// archives

Episode #43: Safety First! (09.11.08)

This week Hanifah and Olive discuss Labor Day weekend celebrations in Brooklyn and safety concerns.

U People Episode #37 “Bringing U People Together”

Hanifah is back from touring as she and Olive talk about what is next for the U People community.

U People Podcast – Episode #23 “Making Movies”

This week Hanifah is still on tour but thats okay because Olive is still hanging in there. Check out the behind the scenes look at the “Do You Mind” video with director M. Asli Ducan. This week with Asli she explores a little bit of Harlem; a little bit of U People and a little [...]

U People Episode # 22 “Where is Hanifah?”

Hanifah is long gone on tour with Brooklyn Funk Essentials to parts unknown whatever shall Olive do. Get by with the help of friends of course. This week Kim Knox of Ubiquita NYC is on in the mix helping her focus and bring out the best in this weeks podcast. We have a big announcement [...]

U People Podcast – Episode #21 “Got Questions?”

Lets talk about it. SEX that is. Our guide on this quest to find the answers to our most indelicate questions is our own Dr. G Love aka Dr. Geryll Robinson resident healer. Find out how to manage the inevitable “crazies” around love and sex that this life can bring you.

U People Podcast – Episode #20 “The Short List”

This week Hanifah and Olive welcome Stacey Ann Chin to the hot seat. Well, it was her own couch but you get the picture. We answer tough questions like why she feels she can’t get a date as well as a unexpected look at who she thinks is hot. Gloria Bigelow is back with another [...]

U People Podcast – Episode #19 “Big Butter Jesus”

Ohio, Ohio O how we love you. Hanifah and Olive travel to the snowy wilds of the midwest. At the Cincinnati Herstory Festival they show U People the film and return bleary eyed to talk with Shelley Nicole of Shelley Nicole’s Blakbushe about her own trip to Ohio. Shelley shares a video diary of the [...]

U People Episode #17: “We Ain’t No Cosby Show”

Hanifah and Olive are in Baltimore for a screening of their film U People. While there they visit some old friends Peirre and Jamyla Bennu of exittheapple.com and get lost in Fat Albert lunch boxes, Fisher Price record players, The Wiz and more. We also have a U People story from Reverend Skip!

U People Episode#16: “Clean Cups, Dives and Gold Stars

Hanifah and Olive travel 2 hours to Jersey to visit friend and playwright Zina Camblin as her new play “And Her Hair Went With Her” debuted at the New Jersey Rep. Later that night they sparked a lively conversation about the rarely sighted Black Obsessive Compulsives, dyke dives and gold star lesbians. Also we have [...]

U People #14: “Solid as Barack”