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Many Hollywood hairstylists have for years been flummoxed by Black hair, but Rukey Styles, stylist on Disney's 'Saturdays' says that's changing.

Music executive Whitney-Gayle Benta has spent more than 20 years in the music business working for some of the most influential companies in the game, including MTV, Def Jam, and Spotify. She joins Panama Jackson to talk about her journey to the big leagues and the future of music and investment. Whitney explains how music lovers will soon have the chance to invest in music royalties with the company JKBX, the first-of-its-kind platform that aims to change the game of music licensing.

"Black excellence has as much to do with the supremacy of whiteness as it has to do with the excellence of Blackness." Michael Harriot talks about the few Black billionaires in America to dismantle the argument that if one Black person is successful then oppression no longer exists.

"We want to see if we can verify or justify some of those racist concepts." What would happen if America flipped it's racists and systemic policies around and it was white people who were affected? Michael Harriot takes a look at what that might look like.

"It's not just about fairness, it's about making your product as good as it can be." Michael Harriot debunks the myth that any attempt at equity is an attempt to achieve equality of outcome. This concept simply isn't possible because minorities are subject to economic, social, political and educational deficits that white people do not experience.