After decades of searching, Anita?s son Antonio has just learned the very gruesome details about how his mother was murdered. As he grapples with what he?s learned, he and Tonya ask, what?s next? In this episode of She Has A Name, the two take you inside their intimate therapeutic session with Dr. Robin L. Smith, co-author of The Invisible Ache: Black Men Identifying Their Pain and Reclaiming Their Power. They delve into the illusion of closure and how to move forward. 

Who killed Anita? Did her involvement in the drug game somehow lead to her murder? A serial killer? Or maybe the man her family says used and abused her was somehow involved?

In this episode of She Has A Name, we delve into four theories, parsing out the details from the original fire report and crime scene documents, witness accounts, the family?s knowledge, and interviews with the lead detective.

What does a boy hold on to when he realizes his mother is gone? The ways she taught him to survive - and the creation of falsehoods, omissions, and a version of the truth he?s created to make it through each day.

In this episode of She Has A Name, Tonya discovers something about Antonio?s past she never knew before - one that mirrors his mother's life in the years before she disappeared. The discovery opens up insights into the depths of Antonio?s pain and the life he yearns to create as he moves toward healing.

How could Tonya, Anita, and Antonio go almost a lifetime without knowing each other? We explore the tangled roots of this family tree and the man Tonya, Anita, and Antonio all have in common ? O.C. Hill. 

In the late seventies and early eighties, things were looking up for Anita. She was in her early twenties and coming out of a low point in her life with the death of her mother. Antonio remembers a stable home life, a step-father that he loved and not really wanting for anything. Until Anita's life takes a downward turn with the return of a childhood friend who comes home from prison.

Who was Anita outside of the image Antonio shared with Tonya?  And how can Tonya?s exploration of her short life help us understand what led to her disappearance and murder? In this episode, Tonya goes back to Anita?s early years and the choices she made as a young woman in Detroit to survive.

Tonya tries to make sense of a double-whammy: news that she has a sister and the devastating discovery about her whereabouts. In this episode, Tonya begins her quest to unravel how a sister she never knew about could end up as a Jane Doe.

Host Tonya Mosley has spent most of her career telling other people?s stories, now she is focusing on her own family. In the summer of 1987, Tonya?s sister Anita disappeared without a trace. It took 33 years of searching and her son?s DNA to connect Anita to a grave just outside of Detroit. But finding the body was just the beginning: Anita had been murdered. This isn?t just another whodunit, She Has A Name peels back the layers of Anita?s murder to reveal a city fighting for its own survival. 

Truth Be Told Presents: She Has A Name, a deeply personal story for host Tonya Mosley. The first episode of this family mystery podcast drops here on the Truth Be Told feed on Thursday, March 28th. 

A live conversation in Pasadena, California at the LAist?s Crawford Theatre. Wise One: Casey Gerald, author of There Will Be No Miracles Here. Following the discussion, all five guests from the live event return to the stage to answer questions from the audience.

A live conversation in Pasadena, California at the LAist?s Crawford Theatre. Wise Ones: Jamilah Lemeiux, writer; Nancy Redd, award winning author and podcast host; Steven Canals, screenwriter, producer of FX?s Pose; Ayize Jama Everett, author & documentary filmmaker ?A Table of Our Own.?

Happy Summer! We're stepping into your feed to share a conversation Tonya recently had with singer, songwriter, and producer Madison McFerrin. Madison has been on her own liberation journey the last few years, and it?s evident with her new album ?I Hope You Can Forgive Me." Tonya had her music on loop while writing Season 5 of Truth Be Told about using psychedelics to heal racial trauma, so you know we had to have her on the show!

We?ve explored the psychedelic renaissance with Black scientists, therapists and everyday people in search of healing. In this season closer, host Tonya Mosley finds her own path towards healing.

Also, some parting words from our Wise Ones: Ernestine Mosley, Dr. Monnica Williams, Nicolas Powers, Undrea Wright, Camille Barton, Ayize Jama Everett.

The public's perception of drugs and drug use is changing. And with it, the decrim movement is in full swing. Soon the FDA is expected to approve psychedelic-assisted therapy.

But are these steps enough for Black people in America? Enough to keep us safe in a world of racial bias and over-policing?

There?s the potential for liberation but also for oppression.

Episode 6 explores what could happen if psychedelics become legal. Wise Ones: Dr. Carl Hart, Neuroscientist; Natalie Ginsberg, Global Impact Officer, MAPS. We want to hear what you think about Truth Be Told! You can help us out by filling out a short audience survey at deartbt.com/survey.

