The Red & Black Podcasts

The Belong ticket won the University of Georgia Student Government Association election Friday. The ticket consists of Carter Marks, Jasmine Gresham and Shelly Chummar.

News contributor Ellie Shafer breaks down the election and what to expect from the executive ticket-elect. Digital producer Sarah Detwiler hosts.

Georgia baseball won its opening series Sunday, Feb. 21 against Evansville. The team has had to handle losing top players to the MLB Draft and COVID-19 adjustments.

Sports editor Austin Roper and managing editor William Newlin talk about their observations and the team's future. Digital producer Sarah Detwiler hosts.

This week's podcast previews the February print issue of The Red & Black, which focuses on gender and sexuality at the University of Georgia and in Athens. Stories include the lack of women coaches in Georgia sports and a column about being a queer journalist.

Editor-in-chief Sherry Liang and managing editor William Newlin talk about the paper's theme, while assistant sports editors Drew Hubbard and Sydney Kohne talk about the lack of women coaches. Digital producer Sarah Detwiler hosts.

University of Georgia students like junior Chris Lim invested in GameStop in January. The video game retailer's stock surged after small-time investors bought shares to show their strength against hedge funds. In this episode, digital producer Sarah Detwiler interviews Lim and reporters Emily Garcia and Sydney Dangremond, who wrote about UGA students' involvement in the stock surge.

In the 1960s, UGA destroyed Linnentown - a historically Black community -  to make way for Creswell, Russel and Brumby Hall. In this week's episode, reporter Henry Queen talks to Hattie Thomas Whitehead about her experience living in Linnentown and why members of the community are speaking out. 

Local Athens record shops Wuxtry Records and Low Yo Yo Stuff records have worked to overcome the challenges of COVID-19 and corporatization of the record store industry. In this week's episode, contributor Andrew Benzinger discusses his story on how the shops have managed their business. 

The Georgia men's basketball season is underway with the Bulldogs winning their first game of the season 85-75 against Florida A&M on Nov. 29. This week, we talk with sports editor Andy Walsh about how this season's team will fill the void left by Anthony Edwards and adjust to COVID-19 impacting the schedule. 

The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately impacted the Black community in Athens. Despite only one-third of the Athens population being Black, the majority of hospitalizations are Black people. 

The early summer protests and COVID-19 pandemic had reversing effects on the Black-owned business sector in the United States. In this episode, bakeries in Northeast Georgia, which are referred to as "third places" — the locations that consumers visit between work and home that were adversely impacted by the pandemic — discuss the impact of both events on their revenue, customer base and business model. 

We're joined by Red & Black Football Writers Augusta Stone, William Newlin and Austin Roper to talk about what to look out for as the Bulldogs travel to Tuscaloosa, and how our writers think the game will go. 

We go over the biggest matchup of the day: Alabama's offense and UGA's defense. We also go into a smaller — no, bigger! — section of this matchup: Alabama's offensive line against UGA's front seven. Austin Roper believes this game will be won or lost in the trenches, and he makes his case for why. 

We also discuss how Nick Saban potentially not being on the sideline could affect the game. No more than 10 minutes after recording, news came out that Saban might be on the sideline at kickoff. We left the conversation in because it's still possible Saban is not allowed to coach, and our conversation asks some interesting questions: How much does an absent head coach affect a team? Is it fair to put an asterisk on the game if Georgia wins? Which team is this game more important to?