The Spin is a weekly one hour podcast featuring women of color talking policy, social justice, race, sex, gender, power, love. It's a pioneering podcast led by award winning international journalist ESTHER ARMAH. We air in the US, Ghana, London. The Spin rostrum mixes the brilliance of activists, organizers, academics, journalists and artists to create engaging, dynamic, powerful podcasts. This is a global production team led by Esther Armah. It combines and includes Starr FM radio in Ghana, NPR in Washington DC, the African American Public Radio Consortium in New York and our editor in Los Angeles. The Spin also creates public conversation campaigns on Esther's concept 'emotional justice' in partnership with publications. These campaigns include men. Host Esther Armah has worked as a journalist in London, New York, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya, Lesotho, Washington DC, Philadelphia. She's a media lecturer, and a columnist for Business & Financial Times . THE SPIN contributors include JOAN MORGAN, ASHA BANDELE, DREAM HAMPTON, DR BRITTNEY COOPER, DR TREVA B LINDSEY, DR BHAKTI SHRINGAPURE, DR YABA BLAY, DR CHRISTINA GREER, PROFESSOR JOHANNA FERNANDEZ, PROFESSOR BLAIR KELLEY, MONIFA BANDELE, STACEYANN CHIN, LYNNEE DENISE, IMANI UZURI, MONICA DENNIS, SOFIA QUINTERO, BEVERLEY NAMBOZO, GLYNDA CARR, NANA AKOSUA HANSON, AISHAH SHAHIDAH SIMMONS.
Amanda is a wife. A mother. A blogger. A Christian.
A charming, beautiful, bubbly, young woman who lives life to the fullest.
But Amanda is dying, with a secret she doesn’t want anyone to know.
She starts a blog detailing her cancer journey, and becomes an inspiration, touching and
captivating her local community as well as followers all over the world.
Until one day investigative producer Nancy gets an anonymous tip telling her to look at Amanda’s
blog, setting Nancy on an unimaginable road to uncover Amanda’s secret.
Award winning journalist Charlie Webster explores this unbelievable and bizarre, but
all-too-real tale, of a woman from San Jose, California whose secret ripped a family apart and
left a community in shock.
Scamanda is the true story of a woman whose own words held the key to her secret.
New episodes every Monday.
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Amanda’s blog posts are read by actor Kendall Horn.