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If you enjoy the long-form structure of podcasts for self-educating and learning more about the issues surrounding discrimination throughout the world, we recommend these:
Bodega Boys
Desus Nice (@Desusnice) and The Kid Mero (@thekidmero) are the Bodega Boys
Black Men Can't Jump [In Hollywood]
Black Men Can't Jump [In Hollywood] is a comedic podcast that reviews films with leading actors of color and analyzes them in the context of race and Hollywood's diversity issues.
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Black Men Can't Jump [In Hollywood] is a comedic podcast that reviews films with leading actors of color and analyzes them in the context of race and Hollywood's diversity issues. Hosted by Jonathan Braylock, Jerah Milligan, and James III. BMCJ is an iTunes Editor's Choice podcast and has reached #2 on the iTunes Film/TV charts. BMCJ has also been covered by multiple websites including Huffington Post, Splitsider, Salon, The Daily Dot, and more. Produced by the Forever Dog Podcast Network.
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Locally Famous by Jacolby
Come along and join Jacolby Conway on the road to become “Locally Famous” !
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Come along and join Jacolby Conway on the road to become “Locally Famous” ! You never know who might pop up, what’s on sale or what the topic of choice may be...but there will ALWAYS be something everyone can relate to. If you don’t know who he is, get to know him!
Blact Now!Balanced Black Girl
Balanced Black Girl is a podcast dedicated to helping you feel your best.
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Balanced Black Girl is a podcast dedicated to helping you feel your best. Tune in for approachable health, self-care, personal development, and well-being advice from Black women wellness experts.
Blact Now!Black Girl Podcast
The Black Girl Podcast is a new audio series about life issues, sisterhood, pop culture, love, growth, and the pursuit of [the hosts'] dreams.
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The Black Girl Podcast is a new audio series created by Scottie Beam (@scottiebeam on twitter/IG), Gia Peppers (@giapeppers), Sapphira (@sapphiraem), Bex (@BexxFrancois), and Alysha P (@AlyshaP819/@AlyshaP). After the five media phenoms met and became friends at hip hop's most iconic station, Hot 97, they decided to make their hilarious conversations about life issues, sisterhood, pop culture, love, growth, and the pursuit of their dreams to the public. Listen every week as their differing opinions and life experiences lead them to understand themselves, and the world around them, a little bit better. Hopefully, you'll laugh, argue, and learn something about yourselves, too. Follow us on Twitter and IG @blackgirlpod.
Blact Now!Black Girls Heal
Black Girls Heal helps women break out of cycles of unhealthy relationships with unavailable partners and feeling not enough.
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Black Girls Heal helps women break out of cycles of unhealthy relationships with unavailable partners and feeling not enough by combining coaching, therapeutic support, and practical tools.Every episode, we will talk about intimacy, attachment, healing unresolved trauma, and growing in our self worth.
Blact Now!Yes, Girl
The award-nominated, podcast fills your glass with celebrity interviews, pop culture and unapologetic perspective.
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At Black Girl Magic headquarters, senior editors Cori Murray (@corimurray), Charli Penn (@ManWifeDog) host ESSENCE's Yes, Girl! Podcast every Thursday. The award-nominated, podcast fills your glass with celebrity interviews, pop culture and unapologetic perspective. From week-to-week, they're uplifting everybody who’s taking Black culture a little higher.
Blact Now!Carefree and Black Diaries
We discuss everything from culture, politics, music, and education. But with a dash of hood on the rocks.
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Welcome to Carefree and Black Diaries, where we discuss everything from culture, politics, music, and education. But with a dash of hood on the rocks. Just a Black Girl navigating this thing called life and documenting it along the way.Hosted by Shaakira White
Blact Now!Therapy for Black Girls
The Therapy for Black Girls Podcast is a weekly chat about all things mental health, personal development, and all the small decisions we can make to become the best possible versions of ourselves.
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So often the stigma surrounding mental health issues and therapy prevents Black women from taking the step of seeing a therapist. This space was developed to present mental health topics in a way that feels more accessible and relevant.Dr. Joy Harden Bradford is a licensed psychologist, speaker and the host of the wildly popular mental health podcast, Therapy for Black Girls. Her work focuses on making mental health topics more relevant and accessible for Black women and she delights in using pop culture to illustrate psychological concepts. She has been featured in O, The Oprah Magazine, Forbes, Bustle, MTV, Huffington Post, Black Enterprise, Refinery29, Teen Vogue, and Essence.
