Micheaux Mission

American Idol alum Melinda Doolittle sits in on the Mission for an enjoyable chat on her days on her hit TV experience, Diana Ross, Tom Cruise, her idol Gladys Knight, and a review of 'the wrong' Annie. Plus, one man of Micheaux wears a romper to a onesie party.   *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy.  Since you're listening to Micheaux Mission, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding film, history, and pop culture like The History of Literature and The History of Standup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After answering listener mail, Vincent and Len make two stops on the Mission for the price of one with (11:15) a look at Questlove's SUMMER OF SOUL, the historic doc about the 1969 Harlem Culture Festival and (37:50) a long trip on the NEW JERSEY DRIVE for a look at boosting in Newark in the 90s.   *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy.  Since you're listening to Micheaux Mission, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding film, history, and pop culture like The History of Literature and The History of Standup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vince and Len share their thoughts on The Upshaws, The Underground Railroad, Loki and The Equalizer; then Len reveals an ‘interesting’ theory about R7B lover man Tank and Vincent reveals what he actually has against watermelon martinis. And (so) much more!   *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy.  Since you're listening to Micheaux Mission, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding film, history, and pop culture like The History of Literature and The History of Standup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

TOYA HAYNES of The First Time I Heard podcast brings her unabashed love of everything Ralph Tresvant (with her New Edition spreadsheet as exhibit A) back to the Mission for a review of the Kid-N-Play starring vehicle House Party 2.   *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy.  Since you're listening to Micheaux Mission, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding film, history, and pop culture like The History of Literature and The History of Standup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Storybound is a radio theater program designed for the podcast age. In each episode, listeners will be treated to their favorite authors and writers reading some of their most impactful stories, designed with powerful and immersive sound environments. Hosted and produced by Jude Brewer, Storybound but authors and musicians at the forefront of the storytelling experience. Season 4 of Storybound features writers including Chuck Klosterman, Morgan Jerkins, Matt Haig, Nichole Perkins, Omar El Akkad, Ruth Wariner, and Tamara Winfrey-Harris. In this episode, Soraya Nadia McDonald reads her essay "Wandering In Search of Wakanda." Listen to Storybound on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.   *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy.  Since you're listening to Micheaux Mission, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding film, history, and pop culture like The History of Literature and The History of Standup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Men of Micheaux debate the ‘dueting’ of Close To You and the resurrection of Madea, in an attempt to forego a review of the Motown TV-feature biopic Scott Joplin, starring Billy Dee Williams.   *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy.  Since you're listening to Micheaux Mission, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding film, history, and pop culture like The History of Literature and The History of Standup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vincent and Len speak of soulful voices being erased from memory, their favorite duets as a precursor to their review of Outkast's 2006 'joint' -- IDLEWILD.   *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy.  Since you're listening to Micheaux Mission, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding film, history, and pop culture like The History of Literature and The History of Standup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vincent and Len review the biopic history of Lifetime then find themselves in a weird debate over the Twilight Zone. Then they turn their attention to 2004’s RAY featuring Jamie Foxx’s award-winning performance and a stellar cast of women.   *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy.  Since you're listening to Micheaux Mission, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding film, history, and pop culture like The History of Literature and The History of Standup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vincent and Len reminisce on Mays gone-bye and create another possible theme month for the Mission before laying into the ‘missed opportunities’ of Tyler Perry’s Madea franchise.   *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy.  Since you're listening to Micheaux Mission, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding film, history, and pop culture like The History of Literature and The History of Standup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Men of Micheaux share their thoughts on the Netflix sitcoms 'Dad, Stop Embarrassing Me' and 'The Upshaws', plus Amazon's 'The Underground Railroad' by Oscar-winning director Barry Jenkins. But then they take a ride in a D.C. CAB and ...oh boy!   *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy.  Since you're listening to Micheaux Mission, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding film, history, and pop culture like The History of Literature and The History of Standup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vincent and Len talk about the incoming locust of cicadas to the DMV then debate a New Edition version of VERZUZ before sharing their divergent views on Master P’s I GOT THE HOOK-UP.   *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy.  Since you're listening to Micheaux Mission, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding film, history, and pop culture like The History of Literature and The History of Standup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Micheaux Mission debuts artistic renditions of themselves and the Missionaries have jokes. Gladys Knight has a wayward career and JUWANNA MANN is first up for 2021’s Mother, May I Have a Bad Black Movie.   *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy.  Since you're listening to Micheaux Mission, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding film, history, and pop culture like The History of Literature and The History of Standup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In each episode of Book Dreams, hosts Julie Sternberg and Eve Yohalem seek answers to the book-related questions that they can’t stop dreaming about, like how to open a bookstore, what it’s like to edit iconic authors, and what exactly bibliotherapy is. Previous and upcoming episodes feature guests like Adrienne Maree Brown, Edith Eger, Simon Winchester, David Levithan, Nancy Pearl and Jeff Schwager, and Kristen Meinzer and Jolenta Greenberg, plus experts in topics ranging from illuminated manuscripts to book design to using AI to write a bestseller. In this episode, Julie and Eve talk to Bryan Washington, the author of Lot: Stories, one of President Obama’s Favorite Books of 2019, and Memorial, a New York Times Notable Book of 2020, about how the cookbooks, foreign films, and family storytellers of his youth helped form him as a writer. Listen to Book Dreams on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and everywhere podcasts are available.   *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy.  Since you're listening to Micheaux Mission, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding film, history, and pop culture like The History of Literature and The History of Standup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Men of Micheaux share their thoughts on Marvel’s The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, answer listener mail and close out Afrofuturism April with the ‘contemplative’ Z For Zachariah, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Margot Robbie and Chris Pine.   *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy.  Since you're listening to Micheaux Mission, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding film, history, and pop culture like The History of Literature and The History of Standup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Men of Micheaux catch up on listener mail, get checked for their mispronunciation and Vince feels some kind of way about 'disrepectin' Luther (Vandross). But all is love when the FAST COLOR starts to shimmer.   *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy.  Since you're listening to Micheaux Mission, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding film, history, and pop culture like The History of Literature and The History of Standup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices