DJ Blackshah and Jas HandsDarrow Montgomery
Take a look at the iTunes ranking for the top 100 podcasts and you’ll find it jam-packed with options: a multitude of topics and news reports, analyses of arts and politics, narrative broadcasts that pull you into stories that unfold like old-school radio dramas, and series that make you feel like a detective on a crime case that went cold long ago. The possibilities for auditory delight will exceed your time budget. What you won’t find—what’s missing at this audio buffet—are many podcasts hosted by people of color.
The New York Times reports over 325,000 podcasts available for download. With a number that large, finding podcasts by people of color should be relatively easy—except it’s not. For black and brown podcasters, and those interested in their shows and stories, it’s disheartening to see so little representation in big podcast networks like Gimlet, Panoply, and media giants like NPR. (For the sake of…
