First Of All with Victor Blackwell
Victor Blackwell brings a fresh perspective on the week's news with a focus on stories affecting communities of color.
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- Janelle King2 eps
- Viles Dorsainvil2 eps
- Tia Mitchell1 ep
Also: Charles Carithers, Nasser Beydoun, Eva D. Coleman, Andrew Quinio, Leon Smith, Ryan Fayhee, Reginald Douglas, Michael Bahsil-Cook, Dr. Bishara Bahbah, Kelvin King, Shawn Harris, Calvin Duncan, Lisa Roth, Yolanda Keaton, Jonathan McColumn, Michael Owens, Cory Booker
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- 🇺🇸United States · News CommentaryHOME#1724.7K to 25K
- 🇳🇬NG · News Commentary#191.4K to 7.4K
- 🇹🇷TR · News Commentary#109137 to 727
- 🇰🇪KE · News Commentary#7194 to 499
- 🇩🇰DK · News Commentary#11081 to 428
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Est. listeners per new episode within ~30 days
6.6K to 35K🎙 ~2x weekly·83 episodes·Last published 5d ago - Monthly Reach
Unique listeners across all episodes (30 days)
13K to 70K🇺🇸71%🇳🇬21%🇹🇷2%+5 more - Active Followers
Loyal subscribers who consistently listen
7.2K to 38K
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 10/17/26 | Political Ad Re-Opens Wounds for Georgia Family: Why is it Still Airing? | A Georgia mother accuses Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Jackson of exploiting her daughter’s death in campaign ads she’s asked him to pull. An Alabama man convicted of murder says his defense failed him. New attorneys uncovered serious shortcomings, including that his court-appointed lawyer once defended the Ku Klux Klan. Two Black candidates could make history in Florida’s gubernatorial and Senate races, sparking a conversation about Black representation. Senator Marsha Blackburn, a critic of unauthorized AI deepfakes, faces backlash for an AI campaign video mimicking Kendrick Lamar. Her response? “It’s funsies.” President Trump’s press secretary was fired after just five days. April Ryan examines what went wrong for Katie Zacharia and discusses her new book, Notes on a Blacklash: When a Black Woman Goes Viral. As America celebrates its 250th birthday, a Baltimore exhibition explores the symbolism of the flag and the complexities of patriotism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 44m 07s | ||||||
| 10/3/26 | Stunning Spike in Black Unemployment: What’ll be the Impact on Midterms? | The unemployment rate for Black Americans just saw the fastest one-month increase in 14 years. The September jobs report data is especially stark for Black women. Experts warn a rise in Black unemployment can be a warning sign for the overall U.S. economy. Is it also a political warning sign ahead of the midterms, now just one month away? Democrat Tharon Johnson and Republican April Chapman join Victor to debate. Thousands of legal immigrants are facing the loss of access to Medicaid starting this week. Victor speaks to Teresita Morales, whose partner needs special, extensive care after suffering a stroke and just found out he'll be losing coverage. Nearly 2 weeks after being shot by an ICE agent in Texas, Venezuelan delivery driver Wilber Rafael Garces Perez just had surgery to remove a bullet lodged in his body. Victor asks his attorney, Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch, what their next legal move is, as he remains in custody. Plus, Georgia Tech Associate Professor of Black Digital Media André Brock joins Victor to talk about the viral A.I. "Hotel Lobby" trend, and why there is so much debate about repurposing the music video originally featuring Takeoff and Quavo. Following racist backlash to a mariachi band’s performance of the National Anthem at a recent NFL game, Victor gets reaction from the founder of Mariachi Herencia de México, Cesar Maldonado. Later, Victor shares the story of Dr. Asa Yancey, and the doctors who have been fighting to get the pioneering Black surgeon the credit he was long overdue for inventing a life-saving procedure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 43m 19s | ||||||
