The Show About Stuff: The Stephen Davis Show

The Show About Stuff: The Stephen Davis Show

By: Stephen E Davis

Language: en

Categories: Arts, Performing, Music, History

A fun show about history, performing arts, music and television and films host by Stephen Davis, business exective and playwrite. Two of the sponsors is WHEN THE BREAK HAPPENED IN ORANGEBURG COUNTY (www.thebreakinorangeburg.com)...a new play written by Stephen Davis which is coming to off Broadway in New York later this year and...THE_BREAK_STORE (www.thebreakstore.com), an online store. On our first podcast...you will be told what "The Break" means!😉 It will have guests, including descendants of the characters of the play. Sit back and enjoy...stuff!🤗

Episodes

The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Jan 08, 2026

Magnificent episode with Jazz extradinare Trombonist, writer and composer Craig Harris. Riveting and funny, great walk down memory lane while being contemporary. If you love Jazz, you will enjoy this episode!

Produced, directed, edited and host by Stephen E Davis.

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Duration: 01:03:14
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Jan 01, 2026

Marvelous conversation with Deborah McPhatter, the former Chairwoman of the NC Music Hall of Fame and daughter of legendary 2 time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Clyde McPhatter. It's a wonderful, nostalgic episode of times gone by. By the way, do you know who her brother is? Tune in to find out!!! Produced, directed, edited and hosted by Stephen E Davis.


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Duration: 00:55:09
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Dec 25, 2025

My guest is award-winning, world known American playwright, poet, novelist, essayist, song writer, composer, editor and publisher, Ishmael Reed.A San Francisco resident, he is known for his satirical works challenging the American political culture. He taught at the University of California at Berkley for many years. He is best known for his 1972 release of Mumbo Jumbo. He recently release a jazz album he composed and produced. This Podcast is produced, directed, edited and host by Stephen E Davis.


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Duration: 01:15:37
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Dec 18, 2025

My guest is North Carolina native Dr Dee Banks, MD.👏 Dr Banks is an infectious specialist who has been at the frontline of health care of two of the most deadly epidemics in human history...HIV/Aids and Covid-199                                                                                                                                                                       Her story issfascinating, dramatic, yet so funny. Take time to see a great episode.👏 I am sure you will love it. 🤗

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Duration: 01:01:34
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Dec 11, 2025

The truly interesting and riveting life of David Bythewood...a funeral director, attorney... who became the first Black  attorney for a mob boss. A serious look at the justice system as told by Mr. Bythewood. Produced, directed, written and hosted by awarding winning Stephen E Davis.


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Duration: 00:53:46
The Show About stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Dec 04, 2025

"Give Me Just A Little More Time"! Beach Music at its best. Sounds of the 70's with guest Ken Knox, Thomas Hunter, Brandon Stevens...Chairmen of the Board and their musical director... Jerry "Midas" Hardison. A marvelous, nostalgic episode with a 70's group who are still doing it!!! Enjoy!

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Duration: 01:01:02
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Nov 27, 2025

This wonderful episode features three members of the generation that came of age in the 50's and 60s.  They are a shining example of this show's mantra... PROGRESS DESPITE OBSTACLES. They deliver a powerful message to this generation of what life was like for them growing, the obstacles they faced as they reached the pinnacles of success in their lives.

Walter Beach was a member of AFL and the NFL. He was the starting cornerback on the 1964 World Champion Cleveland Brown with Jim Brown. But most importantly,  he became a Yale trained lawyer after football.

Dr...

Duration: 01:16:02
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Nov 20, 2025

PUCCI AMANDA JHONES, Jazz Vocalist, extraordinaire!👏Tall, Tempting and so super Talented... she has been a model on the runways of Paris, an actress auditioning with Denzel Washington, a real broker with a New York City building named after her and she has a voice that reaches your very soul...and she is so funny! Her story is truly inspiring and an example of my shows theme: PROGRESS DESPITE OBSTACLES. 🤗 Sit back and enjoy this episode!👏

 

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Duration: 01:03:53
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Nov 13, 2025

Andrew Ramroop, OBE  is one of the most famous Master Bespoke Tailor in the world, who owns the very famous Maurice Sedwell Tailor Company on trendy and famous Saville Row in London. He is a master tailor. This is a heart warming and inspiring story of "Progress despite Obstacles". A must hear episode! Produced, directed, written, edited and hosted by Stephen E. Davis.


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Duration: 01:07:47
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Nov 06, 2025

Grab a beverage, a comfortable chair and listen to the poignant, heartfelt yet super funny conversation with Carlyle G Leach, author of SIX DAYS IN DECEMBER...My Father's Journey Home. Carlyle's father, Dr. Thomas Leach was a larger than life character and this tome captures very elegantly and lovingly his wonderful qualities in the last 6 days of his life. All of us have or will experience the death of a loved one. This is a wonderful example of how to deal with those sad moments. Not to be missed! It is my great hope you view this conversation and...

Duration: 00:59:04
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Oct 30, 2025

The Show About Stuff guests include former dancer at the Oakland Opera, David Lee, President of KD New York, who invented Vegetable Cashmere(TM) and Lincoln Berry III, President of Grab Vision Group, inventor of GrabTV. This episode show the ups and downs of inventors and entrepreneurs . It certainly illustrates this  program's theme, "Progress despite Obstacles". It is a marvelous informative yet funny episode. You will enjoy.

Stephen E Davis Producer, Director, Writer and Host.
 


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Duration: 01:13:33
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Oct 23, 2025

A marvelously enlightening and heart warming episode of the struggles and triumph of two wonderfully gifted and determined creative people. Singer/songwriter, producer Keira Wesley-Busher who resenting released her debut album SONIC COMFORT and Award Winning Film Producer/Director/Actor Kenya Cagle, Present of Caglevision, whose new film on Amazon Prime, MY KING, has won Best Drama at the Couch Film Festival, Toronto Film Festival among others. Wonderful conversation with both.

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Duration: 01:03:36
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Oct 16, 2025

My guest is Elizabeth Van Dyke...the Producing Director of Woodie King's New Federal Theater in New York...is an award-winning producer, actress, and director who has directed plays all over the country and received honors for her work. It's a wonderful,  thought- provoking study of the American Theater and it's inner workings of creating and staging of a play production... a must- hear!👏


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Duration: 00:54:27
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis
Oct 09, 2025

My guest today on this new episode is Chris Owen aka Chris Oldie. Chris was a New York politician, Democratic District Leader, President of a Brooklyn District School Board and ran for Congress to replace his father, the late former Congressman Major Owens.But these days have changed careers, returns life long passion of music. Three years ago, he released a song/video entitled "George Floyd: Say Their Names. It earn rave accolades from over 150 film festivals. He's back with a new album entitled "Preacherman Vol 1.It takes us on a journey from these distrubing times to eternal hope...

