Yhane Washington Smith

Harlem Queen is a fiction podcast hosted by Yhane Washington Smith. It has 39 episodes, with the latest published December 2025.

Harlem Queen is an award-winning Black historical fiction audio drama based on the true story of Madame Stephanie St. Clair, the bold, brilliant "Numbers Queen" who built a Harlem empire during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s.Written, produced, and directed by Yhane Washington Smith, an A'Leila Bundles Scholar at Columbia University, this five-season series brings Madame St. Clair's world to vivid life through original music, meticulous sound design, and a full cast of characters. Jazzy, glamorous, and unflinching about what it meant to be a Black woman in America in the 1920s.As featured on ABC's primetime documentary The Story of Soaps. History this rich deserves to be heard.You can follow on Instagram: @Yhane.Writes, our web site: YhaneWashingtonSmith.com, email: [email protected]. or our newsletter: https://harlemqueen.substack.com/Thank you for listening!

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