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List Of Podcasts About Racism
The following is a list of podcasts about racism. List References {{reflist Racism Racism is the belief that groups of humans possess different behavioral traits corresponding to inherited attributes and can be divided based on the superiority of one race over another. It may also mean prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism ... Works about racism ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Floodlines
''Floodlines'' is an eight-part podcast miniseries about Hurricane Katrina hosted by Vann R. Newkirk II and produced by ''The Atlantic''. Background The podcast explores how the New Orleans Police Department, the Federal government of the United States, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the United States Army Corps of Engineers, and the news media in the United States were all responsible for exacerbating the crisis. The first episode focuses on the story of Le-Ann Williams who was a fourteen-year-old girl living in the Sixth Ward of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. In one of the episodes Newkirk interviews Michael Brown from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Comparisons were made by ''Time'' magazine between how the George W. Bush administration handled the hurricane to how the Donald Trump administration handled the COVID-19 pandemic. Production Vann R. Newkirk II, Katherine Wells, and Alvin Melathe spent a year researching, writing, and producing t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yo, Is This Racist?
Yo, Is This Racist? (also stylized as Yo! Is This Racist?) is a blog and associated podcast run by Andrew Ti, addressing questions from readers and listeners about whether given phenomena are examples of racism. In 2018, Tawny Newsome joined the podcast as co-host. Ti, a writer for Comedy Central at the time,‘Yo, Is This Racist?’ Says What We’re All Thinking About Racism , by Kathleen Miles, in ''''; published December 18, 2013; retrieved January 31, 2017 launched the ''Yo, Is This Racist?'' blog in November 2011 on |
Shaun King
Jeffery Shaun King (born September 17, 1979) is an American writer, civil rights activist and co-founder of Real Justice PAC. King uses social media to promote social justice causes, including the Black Lives Matter movement. King was raised in Kentucky and received his undergraduate degree from Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. While at Morehouse, King was elected president of the Student Government Association and was awarded the Oprah Winfrey Scholarship. After college, he worked as a high school teacher in Atlanta. He then went on to work as a pastor and founded a church in Atlanta called Courageous Church. During this time, King launched a number of internet campaigns, including HopeMob.org. He later received a master's degree from Arizona State University. King was a writer-in-residence at Harvard Law School's Fair Punishment Project and contributed to ''The Intercept'' and ''The Appeal''. Previously, he contributed to the ''New York Daily News'', Daily Kos, the ''T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radiotopia
Radiotopia is a podcast network founded by ''99% Invisible'' host Roman Mars and run by the Public Radio Exchange. The network is organized as a collective of some two dozen shows whose producers have complete artistic control over their work. Podcasts in the network are downloaded more than 19 million times per month. History Radiotopia, founded by Roman Mars, was launched in February 2014 with an initial group of seven shows: Jonathan Mitchell's ''The Truth'', Lea Thau's ''Strangers'', Benjamin Walker's ''Theory of Everything'', Nick van der Kolk's ''Love and Radio'', the Kitchen Sisters' ''Fugitive Waves'' (later renamed ''The Kitchen Sisters Present...''), ''Radio Diaries'' and Roman Mars' own flagship show ''99% Invisible''. The makers of these shows had decided to band together as independent producers who didn't all have the support of traditional radio broadcasting, targeting instead a growing audience of podcast listeners seeking recommendations for new things to listen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Earlonne Woods
Earlonne Woods (born August 13, 1971) is an American podcaster and author, best known for co-hosting and co-founding the podcast '' Ear Hustle'' in 2017, and co-authoring the book ''This Is Ear Hustle'' in 2021. Woods helped create ''Ear Hustle'' while incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison. In November 2018, Woods' sentence was commuted by California governor Jerry Brown. He was hired to continue co-hosting and producing the podcast after his release. In 2020, alongside his ''Ear Hustle'' co-hosts, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Audio Reporting. Early life Woods was raised in South Los Angeles with his parents and his older brother Trevor. His mother was a postal worker and his father was an unemployed alcoholic, who Woods described as violent and distant. When he was nine, Woods lifted up a faulty railroad crossing gate to allow cars to pass. Woods said he was only trying to be helpful, but was arrested by local sheriffs who did not question why he had lifted th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nigel Poor
''Ear Hustle'' is a non-fiction podcast about prison life and life after incarceration created by Earlonne Woods and Antwan Williams, both formerly incarcerated, and Nigel Poor, an artist who volunteers at San Quentin State Prison. In 2016, it was selected by the Radiotopia network as the winner of its Podquest competition, and the following year released its first season. It was the first podcast to be entirely created and produced inside a prison. In 2018, California governor Jerry Brown commuted Earlonne Woods' sentence, citing ''Ear Hustle'' as a significant contributor to his reformation as an American citizen. Since his release, Woods has continued to co-host the podcast with Poor from outside prison, with Poor recording some parts in San Quentin with new co-host Rahsaan "New York" Thomas. ''Ear Hustle'' was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Audio Reporting, and won a Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award in 2021. Their tenth season finished airing in Dece ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ear Hustle
