Hard questions, held close.
Homegoings follows Myra Flynn through candid conversations where personal stories become cultural history. The show moves from punk family lore and country music identity to protest fatigue, racism, grief, and the pressure to perform a version of the self others can understand.
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Homegoings is a conversation show about race, identity, memory, and the messy human work of becoming legible to oneself and others. Myra Flynn leads it with warmth and a clear editorial spine. The tone is intimate, but the questions are rarely small. Recent episodes move through family music histories, Black political participation, country music, racist encounters, art as survival, and the fatigue that can follow public struggle. The show often starts with a personal doorway. A guest remembers a song, a room, a stage, a protest, a public moment, or an old friendship shaped by argument. From there, the conversation opens into something larger. Bobby Hackney Jr.’s story connects Vermont punk, Rough Francis, and the discovery of Death as a family inheritance. Denitia’s episode turns country music into a conversation about genre, gender expression, race, and what happens when the industry decides where an artist belongs before listening. Lisa Woolfork’s sewing room becomes a way to talk about Black women, creativity, community, and the aftermath of Charlottesville. Tamiya Booker’s political work gives the show a frame for asking why some Black people may not be visible in protest spaces right now. Mactar Mbaye’s story of a racist experience and its social media aftermath lets the show examine humiliation, public response, and the burden of explaining harm to people determined to question it. Even a conversation with Juan Coleman, a Black voter backing Trump, is presented less as spectacle than as a difficult return to an old disagreement. Homegoings has room for laughter and bluntness. It also knows when to sit still. Art matters here because people reach for it when language and safety fail them. Politics matters because it lands in bodies, careers, families, and friendships. Race matters because the guests keep showing how quickly it enters rooms where others pretend it has not. The result is a show for people who want interviews that can hold admiration, grief, argument, and tenderness in the same breath.
Made for: For listeners drawn to intimate interviews about race, identity, art, politics, family history, and the private weight behind public choices. It especially suits people who prefer patient conversations over quick takes.
What sets it apart: Homegoings stands apart by letting lived detail lead the analysis. Rather than treating race or identity as a topic panel, it follows guests through the rooms, stages, streets, and memories where those forces become personal.
'Homegoings' is a show that invites listeners to be a fly on the wall, privy to candid and genuine conversations about race. Host and musician Myra Flynn explores themes that fearlessly straddle that line between necessary and uncomfortable, as she speaks with artists, experts and regular folks all over the country about their literal skin in the game — of everyday life. 'Homegoings' is storytelling — with a heartbeat. No topic is off the table, and there’s no such thing as going “too deep.” These are the conversations that are our birthright to have, and the stories we are lucky to hear.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Myra Flynn turns artist interviews and personal encounters into clear accounts of how race, identity, and gatekeeping shape public life.
Homegoings follows Myra Flynn into conversations where art, race, and self-definition press against the categories other people impose. Flynn works as both interviewer and participant: she brings her experience as a Black woman and musician into exchanges, then asks guests to…
A punk band's family secret sits beside country music's pigeonholes; you get the lives labels miss.
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Punk history and family revelation widen into a warm, human story.
Homegoings folds punk history into a family revelation, following Bobby Hackney Jr. back to the Vermont scene and into the hidden Detroit chapter of his father and uncles. The episode uses that discovery to widen its frame from Rough Francis to Bobby Hackney Sr.
A wide-ranging meditation on grief, memory, and the way art can nourish and save.
Homegoings with Myra Flynn starts by marking its move to independence, then widens into a discussion of vulnerability, lingering grief, difficult relationships, and the gap between who people are and who they are expected to be.
A blunt account of racism, online scrutiny, and the stubborn wish to be known for work, not shorthand.
The episode tracks a racist encounter as it moves from the street to social media and into the comments, where strangers start picking apart how the man was dressed and whether he had done anything wrong.
A relaunch episode that turns a show handoff into a sharper talk about voice, visibility, and identity.
Homegoings uses this episode to track a clear shift: Myra Flynn says the show is going independent, will be run by her, and has a new name, while keeping its focus on grief, relationships, and the gap between who people are and who they are expected to be.
A thoughtful interview about genre, identity, and the cost of being misread.
Homegoings follows Denisha through questions of genre, identity, and the pressure to be sorted before she has been heard fully. The conversation moves from open-mic rooms and listening-room stages to the way she has been labeled R&B, indie, folk, or country, sometimes before her…
Homegoings revisits Bobby Hackney Jr.
Myra Flynn opens by saying Homegoings is going independent.
The host asks Maktar about his wildest racist experience.
This episode features Lisa Woolfork discussing her sewing community for Black women and her transition from street protesting to creative activism.
This episode features an interview with political consultant Tamiya Booker, discussing her work with prominent Black politicians and exploring the question of why Black people appear less visible in contemporary protest movements like No Kings rallies.
Homegoings opens by announcing a new chapter.
Homegoings opens with Myra Flynn reaching back to a memory of playing stages with Denisha Odeji across New York, Los Angeles, and Vermont.
This episode features an interview with Juan Coleman, a Black man and Air National Guard member, discussing his support for Trump and his complex friendship with the host, Myra Flynn, which developed through political disagreements during college.
This episode features an Ask Me Anything conversation between hosts Myra Flynn and Saidu Tejan-Thomas Jr., focusing on their shared identities as Black artists and podcasters discussing vulnerable topics.
This episode reflects on the power of art to shape reality and heal, highlighting a special live event in February where featured artists performed poetry, music, and dance.
Tracy “The D.O.C.” Curry recounts how a 1989 car crash in Beverly Hills destroyed the voice that powered his hip-hop career.
This episode explores identity and race through travel to Jalisco, Mexico, continuing the show's candid conversations from season one.