Canadian Black History & Futures: Podcast Recommendations
Five podcast episodes on a theme, each week curated by a different person
Canadian Black History & Futures
Curator
Daniella Barreto, host of Rights Back At You
Why did you choose this theme?
Black people are often written out of the story of Canada. But we have existed and will continue to exist, making a huge impact. I host and produce Amnesty International Canada’s new podcast on how the history of Black people in these lands has been impacted by surveillance and policing and how we can birth new, better futures!
PODCAST PICKS:
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Rights Back At You
Street Surveillance and the War on Drugs
This episode is from Amnesty International Canada's brand-new human rights podcast. As host, EarBuds curator Daniella Barreto focuses in this episode on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, connecting with overdose prevention activist Hugh Lampkin, investigating how drug criminalization impacts Black people in Canada, and visiting the MySafe machine — a palm-scanning smart vending machine for drugs.
Africville Forever
Thrive
If you care about racism, displaced peoples, and social justice, then you need to know the story of Africville Forever. The people still feel the joy of Africville in Nova Scotia generations later. Hear about the memories of elders from Africville, trailblazing Black hockey players, and the enduring strength of community despite systemic racism in Canada.
Strong and Free
John Ware: The Legend of Canada's "First" Black Cowboy
John Ware was a man who could tame wild horses and, apparently, once walked across the backs of his cattle to help a ranch hand in need. He was considered the toughest of all the cowboys! He was also Black. This episode gets into the deep, long roots of Black people in the Prairies, who built communities and had a hand in building the Prairie culture of our nation.
Seen
Transformative Justice for Self
Black History Month is also about taking time for our relationships with ourselves and learning how we can be more gentle with ourselves in a society built on a culture of white supremacy. Hosts Nic and Lala discuss how their lives and their relationships with themselves have changed, and explore the concept of “transformative justice for self.”
The Secret Life of Canada
Crash Course on Nora's Place in Hogan's Alley
When vaudeville performer Nora Hendrix ended up in Vancouver in the early 1900s, she became a fixture in Hogan's Alley, the neighborhood at the center of Vancouver's Black community. By the time she died at 100 years old in 1984, she had led the community and raised a large family. This included a grandson who lived with her in Hogan’s Alley from time to time — his name was Jimi Hendrix.
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OBSIDIAN
OBSIDIAN is a speculative fiction podcast based in Afrofuturism. Each episode tells a story that sits at the crossroads of Blackness, technology, and science.
The team is formed by the creative science duo Adetola Abdulkadir, a writer and Genomic Analyst at Personal Genome Diagnostics (PGDx), and Safiyah Cheatam, an interdisciplinary artist and MFA candidate at UMBC.
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This week on our podcast...
Daniella is on the show to share podcast recommendations about Canadian Black history. She's the host of the new podcast from Amnesty International Canada, Rights Back At You.
PLUS: We'll tell you about this week's Spotlight pick, Sound Judgment, an audio series that goes behind the scenes with today's great podcast hosts and dives into their creative processes.
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COMMUNITY:
🎤This week in Podcast The Newsletter: Lauren Passell interviewed the hosts of All Fantasy Everything. Read it here.
📖Strong Sense of Place is a bi-weekly show for book lovers who are curious about the world and travelers who love to read. The fifth season starts on February 6 with an episode about Spain — partially because Condé Nast Traveler, Vogue, and Architectural Digest all named Spain one of the best places to visit in 2023, but mostly because this show is a great way to beat the winter blahs. Listeners can daydream about sunny Spain and plan a future vacation!
👪🏾The theme of 2023’s Black History Month is “Black Resistance,” so each week Project Parenthood host Dr. Nanika Coor will be interviewing Black mental health experts and teaching listeners how to raise kids with a healthy racial identity and an interest in racial justice. In every episode of Project Parenthood, Dr. Coor defies our society’s focus on the white mother as the default and instead spotlights the perspectives of Black parents, the lived experiences of Black children, and the expertise of Black therapists.
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CLASSIFIEDS:
🏠Going for Broke is a co-production of PRX’s "To the Best of Our Knowledge" at Wisconsin Public Radio and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. The three-part series centers on Americans who have lived on the edge. They share their sometimes startling economic experiences and offer insight into our society as a whole. In each episode the hosts ask: what would result if we put more care into how we dealt with housing or mental health crises or our workplaces?
💫In Where The Stars Fell, the antichrist and her guardian angel find themselves sharing a cabin in the strangest town in America — Jerusalem, Oregon. If they can’t find a way to work together soon, the rapture is set to take first the town, then the world… but neither of them know that yet.
🎧Oooh, Those Effin' C-Words... change and confidence. Two words that are so scary they may as well be curse words! This show discusses loss and grief, hardship and starting over, making professional pivots, and ending relationships and friendships. These are real stories from interviews and 1:1 coaching sessions with Marceia Cork, The Change Coach! — pushing us to become the solution instead of waiting for one, and having the confidence to navigate change.
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SPOTLIGHT:
Sound Judgment
What does it take to become a beloved podcast host?
Sound Judgment goes behind the scenes with today's great hosts to learn how they make their audio storytelling magic. We feature magnetic hosts like Snap Judgment's Glynn Washington, Last Day's Stephanie Wittels Wachs, and Anne Bogel of What Should I Read Next?
Sound Judgment examines their creative choices by pulling apart one episode at a time. Earworthy calls it a "masterclass in podcasting."
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Podnews today starts a series of articles about podcasting in East and South East Asia. Japan, Korea, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam have a combined population of 734 million, more than twice the size of the U.S., and we can expect podcast listening to grow much faster in many of these countries than in the U.S.
First look: Are U.S. marketers cutting back on programmatic podcast advertising, given all the news recently? No: research from Acast shows that two-thirds of them expect to spend more on podcast advertising this year, and marketers predict programmatic podcast ad spending should triple by 2027.
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