Blact Now!The Homecoming Podcast
The Homecoming Podcast with Dr. Thema is a podcast to facilitate your journey home to yourself by providing weekly inspiration and health tips.
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Dr. Thema Bryant-Davis is a licensed psychologist, ordained minister, and sacred artist. Using artistic expression, spirituality, psychology and culture, Dr. Bryant-Davis is an internationally recognized lecturer, performer, and minister.The Homecoming Podcast with Dr. Thema is a podcast to facilitate your journey home to yourself by providing weekly inspiration and health tips. Welcome home!
Blact Now!The Secret Lives of Black Women
Join close friends Charla Lauriston and Lauren Domino on their hunt for the ‘secrets’ that have helped black women flourish through the bullsh*t.
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Join close friends Charla Lauriston and Lauren Domino on their hunt for the ‘secrets’ that have helped black women flourish through the bullsh*t. They connect with guests over shared experiences by wading through everything from sex and self-care to rage and anxiety. Each conversation centers on creating a space for joy with some newfound besties while asking: how do the black women we admire stay incredibly phenomenal?
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Every Friday, join Dr. Dominique Broussard and Terri Lomax as they initiate authentic conversations on everything from fibroids to fake friends.
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In a world where black women are often underrepresented and misunderstood, we need more safe spaces to just… be. Every Friday, join Dr. Dominique Broussard, a college professor and psychologist, and Terri Lomax, a techie and motivational speaker, as they initiate authentic conversations on everything from fibroids to fake friends.If you’re a black woman or woman of color looking for an extra dose of inspiration on the go, pull up a seat and join us on the H.E.R. (Healing, Empowerment, Resilience) Space podcast. Episodes are published every Friday on iTunes, Google Play, Soundcloud, and most platforms where podcasts are played.We can’t wait to meet you, sis. 🙂
Blact Now!Slay Girl Slay
Slay Girl Slay is a media and tech company that showcases the positive narrative of women of color on all platforms.
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Slay Girl Slay is a media and tech company dedicated to inspiring and motivating women of color to take up space in the rooms that they stand in, fiercely go after what they deserve, and show up as their most unapologetic, most authentic self. Whether that’s through our sassy girl chat conversations on our wildly popular podcast, pushing the positive narrative, or the bold community of sisterhood we foster.Slay Girl Slay is a media and tech company that showcases the positive narrative of women of color on all platforms including digital, audio, books, social media, and film.This media and tech company is founded by entrepreneur & podcaster Ashley Leggs.
Blact Now!Journey to Launch
Through this site, Journey to Launch, I want to teach you what I’ve learned through a little trial and error and a lot of discipline over the years. My goal is to help you eliminate debt, save more money and increase your net worth.
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Hi! I’m Jamila, creator of the blog and podcast, Journey To Launch. I’m a wife and mom of three small children. and I’m a Certified Financial Education Instructor (CFEI). I was born on the gorgeous island of Jamaica and grew up in the famous borough of Brooklyn (#bkallday). Raised by a single mom, I learned the concept of hard work and the value of money at a very early age. While my friends were blowing their money on the latest fads (I admit, I sometimes did too), I was saving for my first real estate property, which I was able to buy right out of college, at the age of 22.The lessons I’ve learned, have allowed me to become savvy in budgeting and all things personal finance. Because of my money habits, my family and I are debt free (besides the mortgage) and are on our way to becoming financially independent by the age of 40. I love to teach, inspire and help others jumpstart their journey to financial freedom!Through this site, Journey to Launch, I want to teach you what I’ve learned through a little trial and error and a lot of discipline over the years. My goal is to help you eliminate debt, save more money and increase your net worth.
Blact Now!The Black Guy Who Tips
The Black Guy Who Tips is a podcast from the minds of Rod and Karen, a black, southern married couple who enjoy pop culture, politics and comedy.