We?re taking a break from our series to answer your questions about psychedelic-assisted therapy and the use of psychedelics to help alleviate depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.

We explore the magic in magic mushrooms and the ancestral and Indigenous origins of using them to heal. What does ancestral knowledge mean for Black people disconnected from our lineage? Wise Ones: adrienne maree brown: author, activist.

Undrea Wright, The Ancestor Project.

Decades after Richard Nixon declared the war on drugs, our evolved understanding of drug addiction has ushered in a new understanding of mental health and the flaws of the criminal justice system, and with it, a resurgence of an age-old medicine, once criminalized ? now used as a form of healing.

In Episode 3, we meet the children of the drug war and discover how they?re navigating this newfound exploration of psychedelics to find personal healing.

Wise Ones: Ayize Jama Everett, Educator; Mary Pryor, Detroiter, Entrepreneur.

Psychedelics work by allowing us to have an experience with ourselves ? To face our biggest traumas without being retraumatized.

This episode explores what that experience is like. But first, Black people (rightfully skeptical of altered states) must trust enough to let go.

Tonya Mosley is on a journey to experience the depths of freedom and liberation and discovers new research that shows psychedelics as a promising treatment for all forms of PTSD, including racial trauma.

Tonya sets out to try magic mushrooms and discovers the psychedelic renaissance is overwhelmingly white despite its Indigenous and African roots. Episode 1 kicks off this 6 part journey led by Tonya which explores the latest science, the push for FDA approval, and the movement to get Black and Brown therapists trained in psychedelic therapy.   

Wise Ones: Monnica Williams, Researcher; Sara Reed, Licensed Family Therapist; Jazmin Hupp, Psychedelic Guide.  Website: deartbt.com Instagram: deartbt TikTok: tonyatalks

If freedom is a birthright, host Tonya Mosley is on a journey to experience the depths of it. Season 5 explores emerging science that shows psychedelics like MDMA and psilocybin mushrooms can help to heal racial trauma, whether it?s diagnosed PTSD or the kind of trauma that comes from the pain of living as a Black person in a racist world. Join us on the journey, beginning April 13th.

Hey fam, Truth Be Told will be back for a new season this spring! In the meantime, enjoy this timely encore conversation about body autonomy with journalist and abortion activist Anoa Changa. If you haven't listened to seasons 3 and 4, get on it! Season 5 of Truth Be Told is coming in April.

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We want to turn you on to a new show that you should consider adding to your podcast queue: History is US. It?s a 6-part documentary podcast from C13-Originals Studios and Jon Meacham ? the team behind the 2021 Webby Award-Winning Best Podcast Series ?It Was Said.?
It?s written and narrated by Dr. Eddie Glaude, who is a friend of Truth Be Told. You might remember him as a Wise One from Season 2. Eddie is an award-winning author and professor of African American Studies at Princeton University ? and he?s such a deeply reflective and generous thinker.
It?s a limited series that aims to help us understand how we got here, and how we can all use history to clarify the choices before us.

Bad habits, toxic relationships, soul-sucking jobs ? our inner voices tell us the truth, but are we listening? A moment of nakedness in the vastness of the ocean helped restaurant owner Kristi Brown slow down enough to hear what her inner voice was telling her. On this episode of Truth Be Told, we explore how listening to ourselves can lead us to joy and our ultimate purpose.

#MeToo founder Tarana Burke is known as a truth-teller. In this episode of Truth Be Told she goes even deeper, revealing for the first time the depths of despair she?s felt over the last few months, and the ways during these dark times she?s chasing joy and renewal. 
And grab your notebook! Mental health counselor Rian Roberson steps in to give us our own mini-therapy session. 

What are the words - when there are no words?
In the face of so much violence, death, and heartbreak, minister and writer Danté Stewart joins us to talk about what he calls ?little experiments of liberation.?

GUESTS:
Danté Stewart, minister, writer and author of Shoutin? Into The Fire: An American Epistle. 
TW: @stewartdantec

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Our nation?s obsession with thinness refuses to acknowledge that the ideal, at its core, is racist. How do we get beyond the belief that bigger Black bodies are a problem? And instead, allow ourselves, no matter what size, to take up space?

