Funding is the Matter

About Funding is the Matter

Funding is the Matter is a podcast that talks about the surplus of issues caused by the racial wealth gap. I tackle different science and policy issues on the local, state, and federal levels. Within each section, I am going to have a policy memo episode. A policy memo is a document that provides analysis and/or recommendations for a particular audience regarding a particular situation or problem. This is a podcast to educate and empower us all to take our future into our own hands. For the first series, I am going to be investigating the lack of funds for Historically Black Colleges and Universities or HBCUs.This podcast proves to define that Black Lives Matter is a scientific and social problem.To subscribe to this podcast, you can find it on Spotify, Apple, or other podcast platforms. This is a bi-weekly podcast, and it will be released on July 25th.

Publisher

Sarah Michelle Lee Bartley Productions

Category

education · science · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

18 Jul 2022

Latest episode

30 May 2025

Latest episodes

21 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   30 May 2025

   Where are the activists? Where is the protest music?

   The host examines the rise and fall of SNCC alongside the growth of Africana Studies, questioning the radical potential of pop music and proposing a musician's union.

2. 

   16 May 2025

   What Happened to Unions? How Can We Reunionize?

   The host discusses the historical participation of Black people in unions, highlighting the CIO's role in interracial unionization and its influence on civil rights policies, while also examining the music industry's lack of unions.

3. 

   11 Apr 2025

   DEI Rollback and Fall of Affirmative Action with Dr. Eddie Cole

   Host discusses affirmative action's pros and cons, then interviews Dr. Eddie Cole about his book and the challenges Black college presidents faced during the civil rights movement.

Who has been a guest on Funding is the Matter

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Dr Eddie Cole
• Dr Nicole Parker
• Dr Jeannette Wade
• Kim Cameron
• Dr Felicia Commodore

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

25

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Podcast Authority Score: 27 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

28

Social presence

0

YouTube

63

Engagement

0

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Guest appearances

Books guests

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