We are humbled to have Jose Angel Perez aka Power the Poet on the show today to enlighten us with his life stories– growing up in the foster system, being sent to Rikers, being at Rikers at the same time as his Mom, and how he found poetry as an outlet through all of this. We dig deeper with Jose in a discussion about the different rehabilitation programs offered to incarcerated folks, and where the American carceral system is failing to deliver that rehabilitation. Jose then delivers a reading of one of his poems from his book “Till Ink Meets Paper” that left us all with chills. You’re not going to want to skip this episode!

You can purchase Jose’s book here:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DLTLKTMG?ref_=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cp_ud_dp_19SM3V6FRNEXB2270AP1_1&bestFormat=true&newOGT=1

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Rudy also created Papertree.earth, a joint bank account for community groups to collectively manage finances.

We The People NYC is a community-led mutual aid group that runs a hot food & clothes distro every Thursday @ 1PM on the corner of Fulton & Nostrand in Bed-Stuy & every Saturday @ 1PM on 125th Street & Lexington Ave in Harlem.

Check out more info at wethepeople.nyc or @wethepeople_nyc on Instagram

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First and foremost, Happy Martin Luther King Day! We didn’t realize this episode was dropping on MLK day until like, yesterday. What a great way to honor Dr King, by educating and enlightening the people. Relly is marching today too right as this episode drops!

Welcome back to another episode with Unapologetic Taaaaaawk! This week we have Rudy and Relly chopping it up in the studio. We talk about everything from Trump and the inauguration, his antics, and tiktok, to Eric Adams, his multiple Federal investigations, the NYPD, and his campaign being broke! The two of them went down to plan more shenanigans at Mar A Lago by the way, including probably Eric Adams’ pardon. Underground, Kathy Hochul has a wildly unrealistic plan to add patrol officers to every subway train every night, and new anti-fare-evasion measures are just making hopping easier! All the BS is very real, keep dodging it NY!

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Rudy is the creator of Blacksky, an algorithm to connect Black users on Bluesky and the basis for other community algorithms on Bluesky. Check it out at blacksky.xyz

Follow Rudy on Bluesky: @rudyfraser.com

Support Blacksky on Open Collective at: https://opencollective.com/blacksky

Rudy also created Papertree.earth, a joint bank account for community groups to collectively manage finances.

We The People NYC is a community-led mutual aid group that runs a hot food & clothes distro every Thursday @ 1PM on the corner of Fulton & Nostrand in Bed-Stuy & every Saturday @ 1PM on 125th Street & Lexington Ave in Harlem.

Check out more info at wethepeople.nyc or @wethepeople_nyc on Instagram

Join the Stonewall Was A Riot! Movement to join a community of Black youth fighting specifically for Black LGBTQIA+ liberation.

Tap in on Instagram: @stonewall.wasariot !!!

Welcome back to Unapologetic Tawk!!! New year, same fight!! Liberation!!!

We start the year off with a fiery episode - @davidnewyorknynyc, @goodguyaudits, and @iamgodny - three New York-based first amendment auditors with enough stories to tell they could talk for months.

They enlighten us on what it means to be an auditor, the importance of accountability for public officials, as well as bring us the story of New Years 2025, where they got into a situation with NYPD ending with David being sent to Rikers Island! SHAME on nypd.

They tell us more of their stories from their combined years monitoring the city, Relly and Rudy swap some NYPD stories of their own, and we discuss the intricacies of trying to hold a corrupt organization like the NYPD accountable.

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Instagram: @unapologetictawk

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Follow Relly: @rellyrebel

Follow Dimez: @dimez_cartier

Follow Rudy: @shacqeal

Rudy is the creator of Blacksky, an algorithm to connect Black users on Bluesky and the basis for other community algorithms on Bluesky. Check it out at blacksky.xyz

Follow Rudy on Bluesky: @rudyfraser.com

Support Blacksky on Open Collective at: https://opencollective.com/blacksky

Rudy also created Papertree.earth, a joint bank account for community groups to collectively manage finances.

We The People NYC is a community-led mutual aid group that runs a hot food & clothes distro every Thursday @ 1PM on the corner of Fulton & Nostrand in Bed-Stuy & every Saturday @ 1PM on 125th Street & Lexington Ave in Harlem.

Check out more info at wethepeople.nyc or @wethepeople_nyc on Instagram

Join the Stonewall Was A Riot! Movement to join a community of Black youth fighting specifically for Black LGBTQIA+ liberation.

Tap in on Instagram: @stonewall.wasariot !!!