GirlTrek's Black History Bootcamp
251 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsGirlTrek's epic 21-day walking meditation series to remember where we came from and to gather strength for the road ahead. We celebrate Black stories and the lessons of our ancestors to help guide us through these uncertain times. Each episode, is a conversation on learning, living and elevating to our highest self with guidance from lessons of the past. Hosted by GirlTrek Co-founders Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Garrison. Produced by: Ebony Andrews
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A Special Healing Conversation with Iyanla Vanzant
December 01, 2023 19:51 - 57 minutes - 53.3 MBThe great spiritual leader, Iyanla Vanzant joins the co-founders of GirlTREK in a powerful conversation about generational healing and walking forward in faith. A must listen for anyone looking for inspiration during uncertain times.
Special Edition | Victory Lap | Season 2023
November 28, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 76.2 MBTogether we will reflect on our journey together, reinforce and uplift what is important to us, and honor the work of the people who power this movement. Let this be a personal moment of pause and praise for all that you have have personally mastered, learned, and walked through this year.
Special Edition | Prayer Trek | Day 9: SELF-CONTROL
October 23, 2023 21:22 - 1 hour - 55.8 MBREFLECTION: Think about control. We control the smells in our homes with incense and plugins. We control bacteria with Lysol. We try to control viruses with vitamin C. We control our babies. We'll burp, we'll reprimand with pinches. When you're at church you get pinched or you get the side-eye from the choir stand. We are good at controlling because we know the past and we’re responsibly fearful of the future. When we thought about self-control and knowing that control has been our superpow...
Special Edition | Prayer Trek | Day 8: FAITHFULNESS
October 22, 2023 18:15 - 58 minutes - 53.7 MBYou have to know that the calling placed on your life will mean you will have to navigate many rocky terrains, many dark places, facing many attacks, because we wrestle not against flesh and blood. The enemy only targets those who are doing good works. When you face these trials and tribulations, you will feel the urge to quit, to give in, or to act out of your character. That's when faith comes in. Faith is the idea of going beyond your fears and acting on what God has instilled in you. It’...
Special Edition | Prayer Trek | Day 7: GOODNESS
October 21, 2023 14:53 - 40 minutes - 37.7 MBREFLECTION: You know the saying. God is good all the time, and all the time God is good. But what does it mean for us to be good? Is it simply obeying the rules or being nice, or is there something else? We think it means actively choosing the kindest, most loving response in any situation, and doing it without expectation of recognition or praise. We are good, because God is good to us, and God offers goodness through grace and mercy. Think back on the times where it could have been, shoul...
Special Edition | Prayer Trek | Day 5: KINDNESS
October 19, 2023 15:50 - 57 minutes - 53.5 MBREFLECTION: Kindness begins with having self-compassion. Because you can't extend what you don't give to yourself. Being compassionate to yourself and understanding, I'm not perfect and I have to be able to forgive myself for things so that I can then extend that to other people. This is important, especially as women and Black women, for sure, because we give, give, give, but who gives to us? Who gives the superhero the voice, and when does the superhero get a chance to recharge? ...
Special Edition | Prayer Trek | Day 4: LONG-SUFFERING
October 18, 2023 16:19 - 47 minutes - 44.2 MBREFLECTION: Today's topic is about long-suffering and when we tell you that Black women know long-suffering, we ain’t lied. We have turned a kind of slow burn of pain into muscle, into magic. Every Black woman we know has made long-suffering and patience an art. The ability to practice patience in the face of hate is a virtue of God. It’s one of the Fruits of the Spirit. It's hard and it's why Black women are ready to lead. Patience or forbearance or long-suffering is not passive. It is sta...
Special Edition | Prayer Trek | Day 3: PEACE
October 17, 2023 16:16 - 1 hour - 57.4 MBREFLECTION: Peace is about wholeness. It is about completeness. It is a state of being. Sometimes we think it's affected by what's external and what's happening all around us. The Hebrew word for peace is Shalom. Sometimes it can be a state of affairs, sometimes it means being concerned about the well-being of your fellow human, your neighbor. Peace or shalom signifies value. As you look at everything that's happening in our country, it's easy to be distracted and it's easy to lose heart a...
Special Edition | Prayer Trek | Day 2: JOY
October 16, 2023 16:48 - 46 minutes - 43.1 MBREFLECTION: Joy is like a tickle on the inside. It's not on the outside. Joy doesn't have to be social, because lasting joy is the kind that comes from within. Sometimes you just have to fight for that joy, but know that it is always there. There are seasons when you mourn and when you grieve, but that season does not last forever. As you reflect on yesterday’s word of love, remember God loves you. When Scripture says weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning, somet...
