45 Best Racism Podcasts

1. Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay dissect the biggest topics in black culture, politics, and sports. Two times per week, they will wade into the most important and timely conversations, frequently inviting guests on the podcast and occasionally debating each other.
theringer.com
Hosts Van Lathan, Rachel Lindsay
Facebook Followers 211.9KTwitter Followers 541.2KInstagram Followers 218.8K Frequency 1 episode / day Avg Length 95 min Play Get Email Contact Get Influential Podcasters ContactsGet access to 100k active Podcasters, Influencers in 1500 niche categories.Get targeted media contact list in your niche at your fingertips so you can focus on running your campaign.Email us the categories of Podcasters you want to reach out for your marketing campaign at anuj@feedspot.com Copy email. We'll share active Podcasters list with verified email contacts in an Excel or CSV format.Email us

2. Code Switch

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 head-on. We explore how it impacts every part of society - from politics and pop culture to history, sports and everything in between.
npr.org
Facebook Followers 49KTwitter Followers 146K Frequency 1 episode / week Avg Length 33 min Play Get Email Contact

3. Created Equal

Season Three of the podcast Created Equal explores 'Writers on Race: From Ralph Ellison to Colson Whitehead,' and features some of the most important voices in literature as well as the national conversation on racial inequities. The conversations were conducted by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Stephen Henderson on the radio program, Detroit Today, in the WDET studios on Wayne State University's campus throughout the pandemic and civil unrest of 2020.
wdet.org
Facebook Followers 35.6KTwitter Followers 32.8KInstagram Followers 16.6K Frequency 1 episode / week Avg Length 49 min Play Get Email Contact

4. Throughline

The past is never past. Every headline has a history. Join us every week as we go back in time to understand the present. These are stories you can feel and sounds you can see from the moments that shaped our world.
npr.org
Hosts Ramtin Arablouei, Rund Abdelfatah
Facebook Followers 6.7MTwitter Followers 20.9K Frequency 4 episodes / month Avg Length 50 min Since Jan 2019 Play Get Email Contact

5. The United States of Anxiety

Hosted by award-winning journalist Kai Wright, this podcast gives listeners a take on current events by brilliantly tying them to the past. Wright's extensive journalism background elevates the commentary with critical insights into social, racial, and economic injustice. In its fourth season episodes, he examines the historical intricacies of racism and how it permeates all sectors and continues to plague society today.
wnycstudios.org
Facebook Followers 22.2KTwitter Followers 8.3K Frequency 1 episode / week Play Get Email Contact

6. Black Gals Livin'

Two girls from London and Essex chatting about mental health, pop culture and random shenanigans.
soundcloud.com
Twitter Followers 3.4K Frequency 1 episode / week Avg Length 64 min Play Get Email Contact

7. Becoming Bridge Builders

Racial equity, anti-racism, and critical race theory are terms that are breaking us as a community. This podcast seeks to focus on these diverse issues. We will delve deeper into the subjects many are reluctant to debate. On this podcast, we analyze ways to build bridges over the streams of disharmony. The focus will be on practical solutions to complex issues. Only truth can build the bridge to wholeness. Hosted by B. Keith Haney, pastor and thought leader.
becomingbridgebuilders.buzzsprout.com
Twitter Followers 1.9KInstagram Followers 851 Frequency 1 episode / day Avg Length 39 min Play Get Email Contact

8. the (sub)URBAN podcast

Kim and Dennis are two black millennials living in Huntsville, Alabama. Each week on their podcast, they discuss everything from Music, Politics, Religion, Racism and Sexism. Just two suburban kids discussing blackness in white spaces. Strong Language.
soundcloud.com
Hosts Kimberly Nicole, Dennis Woods
Facebook Followers 107Twitter Followers 248Instagram Followers 751 Frequency 1 episode / week Avg Length 81 min Play Get Email Contact

9. Counter Stories

We discuss race, identity, social justice and culture in a region grappling with demographic changes.
mprnews.org
Facebook Followers 201.9KTwitter Followers 279.3K Frequency 5 episodes / quarter Avg Length 56 min Play Get Email Contact

10. Intersectionality Matters!

Intersectionality Matters! is a podcast hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw. This podcast is brought to you by The African American Policy Forum (AAPF), which is an innovative think tank. The Policy Forum is dedicated to advancing and expanding racial justice, gender equality, and the indivisibility of all human rights.
soundcloud.com
Host Kimberlu00e9 Crenshaw
Facebook Followers 377Twitter Followers 49.1KInstagram Followers 33.5K Frequency 1 episode / month Avg Length 54 min Play Get Email Contact

