In the Betcha Didn’t Know Podcast, Amari Robinson tells about an important African Americans and their contributions to our society and culture. Each episode is less than 5 minutes making this the perfect quick educational tool for learners of all ages. Be sure to tune in each week as she enlightens us with many different African Americans!
The Betcha Didn't Know! podcast is a truly remarkable show that highlights the incredible achievements of African Americans throughout history. As a West Virginia native with a deep connection to WV State University, it was particularly heartwarming to see the first episode feature the legendary Katherine Johnson. The podcast is not only informative but also highly engaging, leaving me eagerly anticipating each new episode.
One of the best aspects of this podcast is Amari's infectious enthusiasm and her ability to connect with her audience. Her genuine passion for sharing these stories shines through in every word, making it an absolute joy to listen to. Her voice truly carries the spirit of the show, creating an immersive experience for listeners.
Amari's introductions are another standout aspect of the podcast. She has a talent for setting the tone and capturing the essence of her guests or subjects in a concise yet impactful way. It's evident that she puts thought and care into crafting these introductions, making them memorable and engaging.
On the downside, one possible improvement could be to have longer episodes. While I understand that brevity can be beneficial in keeping listeners engaged, there were moments when I wanted more depth and detail on certain topics or individuals. Expanding on some stories or diving deeper into their backgrounds would further enrich the listening experience.
In conclusion, The Betcha Didn't Know! podcast is an outstanding show that celebrates African American trailblazers throughout history. Amari's passion and enthusiasm make each episode incredibly enjoyable and educational. While longer episodes could enhance the experience, this podcast remains a must-listen for anyone interested in learning about remarkable individuals who have made significant contributions to society. I eagerly look forward to future episodes and discovering more hidden gems of black history through Amari's captivating storytelling.
This week, our host Amari Robinson tells all about inventor, Ellen Eglin. REFERENCES: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Eglin https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/people-african-american-history/ellen-eglin-1849/
This week, our host Amari Robinson tells all about pharmacist Ella Stewart! REFERENCES: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella_P._Stewart
This week, our host Amari Robinson, tells all about author, Zora Neale Hurston REFERENCES: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zora_Neale_Hurston https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/zora-neale-hurston-s-letter-orlando-sentinel-1955/ https://www.biography.com/authors-writers/zora-neale-hurston
This week, our host Amari Robinson, tells all about baseball trailblazer, Toni Stone. References: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni_Stone https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/stone-toni-1921-1996/ https://www.mlb.com/history/negro-leagues/players/toni-stone
This week, our host Amari Robinson, tells all about entrepreneur and inventor, Sarah E. Goode. REFERENCES: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_E._Goode https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/goode-sarah-e-c-1855-1905/ https://multcolib.org/blog/20201103/black-history-month-innovation-sarah-e-goode https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/about/news/women-who-made-legal-history-sarah-e-goode/
This week, our host Amari Robinson, tells all about entrepreneur, business consultant, and software inventor, Dr. Janet Emerson Bashen. REFERENCES: http://www.myblackhistory.net/Janet_Emerson_Bashen.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Emerson_Bashen https://www.hks.harvard.edu/about/janet-emerson-bashen https://www.thoughtco.com/janet-emerson-bashen-1991288
This week, our host Amari Robinson, tells all about scientist, Dr. Dawn Wright. REFERENCES: https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/dawn-wright https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_Wright https://dusk.geo.orst.edu/bio-txt.html https://www.essence.com/news/watch-we-love-these-toys-made-to-uplift-inspire-our-kids/ https://www.amacad.org/person/dawn-jeannine-wright http://scarc.library.oregonstate.edu/oh150/wright/biography.html
This week, our host Amari Robinson, tells all about amazing athlete, Mo'ne Davis. REFERENCES: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mo%27ne_Davis https://fanbuzz.com/national/mone-davis-now/ http://www.quotabelle.com/quote/if-i-just-keep-being-myself-th
This week, our host Amari Robinson, tells all about inventor and community activist, Lyda D. Newman. REFERENCES: https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/lyda-newman-1885/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyda_D._Newman https://www.biography.com/activist/lyda-newman
This week, our host Amari Robinson, tells all about journalist, Nikole Hannah-Jones. REFERENCES: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikole_Hannah-Jones https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/people-african-american-history/nikole-hannah-jones-1976/
This week our host, Amari Robinson, tells all about pioneering ophthalmologist, Patricia Bath. REFERENCES: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Bath https://www.biography.com/scientist/patricia-bath https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/20245795.Patricia_Bath
Welcome back everyone! This week our host, Amari Robinson, tells all about educator extraordinaire, Rosa Dixon Bowser! REFERENCES: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Dixon_Bowser https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/bowser-rosa-l-dixon-1855-1931/
Welcome to season two! This week, our host Amari Robinson, tells all about activist and trailblazer, Mary Church Terrell. REFERENCES: https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/mary-church-terrell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Church_Terrell https://www.biography.com/activist/mary-church-terrell https://www.inspiringquotes.us/quotes/ahEC_dWAQTLKl
This week, our host Amari Robinson, tells all about lawyer and activist Sadie Turner Mossell Alexander. REFERENCES: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadie_Tanner_Mossell_Alexander https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/alexander-sadie-tanner-mossell-1898-1989/ https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/biography/sadie-tanner-mossell-alexander/ https://quotefancy.com/quote/1674161/Sadie-Tanner-Mossell-Alexander-I-knew-well-that-the-only-way-I-could-get-that-door-open
