Broadcasted Hate, Expected Grace (Racial Slur at Michael B Jordan and Delroy Lindo)

The Breakfast Club

The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts

Comedy

4.4 • 14.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Fresh off the Femme It Forward “Femmeland at Sea” cruise, Loren LaRosa checks in with a full heart and a fuller perspective. Surrounded by over a thousand Black women celebrating joy, rest, and sisterhood—with unforgettable moments from Keyshia Cole, Monica, and SWV—Loren reflects on what it means to pause, receive, and understand that out of sight does not mean out of mind.

But while one space poured into the culture, another exposed its wounds.

Loren unpacks the disturbing moment at the BAFTA Awards when a racial slur was shouted during a live broadcast as Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo stood on stage. She breaks down the apology, the burden of “professionalism,” and the exhausting expectation that Black people must always respond with dignity in the face of disrespect

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.6	Guaranteed Human.
0:06.4	I'm a homeguard that knows a little bit about everything and everybody.
0:10.0	You know if you're going to lie about that, right?
0:12.2	Lauren came in hot.
0:14.2	Hey, y'all, what's up?
0:15.5	It's Lauren LaRosa, and this is the latest with Lauren LaRosa.
0:20.0	This is your daily dig on all things, pop culture, entertainment news,
0:23.9	and all of the conversations that shake the room, baby.
0:30.0	Checking in behind the scenes of the grind.
0:32.1	And to be honest, I feel like this whole episode is going to feel like a check-in
0:35.9	because I am fresh off of the Femland at sea
0:39.3	cruise presented by Femmit Forward.
0:42.3	Ms. Heather Lowry, a Delaware girl.
0:45.0	She put on a cruise, y'all.
0:46.7	Like that is so fly to me.
0:48.3	Like I kept telling her, like, girl, you don't understand how amazing this is.
0:53.5	It was her first year during the cruise. There were over
0:56.4	12 to 1,500 black women sailing a sea and just honestly filling up our cups. And I go to a lot of
1:04.5	different things that are like empowerment and women and black women and you know, and you feel good
1:09.7	when you leave those spaces but this was so
1:12.3	different i think number one because we spent days together and we didn't have a choice like we were
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