BLM: Black, History-Making Podcasters

BLM: Black, History-Making Podcasters

January 26, 2023

Five podcast episodes on a theme, each week curated by a different person

BHM: Black, History-Making Podcasters

CuratorMarceia Cork, The Change Coach! (she/her) 

Why did you choose this theme?

In honor of Black History Month, I want to also celebrate Blacks making history everyday! These five podcasts represent very five different topical areas, but all markedly representative of the Black experience.

PODCAST PICKS:Click on the podcast art to listen đź‘‚

Reality with The King

The host of this podcast, Carlos King, is the Andy Cohen of Black reality television. He's the former Executive Producer of

The Real Housewives of Atlanta

and

New Jersey

, and helped these franchises become household names! Carlos goes behind the scenes of reality TV shows' most iconic moment and in this episode, he ranks the top 5 reality shows of 2022. 

Ratchet and Respectable with Demetria L. LucasAdwoa in AccraDemetria L. Lucas is a former journalist who now curates travel experiences to Ghana and welcomes Black Americans "home, after being away 500 years." In this episode, she revisits returning home. 

Oooh, Those Effin' C-Words with Marceia Cork

Changed Ever After: Life After Divorce or Separation

Known as “The Change Coach”, EarBuds curator Marceia helps people navigate change — and the grief and sense of loss that often comes with change — with confidence. Self-care is the goal most people have committed to for 2023, but dealing with grief and the sense of loss that comes with change are THE most often overlooked areas of focus! Especially for Blacks, who experience many of the seemingly “common” life events compounded, which most often lead to a major health breakdown within two years. 

In this episode, Marceia brings you four relatable examples to look to, to get past the isolation that can come with divorce and separation. 

Brown Ambition with Mandy and Tiffany Defining Your Own Ambition Tiffany "The Budgetnista" Aliche and Mandi Woodruff host this Webby-award winning show that has remained one of the top finance podcasts amongst people of color for 5 years. In this episode, Tiffany starts by recapping her Kenya trip, where Brown Ambition got some major love, and Mandi shares her travel plans for this year. Then, the ladies share their thoughts on the new "MLK" statue and spoke about their favorite Golden Globes moment. Before break, they discuss "non compete" agreements and what's appropriate when signing them. For this week's boost or break, Tiffany boosts for a phenomenal experience she had in Kenya involving helping young teen moms. Mandi boosts for defining your own ambition.

Therapy For Black GirlsSession 284: ICYMI, Understanding Seasonal Affective DisorderHost Dr. Joy Harden Bradford, a licensed psychologist, creates a space to present mental health topics in a way that feels more accessible and relevant to Black women. She developed an “Angie’s List” of sorts for black women to find therapists, and has this companion podcast. This episode discusses the science behind seasonal mood changes and gives tips for managing these depressive symptoms. 

SPONSOR:

On Air: The Podcast ExperienceOn Air: The Podcast Experience, features multiple rooms at the Wythe Hotel taken over by a collection of podcasts and their creators.Drawing inspiration from open studio tours and immersive theater, each curated space will envelop visitors in the world of a single podcast designed to spark imagination, delight and discovery. With rooms designed by My Favorite Murder and the Exactly Right Network, On Being Project, The Heart and more to be announced, On Air: The Podcast Experience runs from Feb 23-26. Get your tickets here.

New in 2023: We've partnered with Realm Media on pairing a fiction podcast with our theme. This week, since our theme is Black history-making podcasters, you'll get to hear from Black writers in Hollywood in Lifewriting: Write for Your Life! 

Lifewriting: Write for Your Life!Authors and screenwriters Steven Barnes and Tananarive Due (and guests!) speak on writing, the writer's life, Hollywood, the work/family balance and relationships â€” the tools writers need to make themselves the heroes/heroines of their own story. 

FEEDBACK WITH EARBUDS:

This week on our podcast...Marceia is sharing podcast recommendations this week in honor of Black History Month. You'll get to hear from black creatives making history every day. PLUS: We'll tell you about this week's Spotlight pick, The Statue, an audio series about the Rocky Balboa monument in Philadelphia, and what a statue to a fictional hero tells us about the stories we choose to memorialize. Subscribe

COMMUNITY:

🎤This week in Podcast The Newsletter: In a Q&A, Lauren Passell interviewed Sequoia Holmes, the host of Black People Love Paramore. đź’­Memory Wars is a six-part series about how Germany has confronted its horrific past and whether America could ever do the same. Public radio reporter Mallory Noe-Payne spent years covering policy and politics in Richmond, Virginia — the former capital of the Confederacy. Then she went to Germany. In this 6-part series, Mallory interviews a wide range of characters, including Haley in Part 3: Haley's Story. Haley's ancestors are Holocaust survivors. But she's chosen to return to Germany anyway. We follow her journey to reclaim the things stolen from her family — an identity and a homeland. Why would someone return to a place of unspeakable trauma and what does it take for them to feel welcomed?đź“ťPodplane is a monthly newsletter curating podcasts by trans and nonbinary creators. Subscribe for podcast recommendations of new and old shows! Podplane takes flight every new moon. đźŹ†She Podcasts, LLC and KaSa Media are excited to announce The Sonic Bloom Awards, which will celebrate the accomplishments of independent podcasters who are cis and trans women, non-binary, or all-around gender fabulous. The awards show will take place on June 21 at the MGM National Harbor in Washington D.C. during the annual She Podcasts LIVE! event. Click here to submit a nomination!

📨Black History Month: Black creators, we want to highlight your work! Submit your curated lists and individual episode recommendations now to be featured next month.

✨Send your updates for us to include in our Community section. Submit!

CLASSIFIEDS:

🎧To The Best Of Our Knowledge is a Peabody-award winning national public radio show and podcast that explores big ideas and beautiful questions. Deep interviews with philosophers, writers, artists, scientists, historians, and others help listeners find new sources of meaning, purpose, and wonder in daily life. Whether it’s about bees, poetry, skin, or psychedelics, every episode is an intimate, sound-rich journey into open-minded, open-hearted conversations. Warm and engaging, TTBOOK helps listeners feel less alone and more connected — to our common humanity and to the world we share.

SPOTLIGHT:

 

What does a statue to a fictional hero tell us about the stories we choose to memorialize? 

Enter the brand new podcast 

The Statue

, produced by WHYY Digital Studios. Join host Paul Farber, one of the nation's thought leaders on monuments and public space, as he examines a monument to the most famous Philadelphian who never lived: “Rocky Balboa” of the Oscar Award-winning film

Rocky

.

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