'You have to really sit with yourself and decide why it’s important to tell your story, why it hasn’t been told so far, and what the best way to tell that story is,' says AkilahObviously.
Akilah Hughes is a breath of fresh air in the dusty, white male-dominated world of satirical news. Her witty commentary on politics and pop culture is trusted across the internet, with a growing fanbase of over 150K subscribers on Youtube and over 160K followers on Twitter. I had a chat with her to discuss her daily news podcast What A Day and her recent memoir Obviously: Stories From My Timeline, and I had the pleasure of picking her brain on all of today's trending topics.
What’s great about our show and what’s different is when you listen to other daily news podcasts, you leave with a sense of dread. You listen first thing in the morning and you go to work and you say, “Okay, things aren’t getting better. Everything is bad. Can’t wait to listen tomorrow.” With our show, we have a ton of call to action.
Speaking of politics, you’ve been keeping your listeners up to date on the impeachment and the presidential race. Kamala Harris recently dropped out of the race, and many people are pointing out that her absence might leave many black female voters without representation on the stage. How do you think that will affect the race from here on out?
Well, let me first say that there were some exciting surprises. Awkwafina getting nominated for best actress for The Farewell is incredible. I think it’s cool that you could go by the stage name Awkwafina and get nominated for best actress. Those are the times we’re living in, and I think it’s tight. And so I think there are moments like that, but overall I was very bored and a little confused by most of the people who were nominated, the shows that were nominated.
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