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Why Hard History Matters: Addressing the Legacy of Jim Crow – w/ Rep. Hakeem Jeffries
Teaching Hard History - May 25, 2022 22:21 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsCongressman Hakeem Jeffries represents New York’s 8th congressional district. Our final episode this season takes us to the U.S. House of Representatives for a conversation between Rep. Jeffries and his brother, our host, Dr. Hasan Jeffries, to discuss the lingering effects of the Jim Crow era—i...
Criminalizing Blackness: Prisons, Police and Jim Crow – w/ Robert T. Chase and Brandon T. Jett
Teaching Hard History - May 16, 2022 18:08 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsAfter emancipation, aspects of the legal system were reshaped to maintain control of Black lives and labor. Historian Robert T. Chase outlines the evolution of convict leasing in the prison system. And Historian Brandon T. Jett explores the commercial factors behind the transition from extra-leg...
Music Reconstructed: Lara Downes’ Classical Perspective on Jim Crow – w/ Charles L. Hughes
Teaching Hard History - April 26, 2022 16:05 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsFrom concertos to operas, Black composers captured the changes and challenges facing African Americans during Jim Crow. Renowned classical pianist Laura Downes is bringing new appreciation to the works of artists like Florence Price and Scott Joplin. In our final installment of Music Reconstruct...
Music Reconstructed: Adia Victoria and the Landscape of the Blues – w/ Charles L. Hughes
Teaching Hard History - April 12, 2022 11:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsWhen we consider the trauma of white supremacy during the Jim Crow era—what writer Ralph Ellison describes as “the brutal experience”—it’s important to understand the resilience and joy that sustained Black communities. We can experience that all through the “near-comic, near-tragic lyricism” of...
Black Political Thought – w/ Minkah Makalani
Teaching Hard History - April 08, 2022 20:37 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsBlack political ideologies in the early 20th century evolved against a backdrop of derogatory stereotypes and racial terrorism. Starting with Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Agency, historian Minkah Makalani contextualizes an era of Black intellectualism. From common goals of r...
Music Reconstructed: Dom Flemons, Black Cowboys and the American West – w/ Charles L. Hughes
Teaching Hard History - March 18, 2022 21:39 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsFrom ranches to railroads, learn about the often unrecognized role that African Americans played in the range cattle industry, as Pullman porters and in law enforcement. In part two of this special series, Grammy Award-winner Dom Flemons takes us on a musical exploration of the American West aft...
Medical Racism: A Legacy of Malpractice – w/ Deirdre Cooper Owens
Teaching Hard History - March 17, 2022 01:22 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsThis nation has a long history of exploiting Black Americans in the name of medicine. A practice which began with the Founding Fathers using individual enslaved persons for gruesome experimentation evolved into state-sanctioned injustices such as the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, among others. Award-...
Medical Racism: A Legacy of Malpractice – w/ Deirdre Cooper-Owens
Teaching Hard History - March 17, 2022 01:22 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsThis nation has a long history of exploiting Black Americans in the name of medicine. A practice which began with the Founding Fathers using individual enslaved persons for gruesome experimentation evolved into state-sanctioned injustices such as the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, among others. Award-...
Music Reconstructed: Jason Moran, Jazz and the Harlem Hellfighters – w/ Charles L. Hughes
Teaching Hard History - February 23, 2022 19:56 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsThis is a special four-part series where historian Charles L. Hughes introduces us to musicians who are exploring the sounds, songs and stories of the Jim Crow era. In this installment, Jazz pianist Jason Moran discusses his acclaimed musical celebration of a man he calls “Big Bang of Jazz,” ban...
The Harlem Renaissance: Restructuring, Rebirth and Reckoning – w/ Julie Buckner Armstrong
Teaching Hard History - February 17, 2022 21:36 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsDuring the Harlem Renaissance, more Black artists than ever before were asking key questions about the role of art in society. Oftentimes the Harlem Renaissance is misconstrued as a discrete moment in American history–not as the next iteration of a thriving Black artistic tradition that it was. ...
