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Hosted by Hilerie Lind · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 54 episodes
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A podcast where Black feminist analysis meets cultural commentary. This is your command center for understanding the systems that shape Black life, Black love, and Black survival. Each episode is a strategic briefing on the forces we're up against and the tools we need to fight back. From the "Sacrificial Bargain" that polices Black women's bodies and choices, to the "Faustian Bargain" that questions Black men's authenticity, we're breaking down the vernacular theories that govern how we judge success, navigate trauma, and protect, or abandon, each other.
Hilerie Lind hosts The General's Briefing, a society show with 54 episodes published.
In this episode of The General's Briefing, The Griot gets personal. Hilerie Lind, PhD candidate, program manager, mother of two boys with disabilities, and founder of The Griot Collective, shares what it actually looks l
In this episode of The General's Briefing, The Griot, GREE-YOT, sits down for a deep discussion that goes all the way back to before the flood. Most people know the Jezebel as a controlling image deployed against Black w
In this episode, I break down the Earn Your Leisure / Invest Fest controversy, and I do it in a way that differs from everyone else's. I do not take sides between EYL and Mayor Dickens. I do something harder. I do what B
In 1994, Common wrote a love letter to hip-hop. He called her H.E.R. He described a woman who was pure, rooted, and real, until the mainstream got hold of her and changed her into something unrecognizable. He grieved her
In 1999, Mos Def released "Ms. Fat Booty", a song about a man who encountered a woman who was already whole, already moving, already complete. He pursued her. He described her in 852 words, with sentences that averaged 8
"We need a feminism that admits we have messy, complicated, and sometimes contradictory desires." - Joan Morgan, When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost (1999) There is a moment. And if you are a Black woman who loves hip-h
I charge you with the crime of rape, murder, and assault. For suppressing and punishing my people. I charge you with robbery for robbing me of my history." Tupac Shakur said that in 1991. He was 20 years old. Standing in
"We gon' be alright." Kendrick Lamar wrote those words in 2015. In the middle of Ferguson. In the middle of Black Lives Matter. In the middle of a moment when Black people were watching themselves die on camera and the w
It's the Fourth of July. A holiday that has never fully belonged to Black people. And while America wraps itself in a flag, the conversation taking over Black social media is not about the Supreme Court stripping 350,000
I was sitting on my couch watching a documentary. Notes in my lap. Phone in my hand. Feeling like Webbie, doing what I do, what I do, what I do. Because this is what I do. I watch. I study. I connect the dots. And then I
In 1990, the Broward County Sheriff's Department arrested Luther "Uncle Luke" Campbell on obscenity charges. Not for a crime. Not for violence. Not for theft. For a song. And Uncle Luke said: No. He fought the United Sta
When I first saw the headlines about Jay-Z and Target, I felt it. That thing in your chest when someone whose work has shaped the way you think disappoints you. I have spent the last year running Jay-Z's lyrics through d
Today, I saw an ad. John Legend. His family. Target. And I scrolled to the comments. And somebody wrote: "House slave." I understood the frustration. The community has a right to be frustrated. But "house slave"? That's
Early voting is underway in Georgia. June 16th is coming. And The General has a briefing you need to hear before you walk into that voting booth. This week, Nikki Porcher, Air Force veteran, founder of Buy From a Black W
On May 31, 2026, a tape from Diddy's federal sex trafficking trial became public. It featured Daphne Joy, a woman believed to have anonymously testified against him. She did not choose to be in that courtroom. She did no
In 1935, a gangster named Dutch Schultz lay dying in a hospital in Newark, New Jersey. He had spent years trying to take over the Harlem numbers empire built by a Black Caribbean immigrant woman named Stephanie St. Clair
This episode is about the body. Who owns it. Who controls it. Who profits from it when we can't say no. And what it sounds like when Black women finally refuse. I connect the RSV lawsuit to the 105th anniversary of the T
Chopped and screwed music was born in Houston, Texas. DJ Screw took records that everyone already knew, songs they'd heard a hundred times, and he slowed them down. He chopped them up. He revealed what was hiding underne
"My skin is black / My arms are long / My hair is woolly / My back is strong / Strong enough to take the pain / Inflicted again and again / What do they call me? / My name is Aunt Sarah." — Nina Simone, "Four Women" (196
The day before the Georgia Democratic primary. And I'm sitting down with State Representative Derrick Jackson, the man I've been fighting for, the man I believe in, the man who is the most qualified candidate in this rac
Dr. Cheyenne Bryant
psychologist, life coach, and motivational speaker
2 appearances on this show
Kevin Hart
analytical method development scientist · New Zealand Wind Energy Association
1 appearance on this show
Derrick Jackson
Georgia gubernatorial candidate, retired lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy, corporate executive · First Baptist Church Gallatin
1 appearance on this show
Joyce Beatty
Congressional Black Caucus
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