This season we are telling stories of black women that made history but were neglected from our history. We tell stories of black female doctors, poets, artists, journalists, politicians and more.
"The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press." ~ #IdaBWells
(My great-grandmother +Winner of 2020 @PulitzerPrizes Citation)
The 2nd edition of my great-grandmother #IdaBWells' book will be available May 13th. I wrote the afterword for it & @eveewing wrote the foreword.
https://t.co/xv3RuHafwt
This season we are telling stories of black women that made history but were neglected from our history. We tell stories of black female doctors, poets, artists, journalists, politicians and more.
Itโs been a very horrible, depressing month or so and if you are like me sometimes you need an escape from reality. I upload a new episode, part 2 of Ida B. Wells story that you could listen to right now. Cc @MichelleDuster https://t.co/k0YXJbsKrr
JUST IN: The House of Representatives has approved legislation making lynching a federal hate crime for the first time in U.S. history.
The Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act was named for the 14-year-old teenager who was lynched in Mississippi in the 1950s.
Itโs #BlackHistoryMonth, so check out this thread about black women that we came cross to when we were doing this series who made history but were neglected from our history class and textsbooks ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐
As I was producing this season for my podcast, I found a lot of stories of black women who made history all over the world but you probably never heard of. unfortunately I canโt produce an episode for all them. But I still think that these stories are very interesting to learn
Interesting podcast @TheHistoryOf4 ... is a storytelling podcast, that goes deep into the hidden, forgotten and ignored lives and world events that happened in history, that you probably never even heard of before https://t.co/6YWB7UNZLW by @Khawlan95
Happy New Year!!! Thank you for listening, subscribing and supporting our podcast. We have a lot of stories that were working on including part 2 of Ida B. Wells story and the final episode of our mini series. Thank you ๐
Interesting podcast @TheHistoryOf4 ... is a storytelling podcast, that goes deep into the hidden, forgotten and ignored lives and world events that happened in history, that you probably never even heard of before https://t.co/6YWB7UNZLW by @Khawlan95
Merry Christmas ๐ or Happy Holidays!!! For those traveling to visit family and friends. To bring you some joy in your travels may we suggest listening to The History Of... podcast:
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Merry Christmas and will be back in the New Year!
Cheers
When #IdaBWells entered a train, she didnโt expect that she would be thrown out of the train. But she was and this lead her into a battle with the railroad company over discrimination.
On todayโs show, a chat with @drlisadcook and @itsafronomics about the ways in which economics excludes black women, what that signals about the profession, and how it affects the quality of economics research and economic policy.
https://t.co/HPSvakrqQ8
For those who have listened to the episode already, this was the controversial sexist cartoon that was placed in the Freeman paper.
(credit: to keep the waters troubled book by Linda O McMurry)
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We have a new episode coming tomorrow!!!!! And itโs a good one, trust us! Were literally mixing the episode as we speak. So get your headphones ready! This is the second episode of our mini series, but the first episode of the story of Ida B. Wells.
The amendment would give equal rights to men and women. We also have a 2-part series of Shirley Chisholm for your listening ๐ pleasures! And you should listen to those episodes.
Itโs Shirley Chisholm birthday ๐ today! The first black woman to be elected to Congress and the first African American to run for president. She was radical and a badass. So to celebrate her birthday we have a clip of her equal rights amendment speech that she gave in Congress.
Weโre getting our Ida B. Wells episode ready for you to listen ๐too ! In the mean time, you could listen to our first episode of our mini-series.
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