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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

🎶 Newport Jazz Fest 2025: Day 1 Recap, pt. 5 After Raye all but burned down the stage I could think of 1 group that even stood a chance to follow her. Thankfully that was the baddest band in all the land, The Legendary Roots Crew! Nuff said!! #newportjazz #musicsky #blacksky #theroots

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 03/08/2025

🎶 Newport Jazz Fest 2025: Day 1 Recap, pt. 4 Raye is a revelation and a powerhouse. Holding down a long line of soulful British songstresses from Dusty to Shirley to Grace to Sade to Amy to Adele. And now RAYE!! IYKYK. Mercy upon those who follow her! #newportjazz #musicsky #blacksky #raye

The sultry songstress Raye on stage at the 2025 Newport Jazz Festival. Her drummer and saxophonist from her incredible horn section flank her to the rear. They killed it! An impossible act to follow!

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 02/08/2025

🎶 Newport Jazz Fest 2025: Day 1 Recap, pt. 3 Preservation Hall Jazz, Sofi Tukker, Cato Miller and Scoffield, and The Philadelphia Experiment spanned the range from jazz preservation to get the party started music on through global jazz and jazz's future! #newportjazz #musicsky #blacksky

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 02/08/2025

🎶 Newport Jazz Fest 2025: Day 1 Recap, pt. 2 Living legends! Photographs don't do them justice. To quote the fabulous Raye whose set came later in the day, "Music is Medicine." Theirs was nutrition, inoculation, and all-around panacea. #roncarter #newportjazz #musicsky #blacksky

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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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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 · 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 · 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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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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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 · 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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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

🎧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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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 03/04/2025

🎧PotD: The Powell Memo | Master Plan (54m) www.levernews.com/master-plan-... For a better understanding of how and why we are in our current political state, listen to this episode then the entire series. See also: John Birch vs the PTA reccomended a couple months ago. #podcastrecommendations

Image of Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell buttoning up his robes. Superimposed over the corner of the black and white image image Powell who's colored in with a green glow is being watched over by the green eye of George Washington from the dollar bill etching - perhaps representing capitalism itself.

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 22/03/2025

🎧PotD: Comic Bill Burr | Fresh Air w/Terry Gross (1h) pca.st/episode/11d2... Bill Burr's surprisingly introspective "angry" comedy is regularly imitated poorly by his lessers. Terry Gross and Burr both struggle with his comedy and the man himself and it's fascinating! #podcastrecommendations

Comedian Bill Burr (bald middle-aged white man with red facial stubble wearing a dark blue long-sleeved crew neck shirt and blue jeans) stands on stage holding a microphone and leaning casually with one arm draped over the mic stand. He looks out at the audience (unseen in photo) wearing a mischievous grin.

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 21/03/2025

PotD: The Origins of Abundance | The Ezra Klein Show (1h 15m) buff.ly/58EXLgh Post 2 of 2: Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson discuss their new book Abundance. Thinking about the world we could have: Supply-Side Progressivism. #podcastrecommendations #yimby

Cover art for the Plain English with Derek Thompson podcast. This is the podcast for which this conversation was originally recorded.

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 21/03/2025

PotD: Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson: Less Obstruction, More Government | On w/Kara Swisher (66m) pca.st/episode/2cf7... Part 1 of 2 posts about Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson's new book Abundance. This is the conversation we all need to be having YESTERDAY! #podcastrecommendations #yimby

Cover image for On With Kara Swisher podcast. Includes following excerpt of episode description: Scarcity is a policy choice — one liberals need to reject and replace with abundance, according to journalists Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson in their new book, Abundance. They say that by building a wall of bureaucracy in front of growth, Democrats have created an affordability crisis, hindering their own progressive goals and leading voters to flee blue cities and states. Kara talks to Klein and Thompson about concerns around equity and access; the tech industry’s culpability in all of this; which Dems are best positioned to pursue an abundance agenda; and how pursuing abundance can help fight the Trump-Musk agenda of cruelty.

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 14/03/2025

🎧PotD: Louis Armstrong's Weed Dealer Transformed Jazz | Great Moments in Weed History (51m) pca.st/episode/57de... Incredible stories of the great Louis Armstrong and jazz music! Also check out the amazing Armstrong documentary on AppleTV+ (youtu.be/o5jbSeBHVTQ). #podcastrecommendations #blacksky

Photograph of Louis Armstrong (Black American man middle aged, close cropped dark hair wearing a suit and bowtie) seated, very relaxed and smoking a rolled cigarette. Leaning in over Armstrong's left shoulder clarinetist and sax player, sage of the gague and lord of the lid, Milton "Mezz" Mezzrow (Jewish American man also middle aged, close cropped grey hair wearing a suit and tie square wire framed glasses).

