Is America Great Yet? | NLP at Essence Fest 2025
Native Land Pod
iHeartPodcasts and Reasoned Choice
4.6 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2025
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
A recording of NLP’s show at Essence fest in New Orleans! Hosts Tiffany Cross, Angela Rye, and Andrew Gillum team up with special guests to track Project 2025, take stock of the current state of America, and ask what it means to build a country that truly serves all of us.
Featuring special guests Rep. Jasmine Crockett, State Rep. and Vice Chair of the Democratic National Convention, Malcolm Kenyatta, President of the Power Coalition for Electoral Justice, Ashley Shelton, and more…
Democracy requires participation. Our guests hone in on how the Democratic party can change to encourage (rather than discourage) that participation.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:05.1 | So what happened to Chappaquittic? |
| 0:07.2 | Well, it really depends on who you talk to. |
| 0:09.2 | There are many versions of what happened in 1969 |
| 0:11.7 | when a young Ted Kennedy drove a car into a pond. |
| 0:15.2 | And left a woman behind to drown. |
| 0:18.7 | Chappaquittic is a story of a tragic death |
| 0:20.7 | and how the Kennedy machine took control. |
| 0:23.4 | Every week, we go behind the headlines and beyond the drama of America's royal family. |
| 0:28.3 | Listen to United States of Kennedys on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:37.5 | On the latest episode of Next Question with me, Katie Couric, I sat down with Jasmine Crockett, |
| 0:43.4 | Democratic Representative of Texas. |
| 0:45.9 | She's holding out the fork for her party in one of the most conservative states in the |
| 0:50.1 | union. |
| 0:50.8 | I think that ultimately, who will become the Democratic nominee for president will be |
| 0:55.6 | someone that has been out there and has shown that they won't allow themselves to be punched |
| 1:01.0 | and just say thank you. Like, they will punch back. Listen to next question with me, Katie Couric on |
| 1:06.8 | the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:12.0 | Show me how good it can get today, God, and show the rest of the world what we already know. |
| 1:17.3 | It can't get no better than being hella Black, Hela Queer, and Hella Christian. |
| 1:22.0 | My name is Joseph Rees. |
| 1:24.1 | I am the creator and host of Hella Black, Hella Queer, Hella Christian. |
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