11. Focus: Black Oklahoma

Focus: Black Oklahoma is an exciting experiment in citizen journalism covering various topics relevant to Oklahoma's African-American community, featuring segments on politics, education, health, business, arts and culture, and more.
npr.org
Facebook Followers 6.1KTwitter Followers 2.2K Frequency 1 episode / week Avg Length 52 min Play Get Email Contact

12. MIXED COMPANY

Eavesdrop as Kai and Simeon bring the silo'd and uncomfortable conversations about diversity equity & inclusion in creative industries to the forefront, so everyone can participate. They'll say all the things you never hear in mixed company.
soundcloud.com
Facebook Followers 262Twitter Followers 823Instagram Followers 1.7K Frequency 2 episodes / month Avg Length 67 min Play Get Email Contact

13. Hope & Hard Pills

Exploring practical insight on racial justice and social change.
hope-hard-pills.simplecast.com
Facebook Followers 15.9KTwitter Followers 29.3K Frequency 1 episode / month Avg Length 39 min Play Get Email Contact

14. Dope Black Dads

The Dope Black Dads Podcast is an adult-only podcast for all parents or adults preparing for parenthood. Lead by Marvyn Harrison and with contributions from the Dope Black Dads leadership as well as a host of special guests from the world of healing, media, parenting, TV/Film, Music and beyond. We discuss everything from co-parenting, masculinity, the black experience all the way to our favourite Netflix show.
shows.acast.com
Facebook Followers 14.9KTwitter Followers 7.5K Frequency 1 episode / month Avg Length 44 min Play Get Email Contact

15. Groundings | Black Memory. African Futures. We came to build.

Decolonising minds one podcast at a time, this podcast is a place where organizing, theory, and history come in contact with dialogue, experience, and storytelling. The title 'Groundings' is in honor of the revolutionary educator Walter Rodney, whose concept of 'groundings' as a form of radical, political, dialogic, and communal education continues to inspire today.
groundings.simplecast.com
Twitter Followers 36.8K Frequency 1 episode / week Avg Length 61 min Play Get Email Contact

16. My American Meltingpot

My American Meltingpot is a podcast where we have conversations about the intersection of race and real life.
myamericanmeltingpot.podbean.com
Facebook Followers 518 Frequency 1 episode / month Avg Length 38 min Play Get Email Contact

17. Momentum : A Race Forward Podcast

This podcast features movement voices, stories, and strategies for racial justice. Co-hosts Chevon and Hiba give their unique takes on race and pop culture, and uplift narratives of hope, struggle, and joy, as we continue to build the momentum needed to advance racial justice in our policies, institutions, and culture. Deepen your racial justice lens and get inspired to drive action.
raceforward.org
Facebook Followers 28.2KTwitter Followers 44K Frequency 1 episode / month Avg Length 33 min Play Get Email Contact

18. The Stoop

The Stoop podcast digs into stories that are not always shared out in the open. Hosts Leila Day and Hana Baba start conversations about what it means to be black and how we talk about blackness. It's a celebration of black joy with a mission to dig deeper into stories that we don't hear enough about.
thestoop.org
Facebook Followers 989Twitter Followers 2.9K Frequency 12 episodes / year Play Get Email Contact

19. Smartsistah's Podcast

The world from a Black woman's point of view about life, race and politics straight no chaser.
podomatic.com
Facebook Followers 401Twitter Followers 772 Frequency 7 episodes / year Avg Length 19 min Play Get Email Contact

20. Dear White Women

The award-winning weekly podcast that helps ease you into uncomfortable conversations about racism, identity, and social justice. Sara and Misasha, want to help move the needle with conversations around race, identity, happiness and more. Join the community, as we look through different lenses like law and history, life coaching and positive psychology, to engage in uncomfortable conversations that will make change.
dearwhitewomen.com
Hosts Sara Blanchard, Misasha Suzuki Graham
Facebook Followers 582Twitter Followers 204 Frequency 2 episodes / month Avg Length 33 min Play Get Email Contact