Duration: 00:51:38
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Oct 02, 2025

My Guest today is the fabulous, Annette St John, Jazz Singer Extraordinaire! While she favors the Jazz idiom, she also sings r&b and gospel.

She has performed with such legends from Della Griffen, Lonnie YoungbloodIrene Reed, Frank Staton, Etta Jones to George Benson, Al B Sure and Lou Donaldson.Her first live CD was recorded at Smoke nightclub in NYC entitled, "Inside" in 2003. She has performed at Smoke, Birdland, Lincoln Center, The Cotton, the Apollo Theatre, The Village Vanguard and Ashford and Simpson's Sugar Bar just to name few.This episode is funny6 yet so nostalgic...

Duration: 00:59:51
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Sep 25, 2025

An all new episode with my guest, Gail Boyd, Esq. Ms Boyd, an entertainment attorney in New York City. She is the President of Gail Boyd, PC and Gail Boyd Artist Management, LLC. A graduate pf DePaul Law School, she was a founding partner of Boyd, Staton & Cave, the first record African American female law firm in the United States. She has been an entertainment attorney since 1976 and specifically involved in jazz since 1979.She served on the Board of WBGO FMRadio in New York, She was the President of the North American Arts Managers and Agents and Chair of...

Duration: 00:59:49
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Sep 18, 2025

My guests are Valerie Graves and Toni Borrero , Pioneers in the World of Advertising for Women of Color. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Duration: 01:24:39
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Sep 11, 2025

My guest is journalist, author, gossip columnist Flo Anthony. "Florence "Flo" Anthony is a gossip columnist, syndicated radio host, TV contributor and author. She is an African-American reporter who writes for the gossip page of the Philadelphia Sun. [1] Anthony, a graduate of Howard University, resides in the East Harlem section of New York City.[2]

'After working as a publicist for sports legends like Muhammad Ali, Butch Lewis, Michael Spinks, Larry Holmes, Mike McCallum and Matthew Saad Muhammad; Anthony wrote in the mid-1980s entertainment news.[citation needed]

She became the first African-American reporter to work...

Duration: 00:38:00
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Sep 04, 2025

It's another  wonderful episode of The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show  with Logan Westbrooks (with friends Shelia Frazier-Atcheson and Ulysses Kilgore)... a Black Pioneer Music executive who worked with CBS Records, interacting with such stars as the Jackson 5 to Earth, Wind and Fire! He created Source Records, which released "Bustin Loose" by Chuck Brown! It is an episode to just sit back and enjoy listening to his experiences. Enjoy!🤗

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Duration: 00:37:15
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Aug 28, 2025

This wonderful episode feature LaBrenda Garrett-Nelson Esq, President of Board for Certification of Geneologists, Dr Jennifer D. Williams, Educator/ School Administrator and Bro Fatiyn (Ernest Stroman),  Producer/Host Openline Radio Show, WBLS Radio, New York and of Rev Al Sharpton Radio Shows. This episode highlights my own family discovery and the importance physically, mentally and morally of knowing who you are and where you came from. It is a powerful yet fun episode.  You'll love it!❤ Enjoy🤗
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Duration: 00:59:15
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Aug 21, 2025

A personal favorite episode of a person who was a child star on Broadway in 1955,. She was an Ikette with Tina Turner, sang with Little Richard and David Ruffin on his first solo album after the Temptations and a founding member of great iconic groups of the 70's. The Honey Cone had a triumph recent concert in Los Angeles. And by the way...she found time to also be Funeral director for a short time!!!😲👏😄 Here is my great friend

THE FABULOUS 

SHELLY CLARK WHITE!

Believe me... your going to love this episode... ENJOY!❤🤗 <...

Duration: 00:56:05
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Aug 14, 2025

The Marvelous McBroom Sisters: Marsha, Dana, Lorelei, Durga...Forces of Nature! Marsha was a model extradinare and is a great educator and humanitarian; Dana an educator at Fashion Institute of Technology in NY, Author of Grace Jones's " Pull Up to the Bumper" and an actress in "Leadbelly"; Lorelei Background Singer with Pink Floyd, Rolling Stones, Rod Stewart and creator of a new YouTube Video Show "Who Influenced You"?; Durga, Background Singer with Pink Floyd, Blue Pearl, Songwriter and an accomplished actress. Simply a marvelous not to be missed episode.👏

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Duration: 00:40:13
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Aug 07, 2025

The Marvelous McBroom Sisters: Marsha, Dana, Lorelei, Durga...Forces of Nature! Marsha was a model extradinare and is a great educator and humanitarian; Dana an educator at Fashion Institute of Technology in NY, Author of Grace Jones's " Pull Up to the Bumper" and an actress in "Leadbelly"; Lorelei Background Singer with Pink Floyd, Rolling Stones, Rod Stewart and creator of a new YouTube Video Show "Who Influenced You"?; Durga, Background Singer with Pink Floyd, Blue Pearl, Songwriter and an accomplished actress. Simply a marvelous not to be missed episode.👏

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Duration: 00:42:15
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Jul 31, 2025

A marvelous episode with my friends actress Sheila Frazier-Atchison, Tony nominated actress Starletta DuPois and Margaret Bush Ware, former personal assistant to the legendary Sammy Davis, Jr. Three "fine" ladies with such Hollywood wonderful stories! Sheila was the gorgeous actress featured in movie "Superfly" and the talent coordinator for Black Entertainment Televison. Starletta was nominated for a Tony for here Broadway role in The Mighty Gents. She is a veteran actress of over 50 films working with a Who's who of Hollywood. Margaret was not only the legendary Sammy Davis Jr personal assistant but also the talent coordinator of his...

Duration: 00:51:54
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Jul 24, 2025

My guest is former Essence Executive Editor and author Audrey Edwards, who has written a delightful book entitled "American Runaway ".  The book is about her leaving her home in Brooklyn NY to move to Paris on 1/19/21 because Donald Trump was being inaugurated POTUS. Fascinating book and a marvelous read. Little did she know he would be back again!!!

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Duration: 00:44:34
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Jul 17, 2025

My guests are: Joseph N Jackson, inventor of the cable remote control and other inventions: Carlton Brown, architect and Real Estate Developer; and John Atcheson, Hair Salon Owner/ Operator. A marvelously funny yet informative episode. Each of these gentlemen were pioneers in their field. Produced, directed, edited and hosted by Stephen E Davis.


