The Black Tax

About The Black Tax

What is The Black Tax? The Black Tax is a podcast about the fine print attached to Black success in America. Produced, and hosted by Malik Shakur, the show moves through corporate America, entrepreneurship, entertainment, music, law, politics, and culture to explore what it means to be simultaneously Black, ambitious, creative, educated, and highly visible in rooms built to tolerate only one version of you at a time. Some conversations are about work. Some are about art. Most are about power. The podcast began with stories from corporate America and big law. It evolved into a broader examination of identity, performance, masculinity, class, creativity, and reinvention, and the strange negotiations required to move through American life while carrying all of those things at once.

Publisher

Malik Shakur

Category

business · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

1 Jan 2024

Latest episode

26 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

145 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   26 Oct 2026

   EP 149 How Did You Get This

   White folk are always amazed when Black people get something they thought they deserved.

2. 

   19 Oct 2026

   EP 146 Everything Is Worth a Shot

   Not trying is not an excuse; trying is what matters in your professional development.

3. 

   12 Oct 2026

   EP 145 Your Character Always Wins

   I let people think what they think, but my character always defends who I am!

Reach and audience

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

Spotify

5.0 / 5

1 ratings