Podcasts about alabama's black belt

Josh and David open with a discussion about the Colorado Supreme Court kicking former President Donald Trump off the ballot in the state, and the former president's recent inflammatory comments. Nicholas Perkins joins the show to discuss the tragic shooting of his brother Steve Perkins by Decatur police officers. Nicholas discussed who his brother was as a person, his doubts about the official police story of what happened, and how his family is coping in the aftermath of Steve's death. Shelly Bradley, the executive director of the Blackbelt Unincorporated Wastewater Program, to discuss efforts to improve the well-documented wastewater treatment issues in Alabama's Black Belt region. And Josh and David close with this week's Rightwing Nut of the Week. About Our Sponsor: Alabama Politics This Week is sponsored by Wind Creek Hospitality. Gaming is the heart of Wind Creek Hospitality, but they offer so much more. Wind Creek's 10 distinct properties in the U.S. and Caribbean — including four in Alabama — provide world-class entertainment, dining, hotel stays, amenities and activities. As the principal gaming and hospitality entity for the Poarch Band of Creek Indians, Wind Creek continues to grow and offer guests luxurious destinations and opportunities for escape. Send us a question: We take a bit of time each week to answer questions from our audience about Alabama politics — or Alabama in general. If you have a question about a politician, a policy, or a trend — really anything — you can shoot us an email at apwproducer@gmail.com or with this form. You can also send it to us on Facebook and Twitter. Or by emailing us a voice recording to our email with your question, and we may play it on air. Either way, make sure you include your name (first name is fine) and the city or county where you live. About APW: APW is a weekly Alabama political podcast hosted by Josh Moon and David Person, two longtime Alabama political journalists. More information is available on our website. Listen anywhere you get your podcasts. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook. Music credits: Music courtesy of Mr. Smith via the Free Music Archive. Visit Mr. Smith's page here.

Stillman College Asst. Prof. of Music, Dr. Allison Upshaw, discusses her "creative nonfiction" project, "reframing: Narratives of African American Female Landowners in Alabama's Black Belt" that captures more about Black women who own land than what appears in records and produces their stories in a way that makes them fully human. Links mentioned in the episode: Stillman College: https://stillman.edu/ Alabama Department of Archives and History Statement of Recommitment: https://archives.alabama.gov/about/docs/ADAH_statement_recommitment.pdf Dr. Allison Upshaw personal website: https://allisonupshawphd.com/ Alabama Humanities Alliance grants: https://alabamahumanities.org/grants/ Alabama State Council on the Arts: https://arts.alabama.gov/ [On Heir Property] J. F. Dyer, "Heir Property: Legal and Cultural Dimensions of Collective Landownership," Alabama Agriculture Experiment Station Bulletin 667, May 2007: https://aurora.auburn.edu/bitstream/handle/11200/4107/BULL0667.pdf "reFraming: Narratives of African American Female Landowners in Alabama's Black Belt" on Prezi Video: https://prezi.com/v/view/Es7m9C77MxQoQ4yoLTuD/ "OPERAtunities": https://allisonupshawphd.com/services/ "Artivism": https://allisonupshawphd.com/artivism/ Rather read? Here's a link to the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/bd2ztwbb *Just a heads up – the provided transcript is likely to be less than 100% accurate. The Alabama History Podcast's producer is Marty Olliff and its associate producer is Laura Murray. Founded in 1947, the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama. The AHA provides opportunities for meaningful engagement with the past through publications, meetings, historical markers, and other programs. See the website www.alabamahistory.net/

