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The Fred Opie Show
by Fred Opie LLC
Dr. Frederick Douglass Opie is a Professor at Babson College and author of several books. Opie played lacrosse at Syracuse University and on US National Team in Perth, Australia (1990). He's asking the tough questions to coaches, parents, and players about achieving balance and success on and off the field.
Episodes
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Food, Jazz & Protest in Jim Crow Washington, DC
Food, Jazz & Protest in Jim Crow DC is an episode related to Fred’s book Southern Food and Civil Rights: Feeding the Revolution which delves into US movements for progressive change from the 1940s to the present. Oral histories and newspaper accounts provide the bulk of the primary source…
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Babson College Chef Dick Roussel
Chef Dick Roussel worked at Babson College for 25 years. Based on oral histories collected from Babson College alumni as well as his daughter, this podcast looks at the career of the chef In answers the question what role does great food play on a college campus? We learned that food improves...
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Selecting College Course Paper or Project Topics
Is there a way you could advance your career with each course and paper project you do? I say absolutely! Choose to research and write about something related to what you're interested in as a career or possible career option. Think about all the papers and projects you need to do for your...
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The Sweet Legacy of Doña Josefa Marmanill
Doña Josefa Marmanill, an enslaved Afro-Peruvian cook, whose legacy continues to tantalize our taste buds and inspire our hearts.
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Hacks for Student Athletes
Thanks to consider as a college student athlete that will improve your outcomes on and off the field. About Dr. Opie Dr. Frederick Douglass Opie earned a gold medal as a member of the 1990 US National Lacrosse Team. He is a professional speaker, Babson Professor of History and talking head...
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Fannie Lou Hamer's Freedom Farm Cooperative
Fannie Lou Hamer is a trailblazing activist who not only fought for civil rights but also championed economic independence. She founded the Freedom Farm Cooperative, which provided food and economic opportunities to Black Mississippians. Her legacy continues to inspire us today. #FannieLouHamer...
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Marcus Garvey's United Negro Improvement Association
Marcus Garvey's United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) had more than 700 chapters in 38 states alone in the early 1920s, including hundreds of more chapters throughout the world. The UNIA championed Black nationalism, self-determination, and Black entrepreneurship. Garvey founded the Negro...
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History of African American Cooperatives
Today we dive into the history of African American Cooperatives. George Schuyler, founder of the Young Negro Cooperative League, and Ella Baker, assistant of the Young Negro Cooperative League, organized food co-ops and Black-owned and operated grocery stores throughout the U.S. during the Great...
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Ousmane K Power-Green, The Confessions of Matthew Strong
Dr. Ousmane K. Power-Greene published his first novel titled The Confessions of Matthew Strong, We talk about his journey to becoming a fiction writer, returning to graduate school, lessons learned in athletics, and the new book. Power-Greene is an Associate Professor of History at Clark...
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Juneteenth Food Traditions
(Excerpts from a show that first aired circa 2009 on "Here On Earth: Radio Without Borders" which was hosted by Jean Feraca and ran on Wisconsin Public Radio from July 2003 until she retired in 2012) Juneteenth celebrations commemorate June 19, 1865 when the Emancipation Proclamation was finally...
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Food Figures, Episode 1, Mahalia Jackson
Food Figures Host and Producer: Dr. Frederick Douglass Opie Associate Producer: Kiara Thomas Read More on Mahalia Jackson: http://www.fredopie.com/search?q=Mahalia%20Jackson About Dr. Opie: https://www.fredopie.com/courses Dr. Opie's Books: https://www.fredopie.com/books/ Instagram:...
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Food Facts, Episode 11, Spicy Foods
Food Facts Host and Producer: Dr. Frederick Douglass Opie Associate Producer: Kiara Thomas Spicy Foods Stories and Recipes: https://www.fredopie.com/search?q=Spicy About Dr. Opie: https://www.fredopie.com/courses Dr. Opie's Books: https://www.fredopie.com/books/ Instagram:...
