Rick Ross, a music mogul, has written a blueprint/self-help book to help young aspiring achievers reach the levels of success he has achieved in his career.   --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osborne/support

Da Bruhs BookShelf

Rick Ross's "The Perfect Day to Boss UP" A Hustler's Guide to Building Your Empire

Growing up black, smart, half American, and half African in America's black culture and at the edge of the social media explosion, Issa Rae excepts  AWKWARD as her social brand. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osborne/support

The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl "Embracing your Difference"

This is the final episode in Tarana Burke and Brene Brown's "You Are Your Best Thing". We wrap up the book and give our overall rating on the book.  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osborne/support

You Are Your Best Thing Pt 4 "Could it just be that you are soft?"

We are reviewing essays 11-15 from authors Kaia Naadira, Deran Young, Sonya Renee Taylor, Irene Antonia Diane Reece, and Yolo Akili Robinson --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osborne/support

You Are Your Best Thing PT 3 "Are black men a huge part of the problem?"

Join the da bruhs bookshelf as we give our thoughts on Tarana Burke and Brene' Brown's You are Your Best Thing --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osborne/support

You Are Your Best Thing PT 2 "What is a man?"

Part 1 of a series of parts on this anthology about vulnerability, shame resilience, and the black experience. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osborne/support

You Are Your Best Thing

Gucci is a true example of what second changes, personal accountability, change can do for changing for the better. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osborne/support

Gucci Mane, From PTSD/BAN to the ATL Mount Rushmore

This episode the bruhs discuss Assata, an Autobiography. The memoir details her journey from community activist through her framing and eventually political exile. This personal account provides insight into the very layered mind of Assata. The team questions some of her decisions and wonder, “did it really have to go down like it did?” Listen as we try to deconstruct the complicated and incomparable life of Assata. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osborne/support

Assata Shakur an Autobiography.... Was it all worth it?

Stay With Me - Some marry love. Some marry for money. But when the locus of your marriage's purpose comes from a place without, what are those involved to do to keep the love within? Stay With Me, is the interrupted love story of Yejide (ye gee day) and Akin (akeen), lovers content with one another, whose happiness is put under the strain of pressures of family and what others define a family to be. When the couple experience difficulty having a child, they find they have no safe refuge in family. The ends to which the lovers go to satisfy perceived wants and needs lead to an intimate story of shock, betrayal, and ultimately redemption as told by from the perspective of both spouses. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osborne/support

Stay with Me "A Nigerian Entanglement"

This episode the bruhs discuss From #blacklivesmatter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamata Taylor. Keeanga-Yamata does an excellent job deconstructing the myths around injustices inflicted on blacks, dispelling negative myths regarding work ethic, morals, and will to achieve. We’re taken on a succinct and tacit journey from the middle passage all the way to the killing of Michael Brown. Taylor indicts white-supremacists, black activists, and the black bourgeois for perpetuating the narrative that has been so harmful to blacks. Join the bruhs in this passionate discussions. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osborne/support

From#BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberations...?‍♂️???Capitalism?

On this episode, the Da Bruhs explore Shawn D. Rochester’s “The Black Tax: The Cost of Being Black in America.” The book gives discrete examples not only of how being black causes one to pay more for homes, cars, and all of life’s necessities, but also the missed opportunities and lost wages black people often aren’t even aware of. Join us, as the Da Bruhs share stories of being taxed and the impact on the greater society. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osborne/support

The Black Tax "The Cost of Being Black"??

Da Bruhs take on “Hurricanes,” a memoir of Rick Ross. Ross chronicles his life growing up as a middle-class black kid in Mississippi who is uprooted to Miami once his dad got a promotion. It wouldn’t be long before the allure of the streets beckoned him into a life of hustling. We are taken from his early adolescence through his days as a correctional officer and onto his rise as a Rap heavyweight. Da Bruhs meet this story with the skepticism, adulation and hostility usually reserved for the play cousin that likes to lie. Tune in as the Da Bruhs discus --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osborne/support

Rick Ross’Hurricanes a Memoir??? “It’s Cinematic like a Movie”

The bruh’s review Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half, a tale of twin sisters who now live very distant lives, but are eternally entangled. Twins Desiree and Stella Vignes decide to escape a life of what they believe to be monotony and unreconciled strivings for what they thought would be more. Things take a fascinating turn when one of the twins absconds and decides to live the rest of her life as a white woman. This novel if full of twists and raises questions on what identity is and how its function affects our lives. We cover topics on race, gender, sexuality, and the quality of self-worth versus the world’s continuous effort to define us. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osborne/support

The Vanishing Half (I have some insecurities???)

On this podcast episode, the Bruhs discuss James Baldwin’s “Giovanni’s Room.” This tragic love story follows David, a man who struggles with balancing self-acceptance against the norms of society and ultimately leads him to lose the only person who loved him.  Set against a background of 1940's Paris, Baldwin skillfully binds us to these star-crossed lovers who can never be. We’re joined by one of the bruh’s daughters, Nikyya, who offers a fresh perspective on the tale. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osborne/support

James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room "Not your typical Love story"

Another episode where we delve into the content of a popular book by a popular radio host who has made a career out of broadcasting his truth. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osborne/support

Black Privilege "What did he just say?"????‍♀️?

A book review podcast Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lennon-o-givens/support

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