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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 15/07/2026

⚽PotW: Trevor Noah's World Cup Watch Party www.youtube.com/live/q_s59Mo... If you've been watching this World Cup without 2nd screening Trevor & friends watch party then you've been doing it wrong!! Double that if you're not watching the Telemundo broadcast. Just sayin... #WorldCup #TrevorNoah

Screenshot of Trevor Noah's YouTube Channel's Live Tab showing the listing of Trevor Noah's World Cup Watch Party past, current and upcoming.

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 18/08/2025

This weekend I went on the New Bedford (MA) Underground Railroad Walking Tour. Our NPS Park Ranger was amazing - knowledgeable and passionate about a community which historically prevented slave catchers from succeeding in their nefarious work. #inspiration #blacksky #fuckice @altnps.bsky.social

54th Infantry Regiment C seal in granite slab surrounded by bricks showing the names of regiment members. Soldiers commemorated here include two sons of New Bedford resident and famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass. The seal marks the spot in downtown New Bedford where recruits signed their names to the roster officially joining the 54th Regiment.

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 03/08/2025

📼PotD: "White Jesus" | @montemader.bsky.social on YouTube (2m40s) youtu.be/G1VYrZh1Vvc Happy Sunday. Stay blessed 🙏🏾

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"White Jesus" strikes again it seems.

YouTube video by Monte Mader

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 02/08/2025

🎶 Newport Jazz Fest 2025: Day 1 Recap, pt. 1 - Ron Carter Quartet - Preservation Hall Jazz - Sofi Tucker - Philadelphia Experiment - Raye - The Roots The legendary Ron Carter kicked off the festival playing as smooth and powerfully as ever. A blessing to witness. #newportjazz #musicsky #blacksky

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 24/07/2025

📼PotD: The Hays Code | @ashleytheebarroness (2m20s) youtube.com/shorts/m5RDy... Per the late great Roger Ebert, film is an empathy generation machine. Learn how through The Hays Code Hollywood systematically generated antipathy towards Black people. #youtuberecommendations #burnhollywoodburn

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The Hays Code #shortvideo #youtubeshorts #rememberinghistory #blackhistory #americanhistory

YouTube video by Ashley B

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 05/07/2025

Happy Freedom* Day (* initial pull request, not yet passing code reviewed, just barely validated by code sniffers and de-linters but pushed out as "Version 1" release by the assholes in Marketing)

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 22/06/2025

PotD: The Anti-Life Party | Takes by @jamellebouie.net (11m) youtu.be/Em6hb2Mg0XA I feel like this is more relevant now than when it was first posted. #youtuberecommendations

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The Anti-Life Party

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 19/06/2025

📼PotD: The Origins of Policing in America | Washington Post (7m) youtu.be/eBvo2OE5kqM #Juneteenth we celebrate true freedom and the continuing fight to realize it for all in America. ICE is nothing new. Only the latest in a long line of tools deployed by the powerful to rob us of freedom.

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The origins of policing in America | Perspective

YouTube video by Washington Post

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 17/06/2025

🖼️PotW: ICE and Superman | John Jennings www.patreon.com/posts/131203... A picture's worth a thousand words.

Two masked figures wearing fatigues with ICE emblazoned on their chests flank the Man of Steel whose head is down and is wearing green kryptonite manacles as they lead him away to be disappeared like so many other of our neighbors, friends and loved ones.

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Whitney Alese @thereclaimed.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

A reminder that Memorial Day is a Black holiday.“ The fact that the freed slaves’ Memorial Day tribute is not as well remembered is emblematic of the struggle that would follow, as African Americans’ fight to be fully recognized for their contributions to American society continues to this day.”

time.com

The Overlooked Black History of Memorial Day

Historians like the Pulitzer Prize winner David Blight have tried to raise awareness of freed slaves who decorated soldiers' graves in 1865

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 26/05/2025

🎧PotD: The Secret World Behind Those Scammy Text Messages | NPR Planet Money (34m) www.npr.org/2025/05/23/1... The secret: it's far more tragic than you think. And also, a harbinger of a future being shaped by a certain 🍊 someone and his acolytes. #podcastrecommendations

npr.org

The secret world behind those scammy text messages : Planet Money

You might have seen these texts before. The scam starts innocently enough. Maybe it's a "Long time no see" or "Hello" or "How are you." For investigative reporter Zeke Faux it was – "Hi David, I'm Vic...