This week, our special guest host, Ari Robinson, tells all about fashion design trailblazer Zelda Barbour Wynn Valdes! REFERENCES: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelda_Wynn_Valdes https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/valdes-zelda-barbour-wynn-1901-2001/ https://www.shondaland.com/live/style/a19992024/zelda-wynn-valdes/
This week our host Amari Robinson tells all about video game creator, Muriel Tramis! REFERENCES: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muriel_Tramis https://www.theicon.com/a-first-lady-of-gaming
This week our host Amari Robinson, tells all about pioneering lawyer Charlotte E. Ray. REFERENCES: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_E._Ray https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/ray-charlotte-e-1850-1911/
This week, our host Amari Robinson tells all about Surgeon General, Dr. Joycelyn Elders. REFERENCES: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joycelyn_Elders https://www.britannica.com/biography/Joycelyn-Elders https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/elders-joycelyn-minnie-1933-2/ https://www.inspiringquotes.us/quotes/g6RC_19mB8Lhp https://cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov/physicians/biography_98.html
This week our host, Amari Robinson, tells all about poet and essayist, Rita Dove. References: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Dove https://www.britannica.com/biography/Rita-Dove https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/rita-dove https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/rita_dove_345383
(Replay) In this special Mother's Day episode, our host, Amari Robinson, tells all about her mommy, Mari L. Robinson!
This week our host, Amari Robinson, tells all about librarian and avid collector, Mayme Agnew Clayton. REFERENCES: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayme_Agnew_Clayton https://www.claytonmuseum.org/about https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/clayton-mayme-agnew https://news.csudh.edu/clayton-collection/
This week our host, Amari Robinson, tells all about NASA scientist, inventor and major mentor, Dr. Valerie Thomas. REFERENCES: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Thomas https://www.biography.com/scientist/valerie-thomas https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/valerie-thomas-1943/ https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/6421664.Valerie_Thomas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ipiireemmig
This week, our host Amari Robinson tells all about basketball trailblazer Dawn Staley. REFERENCES: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_Staley https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/sports-and-games/sports-biographies/dawn-staley https://www.azquotes.com/author/23307-Dawn_Staley
This week our host, Amari Robinson, tells all about pioneer cancer researcher Dr. Jane Cooke Wright. REFERENCES: https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/wright-jane-cooke-1919/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_C._Wright
This week our host, Amari Robinson, tells all about medical trailblazer, Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler. References: https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/crumpler-rebecca-davis-lee-1831-1895/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Lee_Crumpler https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/dr-rebecca-lee-crumpler https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/freedmens-bureau
In this episode, our host Amari Robinson, tells all about innovator Marie Van Brittan Brown. References: https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/brown-marie-van-brittan-1922-1999 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Van_Brittan_Brown https://lemelson.mit.edu/resources/marie-van-brittan-brown https://news.kleinisd.net/2019/02/27/securing-homes/
This week, our host Amari Robinson tells all about novelist, essayist, and Pulitzer Prize winner, Toni Morrison. References: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni_Morrison https://www.biography.com/writer/toni-morrison https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/morrison-chloe-anthony-wofford-nee-toni-morrison-1931/
This week, our host Amari Robinson, tells all about guitar innovator and God Mother of Rock and Roll, Sister Rosetta Tharpe. REFERENCES: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister_Rosetta_Tharpe https://afropunk.com/2019/03/rosetta-tharpe/ https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/tharpe-sister-rosetta-1915-1973/
This week our host Amari Robinson tells about about the amazing poet, Gwendolyn Brooks.
This wee, our host Amari Robinson tells all about tennis star, Althea Gibson. RERFERENCES: https://www.biography.com/athlete/althea-gibson https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/gibson-althea-1927-2003/
This week, our host, Amari Robinson, tells all about volleyball superstar, Flora Jean "Flo" Hyman! REFERENCES: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flo_Hyman https://www.volleyhall.org/flo-hyman.html https://uhcougars.com/news/2012/9/10/A_Tribute_to_Flo_Hyman_Always_a_Cougar.aspx
In this episode, our host, Amari Robinson, tells all about track and field pioneer Alice Coachman. REFERENCES: https://www.biography.com/athlete/alice-coachman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Coachman https://www.inspiringquotes.us/author/1309-alice-coachman
This week, our host, Amari Robinson, tells all about tech guru, Marian Croak! REFERENCES: https://blog.google/technology/ai/marian-croak-responsible-ai/ https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/croak-marian-r-1955/ https://lemelson.mit.edu/resources/marian-croak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Croak
This week, our host, Amari Robinson, tells all about computer security expert, Window Snyder! REFERENCES: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_Snyder https://app.blacklivingknowledge.com/window-snyder/ https://roadtripnation.com/leader/window-snyder
In this episode our host, Amari Robinson, tells all about basketball superstar Sheryl Swoopes! REFERENCES: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheryl_Swoopes https://www.hoophall.com/hall-of-famers/sheryl-swoopes http://cdn.shopify.com https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/swoopes-sheryl-denise https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/sheryl_swoopes_431295
Welcome back! In this new episode, our host Amari Robinson tells all about gymnastics legend, Dianne Durham.