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Duration: 00:58:11
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Jul 10, 2025

This is a heart warming, enlightening and a very personal conversation with the King of Black Theater on Broadway, WOODIE KING JR! He founded and operated the New Federal Theater in New York City for 51 years until his retirement. The Theater is still going strong. I do thank this giant of a man to allow me to record him for my show. Guests include  Broadway Tony nominated STARLETTE DUPOIS and "TV'S" Love Boat "Issac" TED LANGE.  Sit back and  listen on Podcast to this terrific, historic conversation... you will love it. 🤗

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Duration: 00:51:20
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Jul 03, 2025

A must hear, simply marvelous episode of two sisters, Catherine Thomas, Esq and Dr. Claudia Thomas, MD. Catherine Thomas was a Civil Rights and International Business attorney, who was involved in some of the important civil rights cases in America. She is now a realtor in the Maryland area. Her sister, the 1st Black women orthopedic surgeon in the United States, was one of the student leaders of the successful takeover of the Vasser College administration building in 1969. It led to the Board of Trustees acquiescing to the black students 9 demands without getting expelled. Her example and mentoring has...

Duration: 01:16:50
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Jun 26, 2025

My guest is Aminata Njeri, an author, having just recently released a book entitled "Whispers of Wisdom",  a  Pastor,  a leaderologist,  she is the Executive Vice President of Bryan Educational Leadership Group. She has imparted her pearls of leadership wisdom to over 100,000 people. This is a magnificent episode the magnifies the theme of this Podcast, "Progress Despite Obstacles." It is a story of a teenaged mother on welfare, whose mother and her domestically abused by father, abused by her her husband who threaten to kill her. She was raped by her best friend's husband... she did exactly as Maya Ange...

Duration: 00:57:27
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Jun 19, 2025

My guest... Award winner International seasoned performer/vocalist Berklee Conservatory School of Music,  own Alumni with honors, Grammy Voting member, flourishing multi talented pianist,and guitarist ,Whitney Marchelle Jackson has performed at prominent concert events for the World Cup , Dubai Hotel, United Nations, Apollo, New York Blue Note, Parkers Thompson Hotel, Berklee School of Music,  on Campus (standing ovation), Pier 84, Rutgers University, Numerous venues and festivals in Japan, Hawaii ,Canada, and USA. Music in Jazz, American, Songbook, blues,latin and some pop standards. Whitney Marchell Jackson had a credited acting and pianist role where they won the Best Feature Fil...

Duration: 00:57:27
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Jun 12, 2025

My guest, Bobby Sanabria, is a 7 time Grammy nominee. He is noted drummer, percussionist, composer, arranger, conductor, producer, documentary filmmaker, bandleader...and most important to me, educator. He has played with some of the all time greats, including Dizzy Gillespie, Mongo Santamaria, Tito Puente, Celia Cruz, Ruben Blades, Randy Brecker, to named a few. He was named Percussionist of the Year in 2011 and 2013 by Jazz Journalist Association. He has a radio show in the New York area entitled, "Latin Jazz Cruise" on WBGO FM (wbgo.org). Simply a magnificent episode not to be missed! 

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Duration: 00:59:19
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Jun 05, 2025

My guest is Hon. Jerleen Hollimon-Miller, former 12 year Mayor of Maysville, SC. She was born in Maysville, also birth place of her illustrious, famous Great Grand aunt, Dr Mary McLeod Bethune, confidante of former First Lady of the United States, Eleanor Roosevelt and a member of FDR's kitchen cabinet. She is former teacher and children's author of "The Might Hugo Comes to Town" and  "Oh My, Hair Day". 

Her administration embarked on a focus of improving the town by linking it to being a tourist destination by linking it to the legacy of Dr Mary McLeod and re...

Duration: 01:25:17
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
May 29, 2025

My guest is award-winning, world known American playwright, poet, novelist, essayist, song writer, composer, editor and publisher, Ishmael Reed. He is known for his satirical works challenging the American political culture. He is best known for his 1972 release of Mumbo Jumbo. Produced, directed, edited and host by Stephen E Davis.


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Duration: 01:15:37
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
May 22, 2025

This wonderful episode features three members of the generation that came of age in the 50's and 60s.  They are a shining example of this show's mantra... PROGRESS DESPITE OBSTACLES. They deliver a powerful message to this generation of what life was like for them growing, the obstacles they faced as they reached the pinnacles of success in their lives.

Walter Beach was a member of AFL and the NFL. He was the starting cornerback on the 1964 World Champion Cleveland Brown with Jim Brown. But most importantly,  he became a Yale trained lawyer after football.

Dr...

Duration: 01:16:02
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
May 15, 2025

Just a great episode with the marvelous vocalist, producer, actor/director and Banana Puddin' Jazz impresario Rome Neal! He is a stable on the NYC jazz scene. He is know for his laid back jazz style as well as serving Banana pudding at his Banana Puddin" Jazz series beginning in 2003 at the legendary Nuyorican Poet's Cafe in NYC, which he is also Chairman of the Board. Under his leadership they are currently undergoing a $50 million renovation... what a legacy!

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Duration: 01:04:52
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
May 08, 2025

Part 2 of a marvelous conversation with Dr Hattie Washington, tenured professor and former vice president at Coppin State University in Baltimore. She was the operator of a foster care home, Aunt Hattie's Place. She is also the author of DRIVEN TO SUCCEED and AUNT HATTIE'S COOKBOOK. A simply wonderful episode you don't want to miss!

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Duration: 00:55:10
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
May 01, 2025

A marvelous conversation with Dr Hattie Washington, tenured professor and former vice president at Coppin State University in Baltimore. She was the operator of a foster care home, Aunt Hattie's Place. She is also the author of DRIVEN TO SUCCEED and AUNT HATTIE'S COOKBOOK. A simply wonderful episode you don't want to miss! 

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Duration: 00:57:20
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Apr 24, 2025

This episode  is with the distinguished Rev Frederick Davie, former Chairman of the NYC Civilian Complaint Review Board and retired executive vice president of the world famous Union Theological Seminary in New York on.

Rev Davie has worked along side-by-side with some of the most influential figures of the late 20th and early centuries! He worked in the administration's of President Bill Clinton and Barack Obama to the Mayoral administration's of NYC mayor David Dinkins and Bill DeBlasio. Sit back and watch or listen on Podcast to this terrific conversation...you will love it. 👏 Make this show your...

