Necessary Blackness Podcast

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Necessary Blackness is a widely popular podcast by award winning journalist and filmmaker Rahiem Shabazz. Necessary Blackness reaches over 10,000 people weekly and is for those who are unapologetic in showing their appreciation and love for black culture and people.

Here are a few quick tips when navigating our skill. The First thing to note, when opening the skill you’ll be playing the latest episode, but if that’s not what you’re looking for, you can always find something more specific. This skill allows you to play next or previous episode. In addition, you can ask the skill to play the newest or oldest episodes or if you want to get specific, play a specific episode by saying the episode number. Try some of these commands:

**Search Via Episode**
— [While Episode Is Playing] = “Alexa, open Necessary Blackness Podcast to play episode "xyz"”

**Next/Previous Episode**
— [While Episode Is Playing] = “Alexa, next”
— [While Episode Is Playing] = “Alexa, previous”

**Select Latest Episode**
— “Alexa, open Necessary Blackness Podcast to play latest episode”

**Select First Episode**
— “Alexa, open Necessary Blackness Podcast to start from first episode”