April 1, 202410 min
Baltimore harbor was our path to freedom
Frederick Douglass and Isaac Myers rival Frances Scott Key in their importance to American history. I describe Black organized labor during my April 6 tour with SEIU 1021
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John William Templeton, the Black Encyclopedia, describes the action steps to reach Our10Plan: the African-American economic strategy by 2026, America's 250th anniversary from the news pages of Black Money Worldwide, the economic newspaper of record for the Diaspora since 1995. (blackmoney.com) He practices what he preaches as chair of the Central Brooklyn Economic Development Corp. and lead developer of the Sargent Johnson National Museum of African-American Art. He's founder of the 21st annual Journal of Black Innovation National Black Business Month at blackbusinessmonth.com
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March 8, 202426 min
Dr. Harry Edwards from the John Carlos/Tommie Smith statue at San Jose State University
Brandishing his University of Florida championship ring from the men's basketball team, Dr. Harry Edwards presents the moral and intellectual case against the New Black Codes in this special episode of The Promised Land
March 8, 2024Episode 7528 min
Dr. Harry Edwards: Black athletes defending Black Studies
Dr. Harry Edwards joins The Promised Land at the statue of John Carlos and Tommie Smith to respond to attacks on the victories he has won for Black Studies and academic excellence as we opened the 48th annual National Council for Black Studies. He describes anxious parents contacting him on where their students won't face persecution for reproductive rights and civil rights and advises athletes to follow in the footsteps of the Olympic Movement for Human Rights. Facing a terminal illness, he notes that he's prepared his final lectures and a history of Black activism in sports. Dr. Edwards begins with his NCAA championship ring from the University of Florida men's basketball team.
March 2, 202415 min
Let's practice civil obedience on Black American Day March 5
March to vote in 15 states -- Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia -- in honor of those who marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma and Crispus Attucks, the first to die for the United States and you can have the same impact as the first African-American voters in the 1860s
February 13, 2024Episode 6351 min
The Most Important Speech in African-American history
My re-enactment of Rev. Henry Highland Garnet's greatest speeches at 15th Street Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C. including Let The Monster Perish (first speech by an African-American in U.S. Capitol); and Let Your Motto Be Resistance, Resistance, Resistance
February 8, 2024Episode 6416 min
The voice of 209,145 must be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court
We must lift up the voices of the 200 heroes who died during the New Orleans massacre to the U.S. Supreme Court as it hears the case from the Colorado Supreme Court invoking Section Three of the 14th Amendment. Our lack of knowledge of the most important provision of the Constitution is giving an opening to undo a century and half of progress. Join our Protecting 14th Amendment four-week sessions Feb. 10 at 1 p.m. Eastern to learn the proud history of our greatest political achievements.
February 6, 2024Episode 6424 min
Tracing the Queen of Pan Africanism
Sometimes the most prominent people can be invisible to the communities that spawned them. Amazingly, the superbly documented saga of Marguerite Annie Johnson has been obscured in a community which gave us Black Studies. But she left us a rich pathway to follow as we are Mapping Maya.
February 4, 2024Episode 6023 min
Birthday or Black History Month? Heck, Let's Celebrate Both Together
Sometimes I forget that February is a big month personally while implementing my career as a Black historian, but I don't have many birthdays left so it's double duty in 2024 and you get to join the joint celebration with the publisher's birthday discount on all our products.
January 14, 20247 min
In order to get down with Black history, you have to get in deep
Beginning Come to the Water, a seven week session on teaching California Black history with a specific focus on African-Americans and the arts with a Black history sea cruise from Pier 43 1/2 and continuing to explore the world of Sargent Johnson
January 10, 2024Episode 5412 min
Defending a country that does not defend us
The January Journal of Black Innovation features the 48 Air Force civil engineering battalions; Army regiments and Naval construction battalions which built 1,000 airfields, the Alaska Highway and seaports, a demonstration of how 5 million Black veterans have stepped up since 1770 for a country which rarely steps up for them and their families.
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