Black and Education
90 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsStories about Black History delves into the human side of the experiences we have had throughout America and the world.
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Ernest Everett Just
April 06, 2019 13:13 - 2 minutes - 4.99 MBErnest Everett Just was a renown scientist who made important discoveries about the biology of a cell's surface.
Fanny Jackson-Coppin
April 02, 2019 18:26 - 8 minutes - 14.8 MBIf there were a few words that could sum up Mrs. Fanny Jackson-Coppin they would be, “excellence in education.” Mrs. Jackson-Coppin spent decades as an educator and as a principal, at a time when women, especially women of color, weren’t given many opportunities to lead. She stepped into leadership roles and was rarely challenged due to the remarkable commitment and professionalism she displayed.
Camilla, GA: Political Rally and Massacre
January 14, 2018 05:23 - 5 minutes - 9.94 MBDaniel Howard, a twenty-year-old African-American man, attended a political rally on September 19, 1868. He was one of hundreds of African Americans to attend this rally. You see, earlier that month Democrats (along with some Republicans) in the state’s legislature moved to remove ALL African-American lawmakers from office that had been recently elected, earlier that year. They contended that African Americans were not given the express right to hold office and they, therefore, voted...
James Armistead Lafayette: A Patriot Spy
January 08, 2018 19:34 - 6 minutes - 12 MBJames Armistead was born in the 1700s. He was enslaved by a man named William Armistead in Virginia. Virginia would turn out to be an important stage for what would effectively be the last major conflict of the Revolutionary War.
The Creation by James Weldon Johnson
December 24, 2017 10:42 - 3 minutes - 6.17 MBJames Weldon Johnson was born on June 17, 1871 to Helen and James Johnson. His mother was a school teacher and his father...a waiter. Both of his parents stressed the importance of education to their children.
Sojourner Truth and Her Love for Her Son
December 07, 2017 02:22 - 6 minutes - 11.4 MBIn July of 1826 Sojourner Truth simply walked away from slavery, with her youngest child. She didn't run...she didn't go very far...she simply decided she wasn't going to be a slave anymore. Some years earlier the New York state legislature passed two laws, gradually emancipating slaves. The laws essentially provided that all adult slaves would be set free on July 4, 1827 and any child, born after a certain date, to an enslaved mother, would have to work for the mother's owner until...
Frederick Douglass - July 5, 1852
November 30, 2017 00:28 - 10 minutes - 18.4 MB"Fellow-Citizens—Pardon me, and allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here to-day? What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us? and am I, therefore, called upon to bring our humble offering to the national altar, and to confess the benefits, and express devout gratitude for the blessings, resulting from your independenc...
Henry Johnson and the Harlem Hellfighters (369th)
November 20, 2017 02:04 - 5 minutes - 9.3 MBWilliam Henry Johnson was born in Winston Salem, North Carolina in 1892. While still a teenager, Johnson moved to New York...he was an industrious young man and found work as a soda mixer, in a coal yard, as a chauffeur, and eventually as a redcap porter in Albany’s train station. In April of 1917 the United States declared war on Germany and, just two months later, William Henry Johnson volunteered to serve his country—he enlisted on June 5, 1917.
A Brave and Gallant Soldier at the Battle of Bunker Hill
November 13, 2017 18:07 - 3 minutes - 7.22 MBIn June of 1775, Revolutionary forces got word of a British plan to capture high areas around Boston in an effort to squash the Colonial uprising. Colonial forces, made up of about 1,000 men from Connecticut and Massachusetts marched to an area on the Charlestown peninsula to lay claim to this area before British troops could get there. Colonial leaders hoped to fortify an area called Bunker Hill. So on the night of June 16, 1775, Revolutionary forces marched to the Charlestown penin...
Biddy Mason: An American Pioneer
November 02, 2017 19:36 - 4 minutes - 8.26 MBBiddy Mason was born, enslaved, in Hancock, Georgia in 1818. Her owner, Robert Smith, later moved to Mississippi where he became acquainted with the Mormon religion. The mid-1800s were a tumultuous time in American politics and 1850 was an important year, in many ways. Unbeknownst to Biddy Mason, decisions being made about California and Utah were about to have a significant impact on her life.