GUESTS:
Sabring Strings, Ph.D., scholar, and author of Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
Carvell Wallace, author, and memoirist
Mozell Ward, trainer at Radically Fit

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As Black Americans, we?ve had to fight to get grocery stores into our neighborhoods, while fast-food chains were encouraged to thrive thereby federal policy. It feels like the opposite of a fully liberated life...one where access to nourishing food would be easier than the smoothest drive-thru. How can we build a future where we're closer to the source of our food? We digest that history and envision a future of liberation and nourishment with @DrMChatelain and @feedoursoul founder Adrienne Wilson.

GUESTS:
Dr. Marcia Chatelain, scholar, and author of Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America
Adrienne Wilson, founder, of Feed Our Soul

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What do body autonomy and reproductive health look like in a post Roe vs. Wade world? The stress of racism and barriers to care?including abortion care?are part of a downward spiral in reproductive justice. Too often, those stressors play out in our wombs as fibroids and cancers. We talk about seeking justice and liberation with our guests.
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Anoa Changa, journalist and writer of ?What?s Next for Roe v. Wade??
Dr. Ashley Davis, Gynecologic Specialist at the Fibroid and Pelvic Wellness Center of Georgia
Omisade Burney-Scott, healer and host of Black Girl?s Guide to Surviving Menopause

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How do we move out of survival mode and into a place where our bodies are strong? Trauma therapist Resmaa Menakem kicks off Season 4 exploring what nourishment means outside of white notions of what our Black bodies should be.

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Chef Kristi Brown, co-owner of Communion
Resmaa Menakem, somatic therapist, author of the new book The Quaking of America

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In season four, we explore what nourishment means for us outside of diet culture and white notions of what our Black bodies should be.
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Bonus Episode: Comedian Kevin Fredericks aka KevOnStage joins Tonya to talk about family, faith, and what liberation truly looks like in the midst of social media fame.
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Bonus Episode: This week, we talk to acclaimed journalist and host of the Black Girl Songbook podcast, Danyel Smith about her new book Shine Bright: A Personal History of Black Women in Pop, including the wise words of Rihanna and the lasting power of Donna Summer.
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Bonus Episode: This week, we talk to musician Anthony Hamilton about his new tour, Black love, and what he learned from the pandemic.
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We?ve heard of burnout and ?zoom fatigue,? but what are practices we can take to let ourselves pause and not be made to feel guilty about it? This week we talk to the founder of the Nap Ministry, Tricia Hersey about how to treat our bodies, not as hustle machines, but as living, divine beings that need rest. And what does that even look like?
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They say honesty is the best policy, but what does it really take to be radically honest with ourselves for the benefit of our relationships? This week we?re joined by sex educator Ericka Hart and her partner and manager Ebony P. Donnley, as they share how a relationship founded on honesty can be a pathway to our collective liberation. From open relationships to body image, nothing is off the table in this conversation!
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What does sexual freedom really look like? This week we interrogate the messages we?ve internalized about sex and we ask ourselves: Can we decolonize our sex lives to aid in the larger quest towards liberation for us all?
To help us unpack some of the layers we called on Ev?Yan Whitney ? a sexuality doula, author, and sensualist ? who helps people better understand their core desires, needs, and how to put into action what they feel.
The hosts of the Inner Hoe Uprising podcast also help us explore this topic by providing a few burning questions they?ve been sitting with. Author, essayist, and digital activist Sherronda J. Brown rounds out our convo by bringing deep clarity to the identity of asexuality and pushes back on the idea that the act of sex is what makes us human.
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How do we raise Black children who feel free? One way, according to conscious parenting coach Yolanda Williams, is for caregivers to first deal with their own childhood trauma. Williams sat down with Tonya to offer some actionable tips on how to raise ?free-thinking Black children? - and stop the tradition of spanking as a form of discipline. We gained so much insight from Yolanda in this episode and you will too. Click here to access Yolanda?s ?Be Intentional Checklist.?
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In our society, Black parents may breathe a bit easier at night knowing their children are safe and accounted for. But when a tragedy takes that breath away, how do you persevere? What does it take to keep going after a painful loss? 

Perseverance is defined as the continued effort to do or achieve something despite difficulties, failure, or opposition. This week, Tonya travels to Seattle to speak with Ayanna Brown, a mother who has done just that. In 2010, Ayanna and her family endured the heart-wrenching loss of her son, Alajawan Brown, who was murdered by gun violence in a case of mistaken identity. 

In this intimate and thought-provoking conversation, Ayanna takes us through how she converts hate into love, reveals that anger once fueled her, and shares a vulnerable truth ?? that she is just now learning who she is. The ways in which Ayanna propels herself forward each day can inspire us all to persevere.  

