Luminary Spotlight Podcast
1) Dave Chappelle Welcomes You to The Midnight Miracle
“How do you keep a despondent person alive?”—Dave Chappelle Hosted by: Talib Kweli, yasiin bey, and Dave Chappelle Featuring, in order of appearance: Radio Rahim, Mo Amer, Chris Rock, Donnell Rawlin...Show More
2) Wyclef Jean
Omari Hardwick sits down with Grammy award winning triple threat Wyclef Jean for an in depth conversation about his rise from third world conditions to hip hop superstardom--from The Fugees to Shakira...Show More
3) Married to the Law
Dovey Johnson Roundtree became a lawyer at a time when no one wanted Black women to amount to anything. She’d grown up with the KKK terrorizing her neighborhood. A lucky break landed her at Spelman Co...Show More
4) Spike Lee
Spike Lee joins Franklin and Kate to talk about narrative filmmaking, his longtime collaborators, and the movement for Black lives. From Do the Right Thing, to Malcolm X, to Bamboozled, to his latest ...Show More
5) Gabrielle Union
This week, Franklin and Kate are joined by activist, NYT bestselling author, and actor Gabrielle Union. The trio talk about 90s teen films (hello, Bring It On!), Gabrielle's love for Grease 2, depicti...Show More
6) Janelle Monáe
This week is a special conversation with Franklin, Kate, and the one and only Janelle Monáe, star of season two of Amazon's Homecoming. The trio talk about how her music has informed her film career, ...Show More
7) LeVar Burton: Bring on the butterflies
Many of us grew up with our eyes glued to the TV to listen to a black man with a high top fade, a gold earring and infectious smile tell us about the joys of reading. LeVar Burton hosted the show Read...Show More
8) Stacey Abrams: Liftin’ Every Voice
“I wanted to write about these strong, beautiful, intelligent people like the ones I met at Morehouse and Spelman, like the ones I could never find in popular fiction.” The nation’s eyes are on Stacey...Show More
9) Don’t Wanna Fright No More
When singer/songwriter and former frontwoman of the Alabama Shakes, Brittany Howard, comes up against a hostile spirit in her home, she has to decide: who’s going to get to stay? Brittany... or the gh...Show More
10) Karamo with Soledad O’Brien
“Hold onto a bigger vision for yourself” is a tenet that has guided Soledad O’Brien through countless life experiences. The award-winning journalist (and host of the Luminary Original “Murder on the T...Show More