George Thomas Downing (1819 - 1903)
October 24, 2017 01:59 - 4 minutes - 7.85 MBGeorge Thomas Downing was born in 1819, in New York City. His father was the well-known businessman, Thomas Downing. Thomas Downing moved to New York, in the early 1800s, and eventually opened up what would become a very successful business—a restaurant called the Oyster House
The Red Summer and "If We Must Die"
October 08, 2017 14:37 - 6 minutes - 12 MBIn 1919 more than 20 different racially violent events took place throughout the United States, from May of 1919 to October of 1919. The events were so violent that this time span became known as the “Red Summer.” NOTE: THE CONTENT OF THIS POST IS VERY GRAPHIC.
Charles “Buddy” Bolden: A Part of Early Jazz History
September 27, 2017 23:57 - 4 minutes - 8.26 MBIn the 1800s to early 1900s, there lived a man named Charles “Buddy” Bolden, whose impact on jazz has become legendary. He was born in 1877 and lived in New Orleans. He became the leader of a band that is recognized as being the first band to play what became known as jazz music.
Beginnings of the African Methodist Episcopal Church
September 18, 2017 21:38 - 5 minutes - 10.9 MBIn some ways the beginnings of the African Methodist Episcopal Church can be found in the life of Richard Allen, but this is really a much larger story about people who chose to stand up and worship in a way that was seated in freedom and rooted in independence.
Benjamin Banneker: A Renaissance Man & an Abolitionist
September 11, 2017 02:21 - 6 minutes - 11.7 MBBenjamin Banneker was born on November 9, 1731 in what is today Baltimore County, Maryland. According to accounts his grandmother, Molly Welsh, was a white English woman who was sent to the American colonies as an indentured servant. After serving her indentured time, she was able to obtain her own property—which was a remarkable thing for a woman to do in the late 1600s. She then purchased enslaved people to work her land...she ended up buying two human beings—one of whom was said ...
Dr. Charles Burleigh Purvis: An Activist
September 03, 2017 19:36 - 3 minutes - 6.85 MBCharles Burleigh Purvis was born in 1842 in Philadelphia, PA. His father was the well-known abolitionist, Robert Purvis, and his mother was Harriet Forten. She was the daughter of the well-known African-American activist and businessman, James Forten. Yes, Charles Purvis was Jame Forten’s grandson.
Mary Touvestre: Civil War Intelligence
August 27, 2017 23:32 - 3 minutes - 6.63 MBSome 200,000 African Americans served in the Civil War as soldiers and sailors, but not much is known about the many men and women who provided intelligence to the Union, during the war. Mary Touvestre was one such person. Mary Touvestre was a free (formerly enslaved) housekeeper of a Confederate engineer, during the Civil War. Before the war, the U.S. Navy had a significant naval base in Norfolk, VA. When the war began, the military ordered the destruction of ships in that base, s...
President of the Confederacy: His Last U.S. Senate Speech
August 16, 2017 19:49 - 3 minutes - 6.72 MBOn January 21, 1861 Jefferson Davis rose on the Senate floor to explain why the state of Mississippi decided to secede from the Union—it would be his last speech as a U.S. Senator. After sharing some thoughts about nullification and secession and expressing his support for secession, even if a northern state decided to do so, he went on to explain: “It has been a conviction of pressing necessity, it has been a belief that we are to be deprived in the Union of the rights which our fathe...
Frederick Douglass: How He Became a Man
August 13, 2017 23:42 - 10 minutes - 19.1 MBMany times we tend to see people the way they are when they are at the height of their fame, but you never know what a person went through to get where they are...and in Frederick Douglass's case, what he went through to get into a position to help others. In 1834, on January 1st, Frederick made his way to the home of the man who was supposed to “break” him. Edward Covey was a small man who believed in harsh treatment, as a way of making sure enslaved people would be, forever, obedien...
