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Beyond the Table is a cinematic podcast exploring culture, history, music, film, food, and true crime. Hosted by Amanda Clemons, the show centers Black culture, queer perspectives, and overlooked stories through immersive sound and storytelling—featuring music deep dives, cultural history, contextual true crime, and a monthly Soul Food rewatch. New episodes every Tuesday.
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Christmas in the Black South: Food, Faith, and the Quiet Meaning of Home
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In this Christmas episode, we explore Christmas in the Black South a tradition shaped by food, faith, memory, and the enduring pull of home. Looking beyond commercial narratives, this episode traces how Christmas became a moment of rest, gathering, and continuity in Black Southern life. From the historical roots of holiday pauses during slavery to …
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Erased: The Life and Murder of Philip DeVine
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In December 1993, three people were murdered in Humboldt, Nebraska: Brandon Teena, Lisa Lambert, and Philip DeVine. While Brandon Teena's story became nationally known, Philip DeVine a twenty-two-year-old Black man was nearly erased from public memory. This episode centers Philip DeVine's life, presence, and death, and examines how race, media fram…
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The Black Mall: A Cultural History of Buying, Belonging, and Becoming
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In this episode, we explore the rise and fall of the Black mall one of the most important and overlooked cultural spaces in late twentieth-century America. From segregation-era restrictions to the emergence of malls as Black social hubs in the 1980s and 1990s, this episode traces how Black consumers reshaped retail, identity, and community across g…
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Fifteen and Fearless: The Murder of Sakia Gunn
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In May 2003, fifteen-year-old Sakia Gunn, a Black lesbian girl from Newark, was murdered in an act of homophobic violence that most of the nation never heard about. This true crime episode centers her humanity, her courage, and the community that refused to let her story disappear. In this victim-centered true crime episode, we explore: • Newark's …
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Echoes of the Feast: A Thanksgiving History of Food, Culture, and Tradition
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Echoes of the Feast: A Thanksgiving History of Food, Culture, and Tradition is a cinematic, time-traveling journey through the real story of the American Thanksgiving meal. This episode moves across centuries to reveal how each dish on the table came to be — shaped by Indigenous agricultural knowledge, colonial hardship, national mythmaking, Black …
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What's Cooking? (2000): The Thanksgiving Film About Family, Food, and Identity
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To mark the film's 25th anniversary, this episode revisits What's Cooking? (2000) a groundbreaking multicultural Thanksgiving film directed by Gurinder Chadha. Four families. Four kitchens. One holiday lived through Black, Latin, Vietnamese, and Jewish identities including one of the earliest and most tender portrayals of queer family truth in earl…
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In this bonus episode of Beyond the Table, we explore the power, defiance, and cultural impact of Living Colour the groundbreaking Black rock band that reshaped the sound and politics of late-20th-century rock. From Cult of Personaility to Desperate People to Funny Vibe and Which Way to America, we examine how their music confronted racism, capital…
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Before there was an American Thanksgiving, there was gratitude spoken in every language under the sun. In this immersive episode, Beyond the Table travels across continents and centuries to explore how people around the world give thanks through food, ritual, and community. From the yam festivals of West Africa to Caribbean Harvest Sundays, Indigen…
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November Trailer — Stories of Gratitude & Belonging
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This November, Beyond the Table explores stories of gratitude and belonging where culture, memory, and meaning come together in sound. Hosted and produced by Amanda Clemons, this special preview invites you to pull up a seat for a month of reflection, creativity, and connection. New stories every Tuesday.…
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The Grocery Store Revolution Lesbian Pulp and the Secret Shelf of Desire
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In the 1950s, you could find them between the canned goods and the cigarettes paperbacks with neon covers and whispered stories of women who loved women. Before Pride marches or queer bookstores, there was pulp: printed on thin paper, sold for a quarter, and hidden in plain sight. In this cinematic episode, Amanda explores the rise of lesbian pulp …
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Halloween Feature: In the Black South, the supernatural isn't a story told just for scares it's a history of faith, protection, and remembrance. In this cinematic Halloween bonus, Amanda explores: African spiritual traditions that shaped hoodoo and rootwork. The legends of haints, boo hags, and night doctors and the real histories behind them. How …
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Soul Food Rewatch - S1E3:Heart of the Matter
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In Episode 3 of Beyond the Table, Amanda and her pit bull Priscilla dive into "Heart of the Matter," which aired on July 12, 2000. Directed by Kevin Hooks and written by Patricia Green, this episode asks what happens when we stop performing strength and start facing the truth. Amanda explores themes of perception, honesty, and control as the Joseph…
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Soul Food Rewatch - S1E2:The More Things Stay the Same
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In Episode 2 of Beyond the Table, Amanda joined again by her pit bull Priscilla dives into Season 1 Episode 2 od Soul Food The Series: "The More Things Stay the Same," which aired on July 5, 2000. This episode digs deeper into the Joseph family's secrets and the cost of keeping them. Amanda connects those cultural shifts to the reality of Black bus…
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Soul Food Rewatch - S1E1: The More Things Change
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In the debut episode of Beyond the Table, Amanda joined by her pit bull Priscilla begins the rewatch journey through Soul Food: The Series. We start with "The More Things Change" the pilot episode that aired June 28, 2000. Directed by Eriq La Salle and written by Felicia D. Henderson, it reintroduces us to the Joseph sisters Maxine, Teri, and Bird …
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Trailer: Beyond the Table Black Culture, Queer Stories, Music, and True Crime
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Beyond the Table is a cinematic storytelling podcast exploring Black culture, queerness, history, music, film, food, and true crime through immersive sound and narrative reflection. What began as a Soul Food rewatch has evolved into a cultural magazine featuring ten-minute weekly episodes that move through cultural history, music deep dives, contex…
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