Episode 068 – Bertis English Recipient of the 2023 C.J. Coley Award from Alabama Historical Association Air Date: November 8, 2023 Dr. Bertis English, professor of history at Alabama State University, discusses his book, Civil Wars, Civil Beings, and Civil Rights in Alabama's Black Belt: A History of Perry County (University of Alabama Press, 2020) that won the Alabama Historical Association's 2023 C.J. Coley Award for the best book on local history published in the previous two years. English argues that African American agency and the power of interracial citizens made the history of Perry County, AL, significantly different from the orthodox understanding of the Black Belt's history from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement as one of relentless racial strife and oppression. Links to things mentioned in the episode: Alabama Historical Association www.alabamahistory.net/ AHA's Clinton Jackson Coley Award https://www.alabamahistory.net/clinton-jackson-coley-book-award Civil Wars, Civil Beings, and Civil Rights in Alabama's Black Belt https://www.uapress.ua.edu/9780817320690/civil-wars-civil-beings-and-civil-rights-in-alabamas-black-belt/ Perry County https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/perry-county/ Marion, AL https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/marion/ Uniontown, AL https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/uniontown/ The Dunning School https://slaveryexhibits.ctl.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/williamdunning Alabama's Tragic Decade [John Witherspoon Dubose at BhamWiki] https://www.bhamwiki.com/w/John_DuBose Sarah W. Wiggins, The Scalawag in Alabama Politics https://www.uapress.ua.edu/9780817305574/the-scalawag-in-alabama-politics-18651881/ W.E.B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Reconstruction_in_America Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstruction:_America%27s_Unfinished_Revolution,_1863%E2%80%931877 Lincoln School https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/lincoln-school/ Judson College https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/judson-college/ Howard College (Samford University) https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/samford-university/ Journal of African American History https://asalh.org/document/journal-of-african-american-history/ Rather read? Here's a link to the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/3968ebuc *Just a heads up – the provided transcript is likely to be less than 100% accurate. The Alabama History Podcast's producer is Marty Olliff and its associate producer is Laura Murray. Founded in 1947, the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama. The AHA provides opportunities for meaningful engagement with the past through publications, meetings, historical markers, and other programs. See the website www.alabamahistory.net/

Jan-Michael Archer joins the Agents of Change in Environmental Justice podcast to discuss community-driven science in Alabama's Black Belt and his role in fighting for workers' rights at his university.

Alabama native Scott Peacock is a James Beard Award-winning chef and one of the foremost authorities on American Southern cuisine. He might be best known for his work at Watershed restaurant in Decatur, Georgia, and his partnership with culinary icon Edna Lewis, but his recipes and writing have appeared in numerous publications as well, including The New York Times, Better Homes & Gardens, Gourmet, Food & Wine, and Bon Appetit. Although I was very aware of his reputation, it was through one of those recipes that I first personally encountered Scott, since I believe recipes well-written by one and well-executed by another become a sort of strange collaborative alchemy. Soon we connected further over the familiarities of food, common friends, and special Southern locales, and one such place for Scott is Marion, Alabama—the heart of Alabama's Black Belt region — where he has opened the historic kitchens of Reverie mansion for the Black Belt Biscuit Experience. These intimate, small-group workshops on the fine art of traditional Southern biscuit-making are built on his celebrated biscuits that have been on the covers of Gourmet and Food & Wine, and which Food & Wine named one of their 40 best recipes ever published, but the class is as much meditation as it is method. I could think of no better baking and conversation partner to end this year's Southern Fork Summer Tour, and here he invites us deep beyond ingredients and techniques into the art of presence, the commitment to a creative path, and the power of passionate attention to detail.  

Hasan Jeffries discusses his book Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama's Black Belt. We talk about what made this rural Alabama County […]

5.8.2023 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Mass Shootings & Anxiety, DOJ Finds AL Neglects Black Residents, Remembering Harry Belafonte  The decades-old water and sewage crisis in Alabama's "Black Belt," Lowndes County.  The Department of Justice found a pattern of neglect from Alabama's  Department of Public Health had a pattern of neglect and failed to act on the county's water problems.  I'll talk to the Rural Development Manager of the Equal Justice Initiative about how black Alabama citizens have disproportionately been impacted. It's Mental Health Awareness Month.  I'll talk to a licensed professional counselor about how the rise in mass shootings affects people's daily lives and mental well-being.   Actor Richard Dreyfuss faces backlash after defending blackface and expressing regret over being unable to play a Black man.  We will show you the video of him criticizing diversity standards in Hollywood. And we're still remembering legendary performer and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte.  I'll show you one of my favorite interviews I had with him. Download the #BlackStarNetwork app on iOS, AppleTV, Android, Android TV, Roku, FireTV, SamsungTV and XBox  http://www.blackstarnetwork.com The #BlackStarNetwork is a news reporting platforms covered under Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today, we're revisiting our 2021 interview with Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries for our Perfecting Democracy series about his book Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama's Black Belt and how race and racism influence voting in the United States.In this episode, journalist Ron Bryant asks Dr. Jeffries what lessons we can learn from how people viewed the Civil Rights Movement as it was unfolding and why understanding slavery is essential to grasping American democracy.This episode is a rebroadcast of "Perfecting Democracy," a series exploring the topic of civic and electoral participation using history and jurisprudence to illuminate contemporary issues. The series offers a humanities perspective on electoral engagement in Ohio and America's multivocal democracy. In each episode, experts from around the state share thought-provoking insights on how best to understand our democracy and why it matters. Perfecting Democracy was made possible by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Federation of State Humanities Councils.And, later this spring, join us for The Ohio Country, a forthcoming series from WYSO Public Radio and funded by Ohio Humanities. Native men and women from different tribes and their allies—plus teachers, artists, scholars, parents, landowners, foresters, young people, and historians, too—will tell their stories about the about the lands above the Ohio River, known as the Ohio Country. You can listen in this feed, at WYSO.org, ohiohumanities.org, and in all those other places where you get podcasts.

