Tea With Queen And J.

A bit somber after the Ferguson decision, we discuss walking 100 NYC blocks in protest, our amazing experience at Tech808 Hip Hop/Entrepreneur conference, Chicago teens in Geneva, and Halle Berry's creamy crack conundrum. Drink up! Some show notes! For more info on the We Charge Genocide's police brutality presentation to the UN Committee Against Torture, and what you can do to help, please visit www.wechargegenocide.org If you'd like to help restore water to the residents living without in Detroit, check out www.DetroitWaterBrigade.org Hashtag #TheVotingBlock on all of your posts about voting, voter rights, community involvement, and progressive action and mobilizing of any kind. Don't forget to subscribe to us on iTunes, follow us on Soundcloud, like us on Facebook www.facebook.com/TeawithQueenandJ, follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/teawithqj, on Instagram www.instagram.com/teawithqj, and email us at teawithqueenandj@gmail.com

The internet delivers this week with soul smacks, Cosby memes, and twitter twats. White supremacists emerge from the Klan Khronicles to troll the rest of us, and misogynists want an end to the man beater epidemic. WHAT!? Some show notes! If you'd like to help restore water to the residents living without in Detroit, check out www.DetroitWaterBrigade.org Hashtag #TheVotingBlock on all of your posts about voting, voter rights, community involvement, and progressive action and mobilizing of any kind. Don't forget to subscribe to us on iTunes, follow us on Soundcloud, like us on Facebook www.facebook.com/TeawithQueenandJ, follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/teawithqj, on Instagram www.instagram.com/teawithqj, and email us at teawithqueenandj@gmail.com Intro Music -Azaelia Banks "212"

After a banner year of killing black people, it's October in America and that means pumpkins and blackface. We talk Halloween, fake costumes, real costumes, Tiny's eye surgery, and street harassment. Drink up! Some show notes! If you'd like to help restore water to the residents living without in Detroit, check out www.DetroitWaterBrigade.org The street harassment video we referenced if you haven't seen it already: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1XGPvbWn0A Hashtag #TheVotingBlock on all of your posts about voting, voter rights, community involvement, and progressive action and mobilizing of any kind. Don't forget to subscribe to us on iTunes, follow us on Soundcloud, like us on Facebook www.facebook.com/TeawithQueenandJ, follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/teawithqj, on Instagram www.instagram.com/teawithqj, and email us at teawithqueenandj@gmail.com

On this episode of Tea with Queen and J., females, women and bitches are allowed to rap again, water in Detroit ain't free, J. sells her soul to go to New York Comic Con, and it will be #FergusonOctober all year around. Drink up! Some show notes! If you'd like to help restore water to the residents living without in Detroit, check out www.DetroitWaterBrigade.org To learn more about #FergusonOctober visit www.FergusonOctober.com Look for a #Copwatch training session in your area and other ways to help in the fight against police brutality: www.copwatch.org www.copwatchnyc.org www.peoplesjustice.org @peoples_justice www.caaav.org @CAAAV Hashtag #TheVotingBlock on all of your posts about voting, voter rights, community involvement, and progressive action and mobilizing of any kind. Don't forget to subscribe to us on iTunes, follow us on Soundcloud, like us on Facebook www.facebook.com/TeawithQueenandJ, follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/teawithqj, on Instagram www.instagram.com/teawithqj, and email u

On this episode of Tea with Queen and J. Shonda Rhimes is leaving everyone for dead but Quinn, Baby Drake is learning how to get away with murder, thots are winning and tots are losing in television, and Black lives matter when their parents are white lesbians. Drink up! Some show notes! -Arrest Darren Wilson -Get Out The Vote Youth Rally, St. Louis https://www.facebook.com/events/638652749589697/ -Shonda Rhimes drama series Scandal and How To Get Away With Murder air Thursday nights on ABC -White women mistakenly given black sperm http://thegrio.com/2014/10/01/white-woman-sues-black-sperm/ Hashtag #TheVotingBlock on all of your posts about voting, voter rights, community involvement, and progressive action and mobilizing of any kind. Don't forget to subscribe to us on iTunes, follow us on Soundcloud, like us on Facebook www.facebook.com/TeawithQueenandJ, follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/teawithqj, on Instagram www.instagram.com/teawithqj, and email us at teawithqueenandj@gmail.com

