Podcasts are a great way to take a deep dive into a topic, including racial justice, antiracism and the Black experience in America. The podcasts below represent a variety of perspectives and approaches to these topics. We encourage you to subscribe to any you're interested in on your podcast platform of choice and listen while you're driving, exercising, working around the house or just need something interesting to listen to!
1619 is an audio series from The New York Times on how slavery has transformed America, connecting past and present through the oldest form of storytelling.
What Matters combines documentary narrative with interviews to illuminate specific, timely issues, aiming to create safe dialogue to promote freedom, justice, and collective liberation.
Come Through with Rebecca Carroll is a collection of 15 essential conversations about race in a pivotal year for America.
Identity Politics is a podcast that features new stories and perspectives about race, gender and Muslim life in America.
Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast features movement voices, stories, and strategies for racial justice. Co-hosts Chevon and Hiba give their unique takes on race and pop culture, and uplift narratives of hope, struggle, and joy, as we continue to build the momentum needed to advance racial justice in our policies, institutions, and culture.
On Pod Save The People, organizer and activist DeRay Mckesson explores news, culture, social justice, and politics with fellow activists Brittany Packnett Cunningham and Sam Sinyangwe, and writer Dr. Clint Smith. They offer a unique take on the news, with a special focus on overlooked stories and topics that often impact people of color.
The Stoop is a celebration of black joy with a mission to dig deeper into stories that we don’t hear enough about.
On this episode of her podcast Unlocking Us, Brené Brown talks with professor Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist and the Director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University. They talk about racial disparities, policy, and equality, and focus on How to Be an Antiracist, which is a groundbreaking approach to understanding uprooting racism and inequality in our society and in ourselves.
From the author behind the bestselling Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race, comes a podcast that takes the conversation a step further. Featuring key voices from the last few decades of anti-racist activism, “About Race” with Reni Eddo-Lodge looks at the recent history that lead to the politics of today.
The Chicken and Jollof Rice Show features the perspectives of four first-generation African Americans on current events, pop culture, and what it’s like to live in America.
Bryan Stevenson, public interest lawyer, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative and author of Just Mercy speaks with NPR's Terry Gross in this episode of Fresh Air about racism past and present in the U.S.
Intersectionality Matters! is hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw and tells stories that bring intersectionality to life.
In The Nod, Brittany Luse and Eric Eddings gleefully explore all the beautiful, complicated dimensions of Black life.
The Read: Join Kid Fury and Crissle for their weekly podcast covering hip-hop and pop culture's most trying stars. Throwing shade and spilling tea with a flippant and humorous attitude, no star is safe from Fury and Crissle unless their name is Beyoncé. (Or Blue Ivy.)
Presented by the non-profit Embrace Race, Supporting Kids Of Color In the Wake Of Racialized Violence addresses questions such as: how can caring adults best support kids of color? How do we help children feel safe without overpromising or making them fearful? How do we teach them to approach the world with love and possibility when they so often seem targeted for harm? (Transcript here.)
White Lies is a true crime podcast from NPR. In 1965, Rev. James Reeb was murdered in Selma, Alabama. Three men were tried and acquitted, but no one was ever held to account. Fifty years later, two journalists from Alabama return to the city where it happened, expose the lies that kept the murder from being solved and uncover a story about guilt and memory that says as much about America today as it does about the past.
At Liberty is a weekly podcast from the ACLU that explores the biggest civil rights and civil liberties issues of the day.
Hosted by journalists of color, Code Switch tackles the subject of race head-on. We explore how it impacts every part of society — from politics and pop culture to history, sports and everything in between. Also see this list of The Very Best Code Switch Episodes for Kids.
On Hoodrat to Headwrap, join your resident sexuality educator Ericka Hart and Deep East Oakland's very own Ebony Donnley, as we game give, dismantle white supremacy and kiki in the cosmos somewhere between radical hood epistemological black queer love ethics, pop culture, house plants and a sea of books.
Every week, Irresistible: Collective Healing & Social Change joins forces with organizers & healers to offer you a paradigm-shifting conversation and a corresponding practice you can try at home or with your group.
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights launched Pod for the Cause to expand the conversation on critical civil and human rights challenges of our day: census, justice reform, policing, education, fighting hate & bias, judicial nominations, fair courts, voting rights, media & tech, economic security, immigration, and human rights.
Season 2 of Scene On Radio, entitled “Seeing White”, dives into the history of race and whiteness in America.
Based on the files of the lawyers who represent them together with other criminal justice activists and experts, Wrongful Conviction features interviews with men and women who have spent years in prison for crimes they did not commit.