Special Edition | Prayer Trek | Day 1: LOVE
October 15, 2023 17:24 - 59 minutes - 54.6 MBREFLECTION: When we think of love, and especially love as it relates to the Fruit of the Spirit in the Bible, we always think that we ourselves are taught how to love others. We're taught how to be nice to other people. We are taught how to be compassionate, to be compassionate friends, to be dedicated partners, to be great sisters and mothers. We're taught to respect other people, to be great stewards of our land and our world, but nowhere are we taught on a daily basis the practical ways ...
Special Edition | Sisterhood Saturday | September 2, 2023
September 11, 2023 14:23 - 1 hour - 56.9 MBOur Sisterhood Saturday calls are a time for all of us to celebrate and support one another. Listen in as we open up the lines to hear what's on the hearts and minds of Black women nationwide.
Special Edition | #DaughtersOf | Walk and Talk with Michelle Coltrane
August 28, 2023 22:41 - 1 hour - 92.3 MBJoin Morgan and Vanessa in a first-ever #daugthersof Walk and Talk. Morgan and Vanessa talked with Michelle Coltrane about the wisdom and self-care secrets her iconic mother Alice passed down to her and what her mother's spiritual journey taught her about being her authentic self.
Special Edition | Sisterhood Saturday | August 5, 2023
August 08, 2023 17:04 - 45 minutes - 42.2 MBOur Sisterhood Saturday calls are a time for all of us to celebrate and support one another. Listen in as we open up the lines to hear what's on the hearts and minds of Black women nationwide.
21 PLEASURE PRINCIPLES | Salute a Sister
July 03, 2023 17:10 - 1 hour - 55.8 MB“Everybody say Blessed." We did it y’all! We walked for 21 days, journeying through 21 Pleasure Principles. We pray that over the past 21 episodes, you have learned the liberation stories of our people and that you have been transformed in ways that make you feel more alive. Now it’s time to Claim the Victory. What better way to do that than to hear from you, our GirlTrek sisterhood, on the first day of Sisterhood Saturday this summer. Hear from women across the country sharing brave te...
21 PLEASURE PRINCIPLES | Day 20 | Zilpha Elaw
June 30, 2023 13:10 - 1 hour - 57.5 MBPleasure Muse: Zilpha Elaw Tantalizing Trivia One of 22 children, she was born in 1790 in Pennsylvania to free Black parents. Her mother passed away when Zilpha was just 12 years old. Her father passed away two years later. She was sent to live in the home of a Quaker family. Soon after she would attend a camp meeting held by the Methodist society. She embraced the teachings and became an active member of the Methodist church. On her sister's deathbed, she had a prophecy that Z...
21 PLEASURE PRINCIPLES | Day 19 | Gloria Richardson
June 29, 2023 13:38 - 1 hour - 68.2 MBPleasure Muse: Gloria Richardson Tantalizing Trivia She was a Civil Rights activist who led The Cambridge Movement in the 1960s. Honored for her leadership, she sat on stage at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963. She grew up in Baltimore but was from a prominent family - of landowners, lawyers, and politicians - from the eastern shore of Maryland, who were free before the Civil War. Gloria's father, John Hayes, died of a heart attack due to segregation which require...
21 PLEASURE PRINCIPLES | Day 18 | Rosa Parks
June 28, 2023 18:56 - 1 hour - 58.1 MBPleasure Muse: Rosa Parks Tantalizing Trivia Her future husband took her on a first date to a rally for the “Scottsboro Boys”, nine Black men who were wrongly accused of rape. From that rally she became compelled to activism. She was educated on civil disobedience during her days at the famed Highlander School in Tennessee under the guidance of the legendary Septima Clark. Later she attended a leadership training run by the famed Ella Baker. She was a staunch supporter of the labo...
21 PLEASURE PRINCIPLES | Day 17 | Myrlie Evers-Williams
June 27, 2023 13:41 - 1 hour - 65.7 MBPleasure Muse: Myrlie Evers-Williams Tantalizing Trivia Raised by her grandmother, and an aunt, two respected school teachers in Vicksburg, MS. They encouraged education so in 1950 she attended Alcorn A&M where she pledged Delta Sigma Theta sorority and on her first day of school met and fell in love with Medgar Evers - they got married a year later on Christmas Eve. The young couple became prominent leaders in the civil rights movement in Mississippi, Medgar, serving as the NAACP’s f...