| 9/19/26 | Gaza Soup Kitchen Founder Reacts to Macklemore Controversy and Donation | For the first time since the controversy erupted, Ed Sheeran performs Saturday night without Macklemore. After he was dropped from Sheeran's tour for giving a "Free Palestine" speech, Macklemore made a donation to support Gaza aid. Victor speaks to Gaza Soup Kitchen co-founder Hani Almadhoun, whose group Macklemore says some of that money is going to. The family of a Black pregnant woman in Texas says the state's strict abortion ban led to the 37-year-old's death. They've now filed a lawsuit, and among those named is Texas Republican Attorney General and senate candidate Ken Paxton. Tierra Walker's aunt, and the family's attorney Molly Duane, join Victor to discuss. At a moment where there is a lot of rhetoric aimed at immigrant truck drivers, there was disturbing news this week of a Sikh truck driver stabbed multiple times at a truck stop in Wyoming. Sikh attorney Jasjit Singh visited that driver in the hospital and joins Victor to discuss the case. And for Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, singer Montell Jordan shares his prostate cancer survival story and discusses with Victor why Black men in particular need to pay attention. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 43m 18s | ||||||
| 9/12/26 | Police Chief Speaks on Arrest in Case of Black Woman Found Hanging in Mississippi | There has been an arrest in the case of Tasia Fortune, the 29-year-old Black woman found hanging from a tree in Mississippi. Jackson Police Chief RaShall Brackney joins Victor to share the latest in the investigation and address nationwide alarm about Fortune's death given the state’s racial history. Plus, Victor speaks to Emerson Villaran Calles, who has lived in the U.S. for more than two decades but decided to "self-deport" this week ahead of the expected expiration of temporary protection from deportation for immigrants from El Salvador. Texas is moving forward with a rewrite of social studies lessons that critics, including Muslim students, say is anti-Islamic. The Republican chairman of the Texas State Board of Education, Aaron Kinsey, joins Victor to respond. Amid nationwide concern about Islamophobia around the 25th anniversary of 9/11, Victor shares the story of Muslim 9/11 victim and hero Mohammad Salman Hamdani. The father of a murder victim in North Carolina shared the story of his son Shemar in a Senate campaign ad, but he now says he feels misled by the GOP ad-creators. Ronald Hayes joins Victor to discuss. And for our Art is Life series this week, Victor explores how the Black workers who toiled in a swamp to build a garden are being honored decades after they were shunned from the place they helped create during Jim Crow segregation. Norfolk Botanical Garden Historian Martha McClenny Williams shares the history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 43m 54s | ||||||
| 8/29/26 | missing personsimmigrant issues+5 | Anurag GoelCarlos Collado+3 | Mayor Zohran MamdaniTohono O’odham Nation+1 | TexasNew York City+3 | Nepal floodmissing hiker+5 | — | 43m 22s | ||
| 8/22/26 | military historyracial issues+4 | Thomas BledsoeCarlos Del Toro+4 | A Different World | — | NavyTrump+6 | — | 42m 59s | ||
| 8/16/26 | investigationmystery+3 | Isabelle Chapman | FBI | Washington, D.C.Mississippi | Ilya BeloozerovFBI+5 | — | 1m 26s | ||
| 8/8/26 | Black votersDemocratic socialism+4 | Theodore JohnsonMopreme Shakur+4 | Washington PostCNN | WisconsinMichigan+5 | Black votersdemocratic socialism+5 | — | 44m 08s | ||
| 8/1/26 | public safetylaw enforcement+5 | Sean TindellViles Dorsainvil+1 | Michigan Democratic Party Black CaucusMichigan's State Board of Education | MississippiSpringfield, Ohio+2 | Nolan WellsMississippi Department of Public Safety+6 | — | 44m 22s | ||