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 13/03/2025

🎧PotD: Hit Him in the Pocketbook! | Vibe Check pca.st/episode/e82e... It's just a relief to hear folks in the know saying the damn thing out loud. This is like the news opinion equivalent of a therapy session. #podcastrecommendations #blacksky

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 10/03/2025

🎧PotD: Op-eds by Billionaires | Citation Needed (59m) www.citationpod.com/op-eds-by-bi... Billionaires. They're just like US. 🙄 #podcastrecommendations #murica

A head and shoulders color photo of a middle aged white man with dark close cropped hair. He is wearing a dark blue blazer over white-collared shirt and a vacant smile as he stares off into the distance. He stands before a white yellow and black background possibly on a stage for a talk.

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 05/03/2025

"When I was a young boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.'" - Fred Rogers #lookforthehelpers #bethehelper Source: buff.ly/MpmdqBW

Black and white mage of Fred Rogers known for the beloved children's television show Mr. Rogers Neighborhood. At the time of the picture he is middle-aged, a white male shown from the waist up. He is smiling placidly and seated wearing a white shirt , a light cardigan (one of his signature clothing items), and a dark tie. Below him reads the quotation text: "When I was a young boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.'"
- Fred Rogers

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 05/03/2025

🎧PotD: Compton Cowboys | California Love from LAist (41m) laist.com/podcasts/cal... During the recent fires in LA the Compton Cowboys helped rescue horses that were endangered. To support check out their collab shop w/Forever21: www.forever21.com/us/shop/cata... #podcastrecommendations #blacksky

Illustration of a young Black man showing a group of Black and Brown children a saddled horse he's holding by the bridle. A child has their hand raised and the man looks to be answering the child's question about the horse. The text "Compton Cowboys - California Love" appears in the sky above the group. The city (LA) skyline is seen in the distance.

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 01/03/2025

Nothing so sublime as a Saturday morning on my couch with my cat who's recovering from dental surgery lies down on me as we watch Flow together. Beautiful movie. 10/10 #filmsky

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 01/03/2025

🎧PotD: Why the Oscars "Never Get It Right" | What a Day (24m) buff.ly/OVgnbFA @samsanders.bsky.social, @theamynicholson.bsky.social, @marcbernardin.bsky.social plz form a film critic superteam and replace the whole awards season! I would watch the 💩 outta that! #podcastrecommendations

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 28/02/2025

🎧PotD: Stand Up - Fannie Lou Hamer's Voting Revolution (Part 1 of 2) | Black History, For Real (48m) buff.ly/3XhKweo We stand on the shoulders of those who were far more courageous than the fools arrayed against us. #podcastrecommendations #fannielouhamer #blacksky #bhm

Painted cover art for Wondery's Black History, For Real podcast depicts the face of a beautiful defiant brown-skinned Black young woman sourrounded by a colorful field of grasses and wild flowers, her head haloed by a rising red gold orange and pink sun, and a blue ocean of sky above her. Raised brown fists sprout from the field to her right. A record label encircled in radiating sonic lines is superimposed over the field in the corner to her left. Above it a street sign reading "Black Wall Street" and the image of a crown above it.

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 27/02/2025

🎧 PotD: With Great Power Came No Responsibility: How Enshittification Conquered the 21st Century and How We Can Overthrow It | Cory Doctorow's craphound.com (63m) buff.ly/41gY6ja Word of the century: en💩tification #podcastrecommendations

Man with close cropped hair wearing dark framed glasses and a black N95 mask stands on stage at podium before black curtain/background giving a talk. Text below image reads: "With Great Power Came No Responsibility: How Enshittification Conquered the 21st Century... Podcast - Cory Doctorow's craphound.com."

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 22/02/2025

🎧 PotD: Femme Bar | Cruising a queer documentary podcast (49min) pca.st/episode/2c00343d-832c-4866-8… Black-owned, queer-owned, women-owned. Happened upon it a year ago with friends. A beautiful welcoming spot. So glad to learn their story! #podcastrecommendations #blacksky

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 21/02/2025

🎧 PotD: Speaker Terror Upper: When Bass Tapes shook the streets | 20k Hertz Podcast (32 min) www.20k.org/episodes/speaker-terror… RIP the woofer on the left speaker of my dad's stereo (1975-1989). 🔊🕊️ #podcastrecommendations #blacksky #808

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 20/02/2025

🎧PotD: Whatever Happened to Pizza at McDonald's | DOGE (11 min) pca.st/episode/5ec6... Ooh! Maybe they'll know what happened to McDonald's pizza!! #transparency #podcastrecommendations

A rainbow pinwheel background with the podcast title "Whatever Happened to Pizza at McDonald's" in comic sans typeface white with a black outline. As whimsical and tongue on cheek as the show itself.

