Embracing Race seeks to provide a brave space for truthful storytelling that allows people to think beyond what has been learned and carried and wonder an alternative. This show connects the intersections of life to find ways to dismantle societal constructs that divide us.
Embracing Race: Conversations with Truth and Intention
Claim This Podcastby Hosts: Shani McIlwain & Jesy Littlejohn
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Podcast Overview
Embracing Race seeks to provide a brave space for truthful storytelling that allows people to think beyond what has been learned and carried and wonder an alternative. This show connects the intersections of life to find ways to dismantle societal constructs that divide us.
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Publishing Since
1/17/2023
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Recent Episodes
April 7, 2026
Worker of the Word: Rewriting the Stories We Carry
Send us Fan Mail What does it mean to work the word when your story holds so many layers? Hosts Shani McIlwain and Jesy Littlejohn sit down with special guest Micheal J. Ivory Jr.—a proud queer Black man, first-generation college graduate, and Duke-trained writer and teacher—for a conversation rooted in truth, identity, and lived experience. Raised in a Pentecostal tradition, Micheal brings a powerful perspective on how language, faith, and culture shape the stories we carry. Together, the...
February 24, 2026
Take it Out the Groupchat: Be So For Real
Send a text This week on Embracing Race, Shani and Jesy are taking it out the groupchat and straight to the mic. In our brand-new segment, “Take It Out the Groupchat,” we’re saying the things that usually stay between besties — the spicy takes, the side-eyes, the “be so for real” moments. We get into the current political chaos, racism in the NFL, and why Hitler’s name keeps popping up in today’s America (yeah… we’re going there). It’s bold, it’s honest, it’s a little messy — in the best w...
February 17, 2026
Sacred Stories: Where Art, Theology and Race Converge
Send a text Happy Black History Month! In this episode of Embracing Race: Conversations with Truth & Intention, we sit with the fabulous Dr. Tamisha A. Tyler — theologian, poet, cultural firebrand, and lifelong “lover of people.” Think theology with swagger, poetry with heft, and wisdom with a wink — all served with an Erykah Badu kind of sauce. A proud Butler Scholar, Dr. Tyler brings her deep engagement with Octavia E. Butler’s work into conversation with her own creative and ac...
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