| 7/25/26 | police violencecivil rights+4 | Sabrina MadisonKalpana Kotagal+2 | Foundations for Nations | — | Corey Ruizpolice shooting+6 | — | 45m 30s | ||
| 7/11/26 | investigationrace+4 | Christine WonsleyElmore Wonsley+4 | CNN | MississippiHaiti+3 | Nolan Wellsdeath investigation+7 | — | 45m 11s | ||
| 6/27/26 | Temporary Protected StatusHaitian community+5 | Viles DorsainvilMichele Johnson+2 | International Refugee Assistance ProjectTennessee Justice Center | — | Supreme Courtdeportation+8 | — | 44m 34s | ||
| 6/20/26 | police violencecommunity response+5 | Kohen Wiley's motherSarah Raviani+4 | NAACPTrump Administration+2 | — | Kohen Wileypolice shooting+8 | — | 44m 02s | ||
| 6/13/26 | World Cuppolitics+4 | Morgan OforiElijah Manley+6 | FIFAUFC+2 | United StatesFlorida+1 | FIFAWorld Cup+6 | — | 42m 46s | ||
| 6/6/26 | Black representationeconomic commentary+4 | Darrick HamiltonJudge Glenda Hatchett+2 | Capital B | FloridaSouth Florida+1 | Black jobseconomic expert+5 | — | 43m 51s | ||
| 5/30/26 | hunger strikeICE detainees+5 | Gabriela Soto | — | — | hunger strikeICE+5 | — | 43m 35s | ||
| 5/16/26 | voting rightsredistricting+4 | Janelle KingHarold Jones II+1 | Spelman College | GeorgiaKansas | voting rightsredistricting+8 | — | 44m 39s | ||
| 5/3/26 | voting rightsredistricting+5 | Bennie ThompsonLidia Terrazas | ICECNN+3 | MississippiDiamondhead+1 | Supreme Courtvoting maps+7 | — | 43m 43s | ||
| 4/25/26 | U.S. foreign policyMiddle East conflict+4 | Tia MitchellCharles Carithers+4 | Arab American Civil Rights LeagueNational Association of Black Journalists+1 | CaliforniaPakistan+2 | California Black Infant Health ProgramIsraeli airstrikes+6 | — | 43m 47s | ||
| 4/18/26 | Iran peace dealdetained Iranian Americans+5 | Ryan FayheeReginald Douglas+1 | CDCCNN Podcasts+7 | — | Iranpeace deal+6 | — | 43m 12s | ||
| 4/11/26 | Artemis IIVictor Glover+4 | Dr. Bishara BahbahKelvin King+3 | University of MissouriArab Americans for Trump+2 | — | Artemis IIVictor Glover+6 | — | 43m 40s | ||
| 3/28/26 | TSA fundingpolitical debate+5 | Yolanda KeatonJonathan McColumn+3 | DHSICE+2 | — | TSAfunding+7 | — | 43m 24s | ||
| 3/21/26 | U.S. government fundingwar with Iran+4 | Sarah HurtesMaria Hinojosa+1 | BTSMovimiento Democracia+2 | CubaIran+3 | IranCesar Chavez+6 | — | 42m 35s | ||
| 3/17/26 | boycottDEI initiatives+4 | Pastor Jamal Bryant | TargetCNN Podcasts+1 | — | TargetJamal Bryant+5 | — | 12m 11s | ||
| 3/14/26 | terror attacksfriendship+4 | Carlos Ortiz | Department of Homeland SecurityTSA+2 | MichiganOld Dominion University | terror attacksMichigan+6 | — | 43m 23s | ||
| 2/21/26 | Black MAGACongressional run+3 | Theodore R. JohnsonApril Ignacio+1 | Arizona's Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples Task Force | South Florida | Black MAGATrump+5 | — | 42m 43s | ||
| 2/14/26 | immigrationgovernment shutdown+4 | Chris BusbyMaya Rupert | Department of Homeland SecurityTSA+1 | — | ICE custodygovernment shutdown+7 | — | 43m 15s | ||
| 2/7/26 | Trump's racist videopolitical pressure+4 | Eugene RobinsonChristian Wade+1 | NFLCNN+1 | Jamaica | Trumpracist video+7 | — | 43m 42s | ||
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Chart history for First Of All with Victor Blackwell
Peaked at #19 in NG, currently #19 in NG.
| Market | Genre | Peak | Current | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG | — | #19 | #19 | — |
| KE | — | #71 | #71 | — |
| TR | — | #109 | #109 | — |
| Denmark | — | #110 | #110 | — |
| NG | — | #134 | #134 | — |
| TW | — | #160 | #160 | — |
| Netherlands | — | #167 | #167 | — |
| United States | — | #172 | #172 | — |
| PT | — | #173 | #173 | — |
| SA | — | #173 | #173 | — |
Chart Positions
10 placements across 9 markets.
Chart Positions
10 placements across 9 markets.