Duration: 00:53:40
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Apr 17, 2025

My guest is Lady Dr Dhyana Ziegler...a great Educator, Scholar, Professor, Jornalist, Radio, Author and TV Host, Digital Content Creator and Musician.👏🤗 Learn about what her affiliation was with Gladys Knight and the Pips. Also...how she earned the title "Lady"!👏It's a wonderfully funny yet informative and inspirational episode not to be missed!😊

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Duration: 01:02:10
The Show About Stuff! Stephen. Davis Show
Apr 10, 2025

My guests are Sheila Evans-Trannum, former Associate Commissioner of Education for NY State Board of Education, former Chairperson of Casey Family Programs and Education Advisor to President G W Bush and Joyce Johnson, former Joseph E Seagrams Co executive, former Special Assistant to former Manhattan President Ruth Messenger and Executive Assistant to former NYC Board of Education Chancellor Rudy Crew. 
 

This episode is full of surprises regarding "Six Degrees of Separation" of family and friends. Holman family and people who lives or lived in Fayetteville, NC and Charleston, SC...you will be surprised! It is a wo...

Duration: 01:20:10
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Mar 27, 2025

A wonderful must see episode with guests: Extradinary Film Producers/Film and Television Directors/ and Film and TV Actors Bill Duke (Acting in Car Wash, Commando, Predator, American Gigolo, Menace II Society...directing Hoodlum, A Rage in Harlem, Sister Act II films... episodes of Knots Landing, Dallas, Hunter) and Kenya Cagle, whose film MY KING, has won over 70 awards ( other films he have produced/directed, wrote and appeared in include newly released Sin Apple, Dead 2 Right, Killing Joanne). Great episode!👏👏🔥

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The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Mar 20, 2025

My guest Omar Mesa is...formerly the original lead guitarist of the great Afro-Cuban band...MANDRILL. They had such recording hit as FENCEWALK, HANG LOOSE and my favorite  POLK STREET CARNIVAL. 
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He has out a recent single I LOVE THE WAY YOU READ MY MIND. Take a listen below:

 (I LOVE THE WAY YOU READ MY MIND - 44K 16 Bit by OMAR MESA on #SoundCloud

https://soundcloud.com/user-148566702/i-love-the-way-you-read-my-mind-44k-16-bit?ref=clipboard&p=a&c=0&si=a9a6ddce3083415cbf79c6816ce0c17...

Duration: 00:50:42
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Mar 13, 2025

My guest, Eddie Ray, is truly a giant, a pioneer in the music industry. He started working at Decca Records in 1943, he worked with such diverse at from R & B giant Fats Domino to teen idol Ricky Nelson to Country Star Slim Whitman. He become Chairman of the US Copyright Royalty Tribunal, appointed by President Ronald Reagan. He was Vice Chairman/ Operation Director of the NC Music hall of Fame. A wonder Video. Mr Ray is join by Logan Westbrooks, Hiliary Johnson, Deborah McPhatter and Michael Frisby

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Duration: 00:56:18
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Mar 06, 2025

My guests are Dama and David Conti...two young Long Islanders who move to Raleigh NC and start a wonderful Healthcare business which is call Fyzical Therapy and Balance Centers. They demonstrate the focus and determination necessary to succeed while raising a family. It is funny yet so informative...not to be missed!🤗♥️


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Duration: 00:57:34
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Feb 27, 2025

My guest is the incomparable Hip Hop legend...Producer, Rapper, Entrepreneur AB Money! 👏It was such a pleasure to sit down with a Pioneer in the Hip Hop who is such a great guy personally. He shares his wonderful journey of experiences from growing up in Brooklyn New York to being a Rap star at 18 with a group called Rappin is Fundamental, which fused Hip Hop with Jazz...his vision. His partner, Producer Easy Moe Bee and AB, were responsible for, produced, and performed on Miles Davis's last album Grammy winning Doo Bop. It's an informative journey into the Hip...

Duration: 01:00:13
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Feb 20, 2025

My guest is Hon. Jerleen Hollimon-Miller, former 12 year Mayor of Maysville, SC. She was born in Maysville, also birth place of her illustrious, famous Great Grand aunt, Dr Mary McLeod Bethune, confidante of former First Lady of the United States, Eleanor Roosevelt and a member of FDR's kitchen cabinet. She is former teacher and children's author of "The Might Hugo Comes to Town" and  "Oh My, Hair Day". 

Her administration embarked on a focus of improving the town by linking it to being a tourist destination by linking it to the legacy of Dr Mary McLeod and re...

Duration: 01:25:17
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Feb 13, 2025

Magnificent episode with Jazz extradinare Trombonist, writer and composer Craig Harris. Riveting and funny, great walk down memory lane while being contemporary. If you love Jazz, you will enjoy this episode!

Produced, directed, edited and host by Stephen E Davis.


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Duration: 01:03:14
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Feb 06, 2025

This is a video about The Show About Stuff...Episode 26...Deborah McPhatter

Marvelous conversation with Deborah McPhatter, the former Chairwoman of the NC Music Hall of Fame and daughter of legendary 2 time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Clyde McPhatter. It's a wonderful, nostalgic episode of times gone by. By the way, do you know who her brother is? Tune in to find out!!! Produced, directed, edited and hosted by Stephen E Davis.


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Duration: 00:55:09
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Jan 30, 2025

This episode  is with the distinguished Rev Frederick Davie, former Chairman of the NYC Civilian Complaint Review Board and retired executive vice president of the world famous Union Theological Seminary in New York on.

Rev Davie has worked along side-by-side with some of the most influential figures of the late 20th and early centuries! He worked in the administration's of President Bill Clinton and Barack Obama to the Mayoral administration's of NYC mayor David Dinkins and Bill DeBlasio. Sit back and watch or listen on Podcast to this terrific conversation...you will love it. 👏 Make this show your...

Duration: 00:53:40
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Jan 23, 2025

My guest is award-winning, world known American playwright, poet, novelist, essayist, song writer, composer, editor and publisher, Ishmael Reed. He is known for his satirical works challenging the American political culture. He is best known for his 1972 release of Mumbo Jumbo. Produced, directed, edited and host by Stephen E Davis.


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Duration: 01:15:37
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Jan 16, 2025

My guest is North Carolina native Dr Dee Banks, MD.👏 Dr Banks is an infectious specialist who has been at the frontline of health care of two of the most deadly epidemics in human history...HIV/Aids and Covid-19.                                                                                                                                                      Her story is fascinating, dramatic, yet so funny. Take time to see a great episode.👏 I am sure you will love it. 🤗

Produced, directed, edited and host by Stephen E Davis.


