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In this gripping and emotionally charged conversation, author Jared Fishman and Judge Calvin Johnson unpack the horrifying case of Henry Glover in post-Katrina New Orleans and the federal investigation that exposed corruption, violence, and systemic failures inside the New Orleans Police Department. Fishman reflects on his journey from international conflict zones to the DOJ, revealing how war, race, policing, and power intersected in one of the most disturbing civil rights cases in modern American history. Together, they explore police cover-ups, the “blue wall” of silence, the moral cost of institutional corruption, and how the Henry Glover case ultimately helped force reforms inside the city’s police department.Order Jared Fishman Books Here: https://bookshop.org/a/20190/9781335429261Order Baldwin & Co. Merch Here: https://shop.baldwinandcobooks.comLearn more about Baldwin & Co. Foundation: https://bcofoundation.org#JaredFishman #JudgeCalvinJohnson #FireOnTheLevee #PoliceCorruption #BlueWallOfSilence #HenryGlover #Katrina #NewOrleans #NOPD #CivilRights #JusticeSystem #PoliceBrutality #CorruptionExposed #GeorgeFloyd #BreonnaTaylor #TyreNichols #WalterScott #EricGarner #TamirRice #SandraBland #SayHerName #BlackLivesMatter #DOJ #TrueCrime #SystemicRacism #CriminalJusticeReform #PoliceViolence #Accountability #CivilRightsMovement #InvestigativeJournalism #KatrinaAftermath #CorruptCops #AmericanJusticeWelcome to Baldwin & Co. Author Dialogues, the official podcast of Baldwin & Co. coffee + bookstore—a sanctuary for literature, creativity, and community. Sponsored by Baldwin & Co. Foundation 501(c)3.This episode is part of the ongoing conversations hosted by Baldwin & Co., a Black-owned bookstore, café, and cultural institution based in New Orleans. Baldwin & Co. exists at the intersection of literature, ideas, and community—creating space for rigorous dialogue, storytelling, and intellectual exchange.Through author talks, podcasts, live events, and community programming, Baldwin & Co. amplifies voices shaping how we understand culture, history, politics, faith, and the future.Stay connected with Baldwin & Co. across platforms:Instagram: @baldwinandcoX (Twitter): @baldwinandcoFacebook: Baldwin & Co.YouTube: Baldwin & Co.Website: www.baldwinandcobooks.comVisit us in New Orleans or online to support independent bookselling, discover powerful literature, and engage in conversations that matter.

Why are coroner's reports often incomplete or misleading? This deep dive reveals how societal biases, historical disenfranchisement, and a focus on biology over social context create a "coroner's silence," obscuring the true circumstances of many deaths, especially those involving state institutions. Terence Keel is an interdisciplinary scholar and Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) within the Department of African American Studies and the Institute for Society and Genetics. He is the Founding Director of the Biocritical Studies Lab, which examines the intersections of race, religion, law, and modern science, with a focus on police violence and forensics.Subscribe Now!This episode is part of the ongoing conversations hosted by Baldwin & Co., a Black-owned bookstore, café, and cultural institution based in New Orleans. Baldwin & Co. exists at the intersection of literature, ideas, and community—creating space for rigorous dialogue, storytelling, and intellectual exchange.Through author talks, podcasts, live events, and community programming, Baldwin & Co. amplifies voices shaping how we understand culture, history, politics, faith, and the future.Stay connected with Baldwin & Co. across platforms:Instagram: @baldwinandcoX (Twitter): @baldwinandcoFacebook: Baldwin & Co.YouTube: Baldwin & Co.Website: www.baldwinandcobooks.comVisit us in New Orleans or online to support independent bookselling, discover powerful literature, and engage in conversations that matter.#coronersdiary  #DeathInvestigation #SystemicIssues #SocialJustice #accountability #TerenceKeel