In this episode of Tea with Queen and J. Public Enemy performs in Brooklyn, don't be a menace while splitting the bill on Queen's birthday, J. is a flirting failure, climate change, National Voter Registration Day, and should Niggas be in Paris? Drink up! Some show notes! Arrest Darren Wilson Find out more about National Voter Registration Day at www.nationalvoterregistrationday.org #CelebrateNVRD @CelebrateNVRD Also hashtag #TheVotingBlock on all of your posts about voting, voter rights, community involvement, and progressive action and mobilizing of any kind. Don't forget to subscribe to us on iTunes, like us on Facebook www.facebook.com/TeawithQueenandJ, follow us on Twitter and instagram @TeawithQJ, and email us at teawithqueenandj@gmail.com

In this episode, Queen out wits Brooklyn's most fearless mouse, we discuss our voting experience (which is a bunch of comedy and error), dating while Black or something, Joan Rivers is dead to us, and that guy that used to play for the Ravens. Some show notes! Arrest Darren Wilson In case you missed it check out episode 8 "All Men Are Created Guilty, Whiplash Backlash, and the Angry Artist" for a detailed overview of the Central Park 5 case https://soundcloud.com/tea-with-queen-and-j/all-men-are-created-guilty-whiplash-backlash-and-the-angry-artist Also, don't forget to hashtag #TheVotingBlock #TheVotingBlock #TheVotingBlock on all of your tweets and instagram posts about voting, mobilizing and organizing towards change. Don't forget to subscribe to us on iTunes, like us on Facebook www.facebook.com/TeawithQueenandJ, follow us on twitter and instagram @TeawithQJ, and email us at teawithqueenandj@gmail.com

We talk about NYC's Afropunk music festival, Hillary (punk ass) Clinton, D'Angelo's live jam session, the value of black life, our friends at ThePhatStartup.com and our new initiative #TheVotingBlock. #DrinkUp! Some show notes! Check out The Phat Startup at www.thephatstartup.com - Hip Hop & Entrepreneurship Queen's interview with Chrisette Michele http://www.msvixenmag.com/2014/08/chatting-with-rich-hipster-chrissete.html National Black Out - Monday, September 8th #BlackOutMonday let's do it! Queen's feature in amNewYork! http://www.amny.com/news/nyc-women-take-to-social-media-to-fight-street-harassment-1.9147772 Shout out to @Combat_Jack, @PremiumPete and @DJBenhameen of The Combat Jack show for being so cool @ThePhatStartup #BossUp event! Also, don't forget #TheVotingBlock #TheVotingBlock #TheVotingBlock Don't forget to subscribe to us on iTunes, like us on Facebook www.facebook.com/TeawithQueenandJ, follow us on twitter and instagram @TeawithQJ, and email us at teawithqueenandj@gmail.com

After a long summer siesta, Queen and J. return with an episode that we didn't plan to record. On the heels of the most recent killings of unarmed black persons Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Ezell Ford, and whoever they shoot between now and whenever you read this, Queen and J. join the National Moment of Silence #NMOS14 in NYC's Union Square. When the moment of silence turned into a moment to march in the streets we thought it important to bring you up to speed immediately. No prep, no planning, just Tea with Queen and J. (We heard that... yes, there's usually planning). We missed you. Some show notes! National Moment of Silence #NMOS14 http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/08/14/national-moment-of-silence-nmos14/14045233/ http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/new-yorkers-stage-demonstrations-michael-brown-article-1.1904265 Don't forget to subscribe to us on iTunes, like us on Facebook www.facebook.com/TeawithQueenandJ, follow us on twitter @TeawithQJ, and email us at teawithqueenandj@gmail.c

The laughter is sonically brutal this episode as we record while utterly exhausted. In preparation for an unexpected summer siesta we wanted to make sure that we got some good tea time in because we'll never leave you hanging. J. meets Dule Hill and defends her grandmother's honor, while Queen is the lord of the dance at every dance party in your favorite city. We discuss the backlash of the whiplash inducing Jeremy Meeks photo, and the thinking behind it. J. gets called "Howard Stern" by an angry author who's sensitive about her shit, Queen talks "ratchet Monday" television, and even though we've never been more tired we give some time to the Central Park Five and their recent $40 million dollar settlement 25 years after being falsely convicted of rape as teenagers. It's tea time, drink up! Some show notes! For more information on The Creative Collective visit www.iamthecreativecollective.com "DeadBeat Moms: It's Not Just About Money" by Naomi Brunner is still on sale for Kindle and in paperback at A

