorekeepers! It's time for another pit stop on our journey through season 11 of RuPaul's Drag Race. This week, it's episode 7: "From Farm to Catwalk," a design challenge where the queens must take "all-natural" materials like straw, feathers, tree bark, and eggs(?) and turn them into haute couture. The results? Well, as the legendary Alyssa Edwards says, "The fantasy is... interesting!" So come for the terrible fashions and Ru's werkroom mind games, but stay for Alyssa being an absolute delight in an all-to-brief cameo. Let's do it to it, y'all!Hosts: Lee Bynum, Rocky Jones, Paige ReynoldsProducer: Rocky Jones--LinksWatch RDPR along with us: Paramount+ --Hey hey, THE SCORE is now on social! Follow us @thescorepod on Instagram and Bluesky! --New episodes of THE SCORE drop every other Tuesday. If you like what you hear, please support us and SUBSCRIBE to the show on your favorite podcast app and be sure to SHARE our show with your friends. Also, leaving a 5-star REVIEW on Apple Podcasts is a great way to help people find our show. Email your questions or comments to thescorepodcast2.0@gmail.com.Ways to Listen: Apple | Spotify | YouTubeFollow Your Hosts on Insta! Lee | Paige | Rocky

Greetings, dear Scorekeepers! And congrats to the Rapture Class of 2025! "It's a Different World" couldn't be more apt for today's political climate as well as today's episode. As is now customary, we start off with a little rant about this week's Republican shenanigans, but this time it's tempered with a chat about some of the art-making we've been doing in our spare time to stay sane. And then, for years now, we've been wanting to talk about one of our favorite things, but haven't had the chance. Until now! Hopefully, you love Black 90s sitcoms as much as we do. From A Different World to Martin to Living Single to In Living Color and more, these shows had a profound affect on us as kids and really helped shaped how we saw ourselves and the world around us. Join us as we take a stroll down memory lane and chat about our favorite shows, characters and moments and why they just don't make 'em like they used to (0:27:25). Plus, of course, a super-sized PBJ, because God knows we could all use it (1:15:33). Let's do it to it, y'all!Hosts: Lee Bynum, Rocky Jones, Paige ReynoldsProducer: Rocky Jones--Hey hey, THE SCORE is now on social! Follow us @thescorepod on Instagram here and Bluesky here! --New episodes of THE SCORE drop every other Tuesday. If you like what you hear, please support us and SUBSCRIBE to the show on your favorite podcast app and be sure to SHARE our show with your friends. Also, leaving a 5-star REVIEW on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you're listening is a great way to help people find our show. Email your questions or comments to thescorepodcast2.0@gmail.com.Ways to Listen: Apple | Spotify | YouTubeFollow Your Hosts on Insta! Lee | Paige | Rocky

Hey there, Scorekeepers! On our off weeks for the next few months, we're revisiting ART CLASS, the 12-episode series all about arts and arts education that we released last year. We hope you enjoy taking this stroll down memory lane with us!--This episode was originally released on March 12, 2024.Howdy, Classmates! It's time for another episode of your favorite podcast all about decolonizing the arts and arts education, Lincoln Center's ART CLASS! This week, we're talking all about Black folks' contributions to folk and country music, which we're told is very much in the zeitgeist thanks to the queen of everything, Mrs. Beyoncé Giselle Knowles Carter. We'll be joined for a chat by musician, scholar, and all around lovely person, Jake Blount, who takes us through his journey to the heart of Black folk music both on and offstage (0:14:40). Later, we're joined by author and friend of the show, Kao Kalia Yang (0:51:48), for another inspirational Career Day for all you up-and-coming writers. And of course, the Morning Announcements with Emile (0:48:05) and a moment of Pure Black Joy (0:58:09). (Spoiler alert: somebody wrote about us in a book!) So take your seats, y'all, because class is in session!Hosts: Lee Bynum, Rocky Jones, Paige Reynolds (Mabolé Inawale)Guests: Jake Blount, Kao Kalia YangContributor: Emilia MettenbrinkProducer: Rocky Jones--Extra CreditTo read more about country and folk music’s Black roots (through a queer and feminist theory framework), check out Francesca T. Royster’s Black Country Music: Listening for Revolutions.--LinksJake Blount (Website) (Insta)Kao Kalia Yang (Website)Raising the Curtain: Technology Success Stories from Performing Arts Leaders and Arts (a...

