Black History Month: Podcasts and Media

Black Studies in Video is an award-winning Black studies portfolio that brings together seminal documentaries, powerful interviews, and previously unavailable archival footage surveying the Black experience.

GirlTrek’s Black History Bootcamp Podcast is a 21-day walking meditation series to remember where we came from and to gather strength for the road ahead. We celebrate Black stories and the lessons of our ancestors to help guide us through these uncertain times.

The Black Mental Health Podcast is dedicated to understanding and unraveling the mental struggles in the Black community. It showcases real life stories to bridge the gap between people who feel alone in their struggles and the solutions to help them heal. With the stigma, cost and quality of therapy being major barriers, black people are left to deal with mental health issues on their own. The Black Mental Health Podcast is here not as a replacement to therapy but as an alternative place where people share therapeutic stories.

A team out to reimagine and redefine what a high quality education means in our communities.

We talk with successful, Black students and professionals about their career journeys to provide insight and guidance to Black students and young adults. Brought to you by Inquire Higher, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit promoting the success of Black students and professionals through multimedia and community support.

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.

The best short fiction, handpicked by the best voice in podcasting and presented in 3D immersive audio. In every episode, host LeVar Burton (Roots, Reading Rainbow, Star Trek) invites you to take a break from your daily life, and dive into a great story. LeVar’s narration blends with gorgeous soundscapes to bring stories by Stephen King, Toni Morrison, Nnedi Okorafor, Kurt Vonnegut, Ken Liu and more to life.

Join Kid Fury and Crissle for their weekly podcast covering hip-hop and pop culture's most trying stars. Throwing shade and spilling tea with a flippant and humorous attitude, no star is safe from Fury and Crissle unless their name is Beyoncé. (Or Blue Ivy.)

Award-winning author Damon Young is joined by the brightest, weirdest and Blackest writers, comedians, and critics he knows to explore the hilarious and hideous absurdity of our behavior – and how race, gender, and class converge to make everything messy AF.

The Therapy for Black Girls Podcast is a weekly chat about all things mental health, personal development, and all the small decisions we can make to become the best possible versions of ourselves.