Shine Bright (ft. Danyel Smith)

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Jarrett Hill, Culture, Fanti, Comedy, Tre'vell Anderson, Journalists, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2022

⏱️ 71 minutes

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We’re trying out a new format for those occasions when our guest is so extraordinary, it’d be a disservice to limit the conversation to just thirty minutes. This week Tre’vell and jarrett are thrilled to have the legendary editor, writer and author Danyel Smith. Her new book is Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop. Danyel gives a primer on the need to tell the full history of our woefully unappreciated Black, female artists, and why it’s long past time for Black journalists to tell our stories.

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0:00.0	Hey there, beautiful people. Welcome to Fan Tide Podcast for all those complex and complicated
0:07.6	conversations about the great areas in our lives. I was just arguing with myself about whether
0:13.0	I'm going to say Complicado or complicated and in the middle of this sentence made the decision.
0:19.7	Also, I am here from the future past or from the past future, Jared Hill.
0:26.4	Oh lord. I am Entertainment Journalist, Editor, Authorist, Travelle, Anderson. What Jared
0:33.0	means by that is Jared's currently on a little hiatus. So we are recording this episode in advance.
0:41.2	But we also have a special setup for you today. Something new we're trying. This won't be
0:48.4	every episode. We will go back to our normal formats. But you know, when we have an interview
0:54.0	with a fave, okay, and that interview goes to a legend, okay. When that when it goes over
1:02.1	because it's just that good, sometimes we want to just give you the entire Convasasi on. So
1:07.0	that's going to be the episode today. We're going to jump right into it. Our guest is Danielle Smith,
1:12.2	author of Shine Bright, a very personal history of black women in pop and host of the podcast,
1:19.4	black girl song book. Hope you enjoy. Alrighty beautiful people. So to get us into our discussion
1:26.3	today, I want to tell you a little story. Back in 2013, the year of our Lord and Savior,
1:32.8	Beyonce, Christ, I was in a graduate journalism program at Stanford University. I've told you about
1:38.4	that experience many times on this podcast. I want to say there was like 10 of us in the program,
1:44.0	only two of us were black. We had this seminar class, each quarter in which the professor,
1:49.6	who was one of the leaders of the journalism program would invite folks to come in like working
1:53.6	journalists to come and talk about the careers and you know, inspire us and give us the real real
1:58.2	on working in the industry. Well, there came a point in that course where I realized that not
2:04.6	an area person brought in to talk to us was black. Okay. I want to say nobody was of color,
2:11.1	but I'm just going to I know for sure no one else was black and you know me. I politely inquired
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