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Podcasts That Have Helped Me Learn About Race, Police, and Community Discussion in America

Do this country a favor and educate yourself about inequalities in our society for whites and non-whites. The best way I know how to speak out is to recommend podcasts that have expanded my world view as a white person. They’re not all about whites and blacks in America, but all have absolutely impacted how I feel about racial inequality, the justice system, and communicating about our belief differences. They have helped me have more conversations about race and police, which can help move the needle. I’ll stop short of begging you to listen to these but I truly think these can be life changing.

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Created June 03, 2020

Updated June 12, 2022

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  1. About Whiteness

  2. Scene on Radio

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    Scene on Radio is a two-time Peabody-nominated podcast that dares to ask big, hard questions about who we are—really—and how we got this way. Previous series include Seeing White (Season 2), looking at the roots and meaning of white supremacy; 
    SocietyCulture

  3. Investigative Journalism about Police, Crime, and Policy

  4. In The Dark

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    In the Dark, hosted by Madeleine Baran, is an award-winning investigative-journalism podcast that started in 2016. Its first season looked at the mysterious abduction of Jacob Wetterling in rural Minnesota and the lack of accountability that sh
    News

  5. 74 Seconds

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    74 Seconds tells the story of a July 2016 traffic stop that ended with the world watching a man die, live on their phones. This is the story of that man, Philando Castile, and the officer who is about to go on trial for his death, Jeronimo Yane
    Arts

  6. Reveal

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    Reveal’s investigations will inspire, infuriate and inform you. Host Al Letson and an award-winning team of reporters deliver gripping stories about caregivers, advocates for the unhoused, immigrant families, warehouse workers and formerly inca
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    News

  7. White Lies

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    On the morning of August 21, 1991, a group of Cuban detainees took over a federal prison in Talladega, Alabama, and demanded their freedom. But how did they get here? And what became of them after? In season two of NPR's Pulitzer-finalist show,
    True Crime

  8. Caught

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    Mass incarceration starts young. These kids say the system changes them forever.
    True CrimeNews

  9. 70 Million

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    This award-winning and Peabody-nominated podcast documents how locals are addressing the role of jails in their backyards. Reporters travel around the country and hear from people directly impacted by their encounter with jails and to chronicle
    SocietyCulture

  10. Ear Hustle

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    Ear Hustle is prison slang for eavesdropping, and that’s what listening to the show feels like: a raw, often funny, and always surprising peek into the reality of life inside prison. Hosts Nigel Poor and Earlonne Woods co-created the show tha
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    SocietyCulture

  11. At Liberty

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    At Liberty is a weekly podcast from the ACLU that explores the biggest civil rights and civil liberties issues of the day. A production of ACLU, Inc.
    News

  12. Perspectives from People of Color

  13. You Had Me at Black

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    You Had Me at Black is where Black Millennials tell the true-life stories you won't see on TV.
    SocietyCulture

  14. Closer Than They Appear

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    How do you go forward when the past is breathing down your neck? Carvell Wallace talks to Americans grappling with the state of the union while trying to reconcile his own family's fractured history.If America is an estranged family, this show
    NewsSociety

  15. Why Won't You Date Me? with Nicole Byer

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    Dating can be a hot mess, from being ghosted by your crush to realizing that you've been catfished by a Tinder match. Why Won't You Date Me? is here to help.Join Nicole Byer, the perpetual singleton, as she invites fellow comedians, friends,
    SocietyCulture

  16. Tremendous Upside

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    What happens when an athlete’s body is in peak condition but the mind is throwing flags? On Tremendous Upside, Women's Basketball Hall of Famer Chamique Holdsclaw interviews some of the most fascinating stars in sports who, like Holdsclaw herse
    HealthFitnessMental Health

  17. #CreativeAF Divine Flow Radio

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    Divine Flow Radio is the home of Sheba CreativeAF a divine messenger and righteous PR Girl located in Houston, TX. You might hear conversations about business and branding and you might hear something spiritual, either way it's going to be a vi
    ComedyReligionSpirituality