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The Black Guy Who Tips is a podcast from the minds of Rod and Karen, a black, southern married couple who enjoy pop culture, politics and comedy. Rod and Karen have been together since they were 16 and have been married since 2002. The show has been mentioned in The Huffington Post, The Daily Beast, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Bloomberg.com, Vox.com, BET.com, and written about on Ebony.com. The show has also been featured on National Public Radio, Revolt Tv, and Vice News Tonight on HBO. Besides consistently being the number one comedy podcast on Podomatic.com and in the top 100 of comedy podcasts on Stitcher Radio, the podcast has featured guests such as, podcasters Keith and Chemda from Keith and the Girl, comedian Roy Wood Jr, Adult Film Star Sara Jay, ESPN contributor Bomani Jones, Journalist Jemele Hill, comedian/activist Elon James White, rapper/singer Phonte Coleman, comedian/writer Rae Sanni, comedian Janelle James, poet/author Bassey Ikpi and NBA Shooting Guard Anthony Morrow among others.
Blact Now!Black Family Table Talk
Listen in weekly as we discover and share stories, life lessons, and new ways to build a strong black family.
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After 30 years of marriage and raising four children, we struggled to stay married and encourage our children to thrive. We want to share what worked for us and what didn't. It is our hope and prayer that by sharing our parenting and marriage story (along with those of others), you will save time, pain, hardship, and most importantly, become inspired. The Black Family Table Talk is a "kitchen table style" podcast and blog created to candidly share and discover ways to build the Black family, the foundation of the community. We want to engage and challenge you to join us each week as we explore:How to invigorate Black love with healthy relationship goals.Parenting and the Black family.Voting rights and strengthening the Black community. Black economics and wealth-building. Join our determined community as we take this journey together. We aim to strengthen our families, put an end to the cycles of dysfunction, and explore ways to become #BlackFamilyStrong.
Blact Now!Ask a Black Woman
This is where you Ask A Black Woman anything but... You betta be ready for a real answer!
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This is where you Ask A Black Woman anything but... You betta be ready for a real answer!
Blact Now!Friends Like Us
A podcast featuring women of color with different views on topics hosted by Marina Franklin.
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A podcast featuring women of color with different views on topics hosted by Marina Franklin.
Blact Now!In Black America
Produced at KUT, In Black America is a long-running, nationally syndicated program dedicated to all facets of the African American experience.
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Produced at KUT, In Black America is a long-running, nationally syndicated program dedicated to all facets of the African American experience. John Hanson profiles a diverse selection of current and historically significant figures whose stories help illuminate life in Black America. Guests include civil rights leaders, educators, artists, athletes and writers describing their experiences, achievements and work in chronicling and advancing the quality of African American life.
Blact Now!The Gifted Connection
Nathan McClinton is a Millennial Inspirational Enthusiast committed to helping you shatter your untapped potential and live out your dreams!
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Nathan McClinton is a Millennial Inspirational Enthusiast committed to helping you shatter your untapped potential and live out your dreams!The Gifted Connection is your safe place to live, learn, grow, and BECOME your best self! Join me, as I help you to live out your full potential through the expression of your God given Gift! Your Gift is about to Make ROOM for you. The question is...are you ready?
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THE OFFICIAL BLOG TALK RADIO SHOW FOR THE NEW BLACK PANTHER PARTY. BLACK POWER ! ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE !
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THE OFFICIAL BLOG TALK RADIO SHOW FOR THE NEW BLACK PANTHER PARTY. BLACK POWER ! ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE !
Blact Now!The Nod
Brittany Luse and Eric Eddings gleefully explore all the beautiful, complicated dimensions of Black life.
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The Nod tells the stories of Black life that don’t get told anywhere else. Our show ranges from an explanation of purple drink’s association with Black culture to the story of an interracial drag troupe that traveled the nation in the 1940s. We celebrate the genius, the innovation, and the resilience that is so particular to being Black — in America, and around the world.
Blact Now!The Friend Zone
Explore mental health, mental wealth and mental hygiene.
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Listen along every Wednesday as Dustin Ross, HeyFranHey & Assante explore mental health, mental wealth and mental hygiene, because who in the hell wants a musty brain?
Blact Now!Seeing White
Just what is going on with white people? Why? Scene on Radio host and producer John Biewen took a deep dive into these questions.
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Just what is going on with white people? Police shootings of unarmed African Americans. Acts of domestic terrorism by white supremacists. The renewed embrace of raw, undisguised white-identity politics. Unending racial inequity in schools, housing, criminal justice, and hiring. Some of this feels new, but in truth it’s an old story.Why? Where did the notion of “whiteness” come from? What does it mean? What is whiteness for?Scene on Radio host and producer John Biewen took a deep dive into these questions, along with an array of leading scholars and regular guest Dr. Chenjerai Kumanyika, in this fourteen-part documentary series, released between February and August 2017. The series editor is Loretta Williams.
