PodDaily

Ralph Northam’s blackface yearbook photo and the racist origins of minstrel shows

Ralph Northam’s page in the 1984 yearbook of Eastern Virginia Medical School has a photo of a man in blackface and another man in a Ku Klux Klan costume. (Obtained by The Washington Post) Jessica Contrera Enterprise reporter focusing on stories about people whose lives are affected by what’s happening in the news February 2…

Read More

Backstage Capital founder Arlan Hamilton and Deeds Not Words founder Wendy Davis on Kara Swisher podcast Recode Decode

On the latest episode of Recode Decode, Backstage Capital founder Arlan Hamilton and Deeds Not Words founder Wendy Davis joined Recode’s Kara Swisher onstage to talk about being seen and heard in historically male-dominated fields; the current political climate in America; and how, sometimes at the urging of their own peers, women and people of…

Read More

Slate’s Culture Gabfest on The Inventor and Elizabeth Holmes, RuPaul’s Drag Race, and why Netflix isn’t your friend.

Listen to Culture Gabfest No. 547 with Isaac Butler, Benjamin Frisch, and Dana Stevens with the audio player below. Get More Culture Gabfest Slate Plus members get extended, ad-free versions of our podcasts—and much more. Sign up today and try it free for two weeks. Join Slate Plus Subscribe to the Culture Gabfest Copy this…

Read More

A Beginner’s Guide to the World of ‘Desus & Mero’

Desus and Mero. Photo: Robby Klein/Getty Images Desus Nice and the Kid Mero debut the new version of their late-night series Desus & Mero (formerly on Viceland) tonight on Showtime. It’s been a meteoric rise for the duo, going from two guys with soul-sucking jobs who used Twitter as a distraction to becoming premium-cable late-night…

Read More

Who Goes There Podcast: Ep205 – THE WAILING

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | | Subscribe to Who Goes There Podcast on iTunes We’ve been doing the Who Goes There Podcast for nearly six years and we are just now covering our first Korean film. This week, our guest this week is the haomie: author, San…

Read More

Wolverine returns to podcasts and Captain Marvel joins Marvel Games! | Marvel Minute

Marvel Minute Wolverine returns to podcasts and Captain Marvel joins Marvel Games! | Marvel Minute Wolverine returns in a second season of the critically acclaimed podcast “Wolverine: The Lost Trail,” Cloak and Dagger season 2 hits Freeform on April 4, and Captain Marvel joins every Marvel mobile game! Read More.

Read More

Review: ‘Conviction,’ a true-crime podcast that’s more than a whodunit

Much of the credit for “Conviction” goes to Knafo, an investigative reporter who has written for the New York Times and other publications. His storytelling is smart, restrained and, in a gruff way, formal; the phony familiarity and twee interjections that mar so much podcast narration are nowhere to be heard in “Conviction.” The show…

Read More

Introducing ‘The +972 Podcast’ | +972 Magazine

In our first episode, MK Aida Touma-Sliman discusses why she thinks an election boycott is the wrong way to fight for Palestinian rights in Israel. In the second episode, Ethiopian-Israeli activist Mazal Bisawer talks about why Israelis have such hard time seeing anti-black racism in their society. Where to subscribe: iTunes/Apple Podcasts | Google Play…

Read More

Gaming on the Black Shark 2 and Google Stadia | #PNWeekly 350

Joshua Vergara jumps down to San Diego to do an in-person podcast with Jaime Rivera and guest David Cogen (also known as TheUnlockr) to talk gaming – in the past week, Josh has seen and acquired the powerhouse Black Shark 2 gaming phone while Google has taken the veil off of their latest steaming venture,…

Read More

Intercepted Podcast: Radical White Terrorism

  The threat of violent “white power” terrorism is real. This week on Intercepted: In the aftermath of the massacre of 50 children and adults at two mosques in New Zealand, two Muslim journalists discuss Islamophobia, the mainstreaming of anti-Muslim bigotry, and the motive of the shooter. Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik talks about the “ghoulish…

Read More