A Love Letter to Black Women Surviving Betrayal | NLP Replay
Native Land Pod
iHeartPodcasts and Reasoned Choice
4.8 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
The last decade of Tiffany Cross’ life has seen heartbreak and betrayal, moving through failed relationships at the same time her country turned its back on her. In her new book, Love, Me, Tiffany writes about how she came home to herself.
Tiffany’s book is a love letter to Black women in the struggle. She sees some of that struggle in the recent drama between basketball star Klay Thompson, and his (former) girlfriend, rapper Meg thee Stallion.
Join hosts Angela Rye, Andrew Gillum, and Bakari Sellers, along with Tiffany Cross for this segment from episode #129 that aired on 04-30-26
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.3 | Native Lamppata's production of I-Heart Radio and partnership with Reason Choice Media. |
| 0:17.0 | So on Tuesday, May 5th, N-L-P-O-G, Tiffany D. Cross, as a book coming out to the masses, |
| 0:24.7 | Love Me, a letter to black women in a toxic country career and relationship. |
| 0:29.9 | Look at that beautiful book cover. |
| 0:32.0 | We want you all to make sure if you haven't ordered it yet, go and order it now. |
| 0:35.7 | Tip would say from a smaller bookstore, |
| 0:53.8 | especially a black-owned bookstore, just so y'all know Pro Tip, if you order from an independent bookstore, and there are multiple and lots of different communities and cities around the country that helps folks to get on the New York Times bestsellers list, and we know that's where she belongs. So tip, talk to us a little bit about this book. |
| 0:55.0 | What inspired it? |
| 0:56.5 | How is the journey going? |
| 0:58.0 | You're on the other side of writing now. How do you feel? and we know that's where she belongs. So tip, talk to us a little bit about this book. What inspired it? |
| 0:55.3 | How is the journey going? |
| 0:56.6 | You're on the other side of writing. |
| 0:57.8 | Now, how do you feel? |
| 1:00.3 | I feel great. |
| 1:02.2 | You're all in the book. |
| 1:03.4 | I write in the book about Angela, Bacari, and Andrew. |
| 1:07.1 | It is an expose. |
| 1:08.6 | That's hell all of the behind the scenes of what happens at NLP. |
| 1:13.3 | No, I feel really good. |
| 1:15.1 | You know, this was years in the making, and it definitely touches on a lot of the topics that we talked about over the years on the podcast. |
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