Van Lathan: Revolutionaries at Equinox | The Vic Mensa Show Episode 4

Vic sits down with Van Lathan Jr., Oscar-winning producer, CNN panelist, and co-host of Higher Learning, for a conversation about politics, culture and the true cost of freedom. At its heart is an honest reckoning with the Black experience: the price of "earning your humanity" through talent and how one word flattens a whole world of culture, whether you're standing in Chicago, Ghana, or South Africa.

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(00:00) Cold open
(01:13) Van Jones, Palestine and the price of the invitation
(12:13) Reparations, Coates and the white liberals
(19:33) The Matrix was a documentary
(26:56) Kamala, the aunties and who the party serves
(34:46) Whose dead bodies matter
(44:15) Get Rich or Die Tryin' and the violence that raised us
(01:02:28) Black here, Black in Ghana, Black in South Africa
(01:19:23) Boxing, Spike Lee and Mo' Better Blues
(01:56:20) TMZ, the headlines and the cost of being watched

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