Best Podcasts for Black People

HBO Max is an over-the-top subscription service owned and operated by Warner Bros. Discovery and run through Warner Bros. Entertainment. It distributes a number of original shows, including original series, specials, miniseries, and documentaries and films. The shows produced for HBO Max are dubbed "Max Originals". Max Originals are specifically made for audiences outside the traditional baseline HBO brand, while simultaneously working in parity with the HBO library. Content that is based on new and existing properties from WarnerMedia's subsidiaries will be distributed through HBO Max. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, HBO Max was scheduled to release 31 original series in 2020, with plans to grow to 50 series in 2021.

Jackie Johnson is an American comedian, actress, writer, and host of the beauty podcast Natch Beaut. Natch Beaut has been the number one beauty podcast on iTunes, with Johnson talking to celebrity guests like Jonathan Van Ness and Lauren Lapkus about their beauty regimens.

As an actress, Johnson has appeared in Inherent Vice, Comedy Bang! Bang!, and You're the Worst, among others.

Johnson is from Garland, Texas, and studied film at the University of Texas at Austin after graduating from South Garland High School in 2003. She has been vegan since January 1, 2010, after she'd been feeling sluggish and unhealthy. A woman on set was reading Skinny Bitch and let her keep the book, and it became what Johnson called her vegan gateway book.

Crissle West is an American writer and comedian. She is best known as the co-host of the pop culture podcast The Read. She has starred in episodes of Drunk History, on which she has told the story of Harriet Tubman's work as a Union spy during the Civil War, as well as Marsha P. Johnson and the Stonewall riot.

The Roots Picnic is an annual music festival created and hosted by hip hop group, The Roots. Co-founder, Shawn Gee, and manager of The Roots serves as executive producer of the festival. The festival is held in Philadelphia, their hometown at the Mann at Fairmount Park. The first festival was held on June 7, 2008.

The festival is a one-day event but for one year it was expanded for two-days in 2012. It was expanded again in 2022. Another festival was held outside of Philadelphia in 2016.

The Roots, Gnarls Barkley, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, Santogold, Deerhoof, J*Davey, Diplo, Esperanza, DJ Jazzy Jeff, The Cool Kids

Main Stage: The Roots, TV on the Radio, The Black Keys, Public Enemy, Antibalas, Santogold, Busdriver, Elevator Fight featuring Zoë Kravitz, DJ Cash Money

New Girl is an American television sitcom created by Elizabeth Meriwether and produced by 20th Century Fox Television for Fox that originally aired from September 20, 2011, to May 15, 2018. The series revolves around a kooky teacher, Jessica Day, after she moves into a Los Angeles loft with three men, Nick Miller, Winston Schmidt, and Winston Bishop ; their former roommate Coach and Jess' best friend Cece Parekh are also part of the series. The show combines comedy and drama elements as the characters, who are in their early thirties, deal with relationship issues and career choices. New Girl is a joint production between Elizabeth Meriwether Pictures and 20th Century Fox Television and is syndicated by 20th Television.

Pineapple Street Studios is a podcast studio based in Brooklyn, New York. In August 2019, it was acquired by Entercom. Pineapple's work includes multi-episode narratives, investigative journalism, branded podcasts, and talk shows. They've created series for companies like Nike, Hulu, Netflix, HBO, and The New York Times. In 2020, they led all podcast companies with two Peabody Award nominations, for The Catch and Kill Podcast with Ronan Farrow and Running From Cops. Twelve of their shows have reached #1 on Apple Podcasts.

Code Switch is a race and culture outlet and a weekly podcast from American public radio network NPR. It began in 2013 with a blog as well as contributing stories to NPR radio programs. The Code Switch podcast launched in 2016. In the wake of the George Floyd protests, it became one of NPR's top ranked podcasts.

Dana Thomas Carvey is an American stand-up comedian, actor, impressionist, screenwriter, and producer. Carvey is best known for his seven seasons as a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 1986 to 1993, which earned him five consecutive Primetime Emmy Award nominations.

Gimlet Media LLC is a digital media company and podcast network, focused on producing narrative podcasts and headquartered in Brooklyn, New York. The company was founded in 2014 by Alex Blumberg and Matthew Lieber, who serve as the company's CEO and president respectively until Lieber stepped down in 2022. In February 2019, Spotify announced it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Gimlet for $230 million.

Gimlet was founded in August 2014 with the launch of its flagship podcast StartUp hosted by Alex Blumberg. Originally billed as the American Podcasting Corporation (APC), Blumberg was eventually convinced to change the company's name. After working with Lexicon Branding, Blumberg and Lieber chose the name Gimlet Media for the venture.

Doreen St. Félix (born 1992) is a Haitian-American writer. She is a staff writer for The New Yorker and was formerly editor-at-large for Lenny Letter, a newsletter from Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner.

St. Félix attended Brown University, where she edited the weekly newspaper, The College Hill Independent. She graduated in 2014.

St. Félix has written for The New York Times Magazine and Pitchfork, as well as serving as an editor for Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner's newsletter, Lenny Letter. St. Félix now writes for The New Yorker.

St. Félix won a National Magazine Award in Columns and Commentary in 2019. She was a finalist in the same category in 2017 for her writing at MTV News. In 2016, Forbes Magazine named St. Félix to its 30 Under 30 list, citing her work on the Lenny Letter launch, with the newsletter reaching 400,000 subscribers in under six months. i-D called her "a guiding voice in the worlds of writing, art and activism." Brooklyn Magazine named St. Félix to its 2016 list of the "100 Most Influential People in Brooklyn Culture," calling her Pitchfork essay on Rihanna "definitive." The Huffington Post named the same essay to its list of "The Most Important Writing From People Of Color In 2015", NPR called it "excellent" and Paper Magazine described it as "the best damn thing ever written re. Rihanna."

Another Round is a culture podcast co-hosted by Tracy Clayton and Heben Nigatu. Debuting on BuzzFeed on March 24, 2015, Another Round featured interviews with guests such as writer and MacArthur Genius Ta-Nehisi Coates and U.S. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, as well as segments on topics ranging from race, gender to pop culture. The podcast has been on hiatus since late 2017 when BuzzFeed ceased production.