In today's episode, I will be going over dating within the Black Elite from the Gilded Age to our current dating problems. I am going to detail how our dating problems are connected to class. Class isn't a guarantee a healthy romantic partnership. In the pop culture segment, I am going to detail Sabrina Carpeter's dating drama and the connections to parasocial relationships.

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Racial and ethnic socialization from early childhood through adolescence. (2023). https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-818872-9.00061-3

Byrd, C. M., & Hope, E. C. (2020). Black Students’ Perceptions of School Ethnic-Racial Socialization Practices in a Predominantly Black School: Journal of Adolescent Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/0743558419897386

Chrisman, R. (2005). Black Studies, the Talented Tenth, and the Organic Intellectual. Black Scholar. https://doi.org/10.1080/00064246.2005.11413306

James, J. (1996). Transcending the Talented Tenth: Black Leaders and American Intellectuals.

Knudsen, D. D. (1968). Socialization to Elitism: A Study of Debutantes*. Sociological Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1111/J.1533-8525.1968.TB01122.X

Jackson, P. B., Kleiner, S., Geist, C., & Cebulko, K. (2011). Conventions of Courtship: Gender and Race Differences in the Significance of Dating Rituals. Journal of Family Issues. https://doi.org/10.1177/0192513X10395113

Jester, J. K., & Brooks, J. E. (2023). Gendered Racial Socialization and Interracial Dating Attitudes Among Black Women. Journal of Black Sexuality and Relationships. https://doi.org/10.1353/bsr.2023.0009

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Woolner, C. (2023). The Famous Lady Lovers. https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469675480.001.0001

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For this episode, I go through the pros and cons of affirmative action with HBCUs. I also talked with Dr. Eddie Cole about his book "The Campus Color Line: College Presidents and the Struggle for Black Freedom". In the interview, we discuss the hardships of Black presidents during the civil rights movement. (Keep in mind that this interview was recorded in June 2022). I follow this interview up with potential solutions to the rollbacks to DEI in corporate and educational spaces.

The Campus Color Line: College Presidents and the Struggle for Black Freedom by Dr. Eddie Cole (Link: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691206745/the-campus-color-line?srsltid=AfmBOoot5i6GwrxHHfaLDlp34PISR3zpF5U7A15utV_x0G336rNYWvVH)

Resources:

Bills in NC:

Reduce Early Voting Period for Primaries (Link: https://ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H411v1.pdf)

House Bill 127 (Link: https://www.carolinajournal.com/nc-house-bill-to-ban-dei-agenda-in-state-and-local-government/ )

Articles on AI and Data Centers:

1. Georgia Senate committee passes bill to protect residents from data center costs (Link: https://thecurrentga.org/2025/02/25/georgia-senate-committee-passes-bill-to-protect-residents-from-data-center-costs/)

2. Coal-fired power plant, now retired, to become massive gas-powered campus for AI, data centers (Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/04/02/technology-ai-natural-gas-electricity-pennsylvania/66c1b050-0fd0-11f0-b319-ba9d1af23a2f_story.html)

3. As internet data centers multiply, efforts to control them are growing(Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/04/30/data-centers-regulations-northern-virginia-georgia-arizona/)

Georgia OB/GYN

1. Georgia’s Six-Week Abortion Ban Risks Worsening the State’s OB/GYN Shortage, According to Senate Testimony (Link: https://www.ossoff.senate.gov/press-releases/watch-georgias-six-week-abortion-ban-risks-worsening-the-states-ob-gyn-shortage-according-to-senate-testimony/)

2. More than 40% of Georgia’s counties are maternity care deserts (Link: https://www.ajc.com/news/health-news/more-than-40-of-georgias-counties-are-maternity-care-deserts/YTIJE6RD5ZHEFNKXU3XDQHBSXY/)

Affirmative Action

1. Who really Benefits from Affirmative Action (Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLz7fTsBjo0)

2. Palmer, R. (2008). The perceived elimination of affirmative action and the strengthening of historically Black colleges and universities. Journal of Black Studies, 40(4), 762–776. https://doi.org/10.1177/0021934708320729

3. A Referendum on Race Preferences Divides Michigan (https://www.chronicle.com/article/a-referendum-on-race-preferences-divides-michigan/)

4. Wise, T. (1998). Is Sisterhood Conditional? White Women and the Rollback of Affirmative Action. Feminist Formations, 10(3), 1–26. https://doi.org/10.2979/NWS.1998.10.3.1

5. Hawkins, S. (2020). Reverse Integration: Centering HBCUs in the Fight for Educational Equality. Social Science Research Network. https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.3684561

MSNBC

MSNBC Chews Up Black Women and Spits Them Out For Trump– Here’s the Proof (Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=259nTmWjiSQ&t=3s)

Bio: Dr. Nicole Parker leads advocacy efforts for Lewis-Burke’s biomedical research portfolio in areas concerning federal research policy, biomedical research workforce policy, and health care policy, with a focus on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other grantmaking agencies within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). She utilizes her prior experience as a biomedical researcher to connect with clients seeking to expand their biomedical research and health-funding portfolios. Nicole also uses her federal contractor experience with multiple offices within NIH to help clients better understand the priorities and inner workings of the agency.

Articles from Podcast Episode:

1. Hayes, Brenda D., and Leslie R. Boone. "Women's health research at historically Black colleges and universities." American Journal of Health Studies 17.2 (2001): 59.
2. Shavers, Vickie L., et al. "Barriers to racial/ethnic minority application and competition for NIH research funding." Journal of the National Medical Association 97.8 (2005): 1063.
3. Smith, K. C., Geddis, D., & Dumas, J. (2021). The role of the HBCU pipeline in diversifying the STEM workforce: Training the next generation of drug delivery researchers. Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, 176, 113866. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addr.2021.113866
4. Hofstra, B., Kulkarni, V. V., Galvez, S. M. N., He, B., Jurafsky, D., & McFarland, D. A. (2020). The diversity–innovation paradox in science. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(17), 9284-9291.
5. Platt, M. O. (2020). We exist. We are your peers. Nature Reviews Materials, 5(11), 783-784.
6. Stevens, K. R., Masters, K. S., Imoukhuede, P. I., Haynes, K. A., Setton, L. A., Cosgriff-Hernandez, E., ... & Eniola-Adefeso, O. (2021). Fund black scientists. Cell, 184(3), 561-565.