The Riot of 1835: Washington, DC
August 07, 2017 23:49 - 6 minutes - 11.9 MBIn the summer of 1835 Arthur Bowen was on his way home in the evening, when he reached the front door of his owner’s residence. Bowen was about eighteen years old and he was owned by Anna Thornton, who was the widow of William Thornton—the first Architect of the Capitol. Dr. William Thornton was born in the British West Indies and his proposed design for the U.S. Capitol was accepted by George Washington, in 1793. He was awarded $500 and a lot in the city of Washington for his work. ...
Dr. Percy Julian: An American Chemist
July 30, 2017 11:26 - 5 minutes - 9.98 MBDr. Percy Julian was an American chemist whose work should be remembered. I never knew about him growing up, but his contributions should be taught to children.
There Have Been Just Twelve African-American U.S. Senators
July 23, 2017 14:01 - 8 minutes - 15.7 MBThere have been only 10 African Americans to serve in the U.S. Senate throughout the entire history of the U.S. Congress. Meet those individuals and find out a little more about them here.
There Have ONLY Been Ten African-American U.S. Senators
July 23, 2017 14:01 - 8 minutes - 15.7 MBThere have been only 10 African Americans to serve in the U.S. Senate throughout the entire history of the U.S. Congress. Meet those individuals and find out a little more about them here.
There Have Been Just Eleven African-American U.S. Senators
July 23, 2017 14:01 - 8 minutes - 15.7 MBThere have been only 10 African Americans to serve in the U.S. Senate throughout the entire history of the U.S. Congress. Meet those individuals and find out a little more about them here.
Harriet Tubman and the Dover Eight
July 15, 2017 12:00 - 5 minutes - 10.2 MBWhat caused Harriet Tubman to fight back? What political actions supported the existence of slavery? This book explores the life of Harriet Tubman and some of the religious, political and social supports that made slavery exist for so long.
Frederick Douglass's Mother: Harriet
July 09, 2017 08:40 - 4 minutes - 7.63 MBFrederick Douglass was born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey in Talbot County, Maryland. His mother’s name was Harriet and she was forced to leave her children, by the man who owned them. She was hired out to neighboring farms and her children would stay with her mother, until they were several years old.
Sit-ins and Standing Up
June 25, 2017 18:57 - 4 minutes - 8.17 MBFour young men from North Carolina Agricultural & Technical College changed their world when they decided to stand up for their own rights. Their names were Ezell Blair, Jr., Franklin McCain, David Richmond, and Joseph McNeil. They were freshmen at North Carolina A&T in the fall of 1959 and they became friends when they met that year. One of the things that they had in common was that they shared a disdain for the inequalities that surrounded them.
Collingwood's Massacre
June 18, 2017 14:08 - 4 minutes - 8.4 MBIn 1781 a slave ship, named the Zong (based out of Liverpool, England), was on a horrible trip to get human beings—to sell them in Jamaica. The ship made it to Africa, along the coast of present-day Ghana, and then to Sao Tome (or St. Thomas, an island near present day Gabon and Equatorial Guinea). Luke Collingwood was the captain of the ship and he decided to go with a “tight” packing method.
Admiral Michelle Howard: First Female Four-Star Admiral
June 09, 2017 20:14 - 4 minutes - 8.35 MBMichelle Howard was born in the year 1960 and graduated from high school in Aurora, Colorado. She went on to the U.S. Naval Academy in Maryland and graduated from there in 1982. She would go on to become the first female graduate of the United States Naval Academy to earn the title of admiral.
Fannie Lou Hamer: "Is This America?"
June 03, 2017 19:06 - 5 minutes - 10.3 MBFannie Lou Hamer was born on October 6, 1917 in Montgomery County, Mississippi to Jim and Ella Townsend. She worked on a farm as a sharecropper for 18 years and her parents, too, were sharecroppers.
