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If one could take a trip in a podcast time machine, you would find that 10 years ago most podcast listeners were white. Today, podcast audiences are as ethnically diverse as the nation, with Black women notably closing the gap in recent years. The explosion in podcasting has resulted in more podcasters of color providing…

The Southern Harmony And Musical Companion by The Black Crowes Scot and Jeff discuss The Black Crowes with Jay Cost. Introducing the Band: Your hosts Scot Bertram (@ScotBertram) and Jeff Blehar (@EsotericCD) with guest Jay Cost, visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and co-host of National Review’s Constitutionally Speaking podcast. Jay is on Twitter…

On the latest episode of Recode Decode, Elevation Partners founding partner Roger McNamee spoke with Recode’s Kara Swisher about his new book, Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe. A former mentor to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg who helped recruit COO Sheryl Sandberg to the company, McNamee said he reluctantly became a critic of the…

Show Notes In her book Ghosts In The Schoolyard, University of Chicago scholar Eve Ewing asks a central question about the 2013 mass closings of Chicago Public Schools: If the schools were so bad, why did people fight so hard to save them? Her investigation is a deep and nuanced investigation of the public school system that…

The cowboy is an icon of American culture. But the popular image of the white cowboy skews our perception of what kind of Americans did—and do—cowboying work.  The American West after the Civil War was a dynamic and ethnically diverse place. As many as a quarter of the cowboys during the frontier era were African…

A new podcast that profiles “female firebrands and maverick outsiders” has launched, with the first series starring the likes of Cosey Fanni Tutti, Molly Parkin, Bonnie Greer and Pamela Des Barres.  The Last Bohemians sets out to showcase the stories of pioneering women in music, at a time “when older creatives are still underrepresented in the…

The last few years have been the era of the podcast. We’ve seen everything from investigative journalism to tabletop roleplaying games made into these delicious audio treats. They make our morning commutes and our weekly chores that much more bearable. Also we can learn a thing or two, which is a nice bonus. Some of…

Shudder has gone from being a scrappy little platform to a major force in streaming entertainment; dedicated to horror, thrillers, and tales of the supernatural, I’ve been calling Shudder a must-have service for years. They’ve got an amazing library of films including many incredible exclusives. She Kills podcast hosted by Adrienne Barbeau Today, we’re getting…

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | | Subscribe to Who Goes There Podcast on iTunes Art is arguably one of the most powerful forces on Earth. In the right (or wrong) hands art can spark inspiration, bring together a nation, or destroy a regime. However, when art falls…