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Noire History — 483 episodes
Noire History Break Notice September 2024
Margaret Burroughs: Co-founded the DuSable Museum of African American History | Black History Facts
Aimé Césaire: Martinique poet & politician co-founded the Négritude Movement | Black History Facts
Elizabeth Carter Brooks: Preserved buildings important to Black history | Black History Facts
John Baxter Taylor, Jr.: First Black American to win an Olympic gold medal | Black History Facts
Florence "Flo Jo" Griffith Joyner: 30+ year holder of the 100m & 200m records | Black History Facts
George McJunkin: Discovered the Folsom Archaeological Site | Black History Facts
Mae Mallory | Black History Facts #212
New York City's Slave Trading Past | Black History Facts #211
Noire History 2024-07 Break Notice
Chuck Berry | Black History Facts
Big Mama Thornton | Black History Facts
Thomas A. Dorsey: The Father of Gospel Music | Black History Facts
Sister Rosetta Tharpe: The Godmother of Rock and Roll
William R. Pettiford | Black History Facts #206
Violet King Henry | Black History Facts #205
James Beckwourth | Black History Facts #204
Callie Guy House | Black History Facts #203
Elijah McCoy | Black History Facts
Selma Burke | Black History Facts
Nat Love | Black History Facts
Halle Tanner Dillon Johnson | Black History Facts
Emmett Chappelle | Black History Facts
2023 Q4 Holiday Break Notice
The Cutting Season [Book Review]
Georgia Douglas Johnson | Black History Facts
Tutankhamun His Tomb and His Treasures [Places to Visit]
Countee Cullen | Black History Facts
Noire Histoir - 2023 Thanksgiving Break Notice
Worthy by Jada Pinkett Smith [Book Review]
Valerie Thomas | Black History Facts
Black Boys [Movie Review]
Bass Reeves | Black History Facts
National Museum of African American Music | Places to Visit
Era Bell Thompson | Black History Facts
Black Cake [Book Review]
Raymond Pace Alexander | Black History Facts
Beloved [Movie Review]
Ntozake Shange [Black History Facts #191]
The Grim Sleeper The Lost Women of South Central [Book Review]
W. Arthur Lewis | Black History Facts
Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America [Movie Review]
Alice Coachman | Black History Facts
2023 September Break Notice
The Revisioners [Book Review]
Samuel Sharpe | Black History Facts
American Gangster [Movie Review]
Marva Collins | Black History Facts
Island on Fire [Book Review]
William Monroe Trotter | Black History Facts
Booker's Place [Movie Review]
Clara Brown | Black History Facts
Queenie [Book Review]
Claude McKay | Black History Facts
Higher Learning [Movie Review]
Madam CJ Walker | Black History Facts
Finding Me: A Memoir [Book Review]
James Armistead | Black History Facts #182
3 1/2 Minutes, Ten Bullets [Movie Review]
Bridget Biddy Mason | Black History Facts
When No One Is Watching [Book Review]
Harry Pace | Black History Facts
Cooley High [Movie Review]
Audre Lorde | Black History Facts
Will [Book Review]
Ernest Everett Just | Black History Facts
Noire Histoir - 2023 May Break Notice
In Our Mothers' Garden [Book Review]
Rebecca Lee Crumpler | Black History Facts
Memphis [Book Review]
Langston Hughes | Black History Facts
Crooklyn [Movie Review]
Elizabeth Catlett | Black History Facts
Just Pursuit [Book Review]
Seneca Village | Black History Facts
LA 92 [Movie Review]
Harry Belafonte | Black History Facts
Yonder [Book Review]
Leontyne Price | Black History Facts
Respect [Movie Review]
William Bill Pickett | Black History Facts
Noire Histoir 2023 Q1 Break Notice
Just As I Am [Book Review]
Ruby Bridges | Black History Facts
The Pieces I Am [Movie Review]
Mary Ellen Pleasant | Black History Facts
Take My Hand [Book Review]
Dorothy Celeste Boulding Ferebee | Black History Facts
And Still I Rise [Movie Review]
Edmonia Lewis | Black History Facts
The Love Songs of WEB Du Bois [Book Review]
Thomas Downing | Black History Facts
High on the Hog [Movie Review]
Ida B. Wells [Black History Facts]
2023 Feb Family Emergency Break Notice
Black Love Matters [Book Review]
Wilmington Coup | Black History Facts
Hotel Rwanda [Movie Review]
Jacob Lawrence | Black History Facts
They Can't Kill Us All [Book Review]