Thurgood Marshall and His Life
May 28, 2017 11:49 - 5 minutes - 10.7 MBThurgood Marshall was born on July 2nd in Baltimore, Maryland in 1908. His father was a porter or waiter for a railroad company and his mother was an elementary school teacher. They were very involved in teaching their children and, reportedly, Thurgood’s father would take him down to the courthouse in Baltimore just to view court proceedings. His mother, being a schoolteacher, oversaw her children's development and made sure they got good educational foundations in school.
Charles Langston (Grandfather of Langston Hughes)
May 21, 2017 04:01 - 11 minutes - 20.5 MBCharles Henry Langston was born in 1817 in Louisa County, VA. His mother’s name was Lucy Jane Langston and his father was a slaveowner named Robert Quarles. Robert Quarles had served in the Revolutionary War and was, as we have said, a slaveowner. He had a baby with Lucy Langston and, after the child was born, he freed both Lucy and their baby. The two, later on, had three additional children:
Laws from South Africa's Apartheid Era
May 14, 2017 04:00 - 8 minutes - 15.5 MBIn May of 1902 the Peace of Vereeniging was signed between Boer forces and the British (putting an end to a set of wars between the two sides). After a few years, the former Boer republics joined with the British territories and, in May of 1910, they formed the Union of South Africa. The African National Congress was then created, just two years later, in 1912 to respond to the white-run government. Ironically, eight years after this formation, in 1918, Nelson Mandela was also born. The...
Katherine Johnson and William W. S. Claytor: An HBCU Connection
May 11, 2017 07:16 - 3 minutes - 6.94 MBKatherine Johnson was born on August 26, 1918 in White Sulfur Springs, West Virginia and, by now, you may know that she grew up to be an integral part of the nation's space program as a valuable mathematician in NASA. You may not know about the connection she shares with some members of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).
Stories about Black History: Vol. 2 - Charles Young and the Buffalo Soldiers
May 07, 2017 04:14 - 6 minutes - 12.1 MB(See our website for articles and pictures). Charles Young was a Buffalo Soldier, a pioneer in many ways, and one of the most celebrated African-American military men, at the time of his death.
Unfair and Unequal Drug Policy for Almost 40 Years
April 25, 2017 14:04 - 4 minutes - 8.9 MBWe have to examine our past to determine the impact of current drug policy in order to ensure that these results don't just happen again--while we stand by and watch. Since the 1980s no single issue has struck at the heart of the struggles of Black America quite like the "War on Drugs" has. Let me first state that the majority of black, white and Hispanic people in America do not use illicit drugs and if they do, they do so AT THE SAME RATES— this has been the case for decades.
Garrett Morgan: A Hero and An Inventor
April 07, 2017 19:06 - 7 minutes - 13.7 MBGarrett Morgan was born around 1877 in Paris, Kentucky. He did not receive a formal education beyond a several-year period of time when he was living with his parents. He later hired a tutor, for himself, after he left his parents' home.
Ida B. Wells-Barnett: A Voice Crying Out for Change
March 05, 2017 14:37 - 5 minutes - 10.3 MBIn September of 1900 Ida B. Wells stopped the project she was working on to report on the outrageous actions that took place in New Orleans in July of that year. Robert Charles was an African-American man who had an encounter with police, while sitting on the steps of a building with his friend, one night. In that encounter shots were fired and Charles wounded one of the police officers. Over the ensuing days, Charles would shoot and kill several police officers during shoot outs and citiz...
Remembering the People Who Helped to Shape This Country: Paul Jennings
February 12, 2017 00:08Many people did the work that helped make the country function--people who were not given the respect and remembrance they were due. Paul Jennings was born in 1799...enslaved to James and Dolley Madison, in Virginia. In 1808 James Madison was elected President of the United States and Paul Jennings, still a boy, moved to the White House with Dolley and James Madison.
Stories about Black History: Vol. 3 - Christiana, William Parker and the Horn
February 01, 2017 14:14 - 4 minutes - 9.03 MBOne of the most famous challenges to slavery took place at the home of an African-American man named, William Parker. On September 11, 1851, Edward Gorsuch showed up at Parker’s home. Gorsuch was seeking several escaped men whom he believed were being sheltered at Parker’s house.