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Thankfully, there’s a wave of podcasts that focus on the voices, stories, and experiences of Black men in a media landscape that frequently neglects their health and wellness needs. The platforms to be featured are prioritizing these concerns through podcasts that deliver in-depth explorations of mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual wellness for Black men. Check out BLACK ENTERPRISE’s curated list of digital storytellers and communities who utilize their platforms to support Black men in achieving holistic health.
Just Heal Bro
Just Heal Bro represents a healing-centered movement with Jay Barnett hosting its national tour and activities. The podcast acts as a tour extension by presenting panel discussions and keynote reflections that focus on healing Black men from systemic, familial, and personal trauma. Just Heal Bro brings unique storytelling combined with community healing elements and creates an engaging experience for the brothers.
The Pivot Podcast
Since 2022, The Pivot Podcast, hosted by ex-NFL stars Ryan Clark, Channing Crowder, and Fred Taylor, has gained popularity. The Pivot Podcast extends its discussion beyond sports topics to explore mental health issues, personal identity struggles, and life after celebrity status. Conversations challenge traditional Black masculinity while encouraging men to embrace vulnerability.
Black Men Sundays
The podcast Black Men Sundays, featuring Corie Murray, has been in operation since 2021. The podcast maintains its wealth-building emphasis while connecting financial literacy to mental health by claiming that true prosperity encompasses emotional and spiritual well-being. Black Men Sundays features men and women who achieve career progression while maintaining physical and mental well-being to redefine holistic success.
Real Health Black Men
Real Health Black Men debuted in 2025. Grantley Martelly started this insightful podcast that illuminates significant health topics like prostate cancer, fitness wellness, and healthcare access. The show encourages Black men to take control of their health journey through straight to the point discussions. Each episode presents brief educational sections which combine real personal accounts with practical advice.
Better Black Health Podcast
The Better Black Health Podcast, hosted by Dr. Greg Hall, began around 2021. What sets it apart is his physician’s perspective. In the podcast, Dr. Hall investigates numerous health subjects such as vitamin D deficiency and cancer prevention, as well as diabetes and hypertension, while emphasizing specialized healthcare approaches for Black bodies. Expert-driven, research-based insights focused on Black men’s physiology and preventive strategies make the podcast a valuable health improvement resource for Black men.
Man to Man: A Wellness Series
David Wasicki of the Black Love Podcast Network has hosted Man to Man: A Wellness Series as a weekly roundtable since 2021. Black men from various sectors such as entrepreneurship, sports, and those who are public figures, engage in conversations around fitness, nutrition, self-care, mental strength, emotional resilience, mindfulness, personal growth, and more. Listeners can engage in authentic vulnerability and build community, while gaining wellness wisdom across every aspect of men’s health.
All Black Men Need Therapy
All Black Men Need Therapy, presented by Chief, Bell, and Prentice, began broadcasting in 2020 and now boasts a total of 139 episodes. This podcast explores essential topics including systemic stress, relationships, identity, and cultural pressures. Programming offers Black men a space for self-reflection and personal development. Through its extensive series of almost 150 open dialogues, this platform has evolved into a safe environment where Black men can make therapy commonplace and examine their emotional experiences.
Let’s Talk, Bruh
Though no longer active, from 2018-2024 Let’s Talk, Bruh served as a positive platform for Black men. The podcast initiated open discussions on Black masculinity and mental health. The topics explored were therapy, emotional vulnerability, toxic masculinity, and self-awareness. Every episode functions as a reflective space for Black men to examine their wellness while gaining essential knowledge.
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It took 36 seasons, but The Simpsons finally did something no one ever expected: it killed off one of its iconic family’s core members. Don’t worry, technically this death won’t happen for a very long time.
The Simpsons began its 36th season with the show’s “series finale.” It ended the year with a different kind of flash forward. It was the long-running cartoon’s latest installment to jump far ahead into the family’s lives, as it took viewers 35 years past the “present” day, where Bart and Lisa are/have always been in elementary school. Unlike previous episodes set in the future, this one showed one of the Simpsons dead.
And we mean dead-dead. It showed the family’s beloved matriarch Marge in Heaven with her old/new again crush, (the still alive in 2025) Ringo Starr.
The episode revolves around how Bart and Lisa grew apart when they stopped watching Itchy and Scratchy together as kids. Decades later we then learn Marge died years ago, Lisa became commissioner of the NBA (the new name of the WNBA), Bart remained in Springfield, and, like his dad before him, Homer was living in a retirement home.
Or at least, that’s where Lisa thought Homer was living. The truth of father’s living arrangement then leads to a fight between the two siblings. Fortunately they eventually reconcile in a very Simpsons-esque manner after finding a recording Marge left behind for them.
Learning Marge Simpson died—or rather, will have died—is unsettling. She hasn’t aged a day in almost 40 years! We thought she’d live forever. But it’s hard to get too worked up over this. The show has long treated flash forward episodes as fun gimmicks rather than hard and fast canon. Stories set in the future are never beholden to previous episodes that also showed what might happen to the family. So viewers can take comfort in knowing that even if The Simpsons finally did the seeming impossible by killing off Marge they didn’t really.
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Last year, the folks at LEGO Ideas had an ’80s-inspired contest, which resulted in cool LEGO builds for Gremlins, E.T., and Beetlejuice. This year, LEGO Ideas jumped to the next decade for their Build Your Nostalgia: ’90s Throwback Competition. And the winners were two very iconic ’90s properties, from opposite ends of the spectrum — The X-Files, and Wallace & Gromit. You can check out images of these incredible new LEGO Ideas fan builds below:
The X-Files: The Truth Is Out There
LEGO Ideas user WetWired’s The X-Files: The Truth Is Out There features a build that celebrates F.B.I. Agents Scully and Mulder. The top part of this two-tiered LEGO build showcases a forest where a UFO is landing, including a grey alien beaming out of a ship. Below is a replica of Fox Mulder’s FBI office, which, of course, includes his infamous “The Truth Is Out There” poster. The minifugures include Mulder and Scully, along with Assistant Director Walter Skinner, Eugene Tooms, the Syndicate Leader, and even the Jersey Devil.
Wallace & Gromit
A LEGO Ideas user named Pidelium created the Wallace & Gromit set, which doesn’t include any aliens, sadly. We’ll have to wait for their Aardman Studios buddy Shaun the Sheep for that one. Instead, it’s based on the classic Wallace & Gromit short film A Close Shave. It shows the iconic duo riding their motorbike and sidecar for their window-cleaning business with big wide grins. This set doesn’t include any minifigures, as the Aardman Studios signature characters are the LEGO build themselves. The look of this LEGO Ideas set really looks like the claymation models from the films, and is exquisitely made.
LEGO will no doubt make changes to the actual sets they release. But we hope they stick close to the original fan ideas here. Because we think both of these LEGO Ideas users really nailed the assignment. Now, we await news of a LEGO Ideas 2000s contest. Is it finally time for a Breaking Bad set?
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