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Basic Black Podcast

Produced live at WGBH Studios in Boston, Basic Black *is the longest-running program on public telev

Episodes

Total: 179

It's been a year since the pandemic, altering our lives in so many areas.  Small businesses and espe

New Massachusetts bill would create mobile vaccination program, multilingual campaign to increase ac

The Black Church Today

2021/2/20

PBS series the Black church feb 16, 23.

This seems like the perfect opportunity to celebrate and discuss Black love since Valentine’s day is

Code-switching is not new.  W.E.B. DuBois wrote about the complexities of duality, or double conscio

Racial-Generational Trauma

All Hail Kamala

2021/1/23

The presidential election and the first female Vice President of Asian and African American descent.

Funding art and social justice; how the new fund will change the landscape of how we see work, what

This week the show will discuss the Covid vaccines and how to move beyond fear, history and distrust

Year of COVID, Racial Unrest, and an unprecedented Election. What do we take from everything that ha

Art and artist during COVID and racial unrest

Money Matters.

2020/11/14

Rent. Food. Bills. What stays, what goes. How do you move forward in stressful economic times?  Whic

Elections—who won? After the election: What now? Where do we go from here? The path toward the futur

The value of the vote

2020/10/30

A few days are left. Some people have already sent their votes in and some are still making up their

Sports Consciousness

2020/10/23

Sports Consciousness

How do you teach during the time of Covid?

Black Anger

2020/10/9

Black anger and how it is misunderstood, dismissed or an emotion that society has said it is not acc

Generational Activism

2020/7/31

Protests sparked by the death of George Floyd saw an outpouring of people across the world demanding

Finding your Faith

2020/6/26

Since the first cases of Covid 19 were identified in the US-- just four months ago, people of color

George Floyd’s life was snuffed out on the streets of Minneapolis, Armaud Arbery was gunned down on