10 Best Illinois Black Podcasts

1. 28 Days of Black Excellence

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28 Days of Black Excellence, a podcast series celebrating Black History Month, featuring the powerful and inspiring stories of University of Illinois Chicago Black students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends. Host Aisha El-Amin, UIC associate vice chancellor for equity and belonging, leads conversations with luminaries, visionaries and waymakers about their journeys and what it means to give back to the university and community while creating impact in Chicago and beyond.MORE Host Aisha El-Amin
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Facebook 93.6KTwitter 9.6KInstagram 26K Avg Length 22 min Get Email Contact Get Influential Podcasters ContactsGet access to 100k active Podcasters, Influencers in 1500 niche categories.Get targeted media contact list in your niche at your fingertips so you can focus on running your campaign.Email us the categories of Podcasters you want to reach out for your marketing campaign at anuj@feedspot.com Copy email. We'll share active Podcasters list with verified email contacts in an Excel or CSV format.Email us

2. Chicago's Black Business Radio Network

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Chicago's Black Business Radio Network is 'Changing the way that Chicago connects GLOBALLY.' Interviews with Chicago's premier business owners, authors, poets, politicians, and visionaries. Those that make Chicago the greatest city in the world. All broadcasts are dedicated to keeping the memory of Mayor Harold Washington alive and moving through the spirit of his people and supporters. Join Us Today and Touch The World!MORE Producer/Network ChicagosBlackBusinessRadio
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Apple Rating 5/5Facebook 897Twitter 1.7K Avg Length 30 min Get Email Contact

3. Off the Shelf

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'Off the Shelf: Revolutionary Readings in Times of Crisis' is a podcast series featuring in-depth conversations with Black scholars on the University of Illinois campus and beyond. Each episode explores books and scholars they recommend we take 'off the shelf' to help us understand these revolutionary times and creative agendas for the here and now. Hosted by Dr. Augustus Wood, a scholar of political economy and gentrification, labor, and social movements in late 20th and early 21st century African American urban history.MORE Producer/Network Humanities Research Institute
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Apple Rating 5/5Facebook 1.3KTwitter 1.2KInstagram 1.2K Avg Length 56 min Get Email Contact

4. Research in the Streets

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Taking research to the streets with a couple of Black women in the Chi. The official podcast of the Black Researchers Collective, Research in the Streets is intended to provide a forum to discuss how research and data can be used by everyday people in everyday life. Tune in to hear how writer, researcher, poet, and community organizer Dr. Glenance Green and community advocate and lifelong Chicagoan Shari Runner make an unnecessarily complicated subject make sense in a practical way.MORE Producer/Network Black Researchers Collective
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Apple Rating 5/5Facebook 483Twitter 139Instagram 1.2K Avg Length 43 min Get Email Contact

5. The 'Head Honcho' Sports Podcast With Jaylin Short

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Hey everybody, my name is Jaylin Short, and I am a 22-year-old black male, and former-athlete, from the south suburbs of Chicago. I currently attend Western Illinois University as a Sports Broadcasting major. I am starting this podcast because I have a passion for discussing football and basketball, as well as current issues with different athletes across the world. You can expect weekly episodes from my channel, with more episodes to come as we get deeper and deeper into the NFL, NBA, and NCAA basketball and football seasons. Hopefully you enjoy listening, and if you do, tell a friend!MORE Host Jaylin Short
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Apple Rating 5/5Facebook 4Twitter 198Instagram 752 Avg Length 30 min Get Email Contact

6. Color of Chicago

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A podcast highlighting black and brown people in Chicago who are crushing it in their field! Changing the narrative one interview at a time.Often black and brown people are shown and perceived in the worst light even though millions of us are doing awesome things.The goal is to share these interviews specifically with kids and young adults to show them that they can be anything they want to be. Representation matters! We'll also be able to connect them directly with a person in a specific profession that they're interested in, should they want to learn more.MORE Host DeVon Chandler
Producer/Network DeVon Chandler
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Apple Rating 5/5 Avg Length 28 min Get Email Contact