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 23/05/2025

🎧PotD: Ffff | The Allusionist (44m) www.theallusionist.org/allusionist/... Well fuck. The prevailing mood (for me anyway) since at least last November. For some much needed levity, enjoy this enlightening discussion of that Swiss Army Knife of the English language: fuck #podcastrecommendations

Image courtesy of theallusionist.org. A boggle game board - an orange plastic tray gridded into cubes 4 rows tall and 4 columns wide. The grid contains cubes showing the following:
- the letters F and C in the first and 3rd spaces of the 1st row
- the letters U and K in the 2nd and 4th spaces of the 4th (bottom) row.

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 19/05/2025

📺 30-Day Viral Health Trends Challenge | @speeed.co youtu.be/nygR3g0-lts (47m) My past lives as a bio researcher and EMT made me allergic to #health trends. This video surprised me in the best way possible! It even inspired my own Summer 2025 Challenge. More on that soon! #youtuberecommendations

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I Tried 30 Viral Health Trends For 30 Days to See What's Worth It

YouTube video by Speeed

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 18/05/2025

Now get out there and make some memories!!! 🤣🤣🤣

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 18/05/2025

📺PotW: SINNERS, man! w/Akela Cooper | Blackman Beyond (~2h15m) A great discussion of Ryan Coogler's Sinners 😈🧛‍♂️ and all things creative, nerdy and Black with writers @marcbernardin.bsky.social and @akelacooper.bsky.social. It's a fun one! IYKYK! #podcastrecommendations #blacksky #postoftheweek

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 15/05/2025

🎧 The Caribbean, Colonizers & Christianity | Not Just the Tudors (49 min) shows.acast.com/not-just-the... The Carib/Kalinago, Tainos and Lokonos were not erased and did not die out. They and their legacies live on in the Caribbean and throughout the diaspora. #podcastrecommendations #blacksky

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The Caribbean, Colonisers & Christianity | Not Just the Tudors

The dynamic and complex encounters between Europeans and Indigenous Peoples of the Caribbean following Columbus's arrival in 1492

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 13/05/2025

🎧PotD: Preparing for a Colonoscopy | Butts and Guts (16m) my.clevelandclinic.org/podcasts/but... In honor of my gastro doc college roomie, us Gen Xers, and Chadwick Boseman (RIP), let's demystify colonoscopies. Esp for us Black folks. If 45+ y/o get checked! #podcastrecommendations #blacksky

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Preparing for a Colonoscopy

On this episode of Butts and Guts, Cleveland Clinic gastroenterologist Dr. Christine Lee talks about what you need to know about preparing for a colonoscopy.

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 12/05/2025

🎉Big congrats @talkingdrupal.bsky.social on Episode 500!!! Here's to the next 5️⃣0️⃣0️⃣! talkingdrupal.com/500

talkingdrupal.com

Talking Drupal #500 - Community Edition | Talking Drupal

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Menendez Jr: They feel no weight of the law and no restraint on what they should be doing. And that was shown in broad daylight today when they not just arrested the Mayor of Newark but when they put their hands on two members of congress standing behind me. How is this acceptable?

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Cool Zone Media @coolzonemedia.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

New Hood Politics w/ @prophiphop.bsky.social Allow me to introduce y'all to Captain Ibrahim Traoré, the Interim President of the African nation of Burkina Faso. Let's learn about why America even cares he exists. Here's a hint... he's daring to not need the West. www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 07/05/2025

🎧PotD: Seeing White | Scene on Radio Podcast (14 episodes) pca.st/episode/ba0c... A semiannual reminder that if you haven't listened Scene on Radio's season 2 series Seeing White, what the actual fuck!? Er, I mean, do give it a listen. Highly recommend. 10/10. #podcastrecommendations

Cover art for Episode 1: Turning the Lens of the Scene on Radio Season 2: Seeing White series. A black and white photo of a figure in the distance stands before the base of a waterfall. His back is turned to the camera as he looks upon the falling water. The figure is in shadow, black contrasted against the bright white wall of water foam and mist that fills the frame. He has turned his lens and is seeing white and is dwarfed by the roiling and churning spectacle before him.

