Episodes

  • An Obsidian Flash Review: Genius: MLK/X

    An Obsidian Flash Review: Genius: MLK/X
    May 26 2024

    An exploration of the intertwined lives and philosophies of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, alongside their impactful wives, Coretta Scott King and Betty Shabazz.
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    22 mins
  • An Obsidian Flash Review: American Fiction

    An Obsidian Flash Review: American Fiction
    Feb 28 2024

    A humorous and biting commentary on the paradox of Black Excellence, and a majestically high-quality American story, that is multi-layered, provocative, beautiful, affirming, and funny.

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    29 mins
  • An Obsidian Flash Review: Chronicles of a Diamond by the Black Pumas

    An Obsidian Flash Review: Chronicles of a Diamond by the Black Pumas
    Dec 15 2023

    Black Pumas represent Black Excellence in music. This hard to classify performing duo lays down music tracks that sound out of the box, yet oddly familiar.
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    18 mins
  • An Obsidian Flash Review: They Cloned Tyrone

    An Obsidian Flash Review: They Cloned Tyrone
    Dec 15 2023

    Think Superfly meets The Matrix. Go deep in this comedic sci-fi conspiracy. So much more beneath the surface of this apparent plot line. You'll be laughing and then be like "what??"
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    25 mins
  • An Obsidian Flash Review: The Power

    An Obsidian Flash Review: The Power
    Oct 6 2023

    Watch out. What if the tables were turned, and women had physical dominance over men? The global thriller poses that very question and we look into it...
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    27 mins
  • An Obsidian Flash Review: The Stoop

    An Obsidian Flash Review: The Stoop
    Mar 7 2023
    The Stoop is a well-produced, thoughtful, funny, and poignant podcast series that covers issues from a Women's perspective, a Black perspective, and most surely, a human perspective. Well worth subscribing to! Join us for our Flash Review where the ladies of The Stoop get four rocks.
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    19 mins
  • An Obsidian Flash Review: I Wish You Would from Trevor Noah

    An Obsidian Flash Review: I Wish You Would from Trevor Noah
    Jan 12 2023
    Trevor Noah is a visionary. Exiting The Daily Show at the top, Noah returns to his comedian roots in the Netflix special "I Wish You Would". Join us for our Flash Review where Trevor gets four and a 1/2 rocks.
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    22 mins
  • An Obsidian Flash Review: Allow Me To Retort by Elie Mystal

    An Obsidian Flash Review: Allow Me To Retort by Elie Mystal
    Nov 19 2022
    The Editors of The Obsidian review Elie Mystal's book 'Allow Me To Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution' and give it 4.75 'Rocks'. Mystal cuts right to the chase in identifying the fallacies and subterfuge on the part of one of the major political parties, from the perspective of the Constitution. Read his timely treatise on the Constitution and what it really says about our times.
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    34 mins