Blk By Design: The Black Culture Podcast By Will on the mic

Mississippi’s history with Black Americans has never simply been about race. It has been about power, control, and what happens when Black people demand freedom on their own terms.
In this episode of BLK by Design, Will traces the thread from slavery and Reconstruction through Jim Crow, voter suppression, lynching, Emmett Till, and the questions Black families are still asking about suspicious deaths in Mississippi today.

For generations, Mississippi depended on Black labor while repeatedly res

Most fans see disrespect in Love Island's heated moments, but what if there's more to the story? In this eye-opening episode, Ichallenge the surface-level judgments and explore the deeper dynamics at play.

If you've ever wondered whether what you're witnessing is truly disrespect, or just a matter of perception, this conversation is for you.

Join me as I host Bravo Breakdowns with Zoe to dissect the season's most controversial moments—from KC's silence to Melanie's heartbreak—and reveal how la

The Supreme Court struck down Louisiana’s congressional map that created a second majority-Black district—and the bigger story is what Louisiana v. Callais signals about the future of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

In this episode, Will breaks down the difference between “intent” and “results,” why redistricting is really a fight over power, and how “packing” and “cracking” can dilute Black voting strength. We also connect the dots to Alabama’s Allen v. Milligan—a modern example of the kin

Erased Blueprints: Fred Hampton (Targeted by Design)Fred Hampton was building the kind of community power the state couldn’t control—and COINTELPRO moved to stop it.

In this episode, we unpack Hampton’s organizing, the Black Panther Party’s survival programs, and the COINTELPRO tactics designed to disrupt movements from the inside: surveillance, infiltration, disinformation, conflict-stoking, and criminalization. Then we talk about the final step—when the state tries to erase the builder and re

They didn’t fear Billie Holiday because she could sing.

They feared her because she made America hear itself.

This episode of Erased Blueprints breaks down how Strange Fruit became an accusation—and how the system responded the way it always does when the truth comes out unsoftened: surveil, criminalize, discredit, erase.

Because when a Black woman tells the truth without shrinking it, power doesn’t debate the message.

It attacks the messenger.

In this breakdown, we trace how the U.S. gover

Did Druski cross the line—or did conservatives just experience satire as “violence” for the first time?

On this episode of BLK by Design, I unpack the Druski skit the internet mapped onto Erika Kirk, the “whiteface/defamation/too far” backlash, and what this controversy reveals about selective outrage and the politics of respectability.

We break down the real questions:

​Who is satire for—and where’s the actual line?

​Are we critiquing a private person, or a public political brand?

​How doe

West + Amanda went public. The internet went to court. And once again, the question became: “How does Ciara feel?”—and even worse, “Is she handling it the right way?”

In this episode, we use the Summer House triangle (West, Amanda, Ciara) to unpack a familiar blueprint: disrespect toward Black women gets normalized, and then Black women get policed for their response—especially when the response is simply a boundary.

We connect today’s fandom discourse to Malcolm X’s indictment: Black women ar