14 Best Black Audio Drama Podcasts

1. Destination Freedom Black Radio Days

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A live audio drama that picks up where the first nationwide African-American radio drama, produced in Chicago by Richard Durham more than sixty years ago, left off. The show walked a daring line between reform and revolution, and was shut down by its network in 1950, as McCarthyism and anti-communism tightened its grip on American broadcasting.As well as drawing on the archive of Destination Freedom (now branded Destination Freedom Black Radio Days, this program illuminates a largely unknown, but important chapter in the history of human rights and tells how radio played its part from the ve..MORE Email ****@broadwaypodcastnetwork.com
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Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 13 Avg Length 33 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact Get access to full database of 2.7M podcastsCreate podcast lists, export in spreadsheet or CSV file with email contacts and start your podcast outreach in minutes.Sign Up for Free with Email Continue with Google

2. Red for Revolution

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Radiotopia Presents: Red for Revolution is an audio drama centering intergenerational stories of Black women, queer love, and liberation. We meet Jazmine, an 18-year-old grappling with her queer identity, first crush, and the delicate task of mending her relationship with her homophobic mother. As Jazmine seeks solace and guidance from her grandmother, we are transported back to 1971, to follow the passionate love affair between jazz singer Lorraine Giovanni and activist Ella Ali...MORE Email ****@prx.org
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Apple Rating 3.5/5 Avg Length 34 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

3. Stories Between Us Anthology

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Stories Between Us Anthology is an AI-powered podcast where the lives, intimacy, and tension of Black Queer men take center stage. From slow burns to sharp tension, each short story pulls you into moments that feel lived-in, complicated, and real. These are stories about love, desire, and identity — told through the lens of the Black Queer experience. If you crave emotionally rich storytelling, gay romance, and stories that linger long after they end, you're in the right place. 🎧 Subscribe and follow the podcast on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.MORE Producer/Network Stories Between Us Anthology
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 2 Avg Length 34 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

4. This Too Was Love

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What if the deepest love of your life was the only truth your husband never knew?As Harry's mind slips into Alzheimer's, Muriel races against the fog to reach him one last time. In his final chapter, she makes a daring choice: to reveal the 50-year story of Grainger—the man who quietly lived at the center of her heart.Spanning five decades, this audio drama explores Alzheimer's, devotion, memory, and the hidden currents of connection that shape a life.An original, full-cast audio drama.RESOURCESIf you or a loved one are navigating Alzheimer's or dementia, please consider these professional..MORE Email ****@gmail.com
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Apple Rating 5/5 Avg Length 14 min Format Short form Get Email Contact

5. Returned Destruction

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Afrofuturism is a cultural aesthetic that combines science-fiction, history and fantasy to explore the African-American experience . Episode 1 explores the buried pain in the hearts of earths inhabitantsMORE Email ****@icloud.com
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Apple Rating 4.4/5 Avg Length 12 min Format Short form Get Email Contact

6. The First African Werewolf

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Beneath the vast African skies, Dahabu lives a life of simplicity and strength. But marauders shatter his world, tearing him from his family and homeland. Bound and imprisoned aboard The Sable Marauder , he endures brutal conditions on the harrowing voyage into captivity. One night, under the full moon's light, the ship's ruthless captain strikes — a werewolf who sinks his fangs into Dahabu, sealing his fate. As pain and fury consume him, Dahabu's body twists and transforms. His humanity fractures, replaced by a primal, uncontrollable force. The beast within rises...MORE Estimated listeners
Apple Rating 5/5 Avg Length 11 min Format Short form Get Email Contact

7. Harlem Queen

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'Harlem Queen' is a Black historical fiction audio drama based on the life and times of Black, woman, 'gangster' Madame Stephanie St. Clair during the Harlem Renaissance (the story takes place around 1926-32). Madame St. Clair had a powerful impact on building the Harlem community underground and aboveground and defining the Harlem Renaissance. Our goal is for you to be entertained, educated, empowered and uplifted after hearing this amazing story! Written and independently produced by Yhane Washington Smith an A' Lelia Bundles Scholar at Columbia University...MORE Host Yhane Washington Smith
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Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 166Facebook 167Twitter 1.1K Avg Length 22 min Format Medium form Since Feb 2019 Get Email Contact