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Food Facts, Episode 10, Cake
Food Facts Host and Producer: Dr. Frederick Douglass Opie Associate Producer: Kiara Thomas About Dr. Opie: www.fredopie.com/courses Dr. Opie's Books: www.fredopie.com/books/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/fdopie/ Twitter: twitter.com/DrFredDOpie Want to book Dr. Opie for an upcoming event or media...
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Food Facts, Episode 9, Food and Politics
Food Facts Host and Producer: Dr. Frederick Douglass Opie Associate Producer: Kiara Thomas Food and Politics Stories and Recipes: http://www.fredopie.com/search?q=Politics About Dr. Opie: www.fredopie.com/courses Dr. Opie's Books: www.fredopie.com/books/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/fdopie/...
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Zora Neale Hurston And Historical Memory
Dr. Frederick Douglass Opie discusses Zora Neale Hurston’s early twentieth-century ethnographic research and writing. It emphasizes the essentials of food in Florida including everyday meals as well as special occasions and looks at what shaped people’s eating traditions in early twentieth…
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Toxic Race Based Identities
Fred Opie's talks about US views of race and the limits of the traditional black white binary children grow up with in the country with the examples from Michael Patrick MacDonald's book All Souls about growing in Boston's Southie section of the city. Links to related content mentioned in the...
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Father Divine’s Harlem Peace Center and Food
Dr. Frederick Douglass Opie shares oral histories from Harlem residents about Father Divine. Every Sunday during the Great Depression the controversial New York-based evangelist Father Divine (aka the Reverend General Jealous Divine and aka George Baker) fed starving interracial groups by the...
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Historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad
A native of Chicago’s South Side, Khalil Gibran Muhammad is professor of History, Race and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School His research and writing examines race, democracy, inequality and criminal justice in modern U.S. history. He is the author of The Condemnation of Blackness: Race,...
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Food Rebel Part 3
Dr. Opie talks about Food Rebels who he calls people who went against the grain and led or participated in movements in the US that championed ending food insecurity and eating nutrient-rich food. These entrepreneurs, organizers, educators, and nationalists, among other positions were leaders in...
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Soup Joumou For New Years
What special occasion dish takes you back home with just one bite? Dr. Régine Michelle Jean-Charles talks about the origins of Soup Joumou (recipe below). Dr. Régine Michelle Jean-Charles: www.bc.edu/bc-web/schools/mcas…e-jean-charles.html Soup Joumou Recipe: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Famkik17YQ...
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Food Rebels Part 2
Dr. Opie talks about Food Rebels who he calls people who went against the grain and led or participated in movements in the US that championed ending food insecurity and eating nutrient-rich food. These entrepreneurs, organizers, educators, and nationalists, among other positions were leaders in...
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Food Rebels Part 1
Dr. Opie talks about Food Rebels who he calls people who went against the grain and led or participated in movements in the US that championed ending food insecurity and eating nutrient-rich food. These entrepreneurs, organizers, educators, and nationalists, among other positions were leaders in...
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Food in Literature
Reboot of Dr. Opie discussing places where food has been made, sold, and eaten¬ in important books in the African American literature such as: Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup…; Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass; Esteban Montejo, James Weldon...
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New England Food'ways
Reboot of 2019 ArtScience talk on New England Foodways held in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Leah Mennies, a former Senior Food Editor at Boston Magazine organized and hosted the event. Panelist included Food Historian Fred Opie, Irene Li, chef/owner of Mei Mei, and Marc Sheehan, chef/owner of Loyal...
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Reflections on Over 2 Decades of Teaching
Excerpt of Dr. Frederick Douglass Opie's responses to his students end of the semester questions: What lessons did you learn from your days as an athlete? What is a bad habit you would like to change? How do you prevent burnout? What is something you fear? Worse and best classroom experiences?...
