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The Black Studies Podcast

The Black Studies Podcast

The Black Studies Podcast is a Mellon grant sponsored series of conversations examining the history of the field.

Ashley Newby and John E. Drabinski

281 episodesEN

Show overview

The Black Studies Podcast has been publishing since 2024, and across the 2 years since has built a catalogue of 281 episodes. That works out to roughly 260 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a several-times-a-week cadence.

Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 46 min and 1h 2m — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Education show.

The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 1 months ago, with 70 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2025, with 141 episodes published. Published by Ashley Newby and John E. Drabinski.

Episodes
281
Running
2024–2026 · 2y
Median length
54 min
Cadence
Several per week

From the publisher

The Black Studies Podcast is a Mellon grant sponsored series of conversations examining the history of the field. Our conversations engage with a wide range of activists and scholars - senior figures in the field, late doctoral students, and everyone in between, culture workers, and political organizers - in order to explore the cultural and political meaning of Black Studies as an area of inquiry and its critical methods.

Latest Episodes

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Zana Sanders - Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Jun 26, 202659 min

Dionne Ford - Writer and Critic

Jun 24, 202640 min

Jarvis Givens - Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University

Jun 22, 202649 min

Khalisa Rae Thompson - Writer and Poet, Co-Founder and Co-Director of Griot & Grey Owl Black Southern Writers Conference

Jun 19, 202642 min

Robert J. Patterson - Department of Black Studies, Georgetown University

Jun 17, 202653 min

Shylah Hamilton-Touré - Program in Critical Ethnic Studies, California College of the Arts

Jun 15, 202638 min

W. Lawrence Hogue - Department of English, University of Houston

Jun 12, 202654 min

Laurian Bowles - Department of Anthropology, Davidson College

Jun 10, 202657 min

Amanda Boston - Department of Africana Studies, University of Pittsburgh

Jun 8, 202638 min

Skye Jackson - Writer and Poet

Jun 5, 202652 min

Michele Prettyman - Department of Communication and Media Studies, Fordham University

Jun 3, 202652 min

Andrea J. Queeley - Departments of Anthropology and Africa and African Diaspora Studies, Florida International University

Jun 1, 20261h 5m

Ronald Angelo Johnson - Department of History, Baylor University

May 29, 20261h 1m

Bettina Judd - Department of African American Studies, Emory University

May 27, 202652 min

Christel N. Temple - Department of Africana Studies, University of Pittsburgh

May 25, 202659 min

Kevin Rigby - Department of African American Studies, University of Illinois

May 22, 20261h 10m

Ifetayo Flannery - Department of Africology and African American Studies, Temple University

May 20, 202646 min

Tanisha M. Jackson - Department of African American Studies, Syracuse University

May 18, 202644 min

Robert Robinson - Department of Africana Studies, John Jay College

May 15, 202657 min

Melanie Holmes - Department of African American Studies, University of South Carolina

May 13, 202654 min
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