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Duration: 01:01:34
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Jan 09, 2025

Truly interesting and riveting life of David Bythewood...a funeral director, attorney... who became the first Black  attorney for a mob boss. A serious look at the justice system as told by Mr. Bythewood. Produced, directed, written and hosted by awarding winning Stephen E Davis.


 


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The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Jan 02, 2025

"Give Me Just A Little More Time"! Beach Music at its best. Sounds of the 70's with guest Ken Knox, Thomas Hunter, Brandon Stevens...Chairmen of the Board and their musical director... Jerry "Midas" Hardison. A marvelous, nostalgic episode with a 70's group who are still doing it!!! Enjoy!

 Produced, directed, written and host by Stephen E Davis.


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Duration: 01:01:02
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Dec 26, 2024

My wonderful guest is:

PUCCI AMANDA JHONES, Jazz Vocalist, extraordinaire!👏

Tall, Tempting and so super Talented... she has been a model on the runways of Paris, an actress auditioning with Denzel Washington, a real broker with a New York City building named after her and she has a voice that reaches your very soul...and she is so funny! Her story is truly inspiring and an example of my shows theme: PROGRESS DESPITE OBSTACLES. 🤗 Sit back and enjoy this episode!👏

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Duration: 01:03:53
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Dec 19, 2024

Andrew Ramroop, OBE  is a Master Bespoke Tailor who owns the very famous Maurice Sedwell Tailor Company on trendy and famous Saville Row in London. This is a heart warming and inspiring story of "Progress despite Obstacles". A must hear episode! Produced, directed, written, edited and hosted by Stephen E. Davis.


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Duration: 01:07:47
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Dec 12, 2024

The Show About Stuff guests former dancer at the Oakland Opera, David Lee, President of KD New York, who invented Vegetable Cashmere(TM) and Lincoln Berry III, President of Grab Vision Group, inventor of GrabTV. It is a marvelous informative yet funny episode. You will enjoy.

Stephen E Davis Producer, Director, Writer and Host.
 


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Duration: 01:13:33
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Dec 05, 2024

A marvelously enlightening and heart warming episode of the struggles and triumph of two wonderfully gifted and determined creative people. Singer/songwriter, producer Keira Wesley-Busher who resenting released her debut album SONIC COMFORT and Award Winning Film Producer/Director/Actor Kenya Cagle, Present of Caglevision, whose new film on Amazon Prime, MY KING, has won Best Drama at the Couch Film Festival, Toronto Film Festival among others. Wonderful conversation with both.

Produced, directed and host by Stephen E Davis


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Duration: 01:03:37
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Nov 28, 2024

My guest is Elizabeth Van Dyke...the Producing Director of Woodie King's New Federal Theater in New York...is an award-winning producer, actress, and director who has directed plays all over the country and received honors for her work. It's a wonderful,  thought- provoking study of the American Theater and it's inner workings of creating and staging of a play production... a must- hear!👏


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The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Nov 21, 2024

My guests are Valerie Graves and Toni Borrero , Pioneers in the World of Advertising for Women of Color... Valerie on the creative side and Toni on the business side. They have fascinating stories about their lives, choosing to navigate a white male dominated industry during the 70's and 80's and succeeding despite obstacles. Dramatic... yet so funny! Take time to see it.👏 You will love it. 

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Duration: 01:24:40
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Nov 14, 2024

A poignant, heartwarming yet truly inspiring story of two professionals...Frank Wheaton, Esq and Robert Jamison, Phd. You will truly cry, laugh and clap as these two men truly brings to life our mantra "Progress despite Obstacles". A must listen to episode...Part 2.

Produced, directed and host by Stephen E Davis.


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Duration: 00:46:11
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Nov 07, 2024

Famed Beverly Hills attorney Frank Wheaton has represented many famous people including Milton Berle and Essie Mae Washington-Williams, the Black daughter of the late segregationist Senator Strom Thurmond from South Carolina. But you will have the pleasure of learning about his truly inspiring different careers. 

Dr Robert Jamison, Phd, story is about the exhilaration of overcoming one's negative environment and climbing the ladder of success; only to fall to the depths of despair and prison for a charge he says he did not commit;  come even bigger and more successful that before. 

A wonderful episode pro...

Duration: 00:43:38
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Oct 31, 2024

My guest is journalist, author, gossip columnist Flo Anthony. "Florence "Flo" Anthony is a gossip columnist, syndicated radio host, TV contributor and author. She is an African-American reporter who writes for the gossip page of the Philadelphia Sun. [1] Anthony resides in the East Harlem section of New York City.[2]

Florence Anthony is a graduate of Howard University.[citation needed]

'After working as a publicist for sports legends like Muhammad Ali, Butch Lewis, Michael Spinks, Larry Holmes, Mike McCallum and Matthew Saad Muhammad; Anthony wrote in the mid-1980s entertainment news.[citation needed]

She...

Duration: 00:38:00
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Oct 24, 2024

 My guests on this episode are NY/NJ Port Authority manager and jazz vocalist, Steve Comity; and NYC Board of Education Administrator/Educator and Jazz drummer, pianist, percussionist and singer Eric Frazier. 

Mr. Cromity poignantly relate his harrowing journey from the 73rd floor of the NY World Trade Center to safety after hearing the planes crash into the buildings on 9/11/2001. He did not realize the life threatening danger he was in  while descending those steps. It is a truly gut wrenching, powerful experience to have in ones life. 

Mr Fraizer talks about his experience being a Pr...

Duration: 01:13:16
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Oct 17, 2024

On this episode of The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show, I have a wonderful conversation with the fifth president, Dr Will Crossley, of the 117 year old boarding Piney Woods School. In July 2014, he returned to Piney Woods as the first alumnus to serve in this capacity. A trained University of Chicago and Harvard educator, he is also a lawyer and  Civil Rights expert, having served as a Senior Advisor in the Office for Civil Rights at the US Department of Education for President Barack Obama. His bully and outgoing personality make this a truly memorable, informative yet f...

Duration: 01:19:18
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Oct 10, 2024

Today's guest is Bobby "Zorro" Hunter, the legendary basketball player for the world famous Harlem Globetrotters. Bobby spent 9 years between 1966 and 1975 with the team. Some of his teammates included the remarkable and funny ,Meadowlark Lemon, Curly Neal, the dribbling master and Bobby Mason.

