Black Men Are Talking. What’s the Problem?

As Black men flood the podcast space, criticism has followed. But the backlash may say more about listening than about speech.

Derek Fordjour, Boy Band Breakup: The Fall of Ascension (2025). Acrylic, charcoal, cardboard, oil pastel, and foil on newspaper mounted on canvas. 157.5 x 259.1 cm. Courtesy David Kordansky Gallery. Photo: Daniel Greer.

Black men are talking. A lot. Online, into microphones, sometimes for hours at a time. About dating and money and politics and God and r…