In this powerful and unflinching dialogue, Nikesha Elise Williams and Taylor Murphy examine Nikesha's book, "The Seven Daughters of Dupree" book. This conversation examines the deep intersections of history, identity, and storytelling through Nikesha's novel spanning 160 years of Black womanhood. The conversation confronts uncomfortable truths about slavery, generational trauma, and the myths America tells about itself—challenging the idea that enslaved people were passive and highlighting the many forms of resistance that have been erased from mainstream narratives.Order Nikesha Elise Williams Books Here: https://bookshop.org/a/20190/9781668051948Order Baldwin & Co. Merch Here: https://shop.baldwinandcobooks.comLearn more about Baldwin & Co. Foundation: https://bcofoundation.orgThis episode is part of the ongoing conversations hosted by Baldwin & Co., a Black-owned bookstore, café, and cultural institution based in New Orleans. Baldwin & Co. exists at the intersection of literature, ideas, and community—creating space for rigorous dialogue, storytelling, and intellectual exchange.Through author talks, podcasts, live events, and community programming, Baldwin & Co. amplifies voices shaping how we understand culture, history, politics, faith, and the future.Stay connected with Baldwin & Co. across platforms:Instagram: @baldwinandcoX (Twitter): @baldwinandcoFacebook: Baldwin & Co.YouTube: Baldwin & Co.Website: www.baldwinandcobooks.comVisit us in New Orleans or online to support independent bookselling, discover powerful literature, and engage in conversations that matter.#NikeshaWilliams #TaylorMurphy #SevenDaughtersofDupree #BlackAuthors #BannedBooks #BookBans #FreedomToRead #BlackHistoryMatters #ProtectBlackStories #CulturalErasure #HiddenHistory #TruthMatters #StorytellingPower #GenerationalTrauma #BlackWomenWriters #HistoricalFiction #LiteraryVoices #RepresentationMatters #ReadBlackBooks #BlackExcellence #SocialJustice #IntellectualFreedom #AmericanHistory #RewriteHistory #VoicesThatMatter #BooksThatMatter #LiteraryCulture #BaldwinAndCo #NewOrleansCulture

In this gripping exchange, cognitive scientist Maya Shankar and journalist Evan Smith confront a disturbing reality: we are drowning in information—and it’s breaking us. From the psychological toll of nonstop news to the quiet collapse of civic participation, they unpack how doomscrolling, distrust in media, and algorithm-driven outrage are reshaping our minds and our democracy. But beneath the chaos lies something even more unsettling—people aren’t disengaging because they don’t care… they’re disengaging because they’re overwhelmed. And that may be the most dangerous shift of all. This conversation doesn’t just diagnose the problem—it exposes the invisible forces influencing how we think, what we believe, and whether we act at all.Order Maya Shankar Book Here: https://bookshop.org/a/20190/9780593713686Order Baldwin & Co. Merch Here: https://shop.baldwinandcobooks.comLearn more about Baldwin & Co. Foundation: https://bcofoundation.orgThis episode is part of the ongoing conversations hosted by Baldwin & Co., a Black-owned bookstore, café, and cultural institution based in New Orleans. Baldwin & Co. exists at the intersection of literature, ideas, and community—creating space for rigorous dialogue, storytelling, and intellectual exchange.Through author talks, podcasts, live events, and community programming, Baldwin & Co. amplifies voices shaping how we understand culture, history, politics, faith, and the future.Stay connected with Baldwin & Co. across platforms:Instagram: @baldwinandcoX (Twitter): @baldwinandcoFacebook: Baldwin & Co.YouTube: Baldwin & Co.Website: www.baldwinandcobooks.comVisit us in New Orleans or online to support independent bookselling, discover powerful literature, and engage in conversations that matter.#MayaShankar #EvanSmith #Shorts #YouTubeShorts #Viral #Trending #FYP #ForYou #WatchNow #MustWatch #Psychology #MentalHealth #Doomscrolling #MediaTrust #SocialMedia #InformationOverload #HumanBehavior #CriticalThinking #WakeUp #HiddenTruth #RealityCheck #BigIdeas