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Great Migration Factors and Defacto Jim Crow
In this bonus episode Dr. Opie discusses the systemic underdevelopment in the south including food violence pushed black folk to leave the south and better opportunities pulled blacks to migrate to cities like Detroit during the Great migration between World Wars I and II. And he talks about life...
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Producing A Food Show
Host Fred Opie Interviews Show Runner Jared Andrukanis. His credits include working for Zero Point Zero Productions on the show Points Unknown with host Anthony Bourdain, which is one of the few food shows I watched. This interview is a must for people who want to enter into the production…
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How to Avoid Boredom
Fred shares a teaching tip from 25 years in the business; avoid boring topics like kryptonite and you will always bring an infectious enthusiasm with you wherever you teach. Host and Producer Dr. Frederick Douglass Opie About Dr Opie: https://www.fredopie.com/courses Books:...
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Rhubarb, A Global History
Food Facts Host and Producer: Dr. Frederick Douglass Opie Associate Producer: Kiara Thomas Rhubarb Stories and Recipes: https://www.fredopie.com/search?q=Rhubarb About Dr. Opie: https://www.fredopie.com/courses Dr. Opie's Books: https://www.fredopie.com/books/ Instagram:...
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As American as Tomato Sauce
A bit size look at the history of tomatoes Food Facts Host and Producer: Dr. Frederick Douglass Opie Associate Producer: Kiara Thomas Tomatoes Stories and Recipes: https://www.fredopie.com/search?q=Tomatoes+ About Dr. Opie: https://www.fredopie.com/courses Dr. Opie's Books:...
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Dr Alvenia M. Fulton
Greatest nutritional mind of the 20th century, Dr. Alvenia Fulton Food Facts Host and Producer: Dr. Frederick Douglass Opie Associate Producer: Kiara Thomas Dr. Alvenia Fulton: https://www.fredopie.com/search?q=Dr.%20Alvenia%20Fulton About Dr. Opie: https://www.fredopie.com/courses Dr. Opie's...
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Yams vs Sweet Potatoes
What's the difference between yams and sweet potatoes? Food Facts Host and Producer: Dr. Frederick Douglass Opie Assistant Producer: Kiara Thomas Yams Stories and Recipes: https://www.fredopie.com/search?q=Yams Sweet Potatoes Stories and Recipes: https://www.fredopie.com/search?q=Sweet%20Potatoes...
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Historian Earl Lewis
Earl Lewis is Thomas C. Holt Distinguished University Professor of History, Afro American and African Studies, and Public Policy and Director of Center for Social Solutions at University of Michigan. He talks about his journey through higher education and why he has created a way to prepare for...
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Don't Let Test Scores Define Your Future
Live event Fred did for Harlem Lacrosse and organization that uses lacrosse to teach life skills. In this excerpts Fred shares the story of how is academic outcomes and opportunities radically improved. Harlem Lacrosse: https://www.instagram.com/harlem_lacrosse/ Host and Producer Dr. Frederick...
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Greens
Welcome to our new series Food Facts where we serve up small portions of interesting food history. First up is Greens. Historically Africans, Asians, and Americans ate lots of greens as compared with Europeans. Today most native born US southerners regards less of their zip code is a greens and...
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Part 1 Perfect Is Overrated, Part 2 Editing After Receiving Feedback
Host and Producer Dr. Frederick Douglass Opie. Follow Dr. Opie and share a link. Do you procrastinates because your a perfectionist? Not sure what or how to edit your work after you receive feedback from an editor, supervisor, professor, or dissertation advisor? Fred shares practical advice from...
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Bonus, The Soul Patrol Today
A bonus for my supporters from the episode The Soul Patrol. From 1980-1991 Hobart College won 12 consecutive NCAA Division III national championships! As part of our ongoing series, A History of African-Americans in Lacrosse, we interview the members of the soul patrol—an African-American…
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Remembering Dr. Fulton
Beginning in the late 1950s, Fultonia’s Health Food and Fasting Center was a local hub for health foods and natural remedies, always buzzing with customers. And while Chicagoans frequented the store for freshly prepared meals and alternative medicine, notable figures from all over the...
