Podcasts

The Lighthouse is a dialogue platform that shares societal views through the Africana experience. “Let there be Light,” “Follow the Light,” “Shining Light on Darkness.”

We begin the month of March with part 2 of 2 sit-downs of our conversation with Mr. Benjamin McHie, the Founder and Director of the African American Registry.

The Lighthouse is a dialogue platform that shares societal views through the Africana experience. “Let there be Light,” “Follow the Light,” “Shining Light on Darkness.”

Black Love Day is an annual day of affection in the Black community. On February 13, 2025, the lighthouse segment shares pieces of its history and three perspectives of love from three Black women.

The Lighthouse is a dialogue platform that shares societal views through the Africana experience. “Let there be Light,” “Follow the Light,” “Shining Light on Darkness.”

For the first podcast for Black History Month 2025. We have part 1 of 2 sit-down interviews with the founder and director of the African American Registry, along with classroom, narrative, community samples, and testimony.

Three Black Spanish podcasters find humor as they deal with prejudice and stereotypes.

It’s now been more than a year since the so-called “racial reckoning” that marked the summer of 2020. The country, some said confidently, was having the biggest racial reckoning since the civil rights movement. But since then, the Code Switch team has been wondering…what was actually being reckoned with? And by whom? And what would the backlash be?

If you’ve been paying attention to the news over the past couple years, you know what a so-called ‘Karen’ is: a white woman who uses her race and gender to wield power over someone more vulnerable. But long before most people became familiar with the term Karen, POCs have been calling out Karen-esque behavior.

Black women have always faced immense pressure to make their bodies look a certain way. But if done the “wrong way,” achieving that idealized figure can lead to just as much scrutiny and critique. So today, we’re talking about the cosmetic procedure known as a Brazilian Butt Lift, and what its rise in popularity illustrates about the type of bodies that do and don’t get valued.

Kacen Callender started out as a kid in St. Thomas writing fan fiction. Today, they are the author of multiple middle-grade and young adult novels full of empathy, learning, and a healthy dose of high school drama.

But seriously, who? Because while it is Hispanic Heritage Month, the notion of a multiracial, multinational, pan-ethnic identity called “Hispanic” is a relatively recent — and somewhat haphazard invention — in the United States. So on this episode, we’re digging into how the term got created and why it continues to both unite and bewilder.

OK, they’re not all kids. But they’re all students, they’re all amazing, and frankly, we’re concerned that they might be coming for our jobs. That’s right — the Student Podcast Challenge is back, and this year, the stories are more powerful than ever.

As the rollout of coronavirus vaccines unfolds, one big challenge for public health officials has been the skepticism many Black people have toward the vaccine. One notorious medical study — the Tuskegee experiment — has been cited as a reason. But should it be?

Marcus Garvey was an immigrant, a firebrand, a businessman. He was viewed with deep suspicion by the civil rights establishment. He would also become one of the most famous and powerful Black visionaries of the 20th century. Our play-cousins at NPR’s Throughline podcast went deep on how he became the towering (and often misunderstood) figure that he is.

The Trump administration is coming to a close, but which elements of the Trump era are here to stay? We spoke to NPR’s White House reporter, Ayesha Rascoe, about where we were when Donald Trump took office — and what he’s left behind.

If 2020 has taught us anything, it’s that history informs every aspect of our present. So today we’re bringing you an episode of NPR’s history podcast, Throughline. It gets into some of the most urgent lessons we can learn from James Baldwin, whose life and writing illuminate so much about what it would really mean for the United States to reckon with its race problem.

By Lakeidra Chavis
…fun, I know folks from my community would enjoy doing this as well.’ ” Smith founded NAAGA the following year. Around the same time, Smith started digging into the history of Black people bearing arms in America. The Black Panthers’ armed patrols against police abuse in Oakland, Calif., in the ’60s are perhaps the most well-known and visible display of Black gun ownership. But Smith soon discovered that guns played an important role in Black…