In Search of Black Power

In Search of Black Power challenges conventional narratives around Black policy, Black movements, and Black Life. We focus on creating a new language to discuss the issues presenting Black America, with a focus on independent institutional building and seeing Black folks as the solutions to our own problems.

In Search of Black Power is a news podcast hosted by Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle, with 91 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle hosts In Search of Black Power, a news show with 91 episodes published.

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  Episode #10

  Black Women's Contribution to Black Advancement Part 1

  Aug 5, 20261h 2mS5

  Send us Fan Mail Throughout history women have made remarkable and lasting contributions to Black advancement. They have played instrumental roles in advocacy, policy development, community engagement, and the overall advancement of racial uplift. However, a glaring gap exists in the literature and discourse surrounding these women pioneers. In this two part series of ISOBP we hope to contribute to decreasing that gap. Support the show In Search of Black Power is a Black-owned internet show and podcast. This podcast is sponsored and produced by Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle (LBS) . The internet show is published in collaboration with Black Liberation Media (BLM)

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  Baltimore's Black Radical Tradition

  Jul 1, 202647 min

  Send us Fan Mail Support the show In Search of Black Power is a Black-owned internet show and podcast. This podcast is sponsored and produced by Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle (LBS) . The internet show is published in collaboration with Black Liberation Media (BLM)

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  Episode #8

  Beyond the Wire

  Jun 3, 202657 minS5

  <p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>While The Wire is celebrated for its gritty realism however , it perpetuates an over-sensationalized, externally oriented, and ultimately limited view of Black life in Baltimore. It aestheticizes poverty and violence without sufficiently acknowledging the cultural, historical, and community-based dimensions of African American resilience and self-determination.<br/>By re-centering the narrative around Black subjectivity and agency, rather than dysfunction and surveillance this episode of ISoBP not only critiques The Wire's limitations but also points toward richer, more humane forms of storytelling.</p><p>Support the show</p><p>In Search of Black Power is...

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  Episode #8

  What Critics of Black “Respectability Politics” Miss. Black Power Beyond “The Boundaries of Blackness”

  May 6, 20261h 13mS5

  <p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>In the 90s and 2000s, a wave of academic texts emerged that challenge the dominate narrative of Black leadership and politics, claiming that the location of Black power in the Black church and “respectable” civil rights organizations limited Black politics. One of the most prominent of these texts is The Boundaries of Blackness, written by Cathy Cohen, which uses the example of the limited response to AIDS by Black civil society in the 80s/90s to argue that Black politics marginalized those most impacted by AIDS because the groups most impacted, drug users and...

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  Episode #18

  Black Baltimore 19th Century Political History

  Apr 2, 202639 minS5

  <p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>In this episode of In Search of Black Power, filmmaker and historian Xavier Frink dives into the roots of Black excellence and resistance by exploring 19th-century political and civic activity in Baltimore and beyond through his documentary Justice and Reconciliation: From Henry Highland Garnet to Harvey Johnson.</p><p>This conversation and film are essential in understanding the strategies our ancestors used during the 19th century and also giving us a blueprint for today.</p><p>Support the show</p><p>In Search of Black Power is a Black-owned internet show and podcast.  T...

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