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8 Anti-Racist Podcasts Worth Listening To

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8 anti-racist podcasts worth listening to

From storytelling to interviews, these podcasts aim to inform and deepen our understanding of race in America.

Caitlin Fairchild

As Black Lives Matter protests continue across the county, anti-racist books continue to dominate bestseller lists. We've created an activism book list of our own as well as compiled additional anti-racist resources-from nonprofits to support to videos to watch. For those wanting to continue their anti-racist education or who prefer to learn by listening, here is a great starting point. This list is not exhaustive, and we encourage you to research and find even more podcasts that offer new resources and new perspectives.

74 seconds

In 22 episodes, the Minnesota Public Radio tells the story of the 2016 shooting of Philando Castile, believed to be the first police shooting to go to trial in the state of Minnesota. This Peabody-award winning podcast provides listeners with a deeper understanding of the race, policing, and the criminal justice system.

Code Switch

This podcast from NPR tackles race head on-as well as all the ways race impacts society, from politics to sports to parenting. The show is hosted by two journalists of color, Shereen Marisol Meraji and Gene Demby. The podcast, which launched in 2016, has recently climbed the iTunes charts. WBUR recommends diving into the show's backlog for crucial episodes.

Floodlines

This documentary podcast from The Atlantic looks at the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and what the 2005 disaster says about the United States today. Hosted by Vann R. Newkirk II, the series includes the perspective of four New Orleans natives who survived the event but who are still dealing with the consequences of the governmental response.

Intersectionality Matters

Recommended by NPR, this podcast from the African American Policy Forum is hosted by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, a leading critical race theorist and the person who is credited with introducing and developing the concept of intersectionality. Each episode gathers a group of political organizers, journalists, and writers to have a dialogue about current events.

Come through with Rebecca Carroll

This limited-run podcast is billed as, "15 essential conversations about race in a pivotal moment for America." Host and cultural critic Rebecca Carroll sits down with notable figures such as director Ava DuVernay, activist Brittany Packnett Cunningham, and epidemiologist Dr. Camara Jones.

Natal

Launched in April 2020, this podcast documents what it's like to have a Black baby in the U.S. Featuring first person testimonials from parents, health care workers, and researchers, Natal works to provide key information and resources to Black parents.

Ear Hustle

To shine a light on mass incarceration, this podcast tells the stories of those currently involved in the American prison system, as well as those who are reintegrating into society. Produced in the Bay Area, the Ear Hustle team does a lot of reporting and production from the San Quentin State Prison's media lab.

There Goes the Neighborhood

The Bello Collective, a publication about podcasting, recommends this WNYC podcast that tackles gentrification-how and why it happens. Each season examines the unique gentrification issues of a specific city, from Brooklyn to L.A. to Miami.

Caitlin Fairchild

Caitlin Fairchild is the Deputy Editor of The Renewal Project.

8 anti-racist podcasts worth listening to

From storytelling to interviews, these podcasts aim to inform and deepen our understanding of race in America.

Caitlin Fairchild

As Black Lives Matter protests continue across the county, anti-racist books continue to dominate bestseller lists. We've created an activism book list of our own as well as compiled additional anti-racist resources-from nonprofits to support to videos to watch. For those wanting to continue their anti-racist education or who prefer to learn by listening, here is a great starting point. This list is not exhaustive, and we encourage you to research and find even more podcasts that offer new resources and new perspectives.

74 seconds

In 22 episodes, the Minnesota Public Radio tells the story of the 2016 shooting of Philando Castile, believed to be the first police shooting to go to trial in the state of Minnesota. This Peabody-award winning podcast provides listeners with a deeper understanding of the race, policing, and the criminal justice system.

Code Switch

This podcast from NPR tackles race head on-as well as all the ways race impacts society, from politics to sports to parenting. The show is hosted by two journalists of color, Shereen Marisol Meraji and Gene Demby. The podcast, which launched in 2016, has recently climbed the iTunes charts. WBUR recommends diving into the show's backlog for crucial episodes.

Floodlines

This documentary podcast from The Atlantic looks at the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and what the 2005 disaster says about the United States today. Hosted by Vann R. Newkirk II, the series includes the perspective of four New Orleans natives who survived the event but who are still dealing with the consequences of the governmental response.

Intersectionality Matters

Recommended by NPR, this podcast from the African American Policy Forum is hosted by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, a leading critical race theorist and the person who is credited with introducing and developing the concept of intersectionality. Each episode gathers a group of political organizers, journalists, and writers to have a dialogue about current events.

Come through with Rebecca Carroll

This limited-run podcast is billed as, "15 essential conversations about race in a pivotal moment for America." Host and cultural critic Rebecca Carroll sits down with notable figures such as director Ava DuVernay, activist Brittany Packnett Cunningham, and epidemiologist Dr. Camara Jones.