Irvin Weathersby Jr. and cultural strategist Gia Hamilton deliver a deeply reflective and personal conversation about grief, memory, and the transformative power of storytelling. With poetic clarity and emotional honesty, Irvin shares how the loss of his father and the devastation of Hurricane Katrina shaped his writing and identity as a Black man from New Orleans. Gia Hamilton, in turn, explores the intersections of trauma and creativity, asking how Black artists reclaim beauty from pain and build archives that preserve our truths. Together, they dive into the messy, necessary work of naming what hurts—and finding liberation in the telling.This episode is part of the ongoing conversations hosted by Baldwin & Co., a Black-owned bookstore, café, and cultural institution based in New Orleans. Baldwin & Co. exists at the intersection of literature, ideas, and community—creating space for rigorous dialogue, storytelling, and intellectual exchange.Through author talks, podcasts, live events, and community programming, Baldwin & Co. amplifies voices shaping how we understand culture, history, politics, faith, and the future.Stay connected with Baldwin & Co. across platforms:Instagram: @baldwinandcoX (Twitter): @baldwinandcoFacebook: Baldwin & Co.YouTube: Baldwin & Co.Website: www.baldwinandcobooks.comVisit us in New Orleans or online to support independent bookselling, discover powerful literature, and engage in conversations that matter.#IrvinWeathersby #GiaHamilton #BaldwinAndCo #BlackStorytelling #GriefToArt #HurricaneKatrina #BlackWritersMatter #CulturalMemory #ArchiveOurPain #BlackMenWrite #CreativeResistance #StorytellingAsHealing #BlackJoyAndPain #GriefIsPower #WritingThroughTrauma #ArtBornOfLoss #BlackCreativesUnfiltered #TruthTellingIsRadical #NewOrleansVoices #HealingThroughWords #GenerationalGrief #TraumaAndTransformation #ReclaimTheNarrative #EmotionalLiberation #BlackLegacyBuilders

In a landmark first-ever podcast conversation, Eddie Glaude Jr. and Ibram X. Kendi sit down for a powerful, deeply honest exchange on race, democracy, morality, and power in America. What makes this conversation so compelling is that it goes far beyond surface-level political commentary—they wrestle with whether racism is best confronted through policy, moral transformation, or both, and challenge the idea that simply “admitting” racism exists is enough. Instead, they argue that America has too often confused sentiment, symbolism, and performance with actual structural change.The conversation also takes a sharp and urgent turn into how anti-racism has been misread, politicized, and weaponized in the current era. Ibram reflects on how his work has often been flattened into something far less radical than he intended, while Eddie pushes the deeper question of what kind of people—and what kind of country—democracy actually requires. By the end, the discussion expands into a chilling analysis of Great Replacement Theory, authoritarian politics, and the dangerous narratives shaping public life around the world. This is not just a podcast—it’s a serious intellectual document of the moment.This episode is part of the ongoing conversations hosted by Baldwin & Co., a Black-owned bookstore, café, and cultural institution based in New Orleans. Baldwin & Co. exists at the intersection of literature, ideas, and community—creating space for rigorous dialogue, storytelling, and intellectual exchange.Through author talks, podcasts, live events, and community programming, Baldwin & Co. amplifies voices shaping how we understand culture, history, politics, faith, and the future.Stay connected with Baldwin & Co. across platforms:Instagram: @baldwinandcoX (Twitter): @baldwinandcoFacebook: Baldwin & Co.YouTube: Baldwin & Co.Website: www.baldwinandcobooks.comVisit us in New Orleans or online to support independent bookselling, discover powerful literature, and engage in conversations that matter.#EddieGlaudeJr #IbramXKendi #BaldwinAndCo #Podcast #BlackThought #RaceInAmerica #Democracy #Politics #PoliticalTheory #GreatReplacementTheory #AntiRacism #BlackIntellectuals #SocialJustice #PublicIntellectual #AmericanPolitics #BlackHistory #CivilRights #CurrentEvents #ThoughtLeadership #LongformPodcast #YouTubePodcast #PodcastClips #YouTubeShorts #TrendingNow #ViralVideo #MustWatch #DeepConversation #IntellectualConversation #NewsAnalysis #cultureandpolitics 

