8 Podcasts About Anti-Racism to Help You Become a Better Ally

It’s been 11 days since the wrongful murder of George Floyd. And now, all across the country, people are having crucial and important conversations about racial injustice in our society, conversations that come far too late after the deaths of other black Americans including Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor. To not be racist is not enough. To be antiracist requires education and action. And for that to happen begins with us challenging the social constructs embedded in our daily lives, says Karen Hunter, a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist, a distinguished lecturer at Hunter College, and host of the podcast This Is Karen Hunter (and the first black female news columnist at the New York Daily News).

To bring forth real change, we must reconstruct the concept of "whiteness" and what exactly it means to call yourself an American, without referring to oneself by color. “Whiteness is a construct created for powers’ sake,” she says. "When I think about how we move forward, one of my main jobs is to constantly challenge this notion, because I didn’t ask to be born black. That doesn’t shape my character—my character is shaped by my parents."

“That’s got to be the question that America answers in this next wave that we’re going to march into. If we can start to come to conclusions that it doesn’t exist, and we’re just people with the same desires and goals for ourselves and our children, then we can dismantle whiteness and start to galvanize around exactly what it means to be an American. Because if we don’t do this, this country is not going to last.”

Together, Hunter and Men’s Health have put together a list of podcasts to help educate our readers during this pivotal moment in history.

You can follow Karen Hunter on Twitter @karenhunter and listen to her podcast, This Is Karen Hunter, on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.