21 PLEASURE PRINCIPLES | Day 16 | Wilma Rudolph
June 26, 2023 13:24 - 40 minutes - 37.5 MBPleasure Muse: WIlma Rudoplh Tantalizing Trivia She was the 20th of 22 children and weighed 4.5 pounds at birth. Her early health challenges included pneumonia, scarlet fever and polio. As an Olympic champion, and the first American woman to win three gold medals in one Olympics,, she was among the most highly visible black women in America and abroad. Her welcome home parade became one of the first integrated events in the state of Tennessee. She was an active participant i...
21 PLEASURE PRINCIPLES | Day 15 | Oshun
June 23, 2023 16:20 - 1 hour - 56.1 MBPleasure Muse: Oshun Tantalizing Trivia Oshun is a goddess deity, or orisha, of the Yoruba religion of West Africa. There are equivalent goddess figures in multiple cultures including as Oxum in Brazil and Ochun in Cuba. Tradition holds that Oshun comes from Osogbo, Nigeria. That city is considered sacred, and it is believed to be fiercely protected by the water goddess. The Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove, a forest that contains several shrines and artwork in honor of Oshun; it was desig...
21 PLEASURE PRINCIPLES | Day 14 | Bessie Springfield
June 22, 2023 13:42 - 53 minutes - 74 MBPleasure Muse: Bessie Springfield Tantalizing Trivia First Black woman to ride across the United States solo. At 16, taught herself to ride her first motorcycle, a 1928 Indian Scout. At 19, started her adventure across the American South at the height of the Jim Crow Era - on a Harley-Davidson. One of the few civilian motorcycle dispatch riders during World War II. Married six times. Over the course of her life, drove all 48 continental states and long-distance rides in Europ...
21 PLEASURE PRINCIPLES | Day 13 | Emma Dupree
June 21, 2023 13:38 - 58 minutes - 54.1 MBPleasure Muse: Emma Dupree Tantalizing Trivia: She was an herbalist and traditional healer who grew up on the Tar River in North Carolina. Her pioneering work serves as the basis for much of today’s herbal medicine movement. She was known for her “garden grown pharmacy” and grew everything from sassafras, white mint, double tansy, rabbit tobacco, maypop, mullein, catnip, horseradish, silkweed and other plants from which she made tonics, teas, salves and dried preparations. She be...
21 PLEASURE PRINCIPLES | Day 12 | Lil Kim
June 20, 2023 18:58 - 50 minutes - 46.8 MBParental Advisory Pleasure Muse: Lil Kim Tantalizing Trivia: She is the original “Queen Bee”, also known as the Queen of Rap and The First Lady of Rap. At 14, because of a tumultuous relationship with her father, she left home and started living on the streets; later she would drop out of high school for a short time, before enrolling in the same school where fellow rappers, Nas and Foxy Brown were attending. By 19 she was a starring member in the rap group, Junior Mafia, the nex...
21 PLEASURE PRINCIPLES | Day 11 | Naomi Sims
June 16, 2023 13:51 - 52 minutes - 49 MBPleasure Muse: Naomi Sims Tantalizing Trivia: Naomi Sims is the first Black supermodel in history - certainly, the first Black cover girl to land the featured cover photo in major magazines like Life and Cosmo in the 1960s and 1970s With a dark complexion, a thin body, and standing 5’ 10 she says she was not considered beautiful to others as a teenager. She thought otherwise. She created a master plan to break into the racist modeling industry. When no agency would sign her, she repre...
21 PLEASURE PRINCIPLES | Day 10 | Sharon Schaffer
June 15, 2023 19:11 - 44 minutes - 40.9 MBPleasure Muse: Sharon Schaffer Tantalizing Trivia She is the first Black woman to become a professional surfer and some of her work was featured in the opening of the Smithsonian African-American History Museum. She was a pioneer as a stunt double in Hollywood. As an actress she toured the country playing Harriet Tubman. She is an activist who has used her platform to organize other surfers into paddle-out protests to bring awareness to social justice issues. Mirror Work: It...
21 PLEASURE PRINCIPLES | Day 9 | Mary McLeod Bethune
June 14, 2023 18:17 - 45 minutes - 42.2 MBPleasure Muse: Mary McLeod Bethune Tantalizing Trivia Mary McLeod Bethune was not satisfied until Black girls were educated and free. Born in South Carolina to parents of enslaved Africans, she was the 15th of 17 children. She worked the cotton fields with her mother and each afternoon, walked 5 miles to school to learn to read. Even then, she said she knew there was a calling on her life, a divine mission. She said, “For I am my mother's daughter, and the drums of Africa still beat...