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 04/05/2025

Seconding Samurai Champloo! Best intro and outro! 🎶 RIP Nujabes

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 04/05/2025

📼PotD: Everyone's Wrong about Shedeur Sanders | @lilbill.bsky.social (23m) youtu.be/pBKudxZuomw Catching up on the Sanders Draft controversy, this was the "grain of salt" in the story that a lot of others missed. The NFL's still the NFL and America's still America. 👨🏾‍🌾🏈 #youtuberecommendation

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EVERYONE is wrong about Shedeur Sanders

YouTube video by lil bill

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 01/05/2025

📼PotD: Ryan Coogler on Sinners, Chadwick Memories, Collab w/Kendrick & Ranking MJ, Kobe and LeBron (1h 15m) youtu.be/MnbRbFhJ_HU This is the best interview w/Ryan Coogler hands down. A lot of #filmsky folks probs missed this one because 🏀🏈. Def check it out! #podcastrecommendations #blacksky

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Ryan Coogler’s on SINNERS Movie, Collaborating with Kendrick & Ranking MJ, Kobe & LeBron

YouTube video by ALL THE SMOKE

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 30/04/2025

📼PotD: JB Pritzker in NH April 28 [full speech] (29m) You've probably seen clips and heard soundbites, but I'ma just leave this here for y'all. This is what speaking #truthtopower sounds like: youtu.be/zMndfvxVeRo #youtuberecommendations #postoftheday #jbpritzker

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Gov. Pritzker blasts Republicans and ‘do-nothing Democrats' in fiery speech (FULL)

YouTube video by NBC Chicago

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/04/2025

“This is one of the first studies, if not the first, to show that the use of AI in writing could lead to cultural stereotyping and language homogenization…” (Also this headline suuuucks)

fastcompany.com

Why writing with ChatGPT makes you sound like an American

A new study from Cornell University suggests some large generative AI models have a Western bias that strips away cultural nuance.

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 29/04/2025

🎧PotD: Ryan Coogler says 'Sinners' inspiration felt 'like a bolt of lightning' | Fresh Air NPR www.npr.org/2025/04/23/n... Sinners! Even better the second time around. See it with an audience, on IMAX if you can. It's a paean to music itself. #podcastrecommendations #blacksky #filmsky #musicsky

Cover art for the Sinners motion picture soundtrack. The image shows the main film cast including Michael B. Jordan (as his twin brother characters), Miles Caton, Wunmi Mosaku, Hailee Steinfeld, Jack O'Conner, Delroy Lindo, Li Jun Li, and Omar Miller. The cast is shown in period costume (of pre-WW2 Mississippi) super-imposed over the image of a ruddy setting sun.

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 23/04/2025

🎧PotD: The Very American Roots of Trumpism | The Ezra Klein Show (76m) www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/o... Black folks have been calling this out for way too long. These times are NOT unprecedented. It's who "we" have been. #podcastrecommendations

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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 22/04/2025

Tomorrow, a certain online mega-retailer launches a book sale, just days before Indie Bookstore Day on 4/26. This is no coincidence; Bookstore Day is one of the largest revenue drivers for indies. Indies need our support to thrive & build community spaces for all...mega-retailers do not.

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 22/04/2025

Also, fun juxtaposition going to spend two hours in a comfy reclining chair watching a vampire movie right after spending two hours in a comfy reclining chair donating platelets. 🩸 #donateblood #donateplasma #donateplatelets #bealifesaver #sinners

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 22/04/2025

Just got home from witnessing Ryan Coogler's cinematic opus #Sinners. I now quadruple down on the fact that Coogler and Michael B. Jordan MUST be the one's to bring Eugene Bullard's epic life story to the big screen!! Who's got their contact info? www.pbs.org/wgbh/america... #filmsky #blacksky

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The Two Lives of Eugene Bullard | American Experience | PBS

How the first black combat pilot escaped America, became a hero in France, and ended up an elevator operator in New York.

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 21/04/2025

📱PotD: Dr. Brian Register Explains 3.5% Rule #handsoff ATX 04/19 | Austin 50501 on IG Part 1: www.instagram.com/reel/DIrMjyt... Part 2: www.instagram.com/reel/DIriSH8... Apologies for the IG post but worth seeing all the way through. Build community. Keep up the fight. #instarecommendations

Color image still from video. A man (white male middle aged, close cropped greying hair with trimmed beard and moustache wearing dark blue t-shirt and khaki cargo shorts) stands at microphone set up in a field. Small groups of spectators can be seen in background behind the speaker. The blue starred field of an American Flag can be seen draped over a table behind him. In front of him are a black microphone stand and a music stand. He holds a book in his left hand. Text superimposed over the bottom of the image reads: "Dr. Brian Register Explains 3.5% rule #handsoff ATX 4/19".