Happy Tuesday, Scorekeepers! Welcome to another episode of THE SCORE! This week, we take another step on our journey through Season 11 of RuPaul's Drag Race and this week's stop is Episode 6: The Draglympics (0:38:52). And if the Trump episode was the worst episode we've ever seen, this one is definitely the most confounding. Now we aren't left speechless very often, but this one left us with more questions than answers. Namely, why? Also, how dare you? But before we get to all that, what started as a little RFK, Jr. shade turned into the rant of all rants (0:04:00). So if you're also frustrated about having to live through all these absurd and unprecedented events, come have a seat and exorcise some demons with us. Why scream into a pillow when you've got a podcast mic, right? All that, plus an exciting little Pure Black Joy (1:23:27) to set you straight before you head back out there. Let's do it to it, y'all! Hosts: Lee Bynum, Rocky Jones, Paige ReynoldsProducer: Rocky Jones--LinksWatch RDPR along with us: Paramount+ Carnival Catwalk (Peacock)Rachel Klinger Cain (TikTok)--Hey hey, THE SCORE is now on social! Follow us @thescorepod on Instagram and Bluesky! --New episodes of THE SCORE drop every other Tuesday. If you like what you hear, please support us and SUBSCRIBE to the show on your favorite podcast app and be sure to SHARE our show with your friends. Also, leaving a 5-star REVIEW on Apple Podcasts is a great way to help people find our show. Email your questions or comments to thescorepodcast2.0@gmail.com.Ways to Listen: Apple | Spotify | YouTubeFollow Your Hosts on Insta! Lee | Paige | Rocky

Hey there, Scorekeepers! On our off weeks for the next few months, we're revisiting ART CLASS, the 12-episode series all about arts and arts education that we released last year. We hope you enjoy taking this stroll down memory lane with us!This episode was originally released on February 27, 2024.--Good morrow, dear Classmates! For today's episode of ART CLASS, we're thinking about how the art of the future intersects with the art of the present. Have you ever wondered what art will look like in the age of artificial intelligence? Well, so have we, and so has this week's guest: the brilliant artist and scholar, Professor Stephanie Dinkins (0:18:10). Join us for an absolutely fascinating conversation all about the dangers and the limitless possibilities of an AI-generated world as well as insight into her conversations with the world's first Black female robot, BINA48. Later, we're joined for Career Day with playwright C. Quintana (0:57:23). Plus, Morning Announcements with Emile (0:54:28) and a little Pure Black Joy (1:09:08) to get you through to the end of week. Take your seats, because class is in session, y'all!Hosts: Lee Bynum, Rocky Jones, Paige Reynolds (Mabolé Inawale)Guests: Stephanie Dinkins, C. QuintanaContributor: Emilia MettenbrinkProducer: Rocky Jones--LinksStephanie Dinkins (Website) (Insta) (Insta)C. Quintana (Website)AiArtists (Website)--Hey hey, THE SCORE is now on social! Follow us @thescorepod on Instagram here and Bluesky here! --New episodes of THE SCORE drop every other Tuesday. If you like what you hear, please support us and SUBSCRIBE to the show on your favorite podcast app and be sure to SHARE our show with your friends. Also, leaving a 5-star REVIEW on Apple Podcasts is a great way to help people find our show. Email your questions or comments to thescorepodcast2.0@gmail.com.Ways to Listen: Apple | Spotify | YouTubeFollow Your Hosts on Insta! a...