Odetta | Black History Facts
Descendant [Movie Review]
Matthew Henson [Black History Facts Profile]
Song Yet Sung [Book Review]
Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander [Black History Facts #160]
2022 Q4 Holiday Break Notice
Blood Diamond [Movie Review]
Desmond Tutu [Black History Facts #159]
Black Titan [Book Review]
Alice Allison Dunnigan [Black History Facts #158]
Teddy Pendergrass If You Don't Know Me [Movie Review]
Archibald Henry Grimke [Black History Facts #157]
2022 Thanksgiving Break Announcement
The Darkest Child [Book Review]
Fanny Jackson Coppin [Black History Facts #156]
Hollywood Shuffle [Movie Review]
Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. [Black History Facts #155]
The Lynching [Book Review]
New York City Draft Riots [Black History Facts #154]
Black History Facts Day Change Experiment
Till [Movie Review]
Mamie Phipps Clark [Black History Facts 153]
Black Hollywood They've Gotta Have Us [Movie Review]
Charles Hamilton Houston [Black History Facts #152]
Kindred [Book Review]
Ama Ata Aidoo [Black History Facts #151]
One Night in Miami [Movie Review]
Kofi Annan [Black History Facts #150]
2022 Q3 Break Announcement
The True History of Paradise [Book Review]
Amy Sherald [Black History Facts #149]
Through a Lens Darkly [Movie Review]
Fred Gray [Black History Facts #148]
White Rage [Book Review]
Toni Cade Bambara [Black History Facts #147]
Beasts of No Nation [Movie Review]
Frederick McKinley Jones [Black History Facts #146]
The Death of Vivek Oji [Book Review]
Buchi Emecheta [Black History Facts #145]
When the Levees Broke [Movie Review]
Solomon Carter Fuller [Black History Facts #144]
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters [Book Review]
Claudette Colvin [Black History Facts #143]
A Time to Kill [Movie Review]
John Wesley Cromwell [Black History Facts #142]
It's Not All Downhill From Here [Book Review]
Alice Childress [Black History Facts #141]
Free Angela and All Political Prisoners [Movie Review]
Julius Nyerere [Black History Facts #140]
They Were Her Property [Book Review]
Anne Spencer [Black History Facts #139]
Lean on Me [Movie Review]
Medgar Evers [Black History Facts #138]
Welcome to Lagos [Book Review]
Hazel Scott [Black History Facts #137]
Hoop Dreams [Movie Review]
Sam Cooke [Black History Facts #136]
The Color of Money [Book Review]
Celia Cruz [Black History Facts #135]
Straight Outta Compton [Movie Review]
Doris Miller [Black History Facts #134]
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man [Book Review]
Eunice Hunton Carter [Black History Facts #133]
Africa's Great Civilizations [Movie Review]
Philip Emeagwali [Black History Facts #132]
One Righteous Man [Book Review]
Algiers Motel Murders [Black History Facts #131]
Jungle Fever [Movie Review]
Roy Wilkins [Black History Facts #130]
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives [Book Review]
Charlotte Hawkins Brown [Black History Facts #129]
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool [Movie Review]
Mark Dean [Black History Facts #128]
When Affirmative Action Was White [Book Review]
Shirley Graham Du Bois [Black History Facts #127]
Ray [Movie Review]
Léopold Senghor [Black History Facts #126]
Killing the Black Body [Book Review]
bell hooks [Black History Facts #125]
Black and Missing [Movie Review]
Janie Porter Barrett [Black History Facts #124]
The Bluest Eye [Book Review]
Alice Ball [Black History Facts #123]
Claudine [Movie Review]
Inez Beverly Prosser [Black History Facts #122]
Stamped From the Beginning [Book Review]
John Henrik Clarke [Black History Facts 121]
Malcolm X [Movie Review]
Audley "Queen Mother" Moore [Black History Facts 120]
Go Tell It on the Mountain [Book Review]
Arturo Schomburg [Black History Facts #119]
King in the Wilderness [Movie Review]
Maya Angelou [Black History Short 118]
Things That Make White People Uncomfortable [Book Review]
Vicente Guerrero [Black History Short 117]
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross [Movie Review]
Flora Nwapa [Black History Short 116]
Sugar [Book Review]
Percy Lavon Julian [Black History Short 115]
A Raisin in the Sun [Movie Review]
Jane Bolin [Black History Short 114]
Black Fortunes [Book Review]
