Black History Month Special February- Let Nobody Turn Us Around: An African American Anthology- Introduction

Send us Fan MailYoutube video link: https://youtu.be/VD2hV906mP8In honor of Black History Month in February, I want to share some of the most important insights I have learned from the book Let Nobody Turn Us Around: An African American Anthology (collection of essays and short speeches on black social and political thought primarily pertaining to the black struggle for liberation). This is part one, the intro, and the following 5 parts highlight 5 periods of American history since 1768 around the founding of the republic in 1776 all the way up to the seminal election of Barack Obama (who boasted a rainbow coalition) to the presidency of the United States of America in 2008. This almost 250 year history represents the black struggle for freedom and political advancement such as fulfilling the maximum privileges of participatory democracy as was the final goal of the democratic project (encompassing the previous fulfillment of political democracy in the 1850s through the first Reconstruction era and the aspirations for social democracy in the 1930s and 1940s). I point this out in the podcastThe book argues that we must reexamine the place of black women in the black liberation struggle, insisting that their contribution to the advancement of liberty for all people is severely understated. Nonetheless, there are many unsung male and female heroes including presidents who helped or thwarted democratic aspirations for all people.Black History Month February Coming up: The five part podcast on Let Nobody Turn Us Around: An African American Anthology1.     Stay tuned for next podcast Wednesday February 12 Lincoln’s birthday:    Section 1- Foundations: Slavery and Abolitionism, 1768-18612.     Section 2- Reconstruction and Reaction: The Aftermath of Slavery and the Dawn of Segregation, 1861-19153.     Section 3- From Plantation to Ghetto: The Great Migration, Harlem Renaissance, and World War, 1915-19544.     Section 4- We Shall Overcome: The Second Reconstruction, 1954-19755.     Section 5- The Future in the Present: Contemporary African-American Thought, 1975 to the Present