📺PotW: We are clearly seeing madness... | The Last Word w/Lawrence O'Donnell youtu.be/PGIxLFGUnUg

🎧PotW: The African History of Africa | WBUR On Point www.wbur.org/onpoint/2025... See also: share.libbyapp.com/title/10716896 #blacksy #booksky #podcastrecommendations

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

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

🎶 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

📼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

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)

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

📼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.

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

Our episode is out now:

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.”

🎧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

🎧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

📺 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

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

📺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

🎧 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

🎧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

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

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?

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...

🎧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

I tried to put the jeans away a little too soon. #springinnewengland

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

📼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

📼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

📼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

“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)

🎧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

🎧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

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.

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

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

📱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

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.

🎧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

Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show. The Emergency Is Here. With @asharangappa.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o...

📺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

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!

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-...

📺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

#OtD 14 Apr 1775 the first formal organisation for the abolition of slavery was formed in the United States, in the Rising Sun tavern, Philadelphia. It was called the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8534...

🎧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

🎧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

🎧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

🎧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

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_...

🎧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

America is in trouble, and we must meet this moment with courage. The time of wishful thinking is over. Now we act. youtu.be/cXR5HLodsT8