About That Life
Booking Overview
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Episodes: 6
Frequency: Every two weeks
Rating: 4.7/5.0
Estimated listeners: 1,000 - 10,000
Listener location: USA
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Host
Garrison Hayes - Award-winning journalist who explores overlooked figures from Black history and connects their legacies to contemporary questions of justice and social change.
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Recent Guest Discussions
Josh Johnson - Dick Gregory’s Subversive Political Comedy, Activism, And Commitment To His Values.
Mohammed Elnaiem - George Washington Williams, The Congo Genocide, Anti-colonial Activism, And Lessons For Confronting Atrocities.
Erika Alexander - Octavia Butler’s Work, Radical Imagination, Afrofuturism, And The Relationship Between History And The Future.
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Episodes
The Slave Revolt They Tried to Erase
October 09, 2026
In 1811, hundreds of enslaved people in what’s now Louisiana joined together to burn down plantations, free captives, and kill their enslavers. They came from different tribes, spoke different languages, and coordinated across long distances with one goal - freedom. So why haven't we ever heard of it? Journalist Michael Harriot joins us to tell the story of the 1811 German Coast Uprising. Who’s a defiant person you think we should feature on the show? Or do you have a story about someone who ...
Gloria Richardson and The Revolutionary Road to Change
October 01, 2026
When Gloria Richardson pushed a National Guardsman’s bayonet out of her face, she captured the defiant spark that made her one of the most important figures of the civil rights and Black liberation struggles. Governor Wes Moore of Maryland joins Garrison to talk about the lasting legacy of the woman known as “The Lady General of Civil Rights.” Who’s a defiant person you think we should feature on the show? Or do you have a story about someone who inspired you to be “about that life"? Leave u...
Dick Gregory and The Art of Subversive Comedy (with Josh Johnson)
September 17, 2026
How did comedy get so… political? Well, we have Dick Gregory to partially thank for that. Garrison and comedian/The Daily Show host Josh Johnson talk about Gregory’s subversive brand of political comedy, his activism and how he put his values above the fear of being cancelled. Who’s a defiant person you think we should feature on the show? Or do you have a story about someone who inspired you to be “about that life"? Leave us a voicemail at 814-326-2866. Support the show by subscribin...
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