8. TwentyOne 21: A Black AF Scripted Audio Comedy

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Black pop culture and unspoken rules? Original music across a variety of genres? And episodic adventures?Created by Uzo Chijioke and Courtney Marie Simpson, with additional production/songwriting by Donnell 'DWeezy' Robinson, TWENTYONE 21 is a sci-fi comedy narrative fiction podcast that follows Cici and Funks: two friends, co-workers, and roommates who share the same birthday and believe that they'll unlock mystical, melanated powers on 12/21 (or at least that's what Cici read on 'Black Twitter'). Audio editing by JR Zamora-Thal and AJ Thal.Connect on social media @TwentyOne21Podcast!MORE Hosts Uzo Chijioke, Courtney Marie Simpson
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 117Facebook 118Instagram 733 Avg Length 24 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

9. Bedtime Folktales and Stories for Sleeping | Folktales by Firelight

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Folktales by Firelight delivers local folktales, fables, legends, proverbs, and historical stories and biographies from across the heartland and the diaspora. Each episode blends immersive narration with ambient sound to honor African oral tradition, ancestral wisdom, and cultural storytelling. Perfect for fans of ancient stories, bedtime folktales, history, audio dramas, and family-friendly podcasts.🎧 Find more and support the show: https://folktalesbyfirelight.substack.com/MORE Email ****@gmail.com
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Apple Rating 5/5 Avg Length 19 min Format Short form Get Email Contact

10. Past Due Audio Series

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Underwhelmed by life and overwhelmed by disappointments, a 30-year-old writer and entrepreneur takes an introspective look at her life, and its shortcomings. Has her time come and gone, or is she simply a late bloomer?MORE Host Crystal Judkins
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Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 90 Avg Length 18 min Format Short form Get Email Contact

11. All Things Undone

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The 2023 Webby award-winning Sci-fi about a solar eclipse that alters the DNA of all human beings in the 1850s and makes Black people 'unkillable'. Mirabelle, a young black woman, finds herself in a world of supernatural powers fighting the forces of evil to deliver the oppressed into a new age of peaceMORE Estimated listeners
Apple Rating 4.7/5Apple Reviews 174 Avg Length 13 min Format Short form Get Email Contact

12. Forever Yours

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Forever Yours, a love story that transcends time... Follow the written journey of a handsome and witty soldier and an aspiring baker, in the midst of the Korean War. Set in the Jim Crow south, the two share their captivating love story across oceans with weekly love letters. Together they learn that distance cannot erase the shared prejudices they face as African-Americans. Listen to Forever Yours, a new romantic fiction podcast brought to you by Well Writers Audio.You can also stream 'Forever Yours' on Good Fig Network!Great News! Season 3 is underway!MORE Estimated listeners
Apple Rating 5/5 Avg Length 10 min Format Bite size Get Email Contact

13. Bayou's Wrath

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In the heart of the Deep South, the past refuses to die.Bayou's Wrath is a supernatural audio drama where America's haunted history collides with its chilling present. When two fearless sistahs inherit a mysterious estate near Mississippi's infamous Devil's Punchbowl, they awaken a legacy of blood, spirits—and a cursed coin tied to the undead. With each eerie episode, secrets unravel, ancestors stir, and danger rises. Expect ghostly apparitions, ancestral reckoning, and a deep dive into Black Southern folklore, post-Civil War horror, and Southern Gothic mystery.Press play—if you dare!MORE Host Anita Williams
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Apple Rating 4.7/5Apple Reviews 6 Avg Length 5 min Format Bite size Get Email Contact

14. ? Black Velvet Stories: The Audio Experience

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Black Velvet Stories is your late-night escape into the worlds we whisper about but never admit out loud. Hosted by Nia — the velvet-voiced oracle with a sharp tongue and an old soul — this show blends horror, mystery, generational secrets, elite drama, spiritual truth, and real-life tea into cinematic audio experiences.Each episode is a story: sometimes chilling, sometimes messy, always delicious. From sundown towns hiding supernatural sins… to church girls drowning in scandal… to exes who deserve an exorcism… this isn't just storytelling...MORE Email ****@gmail.com
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