It was just after her first birthday that the parents of Journee Perry noticed that she was not verbalizing as expected for a one-year-old.  Her father, Ira Perry, comes to The Offshoot Podcast to tell what it was like learning that his yo...

From Angela Harper, daughter of Archie HarperArchie Harper is 91 and still hitting the gym three times a week. That tells you something about his approach to life.Growing up in Kansas City, Missouri, he made a decision at 18 that wo...

Emmy nominated and executive producer of movies and television shows  like "A Match Made In Heaven," "Call Me Zaddy," "False Advertisement," and "Sorry About That," Lena Jenkins-Smith doesn't give a lot of interviews.  She is more com...

Dating isn't what it used to be - at least not prior to the advent of social media and reality TV dating shows.  It seems that in today's world of dating, there is an over emphasis on romance, which is not always a bad thing, when it is ge...

Baltimore, that once thriving industrial city caught between the nation's capitol of Washington, D.C. and the city of brotherly love Philadelphia, is again making noise with music.  A new form a house music and club music, that is unique t...

Not forgiving someone for a wrong is never discussed as often as forgiving someone for a wrong.  The mantra is to forgive and move on, but what if not forgiving someone who has perpetrated an act of betrayal, violence, broken trust or thef...

On this episode of The Offshoot Podcast, three incredible chefs define what makes food good, and it turns out good food is more than just about taste.  Chef Sherise, the owner of Sweet Sage Catering, Chef Steven Steven German-Jones the co-...

I am going to venture and bet that there are many of us who went through the public education system, and perhaps throughout college and grad school, did not have many, if any, Black men as educators.  I would venture and add that for thos...

For young Black men, their voices are not often heard, and often times if their voices are head it is typically a soundbite, misconstrued and/or taken out of context.  Additionally, their voices seem to not matter unless it is via music (p...

Are you Black Indian? Well, if you're from South Carolina and you have Gullah Geechee roots, then there is a likely possibility that you are Black Indian - from a tribe called the Yamassee.  Though small in number today, in the 1600s and 1...

The president of the United States of America, in a recent press conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, accused the visiting diplomat of wanting a third world war.  Zelenskyy rejected that notion, and his disbelief of the...

The brief interruption of access to TikTok prompted many Americans to find alternatives like RedNote, and what Americans found were images of China they had never seen before. Not surprising to me, they were shocked as to how developed the coun...

Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate, and in The White House have put out statements, made comments, and put forth legislation targeting Washington, DC under the premise that the District is a failing jurisdiction.&...

Buying and selling a home can be a daunting task, especially when it is your first. There are so many things to know, and one individual can't expect to know it all. Now, throw in a change in politics that comes with much ambiguity and you get ...

From The Offshoot Podcast is another segment called "Thoughts." Life is Fair. 

Most people can't define trauma let alone recognize it - even when they've experienced trauma themselves.  Too often, we ignore and dismiss incidents and experiences that truly are traumatic under the auspices that it will pass and things ...

This episode of The Offshoot is 10 years in the making. It began a few years after the passing of my grandmother Irene Moody Nelson, at a time when I was beginning to question friendships - particularly friendships as relationships.  My gr...

People forget that Black Americans/African Americans make up less than 13 percent of the US population. But that population has impact far beyond the population of its size - culturally, spiritually, economically, socially, politically, and glo...

In this clip from The Offshoot podcast, Dr. Okey Enyia talks of meeting Black men where they are. Catch the full episode on various podcast platforms.  

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Despite the success of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), better known as Obamacare, there are still a number of Black men not getting and/or taking advantage of the healthcare options available to them.  Grave and serious disparities remain.&...

Talk to any Black man, of any generation, and he will tell you that he isn't being heard.  Throughout most of the 2024 political season, it seemed that everything was being talked about, everything was on the table, except for the issues a...

The war between Israel and Hamas has a lot of people talking and it has an equal, if not greater, amount of people not talking ... at least not publicly.  In the Black/African American community, there has been a lot of the later. Why? Tha...

With seven children, Bridget Desmukes and her husband, Jeffrey, wanted to give all their offsprings the best education.  They wanted to ensure that their children learned about the world, business, the economy, languages and other cultures...

In some major U.S. cities, there appears to be a reduction in crime, but in the nation's capitol, Washington, DC, crime continues to rise.  From gun violence to robberies, carjackings and blatant theft, DC seems to be plagued with a surge ...