Black politics, culture, and accountability in motion.
Clay Cane Extended! is a politically engaged interview show drawn from SiriusXM Urban View conversations. It moves from immigration law and Project 2025 to Black literature, local politics, disco history, and the daily stakes of democracy.
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Clay Cane Extended! is an interview-driven extension of conversations from SiriusXM Urban View. It has the pace of live radio and the focus of a political salon. The show does not treat public life as distant theater. It asks what a policy fight, court case, book, local race, or cultural memory means for communities trying to survive and act. Recent episodes lean hard into immigration, with Alan Orr explaining detention deaths, family separation, TPS, birthright citizenship, denaturalization talk, and the limits of presidential power. Those updates are practical and pointed. They translate legal mechanics into civic consequences. Other conversations widen the frame. Ahmad Baba connects foreign policy, Project 2025, fossil fuel interests, Iran, and constitutional language to the larger problem of authoritarian politics. Barrington Atkins brings the discussion down to county budgets, local elections, schools, the NAACP, and what representation can do from inside government. The show also has a literary spine. The conversation around Burn Down Master’s House treats fiction, family memory, book bans, and truth-telling as part of the same fight over history. Jamilah Lemieux’s episode on Black. Single. Mother. moves through publishing, motherhood, sexual violence, community protection, and the cost of being visible as a Black woman writer. Culture is not a break from politics here. It is another route into it. A Night at the Disco becomes a conversation about Philadelphia soul, the Tramps, Thelma Houston, Donna Summer, Valerie Simpson, club records, West African influence, and the way music carries memory across generations. The tone is serious, but not stiff. There is warmth, impatience, humor, and a steady insistence that listeners understand the systems around them.
Made for: For listeners who want sharp conversations about politics, Black history, books, immigration, and culture with urgency and plainspoken context. It especially suits people who follow current affairs but want the community stakes made explicit.
What sets it apart: The show’s range is unusually grounded: Supreme Court immigration fights, local county budgets, disco history, and Black literary memory can all sit in the same editorial world. Its strength is connecting systems to lived consequence without sanding off conviction.
This is the Best Of the Clay Cane Show featuring Exonerated interviews, Black Trivia Quiz, History with Clay, Am I Trippin' with Reecie Colbert, Throwback Interviews, and more! Listen to the Clay Cane Show on SiriusXM Urban View (channel 126) Monday-Friday 12p ET - 3p ET.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Clay Cane connects Black history, family memory, books, and political debate through interviews that treat the past as an active civic question.
Clay Cane Extended! turns interviews into sustained conversations about how the American past continues to shape public life. Clay Cane moves between authors, journalists, political candidates, and book-club participants, repeatedly connecting present-day arguments to slavery,…
Clay Cane makes history answer to the present, then asks what you plan to do about it.
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Political commentary with urgency, context, and a clear focus on power.
Play Cane Extended keeps its attention on Ahmad Baba's independent reporting in a quick-moving discussion of Iran, Project 2025, and the wider machinery of right-wing authoritarian politics.
A book club conversation weighs family memory, Black history, resistance, and the complications of allyship.
A book club visit in Ashland, Virginia turns into a thoughtful look at how a book can carry public history into family memory. Eva McKend guides a conversation about readers seeing their own grandmothers, grandfathers, great grandmothers, and great grandfathers in characters…
A book conversation that moves from personal memory into Black motherhood, harm, and visibility.
This conversation follows Jamilah Lemieux as she talks about Black Single Mother: Real Life Tales of Longing and Belonging, starting with her own story and widening into Black motherhood, harm, and visibility.
A sharp look at Jim Crow as an active force, not a finished story.
Richard Riles treats Jim Crow as something still in motion, not a closed chapter. The conversation stays close to the book and to his own life in Palm Beach County, with his work as an attorney giving the argument some weight.
A West Philly primary discussion about turnout, incumbency, and housing in the same political fight.
Clay Cane treats the primaries as the place where power actually gets decided, and the West Philadelphia setting gives the discussion a grounded local edge.
A live book club conversation that ties allyship, ancestry, and accountability to the book's hardest questions.
