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Introducing 'Bless Your Heart'

The South is misunderstood and this podcast aims to correct the record. From who gets to be Southern, to why you don't have to leave to succeed, to why the South is America's foundation and not its problem, Bless Your Heart is having conversations that will change how you see this place.   Bless Yo…

Everyone’s Doing the South with Tressie McMillan Cottom

What's underneath the rest of the country treating the South as backward? Sociologist and New York Times contributor Tressie McMillan Cottom argues it's a ruse to help Americans avoid reckoning with their own faults. It also erases the massive contributions the South made to turn the US into a glob…

Trust and Poverty with Brittney Cooper

Why is trusting poor people so controversial? Dr. Brittney Cooper, author of Eloquent Rage and professor at Rutgers, sits down with Aisha Nyandoro to discuss respectability politics and the ways poor Black women have had to perform worthiness just to be treated as legitimate. 

Flip the Script

There's a lot to keep us up at night. How do we manage our time, navigate financial uncertainty, escape a doom and gloom spiral? This hour, TED speakers help us flip the script as we face the future. Guests include time management expert Laura Vanderkam, non-profit CEO Aisha Nyandoro, environmental…

You Don’t have to Leave to Succeed with Rita Brent

Comedian Rita Brent built an Emmy-nominated late night show from Jackson, Mississippi. She proves that staying in the South might actually be a competitive advantage. Aisha Nyandoro sits down with Brent to talk about redefining success, Black creativity in the South, and what Mississippi gives that…

The South is America’s Future with Mitch Landrieu

Former New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu believes the South holds the keys to the future of American politics. Founder of E Pluribus Unum and host of the new show Long Play, Landrieu sits down with Aisha Nyandoro to discuss Southern political power, racial reckoning, and why the country keeps gettin…

The Smartest People are From the South with Kiese Laymon

What happens when the place that made you is also the place the rest of the country dismisses? MacArthur genius grant recipient and author of Heavy, Kiese Laymon grew up in a pink shotgun house on two acres of land in Forest, Mississippi — and he never felt big there. That smallness, he says, is ex…

753. Policies Move at the Speed of Narrative: Meet the Org Changing the Story on Poverty - Aisha Nyandoro

In 2017, a mom in Jackson, Mississippi told Aisha Nyandoro she couldn't afford pizza and a movie with her kids. She was working, in job training, and showing up for every program. She was doing everything "right." It still wasn't enough. That conversation sparked the Magnolia Mother's Trust, one of…

What does "wealth" mean to you? | Aisha Nyandoro

For people living in poverty, a guaranteed income can mean finally having the space to dream of a comfortable life. Sharing the stories of single moms who participated in a first-of-its-kind program that offered them $1,000 per month with no strings attached, poverty disrupter Aisha Nyandoro calls …

What does "wealth" mean to you? | Aisha Nyandoro

For people living in poverty, a guaranteed income can mean finally having the space to dream of a comfortable life. Sharing the stories of single moms who participated in a first-of-its-kind program that offered them $1,000 per month with no strings attached, poverty disrupter Aisha Nyandoro calls …