The segment profiles Charlotte Osgood Mason, a wealthy philanthropist who supported Harlem Renaissance luminaries like Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes. Mason viewed herself as a "Black God" and a "psychic physician" meant to heal the "washed out" West using "primitive" Black energy. The hosts critique her controlling nature, noting she required her proteges to call her "Godmother," mirroring the control record labels exert over artists today.