But he has been far more than a basketball legend. He has been a human rights activist, and one of the foremost fusion artist in this country. Come experience the world of Bobby Hunter, basketball legend of Harlem. It is is an inspiring episode.

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Duration: 00:37:16
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Oct 03, 2024

My guest on this episode is Ruth Hunt, a model, a former  healthcare executive, and a long time genealogist. She was also the project manager and first employee of the Jackie Robinson Foundation. She helped to create the framework of this great non- profit organization that keeps the memory of Major League Baseball's first Negro player. As a genealogist, she has wonderful stories on discovering her own ancestry line, all the way back to the 1300's. It is a thought provoking, informative yet funny episode. A must see!

 

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Duration: 01:16:57
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Sep 26, 2024

My guest is the extraordinary Dr. Richard Allen Williams, a world renowned cardiologist. He founded the Association of Black Cardiologist 50 years, when there was only 2 Black Caridiologists in the United States. He founded the Minority Health Institute when it was not popular to talk of the health disparities between the races. He is an international on hypertension, healthcare disparities, diabetes, obesity,heart failures and sudden cardiac death. He was honored by the American Heart Association with their LifeSaver Award.

Additionally... he is a renowned jazz trumpeter, who has worked or learned from some of the jazz icons...

Duration: 01:11:56
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Sep 19, 2024

It's another  wonderful episode of The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show  with Logan Westbrooks (with friends Shelia Frazier-Atcheson and Ulysses Kilgore)... a Black Pioneer Music executive who worked with CBS Records, interacting with such stars as the Jackson 5 to Earth, Wind and Fire! He created Source Records, which released "Bustin Loose" by Chuck Brown! It is an episode to just sit back and enjoy listening to his experiences. Enjoy!🤗

Produced, directed, edited and host by Stephen E Davis


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Duration: 00:37:15
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Sep 12, 2024

A personal favorite episode of a person who was a child star on Broadway in 1955, an Ikette with Tina Turner, sang with Little Richard and David Ruffin on his first solo album after the Temptations and a founding member of great iconic groups of the 70's...the Honey Cone...who had a triumph recent concert in Atlantic City. And by the way...she found time to also be Funeral director for a short time!!!😲👏😄 Here is my great friend

THE FABULOUS 

SHELLY CLARK WHITE!

Believe me... your going to love this episode... ENJOY!❤🤗 

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Duration: 00:56:05
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Sep 05, 2024

The Marvelous McBroom Sisters: Marsha, Dana, Lorelei, Durga...Forces of Nature! Marsha was a model extradinare and is a great educator and humanitarian; Dana an educator at Fashion Institute of Technology in NY, Author of Grace Jones's " Pull Up to the Bumper" and an actress in "Leadbelly"; Lorelei Background Singer with Pink Floyd, Rolling Stones, Rod Stewart and creator of a new YouTube Video Show "Who Influenced You"?; Durga, Background Singer with Pink Floyd, Blue Pearl, Songwriter and an accomplished actress. Simply a marvelous not to be missed episode.👏

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Duration: 00:40:13
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Aug 29, 2024

The Marvelous McBroom Sisters: Marsha, Dana, Lorelei, Durga...Forces of Nature! Marsha was a model extradinare and is a great educator and humanitarian; Dana an educator at Fashion Institute of Technology in NY, Author of Grace Jones's " Pull Up to the Bumper" and an actress in "Leadbelly"; Lorelei Background Singer with Pink Floyd, Rolling Stones, Rod Stewart and creator of a new YouTube Video Show "Who Influenced You"?; Durga, Background Singer with Pink Floyd, Blue Pearl, Songwriter and an accomplished actress. Simply a marvelous not to be missed episode.👏


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Duration: 00:46:07
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Aug 22, 2024

A marvelous episode with my friends actress Sheila Frazier-Atchison, Tony nominated actress Starletta DuPois and Margaret Bush Ware, former personal assistant to the legendary Sammy Davis, Jr. Three "fine" ladies with such Hollywood wonderful stories! Sheila was the gorgeous actress featured in movie "Superfly" and the talent coordinator for Black Entertainment Televison. Starletta was nominated for a Tony for here Broadway role in The Mighty Gents. She is a veteran actress of over 50 films working with a Who's who of Hollywood. Margaret was not only the legendary Sammy Davis Jr personal assistant but also the talent coordinator of his...

Duration: 00:51:54
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Aug 15, 2024

My guest is former Essence Executive Editor and author Audrey Edwards, who has written a delightful book entitled "American Runaway ".  The book is about her leaving her home in Brooklyn NY to move to Paris on 1/19/21 because Donald Trump was being inaugurated POTUS. Fascinating book and a marvelous read.

 Produced, written, directed and host by Stephen E Davis.


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Duration: 00:44:34
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Aug 08, 2024

My guests are: Joseph N Jackson, inventor of the cable remote control and other inventions: Carlton Brown, architect and Real Estate Developer; and John Atcheson, Hair Salon Owner/ Operator. A marvelously funny yet informative episode. 


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Duration: 00:58:11
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Aug 01, 2024

My guest is Aminata Njeri, an author, having just recently released a book entitled "Whispers of Wisdom",  a  Pastor,  a leaderologist,  she is the Executive Vice President of Bryan Educational Leadership Group. She has imparted her pearls of leadership wisdom to over 100,000 people. This is a magnificent episode the magnifies the theme of this Podcast, "Progress Despite Obstacles." It is a story of a teenaged mother on welfare, whose mother and her domestically abused by father, abused by her her husband who threaten to kill her. She was raped by her best friend's husband... she did exactly as Maya Ange...

Duration: 00:55:23
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Jul 25, 2024

My guest... Award winner International seasoned performer/vocalist Berklee's own Alumni with honors, Grammy Voting member, flourishing multi talented pianist,and guitarist ,Whitney Marchell Jackson has performed at prominent concert events for the World Cup ,Dusit Dubai Hotel, United Nations, Apollo, New York Blue Note, Parkers Thompson Hotel, Berklee on Campus (standing ovation),Pier 84, Rutgers University, Numerous venues and festivals in Japan, Hawaii ,Canada,and USA. Music in Jazz, American, Songbook, blues,latin and some pop standards. Whitney Marchell Jackson had a credited acting and pianist role where they won the Best Feature Film at the QueerX Film Festival 2022 for...

Duration: 00:57:27
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Jul 18, 2024

My guest is Lady Dr Dhyana Ziegler...a great Educator, Scholar, Professor, Jornalist, Radio and TV Host, Digital Content Creator and Musician.👏🤗 Learn about what her affiliation was with Gladys Knight and the Pips. Also...how she earned the title "Lady"!👏It's a wonderfully funny yet informative and inspirational episode not to be missed!😊

Produced, directed and hosted by Stephen E Davis. 


