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You’ve heard me mention podcasts here and there in this column, but I wanted to take the opportunity this week to share a few of my favorites. If you’re unfamiliar with the concept of a podcast, it is “a program (as of music or talk) made available in digital format for automatic download over the…

The Awardist podcast: Oscars 2019 controversies, predictions | EW.com this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines. Read More.

Alex McNabb, a part-time EMT in Patrick County, Virginia, made the statements on a white supremacist podcast called “The Daily Shoah.” McNabb is a frequent co-host of the podcast, whose title mocks the Holocaust. The comments, which McNabb, 35, later claimed on Twitter to be a “work of fiction,” ignited a debate over whether he…

Shutterstock </div> </div> <p>Last month, to <a href="https://blog.google/products/android/listen-google-podcasts-now-android/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://blog.google/products/android/listen-google-podcasts-now-android/">little fanfare</a>, Google launched <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.podcasts" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.podcasts">Google Podcasts</a>, a new podcast player app for Android. Unlike Google’s previous podcasting players, this one could be aimed at the heart of the podcasting technology market, 10 miles southeast of…

Wedge Issues: Black History Month in Wisconsin, from Colin Kaepernick to Shelia Stubbs  Madison.com Join Cap Times political reporter Jessie Opoien for Wedge Issues, a podcast catching you up with the elected officials, strategists, analysts and power players of … Read More.

Ever wonder why Blue Boy Barber Shop on M.L. King Boulevard is so named? Or who painted the murals that can be found on some of the buildings along the city thoroughfare? University of Tennessee at Chattanooga students Jackson Ver Mulm, Madison Morgan and Katie Raabe, from left, introduce their podcast about murals on M.L….

Next week the 2019 Sundance Film Festival begins and we’re going to give you a warmup before you experience the coldest festival brings the best of film and entertainment. Crystal Kayiza’s film Edgecombe will be featured in the Documentary Shorts category during the festival run. Crystal Kayiza was raised in Oklahoma and is now a Brooklyn-based documentary…

Show Notes Every election year, poll after poll tries to predict where millennials stand politically. But Prof. Cathy Cohen of the University of Chicago says some of our assumptions about what issues matter to young people are all wrong. Cohen’s innovative survey of millennials, GenForward, is a first of its kind. By oversampling young people of color, they…

“Civil Rights mural at Martin Luther King Memorial Park in Atlanta,” May 18 2013 by denisbin via Flickr. Used under CC BY-ND 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/) “In 1966, a Gallup poll had found that [Martin Luther] King was viewed unfavorably by 63% of Americans. Today, of course, King is an American icon, and a 2011 poll found…