Podcasts: Shows
Code Switch by What's CODE SWITCH? It's the fearless conversations about race that you've been waiting for. Hosted by journalists of color, our podcast tackles the subject of race with empathy and humor. We explore how race affects every part of society — from politics and pop culture to history, food and everything in between. This podcast makes all of us part of the conversation — because we're all part of the story.
Financial Feminist by Join money expert Tori Dunlap as she guides you on how to make more, spend less, and feel financially confident in a world run by rich white men. "I am hooked! The patriarchy does not benefit anyone that I know - including the men that I know. To realize this is eye-opening and freeing." --Caroline
How to Citizen with Baratunde by How To Citizen with Baratunde reimagines “citizen” as a verb and reminds us how to wield our collective power. Learn new perspectives and practices from people working to improve society for the many.
Into America by Into America is a show about being Black in America. These stories explore what it means to hold truth to power and hold this country to its promises. Told by people who have the most at stake.
Love Thy Neighbor by Thirty years ago, in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights, a car accident set off four days of unrest. Two people died. Dozens were injured. Hundreds were arrested. In this Pineapple Street Studios series, journalist Collier Meyerson explores what came to be known as the “Crown Heights Riot.” It’s a story about immigration, New York City’s first Black mayor, the rise of Rudy Giuliani, and the Lubavitch Jewish and Caribbean-American communities sitting at the center of it all. To Meyerson, the Crown Heights Riot can help us unlock and understand so many of our modern dilemmas: from police violence and racism to the persistence of antisemitism.
Notes from American with Kai Wright by A show about the unfinished business of our history and its grip on our future.
Some of My Best Friends Are... by Some of My Best Friends Are… is a podcast hosted by Khalil Gibran Muhammad and Ben Austen, two best friends who grew up together on the South Side of Chicago in the 1980s. Today a Harvard professor and an award-winning journalist, Khalil and Ben still go to each other to talk about their experiences with the absurdities and intricacies of race in America. In Some of My Best Friends Are… with Khalil Gibran Muhammad and Ben Austen, they invite listeners into their unfiltered conversations about growing up together in a deeply-divided country, and navigating that divide as it exists today.
This Land by ALM – as referred to in court documents – is a Navajo and Cherokee toddler. When he was a baby, a white couple from the suburbs of Dallas wanted to adopt him, but a federal law said they couldn’t. The Brackeens’ case would have been a normal adoption dispute, but then one of the most powerful corporate law firms in the United States took it on and helped the couple launch a federal lawsuit. Today, the lawsuit doesn’t just impact the future of one child, or even the future of one law. It threatens the entire legal structure defending Native American rights. The second season of This Land is a timely exposé about how the far right is using Native children to quietly dismantle American Indian tribes and advance a conservative agenda.Vibe Check
A weekly podcast where Sam Sanders, Saeed Jones, and Zach Stafford make sense of what’s going on in news and culture – and how it all feels. Vibe Check is your favorite group chat, come to life.
Podcast Episodes
Reply All
Ep. 172: The Test Kitchen, Chapter 1
Ep. 173: The Test Kitchen, Chapter 2
Reply All is a podcast focusing on stories about the internet. In early 2021, one of the show's producers tried to do a multi-part exposé of a popular food magazine's workplace culture after tweets and stories circulated online that the magazine had (has?) a racist and toxic workplace. After the first two episodes were released, the series was scrapped because the producer and one of the hosts (who is also one of the creators) of the show are implicated in creating a toxic workplace of their own.
Since then, both the producer and the co-host/co-creator have departed from the show and the story remains unfinished.
Additional Resources:
A Message from the Staff of Reply All - An update on the future of The Test Kitchen series and PJ Vogt and Sruthi Pinnamaneni's departure.
The Test Kitchen Revisited - The Reply All team takes a look at the Test Kitchen, and what those mistakes mean for the future of the show.
What Went Wrong at Gimlet? by Nicholas Quah
Why is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast
2/22/22: Treating Trans Youth with Dr. Izzy Lowell
What is gender-affirming health care? Around the country, there’s a Republican campaign to legislate and regulate the lives of trans youth. The most destructive of these efforts would bar trans youth in certain states from accessing gender-affirming treatment. Lowell’s practice covers 10 states across the South – and half of those have anti-trans health care bills on the docket. If they pass, it would become criminal for her to provide this care to many of her patients. Dr. Lowell joins this week to break down what exactly we mean when we talk about gender-affirming care, how the decision is made for kids and teens ready to transition, and the potentially devastating impact this legislation would have on their lives.
4/4/23: The Fixation on Anti-Trans Legislation with Chase Strangio
State legislatures have significantly advanced a record number of attacks aimed at restricting LGBTQ+ rights this year. Our guest this week points out that “the number one priority, without any ambiguity” of Republicans has been attacking trans people. Nearly half of the country could see health care bans for trans adolescents by May. This tidal wave of anti-trans legislation, which restricts gender affirming and medically necessary care, continues to have wide-ranging and deleterious impacts, especially on adolescents. Chase Strangio, who is transgender, is deputy director for Transgender Justice with the ACLU’s LGBT and HIV Project and a nationally recognized expert on trans rights. Strangio joins WITHpod to discuss how politics has eclipsed healthcare in some cases, anti-transgender legislation being used as a gateway to broader government control and why conversations about trans people is often predicated on fear and confusion. He also talks about the ongoing political and legislative fights to protect bodily autonomy, gender expression and personal freedom.
Civics 101: A Podcast
6/21/22: M, F & X: Gender Markers & Government Documents
The government issues IDs so we can prove who we say we are, and since the start, that’s included an expression of binary (male or female) gender. Now, some states - and even the federal government - are starting to change that.
LGBTQ+ reporter Kate Sosin is our guide.
Reveal
10/15/22: Buried Secrets: America’s Indian Boarding Schools Part 1
10/22/22: Buried Secrets: America’s Indian Boarding Schools Part 2
After decades of stripping away Native American identity from its students, a Catholic boarding school seeks to help the community heal. In a two-part collaboration with ICT (formerly Indian Country Today), we expose the painful legacy of boarding schools for Native children.