Sports Podcast · Updated Biweekly · This is a podcast by Louis Moore and Derrick White. As trained historians and leading scholars on sports and race, we discuss the history of the black athlete in a ...

Municipal swimming pools flourished in the 20th century. But too often, their success was based on the exclusion of African Americans.

Many emcees throw around phrases like “take music to another level,” but The D.O.C. displayed a relentless commitment to the endeavor.

Akbar Majeed’s new feature tells the story of the sport through a Black lens and asks hard questions about the barriers facing the game’s breakthrough

Though many won’t admit that the group was right about everything they examined on ‘Stakes Is High,’ De La Soul’s career longevity serves as a proper statement of victory.

Boogie Down Productions’ second studio affair is a revolutionary album, and not necessarily because of its political content.

Podcast Episode · The Black Athlete · May 16 · 1h 9m

The administration’s view is that the mere presence of students of color at Yale Medical School proves discrimination against white people.

Knox County Schools recently took Alex Haley's influential novel, "Roots," off library shelves under the Age-Appropriate Materials Act.

In a closet at the Mississippi Department of Public Safety, officials found a handbook for the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, plus Klan charters, a Klan robe, KKK recruitment materials, propaganda...

Still a lyrical and sonic delight, the spirit and salience of Digable Planets’ debut album endures three decades on.

Podcast Episode · The Black Athlete · 01/27/2026 · 56m

With ‘Voodoo,’ D’Angelo joined Curtis Mayfield, Smokey Robinson and Eddie Kendricks in expressing a deeply held sensitivity while forging a powerfully musical masculinity.

Podcast Episode · The Black Athlete · 01/22/2026 · 1h 4m

He was shot multiple times after being wrestled to the ground by authorities.

George Clinton and crew’s fourth album was the inspiration that transformed their live shows, making them into swirling spectacles, part opera, part circus-like jam sessions.

Digging into the transformative trends behind the games is a valuable pastime of its own.