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking politics, pop-culture and liberation over tea. Drink up! It's crazy episode 8! J. talks her experience at Governor's ball, 20 years of Outkast, Childish Gambino, and the scum of the summer music festival. Queen talks OITNB and everything is coming up Millhouse (and by Millhouse we mean sex). We talk Sophia Chester's upcoming new book series "Cosmic Callisto Caprica & The Missing Rings of Saturn". And like it or not we discuss the politics of deadbeat moms as featured in Naomi Brunner's new book "Deadbeat Moms: It's Not Just About Money". Some show notes! For more information on "Cosmic Callisto Caprica & The Missing Rings Of Saturn" and the July 1st kickstarter to fund this new series, follow @SophiaTheAuthor on twitter and like the facebook page at www.facebook.com/CosmicCallistoCaprica "DeadBeat Moms: It's Not Just About Money" by Naomi Brunner on sale for Kindle and in paperback at Amazon.com Don't forget to subscribe to us on iTunes, like us on Faceb

Queen and J. are back and excited as fructose! Catching up we talk about #BringBackOurGirls, X-Men and Saturday morning cartoons. J. has déjà vu at a street festival, and Queen foams at the mouth about mislaid 'baby hair'. Recorded on the anniversary of the US bombing of Tulsa, Oklahoma's Black Wall Street, we discuss the events that lead up to that day and writer Ta-Nehisi Coates article "The Case for Reparations". Drink up! Some show notes! -More info on The Black Wall Street of Tulsa: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwood,_Tulsa,_Oklahoma#.22The_Black_Wall_Street.22 http://www.ebony.com/black-history/the-destruction-of-black-wall-street-405#axzz31GYzN1v7 -"The Case for Reparations" by Ta-Nehisi Coates http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/05/the-case-for-reparations/361631/ Don't forget to subscribe to us on iTunes, like us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/TeawithQueenandJ, follow us on twitter @TeawithQJ, and email us at teawithqueenandj@gmail.com

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking politics, pop-culture and liberation over tea. Drink up! When life gets real Queen and J. show up without topics and with a lot of random but fun jibber jabber. Queen speculates and J. renames actors. We talk Captain America, TMNT, hotel parties, the politics of collecting, masklophobia, and customer service. J. spends a lot of time confusing badass Helen Mirren with badass Ellen Barkin, and Queen loves the kids. She also loves swirling her spoon in her tea cup, and you can hear it. Some show notes! -The current Puerto Rican flag is not a derivative of the American flag, but was modeled after the Cuban flag in 1892. -Captain America showed up in comics during WWII -TNMT had three 90s films featuring actors in turtle suits, and one computer animated film in 2007 -Also, Joe Manganiello #thatisall Don't forget to subscribe to us on iTunes, like us on Facebook, follow us on twitter @TeawithQJ, and email us at teawithqueenandj@gmail.com

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking politics, pop-culture and liberation over tea. Drink up! If you thought the sound quality was bad before... now there's static! We're working on it! Its spring again and Queen is dating while J. is failing at flirting. We talk Albuquerque and police. And then, Idris Elba is many things, we discuss what he isn't, along with climate change, baseball and baby daddies. Don't forget to subscribe to us on iTunes, like our Facebook page, follow us on twitter @TeawithQJ, and email us at teawithqueenandj@gmail.com

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking politics, pop-culture and liberation over tea. Drink up! We're back from spring break!! J. had an amazing Puerto Rican vacation and won't let it go. The new season of The Boondocks is coming and we're all in our feelings about it. Queen's got an opinion about The Queen (Latifah that is); and we talk K-squared, yeah... that K-squared. Lastly, we know that Mindy from 'The Mindy Project' is a doctor but we call her a lawyer, and last-lastly we want you to check out the Nashville, TN based non-profit organization www.street-works.org. Don't forget to subscribe to us on iTunes, like our Facebook page, follow us on twitter @TeawithQJ, and email us at teawithqueenandj@gmail.com

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking politics, pop-culture and liberation over tea. Drink up! We're on iTunes people! Back by popular demand, Queen gets to finish her eyebrow diatribe, we talk moms, Obamacare, McDonald's commercials, what's lacking at Starbucks, condoms, HIV tests and other pharmacy delights. Thank you to all of our listeners! Enjoy this and previous episodes as we take a quick spring break, and return in two weeks. As always, you can find us on our facebook page Tea with Queen and J., on Twitter @TeawithQJ, or send us an email at TeawithQueenandJ@gmail.com.

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking politics, pop-culture and liberation over tea. Drink up! This week we talk bad eyebrows, the Marissa Alexander case, film casting of your favorite comic and cartoon characters; we refer to Aunt May as Peter Parkers grandmother, but you'll forgive us; Lupita Nyong'o (again...), and in the wake of the 17th anniversary of the death of The Notorious B.I.G., J. wants us to remember Lil' Kim.

Queen and J. talk Spike Lee, the rise of Lupita Nyong'o, bingeing on Louis CK, dietary habits, and Queen gives us a play-by-play of the life and times of her window squirrel. Drink up!