Recap & Reflection Episode 1 - Black History Month

This podcast was created to offer tools and tips to help you rewrite your story personally, professionally, spiritually, or relationally. Our Recap and Reflections episodes are shorter episodes that cover current events, hot topics, and other things that come to mind in our day to day lives.

In this first episode of “recaps and reflections,” Chandra and Sarah discuss Black History Month. Join us for this episode as we discuss our personal experiences related to black history, Chandra’s interest in engineering and inventing as it relates to black individuals, and a history lesson about butter pecan ice cream. 

During slavery and Jim Crow times, Blacks were only allowed to eat vanilla ice cream on 4th of July because vanilla ice cream was seen as pure and for white people only. It wasn’t a law but known as the status quo during Jim Crow era.Black people were allowed to eat chocolate ice cream even though the person who perfected vanilla ice cream was a slave. Another Black man - Mr. Jackson- developed the process for ice cream we use today - mixing salt, removing eggs, and adding new flavors and cream.Around the mid-1800’s a Black man – Antwain- cultivated pecans. Unable to access vanilla ice cream often, Black people added pecans when they were able to get vanilla ice cream, thus creating butter pecan ice cream.

Music: Gerald Thompson

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