Natal

Launched in April 2020, this podcast documents what it's like to have a Black baby in the U.S. Featuring first person testimonials from parents, health care workers, and researchers, Natal works to provide key information and resources to Black parents.

Ear Hustle

To shine a light on mass incarceration, this podcast tells the stories of those currently involved in the American prison system, as well as those who are reintegrating into society. Produced in the Bay Area, the Ear Hustle team does a lot of reporting and production from the San Quentin State Prison's media lab.

There Goes the Neighborhood

The Bello Collective, a publication about podcasting, recommends this WNYC podcast that tackles gentrification-how and why it happens. Each season examines the unique gentrification issues of a specific city, from Brooklyn to L.A. to Miami.

Caitlin Fairchild

Caitlin Fairchild is the Deputy Editor of The Renewal Project.

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Haymarket Books Blog- Webinars worth listening to

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Many podcasts offer accessible and engaging people's history lessons. Here are a few that we listen to that may be of interest to high school students. (Some of the podcasts would be appropriate for upper elementary and middle school as well, such as selected Storycorps and Uncivil episodes. Listen first.) Let us know if you share these with your students and/or have others to add.

Democracy Now

Democracy Now! offers the best daily source of independent news on TV, radio, and in a podcast. Each day, the headlines are followed by several in-depth reports, many of which make ideal classroom viewing. With the elections, they expose voter suppression. Stories on the coronavirus pandemic include interviews with people in prison and refugee camps. Their extensive coverage of the climate crisis includes interviews with scientists and activists around the world. Ideal for people's history teachers and students.

The Edge of Sports

The Edge of Sports is a sports and culture podcast hosted by Nation magazine Sports Editor Dave Zirin. His guests are the "trailblazers and earth-shakers at the intersection of sports and politics." New episodes come out weekly.

Justice in America

Each episode of Justice in America addresses a criminal justice issue (such as Juvenile Justice) and features conversations with experts and advocates. This helps fill the silence around mass incarceration in textbooks and the media, especially at times like these when prisoners are among those most vulnerable to epidemics.

Louder Than A Riot

Hosted by NPR Music's Rodney Carmichael and Sidney Madden, Louder Than A Riot reveals the interconnected rise of hip-hop and mass incarceration. From Bobby Shmurda to Nipsey Hussle, each episode explores an artist's story to examine a different aspect of the criminal justice system that disproportionately impacts Black America.

Scene on Radio: The Land That Never Has Been Yet

The Land That Never Has Been Yet, the latest in the Scene on Radio podcast series, calls into question the United States' claim to democracy. The first four episodes explore our country's founding period - and those too-often glorified events and documents, like the Revolution and the Constitution - showing their fundamentally antidemocratic nature. They could be paired with the Constitution Role Play and the #1619Project.

School Colors

School Colors is a narrative podcast that focuses on the story of Ocean Hill-Brownsville in Brooklyn where "Black and Puerto Rican parents tried to exercise power over their schools and they collided headfirst with the teachers' union - leading to the longest teachers' strike in U.S. history." It will be of interest to students studying the history of New York, labor organizing, and/or schooling.

Seizing Freedom

The story of the end of the Civil War you've probably been taught is that the slaves were freed by Northern white men (and maybe a handful of famous Underground Railroad conductors). What's missing? The story of how Black Americans risked their lives to fight for their own visions of what freedom could be - struggling for their dignity in the face of horrific violence. Seizing Freedom tells the stories of these unsung American heroes.

Seizing Freedom is hosted by Dr. Kidada Williams, a historian, author, and professor of U.S. History, with a focus on African Americans.

StoryCorps

Many StoryCorps interviews highlight people's memories of movements and events in U.S. history, like the Stonewall Riot, voter suppression, Japanese American internment, racial profiling, immigration, and more. A good way to interest young people in the audio podcasts would be to begin with some of the beautifully designed animations.

This Land

In This Land, hosted by Rebecca Nagle, an Oklahoma journalist and citizen of the Cherokee Nation, this podcast provides an in-depth look at how a cut and dry murder case opened an investigation into half the land in Oklahoma and the treaty rights of five tribes. Follow along to find out what's at stake, the Trump administration's involvement, the larger right-wing attack on tribal sovereignty and how one unique case could result in the largest restoration of tribal land in U.S. history. Selected segments can be used with The Cherokee/Seminole Removal Role Play.

Throughline

In NPR's Throughline podcast, "the past is never the past." This weekly series explores the history of stories in the headlines today. Recent episodes cover the history of vaccinations in the United States, the litter myth, the history of the police, the biography and legacy of Qassem Soleimani, LGBTQ activism before Stonewall, Andrew Johnson's impeachment, and more.

