The Table On Air with Darius Caffey is a vibrant talk show that celebrates the diversity and accomplishments of the BIPOC LGBTQ+ community, featuring candid conversations with artists, social change makers, and entrepreneurs in a safe, brave space, while utilizing social trends and pop culture moments to reach a wider audience.

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Program Overview

In Episode 8 of ‘The Table On Air’, Season 2, Renauda Riddle, co-owner of Nobody's Darling Bar joins our host for an evening full of laughter and community building.

Renauda shares more with our team about the history behind the Black and Lesbian owned bar's conception (a reference inspired by literature from poet Alice Walker), the plans that she has to expand into Chicago's south side area with her business partner Angela Barnes, their special cocktail menu referenced after Black & LGBTQ icons, and what being nominated for a James Beard Award meant for their impact as a local neighborhood space of inclusion.

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Blaque Report

In a world where our opportunities are limitless, it’s okay sometimes to go out of the box.

And I know it can be scary, but I’m here to tell you that no matter what you want to do, no matter how far left or creatively expansive it is, you can do it. You just got to figure out how.

Everybody wasn’t meant to have the same dream, and none of us were meant to have the same lives. So, you might as well start living yours how you want to, because best believe everybody else will.

Now, family, I’ve been having a lot of conversations with people from generations that I’m not a part of; however, throughout all of them, there’s one thing that keeps standing out to me. 

The older folks around me want to see us dreaming and going after our goals. They weren’t afforded the same opportunities that we have now, so vicariously, they’re living through us. And I believe that as a younger generation with the world at our fingertips, in the words of the great Reverand Jesse Jackson, it’s up to us to keep hope alive. 

So, let’s keep it going, keep it moving, keep it fun, and keep it creative. 

Which is exactly what Jabukie Young-White, the comedian from the South Side of Chicago, has been doing in the midst of the SAG-AFTRA strike that lasted 118 days. While most entertainers and actors took a break from promoting their work in the industry to exercise their rights of demanding fair treatment and compensation, some of them decided to also take matters into their own hands by trying something different.

Which is how we got the new music project by the artist. With his debut album, “All Who Can’t Hear Must Feel’, Jabukie drives into a new lane y’all, giving us a glimpse into the power of his artistic evolution that just keeps on growing.

And what better way to promote it than with a makeover from the living icon, Bob The Drag Queen, who also dabbles in the rap. Now, if you haven’t seen it, then you need to! 

But seriously, them doing this really shows us that there are no limits to self-expression and that it’s okay to break free from whatever mold the rest of society forces on us. We can be whatever we want to be, and change it whenever we want to. 

Every makeover, every change, is an opportunity to discover and celebrate who we truly are. It’s just up to us to decide when and how we want to do it. So, go ahead and take that leap.

That’s a wrap on our Blaque Report with a Q-U-E, and until next week, keep finding ways to celebrate yourself.