The Black Studies Podcast
Hosted by John Drabinski and Ashley Newby · Ashley Newby and John E. Drabinski
4.9from 98 ratings
- 332
- Episodes
- 101
- Transcribed
- 98
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
- 22K
- YouTube views
About The Black Studies Podcast
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.
- Publisher
- Ashley Newby and John E. Drabinski
- Category
- arts · education
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 9 May 2024
- Latest episode
- 28 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
101 of 332 episodes have a transcript.
28 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
J Finley - Department of Africana Studies, Pomona College
26 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Carol D. Lee - School of Education and Department of Black Studies, Northwestern University
23 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Maya Cunningham - School of Performing Arts, American University
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J Finley - Department of Africana Studies, Pomona College
Published 28 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Disciplines hadn't done that. Black Studies would do that. Black Studies has done that. And the commitment to the intellectual tradition is part of being a Black Studies scholar and professor. But that was also that moment in the late 1960s where Black liberation struggle had really contested those boundaries between a campus and a community, between a classroom and mobilization, between books and prescriptive action. And I think we inherit that in Black Studies as a commitment to a certain kind of liberatory politics. And sort of framing it that way, I'm interested to hear you talk about how you imagine the field of Black Studies. […]
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- J Finley
- Carol D Lee
- Maya Cunningham
- Britt Rusert
- Armond Towns
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- YouTube views
- 21,979
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 68 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 30 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 64 / 100
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- Quality
- 77
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 76
- Engagement
- 51
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John Drabinski and Ashley Newby host the show. Published by Ashley Newby and John E. Drabinski.
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