  18. Shannon Cason's Homemade

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    Homemade is short stories and commentary for writer/storyteller, Shannon Cason. Shannon has appeared on countless podcasts and storytelling stages, including Snap Judgment, The Moth, TEDx, and RISK! Shannon Cason's Homemade lays out his life fo
    ArtsPerforming Arts

  19. Hope Chest: A Podcast

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    A new audio essay podcast by Stacia Brown
    SocietyCulture

  20. See Something Say Something

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    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.
    SocietyCulture

  21. Actual History, Not History-Book History

  22. 1619

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    In August of 1619, a ship carrying more than 20 enslaved Africans arrived in the English colony of Virginia. America was not yet America, but this was the moment it began. No aspect of the country that would be formed here has been untouched by
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    NewsHistory

  23. Historically Black

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    Objects hold history. They're evocative of stories stamped in time. As part of The Washington Post's coverage of the Smithsonian's new National Museum of African American History and Culture, people submitted dozens of objects that make up thei
    Black CultureSociety

  24. The Uncertain Hour

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    Each season, we explain the weird, complicated and often unequal American economy — and why some people get ahead and some get left behind. Host Krissy Clark dives into obscure policies and forgotten histories to explain why America is like it
    Government

  25. Current Events

  26. Code Switch

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    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 — fro
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    NewsPolitics

  27. Still Processing

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    Wesley Morris and J Wortham are working it out in this weekly show about culture in the broadest sense. That means television, film, books, music — but also the culture of work, dating, the internet and how those all fit together.Listen to th
    ArtsNews

  28. Pod Save the People

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    Organizer and activist DeRay Mckesson explores news, culture, social justice, and politics with analysis from Kaya Henderson, De’Ara Balenger, and Myles Johnson. Then he sits down for deep conversations with experts, influencers, and diverse lo
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    NewsPolitics

  29. Counter Stories

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    We discuss race, identity, social justice and culture in a region grappling with demographic changes
    SocietyCultureNews

  30. Come Through with Rebecca Carroll

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    It’s an election year, and whether people want to admit it or not, race is at the center of every issue -- healthcare, jobs, climate change, the media. Join host Rebecca Carroll for 15 essential conversations about race in a pivotal moment for
    SocietyCultureNews

  31. Interviews

  32. Sooo Many White Guys

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    Phoebe Robinson is tired of being the token black woman in an ocean of white dude comedians. So in this podcast, Phoebe’s calling the shots. She’ll host intimate, funny and super honest conversations with musicians, actors, writers and comedian
    ComedySocietyCulture

  33. Latina to Latina

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    In this interview series, host Alicia Menendez talks to remarkable Latinas about making it, faking it, and everything in between. In often-hilarious and always-revealing episodes, Alicia and her guests take on the challenges of existing, and th
    SocietyCulture

  34. Living Together in Community

  35. Our Americana

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    Our Americana is a podcast that explores unique small towns across America and examines the stories that impact, cultivate, and challenge community.New episodes coming in August 2023.
    SocietyCulture

  36. American Suburb

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    Gentrification is changing cities across America, forcing people from neighborhoods they have long called home. Call them the displaced. Now those priced out of the Bay Area are looking for a better life in an unlikely place. American Suburb fo
    SocietyCultureTravel

  37. There Goes the Neighborhood

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    A podcast about how and why gentrification happens. Season 3, produced in partnership with WLRN, Miami’s public radio station, introduces us to “climate gentrification,” reporting about the ways climate change, and our adaption to it, may serio
    SocietyCulture

  38. The Stakes

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    The Stakes is a show about social change, hosted by Kai Wright. We live in extreme times—a climate on the verge of crisis, an economy built on inequality and a political system that feels like it’s falling apart. So, how’d we get to this point?
    SocietyCulture

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