The Brown Girls Guide to Politics
Welcome to The Brown Girls Guide to Politics -- the one stop shop for women of color who want to hear and talk about the world of politics. Host A’shanti Gholar leads conversations with women changing the face of politics. Episodes include interviews with politicians, candidates, and influencers. Get ready for roundtables, analyzing current events, and more!
Unpacking Project 2025: For the People and the Planet
Unpacking Project 2025: Reproductive Justice in a Post-Roe World
Unpacking Project 2025: Education is an Everyone Issue
Unpacking Project 2025: Presidents are Not Kings
What Follows Brat Summer? A Deep Dive into Third Parties and the 2024 Election
Very Mindful, Very Demure? A Close Look at Third Parties
Is It All Peachy? A Case Study from Georgia
Third Parties and More: BGG Season 10
A Conversation with ActBlue’s Tamara Wilds Lawson
Uplifting the Black Vote with LaTosha Brown
America’s Inescapable Racial Violence Problem
Investing in the Future through Education
A Uniquely American Problem: the Gun Violence Epidemic
Immigrant Rights are Human Rights
Let’s Give Money to Black Women
The Truth About Environmental Racism
Rebuilding the House: A Post-Roe Conversation
Midterm Matters: BGG Season 9
BONUS: Ordinary Equality — Hanging On to a Future
Eyes on Georgia: A Conversation with Fair Fight Action
BONUS: Ordinary Equality — The End of Roe v. Wade
Introducing...The Accidental Activist!
SCOTUS and Reproductive Rights: Fighting the Same Fight
Women Bring the Vote
SCOTUS Needs Ketanji Brown Jackson
Lessons Learned: A Conversation with ActBlue
How to Make a Stronger Democracy
Bonus: From Getting Even with Anita Hill: Reimagining 1991
We Are the Backbone of Our Communities
Small Starts, Big Victories
Representation at Every Level
The Grace of a Trailblazer
Welcome to Season 8
Bonus Episode: Ordinary Equality, Roe v. Wade
Bonus Episode: Global President of Pfizer Vaccines, Nanette Cocero
In Their Words: COVID Survivors
Back to School
COVID and Indian Country
Stop Asian Hate
The She-Cession
Pro-Vaxxer
Welcome to Season 7
A House & Senate in Favor: Reproductive Healthcare & The 100 Days
Addressing the Black Maternal Healthcare Crisis
Presenting: Ordinary Equality
“The Floor, not the Ceiling:” The Supreme Court in 2021
Reproductive Justice & Women in the COVID Economy
Women’s Healthcare: Keeping Up The Fight
Vaccines, Trust, and the Global Pandemic
And So We Begin
Welcome to Season 6
Looking Forward: Immigration and DACA
What’s Next for the Biden-Harris Team?
And the Winner is ...Democracy
“Too Ambitious?” How the press covers women candidates
Visibility is on the ballot
Breonna's Law: Why we need police reform
Election 2020: BGG Season 5
Freedom Summer: Brittany Packnett Cunningham
Freedom Summer: D’atra “Dee Dee” Jackson
Freedom Summer: Barbara Lee
Bonus: Brown Girls Make History
Nana Gyamfi: "People come to America for a dream."
Jennifer Carroll Foy: “Let’s run and win!”
Montserrat Arredondo: “Always start within your community.”
Imara Jones: “Be brave even when you think you can’t.”
Jennifer Epps-Addison & Nse Ufot: “Make the vision a reality.”
Kabzuag Vaj: “People closest to the pain need to lead.”
Tram Nguyen: “Listen to your inner voice.”
Alexis McGill Johnson: “Everyone has a contribution.”
Kathryn Quintin: “Do not conform.”
Helen Gym: “Get local, Get active, change the world.”
DeJuana Thompson: “Your voice is critical.”
Mia Ives-Rublee: “Talk to us, not at us.”
Andrea Mercado & Lorella Praeli: “How we show up for people in crisis matters.”
Aimee Allison & Joy-Ann Reid: “Do not be afraid to show up."
Welcome to Season 3
Encyclopedia Womannica: Ida B. Wells
What Can We Expect in 2020?
Women of Color Leading Progressive Organizations
LaTosha Brown: “The world needs us.”
Women's March 2020
Women of Color Leading on Capitol Hill
Women of Color Leading National Democratic Political Committees
Senator Elizabeth Warren: "Persist."
Happy Holidays from The BGG
Kat Calvin & Lakshmi Sridaran: “Stay grounded.”
Sen. Cory Booker: “Walk by faith.”
Dr. Gabriela Lemus & Mayra Macías: “I know who I am and what I stand for.”
Rachael Lorenzo: “Take up space.”
Paulette Jordan: “It is our right to be here.”
Peggy Flanagan and Tashia Arnold: "Our ancestors believed in this day."
The Colored Girls: "Know your own power."
Welcome to Season 2
Season 2 Teaser & Giveaway
Heather Barmore: “We stand on the shoulders of giants.”
Leslie Herod: “Here’s who I am.”
Encyclopedia Womannica: Shirley Chisholm
Aditi Hardikar: “I’m going to just will it into the universe.”
Introducing: Encyclopedia Womannica
Ruth Buffalo: “We have a long way to go.”
Ayanna Pressley: “You can’t poll transformation.”
Jess Morales Rocketto: “I'm nobody’s token.”
Madalene Mielke: “You’re investing in the next generation.”
She the People Roundtable: "Treat us like swing voters."
Kiah Morris: "That is the strength we carry."
Deb Haaland: “It’s a community effort.”
Aimee Allison: “We can lift each other up.”
Stacey Abrams: “This is about our future.”