James Farmer [Black History Short 113]
40 Years a Prisoner [Movie Review]
Mae C. Jemison [Black History Short 112]
His Only Wife [Book Review]
James Weldon Johnson [Black History Short 111]
Soul Food [Movie Review]
Christiana Resistance [Black History Short 110]
The Color of Law [Book Review]
Dorothy Lavinia Brown [Black History Short 109]
Confirmation [Movie Review]
Henry Flipper [Black History Short 108]
Americanah [Book Review]
Fugitive Slave Laws [Black History Short 107]
Atlanta's Missing and Murdered The Lost Children [Movie Review]
Marie Maynard Daly [Black History Short 106]
The New Jim Crow [Book Review]
Steve Biko Murder and Aftermath [Black History Short 105 - Part Two]
Driving Miss Daisy [Movie Review]
Steve Biko Early Life [Black History Short 105 - Part One]
Jubilee [Book Review]
Zora Neale Hurston Later Life [Black History Short 104 - Part Two]
New Jack City [Movie Review]
Zora Neale Hurston Early Life [Black History Short 104 - Part One]
We Cast a Shadow [Movie Review]
A. Philip Randolph [Black History Short 103]
Dead Presidents [Movie Review]
Maggie Lena Walker Later Life [Black History Short 102 - Part Two]
Behold the Dreamers [Book Review]
Maggie Lena Walker Early Life [Black History Short 102 - Part One]
School Daze [Movie Review]
Gordon Parks [Black History Short 101]
The Girl Who Smiled Beads [Book Review]
Stagecoach Mary Fields [Black History Short 100]
4 Little Girls [Movie Review]
Bob Moses [Black History Short 99]
The Underground Railroad Records [Book Review]
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin [Black History Short 98]
Boyz n the Hood [Movie Review]
Rosewood Massacre [Black History Short 97]
A Kind of Freedom [Book Review]
Louis Armstrong Later Life [Black History Short 96 - Part Two]
Tina [Movie Review]
Louis Armstrong Early Life [Black History Short 96 - Part One]
I Put a Spell on You [Book Review]
Ma Rainey [Black History Short 95]
Standing in the the Shadows of Motown [Movie Review]
W.C. Handy [Black History Short 94]
My Life with Earth Wind & Fire [Book Review]
Marian Anderson [Black History Short 93]
The Tuskegee Airmen [Movie Review]
George Washington Carver [Black History Short 92]
The Sun Does Shine [Book Review]
Toni Morrison [Black History Short 91]
Baby Boy [Movie Review]
Paul Robeson [Black History Short 90]
Deacon King Kong [Book Review]
Gwendolyn Brooks [Black History Short 89]
What's My Name Muhammad Ali [Movie Review]
Tommie Smith & John Carlos [Black History Short 88]
Undisputed Truth [Book Review]
Wilma Rudolph [Black History Short 87]
Unforgivable Blackness [Movie Review]
Jesse Owens [Black History Short 86]
Women, Race, & Class [Book Review]
Constance Baker Motley [Black History Short 85]
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman [Movie Review]
Bessie Coleman [Black History Short 84]
Ghana Must Go [Book Review]
Alexa Canady [Black History Short 83]
The Color Purple [Movie Review]
NAACP [Black History Short 82]
Negroes and the Gun [Book Review]
Lorraine Hansberry [Black History Short 81]
Judas and the Black Messiah [Movie Review]
Carter G. Woodson [Black History Short 80]
The Spook Who Sat By the Door [Book Review]
Mau Mau Rebellion [Black History Short 79]
Love & Basketball [Movie Review]
Coretta Scott King [Black History Short 78]
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race [Book Review]
Marcus Garvey & The UNIA [Black History Short 77 - Part Two]
John Q [Movie Review]
Marcus Garvey & The UNIA [Black History Short 77 - Part One]
Bluebird, Bluebird [Book Review]
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf [Black History Short 76]
A Century of Black Cinema [Movie Review]
2020 Holiday Hiatus
August Wilson [Black History Short 75]
Heavy: An American Memoir [Book Review]
Lowndes County Freedom Organization [Black History Short 74]
History of the Black Panther Party [Black History Feature]
Alice Walker [Black History Short 73]
Caste [Book Review]
Freedom Summer [Black History Short 72]
Tales of the Grim Sleeper [Movie Review]
Stokely Carmichael [Black History Short 71]
The Vanishing Half [Book Review]
Nannie Helen Burroughs [Black History Short 70]
Apartheid in South Africa [Black History Feature]
