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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 · 03/09/2025

Hey! Longtime/first time. I watched this piece and saw some creators I follow mentioned in the Wired story. I read the article and've since seen their feedback on it. Eye opening re: what the article missed/got wrong. Still need the left to step it up but I think this one's REALLY worth a revisit.

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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 · 03/08/2025

AI is an 80s kid TMNT fan.

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 03/08/2025

Dems need to start flipping the tables of the money-changers. None of their lick-spittle anti-democracy colleagues should feel safe. Full LBJ on them. Expose their hypocrisy, indiscretions, the money they take and the deals they make. And if they're on the take too, burn it down or get primaried.

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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 · 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 · 20/06/2025

The scary part to me is the inevitable introduction of the "pay a premium to opt out of our surveillance" business model. Basically a protection racket.

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 19/06/2025

Haha! But I seem to remember Indy losing that debate. And handing over his bazooka and getting tied up with Marianne. If anything the ark was the real winner.

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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.”

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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

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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

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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

I hope that in sharing them with you and you sharing them with your friends (and audiences) that we strengthen the distribution network for these critical pieces of media and ensure their continuing availability.

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 07/05/2025

This means that even if the source site shuts down it can continue to be housed elsewhere, including on your own device. They're availability is less subject to the whims and caprices of media owners or the business's (mis)fortunes. So I'm moved to share those I find, especially "the receipts".

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 07/05/2025

Finally this reminds me why I love podcasts and recommending favorite and particularly informative ones. As a distribution system, podcasts are resilient. They are syndicated and then aggregated by services like your podcast client of choice (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, PocketCasts, etc).

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 07/05/2025

In our current political climate critical media like Scene on Radio provide The Receipts and are thus under threat of being silenced. So resources like @archive.org are that much more critical now than ever before. If you happen to have it by you consider making a donation: archive.org/donate

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Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 07/05/2025

Thread: This reminder is in the heels of a disconcerting discovery that the podcast's website sceneonradio.org appears to be down (address unreachable error). Checking the Wayback Machine I see that it was last successfully scanned on May 5th: web.archive.org/web/20250502...

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Scene on Radio

Scene on Radio is a podcast that asks, How’s it going out there? And leaves the studio to find out, capturing the sounds of life happening.

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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 · 05/05/2025

Yikes! That sounds even worse!! #WSOD

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 05/05/2025

"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy." - Old Ben Kenobi

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 04/05/2025

Ha! Brilliant! But as a jazz fan who grew up with Take Five and the original Star Wars I'm feeling so torn right now!! 🤣

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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 · 02/05/2025

Elie Mystal broke it down on the Native Land Podcast. Desegregation was the response to lawsuits filed against the federal government for Black schools not receiving funding anywhere near what Black families were paying in taxes. So if they end desegregation, run them pockets!!! #paywhatyouowe

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AFN @listeningwhileblack.com · 01/05/2025

P.S. Credit where credit is due. This is from the All the Smoke podcast with Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson. So many great episodes! Check them out! 📼 youtube.com/@allthesmoke... 🎧 pca.st/podcast/fccb... #allthesmoke #podcastrecommendations

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ALL THE SMOKE

Authentic voices. Real stories. Championship DNA. Check us out on DraftKings Network on Roku, Xumo, Samsung TV Plus, draftkingsnetwork.com and more

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