Resources for listening to discussions about racial justice

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  1. Code Switch (podcast series)
    Hosted by NPR journalists Gene Demby and Shereen Marisol Meraji

  2. Black Like Me (podcast series)
    Host Dr. Alex Gee

  3. Scene on Radio –Seeing White Series (podcast series)
    Host John Biewen and collaborator Chenjerai Kumanyika

  4. How Does Racism Affect Your Health? (11 mins)
    Host Guy Raz speaks with Dr. Mary T. Bassett, Director of the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University

  5. Without Slavery, Would The U.S. Be The Leading Economic Power? (14:51 mins)
    Host Jeremy Hobson and author Edward Baptist

  6. You Cannot Divorce Race From Immigration (6 mins)
    Journalist Rachel Martin talks to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas

  7. Pod Save the People (podcast series)
    Activism. Social Justice. Culture. Politics. Hosted by organizer and activist DeRay Mckesson

  8. 1619 (podcast series)
    A New York Times audio series, hosted by Nikole Hannah-Jones, that examines the long shadow of American slavery.

  9. Good Ancestor Podcast (podcast series)
    Hosted by antiracism educator Layla F. Saad. An interview series with change-makers exploring what it means to be a good ancestor.

  10. Speaking of Racism (podcast series)
    Honest discussions on race and racism.

  11. The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates (audio version)
    Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.

  12. The School to Prison Pipeline (BBC audio documentary, 24 mins)
    Nina Robinson reports from Texas on how the heavy hand of the law in some US schools is criminalizing the very young.

  13. How to Not (Accidentally) Raise a Racist (podcast episode, 51 mins)
    Conversation with Dr. Brigitte Vittrup on how white parents should talk to their kids about racism.