Walter Sisulu [Black History Short 69]
Transcendent Kingdom [Book Review]
Sojourner Truth [Black History Short 68]
A Brief History of Colonists in South Africa [Black History Feature]
Patrice Lumumba: The Assassination & Theories [Black History Short 67 - Part Three]
Stay With Me [Book Review]
Patrice Lumumba: Political Allies & Enemies [Black History Short 67 - Part Two]
Set It Off [Movie Review]
Patrice Lumumba: The Évolué (The Evolved) [Black History Short 67 - Part One]
August 2020 Noire News
Augusta Savage [Black History Short 66]
A History of Black Voting Rights in America [Black History Feature]
Dr. Charles Drew [Black History Short 65]
The Nickel Boys [Book Review]
Wangari Maathai [Black History Short 64]
Da 5 Bloods [Movie Review]
John Lewis [Black History Short 63]
July 2020 Noire News
Mary McLeod Bethune [Black History Short 62]
There Are No Children Here [Book Review]
Scottsboro Boys [Black History Short 61]
In the Heat of the Night [Movie Review]
Harriet Tubman Later Life [Black History Short 60 - Part Two]
June 2020 Noire News
Harriet Tubman Early Life [Black History Short 60 - Part One]
Reconstruction Era [Black History Feature]
Just a Quick Heads Up [2020 Q2 Break Notification]
Frederick Douglass Later Life [Black History Short 59 - Part Two]
Up From Slavery [Book Review]
Frederick Douglass Early Life [Black History Short 59 - Part One]
Glory [Movie Review]
Buffalo Soldiers [Black History Short 58]
May 2020 Noire News
Pauli Murray [Black History Short 57]
The Water Dancer [Book Review]
Chinua Achebe [Black History Short 56]
Waiting to Exhale [Movie Review]
Dr. Matilda Evans [Black History Short 55]
Negro League Baseball [Black History Feature]
William Still [Black History Short 54]
Medical Apartheid [Book Review]
Tulsa Race Massacre [Black History Short 53 - Part Two]
Menace II Society [Movie Review]
Greenwood District aka Black Wall Street [Black History Short Part One]
March 2020 Noire News
John H. Johnson [Black History Short 52]
Memphis Black History Sites [Travel Guide]
Shirley Chisholm [Black History Short 51]
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement [Book Review]
Miriam Makeba [Black History Short 50]
Hidden Figures [Movie Review]
Anna Julia Cooper [Black History Short 49]
February 2020 Noire News
Mound Bayou [Black History Short 48]
The Harlem Renaissance [Black History Feature]
Bobby Seale [Black History Short 47]
Love Jones [Movie Review]
Frances Harper [Black History Short #46]
Friends: A Love Story [Book Review]
Henry Highland Garnet [Black History Short 45]
January 2020 Noire News
Mary Ann Shadd Cary [Black History Short #44]
A Particular Kind of Black Man [Book Review]
Blanche Bruce [Black History Short #43]
Becoming a High School Guidance Counselor with Rohan Pessoa [Career Interview]
Dorothy Height [Black History Short 42]
Just Mercy [Movie Review]
Ernie Barnes [Black History Short 41]
2019 Noire News Wrap-up [News]
Rosemary Brown [Black History Short #40]
Selma, Alabama Black History Sites [Places to Visit]
Dr. Daniel Hale Williams [Black History Short #39]
Queen & Slim [Movie Review]
Phillis Wheatley [Black History Short #38]
Becoming [Book Review]
Claudia Jones [Black History Short 37]
Becoming a Travel Registered Nurse with Jeremy Ellis
Benjamin Banneker [Black History Short #36]
Tuskegee Alabama Black History Sites [Places to Visit]
Elizabeth Freeman [Black History Short #35]
Get Out [Movie Review]
Hiram Revels [Black History Short 34]
Forty Million Dollar Slaves [Book Review]
Queen Amina [Black History Short 33]
Becoming an Internal Medicine Doctor with Kalvin Chinyere, MD
Granville Woods [Black History Short #32]
Night of the Living Dead (1968) [Movie Review]
Jo Ann Robinson [Black History Short #31]
62: Harlem Black History Part 2 [Places to Visit]
Mifflin Wistar Gibbs [Black History Short #30]
Black History Short #1: Alonzo Herndon [Throwback]
61: Harlem Black History Part 1 [Places to Visit]
Josiah Henson [Black History Short #29]
E60: The Last Black Man in San Francisco [Book Review]
Robert Abbott & The Chicago Defender [Black History Short #28]
59: Under the Udala Trees [Book Review]
Gloria Richardson [Black History Short #27]
58: Montgomery Civil Rights Sites [Places to Visit]