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

incredibly important that he and everyone else frame it that way. we do need to fight for Abrego Garcia but we also cannot let that be the end of resistance against this lawless historic crime occurring at the behest of a Republican junta.

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 18/04/2025

🎧PotD: Zora Neale Hurston + Langston Hughes: Best Friends Forever | Our Ancestors Were Messy (55m) pca.st/episode/888d... The buddy roadtrip movie we so desperately need. Especially with all their ups and downs, their stories keep giving life! Part 1 of 2. #podcastrecommendations #blacksky

White drop shadowed text over a grey background stylized like a classic 30's hollywood film's title card the podcast title: "Our Ancestors Were Messy: a Black History Comedy Podcast".

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 17/04/2025

📺PotD: Wisecrack is Dead | Wisecrack youtu.be/ByMPfm90r0I?... Crap! So just found out the Wisecrack channel is no more. Go back through their back catalog of video essays, follow their thoughtful creators (see links at @wisecrackofficial.bsky.social). #youtuberecommemdations

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Wisecrack is Dead

YouTube video by Wisecrack

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 15/04/2025

The highlights of #Pintastic New England this weekend. Michael Metallica complete with needledrops from McDonald (of course), Christopher Cross, and Loggins & Messina. Hilarious! 🤣 Other favs incl. a vintage Harlem Globetrotters, a homebrew Warhammer 40k, and Ninja Eclipse from Turner #Pinball!

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 14/04/2025

Emergency video: it’s time to start making plans. Either the house steps up to defend the constitution, or our generation does. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/emergency-...

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Emergency Video; April 14, 2025

Hey everyone.

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 14/04/2025

📺PotD: Who Got Rich? The Trump Tariffs, Explained by MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle | PTFO youtu.be/o4EWVppL7P0 @pablo.show and @stephruhle.bsky.social break down the grand larceny that is Trump's tariff fckry. #youtuberecommendation #postoftheday #mediaoftheday

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Who Got Rich? The Trump Tariffs, Explained by MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle | PTFO

YouTube video by PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 12/04/2025

🎧PotD: The Last of Us Creator Neil Druckmann | The Writers Panel pca.st/episode/ec3e... With #TheLastofUs S2 upon us, listen back to @benblacker.bsky.social and Druckmann discussing stories in videogames, adaptions and more. #podcastrecommendations #writersky

In black text over pumpkin orange background "The Writers Panel with Ben Blacker".

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 11/04/2025

🎧PotD: Inside the Tesla Takedown Protests | The War on Cars thewaroncars.org/2025/04/08/e... This new era of protest and resistance is long overdue. The emperors stay naked. Let's make some real clothes. #podcastrecommendations

A yellow warning traffic sign that reads "The War on Cars".

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 08/04/2025

🎧PotD: How Books Get Made from Start to Finish | Afronauts Podcast (1h) pca.st/episode/c3c1... Features deep-dive conversation with editor Ashley Imanë Fields about book publishing, advice for writers and thriving while Black in the publishing industry. #podcastrecommendations #blacksky

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 05/04/2025

🎧PotD: Is "Off the Wall" Michael's True Masterpiece | You'll Hear It (59m) pca.st/episode/7808... Geeking out over Michael Jackson and Quincy Jones? Throw in a little Diana Ross, Greg Phillinganes, Sir Paul and Stevie? Sounds like a Saturday to me! #podcastrecommendations #blacksky #musicsky

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 04/04/2025

Dems in congress (and everywhere) please match this civil yet firm GTFOH energy as demonstrated in this clip by Tasmanian Minister of Parliament Rosalie Woodruff: www.instagram.com/reel/DG4M-D_...

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Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 04/04/2025

🎧PotD: "I am your permission" - Leon Johnson | Layer 8 Podcast (45m) open.spotify.com/episode/7hRC... This is the show for anyone interested in #cybersecurity! Also, coming soon: layer8conference.com #podcastrecommendations #blacksky

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