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Black Lives Matter Canada: Podcasts

This guide is intended to provide an overview of anti-Black racism in Canada.

Podcasts

Rights Back At You

The Stoop

Exploring the Black diaspora, Hana Baba and Leila Day host this podcast of conversations and stories. They discuss what being Black means and how people dialog about Blackness.

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1619

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1619 is an audio series from The Times observing the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery.

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Portraits of Black Canadians

Radio Canada International has produced a series of vignettes spotlighting some of the black Canadians that have marked the country’s past, as well as those that are marking Canada’s present.

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Lynching in America

Equal Justice Initiative has documented the lynchings of over 4,000 African Americans between 1877 and 1950. In this series, hear how this era of racial terror lynchings continues to shape America to this day.

Witness Black History (BBC)

Witness Black History is a BBC podcast which offers interviews with people who were there at key moments in black and civil rights history.

Below are the three most recent episodes.

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Code Switch

NPR Code Switch 2020

"What's CODE SWITCH? It's the fearless conversations about race that you've been waiting for! Hosted by journalists of color, our podcast tackles the subject of race head-on. We explore how it impacts every part of society — from politics and pop culture to history, sports and everything in between. This podcast makes ALL OF US part of the conversation — because we're all part of the story".

Please find the three most recent episodes below. 

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What Matters

"What Matters" combines documentary narrative with interviews to illuminate specific, timely issues, aiming to create safe dialogue to promote freedom, justice, and collective liberation."

Find the three most recent episodes below.

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About Race with Reni Eddo-Lodge

Reni Eddo-Lodge takes the topics she discussed in her book Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race further through a look at the history of anti-racist activism and how history has brought us to today's politics.

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Seat at the Table

From the CBC, two friends (Isabelle Racicot and Martine St-Victor) discuss sports, media, and pop culture with guests through a Black Lives Matter lens.

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