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Zora Neale Hurston on Food And Romance
Recording of a lecture that Food Historian Dr. Frederick Douglass Opie did at Harvard University about Food and Romance in Zora Neale Hurston’s writings. As an anthropologist she did fieldwork in the US South during the Great Depression as a WPA writer. For More of Fred's Work on Zora Neale...
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A Code Switch Thanksgiving Feast
Audio Courtesy of NPR Fred Opie contributes to an historic Thanksgiving Day food fight on NPR's Code Switch: what's better sweet potato or pumpkin pie? What are the cultural roots of this debate. Link to the original story: https://www.npr.org/2017/11/22/565777176/a-code-switch-thanksgiving-feast...
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Special Edition: Sports and Education
Today's show is different from our usual episodes and it is much longer but worth the listen. The topic is on diversity and inclusion in sports, schools, and industry; a subject most white folks are scared to talk about and black and Brown people regularly talk discuss behind closed doors.…
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New York Yankee Promises Broken Promises
In 2006, the Yankees announced plans to build a new $800 million dollar stadium. In order to do so, the administration of former billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg doled out public welfare to the privately owned lucrative sports franchise. The welfare included $444 million in rent and tax…
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Remembering Rep John Lewis And Rev CT Vivian
Today's show is twofold first it a remembrance of Congressman John Lewis 1940-2020 and activist CT Vivian 1924-2020. Like revolutionaries John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, Lewis and Vivian died on the same day after a life time of advancing the revolution started in this country in 1776. Second a...
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For Educators
A debrief of an introduction to African Diaspora studies course on Africa, the Americas, and Europe through the lens of history and food using a methodology borrowed from the study of Judaism. The framework allows one to understand empires, colonization, and the migrant communities and the…
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Black Panther Party vs Black Lives Matter
Today’s show is a remix of a 2015 panel comparing and contrasting the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, of the late 1960s with the Black Lives Matter movement of today featuring Historian Fred Opie and Youth Pastor David D. Price of the First A.M.E. Church of Los Angeles. The show includes...
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Historical Memory And Black Lives Matter
Today's show is an historical look at the Black Lives Matter movement. We start with a look the Great Migration, Defacto Jim Crow in New York and contrast with the Jim Crow South during roughly the same period in US history. We end the show with a look at revolutionaries and revolutionary…
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What Is Racism?
Observed from a episode titled "How Can I Help Black Folk Too Mr. Douglass? In which Topic of racism is unpacked and you might be surprised by the answers Dr. Tina Opie shares. Here's a link to the entire episode: http://www.fredopie.com/sports/2020/6/4/how-can-i-help-black-folk-too-mr-douglass…
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Harvard Historian Khalil Muhammad
A native of Chicago’s South Side, Khalil Gibran Muhammad is professor of History, Race and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School His research and writing examines race, democracy, inequality and criminal justice in modern U.S. history. He is the author of The Condemnation of Blackness: Race,...
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How Can I Help Black Folk Too Mr. Douglass?
Today's show," How Can I help Black People Too Mr. Douglass?," should be rated PG 13 because of the topic—US racism and solutions to turning this ship in the right direction. What you hear may make you cry, angry, laugh, and cry some more and get angrier. The show features interviews with three...
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Jackie Pitts
A 1959 graduate of St. Lawrence University, Hall of Famer Jackie Pitts played club lacrosse for the Philadelphia Bandits and the Philadelphia Women's Lacrosse Association. She was a member of the U.S. Women’s Team and U.S. Reserve Team from 1964-74. She later served as the head coach of the U.S....
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Dr. Frederick Douglass Opie is a Professor at Babson College and author of several books. Opie played lacrosse at Syracuse University and on US National Team in Perth, Australia (1990). He's asking the tough questions to coaches, parents, and players about achieving balance and success on and off the field.
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