Black History Podcast

Episodes

1. 24

   George Crum - "Leaving Crum(b)s Through History"

   In the United States, potatoes are the second most consumed item, just behind rice. But when potatoes are thin sliced, fried and salted, they go from being the number two consumed food to the number one snack food of choice. George Crum, also known as George Speck, was born in 1824 in Saratoga...

   Oct 16, 2017

   26m
2. 23

   Curt Flood - "Finding Freedom in Sport"

   “I do not feel that I am a piece of property to be bought and sold irrespective of my wishes. I believe that any system which produces that result violates my basic rights as a citizen and is inconsistent with the laws of the United States." Curt Flood was born in Houston, Texas on January 18,...

   Oct 9, 2017

   27m
3. 22

   Francois Dominique Toussaint L’Ouverture - For Liberty of Haiti

   Toussaint L’Ouverture’s father was a man named Gaou Guinou, the son of the King of Allada, a west African kingdom located in present-day Benin. L’Ouverture’s father was captured during a war, and subsequently sold into slavery. L’Ouverture’s mother was named Pauline, Guinou's second wife, and...

   Oct 1, 2017

   46m
4. 1966

   1966 - The Bayview-Hunter's Point Riot

   On September 27, 1966 a riot broke out in San Francisco's Bayview-Hunters Point, a black neighborhood, when a white police officer shot and killed a seventeen-year-old African American teen, Matthew Johnson, Jr. By the 1960’s, the Bayview-Hunter’s Point neighborhoods were populated predominantly...

   Sep 9, 2017

   35m
5. 20

   Jean-Michel Basquiat - "The Original Social Graffitist"

   Jean-Michel Basquiat was born on December 22, 1960 in Brooklyn, New York. His ethnic background was Hatian, through his father, and Puerto Rican, through his mother. Basquiat had an interest in art that was developed from his mother’s insistence, and encouragement; but he learned to draw just by...

   May 29, 2017

   30m
6. 19

   The Diaspora - From Plymouth to Revolution

   Prior to the Pilgrims arriving to to Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620, people of African descent had been in the United States, since at least 1619. In addition, one of the early settlers of Plymouth Colony was in fact a black man. By the 1640s black Pilgrims were serving in the Plymouth Colony...

   Apr 17, 2017

   31m
7. 18

   Crispus Attucks - "Sacrificed for American Freedom"

   Crispus Attucks was the first casualty of the American Revolution when he was shot and killed at the Boston Massacre, also known as the “Incident on King Street”. Some reports say Attucks was a leader, and instigator of the event, and over the centuries debate rages as to whether he was a hero…

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   Apr 7, 2017

   20m
8. 17

   Hannibal Barca - "The Greatest Military Commander in History"

   Carthage was founded in 814 B.C. For most of its history, Carthage was on hostile terms with the Greeks in Sicily and especially with the Roman Republic. These hostilities would culminate in the Greek-Punic Wars (Carthage and Greece) lasting the span of about 375 years, and the Punic Wars…

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   Nov 14, 2016

   31m
9. 16

   LeRoy "Satchel" Paige - "A Timeless Talent"

   Leroy Robert Paige was born somewhere around July 7, what we believe to have been 1906 in Mobile, Alabama. Leroy started off scouring local alleyways and cashing in the empty bottles he’d find on the street. His mother sent him to earn money as a child carrying luggage for businessmen at the…

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   Apr 7, 2016

   44m
10. 15

    The Congolese Holocaust

    After the Berlin Conference of 1884 the 905,000 square miles of the Belgian Congo [now the Democratic Republic of the Congo] became the personal property of King Leopold II of Belgium. His genocidal exploitation of the territory, particularly the rubber trade, caused many deaths and much…

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    Mar 8, 2016

    49m
11. 14

    Kathleen Cleaver - A Living Liberator

    Kathleen Neal was born on May 13, 1945 in Memphis, Texas. With two parents who were college graduates, it wouldn’t be tough to see the important role that education and higher learning would go to play in her life; and also the intellect that she would go on to display in her activism work. Her...

    Feb 15, 2016

    40m
12. 13

    Thomas Sankara - The African Che Guevara

    Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in West Africa surrounded by six (6) countries. As of 2014 the population of the country hovered just over 17.3 million. Not a tiny country, but definitely not very large either. Originally known as the Republic of Upper Volta, Sankara renamed the country...

