In The Know with Tony Reeves
Hosted by former attorney and Judge Tony Reeves, this podcast delivers sharp insights, commentary, and real talk on law, leadership, public service, and the Black Gen X experience. Whether you’re navigating bureaucracy, seeking inspiration, or craving honest reflections from someone who’s lived it, ‘In The Know with Tony Reeves’ offers the wisdom and wit to keep you informed—and empower Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/in-the-know-with-tony-reeves--5596987/support.
Episodes
January 26, 2026 • 11 mins
Leaving a job is hard — but leaving when things didn’t end on the best terms can be one of the toughest professional moments you’ll ever face.
In this episode of In The Know with Tony Reeves, I break down six key rules to help you write a resignation letter that protects your reputation, keeps your future opportunities intact, and helps you exit with professionalism — even when you’re frustrated.
We cover:
In this episode of In The Know with Tony Reeves, I break down six key rules to help you write a resignation letter that protects your reputation, keeps your future opportunities intact, and helps you exit with professionalism — even when you’re frustrated.
We cover:
- Why you should have some...
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January 6, 2026 • 19 mins
What happens when you’re taught how to survive—but never shown how to build?
As a member of Black Generation X, I grew up surrounded by people who did “everything right.” College degrees. Military service. Long careers inside structured systems. Success was modeled through discipline, resilience, and endurance—but no one ever explained how to navigate life outside those systems.
In this episode, I reflect on what it meant to come of...
As a member of Black Generation X, I grew up surrounded by people who did “everything right.” College degrees. Military service. Long careers inside structured systems. Success was modeled through discipline, resilience, and endurance—but no one ever explained how to navigate life outside those systems.
In this episode, I reflect on what it meant to come of...
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January 1, 2026 • 8 mins
Welcome to 2026.
This episode isn’t about promoting a platform—it’s about helping you navigate an experience.
Over time, many people discover my work through videos, podcasts, blogs, or social media, but they’re often left wondering: Where do I start? How should I engage? Which space is actually meant for me?
In this episode, I break down what The Anthony Reeves Experience really is—and more importantly, how you can engage in a way...
This episode isn’t about promoting a platform—it’s about helping you navigate an experience.
Over time, many people discover my work through videos, podcasts, blogs, or social media, but they’re often left wondering: Where do I start? How should I engage? Which space is actually meant for me?
In this episode, I break down what The Anthony Reeves Experience really is—and more importantly, how you can engage in a way...
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December 8, 2025 • 15 mins
In this episode, I dive into a powerful reminder that what’s normal for you isn’t always normal for everyone else.
A recent conversation with a friend sparked this reflection on how people often become fascinated—or even stunned—when they witness the sacrifices you’ve made to reach a goal they can’t relate to. And for many of us who grew up Black Gen X, first-generation, or navigating worlds not built with us in mind, those sacrific...
A recent conversation with a friend sparked this reflection on how people often become fascinated—or even stunned—when they witness the sacrifices you’ve made to reach a goal they can’t relate to. And for many of us who grew up Black Gen X, first-generation, or navigating worlds not built with us in mind, those sacrific...
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December 1, 2025 • 20 mins
What does it really mean to be first generation?Not the version we celebrate on paper — but the hidden reality behind stepping into a world your family has never seen.
In this episode, I share my personal journey entering an affluent private PWI in 1987 as a Black Gen Xer.
From culture shock and resource gaps to the weight of being “the only one,” this story goes deeper than the milestone itself. It’s about navigating spaces without ...
In this episode, I share my personal journey entering an affluent private PWI in 1987 as a Black Gen Xer.
From culture shock and resource gaps to the weight of being “the only one,” this story goes deeper than the milestone itself. It’s about navigating spaces without ...
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November 20, 2025 • 18 mins
WHat does it really feel like to walk away from everything safe?In this episode, I share one of the most pivotal moments of my life — the day I resigned my commission in the U.S. Navy, packed my entire world into a car, and drove toward a future I couldn’t predict.
Most people call transitions like this “starting over,” but that’s not the truth.You’re not starting over — you’re starting fresh in unfamiliar territory, carrying all th...
