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Still Processing: We Sink Our Claws Into ‘Black Panther’ With Ta-Nehisi Coates

4. Or just sample. If you would rather listen to an episode or two before deciding to subscribe, tap on the episode title from the list on the series page. If you have an internet connection, you’ll be able to stream the episode. On your Android phone or tablet: 1. Open your podcast app. It’s…

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Still Processing: We Don’t Love Everything Made by Black People, and That’s O.K.?

Photo Director Ava DuVernay on the set of “A Wrinkle in Time.” Credit Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures/Photofest This week, we discuss “A Wrinkle in Time,” Ava DuVernay’s attempt to take the audience on a magical adventure with Meg Murray as she searches for her father through multiple universes. Our time traveling experience … wasn’t…

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Interview: Surie Ramasary on what's next for Cell C's Black – TechCentral

Surie Ramasary Thank you for listening to the TechCentral podcast. In this episode, CEO for content at Cell C division Black Surie Ramasary returns to the show to talk about how the video entertainment platform has progressed since its launch four months ago. Ramasary talks about what Black has learnt since launch, which content is…

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Listen to ‘The Daily’: Women We Overlooked

Background reading: • Ida B. Wells became famous for taking on racism in the South with powerful reporting. Yet her death went unremarked in The Times, until now. She’s just one of the many remarkable women profiled in our new series Overlooked. • Ms. Padnani describes how the project came to be. • You can…

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Middle school teacher secretly ran white supremacist podcast, says it was satire

In a statement through her attorney, Volitich confirmed that she was the one speaking as Dalichov on the podcast, but claimed her comments were “political satire and exaggeration” and the persona was a “hobby.” “None of the statements released about my being a white nationalist or white supremacist have any truth to them, nor are…

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CULTURE WATCH: Podcasts On Multiple Platforms

More than a few podcasts originate as live shows before being adapted for the Internet. Some are produced live, then digitized into podcast format. Others start live, then move into a studio where they are produced as episodic podcasts. You may know about The Moth, a live audience, stand-up, notes-free, true personal story-telling program featuring…

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Black Panther Shows Us The Power Of A Good Villain

Photo: Black Panther’s Erik Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan) is a highlight of the film. (Marvel) Straight out of Austin, we’re bringing you a bonus episode of Kotaku Splitscreen to talk Black Panther and the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Former Kotaku and current io9 writer Evan Narcisse, who’s also writing a six-issue Marvel comic called Rise of…

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The Black Female Inventor Who Revolutionized Menstrual Pads

On The VICE Guide to Right Now, VICE’s daily podcast, we delve into the biggest news of the day and give you a rundown of the stories we’re reading, working on, and fascinated with. On our 100th episode, we run through the day’s biggest headlines before talking with Zing Tsjeng, the author of Forgotten Women:…

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Twitter roasts ModCloth for its Podcast Co-Host Sleeveless Top

Online shopping is usually praised for its simplicity and ease. But one online retailer seems to be making the process a lot more complicated with the bizarre name it gave one of its clothing items.  Walmart-owned site ModCloth is selling a blouse that it calls the Podcast Co-Host Sleeveless Top, a hyper-specific (and seemingly unrelated)…

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Enough with the “round-robin hot takes”: Techmeme tries a new kind of aggregation show

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 155, published March 13, 2018. Infinite Dial 2018. In the run-up to every Infinite Dial  — the annual…

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