What it do, Scorekeepers?! Have we got a guest for you today! At long last, we are joined once again by our dear friend, chef and Executive Director of The Black Feminist Project, Tanya Denise Fields! You may recognize Tanya (aka Mama Tanya) from her numerous appearances on The Food Network, but did you also know that she's an activist, philanthropist, philosopher, community builder and all-around badass? It's true! This week, she's here to chat with us about Cardamom & Thyme, BFP's new social justice cafe in the South Bronx and how she's fighting injustice and white supremacy with love, care, and of course, food. All that, plus a little chat about the incomparable Law Roach and the best parties we've ever been to. Let's do it to it, y'all! Hosts: Lee Bynum, Rocky Jones, Paige ReynoldsGuest: Tanya Denise FieldsProducer: Rocky Jones--Links:Black Feminist Project (Website) (Donate)Tanya Denise Fields (Bio) (Instagram)Cardamom & Thyme (Website) (Video)-- Hey hey, THE SCORE is now on social! Follow us @thescorepod on Instagram here and Bluesky here! --New episodes of THE SCORE drop every other Tuesday. If you like what you hear, please support us and SUBSCRIBE to the show on your favorite podcast app and be sure to SHARE our show with your friends. Also, leaving a 5-star REVIEW on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you're listening is a great way to help people find our show. Email your questions or comments to thescorepodcast2.0@gmail.com.Ways to Listen: Apple | Spotify | YouTubeFollow Your Hosts on Insta! Lee | Paige | Rocky

Hey there, Scorekeepers! On our off weeks for the next few months, we're revisiting ART CLASS, the 12-episode series all about arts and arts education that we released last year. We hope you enjoy taking this stroll down memory lane with us!--This episode was originally released on February 13, 2024.Happy Black History Month, Classmates! This week's ART CLASS is all about healing and self-care. As Black folks and Black artists especially, it's so easy to over-extend ourselves during the month of February, so this week we devote the first part of the episode to delving into our self-care routines. How does one establish boundaries in a world that doesn't want you to have any? Where does self-care intersect with community care? Then, we're joined by an exceptional guest! Last October, we recorded a live show at Lincoln Center's David Geffen Hall, where we were joined by the amazing Jonathan McCrory, Artistic Director of the National Black Theatre, which produced the recent Broadway hit Purlie Victorious starring Leslie Odom, Jr. and Kara Young. We had a powerful conversation all about this incredible piece of theater, its relevance in these times, and what he does to take care of himself (0:26:36). Later, it's time for another installment of Career Day with choreographer, Jennifer Lisette Lopez (0:53:51). Plus, the Morning Announcements with Emile (0:50:55) and a little Pure Black Joy (1:02:02) to get you through the week. Please take your seats, because class is back in session!--Hosts: Lee Bynum (Insta), Rocky Jones (Insta), Paige Reynolds (Insta)Guests: Jonathan McCrory, Jennifer Lisette LopezContributor: Emilia MettenbrinkProducer: Rocky Jones--LinksJonathan McCrory (Website) (Insta)National Black Theatre (Website)Jennifer Lisette Lopez (Website)--Hey hey, THE SCORE is now on social! Follow us @thescorepod on Instagram here and Bluesky here! --New episodes of THE SCORE drop every other Tuesday. If you like what you hear, please support us and SUBSCRIBE to the show on your favorite podcast app and be sure to SHARE our show with your friends. Also, leaving a 5-star REVIEW on Apple Podcasts is a great way to help people find our show. Email your questions or comments to thescorepodcast2.0@gmail.com.Ways to Listen:

