Let's Elaborate
Let’s Elaborate is a space where ideas meet conversation. Here, we unpack current events, dive into books that spark thought, and highlight podcasts that stir the soul. It’s a place for reflection, dialogue, and discovery—where big topics become personal and relatable. Whether you come to be informed, inspired, or simply to see things from a new angle, you’ll always leave with something to carry forward.
Step into the story. Each piece is written on Lyfe Be Lyfn and shared in audio on the podcast—so you can read it, hear it, and feel it in your own way .
Successful Failure: Lessons Learned Flat on My Face
Laugh-out-loud in one moment and perceptive in the next, Successful Failure is a wild ride from one of America’s funniest comics and a sendup of our ideals around hustle culture and success.
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The Marathon Don't Stop: The Life and Times of Nipsey Hussle
A moving and powerful exploration of an extraordinary artist, The Marathon Don’t Stop places Hussle in historical context and unpacks his complex legacy. Combining on-the-ground reporting and candid interviews, “Rob Kenner has given us the book the world - and hip-hop and pop culture - has been waiting for...one that should be celebrated alongside the best biographies ever about iconic figures we have loved - and lost” - Kevin Powell, author of When We Free the World
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Roland Martin: Black Star Network
Roland Martin is intentional about bringing trustworthy news for us, by us. For far too long the narrative has been controlled by opressors. If you are ready for more than entertainment and want to be informed about what's relevant clock it!
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Celestine Prophecy
This book is a first-person narrative of spiritual awakening. The narrator is in a transitional period of his life and begins to notice instances of synchronicity, which is the belief that coincidences have a meaning personal to those who experience them.
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Leslie F*cking Jones
I am currently listening to this book and it is giving me lyfe! I feel like I'm sitting in a room with my homegirl and she is telling her story and how she became Leslie effing Jones! But here's the gig: she been her!
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The Origins of Our Discontents
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson is one of the most relevant awakening pieces of our time. Much like Alex Haley’s Roots—which captured millions and opened blinded eyes to truths long ignored—Caste reveals the hidden architecture of division in America and beyond. It forces readers to confront uncomfortable realities about hierarchy, privilege, and injustice in ways that are both unforgettable and transformative.
Though the book, and later Ava DuVernay’s film Origin, may not have received the accolades they deserve, their impact is undeniable. Together, they challenge us not only to see the truth, but to wrestle with it—and to imagine a more just and humane future.
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The Root of All Evil
The inspiration for “Origin,” which DuVernay both wrote and directed, is Isabel Wilkerson’s acclaimed, best-selling 2020 book “Caste.” In it, Wilkerson argues that to fully understand the United States and its divisive history, you need to look past race and grasp the role played by caste, which she sees as an artificial and static structural “ranking of human value that sets the presumed supremacy of one group against the presumed inferiority of other groups.” Caste, she writes, separates people — including into racially ranked groups — and keeps them divided. These separations, as the subtitle puts it, are “The Origins of Our Discontents.”
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Ida B. Wells
Ida B. Wells was a fearless journalist, activist, and educator who used the power of her pen to expose the horrors of lynching in the United States. Despite threats to her life, she documented injustices with courage, challenging both racism and sexism at a time when it was dangerous to do so. Her legacy as a truth-teller and advocate for justice helped lay the foundation for the civil rights movement.
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Podcasts I'm Tuned Into
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The Tokens Podcast With Giovonnie
