Episodes

The shame of Black manhood is carrying centuries of wounds we did not create. We live with the weight of history—our women violated, our children slaughtered, our families broken—by white terror that has not ended. That shame runs deep, even when it is not ours to own. It lingers in silence, grief, ...

They love to say the South wore the chains and the North broke them. But in this episode, I explain how the North wasn’t the savior — it was the silent partner in Black bondage. From Ivy League schools built on slavery to Wall Street built over the bodies of Africans, I follow the blood money, the m...

In 1968, there were fewer than half a million people locked up across America. Today, that number has exploded to over 2.1 million behind bars — and nearly 7 million under correctional control. This isn’t just a system. It’s a business. A political tool. A pipeline built to cage Black, Brown, Indige...

In this fiery episode of Wounded Goose, J.C. pulls the mask off the narcissists who run the world — from global empires to petty power players in our homes and communities. Through history’s biggest ego-driven collapses and today’s unchecked greed, we explore how power corrupts, how silence enables,...

In this episode of The Wounded Goose podcast, we open the gates of Louisiana's Angola Prison — the largest maximum-security prison in America, built on the same soil that once bound generations of enslaved Africans. From the horrors of convict leasing to modern forced prison labor and corporate prof...

In Fruit of the Lash, J.C. Faulk pulls no punches, uncovering under-told stories that so many would rather bury. Black Americans don’t just carry the names of enslavers—we carry their DNA. Through the story of his great-great-grandmother Millie and countless other women and girls brutalized on South...

Haiti, the first Black nation to win its freedom through blood and fire, was punished for daring to break the chains of colonialism. In Sugar, Blood, and Haiti, J.C. Faulk takes you from the revolutionary past to the sugar fields of today, revealing how colonial powers, debt, and betrayal have kept ...

This episode cuts deep into the cost of so-called clean energy. It is about cobalt—what it is, where it comes from, and how it’s soaked in the blood of Congolese children. Six million dead, and the world shrugs, as they are made invisible to make it easy for colonizers to raid their riches. This wee...

Powder and Punishment dives into the crack era’s devastating impact on Black communities, exploring how a government-fueled drug war shattered families, criminalized addiction, and built private prison empires. Politicians on both sides of the aisle colluded to railroad Black people into cages, fuel...