Changing the Game: Sports in the Jim Crow Era – w/ Derrick E. White and Louis Moore
Teaching Hard History - January 24, 2022 22:33 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsIn the United States, Black athletes have had to contend with two sets of rules: those of the game and those of a racist society. While they dealt with 20th century realities of breaking the color line and the politics of respectability, Black fans, educational institutions, and the Black press ...
The New Deal, Jim Crow and the Black Cabinet – w/ Jill Watts
Teaching Hard History - January 13, 2022 22:55 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsOpportunities created by the New Deal were often denied to African Americans. And that legacy of exclusion to jobs, loans and services can be seen today in federal programs and policies as well as systemic inequities in housing, education, health and the accumulation of wealth. Historian Jill Wa...
Black Soldiers: Global Conflict During Jim Crow – w/ Adriane Lentz-Smith
Teaching Hard History - December 14, 2021 22:54 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsU.S. involvement in world wars and the domestic Black freedom struggle shaped one another. By emphasizing the diverse stories of servicemen and women, historian Adriane Lentz-Smith situates Black soldiers as agents of American empire who were simultaneously building their own institutions at hom...
Building Black Institutions: Autonomy, Labor and HBCUs – w/ Jelani M. Favors and Tera W. Hunter
Teaching Hard History - December 03, 2021 23:09 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsHistorian Tera Hunter describes Black institution-building post-slavery and throughout the Jim Crow era, illustrating how Black workers reorganized labor to their advantage, despite virulent white resistance. During the same period, historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) produced f...
Premeditation and Resilience: Tulsa, Red Summer and the Great Migration – w/ David Krugler
Teaching Hard History - November 11, 2021 21:58 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsNaming the 1921 Tulsa massacre a “race riot” is inaccurate. Historian David Krugler urges listeners to call this and other violent attacks what they were: premeditated attempts at ethnic cleansing. Decades before, African Americans moved North in record numbers during the Great Migration. Krugle...
Lynching: White Supremacy, Terrorism and Black Resilience – w/ Kidada Williams and Kellie Carter Jackson
Teaching Hard History - October 26, 2021 16:34 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsBlack American experiences during Jim Crow were deeply affected by the ever-present threat of lynching and other forms of racist violence. Historian Kidada Williams amplifies perspectives from Black families, telling stories of lynching victims obscured by white newspapers. She and Kellie Carter...
Correcting History: Confederate Monuments, Rituals and the Lost Cause – w/ Karen Cox
Teaching Hard History - October 19, 2021 22:59 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsThe Lost Cause narrative would have us believe that Confederate monuments have always been celebrated, but people have protested them since they started going up. Historian Karen Cox unpacks how the United Daughters of the Confederacy used propaganda to dominate generations of teachings about th...
Reconstruction 101: Progress and Backlash – w/ Kate Masur
Teaching Hard History - October 13, 2021 22:33 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsJust months after the Civil War ended, former Confederates had regained political footholds in Washington, D.C. In her overview of Reconstruction, Kate Masur notes how—in the face of evolving, post-slavery white supremacy—Black people claimed their citizenship and began building institutions of ...
The History of Whiteness and How We Teach About Race – w/ Edward E. Baptist and Aisha White
Teaching Hard History - September 14, 2021 22:03 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsHistorian Ed Baptist provides context on the creation and enforcement of a U.S. racial binary that endures today, as well as Black resistance as a force for political change. And Aisha White urges educators to ask themselves, “What did you learn about race when you were younger?” before they eng...
Creating Brave Spaces: Reckoning With Race in the Classroom – w/ Matthew R. Kay
Teaching Hard History - September 03, 2021 00:09 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsPeople from all corners of public life are telling teachers to stop discussions about race and racism in the classroom, but keeping the truth of the world from students simply doesn’t work. English teacher Matthew Kay urges educators to create brave spaces instead. He provides examples of classr...