21 PLEASURE PRINCIPLES | Day 8 | Toni Cade Bambara
June 12, 2023 21:53 - 1 hour - 57.4 MBPleasure Muse: Toni Cade Bambara Tantalizing Trivia: Born Miltona Mirkin Cade, this author, activist, and professor, changed her name at the age of 6, to Toni. She then added Bambara to honor the West African ethnic group, Bambara. Her anthology, “Black Woman”, was the first feminist collection to focus on Black women. It included works from her friends Nikki Giovanni, Audre Lorde and Alice Walker. After the success of her two fiction books, Gorilla My Love and The Salt Eaters, she b...
21 PLEASURE PRINCIPLES | Day 7 | Queen Afua
June 12, 2023 15:38 - 53 minutes - 49.9 MBPleasure Muse: Queen Afua Tantalizing Trivia Born Helen Odel Robinson changed her name to Queen Afua She was raised in Harlem at the height of the Black Nationalist Movement and was a community organizer. As a child, she suffered from asthma, allergies, eczema and debilitating cramps and at 15 years old, started a lifelong investigation, and practice of healing herself - she started daily exercise, learning more about herbs and she changed her diet. She experienced dramatic heal...
21 PLEASURE PRINCIPLES | Day 6 | Dr. John Francis
June 09, 2023 19:15 - 58 minutes - 54 MBPleasure Muse: Dr. John Francis Tantalizing Trivia He gave up using motorized transportation and took a vow of silence that was intended to last one day. It lasted for 17 years. He completed three college degrees, including a Phd while silent. He walked across the United States and is referred to as the “Planet Walker”. He was a pioneer of Black conservatism and environmentalism. Mirror Work: While out on a walk find a patch of natural earth and take your shoes off. Look ...
21 PLEASURE PRINCIPLES | Day 5 | Alice Coachman
June 08, 2023 13:46 - 48 minutes - 44.5 MBPleasure Muse: Alice Coachman Tantalizing Trivia Alice Coachman was the first Black woman from any country to win an Olympic gold medal. She was born in segregated Georgia and as a child picked cotton and sold peaches, pecans and plums to help support her family She rejected the patriarchy and segregationists, both telling her Black girls should not be athletes; Shout out to two women who encouraged her to become a runner - her fifth-grade teacher Cora Bailey, and her aunt, Carrie ...
21 PLEASURE PRINCIPLES | Day 4 | Alice Coltrane
June 07, 2023 13:34 - 55 minutes - 51.6 MBPleasure Muse: Alice Coltrane Tantalizing Trivia At 29 she became a widow with four children after her husband, famed jazz musician, John Coltran, passed away. She founded an Ashram in the mountains of California and was an active healer, practicing energy work and laying of the hands. She entered a two year mourning period after his death where she withdrew from friends, family and food. She referred to it as a necessary spiritual journey. She professed to have divine revelati...
21 PLEASURE PRINCIPLES | Day 3 | Donna Summer
June 06, 2023 13:49 - 55 minutes - 51.1 MBPleasure Muse: Donna Summer Tantalizing Trivia Born to a working class family in Boston - her father was a butcher and her mother was a schoolteacher - her voice soared when she started singing solos in the AME church at 11 years old. She dropped out of high school to move to New York City to join a blues rock band. She landed a career-altering role in the musical Hair which debuted in Germany, where she lived and learned to speak fluent German. She married an Austrian man an...
21 PLEASURE PRINCIPLES | Day 2 | Dr. Sebi
June 04, 2023 16:09 - 51 minutes - 47.7 MBPleasure Muse: Dr. Sebi Tantalizing Trivia He grew up in Honduras and got his foundation in herbalism from his grandmother. He was arrested several times for practicing medicine without a license, but attracted a zealot following of believers who followed his lifestyle and diet advice. Nipsey Hustle called him an underdog hero and champion of the truth. He worked with Michael Jackson, Eddie Murphy, and Kendrick Lamar, just to name a few. He pioneered a lot of the current popula...
21 PLEASURE PRINCIPLES | Day 1 | bell hooks
June 02, 2023 19:46 - 1 hour - 55.6 MBPleasure Muse: bell hooks Tantalizing Trivia She was born Gloria Jean Johnson, but like a longline of Black women who refused to be defined by the narrowness of this world, when she was ready to step on the scene with her talent, she changed her pen name to bell hooks after her great-grandmother. She published more than 30 books. Her first, “Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism” was inspired by Sojourner Truth. She identified as queer, but defined it as far more complex than who s...