21. Democracy in Color with Steve Phillips

A color-conscious political podcast, hosted by Steve Phillips offers candid and data-driven analysis on how progressives can win. Join Steve for a conversation that is unafraid and unapologetic about grappling with some of the toughest issues in politics today.
democracyincolor.com
Facebook Followers 9KTwitter Followers 5.8K Frequency 1 episode / month Avg Length 45 min Play Get Email Contact

22. The Diversity Gap

When it comes to diversity, good intentions are only the beginning. Join Bethaney Wilkinson as she explores the gap between good intentions and good impact as it relates to diversity, inclusion and equity. She starts every episode asking her guests: 'When did you first realize that you had a race or ethnicity?' and continues to delve deeply into individual experiences, victories, and struggles of each guest.
the-diversity-gap.simplecast.com
Instagram Followers 1.5K Frequency 13 episodes / year Avg Length 46 min Since Jul 2019 Play Get Email Contact

23. Interchangeable White Ladies Podcast

This is a podcast where two white 'Interchangeable White Ladies' deconstruct privilege, confront biases, and work on being less basic. They ponder upon the question : How can white women use their privilege to deconstruct white culture, confront their own biases, be better allies, and be less basic? Listen to the Interchangeable White Ladies podcast to learn about all that and more!
hopeteague.com
Facebook Followers 524Twitter Followers 796 Frequency 2 episodes / month Play Get Email Contact

24. The Antioch Podcast

In every episode of the Antioch Podcast, a number of antiracism trainers and advocates gather to have discussions about books, articles, ideas, and theology through the lens of Biblical antiracism. Other episodes feature long-format interviews with Christian thought leaders in the growing Biblical Antiracism movement.
antiochpodcast.org
Facebook Followers 648Twitter Followers 26 Frequency 1 episode / week Play Get Email Contact

25. See Something Say Something

Each week, Ahmed Ali Akbar covers everything that American Muslims are talking about right now - misrepresentation in the media, equality in the mosque, Asahd memes, and much more.
seesomethingpodcast.com
Facebook Followers 13.8KTwitter Followers 4.4K Frequency 3 episodes / quarter Avg Length 48 min Play Get Email Contact

26. Still Processing

Step inside the confession booth of Wesley Morris and Jenna Wortham, two culture writers for The New York Times. They devour TV, movies, art, music and the internet to find the things that move them - to tears, awe and anger. Still Processing is where they try to understand the pleasures and pathologies of America in 2020.
nytimes.com
Facebook Followers 18.2MTwitter Followers 55.2M Play Get Email Contact

27. What Matters

What Matters combines documentary narrative with interviews to illuminate specific, timely issues, aiming to create safe dialogue to promote freedom, justice, and collective liberation. It is hosted by Black Lives Matter Foundation, Inc which is a global organization whose mission is to eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes.
blacklivesmatter.com
Facebook Followers 789.3KTwitter Followers 1M Play Get Email Contact

28. Truth's Table

Welcome to Truth's Table with Michelle Higgins, Christina Edmondson, and Ekemini Uwan. We are Black Christian women who love the truth and seek it out wherever it leads us. We have unique perspectives on race, politics, gender, current events, and pop culture that are filtered through our Christian faith.
soundcloud.com
Hosts Michelle Higgins, Christina Edmondson, Ekemini Uwan
Facebook Followers 5.2KTwitter Followers 13.6KInstagram Followers 19.7K Since Feb 2017 Play Get Email Contact

29. Come Through with Rebecca Carroll

Come Through with Rebecca Carroll is a podcast that explores culture, race and identity against the backdrop of the 2020 election. The series will provide listeners with conversations with prominent thinkers, cultural critics, writers, artists, and politicians on topics like climate change, diversity and inclusion programs, immigration and more are prompted by our host's lifelong personal inquiry into what it means to form an identity as a black woman against the default American backdrop of mainstream whiteness and white supremacy.
wnycstudios.org
Host Rebecca Carroll
Facebook Followers 22.2KTwitter Followers 8.3KInstagram Followers 6.9K Play Get Email Contact

30. The Nod

The Nod tells the stories of Black life that don't get told anywhere else, from an explanation of how purple drink became associated with Black culture to the story of how an interracial drag troupe traveled the nation in the 1940s. We celebrate the genius, the innovation, and the resilience that is so particular to being Black in America, and around the world.
gimletmedia.com
Twitter Followers 9KInstagram Followers 40.6K Play Get Email Contact