99% Invisible :: The Real Book
How a book of pirated sheet music became a must have for students in jazz music programs.
Throughline :: Policing in America
A history of police in America and how it has served the purposes of white supremacy.
Unf*cking the Republic :: Mass Incarceration: The War on Drugs
A profanity-laden summary of the work Michelle Alexander and others have done to detail how increased policing and imprisonment is being used to infringe the rights of Black Americans.
Running Tally of Podcast of the Week Awards for 2021
- Afropop Worldwide – 1
- AirSpace – 1
- Best of the Left – 1
- The Brattle Film Podcast – 1
- Code Switch – 2
- Consider This – 1
- Fresh Air – 1
- Futility Closet – 1
- Have You Heard? – 2
- Hub History – 2
- Judas and the Black Messiah – Entire series
- LeVar Burton Reads – 1
- Lost Massachusetts – 1
- The Moth – 1
- The Memory Palace – 1
- 99% Invisible – 3
- Politically Re-Active – 2
- Planet Money – 2
- Radio Boston – 2
- Radiolab – 2
- Reparations: The Big Payback – 1
- Scientific American – 1
- Seizing Freedom – 2
- Sidedoor – 1
- Strong Songs – 1
- This American Life – 2
- This Day in Esoteric Political History – 1
- Throughline – 6
- Twenty Thousand Hertz – 2
- Unf*cking the Republic – 1
- Up First – 1
- The War on Cars – 1
- What Next – 1