Latest #racism Podcast Episodes
July 5 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - July 12, 2022 14:10 - 2 minutesBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for July 5. Frederick Douglass gave his speech "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?". He was an African American abolitionist, orator, newspaper publisher, and author. He became the first Black U.S. marshal. Douglass was born into slav...
July 4 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - July 12, 2022 14:05 - 1 minuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for July 4. Marian Anderson and Ralph Bunche receive the first Medals of Freedom. She was an American singer, and an important figure in the struggle for African-American artists to overcome racial prejudice. Bunche was an American political s...
July 3 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - July 12, 2022 14:02 - 2 minutesBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for July 3. Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. He was an American professional baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the mo...
July 2 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - July 12, 2022 13:58 - 1 minuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for July 2. Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act. In the landmark 1954 case Brown v. Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in schools was unconstitutional. The 10 years that followed saw great strides f...
July 1 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - July 12, 2022 13:55 - 1 minuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for July 1st. Roland Hayes named soloist with Boston Symphony Orchestra. He was the first African American singer to achieve success on the classical concert stage. Hayes was born in Curryville, Georgia, to Fanny and William Hayes, who were fo...
June 30 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - June 30, 2022 04:00 - 1 minuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 30. Lena Horne was born. She was an African-American dancer, actress, Grammy-winning singer, and civil rights activist. Horne left school at age 16 to help support her ailing mother and became a dancer at the Cotton Club in Harlem,...
June 29 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - June 29, 2022 04:00 - 1 minuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 29. NAACP chairman S.G. Spottswood criticize Nixon's administration. Stephen Gill Spottswood was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He went on to Albright College, earning a B.A. in history in 1917; Gordon Divinity School; and Yale D...
June 28 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - June 28, 2022 04:00 - 1 minuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 28. The U.S. Supreme Court invalidated the use of racial quotas for university applications. The medical school at the University of California, as part of the university’s affirmative action program, had reserved 16 percent of ...
June 27 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - June 27, 2022 04:00 - 1 minuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 27. Frederick Jones invents the ticket dispensing machine. He was an U.S. inventor credited with more than 60 patents. After a challenging childhood, Jones taught himself mechanical and electrical engineering, inventing a range of dev...
June 26 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - June 26, 2022 04:00 - 2 minutesBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 26. Sit-in demonstrations and passive resistance began in Cairo, Illinois. Despite Illinois’s relatively liberal reputation, Cairo, a small city far south from Chicago, was thoroughly segregated and violently racist. Local youths form...
June 25 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - June 25, 2022 04:00 - 2 minutesBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 25. Sonia Sotomayor was born. She is an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, the first woman of color, first Hispanic, and first Latina member of the Court. Sotomayor was raised in a housing project in the Bro...
June 24 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - June 24, 2022 04:00 - 1 minuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 24. John R. Lynch became first African-American to preside over deliberations of a national political party. Born into slavery in Louisiana, he became free in 1863 under the Emancipation Proclamation. He became active in the Republic...
June 23 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - June 23, 2022 04:00 - 2 minutesBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 23. Wilma Rudolph was born. She was an American sprinter, the first American woman to win three track-and-field gold medals in a single Olympics. Physically disabled for much of her early life, Rudolph wore a leg brace until she was t...
June 22 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - June 22, 2022 04:00 - 2 minutesBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 22. Arthur Ashe leads UCLA to the NCAA tennis championship. Ashe was coached and mentored by Robert Walter Johnson at his tennis summer-camp home in Lynchburg, Virginia. Johnson helped fine-tune Ashe's game and taught him the importan...
BlackFacts Presents - The History of Juneteenth
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - June 21, 2022 16:00 - 5 minutesJUNETEENTH - A Celebration of Freedom. Juneteenth (a portmanteau of June and nineteenth) is also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Liberation Day, and Emancipation Day. It is a holiday celebrating the emancipation of those who had been enslaved in the United States. It is now celebrated annua...
June 21 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - June 21, 2022 12:47 - 2 minutesBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 21. Painter Henry Ossawa Tanner was born. He was an American artist and the first African-American painter to gain international acclaim. After a childhood spent largely in Philadelphia, Tanner began an art career in earnest in 187...
June 20 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - June 20, 2022 04:00 - 1 minuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 20. Harry Belafonte became the first African American to win an Emmy award. As one of the most successful African-American pop stars in history, he was dubbed the “King of Calypso” for popularizing the Caribbean musical style with an i...
June 19 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - June 19, 2022 04:00 - 1 minuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 19. Solidarity Day March In November 1967 civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., and the staff of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) met and decided to launch a Poor People’s Campaign to highlight and find ...
June 18 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - June 18, 2022 04:00 - 1 minuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 18. W.H. Richardson patents Baby Buggy. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and he made a huge improvement to the baby carriage. Richardson decided to create a stroller to be shaped more like a symmetrical basket, rather than a shell...
June 17 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - June 17, 2022 04:00 - 2 minutesBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 17. Tuskegee Boycott began. The issue of the boycott was segregation and voting rights. The voting districts for the city of Tuskegee were changed dramatically to prevent black citizens from electing local officials. The T...
June 16 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - June 16, 2022 04:00 - 2 minutesBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 16. Kenneth A. Gibson became the first African American mayor of Newark. He entered politics in the 1960s, during the Civil Rights Movement, by joining the National Urban League, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored ...
June 14 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - June 15, 2022 04:00 - 1 minuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 14. William H. Gray was elected Democratic Whip of the House of Representatives. He graduated from Simon Gratz High School in 1959 and enrolled in Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, majoring in sociology. In 197...
June 15 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - June 15, 2022 04:00 - 2 minutesBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 15. Henry Ossian Flipper became the first African American to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point. He was born into slavery in Thomasville, Georgia, the eldest of five brothers. His mother, Isabelle Flipper, ...
June 13 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - June 13, 2022 04:00 - 2 minutesBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 13. Thurgood Marshall named the first African-American Court's justice. After being rejected by the University of Maryland Law School because he was not white, Marshall attended Howard University Law School; he received his degree in 1...
June 12 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - June 12, 2022 19:41 - 1 minuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 12. Michael Jordan leads Chicago to 1st NBA Title. The Chicago Bulls defeated the Los Angeles Lakers 108-101 at the Great Western Forum to capture the NBA Finals in five games. It was the Bulls’ first-ever NBA title in their 25th...
June 11 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - June 12, 2022 19:39 - 2 minutesBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 11. Kennedy's Report to the American People on Civil Rights. It was a speech on civil rights, delivered on radio and television by President John F. Kennedy from the Oval Office in which he proposed legislation that would later b...
June 10 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - June 10, 2022 04:00 - 1 minuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 10. Howlin' Wolf was born. Born as Chester Arthur Burnett, he was an American blues singer and composer who was one of the principal exponents of the urban blues style of Chicago. He was brought up on a cotton plantation, and the musi...
June 9 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - June 09, 2022 04:00 - 1 minuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 9. Oliver W. Hill became the 1st Black person elected to the city council in Richmond, Virginia. He was a prominent civil rights attorney. His work against racial discrimination helped end the doctrine of "separate but equal." Hill fi...
June 8 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - June 08, 2022 04:00 - 2 minutesBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 8. James Earl Ray, the suspect in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination, was captured. On April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Martin Luther King Jr, was fatally wounded by a sniper’s bullet while standing on the balcony outside his second-sto...
June 7 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - June 07, 2022 04:00 - 2 minutesBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 7. Nikki Giovanni was born. She is an American poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator. Giovanni grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Knoxville, Tennessee, and in 1960 she entered Nashville’s Fisk University. By 1967, when she r...
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