Creative strategist, graphic designer, and podcaster Maurice Cherry was born in Selma, Alabama where it quickly became apparent he was going to take the world by storm. Immensely talented on all fronts, Maurice has dedicated his career to recognizing and celebrating the power of Black design and creativity online. These days, Maurice is perhaps most well-known for his award-winning podcast Revision Path, which showcases Black designers, and as of 2019 is the FIRST podcast to be acquired by the Smithsonian.

In episode 711, Jack and Miles are joined by Revision Path podcast co-host Maurice Cherry to discuss Trump's net worth losing it's worth, the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally being linked to over 250k coronavirus cases, the Tokyo Olympics, wildfires and climate change, gender reveal parties, inside Ellen's home, and more!

From Selma to corporate America to the launch of his own ventures, Maurice Cherry has faced extreme adversity and emerged as a brilliant mind at the forefront of design.

Just over fifty years ago, at the apex of the civil rights movement in the US, Dorothy Jackson interviewed five Black designers about “the frustrations and opportunities in a field where ‘flesh-colored’ means pink”. The article for Print was perhaps the first in the mainstream trade press to directly address the impacts of racism in the profession and describe the experience of Black practitioners in their own words. What has changed since then? What remains the same? We asked today’s design leaders to compare their experience to the 1968 discussion and imagine what’s next.

The first of the #ShareTheMicNow episodes is an intimate and honest conversation between design industry icons Maurice Cherry and Debbie Millman about the state of the world, their work, what’s going on with some of the design organizations, and much more.