Have you heard about OMG? Yes. This is a website the New York Times wirecutter featured as one of their most popular gifts. And for good reason, it presents new findings from the largest ever research study into women's pleasure and intimacy. In partnership with researchers at Yale and at Indiana University, they asked tens of thousands of women what they

wished they and their partners had discovered sooner. They found the patterns in those

discoveries and all that wisdom and intimacy is organized as hundreds of short videos,

animations, and how-toes. When you see OMG, yes, you might understand why wirecutter recommended it.

It is warm, honest, and has regular women talking about real experiences.

It's truly eye-opening.

See for yourself at omgyes.com.

That's OMGS.com. For generations in the United States, being born into slavery, nearly guaranteed you would live your whole life and eventually die as the legal property of someone else.

How could anyone possibly find joy and even hope in such a life?

Well, for that, people needed magic,

the kind quietly brought from West Africa,

refined in the forests around plantations,

and then passed down like an heirloom through generations of women.

From KERA in Dallas, this is think.

I'm Chris Boyd. Black Girl Magic is an empowering

phrase to print on water bottles and workout gear and add to social media posts. But my guest's

research traces the roots of this 21st century hashtag deep into history and reveals the

places this magic is still hiding in plain sight throughout

American culture, if we can learn where to look. Lindsay Stewart is a black feminist philosopher

and associate professor of philosophy at the University of Memphis. Her book is called The Conjuring

of America, Mojo's, Mermaids, medicine, and 400 years of black women's magic.

All this week, we're listening back to our favorite shows of 2025, and I wanted to revisit

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