Uncivil

By profiling everyday people whose current circumstances are inextricably tied to the Civil War and its memory, Uncivil makes the past present. In the first episode, "The Raid," we meet Fallon Greene, a descendant of Pa Shed, who escaped slavery, joined the Union Army, led a daring and successful raid with Harriet Tubman, and eventually bought the very land on which Fallon's church sits today.

The episodes are miraculous in their brevity (usually about 25 minutes), given the largeness of the history they reveal - perfect for young listeners.

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The Occupation That Saved a Wyandot Cemetery (A People's History of Kansas City) How Wyandot nation member Lyda Conley and her sisters fought to protect their tribal cemetery by occupying it and taking their case to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Going to Jail for Justice (Moyers & Company) Tim DeChristopher spoke with Bill Moyers about the necessity of civil disobedience in the fight for justice, how his jury was ordered to place the strict letter of the law over moral conscience, and the future of the environmental movement.

The Tuskegee Study Was Just One Example (The American Project) Harriet Washington, author of the book Medical Apartheid, explains, the Tuskegee syphilis study was just one example in "a sea of abusive and, frankly, racist experimentation."

The Out Crowd (This American Life) In reports from the frontlines of the Trump administration's "Remain in Mexico" asylum policy, listeners hear from asylum seekers in a makeshift refugee camp in Mexico and from the officers who sent them there to wait in the first place.

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Many podcasts offer accessible and engaging people's history lessons. Here are a few that we listen to that may be of interest to high school students. (Some of the podcasts would be appropriate for upper elementary and middle school as well, such as selected Storycorps and Uncivil episodes. Listen first.)

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- The stories of Black life that don't get told anywhere else (Gimlet Media).

Yo, Is This Racist? - Takes questions from listeners about whether something is racist or not and breaks it down.

No Country for Young Women - About life, love, and work in a white man's world.

Come Through - Focuses on race in 2020.

- Talks about how to get involved with activism in effective ways. Hosted by Renni-Eddo Lodge, author of Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race.

Dear White Women - Social justice podcast hosted by Sara and Mishasha, two half-Japanese, half-white women who created the show as a way to talk about racial identity, among other issues.

Counter Stories - (NPR) Looks at the effect of implicit bias and institutional racism on women of color's reproductive health, and at the greater historical narrative of native women and women of color being continually separated from their children.

Parenting Forward podcast episode, "Five pandemic parenting lessons with Cindy Wang Brandt".

Fare of the Free Child podcast
Why I'm no longer talking to white people about race podcast
Speaking of Racism - Anti-racism podcast that discusses the various levels and history of racism within the United States.

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Podcasts on Racial Justice - bagly, inc.

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The stories of Black life that don't get told anywhere else (Gimlet Media). Yo, Is This Racist? - Takes questions from listeners about whether something is racist or not and breaks it down. No Country for Young Women - About life, love, and work in a white man's world.

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Revisionist History: Malcolm Gladwell revisits ideas, songs, events, people & ideas and questions the accuracy of how they've been presented. I like his line, "Sometimes the past deserves a second chance."

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Hosted by Ramtin Arablouei and Rund Abdelfatah. Their tagline is "Where we go back in time to understand the present," and that really sums it up quite nicely. It's a weekly podcast of about 45-60 minutes for each episode.

I love this podcast so much. It does a great job with finding relevant moments in history to present day and walks through their connections. With my classes, I always try to teach them the cycles and repetitions we can find in history- racism and dehumanizing of people being a big one. This podcast is best for you as a learner, not necessarily for your class consumption.

An example would be their Planned Obsolescence episode which was so awesome and tied in with some of what we were learning in 4th/5th grade about 2 years ago- I was teaching a combo and can't recall with which grade it better aligned, but we had a discussion about what I learned. I wanted to play it for them, so I played a small clip.

I later spent more time with an SS lesson during initial lockdown instruction in spring of 2020. I clipped and edited part of their "Conspiracy Theories" podcast and added non-copyrighted images for my students to listen to and then give a response. I used the first third which focused on how conspiracy theories helped kick off the American Revolutionary War. The content could be a bit much for fifth graders, but it was something that could give a push for my higher level thinkers and was still accessible for my learners who sometimes struggle with the bigger concepts (did it again this year). The rest of that particular episode is awesome, but it mentions some content that is not appropriate for the classroom- especially an elementary school classroom. Direct link to the podcast I used and edited is here: https://www.npr.org/2019/11/27/783307805/american-shadows
If interested, the link to where I shared my edited version on youtube with my class is here: https://youtu.be/een2IiJ8W_U

(Submitted by Amy Ellison from Cohort 2; posted both here and in my cohort as I wasn't sure where to put this)

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RECOVERING THE SOUL OF BLACK HISTORY FROM A WHITEWASHED AMERICAN MYTH
In this instant New York Times bestseller, Jermaine Fowler takes a sweeping survey of human history to show how Black humanity has been erased and how its recovery can save the humanity of us all.

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