What Next is still enjoying the three-day weekend, so we proudly present this special episode of Amicus. Dahlia Lithwick is joined by two key players from this week's consequential voting rights cases at the US Supreme Court. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund's senior counsel Deuel Ross argued part of Merrill v Milligan at the High Court on Tuesday, and Evan Milligan of Alabama Forward is the named plaintiff in one of a pair of cases that argued that Alabama's congressional maps are racially gerrymandered in violation of Section II of the Voting Rights Act. They take listeners inside the arguments, and provide vital context for the challenges faced by residents of Alabama's Black Belt in accessing healthcare, infrastructure and not coincidentally, political representation.  Next, Dahlia is joined by Sam Sankar, Senior Vice President of Programs at Earth Justice to discuss what went down in Sackett v EPA, a case argued Monday that could have wide-ranging effects on the waters and wetlands of the United States.  In this week's Amicus Plus segment, Dahlia is joined by Mark Joseph Stern to talk about the new dynamics of arguments with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson taking her seat at the High Court, the conservative reaction to their favorite text and history rubric being applied by the first African American woman on the court (huh, they don't love it?), and what to expect from a new filing in the Mar A Lago investigation that's on its way to 1, First Street. Sign up for Slate Plus now to listen and support our show.  Dahlia's new book Lady Justice: Women, the Law and the Battle to Save America, is also available as an audiobook, and Amicus listeners can get a 25% discount by entering the code “AMICUS” at checkout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What Next is still enjoying the three-day weekend, so we proudly present this special episode of Amicus. Dahlia Lithwick is joined by two key players from this week's consequential voting rights cases at the US Supreme Court. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund's senior counsel Deuel Ross argued part of Merrill v Milligan at the High Court on Tuesday, and Evan Milligan of Alabama Forward is the named plaintiff in one of a pair of cases that argued that Alabama's congressional maps are racially gerrymandered in violation of Section II of the Voting Rights Act. They take listeners inside the arguments, and provide vital context for the challenges faced by residents of Alabama's Black Belt in accessing healthcare, infrastructure and not coincidentally, political representation.  Next, Dahlia is joined by Sam Sankar, Senior Vice President of Programs at Earth Justice to discuss what went down in Sackett v EPA, a case argued Monday that could have wide-ranging effects on the waters and wetlands of the United States.  In this week's Amicus Plus segment, Dahlia is joined by Mark Joseph Stern to talk about the new dynamics of arguments with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson taking her seat at the High Court, the conservative reaction to their favorite text and history rubric being applied by the first African American woman on the court (huh, they don't love it?), and what to expect from a new filing in the Mar A Lago investigation that's on its way to 1, First Street. Sign up for Slate Plus now to listen and support our show.  Dahlia's new book Lady Justice: Women, the Law and the Battle to Save America, is also available as an audiobook, and Amicus listeners can get a 25% discount by entering the code “AMICUS” at checkout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What Next is still enjoying the three-day weekend, so we proudly present this special episode of Amicus. Dahlia Lithwick is joined by two key players from this week's consequential voting rights cases at the US Supreme Court. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund's senior counsel Deuel Ross argued part of Merrill v Milligan at the High Court on Tuesday, and Evan Milligan of Alabama Forward is the named plaintiff in one of a pair of cases that argued that Alabama's congressional maps are racially gerrymandered in violation of Section II of the Voting Rights Act. They take listeners inside the arguments, and provide vital context for the challenges faced by residents of Alabama's Black Belt in accessing healthcare, infrastructure and not coincidentally, political representation.  Next, Dahlia is joined by Sam Sankar, Senior Vice President of Programs at Earth Justice to discuss what went down in Sackett v EPA, a case argued Monday that could have wide-ranging effects on the waters and wetlands of the United States.  In this week's Amicus Plus segment, