By Taylor Fields
Jan 22, 2021
The 2021 iHeartRadio Podcast Awards celebrated the best in podcasting over the last year, and in addition to winners across many different categories, the annual show also presented three Icon Awards to pay tribute to the creators, organizations and podcasts that have made groundbreaking contributions to podcasting’s expanding role in today’s popular culture.
Baratunde Thurston was honored with the 2021 Social Impact Award, as the comedian and activist s How To Citizen podcast provides new perspectives and practices from people working to improve society for the many. Presented with the award from
Questlove, Thurston explained the motivation behind starting his podcast, having grown up in Washington, DC with his computer programmer mother. He explained, My journey has been trying to bring the racial awareness I was born into, the sort of small-d democratic obsession that I started to develop, and my super geeky, nerdy tech-ness into some
This year's iHeartRadio Podcast Awards paid tribute to the creators, organizations and podcasts that have made groundbreaking contributions to podcasting’s expanding role in today’s popular culture
This year's iHeartRadio Podcast Awards paid tribute to the creators, organizations and podcasts that have made groundbreaking contributions to podcasting’s expanding role in today’s popular culture
This year's iHeartRadio Podcast Awards paid tribute to the creators, organizations and podcasts that have made groundbreaking contributions to podcasting’s expanding role in today’s popular culture
This year's iHeartRadio Podcast Awards paid tribute to the creators, organizations and podcasts that have made groundbreaking contributions to podcasting’s expanding role in today’s popular culture