GirlTrek 2023 Season Kickoff: Co-Founder Walk & Talk
April 03, 2023 21:07 - 1 hour - 59.3 MBGirlTrek Nation! Are you ready? The GirlTrek walking season has officially started!Join GirlTrek Co-Founders, Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Garrison, as they chat about the road ahead on a special season kickoff episode. This season we are getting in the best shape of our lives by putting one foot in front of the other. You don’t want to miss this inspiring conversation with our cofounders as they layout the blueprint for walking in the direction of your healthiest, most fulfilled life this ye...
Special Edition l Harriet Tubman Celebration 2023
March 10, 2023 17:18 - 57 minutes - 132 MBJoin Co-founders Morgan and Vanessa on a Special Edition episode in honor of Harriet Tubman, broadcasting live from the streets of Auburn, NY.
Victory Lap: GirlTrek End of Season Celebration!
November 29, 2022 16:28 - 1 hour - 191 MBThis year we set a goal to take over 1,000 of the Blackest neighborhoods. And we did that! With the help of our entire team. With the help of you! You made the decision to lead women in your neighborhood. You helped them start their own crew. And we want to celebrate every single one of you. Nominations for the Victory Awards are in! Come celebrate with us as we announce our Victory Awards, LIVE!
Black Neighborhoods | Day 21 | Do you know what happened on the Edmund Pettus Bridge?
November 01, 2022 16:25 - 30 minutes - 70.1 MBDay 21 The Address: The Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma The Story: "You are a light. You are the light. Never let anyone—any person or any force—dampen, dim or diminish your light. Study the path of others to make your way easier and more abundant. Lean toward the whispers of your own heart, discover the universal truth, and follow its dictates. Release the need to hate, to harbor division, and the enticement of revenge. Release all bitterness. Hold only love, only peace in your heart, kno...
Black Neighborhoods | Day 20 | Have you heard about 16th Street Baptist Church?
November 01, 2022 14:45 - 40 minutes - 92.5 MBDay 20 The Address: 16th Street Baptist Church The Story: Their names were Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, and Addie Mae Collins. They were on their way to a basement assembly hall for closing prayers on a Sunday morning. The explosion occurred around 10:20 a.m. It destroyed the rear end of the building. It injured 20 people, and it killed the four little girls. The attack was meant to disrupt Black community activists who had been demonstrating for weeks for an end to s...
Black Neighborhoods | Day 19 | Where did the Blues really start?
November 01, 2022 14:26 - 1 hour - 149 MBDay 19 “The first time I met the blues The Address: 229 Highway 8, Cleveland, Mississippi. The Story: It’s called Dockery Farms. “Farms” is a rebrand. It was a back-breaking plantation in a small town in Mississippi. It’s walking distance from where Fannie Lou Hamer picked cotton. It's a stone’s throw from “the crossroads,” where a young Robert Johnson was rumored to have sold his soul for an unearthly cool. There, as the sun kissed the dusty sky goodbye, guitars played, feet stomped, ...
Black Neighborhoods | Day 18 |Have you heard about Congo Square in New Orleans?
November 01, 2022 14:04 - 35 minutes - 80.6 MBDay 18 The Address: Congo Square, New Orleans Come to Congo Square with us. Come catch the fire. Come learn of the drums that reverberated through the square, calling for protection from the ancestors and the one’s left back home. Come learn of the worship that took place here. Come learn about this place so full of magic - not at all dark. Come hear about the celebrations, the dance, the music, the food that united Africans from across the continent in this new place called New Orle...
Black Neighborhoods | Day 17 | The Black History of The North Pole
October 26, 2022 14:10 - 45 minutes - 103 MBDay 17: Address: 90.0000° N, 135.0000° W The Story: A Black man was the first American adventurer to reach the North Pole!? Say what!? Call Patagonia, North Face, and Columbia Sportswear and tell them we've BEEN making their clothes look good! We don’t need a long story today. Facts are facts. So pull up. Because at your next dinner party, when someone brings up the state of such-and-such and the downturn of dis-and-dat, just dazzle them with this Arctic adventure. …so what about t...
Black Neighborhoods | Day 16 | Where is the bravest black church in America?