The 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment [Black History Short #26]
57: If Beale Street Could Talk [Movie Review]
Fannie Lou Hamer [Black History Short #25]
56: How to Become an Inpatient Clinical Pharmacist with Okenna Oparah
Bayard Rustin [Black History Short #24]
E55: The Mother of Black Hollywood [Book Review]
Daisy Bates [Black History Short #23]
54: Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park [Place Review]
Cuffy and The 1763 Berbice Slave Rebellion [Black History Short #22]
53: Green Book [Movie Review]
Barbara Jordan [Black History Short #21]
52: Using your life journey to build your career with Sandra Shular, Care Coordinator
Lewis Howard Latimer [Black History Short #20]
51: Born a Crime [Book Review]
The Clotilda & Africatown [Black History Short #19]
50: When They See Us [Movie Review]
Dr. Patricia E. Bath [Black History Short #18]
49: My Family Trip to Guyana and The Guyana Museum of African Heritage [Place Review]
Dr. Ralph Abernathy [Black History Short #17]
48: We're Going to Need More Wine [Book Review]
The Whitelaw Hotel [Black History Short #16]
47: Pursuing your goals at any stage in life with Hazel Watson, Clinical Care Associate
Marian Wright Edelman [Black History Short #15]
46: The APEX Museum [Place Review]
Lois Mailou Jones [Black History Short #14]
45: Making life better for other people with Lloyd Cambridge, Small Business Educator
Ahmed Sékou Touré [Black History Short #13]
44: The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace [Book Review]
Alain LeRoy Locke [Black History Short #12]
43: Becoming a Registered Nurse (RN) with Marissa Allen, Pediatric ER RN
Bloody Sunday [Black History Short #11]
42: Spelman College Museum [Place]
Edward Blyden [Black History Short #10]
41: Working with other people with Pierre DeBois, Digital Marketing Analytics Entrepreneur
Septima Poinsette Clark [Black History Short #9]
Queen Nzinga [Black History Short #8]
05: Bessie [Movie Review] (Throwback)
Mary Church Terrell [Black History Short #7]
40: Ida A Sword Among Lions [Book Review]
Amelia Boynton Robinson [Black History Short #6]
39: Assessing where you are and where you want to go with Joy Williams, Founder and Managing Director
Lugenia Burns Hope [Black History Short 5]
38: The Center for Civil and Human Rights [Places]
E37 - The importance of relationships with Tuwisha Rogers-Simpson, Marketing & Partnerships Executive
Aaron Douglas [Black History Short #4]
E.D. Nixon [Black History Short #3]
36: King Leopold's Ghost [Book Review]
Irene Amos Morgan [Black History Short #2]
35: Standing on your own with Cheick Dukuly, Physical Education Teacher
Alonzo Herndon [Black History Minute #1]
34: Moving for progress with Tresa Chambers, Communications Strategist
33: The importance of mentorship with Adekunle Oduye - Design Technologist
32: The importance of identifying your career passion with Christopher Taylor Job Hunt Strategist
E31: The Legacy Museum [Place]
E30 - National Memorial for Peace and Justice [Places]
E29: At the Hands of Persons Unknown [Book Review]
E28: Birmingham Civil Rights Institute [Places]
E27: Black Against Empire [Book Review]
E26: Before the Mayflower [Book Review]
E25: The Other Wes Moore [Book Review]
E24: The Coming [Book Review]
E23: The Assassination of Fred Hampton [Book Review]
E22: The Book of Harlan [Book Review]
E21: Moonlight [Movie Review]
E20: Ain't I a Woman [Book Review]
E19: Coming of Age in Mississippi [Book Review]
E18: The Book of Negroes aka Someone Knows My Name [Book Review]
E17: Manchild in the Promised Land [Book Review]
E16: Homecoming [Book Review]
E15: The Underground Railroad [Book Review]
E14: Watch Me Fly [Book Review]
E13: Freeman [Book Review]
E12: 13th [Movie Review]
E11: Brainwashed [Book Review]
E10: Django Unchained [Movie Review]
E09: Selma [Movie Review]
E08: Your Money and Your Man [Book Review]
E07: What Happened, Miss Simone? [Movie Review]
E06: At the Dark End of the Street [Book Review]
E05: Bessie [Movie Review]
E04: The Warmth of Other Suns [Book Review]
E03: The Corner [Book Review]
E01: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl [Book Review]
E00: Introducing the Noire Histoir Podcast