    Jan 11, 2016

    47m
13. 12

    Emily Morgan - "Yellow Rose of Texas"

    There are three (3) historical documents that support the existence of an Emily Morgan in connection with the time period immediately surrounding the independence of Texas. Emily ended up catching the eye of Mexican General Santa Anna, and against her will was forced to her tent and kept there…

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    Jan 6, 2016

    33m
14. 11

    Vincente Guerrero - "The First Black President in North America"

    Vicente Ramón Guerrero Saldaña (Spanish: [biˈsente raˈmoŋ ɡeˈreɾo salˈdaɲa]; August 10, 1782 – February 14, 1831) was one of the leading revolutionary generals of the Mexican War of Independence. He fought against Spain for independence in the early 19th century, and later served as President of...

    Dec 30, 2015

    30m
15. 10

    George Alexander McGuire - "God and Christ are Black"

    George Alexander McGuire was born on March 26, 1866 at Sweets, Antigua, in the Caribbean West Indies. As a child, he studied in local grammar schools on the island, then continued on at the Antiguan branch of Mico College for teachers and eventually at the Moravian Miskey Seminary in the Danish...

    Dec 17, 2015

    32m
16. 9

    Susie King Taylor - "Fearless in the Face of Calamity"

    Susie King Taylor was born a slave, the first of nine children at Grest Farm (35 miles south of Savannah) in Liberty County, Georgia on Aug. 6, 1848. Her mother was a domestic servant for the Grest family. At the age of about five she had mastered the skills of reading and writing. Taylor soon...

    Dec 1, 2015

    33m
17. 8

    Marcus Garvey & The Pan-African Movement [UPDATE]

    **UPDATED EPISODE** Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr. was born on August 17, 1887 in Saint Ann’s Bay, Jamaica to Marcus Garvey, Sr. and Sarah Jane Richards. After studying at Birkbeck College in London, in 1914 Garvey, and his first wife - Amy Ashwood Garvey - would organize and start the Universal Nego...

    Nov 23, 2015

    34m
18. 7

    Seneca Village - Eminent Destruction for Progress?

    Seneca Village may possibly have been Manhattan, New York’s first stable community of African-American property owners ; and it is considered by historians as well to be one of Manhattan’s earliest communities of African-American property owners. Located from 81st to 89th Streets between Seventh...

    Nov 19, 2015

    34m
19. 6

    The Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes

    With certainty, we can only date Black hockey to the early 1870’s, yet we know that hockey and Black history in Nova Scotia have parallel roots, going back almost 100 years. The Colored Hockey League was like no other hockey or sports league before or since. Approximately half the players in the...

    Nov 9, 2015

    31m
20. 5

    Esther Jones - "Boop-Oop-A-Doop"

    Betty Boop is one of the most iconic cartoon characters of all time, a virtual sex symbol created during a time where bold women were often frowned upon. The character’s signature vocals stood out, but she wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for a Black woman in Harlem who inspired the style. Those…

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    Nov 2, 2015

    31m
21. 4

    Haile Selassie & Modern Rastafarianism (pt. 2)

    Rastafari is a belief which developed in Jamaica in the 1930s, following the coronation of Haile Selassie I as Emperor of Ethiopia in 1930. Its adherents worship Haile Selassie I, emperor of Ethiopia (ruled 1930–1974), much in the same way as Jesus, or as God the Father. Members of the Rastafari...

    Oct 27, 2015

    45m
22. 3

    Haile Selassie - A Rise to Power (pt. 1)

    Ras Tafari Makonnen rose to power in Ethiopia in 1930 and proclaimed him self "Might of the Trinity" (aka Haile Selassie). As an autocratic ruler, Selassie modernized Ethiopia and led the resistance against Italian colonial power.

    Oct 19, 2015

    36m
23. 2

    Bantu Steven Biko - "Black Is Beautiful"

    Bantu Stephen Biko was an anti-apartheid activist in South Africa in the 1960s and 1970s. A student leader, he later founded the Black Consciousness Movement.

    Oct 10, 2015

    38m
24. 1

    Welcome to "The Black History Podcast"

    The “Black History” podcast ventures to each week introduce an innovative topic, influential person or present interesting aspects of history related to the African diaspora to those seeking knowledge and enlightenment.

    Sep 17, 2015

    6m