''Ear Hustle'' is a non-fiction podcast about prison life and life after incarceration created by Earlonne Woods and Antwan Williams, both formerly incarcerated, and Nigel Poor, an artist who volunteers at San Quentin State Prison. In 2016, it was selected by the Radiotopia network as the winner of its Podquest competition, and the following year released its first season. It was the first podcast to be entirely created and produced inside a prison. In 2018, California governor Jerry Brown commuted Earlonne Woods' sentence, citing ''Ear Hustle'' as a significant contributor to his reformation as an American citizen. Since his release, Woods has continued to co-host the podcast with Poor from outside prison, with Poor recording some parts in San Quentin with new co-host Rahsaan "New York" Thomas. ''Ear Hustle'' was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Audio Reporting, and won a Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award in 2021. Their tenth season finished airing in Decem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid digital subscribers. It also is a producer of popular podcasts such as '' The Daily''. Founded in 1851 by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones, it was initially published by Raymond, Jones & Company. The ''Times'' has won 132 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any newspaper, and has long been regarded as a national " newspaper of record". For print it is ranked 18th in the world by circulation and 3rd in the U.S. The paper is owned by the New York Times Company, which is publicly traded. It has been governed by the Sulzberger family since 1896, through a dual-class share structure after its shares became publicly traded. A. G. Sulzberger, the paper's publisher and the company's chairman, is the fifth generation of the family to head the pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikole Hannah-Jones
Nikole Sheri Hannah-Jones (born April 9, 1976) is an American investigative journalist, known for her coverage of civil rights in the United States. In April 2015, she became a staff writer for ''The New York Times.'' In 2017 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship and in 2020 she won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for her work on the controversial ''1619 Project''. Hannah-Jones is the inaugural Knight Chair in Race and Journalism at the Howard University School of Communications, where she also founded the Center for Journalism and Democracy. Early life Hannah-Jones was born in Waterloo, Iowa, to father Milton Hannah, who is African-American, and mother Cheryl A. Novotny, who is white and of Czech and English descent. Hannah-Jones is the second of three girls. She was raised Catholic. Hannah-Jones and her sister attended almost all-white schools as part of a voluntary program of desegregation busing. She attended Waterloo West High School, where she wrote for the high school ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crooked Media
Crooked Media is a progressive American political media company. It was founded in 2017 by Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, and Tommy Vietor, all former top Barack Obama staffers and former co-hosts of the '' Keepin' it 1600'' podcast. Dan Pfeiffer, also a former Obama employee, co-hosts their flagship podcast ''Pod Save America'' with them. The company's offerings encompass a network of podcasts; a news and opinion website; live shows and tours; and a social media and live streaming presence. It aims to foster open conversation between liberals and support grassroots activism and political participation. The company's flagship podcast, ''Pod Save America'', airs twice weekly and averages more than 1.5 million listeners an episode. In Fall 2018, four ''Pod Save America'' one-hour specials aired on HBO. By November of its first year, the podcast had been downloaded more than 120 million times, and 175 million times by February 2018. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, Califor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaya Henderson
Kaya Henderson (born July 1, 1970) is an American educator, activist, and civil servant who served as Chancellor of the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) from November 2010 to September 2016. Education and early career Kaya Henderson was born in 1970 in Mount Vernon, New York, and graduated from that city's public schools. Henderson graduated from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., in 1992. During her senior year, a friend joined Teach for America. Intrigued by why her friend would give up lucrative jobs in order to teach in inner-city schools, Henderson learned more about the organization and became convinced its goals were important to her. In 1992, Henderson joined Teach For America, and took a job teaching in the South Bronx in New York City. Henderson was promoted to executive director of Teach for America in 1997, and relocated to Washington, D.C. In 2000, Henderson left Teach for America and joined the New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DeRay Mckesson
DeRay Mckesson (born July 9, 1985) is an American civil rights activist, podcaster, and former school administrator. An early supporter of the Black Lives Matter movement, he has been active in the protests in Ferguson, Missouri, and Baltimore, Maryland and on social media outlets such as Twitter and Instagram. He has also written for ''HuffPost'' and ''The Guardian''. Along with Johnetta Elzie, Brittany Packnett, and Samuel Sinyangwe, Mckesson launched Campaign Zero, a policy platform to end police violence. He is currently part of Crooked Media and hosts ''Pod Save the People''. On February 3, 2016, Mckesson announced his candidacy in the 2016 Baltimore mayoral election. He finished with 3,445 votes (2.6%), placing sixth in the Democratic Party primary on April 26. Mckesson is the author of ''On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope'', a memoir about his life and time as a Black Lives Matter organizer. Early life, education, and career Mckesson was an organizer in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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