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Duration: 01:02:10
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Jul 18, 2024

My guests are Sheila Evans-Trannum, former Associate Commissioner of Education for NY State Board of Education, former Chairperson of Casey Family Programs and Education Advisor to President G W Bush and Joyce Johnson, former Joseph E Seagrams Co executive, former Special Assistant to former Manhattan President Ruth Messenger and Executive Assistant to former NYC Board of Education Chancellor Rudy Crew. 
 

This episode is full of surprises regarding "Six Degrees of Separation" of family and friends. Holman family and people who lives or lived in Fayetteville, NC and Charleston, SC...you will be surprised! It is a wo...

Duration: 01:20:10
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Jul 11, 2024

A wonderful must see episode with guests: Extradinary Film Producers/Film and Television Directors/ and Film and TV Actors Bill Duke (Acting in Car Wash, Commando, Predator, American Gigolo, Menace II Society...directing Hoodlum, A Rage in Harlem, Sister Act II films... episodes of Knots Landing, Dallas, Hunter) and Kenya Cagle, whose film MY KING, has won over 70 awards ( other films he have produced/directed, wrote and appeared in include newly released Sin Apple, Dead 2 Right, Killing Joanne). Great episode!👏👏🔥

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Duration: 01:06:34
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Jul 04, 2024

My guest Omar Mesa is...formerly the original lead guitarist of the great Afro-Cuban band...MANDRILL. They had such recording hit as FENCEWALK, HANG LOOSE and my favorite  POLK STREET CARNIVAL. 
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He has out a recent single I LOVE THE WAY YOU READ MY MIND. Take a listen below:

 (I LOVE THE WAY YOU READ MY MIND - 44K 16 Bit by OMAR MESA on #SoundCloud

https://soundcloud.com/user-148566702/i-love-the-way-you-read-my-mind-44k-16-bit?ref=clipboard&p=a&c=0&si=a9a6ddce3083415cbf79c6816ce0c17...

Duration: 00:51:12
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Jun 27, 2024

My guest, Charles White, Esq, is a NYU Law trained practicing attorney who is also a prolific Playwright. His play SUCCESSION was the break away hit at the recent National Black Theater Festival in Winston-Salem. He received tremendously positive reviews.It was a fun episode. 🤗 Wait until you discover who the lead actor in its run in Winston-Salem!😉 ENJOY!😊

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Duration: 00:50:42
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show (TM)
Jun 20, 2024

My guest on this episode are NY/NJ Port Authority manager and jazz vocalist, Steve Comity; and NYC Board of Education Administrator/Educator and Jazz drummer, pianist, percussionist and singer Eric Frazier. 

Mr. Cromity poignantly relate his harrowing journey from the 73rd floor of the NY World Trade Center to safety after hearing the planes crash into the buildings on 9/11/2001. He did not realize the life threatening danger he was in  while descending those steps. It is a truly gut wrenching, powerful experience to have in ones life. 

Mr Fraizer talks about his experience being a P...

Duration: 01:13:16
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Jun 13, 2024

On this episode of The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show, I have a wonderful conversation with the fifth president, Dr Will Crossley, of the 117 year old boarding Piney Woods School. In July 2014, he returned to Piney Woods as the first alumnus to serve in this capacity. A trained University of Chicago and Harvard educator, he is also a lawyer and  Civil Rights expert, having served as a Senior Advisor in the Office for Civil Rights at the US Department of Education for President Barack Obama. His bully and outgoing personality make this a truly memorable, informative yet f...

Duration: 01:19:18
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Jun 06, 2024

My guest, Eddie Ray, is truly a giant, a pioneer in the music industry. He started working at Decca Records in 1943, he worked with such diverse at from R & B giant Fats Domino to teen idol Ricky Nelson to Country Star Slim Whitman. He become Chairman of the US Copyright Royalty Tribunal, appointed by President Ronald Reagan. He was Vice Chairman/ Operation Director of the NC Music hall of Fame. A wonder Video. Mr Ray is join by Logan Westbrooks, Hiliary Johnson, Deborah McPhatter and Michael Frisby

Produced, directed, written and hosted by Stephen E Davis.

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Duration: 00:56:18
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
May 30, 2024

This episode is dedicated  and about the memory of the death of George Floyd. It is about a 501 3C organization, A Soul Heart Memorializing George Floyd Jr, with my guests co founder and Board Secretary, Love Sessoms and Treasurer, Nan O'Brien. It is a global organization created to push the boundaries of what social justice definition is, Its mission is to facilitate the strengthening of global relationships between people from all racial communities, with the goal promotingunderstandingthat will bring about true change on issues of racial equality and social justice internationally. It is a marvelous must hear episode. Enjoy! 

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Duration: 00:48:54
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen. Davis Show
May 23, 2024

My guests are Dama and David Conti...two young Long Islanders who move to Raleigh NC and start a wonderful Healthcare business which is call Fyzical Therapy and Balance Centers. They demonstrate the focus and determination necessary to succeed while raising a family. It is funny yet so informative...not to be missed!🤗♥️


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Duration: 00:57:34
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
May 16, 2024

My guest is the incomparable Hip Hop legend...Producer, Rapper, Entrepreneur AB Money! 👏It was such a pleasure to sit down with a Pioneer in the Hip Hop who is such a great guy personally. He shares his wonderful journey of experiences from growing up in Brooklyn New York to being a Rap star at 18 with a group called Rappin is Fundamental, which fused Hip Hop with Jazz...his vision. His partner, Producer Easy Moe Bee and AB, were responsible for, produced, and performed on Miles Davis's last album Grammy winning Doo Bop. It's an informative journey into the Hip...

Duration: 01:00:13
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show (TM)
May 09, 2024

My guest, Bobby Sanabria, is a 7 time Grammy nominee. He is noted drummer, percussionist, composer, arranger, conductor, producer, documentary filmmaker, bandleader...and most important to me, educator. He has played with some of the all time greats, including Dizzy Gillespie, Mongo Santamaria, Tito Puente, Celia Cruz, Ruben Blades, Randy Brecker, to named a few. He was named Percussionist of the Year in 2011 and 2013 by Jazz Journalist Association. He has a radio show in the New York area entitled, "Latin Jazz Cruise" on WBGO FM (wbgo.org). Simply a magnificent episode not to be missed! 

