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Podcast #46 - Blood & Soil

Podcast #46 – Blood & Soil

https://empireoftheinfinite.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/eoti-46-blood-and-soil.mp3 As a nation, we find ourselves careening toward a certain reckoning, an undeniable state of egregious political affairs and social ills that have been generations in the making. Yet, as a nation, we by and large choose to compartmentalize & restrict these ills to  today’s digital vortex; as if they just began. As a…

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Podcast #45 - Actor Charles Malik Whitfield

Podcast #45 – Actor Charles Malik Whitfield

https://empireoftheinfinite.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/eoti-45-charles-malik-whitfield.mp3 Charles Malik Whitfield is a man that really needs know introduction. He’s portrayed legends like Otis Williams of the Temptation and acted opposite legends like Gene Hackman in Behind Enemy Lines. He’s risen throught he ranks and starred in hit franchises like NCIS, American Horror Story and Fox’s recent…

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Podcast #44 - Dr. Anita M. Cal

Podcast #44 – Dr. Anita M. Cal

https://empireoftheinfinite.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/eoti-44-dr-anita-cal.mp3 Being an award-winning author isn’t what makes Dr. Anita M. Cal so exceptional. And the fact that she’s known for writing the TBS family comedies Tyler Perry’s House of Payne and Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns isn’t all that makes her stand head and shoulders above her peers. In our opinion, what makes this Pepperdine…

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Podcast #43 - Signed, Angry Black Man

Podcast #43 – Signed, Angry Black Man

https://empireoftheinfinite.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/eoti-43-signed-angry-black-man.mp3 To those in the ill-informed majority, the idea of an angry black man is seen as a sign of incivility, lack of control or a precursor to some sort of violent act. Even many in the minority, including African-Americans, fear that an angry black man will make them look bad, encroach upon their acceptance in…

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White Privilege: A Case of Unwitting Participation, Willful Intent or Both?

White Privilege: A Case of Unwitting Participation, Willful Intent or Both?

DEFINITION: White Privilege “is a term for societal privileges that benefit people identified as white in Western countries, beyond what is commonly experienced by non-white people under the same social, political, or economic circumstances. Academic perspectives such as critical race theory and whiteness studies use the concept of “white privilege” to analyze how racism and racialized societies…

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Pulse Nightclub Massacre One Year Later: Hate, Is Hate, Is Hate, Is Hate ...

Pulse Nightclub Massacre One Year Later: Hate, Is Hate, Is Hate, Is Hate …

Today marks exactly one year that Omar Mateen stormed Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida, brutally murdering 49 people and injuring some 58 more. Mateen pledged loyalty to ISIS in the wake of the crime but no actual ties between ISIS and Mateen ever materialized. There had also been rumors in the days after the slaughter that Mateen had actually been a patron of gay establishments and web sites…

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Podcast #42 – False Gods The presidency of the United States of America has devolved from a position that was once the pinnacle of public service to an office that has become the emodiment of a sense entitlement and dictatorialism reminisdcent of medieval kingships.

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Why Trump's Firing of James Comey is Worse—Much Worse—Than Nixon's Infamous 'Saturday Night Massacre'

Why Trump’s Firing of James Comey is Worse—Much Worse—Than Nixon’s Infamous ‘Saturday Night Massacre’

Not even a full hour had passed before ethics hawks and political pundits from both sides of the aisle were vilifying President Donald Trump‘s decision to fire now former FBI Director James Comey as “Nixonian”,  “a grotesque abuse of power,” and “troubling.” Amidst the outcry came comparisons to President Richard Nixon‘s now infamous ‘Saturday Night Massacre‘, where Nixon ordered Attorney General…

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Morning Mashup: Yates & Clapper Clap Back + Comey Just Keeps Bringing the Hits + We Just Puked a Little - Betsy DeVos to Speak at HBCU

Morning Mashup: Yates & Clapper Clap Back + Comey Just Keeps Bringing the Hits + We Just Puked a Little – Betsy DeVos to Speak at HBCU

Yates & Clapper Clap Back: Easily one of the most anticipated political events of the year,  political and ethics hawks watched with baited breath as former acting U.S. Attorney General Sally Yates and  former United States Director of National Intelligence  James Clapper sat before a  happily partisan senate committee intent of getting to the bottom of two things: For the GOP it was about…

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Podcast #1: Power Everyone wants it but very few have it. In the debut episode, ALH opens the conversation on what it means to be powerful and how to gain true power.

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Podcast #2: Know the Delta

Podcast #2: Know the Delta

https://empireoftheinfinite.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/eoi-2-know-the-delta.mp3 The key to envisioning and attaining progress is not only knowing our blindspots but knowing why they exist so we don’t revisit the same emotional and mental tundra.  

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Podcast #3: Instruments of Our Own Demise We alone are responsible for bringing under control the things that cause us to to destroy ourselves.

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Podcast #4: Theory Black Why is it so difficult to have a conversation around race relations in today's America? Is the discussion even relevant?

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Podcast #5: Theory Black Pt. 2 – The Ghost of Hoover

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Podcast #6: Frienemies This week we explore why, once we show ourselves capable of transcending the perception they have of us, many of our so-called 'friends' pull those passive aggressive knives out.

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Podcast #7: No. Half. Measures. This week we discuss the rationale and importance of striving to be excellent at everything we do, not just the things we like to do.

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Podcast #8: Her Beauty is not in the eye of the beholder ... it is forever within the heart, soul and grasp of she who is being beheld.