Political activist Gary Chambers and entrepreneur/author Dr. Lakeysha Hallmon deliver a bold blueprint for what real Black liberation looks like—beyond hashtags and into strategy, ownership, and community-driven resistance. Reflecting on Hallmon’s book No One Is Self-Made, the duo dismantles the myth of individual success and call out the comfort-addicted, privilege-insulated tendencies stalling progress in Black communities. They challenge the “we’re not our ancestors” narrative with reverence, reminding listeners of the grit, sacrifice, and strategy our elders wielded without applause. The message is clear: we need less performance, more patience, less ego, more unity—and we must be willing to lose convenience to win liberation. From economic strategy to political discipline, this conversation is a call to stay, fight, and finish what our ancestors started.This episode is part of the ongoing conversations hosted by Baldwin & Co., a Black-owned bookstore, café, and cultural institution based in New Orleans. Baldwin & Co. exists at the intersection of literature, ideas, and community—creating space for rigorous dialogue, storytelling, and intellectual exchange.Through author talks, podcasts, live events, and community programming, Baldwin & Co. amplifies voices shaping how we understand culture, history, politics, faith, and the future.Stay connected with Baldwin & Co. across platforms:Instagram: @baldwinandcoX (Twitter): @baldwinandcoFacebook: Baldwin & Co.YouTube: Baldwin & Co.Website: www.baldwinandcobooks.comVisit us in New Orleans or online to support independent bookselling, discover powerful literature, and engage in conversations that matter.Order Lakeysha Hallmon Books Here: https://bookshop.org/a/20190/9780063315891Order Baldwin & Co. Merch Here: https://shop.baldwinandcobooks.comLearn more about Baldwin & Co. Foundation: https://bcofoundation.org#GaryChambers #LakeyshaHallmon #NoOneIsSelfMade #BaldwinAndCo #BlackLiberationNow #RevolutionRequiresStrategy #BlackUnityMatters #PurposeOverPrivilege #CommunityOverClout #OwnershipIsPower #BlackExcellenceUnfiltered #EconomicEmpowerment #DisciplineOverDistraction #MovementOverMoment #StayAndBuild #UnapologeticallyStrategic #WeAreOurAncestorsWildestDreams #FinishTheWork #BlackLeadershipRising #ComfortIsNotFreedom #ReclaimTheFight #MicrowavedMovementsFail #LegacyNotLikes #RadicalCollaboration

Ben Crump is one of America’s most prominent civil rights attorneys, known for representing the families of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and many others in landmark cases seeking accountability and justice.Gary Chambers is a Louisiana activist and political organizer recognized nationally for his unapologetic advocacy for voting rights, criminal justice reform, and economic justice.The conversation between civil rights attorney Ben Crump and activist Gary Chambers is a political strategy session for the unfinished work of American democracy. Crump opens with a blunt reminder: legality and morality are not the same thing—a truth that echoes from slavery and segregation to modern courtrooms where justice is still negotiated rather than guaranteed. From there, the dialogue widens into a sweeping reflection on power, economics, and political courage. Both men argue that the struggle for civil rights has always been tied to economic independence, noting that every time Black Americans have accumulated wealth—from land ownership after Reconstruction to Black Wall Street in Tulsa—the rules of the game were rewritten or the prosperity violently destroyed. The law, they suggest, can be a path to liberation, but only if communities are willing to fight relentlessly to ensure it is interpreted fairly.This episode is part of the ongoing conversations hosted by Baldwin & Co., a Black-owned bookstore, café, and cultural institution based in New Orleans. Baldwin & Co. exists at the intersection of literature, ideas, and community—creating space for rigorous dialogue, storytelling, and intellectual exchange.Through author talks, podcasts, live events, and community programming, Baldwin & Co. amplifies voices shaping how we understand culture, history, politics, faith, and the future.Stay connected with Baldwin & Co. across platforms:Instagram: @baldwinandcoX (Twitter): @baldwinandcoFacebook: Baldwin & Co.YouTube: Baldwin & Co.Website: www.baldwinandcobooks.comVisit us in New Orleans or online to support independent bookselling, discover powerful literature, and engage in conversations that matter.#BenCrump #GaryChambers #CivilRightsAttorney #JusticeForAll #BlackLivesMatter #FightForJustice #CivilRightsMovement #AccountabilityNow #JusticeNotJustLegal #BlackJustice #SpeakTruthToPower #ProtectBlackLives #UnapologeticallyBlack #EconomicJustice #BlackPower #CommunityJustice #BreakingNews #USPolitics #CivilRights #JusticeSystem #EconomicJustice #VotingRights #EducationMatters #JusticeInAmerica #LawAndPower #HistoryInTheMaking #PoliticalCourage #PowerAndJustice #FightForFreedom #DemocracyInAction #TruthToPower

