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Filibuster came to you late last night (seriously, you should subscribe to the the RSS feed below), and comes to the website now! Jason, Adam, and Ben start by talking about the USMNT, their bad performance, and the play of Brad Guzan. We also talk about the new players that took the field for Nicaragua,…

Democratic pollster Cornell Belcher on Capitol Hill on Aug. 31, 2010. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post) “What we clearly see in the focus groups is they don’t regret what they did.” “They” are millennials of color who either didn’t vote or voted third party. And for Cornell Belcher, the president of Brilliant Corners Research & Strategies,…

Editor’s note: Hot Pod is a weekly newsletter on the podcasting industry written by Nick Quah; we happily share it with Nieman Lab readers each Tuesday. Welcome to Hot Pod, a newsletter about podcasts. This is issue 128, published July 18, 2017. Radiotopia’s Ear Hustle breaks 1.5 million downloads in its first month, qualifying the show…

HelloBeautiful Meet The Creators Of THE NOD, A New Podcast Telling Black Stories Our WayHelloBeautifulTHE NOD is the new podcast to hit your earbuds serving Black realness from a unique perspective. We sat down with the masterminds behind the series, Brittany Luse and Eric Eddings, and picked their brains about content creation for and by…

Podcasts Tanis and The Bright Sessions are also being developed for the small screen under the renewed deal. Dark Horse Entertainment and Universal Cable Productions are sticking together. The comic book company has renewed their first-look deal with the studio on the heels of Umbrella Academy‘s recent series order at Netflix. Under the re-upped pact, the…

Raising teenage girls can be a tough job. Raising black teenage girls as white parents can be even tougher. Aaron and Colleen Cook knew that when they adopted their twin daughters, Mya and Deanna. As spring came around this year, the girls, who just turned 16, told their parents they wanted to get braided hair…