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 18/02/2025

🎧PotD: On with Kara Swisher | Signal's Meredith Whittaker on Surveillance Capitalism, Text Privacy and AI pca.st/episode/7455... Share with your friends who aren't using Signal (@signal.org) yet. #podcastrecommendations

Image of journalist and podcast host Kara Swisher sitting before a microphone, wearing headphones and holding her signature aviator sunglasses. The show title "On with Kara Swisher" in bold all capital letters is superimposed over the image's lower right quadrant.

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 02/02/2025

PotD: Dissect | Unreleased MF DOOM Interview "Spittin' on enemies, get the steel for tin men Where no brains but gum flap He said his gun clap, then he fled after one slap (Pap!)" - Rap Snitches Knishes, RIP MF DOOM buff.ly/4gkMuB4 #podcastrecommendations #blacksky

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 29/01/2025

PotD: The Last Archive | John Birch vs. the PTA Then they came for the PTA, and we did not speak out... buff.ly/4jxQVvj #podcastoftheday #potd

Cover art for The Last Archive podcast. An illustration of a folder in a folder in a folder in a folder in a folder...

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 28/01/2025

PotD: Eli Roth's History of Horror - Bill Hader I could listen to Bill Hader talk about movies for hours. Especially horror films. He also waxes poetic and philosophical about David Lynch's filmmaking and the sincerity of his storytelling. RIP David Lynch. pca.st/episode/9fb9...

It Chapter 2, Ritchie sees the spider head. "What the hell man!?!?"

Big ups to John Carpenter and Rob Bottin.

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 28/01/2025

PotD: The Wirecutter Show - Tormented by our Printers www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/r...

Still from a scene from the movie Office Space. You know the one.

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 27/01/2025

Movie Review: The Brutalist A grand sweeping epic that is viscerally personal and emotional. Also it reminded me of this chair. www.vox.com/23010000/ces...

Cover art for Vox.com explainer "Why everyone has this chair." Shows a glamour shot of a chrome and wood frame and wicker chair. The chrome gleams with glints of light sparkling against the photo's dark background. It takes something hilariously commonplace and makes it extraordinary.

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 27/01/2025

PotD: NYTimes The Daily - The Interview: Tilda Swinton Would Like a Word With Trump About His Mother www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/m... Includes discussion of death and dying and compassionate care during illness and end of life.

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 25/01/2025

PotD: Lovett or Leave It - Hail to the $Chief At one point I scared my cat and pulled something in my side from laughing. Laci Mosely is a National Treasure! crooked.com/podcast/hail...

Episode cover art for Lovett or Leave It episode "Hail to the $Chief". Photo of host John Lovett stitched next to photos of guests Laci Mosley and Guy Branham. All of them clearly cuttin up and havin a good time!

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 23/01/2025

PotD: Sawbones - Physician's Unions Pouring one out to all the medical homies. Solidarity forever! ⚕️✊🏾

Cover art for Sawbones: a marital tour of misguided medicine. Illustration features a caduceus composed of a pair of saws handle-to-handle like wings with two bones (a la forearm ulna & radius) extending down from the saws with a pair of snakes twisting helically around the bones - one wears a mortar board and the other wears a party hat. Episode title below the cover art - Sawbones: Physician's Unions.

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 22/01/2025

PotD: Ridiculous Crime - Want to Get Away Week: Come Aboard the Sex Raft! (62 min) ...or how to overthrow a sociopathic svengali with community building, empathy, mutual respect and empowerment...and a murder-y back-up plan (ya know but like an "accident". just in case).

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 21/01/2025

PotD: The Combat Jack Show - The Prince Paul Episode (108 min) Your life's been touched by Prince Paul's music. You've giggled at his jokes without even knowing it. It's nice knowing there're still genuinely good creative thoughtful folks out there. RIP Combat Jack www.iheart.com/podcast/215-...

Cover art for The Combat Jack Show podcast showing an army combat helmet with a band holding rifle ammo at the back, a Peace symbol pinned to the camouflage coverlet with "Get Ready 4 Combat" written in next to it.

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 20/01/2025

PotD (MLK Jr Day edition): Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff - The Armed Nonviolent Civil Rights Movement (parts 1 & 2) Part 1: pca.st/episode/3c2c... Part 2: pca.st/episode/82f9...

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff podcast cover art - a print illustration of a sunflower in an unconventional "vase". Caption text: "CZM Rewind: Part One: The Armed Nonviolent Civil Rights Movement"

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 19/01/2025

PotD (Podcast episode of the Day): The Memory Palace - Emma and the Trail thememorypalace.us/emma-and-the...

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