Hi Scorekeepers! Have we got a spicy one for you today! We're back to our coverage of RuPaul's Drag Race and this time we're diving into Season 11, Episode 5: The Monster Ball. Join us as we dissect all 33 looks from this (underwhelming) supersized runway. Plus, we finally break down our feelings about this last season of All-Stars and dare to ask the question: Gen Z, what is up with your shoe game? All that, plus a quick Pure Black Joy to get you through the week! Let's do it to it, y'all!Hosts: Lee Bynum, Rocky Jones, Paige ReynoldsProducer: Rocky Jones--LinksWatch RDPR along with us: Paramount+ --Hey hey, THE SCORE is now on social! Follow us @thescorepod on Instagram and Bluesky! --New episodes of THE SCORE drop every other Tuesday. If you like what you hear, please support us and SUBSCRIBE to the show on your favorite podcast app and be sure to SHARE our show with your friends. Also, leaving a 5-star REVIEW on Apple Podcasts is a great way to help people find our show. Email your questions or comments to thescorepodcast2.0@gmail.com.Ways to Listen: Apple | Spotify | YouTubeFollow Your Hosts on Insta! Lee | Paige | Rocky

Hey, Scorekeepers! On our off weeks for the next few months, we're revisiting ART CLASS, the 12-episode series all about arts and arts education that we released last year. We hope you enjoy this stroll down memory lane!--This episode was originally released on January 30, 2024.Welcome back, Classmates! And thank you so much for joining us for episode 2 of Lincoln Center's ART CLASS! This week is all about preserving the legacy of Black art and culture, specifically Black music. COVID-19 and the murder of George Floyd in 2020 brought about a racial reckoning here in the US, the likes of which hadn't been seen in decades. In 2024, however, with the conservative backlash against progressive ideals and initiatives like Critical Race Theory and DEI gaining momentum in many places, it seems the pendulum has swung hard back in the other direction. This week, we talk with two scholars and artists working tirelessly to keep Black stories, Black culture, and Black art at the forefront of the national imagination. First, we chat with Dr. Michael C. Mason, PhD the first chair of the new Africana Studies Department at the Berklee College of Music, all about the creation of this exciting new program at one of the most prestigious music schools in the country (0:26:37). And later, Paige sits down with Christopher Fuller, the creator of the Black Music Project, for the first installment of their series, Kinfolk (0:57:49). They talk all about how this invaluable repository of Black history and art came to be and make the case that the story of Black music is the story of American music. All that plus, the Morning Announcements with Emile (0:54:52) and a bit of Pure Black Joy (1:32:06) to get you through the rest of the week. Class is in session, y'all!--Hosts: Lee Bynum, Rocky Jones, Paige ReynoldsGuests: Christopher Fuller, Dr. Michael C. MasonContributor: Emilia MettenbrinkProducer: Rocky Jones--LinksAfricana Studies at Berklee College of Music (Website) (Insta)Black Music Project (Website)--Reading ListIf you're interested in learning more about the topics discussed today, here are some resources we recommend:Collins, Patricia Hill. Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory. Durham: Duke UP, 2019.Crenshaw, Kimberlé. On Intersectionality: Essential Writings. The New Press: New York, 2017.Katznelson, Ira. When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-century America. W. W. Norton & Company: New York, 2005.Muhammad, Khalil Gibran. The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America. Harvard UP: Cambridge, 2010.--Hey hey, THE SCORE is now on social! Follow us @thescorepod on Instagram here and Bluesky here! --New episodes of THE SCORE drop every other Tuesday. If you like what you hear, please support us and...

Happy Tuesday, Scorekeepers! It's time for another episode of your favorite podcast, THE SCORE! This week, we examine the strange turn to the right taken by several Black American celebrities and institutions of late. From Laverne Cox coyly revealing her MAGA ex-boyfriend to the backlash to this year's Essence Festival, it seems like there are some influential Black people who are using their platforms to (both wittingly and unwittingly) parrot conservative talking points, prop up the broken status quo, and/or create division between different members of the African diaspora. And it seems rather sinister and frustrating and unnecessary! So let's talk about it. But don't fret, because after that we have a nice, long Pure Black Joy to get us back to homeostasis. Let's do it to it, y'all!Hosts: Lee Bynum, Rocky Jones, Paige ReynoldsProducer: Rocky Jones--Hey hey, THE SCORE is now on social! Follow us @thescorepod on Instagram here and Bluesky here! --New episodes of THE SCORE drop every other Tuesday. If you like what you hear, please support us and SUBSCRIBE to the show on your favorite podcast app and be sure to SHARE our show with your friends. Also, leaving a 5-star REVIEW on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you're listening is a great way to help people find our show. Email your questions or comments to thescorepodcast2.0@gmail.com.Ways to Listen: Apple | Spotify | YouTubeFollow Your Hosts on Insta! Lee | Paige | Rocky

