I listen to podcasts during cardio workouts, lifts, and mindless droning at work. Finished every episode of "This is Revolution" from Zero Books and there is a lot of great discussion. However, I realized that I don't have many any other black leftist podcasts. I am a black dude and I am trying to get more black thought so I can convince my family members and peers that leftist stuff isnt "a white people thing". I listen "Black Agenda Report" (which sometimes has terrible audio mixing which can be annoying) and tried "Champagne Sharks" and "Drop Squad" but that wasn't my jam (a little too Twitter-centric for me a person not on and not interested in Twitter discourse/politics).

Do you have any suggestions?

  • Multihedra [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I don’t think they have anything on podcast apps but Black Power Media has a really nice morning show on Youtube and they seem to be trying to produce more and more. Jared Ball, Kim Brown, Dr CBS, Kalonji Changa—you might recognize some of these names (Jared Ball in particular has been on both Rev Left and MAKC, the latter recommended by @marxisthayaca and is a very good rec).

    BPM has Gerald Horne on fairly often; I’ll listen to anything with Gerald Horne. He was on one of Dr CBS’s guests on Last Dope Intellectual, which also appears to be youtube only. I don’t really know what the deal is with that, but the Horne episode features TooBlack as a cohost, who is on the Black Myths Podcast.

    Devyn Springer seems to release “seasons” of Groundings Podcast sporadically. I know at one point he worked closely with the family of Walter Rodney, who are actively involved in the Walter Rodney Foundation, and I think he still does.

    Which reminds me that the Hampton Institute puts out good writing and has a podcast with very irregularly-released episodes.

    And finally, one with a host from the UK I believe instead of the US, there’s the Malcolm Effect (I only found them because Vijay Prashad was a guest, I haven’t listened to many episodes)