October 25, 2022 18:17 - 55 minutes - 128 MBDay 16 The Address: 110 Calhoun Street, Charleston, South Carolina The Story: Mother Emanuel AME Church is one of the oldest Black churches in the United States, and for 200 years, it functioned as the center for organizing for civil rights. Its name says it all. Emanuel "God with us." And God has been constant. Because there’s never been a church that has withstood the reign of terrorism so bravely. Today, we will explore The Why. Why was this church targeted? Why was it necessary...
Black Neighborhoods | Day 15 | How Many Superstars were Made on This Detroit Street?
October 24, 2022 14:48 - 47 minutes - 108 MBDay 15 The Address: 2648 W Grand Blvd, Detroit, Michigan, Hitsville,USA The Story: We dare you to try and make a top 10 Motown favorites list. We dare you. You’d have to narrow down Stevie Wonder’s entire catalog. You’d have to choose between solo Michael or The Jackson Five. You’d have to debate who was better: Lionel Richie, Marvin Gay, or Smokie Robinson. You’d have to make some seriously tough choices. There are just too many hits! We’re talking iconic, era-defining, hits. What s...
Black Neighborhoods | Day 14 | Freedom House Ambulance Service
October 21, 2022 18:22 - 46 minutes - 106 MBDay 14 The Address: 2027 Centre Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA The Story: The year is 1969. You and your girlfriends are walking down the street in the Hill District of Pittsburgh. It’s late. The house party is over. Your crew is laughing and darting through familiar streets to your sister’s house. Someone drives by blasting Aretha Franklin, “Cause I ain’t never, no, no never, loved a man the way that I, I love you!” You clap to the beat. It’s summertime, and the heat is rising from the con...
Black Neighborhoods | Day 13 | Can you name Chicago's most historic Black neighborhood?
October 20, 2022 19:38 - 51 minutes - 117 MBDay 13 “We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.” - Gwendolyn Brooks The Address: Rosenwald Apartments, 4648 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL, Bronzeville The Story: They came fleeing the terrors of Jim Crow. They came in search of freedom. Still tethered to their southern roots and values, they brought an electrifying energy that would give rise to Black Arts movements, create gospel, and establish a Black mecca known as Bronzeville, ...
Black Neighborhoods | Day 12 | Where was the first Black school in the American South?
October 19, 2022 20:01 - 56 minutes - 129 MBDay 12 The Address: 16 Penn Circle, St Helena Island, SC 29920 The Story: At this moment, it stands. The very first school established in America for freed African children... It was founded before the dust of the Civil War settled. ... beneath the sway of Spanish moss on great oak trees, ... on a 47-acre campus on the island of Saint Helena, off the coast of South Carolina. This is the land of the great Gullah people. Africans who, through centuries of oppression, have held strong to...
Black Neighborhoods | Day 11 | Have you been to Sweet Auburn Ave?
October 18, 2022 11:28 - 46 minutes - 105 MBDay 11 Before T.I., before Jeezy, and before Lil Baby… For a city that thrives on “started from the bottom now I’m here” storylines, it makes sense that Atlanta’s first Black millionaire was a barber named Alonzo. He didn’t have a Morehouse degree, or an Alpha Phi Alpha pedigree like Sweet Auburn Avenue's favorite son, Martin Luther King Jr. What Alonzo lacked in formality, he made up for with a hustler’s spirit. This is the story you didn’t know. The story of the real A. The Story of A...
Black Neighborhoods | Day 10 | Where is the oldest Black town in the West?
October 17, 2022 14:09 - 39 minutes - 90.7 MBDay 10 Of all the Black towns started in the West during Reconstruction, only one still exists… Do you know where it is? Y’all I tried to Google it. … an address for you. But ain’t no addresses. It’s just… Nicodemus, Kansas 67625 NicoDEMus!!! I first saw the name in Washington, DC at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. It was a beautiful way sign pointing to the famous township. Somehow, this sign was miraculously recovered through post-Recons...
Black Neighborhoods | Day 9 | Do you know who lived on Edgecombe Ave in Harlem, NY?
October 14, 2022 12:21 - 45 minutes - 103 MBDay 9 The Address: Edgecombe Avenue, Harlem, NY The Story: There should be a sign as you drive up Edgecombe Avenue in Harlem that reads, “Black excellence started here.” A place of royalty. The home of Black Kings and Queens. Known as “Harlem’s House of Celebrities,” residents of Edgecombe Avenue in Harlem’s Sugar Hill neighborhood included W.E.B DuBois, Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, poet James Weldon Johnson, boxer Joe Louis, and musicians, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and Len...