Creating Brave Spaces: Reckoning With Race in the Classroom
Teaching Hard History - September 03, 2021 00:09 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsPeople from all corners of public life are telling teachers to stop discussions about race and racism in the classroom, but keeping the truth of the world from students simply doesn’t work. English teacher Matthew Kay urges educators to create brave spaces instead. He provides examples of classr...
Jim Crow: Yesterday and Today
Teaching Hard History - August 26, 2021 14:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsThis season, we’re examining the century between the Civil War and the modern civil rights movement to understand how systemic racism and slavery persisted and evolved after emancipation—and how Black Americans still developed strong institutions during this time. Co-hosts Hasan Kwame Jeffries a...
Baseball, Civil Rights and the Anderson Monarchs Barnstorming Tour (special) - w/ Steve Bandura and Derrick White
Teaching Hard History - August 19, 2021 15:55 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsIn 2015, Coach Steve Bandura loaded the Anderson Monarchs, a little league baseball team from Philadelphia, onto a 1947 Flxible Clipper Bus for a barnstorming tour back in time. Bandura and the players recount lessons learned while visiting historic civil rights sites, meeting veteran activists ...
Walking in Their Shoes: Using #BlackLivesMatter to Teach the Civil Rights Movement – w/ Shannon King and Nishani Frazier
Teaching Hard History - April 13, 2021 16:14 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsThe civil rights movement offers critical context for understanding the systemic police violence, voter suppression efforts, ‘law and order’ rhetoric and criminalization of activism we see today. It also helps us understand the strategies activists use to fight these injustices. Historians Shann...
Walking in Their Shoes: Using #BlackLivesMatter to Teach the Civil Rights Movement
Teaching Hard History - April 13, 2021 16:14 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsThe civil rights movement offers critical context for understanding the systemic police violence, voter suppression efforts, ‘law and order’ rhetoric and criminalization of activism we see today. It also helps us understand the strategies activists use to fight these injustices. Historians Shann...
The Black Panther Party and the Transition to Black Power
Teaching Hard History - March 30, 2021 14:49 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsThe history of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense can help us understand the transition from civil rights to Black Power, as well as contemporary issues like mass incarceration. From the Ten-Point Platform to survival programs, historian Robyn C. Spencer outlines key aspects of the party’s...
The Black Panther Party and the Transition to Black Power – w/ Robyn C. Spencer and Jakobi Williams
Teaching Hard History - March 30, 2021 14:49 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsThe history of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense can help us understand the transition from civil rights to Black Power, as well as contemporary issues like mass incarceration. From the Ten-Point Platform to survival programs, historian Robyn C. Spencer outlines key aspects of the party’s...
Malcolm X Beyond the Mythology – w/ Clarence Lang
Teaching Hard History - March 16, 2021 14:35 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsHistorian Clarence Lang joins us for a conversation about Malcolm X. We discuss his commitment to Black pride and self-determination and his rejection of the white gaze and the myth of American exceptionalism. Learn how teaching about the life and works of Malcolm X can illuminate the universe o...
Community Organizing, Youth Leadership and SNCC – w/ Courtland Cox, Kaia Woodford, Karlyn Forner and John B. Gartrell
Teaching Hard History - February 23, 2021 15:11 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsIn this episode, we talk with movement veteran Courtland Cox about lessons from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and his own development as a young organizer of the Emmett Till generation. We join Karlyn Forner and John B. Gartrell to tour the resources available through SNCC Digita...
Listen, Look and Learn: Using Primary Sources to Teach the Freedom Struggle – w/ J. Todd Moye, Guha Shankar, and Noelle Trent
Teaching Hard History - February 09, 2021 22:19 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsOral histories, historic sites, archives and museums expand students’ understanding of the past. They fill in gaps in our textbooks—complementing what’s included and capturing what’s not. This episode highlights online oral history collections including the Civil Rights History Project. It offer...
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