D.L. Hughley Uncut

Dl talks to Nsé Ufot the chief executive officer of the New Georgia Project, a voter support and legal action nonprofit organization founded by Stacey Abrams in 2013. Ufot's organizing efforts in the Georgia 2020 United States presidential election and the 2021 run-off election contributed to turning the state blue.[1] In 2021, she was named one of Time's 100 Next, nominated by...

DL talks to Nicole Denise Johnson Collier, Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives. Since 2013, she has represented District 95 in Fort Worth, Texas. Collier is a 1996 graduate of the University of Houston. She became a single mother in high school. She graduated from the Texas Wesleyan University School of Law in Fort Worth, now Texas A&M University School of La...

DL talks to Sherrilyn Ifill who is president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.[ She is the Legal Defense Fund's seventh president since Thurgood Marshall founded the organization in 1940. Ifill is also a nationally recognized expert on voting rights and judicial selection. She is the author of On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the 21st Century, a 2008 finalist...

DL talks politics, business, and life with actor, writer and businessman, Hill Harper, . Harper graduated magna cum laude from Brown University, received a JD, cum laude, from Harvard Law School and a Master of Public Administration degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University He has appeared in films such as Beloved, The Skulls, and The Visit ...

DeVon Franklin is a Hollywood producer, best-selling author and motivational speaker. He is best known for the films Miracles from Heaven, Heaven Is for Real, and the New York Times best-seller book The Wait, which he co-wrote with his wife Meagan Good. Franklin a regular on The Dr. Oz Show, where he talks about faith, relationships and spiritual wellness. He has appeared on Dr. Phil, CBS This Mor...

DL talks to Nate Parker who is an American actor and filmmaker. He has appeared in films such as Beyond the Lights, Red Tails, The Secret Life of Bees, The Great Debaters, , and Pride.[2] Parker's directorial debut feature film, The Birth of a Nation, in which he also starred, made history at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival when Fox Searchlight Pictures acquired the d...

Dl talks to Leonard Garvey Pitts Jr. (born October 11, 1957)[1] is an American commentator, journalist, and novelist and is a winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. Pitts is a bestselling author. His first book, Becoming Dad: Black Men and the Journey to Fatherhood, was published in 2006. His first novel, Before I Forget, was released in March 2009, and earned a starred review from...

DL sits down with the Lucas Bros (Keith and Kenny Lucas)who continue their rise as two of the freshest, most dynamic new faces in entertainment. The brothers are two of the writers (story by) on the highly revered film JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH, which has earned them Oscar and WGA Award Nominations for “Best Original Screenplay,” and they will be writing and starring in a new comedy feature with Universal and Lord Mil...

DL talks to Keri Leigh Merritt a historian, writer, and activist. Her first book, Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South (Cambridge University Press, 2017), won both the Bennett Wall Award from the Southern Historical Association, honoring the best book in Southern economic or business history published in the previous two years, as well as the President’s Book Award from the Social Science History As...

Dl talks to rapper and activist Talib Kweli Greene who is an American rapper, entrepreneur, and activist. Kweli earned early fame with his collaboration with fellow  rapper Mos Def, when they formed the group Black Star. Kweli's musical career continued as a solo artist. His most recent solo album is titled Gotham, released in 2020. In 2011, Kweli founded his own record label, Javotti Media. Then he talks fashio...

DL talks to Andra Day, who is a multi-Grammy nominated singer songwriter, and Emmy nominated, Golden Globe winning and Academy Award nominated actress. Her portrayal of Billie Holiday in the biopic The United States vs. Billie Holiday, won her wide acclaim as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. She is currently nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actr...

DL brings in guest Lalah Hathaway, the 5x GRAMMY award-winning singer/songwriter and producer and 10-time nominee. Lalah's music transcends genre - from R&B ballads and uptempo numbers to pop standards and soulful jazz - she frequently appears on the Hot R&B charts with today’s top hitmakers, including Pharrell Williams, Kendrick Lamar, Dr. Dre, Anderson. Paak and Snoop Dogg. Lalah has also shared the stage with music...

DL grills Frank Figliuzzi who was the FBI"s Assistant Director for Counterintelligence and served 25 years as a Special Agent. He is a national security expert and has unique insight into domestic terrorism. Then DL gets up close and personal with director and choreographer, Laurieann Gibson who is one of the most important pop culture influencers in entertainment today. Gibson’s expertise in developing artists’ pe...

First DL talks to author and political commentator Heather McGhee who is a distinguished senior fellow and former president of Demos, a non-profit progressive U.S. think tank. McGhee is also a regular contributor to a wide range of TV news shows.

Then DL chats with celebrity chef,  Gerry Garvin who is known for his television show nbsp; Turn Up the Heat with G. Garvin. The show ran for seven seasons on TV One. His coo...

DL talks with Fred David Gray a legendary civil rights attorney, preacher and activist who came to prominence working with Martin Luther King Jr. and defending him from tax evasion charges, winning an acquittal from an all-white Jury. Among his many famous civil rights cases, Gray defended Rosa Parks, who was charged with disorderly conduct for refusing to sit in the rear of segregated city buses, and represented pla...

DL goes head to head with former RNC Chairman, Michael Steele  Steele served as the seventh lieutenant governor of Maryland from 2003 to 2007; he was the first African-American elected to statewide office in Maryland. As lieutenant governor, Steele chaired the Minority Business Enterprise task force, actively promoting an expansion of affirmative action in the corporate world. And then DL talks to recording arti...