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History Shows Us

Join historian Lettie Gore as she examines what history shows us and makes critical connections between the past and present. Lettie’s passion for history and educating about the truth can be heard an... Read more

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Episode 4: Lets Talk About White Privilege...and You

Episode 4: Lets Talk About White Privilege...and You

In this episode, I get deep into white privilege, what it is, what it isn't, its three powers, historical constructions,... Read more

7 Aug 2019

1hr 7mins

Ranked #2

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Episode 9: White Fragility...and You

Episode 9: White Fragility...and You

In this episode, I discuss white fragility, what it is, and the problem with centering white feelings in conversations a... Read more

11 Sep 2019

54mins

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James Baldwin: A Voice That Still Resonates

James Baldwin: A Voice That Still Resonates

This episode focuses on truth-telling, racism confronting, excerpts and quotes by James Baldwin, one of the most eloquen... Read more

31 Jul 2019

47mins

Ranked #4

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Friday Five: Stop Doing These Things

Friday Five: Stop Doing These Things

One of this week's Friday Five is to stop telling Black people how to feel about racism. You want to hear the other four... Read more

24 Jan 2020

7mins

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Your Heroes Are Not Mine: The Problematic Whitewashing of Women's Suffrage

Your Heroes Are Not Mine: The Problematic Whitewashing of Women's Suffrage

This year is the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment, but much of the history of the women's suffrage movement leave... Read more

4 Mar 2020

47mins

Ranked #6

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Friday Five: What Are You Doing Differently?

Friday Five: What Are You Doing Differently?

Happy Friday! If you're saying nothing, you're saying something. The film "Just Mercy." Listening to Black voices and pe... Read more

17 Jan 2020

11mins

Ranked #7

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Diversity Is Not Inclusion, and Other Thoughts

Diversity Is Not Inclusion, and Other Thoughts

In this week's episode, I discuss the popularity of the buzzwords 'diversity' and 'inclusion' and go into how they are n... Read more

18 Mar 2020

36mins

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The ABCs of Anti-Slavery in 1846 & Teaching Actual Truth to Children Today

The ABCs of Anti-Slavery in 1846 & Teaching Actual Truth to Children Today

What if when you learned your ABCs, you also learned why slavery was horrible? The Anti-Slavery Alphabet did just that a... Read more

29 Jan 2020

46mins

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The Jim Crow Series: Intro

The Jim Crow Series: Intro

This week's episode is the first of the Jim Crow series! A brief history of the origins of Jim Crow laws, where the name... Read more

25 Sep 2019

33mins

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The Jim Crow Series: Racial Terror, Violence, & Lynching (Part 1)

The Jim Crow Series: Racial Terror, Violence, & Lynching (Part 1)

In this week's episode, I explain why and how black Americans were victims of racial violence, terror, and lynching. I s... Read more

20 Nov 2019

1hr 14mins

Ranked #11

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Episode 5: "Wow, you speak so well!": Tone Policing & Microaggressions

Episode 5: "Wow, you speak so well!": Tone Policing & Microaggressions

This week's episode looks at how people derail discussions with tone policing and how microaggressions are oppressive in... Read more

14 Aug 2019

47mins

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The Jim Crow Series: Laws, Racism, & Miscegenation

The Jim Crow Series: Laws, Racism, & Miscegenation

Episode 2 of the Jim Crow Series is all Jim Crow laws and etiquette that kept races divided, beginning in 1877 after the... Read more

9 Oct 2019

1hr 8mins

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The Jim Crow Series: Traveling While Black

The Jim Crow Series: Traveling While Black

Traveling in Jim Crow America was met with annoyances, inconveniences, and dangers, if you were black. In this episode, ... Read more

23 Oct 2019

54mins

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Words for 2020, Watch Night, & the History of New Year's Day

Words for 2020, Watch Night, & the History of New Year's Day

Happy New Year! In this first episode of 2020, and season 3, I discuss what New Year's Eve and Day meant for enslaved pe... Read more

1 Jan 2020

34mins

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Friday Five: Said By Nina Simone

Friday Five: Said By Nina Simone

In this week's Friday Five episode, I share my five favorite quotes by Nina Simone and provide a little background on he... Read more

21 Feb 2020

5mins

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Episode 8: The Color Blind Problem, "Difficult" Names, & Invalidating Identities

Episode 8: The Color Blind Problem, "Difficult" Names, & Invalidating Identities

This week, I talk about the problem with people saying, "I don't see color" and how this and other colorblind-related ph... Read more

4 Sep 2019

35mins

Ranked #17

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The Jim Crow Series: The Activism of Wells, Du Bois, & More

The Jim Crow Series: The Activism of Wells, Du Bois, & More

This week, I give a glimpse of what activism in Jim Crow America was by discussing Ida B. Wells, W. E. B. Du Bois, Marcu... Read more

6 Nov 2019

58mins

Ranked #18

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The Jim Crow Series: Racial Terror, Violence, & Lynching (Part 2)

The Jim Crow Series: Racial Terror, Violence, & Lynching (Part 2)

Public spectacle lynchings. The black body as souvenir. I read lynching accounts and, I warn you, a few of them are grap... Read more

4 Dec 2019

52mins

Ranked #19

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My Visit to the Lynching Memorial & the Legacy Museum in Montgomery

My Visit to the Lynching Memorial & the Legacy Museum in Montgomery

I had the opportunity to go on a Legacy Trip this past weekend to visit Montgomery, Alabama and go to The National Memor... Read more

19 Feb 2020

35mins

Ranked #20

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Friday Five: Nathaniel Woods

Friday Five: Nathaniel Woods

Alabama executed an innocent Black man last night, Nathaniel Woods. My stream of conscious thoughts are in this episode.

6 Mar 2020

12mins

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