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1619 Project Podcast

1619 Project Podcast

Hosted by Nikole Hannah-Jones. An audio series on how slavery has transformed America, connecting past and present through the oldest form of storytelling.

All my relations

All My Relations

Hosted by Matika Wilbur, of the Swinomish and Tulalip peoples of coastal Washington and Adrienne Keene, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. They discuss the ways Native peoples are represented in mainstream media. 

The Appeal

The Appeal

Hosted by Adam Johnson. A deeper look at the most important criminal justice stories of the week—featuring reporters, lawyers, activists, analysts, and those personally affected by the American legal system. 

Black History Buff

Black History Buff

Hosted by King Kurus. Focuses on the history of the African Diaspora.

Code Switch Podcast

Code Switch

From NPR. Hosted by Shereen Marisol Meraji and Gene Demby and other journalists of color.  Discussions focus on the subject of race.

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Come Through

Hosted by Rebecca Carroll a cultural critic and Editor of Special Projects at WNYC. These 15 essential conversations are about race in a pivotal year for America.

Floodlines

Floodlines

Hosted by Vann R.Newkirk II. A concise history of Katrina, which examines the human errors that made a Category 3 storm brutal to some of the residents of New Orleans.

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Intersectionality Matters!

Hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw, an American civil rights advocate and a leading scholar of critical race theory.

Justice In America

Justice In America

Hosted by Josie Duffy Rice and Clint Smith. The focus is on criminal justice reform.

The Kinswomen

The Kinswomen

Hosted by Hannah Pechter and Yseult Polfliet. Conversations are about race, racism, and allyship between women.

This Land Podcast

This Land

Hosted by Rebecca Nagle. An 1839 assassination of a Cherokee leader and a 1999 murder case – two crimes nearly two centuries apart provide the backbone to the 2020 Supreme Court decision that determines the fate of five tribes and nearly half the land in Oklahoma.

Podcasts Continued

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Media Indigena Podcast

A core belief that stories can be truly life or death. And out of such consequences comes a cause—to share stories which keep Indigenous peoples alive, in every sense of the term.

Nice White Parents

Nice White Parents

If you want to understand what’s wrong with our public schools, you have to look at what is arguably the most powerful force in shaping them: white parents. A five-part series from Serial Productions, a New York Times Company.

Pod Save the People

Pod Save the People

Explores news, culture, social justice, and politics with analysis from fellow activists Brittany Packnett, Sam Sinyangwe, and writer Dr. Clint Smith III.

The Red Nation Podcast

The Red Nation Podcast

Features discussions on Indigenous history, politics, and culture from a left perspective.

Scene on Radio: Seeing White Series

Scene on Radio: Seeing White Series

Host John Biewen with Dr. Chenjerai Kumanyika. Season 2: Just what is going on with white people? Where did the notion of “whiteness” come from? What does it mean? What is whiteness for?  from the Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) at Duke University

Still Processing, with Jenna Wortham and Wesley Morrison

Still Processing, with Jenna Wortham and Wesley Morrison

Two culture writers for The New York Times devour TV, movies, art, music and the internet to find the things that move them.

Teaching Hard History with host Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries

Teaching Hard History with host Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries

 Teaching Hard History brings us the lessons we should have learned in school through the voices of leading scholars and educators. It’s good advice for teachers and good information for everybody.

The United States of Anxiety

The United States of Anxiety

Hosted by Kai Wright. A show about the unfinished business of US history and its grip on the future. Who is the USA for? Who’s allowed to live here? Who has control over whose body? And more.

Untying Knots

Untying Knots

Hosted by Nikhil Raghuveera and Erica Licht. Explores how people and organizations are reimagining society and dismantling systems of oppression.

White Lies: An Investigative Podcast

White Lies: An Investigative Podcast

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 expose the lies that kept the murder from being solved and uncover a story about guilt and memory.

Episodes from Podcasts

Amicus

Amicus

Hosted Dahlia Lithwick. Discuses race, police, and the law.

Code Switch: Race.

Code Switch: Race

Black Lives Matter Founders describe 'Paradigm Shift' In The Movement.

Next Question with Katie Couric

Next Question with Katie Couric

Guest, human rights attorney Bryan Stevenson and the Founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI). 

PolicyCast.

PolicyCast: A Historic Crossroads for Systemic Racism and Policing in America

Episode 216: The killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police pushed America to an inflection point in the struggle with racism featuring Khalil Muhammad and Erica Chenoweth. From the Harvard Kennedy School.

The Daily

The Daily

Hosted by Michael Barbaro. Episode: The Life and Legacy of John Lewis.

Throughline: The Long Hot Summer

Throughline: The Long Hot Summer

Starting in 1965, each summer, America's cities experienced civil unrest. In 1967, President Johnson appointed a commission to diagnose causes of the problem and suggest solutions.  The "Kerner Commission" report was shocking to white Americans. This episode discusses the report and the reactions to it that continues to shape American life.

Unlocking US: Host Brené Brown talks with  Ibram X. Kendi

Unlocking US: Ibram X. Kendi

Host by Brené Brown, discusses racial disparities, policy, and equality, while focusing on How to Be an Antiracist, a groundbreaking approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in society and ourselves.

Unlocking Us: Host Brené Brown discusses Accountability for Racism

Unlocking Us: Accountability for Racism

Host Brené Brown discusses why accountability is a prerequisite for change, and the difference between being held accountable for racism and feeling shame and being shamed.