A power of attorney looked at his mother's accounts properly for the first time in six years and found $41,000 gone. The Medicaid application needs sixty months of statements, and payment is due September 1.

A state rep with a union-organizing background and less than a million dollars beat a retired lieutenant colonel who raised over $16 million. The table works out what actually did it.

A woman who spent eleven years writing the auto-reject rules for an applicant tracking system has now collected 312 automated rejections of her own. She asked the table three questions, in order, and closed every easy exit in advance.

The version of Sojourner Truth’s most famous speech that everybody quotes was written down twelve years later by a white abolitionist who gave her a dialect she never had. Georgetown’s Dr. Robert J. Patterson explains what the archive actually shows, and why he still does not throw that version out.

Courtney Clenney pleaded guilty to manslaughter in Christian Obumseli’s death and got six years with time served — and the State Attorney says his family approved the deal. Big O, Big El and Krush ask whether we’re allowed to be angrier than the family.

Haiti’s TPS ended July 27, 2026 and roughly 350,000 people lost work authorization overnight. A Haitian-American woman who voted for Trump asks Big O, Big El and Krush whether the diaspora is really one family — and they answer her directly.

A specialist keeps asking for the father’s family history — and the chart her husband is proudly building belongs to the wrong family. Big O, Big El and Krush break down what she should say, when to say it, and how to protect herself first.

Curtis is 24, she is 39, and she owns the condo, the car and the bed. Big O, Big El and Krush on what it really costs a man to be kept, and the question he should be asking instead.

On July 24, 2026, the Department of Education stripped disparate impact from its Title VI rules. Big O, Big El and Krush break down what that means for Black students, IEPs, and parents with nowhere left to appeal.

Black women are about 7.5% of US teachers but only 1.4% of superintendents. Authors Tamra Simpson and Valery Dragon name the systems condition behind it — and what fighting back actually looks like.

A therapist asked one of the fellas four words - “What do you need?” - and the room went silent. The crew breaks down why Black men can’t name their own needs, and where that silence gets installed.

The Congressional Black Caucus’s PAC condemned Michigan candidate William Lawrence over resurfaced 2024 remarks about older Black Democratic leaders — and Black voters in his own district defended him anyway. Big O, Big El and Krush on who actually speaks for Black folks.

A Black Box letter from a woman engaged to the best man she has ever known — who she has never once finished with in three years. Big O, Big El and Krush on why the silence, not the sex, is the thing that breaks a marriage.

A 47-year-old husband hid his ED and low-T medication in his toolbox for two years. When his wife finally found it, her first question wasn’t “are you okay?” — it was “who are you taking this for?”

The DOJ’s final Epstein release runs more than 3 million pages, and Donald Trump’s name appears 5,362 times. Here’s what’s actually in it, what was withheld, and why being named isn’t the same as being charged.

Prices jumped after the pandemic and never came back down. In The Black breaks down the affordability crisis and why even six-figure Black families still feel broke.

Jason Green joins the show to talk about building Black community that outlasts the moment — and what real, lasting solidarity looks like after George Floyd.

When a controlling partner slowly isolates your best friend, what do you actually do? The crew unpacks the warning signs, the stakes, and how to protect the brotherhood.

Is it about wanting to be white, or wanting to be free? The guys dig into proximity to whiteness, self-worth, and what real freedom actually looks like.