Produced, directed, edited a...

Duration: 01:09:09
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
May 02, 2024

My Guest is KIM WESTON-MORAN, Actress/Producer/Director/Teacher. Kim is CEO of RA/RHYTHMCOLOR Associates and Founder/Producing Artistic Director of POTPOURRI! World Works Series, in it’s 8th year. She was Associate Prod. for the National Black Touring Circuit for 7 yrs.

A veteran award-winning actress known for her character work. Kim has shared the stage with phenomenal artists, including: Minnie Gentry, Bill Gunn, Roxie Roker, Phyllcia Rashad, Gylan Kain, Patricia O’Connell, Anthony Chisholm, Ellen Dolan, S. Epatha Merkinson, Charles Weldon, Barbara Montgomery, Reggie Montgomery, Marjorie Johnson, Count Stovall, Bill Cobbs, Dominique Morisseau and Darnell Will...

Duration: 01:09:09
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show (TM)
Apr 25, 2024

Dr. Randall Maxey, MD, PhD is an experienced physician specializing in internal medicine, nephrology, and cardiovascular pharmacology offering 40+ years of clinical practice and clinical and bench research in developing health services for populations of color, including in the continental US, US territories, and the continent of Africa. He is the past President and Chairman of the Board of the National Medical Association (NMA), and the founder and CEO of the Black Health Trust, which provides credible health information regarding health disparities in COVID-19, provided by a panel of nationally recognized physician experts in over 20 specialties, which has a reach...

Duration: 01:01:13
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show (TM)
Apr 18, 2024

My guest is B.K. Fulton, former Vice President Mid Atlantic Region, Verizon Communications,  President, Verizon Virgina. He is now a major entrepreneur in film, stage and television investment through his Company, Soulidifly Productions, LLC. His restaging of the iconic production of THE WIZ is due on Broadway in April of 2024.His company, Ario, LLC, an augmented reality productivity software company, invented EZ Reader, the world's first ophthalmologist approved digital reading glasses app. B.K. has been recognized as one of the "50 Most Influential African Americans in Technology."

You are going to enjoy this episode! 
 

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Duration: 00:49:09
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show (TM)
Apr 11, 2024

A must hear, simply marvelous episode of two sisters, Catherine Thomas, Esq and Dr. Claudia Thomas, MD. Catherine Thomas was a Civil Rights and International Business attorney, who was involved in some of the important civil rights cases in America. She is now a realtor in the Maryland area. Her sister, the 1st Black women orthopedic surgeon in the United States, was one of the student leaders of the successful takeover of the Vasser College administration building in 1969. It led to the Board of Trustees acquiescing to the black students 9 demands without getting expelled. Her example and mentoring has...

Duration: 01:16:50
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show (TM)
Apr 04, 2024

Just a great episode with the marvelous vocalist, producer, actor/director and Banana Puddin' Jazz impresario Rome Neal! He is a stable on the NYC jazz scene. He is know for his laid back jazz style as well as serving Banana pudding at his Banana Puddin" Jazz series beginning in 2003 at the legendary Nuyorican Poet's Cafe in NYC, which he is also Chairman of the Board. Under his leadership they are currently undergoing a $50 million renovation... what a legacy!

Produced, directed, edited and hosted by Stephen E Davis.


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Duration: 01:04:52
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Mar 28, 2024

Part 2 of a marvelous conversation with Dr Hattie Washington, tenured professor and former vice president at Coppin State University in Baltimore. She was the operator of a foster care home, Aunt Hattie's Place. She is also the author of DRIVEN TO SUCCEED and AUNT HATTIE'S COOKBOOK. A simply wonderful episode you don't want to miss!

Produced, directed, edited and hosted by Stephen E Davis.
 


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Duration: 00:55:10
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Mar 21, 2024

A marvelous conversation with Dr Hattie Washington, tenured professor and former vice president at Coppin State University in Baltimore,. She was the operator of a foster care home, Aunt Hattie's Place. She is also the author of DRIVEN TO SUCCEED and AUNT HATTIE'S COOKBOOK. A simply wonderful episode you don't want to miss! 

Produced, directed, edited and hosted by Stephen E Davis.


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Duration: 00:57:20
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Mar 14, 2024

Magnificent episode with Jazz extradinare Trombonist, writer and composer Craig Harris. Riveting and funny, great walk down memory lane while being contemporary. If you love Jazz, you will enjoy this episode!

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Duration: 01:03:14
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show (TM)
Mar 07, 2024

This is a video about The Show About Stuff...Episode 26...Deborah McPhatter

Marvelous conversation with Deborah McPhatter, the former Chairwoman of the NC Music Hall of Fame and daughter of legendary 2 time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Clyde McPhatter. It's a wonderful, nostalgic episode of times gone by. By the way, do you know who her brother by Clyde mother was? Tune in to find out!!! Produced, directed, edited and hosted by Stephen E Davis.


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Duration: 00:55:09
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show (TM)
Feb 29, 2024

This episode  is with the distinguished Rev Frederick Davie, former Chairman of the NYC Civilian Complaint Review Board and retired executive vice president of the world famous Union Theological Seminary in New York on.

Rev Davie has worked along side-by-side with some of the most influential figures of the late 20th and early centuries! He worked in the administration's of President Bill Clinton and Barack Obama to the Mayoral administration's of NYC mayor David Dinkins and Bill DeBlasio. Sit back and watch or listen on Podcast to this terrific conversation...you will love it. 👏 Make this show your...

Duration: 00:53:40
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show(TM)
Feb 22, 2024

 My guest is Aminata Njeri, an author, having just recently released a book entitled "Whispers of Wisdom",  a  Pastor,  a leaderologist,  She is the Executive Vice President of Bryan Educational Leadership Group. She has imparted her pearls of leadership wisdom to over 100,000 people. This is a magnificent episode the magnifies the theme of this Podcast, "Progress Despite Obstacles." It is a story of a teenaged mother on welfare, whose mother and her domestically abused by father, abused by her her husband who threaten to kill her. She was raped by her best friend's husband... she did exactly as Maya Angel...

Duration: 00:55:23
The Show About Stuff! The Stephen Davis Show
Feb 15, 2024

My guest is North Carolina native Dr Dee Banks, MD.👏 Dr Banks is an infectious specialist who has been at the frontline of health care of two of the most deadly epidemics in human history...HIV/Aids and Covid-19.                                                                                                                                                      Her story is fascinating, dramatic, yet so funny. Take time to see a great episode.👏 I am sure you will love it. 🤗

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Duration: 01:01:34