What if James Baldwin threw a dinner party and your group chat got invited?
33 minSeason 1 • Episode 6
LatestBrett Gray, star of "On My Block" and "Star Trek: Prodigy" and other guests challenge old school norms as they discuss the roles of a leader versus an influencer and why everyone needs to be on social media.
Inspired by the Dark Tower salons during the Harlem Renaissance, sit in on funny, fearless, and far-ranging dinner parties with great Black figures, from athletes and entertainers to astronauts, Michelin-starred chefs, and philosophers.
Production
Intimate table settings that feel like you're eavesdropping
Writing
Conversations that actually go somewhere unexpected
Direction
Rick Van Meter lets silences breathe, arguments simmer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Dark Tower salons referenced were real 1920s gatherings at Carl Van Vechten's apartment where Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston debated art and politics—this series deliberately centers Black hosts reclaiming that intellectual space.
Episode 3's unplanned 40-minute tangent about generational trauma in sports came when a producer's mic accidentally stayed live—the creators kept it because Welteroth's genuine reaction reshaped the entire conversation.
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