Hella Black Podcast

About Hella Black Podcast

Hella Black Podcast is brought to you by Delency Parham and Abbas Muntaqim. Over the next 12 weeks we are happy to bring ya'll a limited series called Tales of The Town, which is a podcast about nearly 100 years of Black Oakland history! You can follow us on Twitter and IG @HellaBlackPod and support us on https://www.patreon.com/HellaBlackPod. We hope you all enjoy the show!!

Publisher

Hella Black Podcast by Abbas Muntaqim and Delency Parham

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

1 Jun 2016

Latest episode

18 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

21 of 183 episodes have a transcript.

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   18 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

   EP 171: Neoliberal Counterinsurgencies: From BLM to Activism for Palestine in the U.S.

   Host Wade into Palestine activism, exploring how neoliberal strategies shape leadership and the welfare state's true beneficiaries in this interview.

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   11 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

   EP 170: 10 Years of Hella Black Podcast

   Hosts Marque and Dr. K have a reflective conversation about a decade of growth and impact on the Hella Black Podcast.

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   6 Jan 2026TRANSCRIPT

   EP 169: Venezuela and the Changing Geopolitical Terrain

   On this episode of Hella Black Podcast, we talk about the changing geopolitical terrain. We discuss the U.S.’s illegal kidnapping of Venezuela’s president and its implications, and critique the reactionary protest culture in the U.S. that focuses on protests without movement building.

Inside a recent episode

EP 171: Neoliberal Counterinsurgencies: From BLM to Activism for Palestine in the U.S.

Published 18 Aug 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] You know what I'm saying? Into its mechanisms and into its vessels. And you have to kind of ask yourself why. You know what I mean? Why are they always trying to push us into this? Whether we participate or not, this is like the goal of it. Because they know if you don't participate, something else could. tends to happen too you know what i mean like if you have the energy of certain a certain crowd of people participating actually in my community versus actually participating in this political infrastructure it becomes a threat to the political infrastructure because you begin to see we can actually govern you begin to see like this like oh we're actually making changes it's not as abstract oh you feel me it ain't like oh it ain't the ballot because now you're actually like shifting of people's consciousness of like oh, okay, this has been a farce. […]

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

142,091

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

937 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

286 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 62 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

50

Social presence

0

YouTube

86

Engagement

98

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