The Black People’s Response to the State of the Union
Native Land Pod
iHeartPodcasts and Reasoned Choice
4.8 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2026
⏱️ 107 minutes
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Summary
While the nation watched the State of the Union, we delivered the State of Our People.
Join Angela Rye, Karen Finney, Brittany Packnett Cunningham, Derrick Johnson, and more for the SOTP Wrap-Up, a direct response to the State of the Union — with clear actions and opportunities for Black communities to live, lead, and organize in our power.
Watch the full State of the People 2026 Broadcast: https://youtube.com/live/npi_jUd_CyQ
Read the Black Papers: https://stateoftheppl.com/blackpapers/
Our people are not a monolith.
But we can agree on this: our people deserve the best.
This is our alternative.
This is our agenda.
This is our future.
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Angela Rye as host, executive producer, and cofounder of Reasoned Choice Media; Andrew Gillum as host and producer, Bakari Sellers as host and producer, and Lauren Hansen as executive producer; LoLo Mychael is our research producer, and Nikolas Harter is our editor and producer. Special thanks to Chris Morrow and Lenard McKelvey, co-founders of Reasoned Choice Media.
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| 0:00.0 | Native Lamb Pod is a production of IHeart Radio in partnership with Reason Choice Media. |
| 0:07.4 | I thank you all for being here and I'm delighted to pass the baton to my twin, Angela T.Rye. |
| 0:15.8 | Thank you so much. |
| 0:17.1 | David, Germain, John. |
| 0:19.1 | Y'all, I'm worried to say Theresa, but here we go, Angela Teresa, go ahead. David Germain Johns Jane, John. I can't know. But here we go, Angela, Teresa, right? Go ahead. |
| 0:22.6 | David Germain Johns, thank you so much for hosting this evening for your grand closing. |
| 0:27.5 | That's still in the middle of the program. |
| 0:28.8 | As you all know, Donald J. not Germain. |
| 0:33.1 | Trump is actually still speaking right now on the House floor. |
| 0:38.3 | And what I want to try to do before we get into a critique of what he said mostly lies is just to be thankful for what we've built over the course of the last year. |
| 0:50.3 | Can you not hear me, David? |
| 0:52.3 | I can't. I was just talking about the lies and the kid, kid. He can't go. Okay. I was like, |
| 0:55.8 | I was like, is he telling me I'm on you? Okay. |
| 0:58.9 | What I want to just deepen into is what we've built |
| 1:01.8 | over the last year. For many of you all who joined us |
| 1:04.3 | for Donald Trump's, Brady and Slip, |
| 1:09.0 | a joint address to Congress last year, you know that we came together as a people for |
| 1:15.4 | the state of the people. |
| 1:16.3 | That was our very first gathering. |
| 1:17.9 | Before we gathered in person, we gathered together virtually for 24 hours talking |
| 1:23.0 | about all of the many things that this administration promised to do that would cause us harm that |
| 1:28.9 | many of us told you about leading up to the November 2024 elections. And then, of course, |
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