Most people call transitions like this “starting over,” but that’s not the truth.You’re not starting over — you’re starting fresh in unfamiliar territory, carrying all th...
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November 17, 2025 • 26 mins
When you turn 21, the club feels like arrival. It’s the symbol of adulthood, freedom, identity, and validation. But at some point, the music, the crowd, and the performance stop aligning with who you’re becoming — and that’s where the real journey starts.
In this episode, Anthony Reeves, Esq. breaks down the unspoken transition many young Black professionals experience: evolving beyond nightlife culture, entering academic and profe...
In this episode, Anthony Reeves, Esq. breaks down the unspoken transition many young Black professionals experience: evolving beyond nightlife culture, entering academic and profe...
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November 13, 2025 • 17 mins
In this episode, I break down one of the most overlooked realities of growing up Black as a member of Generation X — the confusing part of racism. Not because racism itself is confusing, but because the presentation of racism changed between our parents’ world and ours.
Our parents and grandparents grew up with laws, signs, institutions, and culture that made second-class citizenship undeniable. They didn’t have to guess if racism w...
Our parents and grandparents grew up with laws, signs, institutions, and culture that made second-class citizenship undeniable. They didn’t have to guess if racism w...
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November 11, 2025 • 22 mins
This 20-minute audio reflection pulls back the curtain on my IN THE KNOW video “Sign of the Times.” I share personal insights about the realities Gen X faced growing up between parents divided by the Jim Crow experience. For many White Gen Xers, that meant dealing with relatives whose biases still lingered. For Black Gen Xers, it meant hearing stories of survival and injustice at the dinner table. In this behind-the-scenes conversa...
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November 10, 2025 • 13 mins
In this episode, I take a hard look at what we mean when we say something was just a “sign of the times.” For generations, that phrase has been used to excuse racism, discrimination, and hate — as if time alone could justify injustice.
As a member of Black Generation X, I reflect on growing up surrounded by family members who lived through segregation, the Klan, and systemic racism — yet often stayed silent about it. But there’s an...
As a member of Black Generation X, I reflect on growing up surrounded by family members who lived through segregation, the Klan, and systemic racism — yet often stayed silent about it. But there’s an...
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November 6, 2025 • 11 mins
For many of us in the Black Gen X generation, the N-word wasn’t something we were supposed to hear anymore. We were told that the world had changed—that the battles of our parents and grandparents had been fought and won. But all it took was one word to remind us that the past was never really gone.
In this episode, I share a deeply personal story—the first time I heard the N-word directed at me and my mother—and what that moment re...
In this episode, I share a deeply personal story—the first time I heard the N-word directed at me and my mother—and what that moment re...
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November 3, 2025 • 13 mins
Have you ever walked past a building and felt its history?
For many of us in Black Gen X, we live among reminders of what our parents and grandparents endured. The homes, parks, schools, and even restaurants we move through every day are living witnesses to segregation, struggle, and change.
In this episode, I reflect on how the past is still present — not in history books, but in the physical spaces that surround us. From a Mississ...
For many of us in Black Gen X, we live among reminders of what our parents and grandparents endured. The homes, parks, schools, and even restaurants we move through every day are living witnesses to segregation, struggle, and change.
In this episode, I reflect on how the past is still present — not in history books, but in the physical spaces that surround us. From a Mississ...
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October 30, 2025 • 10 mins
In this episode, Tony Reeves reflects on how a simple kindergarten classroom in 1974 became the backdrop for one of the most profound social transformations in American history.
Born in 1969 and starting school just two decades after Brown v. Board of Education, Tony shares what it was like to begin his education during the final waves of school desegregation in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. What felt like an ordinary start to childhood was...
Born in 1969 and starting school just two decades after Brown v. Board of Education, Tony shares what it was like to begin his education during the final waves of school desegregation in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. What felt like an ordinary start to childhood was...
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October 27, 2025 • 11 mins
In this episode of IN THE KNOW with Anthony Reeves, we take a deep look at what it meant to be Black Generation X — the first generation to grow up in a multicultural America while still carrying the emotional weight of segregation, loss, and social transformation.
