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Host of NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday and The Sunday Story podcast. Editor and author of HBCU Made

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File this under pointless trivia. I would make a good host tho 🤷🏾‍♀️

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One of the BEST perks of working in public radio in the DMV? Getting to experience NPR’s Tiny Desk concerts!

And my very first one just happened to be CARDI B! 😭

Come with me for a little behind-the-scenes look at what it’s like to attend a Tiny Desk concert. And yes, Cardi was just as sweet in person!

#TinyDesk #CardiB #NPR #BehindTheScenes

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Small Prophets' writer and director Mackenzie Crook discusses the comedy series - interviewed by @ayesharascoe on NPR Weekend Edition 11/10/2026 (radio interview) link in bio 🔗

🎨 Image Edit @smallprophets_

📻 - @npr

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The odds were in our favor at the 2026 MPA Awards!  This year, we honored remarkable leaders who believe in what film and TV can mean for creators, casts, crews, and fans in the U.S. and across the globe:

• Filmmaker Francis Lawrence with the MPA Creator Award
• Egypt’s Ministry of Interior with the MPA Creative Protector Award
• Kentucky Senate President Robert Stivers and Georgia Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock with the MPA Industry Champion Awards

Check out the highlights of an epic night that brought Hollywood and Washington together to celebrate the power of great stories, well told.
#mpaawards

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First of all I want to sincerely thank Norfolk State University and everyone involved with the Common Reader event for including me in this event, especially since it was during Homecoming week! I was so excited to discuss my HBCU experiences and my contribution to Ayesha Roscoe’s compilation HBCU Made.

I just wish I could have stayed longer. Please don’t be mad at me!! I’m lucky I got to see some of my Spartan Legion Fam and also speak to the ladies of Hot Ice! But I promise I will need to make another trip because I didn’t get to see everyone. I literally was there for less than 24 hours. But I will return!! You all have a great Homecoming! #BEHOLD #HBCUMADE

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🎃 The house understood the assignment. 👻🕸️ A little spooky, a little extra… exactly how Halloween should be. 🖤 #HalloweenAtHome #SpookySeason #HalloweenDecor

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We’re getting ready for the Common Reader event at Norfolk State!! #hbcumade

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🎤 Meet the hosts of the 2026 ICFJ Awards Dinner!

We’re excited to welcome Dave Jorgenson and Ayesha Rascoe as co-hosts for this year’s celebration in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 10.

Read more about Dave and Ayesha and their work. Link in bio.

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Each year, the MPA Awards honor leaders who strengthen, support, fuel, and protect our industry, from policymakers to law enforcement to creators.

The 2026 MPA Awards were no different – spotlighting visionaries and partners that help ensure film, TV, and streaming continue to thrive, inspire, and reach audiences across our country and around the world.

Congratulations to the 2026 MPA Awardees and many thanks to everyone who joined us to celebrate them.
#MPAAwards

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So grateful to @ayesharascoe at @nprweekend for interviewing me on all things SISTERS ALONE! Ayesha’s insightful and smart questions really got to the beating heart of this story- sisterhood and the deep love that endures between sisters even during the storms of life🩵

You can listen to it here: https://www.npr.org/2026/09/06/nx-s1-5901992/sisters-alone-a-novel-in-verse-captures-the-bond-between-sisters-united-in-grief

And a special thank you to my wonderful publicist @spregosin29 for setting this amazing interview up🩵🩵❄️

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In this newly release podcast by NPR, the interviewer Ayesha Roscoe (@ayesharascoe ; spoke to the sisters about their musical legacy, analog recordings, hints on background into their inspiration for each song on the album and a sprinkle of personality from the three powerful voices. The album channels themes of loss, grief, love, yearning and surviving, lived experiences and deeper understanding of who the women are and what they’ve gone through.

The sisters make a clear statement that R&B and soul music is the original, Zeimani stated “ this is where music started, and I think before it got overly processed and commercialized, repackaged and profited off of.” Speaking on the true undertones of the gentrification of Black Art & Music. Kucha speaks on the pain they have experienced and triumphed “ we’ve all experienced loss and it definitely follows you even if you heal from it. The pain with loss, the anger, and you feel out of control” which really speaks to me as a listener, theres a lot of pain in the world and it can bleed into our actions, theres always love to be put out instead, which is healing! BG speaks on the strong sisterhood that they have withwithin each other. “ Our bond is something very special, when I tell you the traumas that we’ve held each other through and held each other down through, you know, we have proof that our relationship is unbreakable” Kucha adding “ home is wherever these ladies is at”.
Published 08.30.2026 @ northernpublicradio.com

Beautiful insight on the women and lovely hearing them share their hearts with us, the incomparable @thewomacksisters 👸🏾👸🏾👸🏾

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Back to School ✏️📓📚Finally!!

It’s been a long summer yall 🤣 It’s time for someone else to watch these kids 😂😂😂

But seriously, we’ve got an elementary and a middle school group now. When’d they get so big?!?!?

#momlife #backtoschool #under1roofff

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