We wrap up this powerful episode with the author of ?Grief is Love: Living With Loss,? Marisa Renee Lee. Marisa shares insights on why we need to give ourselves permission to grieve more.
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Black men have it hard in America. 

And by and large, Black women have felt an obligation to show up, love, and support them. Is it too much to ask that they show up for us?

That?s the topic we?re taking on this week with writer and cultural critic Jamilah Lemieux. She recently wrote a piece for Vanity Fair where she coined the term ?the Black Ass Lie,? pointing out the harm that comes from the ongoing narrative that straight Black men have it the worst in our society. She believes this lie is to the detriment of Black women, queer and trans people.

In this raw and unfiltered conversation, Jamilah unpacks the layers of obligation Black women have to Black men with writer and professor Kiese Laymon. We explore the use of the b-word used to rhetorically destroy Black women ? and what holding Black cishet men accountable actually looks like.
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For many of us, the church is a place of refuge. It?s where we first experience community and an understanding of love. But real talk: what do you do as a non binary person if the place that made you, doesn?t exactly accept who you are?
That?s the dilemma from our very own editor James T. Green, who explores their identity and faith with renowned writer and poet, Nikki Giovanni. In this conversation, Nikki shares some of her most intimate truths with James, including her own challenges with the institution of the Black church.
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It?s 2022 and we?re taking on two of the most urgent questions of our time: What does liberation look like for Black Americans? And what does it mean to be free? 

Season 3, which premieres on February 17th, offers a compelling sonic exploration into what liberation looks, sounds, and feels like for Black Americans with some of the greatest thinkers of our time. Host Tonya Mosley takes us on a deeply personal exploration ? peeling back the layers of how Black Americans are liberating ourselves from the expectations of a colonized existence to help us live richer, fuller, more free lives. 

Meet our production team and take a sneak peek listen!
New episodes drop every Thursday beginning February 17, 2022.

It?s been a long time. We shouldn?t have left you, but Truth Be Told is back!

To ground you for the premiere of season three, our host, Tonya Mosley is popping in to share a personal reflection of two near-drowning experiences, once at 8-years old and the other on the day of the insurrection; January 6, 2021.

Through wisdom from the greatest thinkers of our time, Truth Be Told explores what it means to grow and thrive as a Black person in America. 

We?re the friend you call after a long day, the one who gets it.

New episodes drop February 2022.

The days are shorter, colder and 2020 isn?t over. Like you, we?re looking for inspiration to sustain us, so we turned to Shannon Lee and Arianna Davis who are passing on the teachings of great icons Bruce Lee and Frida Kahlo ? timeless figures that we continually learn from decades after their deaths. 

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What?s the world you?re fighting for? We posed this question to some of the most dynamic young voices of our time, including musician Alex Aiono and Good Call NYC founder Jelani Anglin who joined Tonya Mosley to talk about fighting for social justice in the midst of a pandemic and an election year unlike any other.

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What happens when two badass Black journalists get together to talk about the stakes of this presidential election? Real talk, that?s what happens. On this episode of Truth Be Told, Tonya Mosley checks in with veteran journalist Farai Chideya who believes the fate of this nation depends on women of color -- all it needs is for everyone else to get out of the way.

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Here?s a truth: All of us know someone with mental illness, or experience it ourselves. So why are we ashamed to talk about it? Why is there a stigma about it in many communities of color? Author Bassey Ikpi is tired of the secrets and silence. And now more than ever, she says it?s time for us to get real with each other, for the sake of our collective healing. 

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How do you educate loved ones about your disability without making them feel like you?re shoving information down their throats? That is this week's question, answered by Alice Wong, founder of the Disability Visibility Project. Alice underscores the connection between disability justice and the Black Lives Matter movement.

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Chadwick Boseman?s death has raised awareness of colon cancer, but for the men behind TRAPMedicine, Jahmil Lacey and Dr. Italo Brown, it illustrates the healthcare disparities Black people face.

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At Truth Be Told, we?re all about honoring the wisdom of our peoples, and so is Walter Thompson-Hernández. He's the host of a new podcast, ?California Love," a New York Times alum and author of ?The Compton Cowboys: The New Generation of Cowboys in America's Urban Heartland.? This bonus episode is from TBT?s Instagram Live where he joined Tonya to discuss new projects, his dedication to telling honest stories about Black and brown people and to answer your questions.
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Trauma, racism, and our bodies ? that is what we?re talking about this week. Healer, trauma specialists and author Resmaa Menakem breaks down what is trauma, what it feels like and how racism contributes.

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