Tia Williams: Tia Williams is the New York Times bestselling author of Seven Days in June and a veteran beauty editor who has spent decades centering Black joy and modern glamour in her storytelling.Farrah Rochon: Farrah Rochon is a USA Today bestselling author celebrated for her hit series The Boyfriend Projectand her ability to weave ambitious, relatable Black women into the heart of contemporary romance.Author of Seven Days in June, Tia Williams and author Farrah Rochon traced the long, winding road behind Williams’s success—one paved with magazine deadlines, rejected manuscripts, stubborn conviction, and a refusal to flatten Black women into symbols of struggle. Williams spoke openly about building a career by straddling two worlds—glossy fashion media by day, fiction by night—until a toxic relationship, burnout, and a self-imposed exile to Spain cracked her open creatively and gave birth to her first novel. What followed was a sharp, often funny meditation on what it means to write romance without apology: insisting that Black women can exist in stories simply to love, desire, and dream; pushing back against an industry that doubted her credibility; and embracing risk, whether that meant indie publishing, watching her work transformed by Hollywood, or folding Harlem Renaissance history and Louisiana ancestry into contemporary love stories. Along the way, Williams dismantled myths about “Black excellence,” admitted the physical toll of writing with chronic migraines, and revealed how intuition—not permission—has guided every pivot in her career. The result was a reminder that literary success is rarely linear, never polite, and often born from refusing to make yourself smaller for anyone watching. This episode is part of the ongoing conversations hosted by Baldwin & Co., a Black-owned bookstore, café, and cultural institution based in New Orleans. Baldwin & Co. exists at the intersection of literature, ideas, and community—creating space for rigorous dialogue, storytelling, and intellectual exchange.Through author talks, podcasts, live events, and community programming, Baldwin & Co. amplifies voices shaping how we understand culture, history, politics, faith, and the future.Stay connected with Baldwin & Co. across platforms:Instagram: @baldwinandcoX (Twitter): @baldwinandcoFacebook: Baldwin & Co.YouTube: Baldwin & Co.Website: www.baldwinandcobooks.comVisit us in New Orleans or online to support independent bookselling, discover powerful literature, and engage in conversations that matter.#BlackAuthors #BlackRomance #WritingCommunity #BookTalk #AuthorConversation #LiteraryCulture #PublishingTruths #CreativeProcess #BlackWomenWriters #RomanceReaders #BookLovers #BookYouTube #WriterLife #BehindTheBook #LiteraryDiscussion #CulturalConversation #BaldwinAndCo #IndependentBookstore #ReadBlackAuthors

Dr. Uché Blackstock is a renowned emergency medicine physician and the founder of Advancing Health Equity, whose memoir Legacy tackles the deep-seated racial disparities within the U.S. healthcare system.Jarvis DeBerry is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and celebrated columnist known for his sharp, soulful insights into social justice and the Black experience in America.In a powerful and deeply personal conversation at Baldwin & Co., Dr. Uché Blackstock and journalist Jarvis DeBerry tear the veil off America’s broken healthcare system—exposing not just systemic racism, but the emotional and physical toll it exacts on Black patients and Black health professionals alike. From being misdiagnosed with appendicitis as a Harvard med student, to watching her mother practice medicine with soul and cultural accountability, Dr. Blackstock shares how her journey to healing became an act of resistance. Together, they challenge the myth of “trust in the system,” flipping the script to ask: can a system built on exploitation ever be trusted at all? This isn’t just a talk—it’s a reckoning. And it’s a call for Black professionals to choose joy, rest, and self-preservation over martyrdom.This episode is part of the ongoing conversations hosted by Baldwin & Co., a Black-owned bookstore, café, and cultural institution based in New Orleans. Baldwin & Co. exists at the intersection of literature, ideas, and community—creating space for rigorous dialogue, storytelling, and intellectual exchange.Through author talks, podcasts, live events, and community programming, Baldwin & Co. amplifies voices shaping how we understand culture, history, politics, faith, and the future.Stay connected with Baldwin & Co. across platforms:Instagram: @baldwinandcoX (Twitter): @baldwinandcoFacebook: Baldwin & Co.YouTube: Baldwin & Co.Website: www.baldwinandcobooks.comVisit us in New Orleans or online to support independent bookselling, discover powerful literature, and engage in conversations that matter.