Truth, Tunes, and Transformation

This Friends Like Us! Host Marina Franklin welcomes back birthday girl Amanda Seales and burgeoning star Nonye Brown-West. What’s the truth behind the tune? We chat with Amanda Seales about her latest album Truth Translator and much more! This episode is not to be missed!

Amanda Seales is a multi-disciplined scholar and creative in the Black radical tradition. Her work travels the page, stage, screen, canvas and spaces in between, focused on disrupting systems of oppression, decolonizing the mind and body, and engaging imagination in resistance. A staunch advocate for human rights and the collective liberation of all living things she supports several movements and organizations with her efforts, income, and creative outlets. Realizing that Hollywood would not support her in living by and making work that was grounded in her values, in 2024 she divested from the entertainment business leaving behind an established career as a comedian/ actress/ tv/radio host to work independently committed to empowering the people through edutainment. Her new album Truth Translator will be available to stream on all major platforms with audiences encouraged to purchase at a rate of their choosing at AmandaDiva.bandcamp.com.

Nonye Brown-West is a New York-based Nigerian-American comedian and writer. She has been featured in the Boston Globe’s Rise column as a Comic to Watch. She has also appeared on Amazon, NPR, PBS, ABC, Sway In The Morning on Sirius XM, and the New York Comedy Festival. Go to NonyeComedy to see where she is performing near you.

Always hosted by Marina Franklin – One Hour Comedy Special: Single Black Female ( Amazon Prime, CW Network), TBS’s The Last O.G, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Hysterical on FX, The Movie Trainwreck, Louie Season V, The Jim Gaffigan Show, Conan O’Brien, Stephen Colbert, HBO’s Crashing, and The Breaks with Michelle Wolf. Writer for HBO’s ‘Divorce’ and the new Tracy Morgan show on Paramount Plus: ‘Crutch