<p>#rtbth records our first <a href="https://www.engage.emory.edu/s/1705/21/interior.aspx?sid=1705&gid=3&pgid=23786&cid=34956&ecid=34956&crid=0&calpgid=13&calcid=1160" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">LIVE VIDEO PODCAST</a> at Emory University!</p><p><br></p><p>The co-hosts, Tunde and Herschel - both alumni of Emory University - teamed up with The Emory Alumni Association - sponsored by the Emory Impact Circles and the Caucus of Emory Black Alumni - to record a live podcast on Emory&#39;s campus.</p><p><br></p><p>The co-hosts bring the usual conversational, informal and informed, and mildly spicy style of beyond the headlines real-talk. </p><p><br></p><p>The broad topic for this conversation was consumption in the black community. We cover dark patterns, parasocial relationships, Tunde&#39;s fraught relationship with &quot;YN&quot; rap, black people using psychedelics and more! And of course we start the podcast addressing the rollback of DEI at Emory U. </p><p><strong>References</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/education/education-department-dei-discrimination-trump-funding-cuts-rcna199575">Education department threatens to cut public school funding over DEI practices</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/emory-university-disbanding-dei-betrays-schools-progressive-reputation-rcna230260">At Emory University, the disbanding of DEI contradicts the school&#39;s progressive reputation</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://news.emory.edu/stories/2025/09/er_dei_update_03-09-2025/story.html">Emory provides update on DEI offices and programs</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.emorywheel.com/article/2025/11/q-a-sears-addresses-dei-open-expression-in-first-interview-with-wheel?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio&fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQPNTY3MDY3MzQzMzUyNDI3AAGnJD5etUVqgfIEajN6EZ98CcvC3y8qygw0V2ZnUnigDcfi-Obv8fU-0jy9ctg_aem_oFEmx2eY4hYkXHY9pQk3oQ">Q&amp;A: Sears addresses DEI, open expression in first interview with Wheel - The Emory Wheel</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2025.308081">Law and Policy Efforts to Dismantle Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion | AJPH | Vol. 115 Issue 7</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352250X22000082">Parasocial relationships, social media, &amp; well-being - ScienceDirect</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03390-0">AI chatbots are sycophants — researchers say it’s harming science</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/25/ai-sycophancy-isnt-just-a-quirk-experts-consider-it-a-dark-pattern-to-turn-users-into-profit/">AI sycophancy isn&#39;t just a quirk, experts consider it a &#39;dark pattern&#39; to turn users into profit | TechCrunch</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/book/9781035300198/book-part-9781035300198-28.xml">Chapter 19: The AI-empowered dark patterns in: Handbook of Service Experience</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12599-022-00783-7">Dark Patterns | Business &amp; Information Systems Engineering</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5011o-JvUs4&list=PLn5qSkeC3xpLP7hlMxru5JSavDdJLmRHl&index=6&pp=gAQBiAQB">The Numbers Don&#39;t Lie: Why Is Rap Falling Off the Charts? - YouTube</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcTNzdp2Zac&list=PLn5qSkeC3xpLP7hlMxru5JSavDdJLmRHl&index=7&pp=gAQBiAQB">People Are OVER Rap Music… and We All Know Why - YouTube</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13624806211028274">A guilty pleasure: The legal, social scientific and feminist verdict against rap - Ummni Khan, 2022</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.thefader.com/2019/07/24/tay-k-the-race-explainer-history">The complicated, tragic end to Tay-K’s race | The FADER</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/rapper-tay-k-convicted-murder-second-time-texas-rcna201272">Rapper Tay-K convicted of murder for second time in Texas</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.774736/full">Frontiers | The Need for Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy in the Black Community and the Burdens of Its Provision</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0165178125000083?via%3Dihub">A systematic review of participant diversity in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy trials - ScienceDirect</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11469-023-01160-5">Psychedelics and Racial Justice | International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.jmoodanxdisorders.org/article/S2950-0044(23)00023-8/fulltext">Perceptions of psychedelic-assisted therapy among Black Americans</a></p><p></p>