What is The Day After?
The Day After is a live daily news show on THE NEW BLXCK network. The platform features the hosting team of Esther, Margs, Gina and Emman sharing news and current affairs. The Day After launched in April 2022 and hosts live morning shows between Monday and Friday.
The show’s premise is “The home of popular culture” and covers news relevant to primarily Black British audiences. The Day After regularly features guests including business owners, authors and online personalities.
In May 2023 The Day After was featured on a Spotify billboard in London.
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The Day After Format
The Day After is recorded and broadcast live at THE NXW BLXCK studio, owned by Brent Colthurst. The podcast is broadcast live on YouTube between each morning between Monday and Friday, allowing viewers to interact via live chat and by calling into the studio.
The Day After Segments
The Day After recordings are splint into distinct segments including:
- Headlines – current news (with Emman and Esther)
- The People’s Journal – news from an economic perspective (Emman)
- Word on Road – rumours and entertainment news (Esther)
- What You Saying? – perspectives on current affairs (Margs)
- Asking for a Friend – dilemmas
- The Reaction – Sports news (Margs)
- Done Out Ere – highlighting people to ostracise for their actions (Margs)
In addition there are others such as Motivational Mondays and Wellness Wednesdays with spoken word positive affirmations to split up the shows.
The Day After Hosts
Current Hosts
Margs
Margs came to prominence as a rapper in the Mashtown collective in the 2000s. As a media personality he is known for his role as creator of No Behaviour Podcast since January 2020. Margs has also featured on shows including The Listening Party, Champions League of Everything and the Filthy @ Five football podcast.
Esther
Esther, known as the Shade Queen, is a cultural commentator who grew up in Nigeria before settling in the UK. Prior to joining the team as an original member Esther was part of the No Shade Podcast, which was recorded at the same studio.
Emman
Emman is The Day After’s economics expert and is one of the show’s producers. He grew up in Ghana before migrating to the UK. Emman used to rap and was part of a collective by the name of THE NEW BLXCK.
Gina
Gina (also known as Just Geen) is a personal trainer known for co-hosting Meet Us After 7 with Yusuff, and for her Beats & Bands events. After featuring heavily on the podcast Gina became a full-time member of the team in 2023.
Off-Camera
Brent Colhurst is the show’s producer and often contributes to conversations. Brent co-founded THE NEW BLXCK network, which includes The Day After.
Guest Hosts
The show has featured a number of guest hosts, sometimes to replace regular team members, and other times to offer their perspectives to stories. While some of these people have platforms of their own or have featured heavily on other podcasts (such as Rich on No Behaviour), others were part of the show’s community chat.
These guest hosts include:
- Grace Bakare and Maxi Jay (Milf ‘n’ Honey Podcast)
- Ifé (Two Cents Podcast)
- Rich
- Ramzi
- Prinny and Amber (Style & City Diaries)
Previous Team Members
Yusuff
Yusuff is an early team member who left late in 2023. He is a personal trainer, has featured on a range of other online media (including 3 Shots of Tequila) and used to co-host Meet Us After 7 podcast with Gina. He was known for The Rotation segment in which he discussed new music and news related to it.
Qoy
Qoy is a content creator who came to prominence as part of Word on the Curb’s Timelin3 panel. She was part of the original team but left in 2022. She is also known for presenting her own show The Safe Space, hosted on her own YouTube channel.
Disu
Disu, known for the Disunomics podcast, featured as an original member of The Day After team and covered the economics stories, as per on his own platform.
Example The Day After Episode
Below is an example episode of The Day After featuring the full team.
The Day After Guests
The Day After frequently features guests that are either brought in for their viewpoints or to take part in an interview. The guests are usually black British entrepreneurs, creatives and content creators.
Find a list of people that have appeared on The Day After as guests:
- Tazer Black
- Lippy
- Priscilla Anyabu
- Rashid Kasirye (Link Up TV)
- Deji Adeniyi
- Tinuke and Clo (Five X More)
- Ngozi Camdus
- Oro Omene
- PRGRSHN
- Loons
- Beano
- Prinz
- Mel Sinjakli (MyBaker.co)
- Okey (AfroHealth.co.uk)
- Toyin
- Ram (Uche Rum)
- Tele Lawal
- Cameron (Two-0)
- David Olusegun
- Priscilla (Aphro)
- Peppah
- Nabil Al-Kinani
- Raphael Babalola
- Savage
- JustWildBoy
- Habeeb Akande
- Natasha Pencil (Black Farmers Market)
- Br3nya
- Nimi and Olivia (Brampton Manor Academy)
- Darrel Blake
- Femi Oyeniran
- Maurice the Author
- Tyrone-Lee Davis and Kieran Shekoni (The Wright Brothers)
- Bukola Bolarinwa
- Amani Simpson
- Michael Berhane
- Kay Rufal
- Kelechi Okafor
- Teddy Nygh
- Fayida Jailler
- Jamelia Donaldson
- Kashi Sankara
- Edword
- Warren Jeffrey and Andray Smith (Vital Foodz)
- Suli Breaks
- Big Manny
- Laura Jayne
- Sayce Holmes-Lewis
- Jordan Stephens
- Jaye Berkye
- Rachel Allison
- Pelumi Nubi
- Jahnine Davis
- Amani Miller
- Yaw Okyere
- Ebuni Ajiduah
- Shakaila Forbes-Bell
- Travis Jay
- April-Louise Pennant
- Mark Maciver (Slider Cuts)