In tis special Father's Day episode, our host, Amari Robinson, tells all about her technology guru daddy, Richard Robinson!
This week, our host, Amari Robinson, tells all about track superstar, Wilma Rudolph! References: https://www.biography.com/athlete/wilma-rudolph https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/wilma-rudolph
This week, our host, Amari Robinson, tells all about early activist, Claudette Colven! REFERENCES: https://www.biography.com/news/claudette-colvin-rosa-parks-bus-boycott https://www.npr.org/2009/03/15/101719889/before-rosa-parks-there-was-claudette-colvin https://www.biography.com/activist/claudette-colvin https://studentactivism.net/2011/12/01/remembering-claudette-colvin-2/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudette_Colvin
This week, our host, Amari Robinson, tells all about port, writer, and activist Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. References: https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/frances-ellen-watkins-harper https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/frances-ellen-watkins-harper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Harper https://poets.org/poet/frances-ellen-watkins-harper
This week, our host, Amari Robinson, tells all about Oscar winning actress, Hattie McDaniel! REFERENCES: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hattie_McDaniel https://www.biography.com/actor/hattie-mcdaniel https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hattie-McDaniel https://www.notablebiographies.com/Ma-Mo/McDaniel-Hattie.html
This week, our host, Amari Robinson, tells all about politician and educator, Shirley Chisholm! References: https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/shirley-chisholm https://www.biography.com/political-figure/shirley-chisholm https://www.history.com/news/shirley-chisholm-career-milestones https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/shirley_chisholm_158402
In this special Mother's Day episode, our host, Amari Robinson, tells all about her mommy, Mari L. Robinson! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nine-seven/id1520282643 https://webdmg.com http://hackforcommunity.org
This week our host, Amari Robinson, tells all about civil and voting rights activist, Fannie Lou Hamer! https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/fannie-lou-hamer https://www.biography.com/activist/fannie-lou-hamer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fannie_Lou_Hamer https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/fannie-lou-hamer https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/freedomsummer-hamer/ https://www.becauseofthemwecan.com/blogs/culture/10-fannie-lou-hamer-quotes-to-celebrate-her-100th-birthday
This week, our host, Amari Robinson, tells all about pioneering botanist, Marie Clark Taylor! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Taylor https://www.womeninhorticulture.com/post/woman-of-firsts-marie-clark-taylor https://dbg.org/marie-clark-taylor/ https://frondswithbenefits.blog/2020/06/07/remembering-african-american-botanists/
This week, our host, Amari Robinson, tells all about cartoonist, Jackie Ormes! References: https://womenincomics.fandom.com/wiki/Jackie_Ormes https://wednesdayswomen.com/jackie-ormes-first-african-american-female-cartoonist/ https://www.jackieormes.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Ormes https://americacomesalive.com/jackie-ormes-1911-1986-first-african-american-female-cartoonist/ https://kentakepage.com/jackie-ormes-the-first-professional-african-american-woman-cartoonist/
Episode 10!! Wooohooo! In this episode, our host, Amari Robinson, tells all about STEM trailblazer, Dr. Gladys West. Stay tuned to the end for a special announcement! https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/nov/19/gladys-west-the-hidden-figure-who-helped-invent-gps https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/people-african-american-history/gladys-mae-west-1930/ https://www.bbc.com/news/world-43812053
This week, our host Amari Robinson, tells all about scientist, Marie M. Daly. References: https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2020/marie-m-daly-from-a-love-of-science-to-a-legacy-of-discoveries-2/ https://www.biography.com/scientist/marie-m-daly https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/african-americans-in-sciences/marie-maynard-daly.html
This week, our host Amari Robinson, tells all about businesswoman, Maggie Lena Walker. https://www.biography.com/scholar/maggie-lena-walker https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/ ?https://www.nps.gov/mawa/learn/historyculture/maggie-lena-walker.htm https://ywfleaders.com/maggie-lena-walker/
This week, our host, Amari Robinson, tells all about the amazing inventor, Sarah Boone. https://www.biography.com/inventor/sarah-boone https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/boone-sarah-1832-1904/ https://www.ctexplored.org/sarah-boone-invents-a-better-ironing-board/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Boone
This week, our host, Amari Robinson, tell all about self-made millionaire, Madam CJ Walker.
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