Originally aired January 16, 2024.What's up, Classmates?! Class is officially in session! Welcome to the first episode of ART CLASS, a provocative, thoughtful and often humorous podcast all about art and artists creating at the intersection of beauty and innovation. This week, hosts Lee Bynum, Paige Reynolds, and Rocky Jones are joined by author, activist, and multi-disciplinary artist Junauda Petrus, whose novel The Stars and the Blackness Between Them, has appeared on multiple banned books lists in the past few years. We talk art and censorship, other influential, inspirational artists who have also showed up on banned book lists, and how Junauda's West Indian ancestry influences her life and work. Later, we're joined for "Career Day" by Nathan Horowitz, who gives us behind-the-scenes peek at a day in the life of a Hollywood stunt performer. Plus, contributor Emilia Mettenbrink brings us the "Morning Announcements," a list of live and virtual arts offerings that we think you might want to check out. And, as always, we end with a moment of PBJ aka Pure Black Joy, a weekly little snack for your soul that highlights the Black people, culture, and art that are making us happy this week. Let's do it to it, y'all.Hosts: Lee Bynum, Rocky Jones, Paige ReynoldsGuests: Junauda Petrus, Nathan HorowitzContributor: Emilia MettenbrinkProducer: Rocky Jones--LinksJunauda Petrus (Website) (Instagram)The Black Joy Project by Kleaver Cruz (HarperCollins)Legacy of Orisha Series by Tomi Adeyemi (MacMillan)--Hey hey, THE SCORE is now on social! Follow us @thescorepod on Instagram here and Bluesky here! --New episodes of THE SCORE drop every other Tuesday. If you like what you hear, please support us and SUBSCRIBE to the show on your favorite podcast app and be sure to SHARE our show with your friends. Also, leaving a 5-star REVIEW on Apple Podcasts is a great way to help people find our show. Email your questions or comments to thescorepodcast2.0@gmail.com.Ways to Listen: Apple | Spotify | YouTubeFollow Your Hosts on Insta! Lee | Paige | Rocky

Good day, Scorekeepers! It's time for another step on our journey through Season 11 of RuPaul's Drag Race. This week, we're covering episode 4, and we must have all memory-holed this one, because we had all completely forgot it existed and, quite frankly, it just might be the worst episode of Drag Race ever. Of course, we are talking about the dreaded "Trump: The Rusical." So come for the weak satirization of modern history's greatest existential threat to the entire planet and stay for the absolutely hideous all-orange runway! 'Cause If you like it when we throw shade for an entire hour, then this is the episode for you. Plus, a little bit of Pure Black as always to help the medicine go down. Let's do it to it, y'all!Hosts: Lee Bynum, Rocky Jones, Paige ReynoldsProducer: Rocky Jones--LinksWatch RDPR along with us: Paramount+ --Hey hey, THE SCORE is now on social! Follow us @thescorepod on Instagram here and Bluesky here! --New episodes of THE SCORE drop every other Tuesday. If you like what you hear, please support us and SUBSCRIBE to the show on your favorite podcast app and be sure to SHARE our show with your friends. Also, leaving a 5-star REVIEW on Apple Podcasts is a great way to help people find our show. Email your questions or comments to thescorepodcast2.0@gmail.com.Ways to Listen: Apple | Spotify | YouTubeFollow Your Hosts on Insta! Lee | Paige | Rocky

