Melanated Faith is about faith, race, and culture.
On this podcast you’re gonna hear the truth spoken, the tea spilled, and pop culture explored by your co-hosts, Faitth Brooks and Kathryn Freeman.
Available on: Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Play
As a faith-based podcast, we seek to be:
Trustworthy, Gracious & Civil
Provide trustworthy content and communicate with a gracious and civil tone the truth in love
Humble
Have an attitude of humble learning and servant leadership
Disciples
Disciple the church towards the good, beautiful, and true of God’s rich diversity in creation.
Safe & Fun
Create a fun and safe space to explore the intersection of faith, race, and culture.
Faitth Brooks, Co-Host
Faitth is one-half of the Melanated Faith Podcast. Faitth is a masters-level social worker engaging in community organizing and activism with a passion for anti-racism education. Faitth is a creative strategist who loves to produce audiovisual content. In her spare time, Faitth LOVES to travel around the world. She has been to over 19 countries and cannot wait to explore the world more. Faitth has a love for spontaneous adventures and trying new things, especially when it comes to cooking! If Faitth is not home working, she is on the phone with her family, cooking, or on a plane heading to her next adventure.
Movies She Loves: When They See Us, Remember the Titans, Becoming, Lion King, The Day After Tomorrow, The Great Debaters, The Best Man
TV Shows She cannot Live Without: Insecure, This Is Us, Love is Blind, Grey’s Anatomy, Shrill, Handmaid's Tale, Married at First Sight, Black-ish, Madam Secretary
Albums on Loop: Coloring Book by Chance the Rapper, Meditate by Natalie Lauren, Views by Drake, Damn by Kendrick Lamar, Cuz I Love You by Lizzo, Maverick City Music Volume 3, H.E.R., Gumbo Unplugged by P.J. Morton, A Seat at the Table by Solange
Books That Are Dog-Eared and Underlined: The Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown, Black Liberation Theology by James Cone, Just Mercy by Brian Stevenson, Hunger by Roxanne Gay, Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes, I’m Still Here by Austin Channing Brown, Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
If Hosting A Dinner Party for Any Five People (Living or Dead), She’d Invite: Michelle Obama, Oprah, Issa Rae, Brene Brown, and Toni Morrison
Follow Faitth:
on Twitter | @FaitthB
on Instagram | @FaitthB
on Facebook | @FaitthB
Website: faitthbrooks.com
Kathryn Freeman, Co-Host
Kathryn is one half of the Melanated Faith podcast with Faith Brooks. Kathryn is a seminary student, writer and advocate. She has ten years of experience in non-profit advocacy and enjoys teaching faith leaders how to engage the political process for the common good and God’s glory. In her spare time, Kathryn writes about the intersection of faith and pop culture. Her work has appeared in Christianity Today, Christ and Pop Culture, and Think Christian. Kathryn loves books, Tex-Mex, and iced coffee. She is passionate about her Jesus, justice, Beyoncé, and public policy.
Movies She Loves: Black Panther, Legally Blonde, Beyoncé’s Homecoming, The Silver Linings Playbook, Love & Basketball, and Beauty and the Beast
T.V. Shows She Cannot Live Without: Insecure, The West Wing, Kim’s Convenience, Black-ish, and Father Brown
Albums She Listens To on a Loop: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill by Lauryn Hill, Back to Black by Amy Winehouse, Lemonade by Beyoncé, 1989 by Taylor Swift, Coloring Book by Chance the Rapper, The Emancipation of Mimi by Mariah Carey, and The Rebirth of Kirk Franklin by Kirk Franklin
Books That Are Dog-Eared and Underlined: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates, A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Bowles, My Testimonies, His Heritage edited by Kristie Anyabwile
If Hosting A Dinner Party for Any Five People (Living or Dead), She’d Invite: Beyonce, Reese Witherspoon, Ava DuVernay, Michelle Obama, and Barbara Jordan
Follow Kathryn:
on Twitter | @kathrynannette
on Instagram | @kathrynannette83
on Facebook | @kathrynannettefreeman
Website: www.kathrynafreeman.com