Anthony reflects on how his generation was shaped by the trauma and triumphs of their parents and grandparents — from the assassinations of the 1960s and the Civil Right...
Anthony reflects on how his generation was shaped by the trauma and triumphs of their parents and grandparents — from the assassinations of the 1960s and the Civil Right...
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October 23, 2025 • 10 mins
(00:00:00) Lessons from the Past: Why Black Travelers still move differently
(00:00:08) Intro: Moving Differently for a Reason
(00:00:32) The Myth That Time Erases Danger
(00:02:00) The Generational Warning System
(00:03:37) From Emmett Till to Interstate 10
(00:05:51) It’s not about fear. It’s about Focus
(00:07:29) Closing: Blueprints, not baggage
For many of us in Black Gen X, travel has never been just about the destinatio...
(00:00:08) Intro: Moving Differently for a Reason
(00:00:32) The Myth That Time Erases Danger
(00:02:00) The Generational Warning System
(00:03:37) From Emmett Till to Interstate 10
(00:05:51) It’s not about fear. It’s about Focus
(00:07:29) Closing: Blueprints, not baggage
For many of us in Black Gen X, travel has never been just about the destinatio...
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October 20, 2025 • 18 mins
In 1987, I was just 18 — a college freshman at the University of Tampa and a brand-new Army Reservist trying to earn a $4,000 bonus. What should’ve been a routine weekend drill turned into one of the wildest, most dangerous journeys of my life.
No car. No money. No phone. Just a uniform, a highway, and the belief that I could walk 80 miles from Orlando back to Tampa — because, at that age, I thought I was invincible.
In this episod...
No car. No money. No phone. Just a uniform, a highway, and the belief that I could walk 80 miles from Orlando back to Tampa — because, at that age, I thought I was invincible.
In this episod...
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October 16, 2025 • 10 mins
In 2008, I had just started my own law firm in Central Florida and was commuting daily through the quiet backroads of Polk County. One day, a young woman in my mentor’s office pulled me aside and said, “Be careful driving through that town — the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan lives there.”
That moment stopped me cold. Not because I feared what might happen, but because it revealed something deeper — that even decades after Jim Cr...
That moment stopped me cold. Not because I feared what might happen, but because it revealed something deeper — that even decades after Jim Cr...
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October 13, 2025 • 12 mins
In 1996, I was a 27-year-old Black naval officer stationed at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. One late night, I was driving home from Jacksonville along a dark, two-lane rural road — no lights, no traffic, just me and the sound of my tires against the pavement.
Then I saw it — headlights, brake lights, and the unmistakable turn of a police cruiser making a U-turn behind me.
In that moment, every image I had ever seen of how quickly th...
Then I saw it — headlights, brake lights, and the unmistakable turn of a police cruiser making a U-turn behind me.
In that moment, every image I had ever seen of how quickly th...
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October 9, 2025 • 14 mins
In this episode, Tony Reeves takes listeners beyond the viral video “Beware of the Klan County” to unpack what it truly meant for Black Generation X to grow up after the fall of legal segregation.
The Civil Rights victories of the 1950s and 1960s—Brown v. Board of Education, the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, and the Fair Housing Act—changed the laws. But they didn’t immediately change the people.
Tony explores how Gen X ...
The Civil Rights victories of the 1950s and 1960s—Brown v. Board of Education, the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, and the Fair Housing Act—changed the laws. But they didn’t immediately change the people.
Tony explores how Gen X ...
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In 1995, I arrived in Jacksonville, North Carolina — a young, proud Black naval officer reporting for duty at Camp Lejeune. Like anyone new to a duty station, I was trying to find my way — where to live, where to eat, and how to adjust.
But within weeks, I received a warning I’ll never forget. A senior non-commissioned officer pulled me aside and said:
“If you’re driving, make sure you drive the speed limit through that county.”
At...
But within weeks, I received a warning I’ll never forget. A senior non-commissioned officer pulled me aside and said:
“If you’re driving, make sure you drive the speed limit through that county.”
At...
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