Good tidings, dear Scorekeepers! Have we got a show for you today! We've finally all seen Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan's latest cinematic masterpiece, Sinners, and we can't wait to talk about it. From the music to the history to the messages the movie sends, we loved it all - a few small critiques notwithstanding, of course. (Spoilers abound!) But before that we have a little chat about reality TV and what we're currently watching. This time around we're covering Love Island, RuPaul's Drag Race: All-Stars, and so much more! Plus, we'd never leave you without a little PBJ to get you through the rest of the week. Let's do it to it! Hosts: Lee Bynum, Rocky Jones, Paige ReynoldsProducer: Rocky Jones--Hey hey, THE SCORE is now on social! Follow us @thescorepod on Instagram here and Bluesky here! --New episodes of THE SCORE drop every other Tuesday. If you like what you hear, please support us and SUBSCRIBE to the show on your favorite podcast app and be sure to SHARE our show with your friends. Also, leaving a 5-star REVIEW on Apple Podcasts is a great way to help people find our show. Email your questions or comments to thescorepodcast2.0@gmail.com.Ways to Listen: Apple | Spotify | YouTubeFollow Your Hosts on Insta! Lee | Paige | Rocky

Greetings and salutations, dear Scorekeepers! It's time for another installment of our journey through season 11 of RuPaul's Drag Race! After a quick chitchat about some hot topics, including our wrap-up of last week's Tony Awards, we dive into episode 3, "Diva Worship". This week the queens are tasked with creating "she-vangelical" talk shows devoted to the pop diva of their choice, and let's just say... one team does fine and the other is a train wreck the likes we haven't seen before or since. All that, plus a fringe-tastic runway and questionable lip sync, make for a juicy, messy, hilarious discussion! Plus, we could never leave you without a little PBJ and a little advice for all the courageous protesters out there. Keep fighting the good fight, y'all! Let's do it to it!Hosts: Lee Bynum, Rocky Jones, Paige ReynoldsProducer: Rocky Jones--LinksWatch RDPR along with us: Paramount+ --Hey hey, THE SCORE is now on social! Follow us @thescorepod on Instagram here and Bluesky here! --New episodes of THE SCORE drop every other Tuesday. If you like what you hear, please support us and SUBSCRIBE to the show on your favorite podcast app and be sure to SHARE our show with your friends. Also, leaving a 5-star REVIEW on Apple Podcasts is a great way to help people find our show. Email your questions or comments to thescorepodcast2.0@gmail.com.Ways to Listen: Apple | Spotify | YouTubeFollow Your Hosts on Insta! Lee | Paige | Rocky

Greetings, dear Scorekeepers! This week, it's another one of those situations where we were hoping to have a guest join us, but sadly it didn't work out. So we're kind of winging it. But these unexpected conversations always turn out to be some of our favorites and this one is no exception! Basically, this week's show is about assholes and America's obsession with them. From Donald Trump to the Black conservatives who grift in his name to Diddy, why do we give these people so much of our time and attention. We should maybe stop doing that. Anyway, just our $.02. But if you're as frustrated as we are, come kiki with us as we have a messy, shady li'l time! Let's do it to it, y'all!Hosts: Lee Bynum, Rocky Jones, Paige ReynoldsProducer: Rocky Jones--Hey hey, THE SCORE is now on social! Follow us @thescorepod on Instagram here and Bluesky here! --New episodes of THE SCORE drop every other Tuesday. If you like what you hear, please support us and SUBSCRIBE to the show on your favorite podcast app and be sure to SHARE our show with your friends. Also, leaving a 5-star REVIEW on Apple Podcasts is a great way to help people find our show. Email your questions or comments to thescorepodcast2.0@gmail.com.Ways to Listen: Apple | Spotify | YouTubeFollow Your Hosts on Insta! Lee | Paige | Rocky