Clay Cane's extended radio conversation with the Water's Edge Book Club in Stone Mountain centers on Charity Butler, Thaddeus Stevens, and the uneasy fact that allies can still help keep oppression in place.
Clay Cane brings on independent journalist and political analyst Ahmad Baba for a brisk conversation about Iran and the larger political forces surrounding it.
Immigration attorney Alan Orr discusses recent developments including deaths in ICE detention, court violations, and political rhetoric around immigration in April 2026.
Clay Cane airs a book club interview for his historical fiction novel 'Burn Down Master's House,' conducted by journalist Eva McKend in Ashland, Virginia.
Clay Cane hosts Allen Orr, former president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, for an immigration update.
Clay Cain interviews Christian John Wikane about his new book 'A Night at the Disco', which celebrates 1970s dance music and the culture of discos.
This episode features an interview with Barrington Atkins, President of the Northern Dutchess NAACP and a local official, discussing his journey into education and politics in Poughkeepsie.
Immigration attorney Allen Orr discusses the week's key immigration issues, including a birthright citizenship case challenging presidential executive orders and an upcoming Supreme Court hearing on TPS.
Clay Cane sits down with Jamila Lemieux to talk about her debut book.
Clay Cane interviews Dr.
This extended version of my radio show sits down with Richard Riles around his new book, The Immortal Jim Crow: Growing Up Under the System That Still Haunts Us Today.
Clay Cane discusses a U.S.
Clay Cane interviews Dr.
Host Clay Cane interviews author and therapist John Zell Anderson about his memoir 'Mixtape' and the role of storytelling in healing.
Clay Cane interviews Chris Rabb, a 10-year Pennsylvania state house representative running for Congress in Pennsylvania's 3rd congressional district, which he describes as the most Democratic-performing district in all 435 House seats.
Extended version of Clay Cane's radio show featuring interviews, trivia, and cultural commentary on African American issues.
Immigration attorney Alan Orr provides an update on Trump administration efforts to end Temporary Protected Status for Haitians and other groups.
Clay Cain interviews civil rights leader Eric Ward about his documentary 'White with Fear' that examines how white fear has been used as a political strategy, particularly in the post-civil rights era.
Clay Cane interviews Keevan Chisholm, founder of Junior Wall Streeters, about addressing the racial wealth gap through financial education and investment clubs.
Clay Cane hosts an extended version of his Sirius XM Urban View show featuring a Q&A with the Water's Edge Book Club in Stone Mountain, Georgia, discussing his historical fiction novel Burn Down Master's House.
Clay Cane interviews Onika Mays about her book 'Sit With Me,' discussing the transformative power of mindfulness and meditation, especially after personal loss.
Host Clay Cane interviews a counselor from Truth Pregnancy Resource Center about reproductive rights in Texas.
Clay Cane marks the 35th anniversary of the Rodney King beating by dissecting the 1991 incident and its aftermath.
Clay Cane discusses the 1869 declaration of martial law in Tennessee to suppress KKK violence during Reconstruction.
Clay Cane reflects on Reverend Jesse Jackson's 1988 presidential platform, highlighting its continued relevance to modern political issues.
Clay Cane explains the true history behind Presidents' Day, starting with George Washington's birthday becoming a federal holiday.
This episode features an interview with composer and producer Nolan Williams Jr.
Clay Cane interviews author Elliot Williams about his book on the 1984 Bernie Goetz subway shooting case and its racial and social implications.
Clay Cane celebrates co-host Reecie Colbert's three-year anniversary on the show, reflecting on their chemistry and her contributions.
Clay Cane critiques political figures and public figures for spreading misinformation about slavery and history.
Historian Dante King discusses diagnosing whiteness and anti-blackness in America, focusing on a pivotal shift in 2012.
An interview with Kate Lincoln Goldfinch, an immigration attorney running for the Texas House, discussing her journey and political motivations.
This episode discusses the ongoing NYC nurses strike with Michelle Gonzalez from the New York State Nurses Association, focusing on demands for better pay, staffing, and workplace protections.
A political commentary episode arguing for comprehensive immigration reform, criticizing the current system and ICE.
Clay Cane interviews journalist Cheryl W.
Clay Cane interviews Reverend Dr.