Blact Now!Pod Save the People (Crooked Media)
On Pod Save the People, experts, influencers, and diverse local and national leaders who come on the show go deep on social, political, and cultural issues.On Pod Save the People,
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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. There’s also a weekly one-on-one interview with DeRay and special guests, from singer/songwriter John Legend to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. The experts, influencers, and diverse local and national leaders who come on the show go deep on social, political, and cultural issues. New episodes every Tuesday.
Blact Now!Pod For The Cause (from The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights)
This podcast was created for those of you wanting to effect change, who understand the importance of restoring our democracy and want to engage in deep conversation around the issues.
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We’ve joined the airwaves to help spark conversation and activism on some of the most critical issues of today.From the courts to immigration, we’re seeing unprecedented attacks on the values we hold near and dear. At Pod for the Cause, we’re going to tackle these issues and more. Our friends in the movement will be stopping by to have these conversations, and they promise to be real, straightforward and honest.This podcast was created for those of you wanting to effect change, who understand the importance of restoring our democracy and want to engage in deep conversation around the issues.
Blact Now!Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
"Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast" features movement voices, stories, and strategies for racial justice.
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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. Build on your racial justice lens and get inspired to drive action by learning from organizational leaders and community activists.
Blact Now!Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw
The podcast that brings intersectionality to life
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Intersectionality Matters! is a podcast hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw, an American civil rights advocate and a leading scholar of critical race theory.
Blact Now!Code Switch (NPR)
We're a multi-racial, multi-generational team of journalists fascinated by the overlapping themes of race, ethnicity and culture.
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Remember when folks used to talk about being "post-racial"? Well, we're definitely not that. We're a multi-racial, multi-generational team of journalists fascinated by the overlapping themes of race, ethnicity and culture, how they play out in our lives and communities, and how all of this is shifting.
Blact Now!About Race
Co-discussants host a lively multiracial, interracial conversation about the ways we talk about culture, identity, politics, power, and privilege in America.
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Co-discussants Anna Holmes, Baratunde Thurston, Raquel Cepeda and Tanner Colby host a lively multiracial, interracial conversation about the ways we can’t talk, don’t talk, would rather not talk, but intermittently, fitfully, embarrassingly do talk about culture, identity, politics, power, and privilege in our pre-post-yet-still-very-racial America. This show is "About Race."
Blact Now!1619 (New York Times)
“1619” is a New York Times audio series, hosted by Nikole Hannah-Jones, that examines the long shadow of American slavery.
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Four hundred years ago, in August 1619, a ship carrying more than 20 enslaved Africans arrived in the English colony of Virginia. No aspect of the country that would be formed here has been untouched by the 250 years of slavery that followed.“1619,” a New York Times audio series hosted by Nikole Hannah-Jones, examines the long shadow of that fateful moment.
Blact Now!Raising Free People
Fare of the Free Child is a weekly-published podcast community centering Black people, Indigenous people, and People of Color in liberatory living and learning practices.
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Fare of the Free Child is a weekly-published podcast community centering Black people, Indigenous people, and People of Color in liberatory living and learning practices. With a particular interest in unschooling and the Self-Directed Education movement, Akilah S. Richards and guests discuss the fears and the fares (costs) of raising free black and brown children in a world that tends to diminish, dehumanize, and disappear them.
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Cindy Wang Brandt is a mother and progressive Christian writer who is on a mission to support the journeys of parents interested in Parenting Forward with progressive values.
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Cindy Wang Brandt is a mother and progressive Christian writer who is on a mission to support the journeys of parents interested in Parenting Forward with progressive values. She's an author, blogger, community leader, coach, and live and online education provider for parents who are committed to raising their kids in a faith that isn't hierarchical, controlling and fundamentalist and want to see their children desire mercy and not sacrifice, to grow up walking in the ways of Jesus for peace, righteousness, and wholeness! The Parenting Forward podcast features interviews with authors and thought leaders from progressive faith spaces, monthly listener question shows, and practical strategies for parents, grandparents, and anyone who loves children and wants to commit to treating children with justice. We believe that if we change the way we parent, we can change the world!
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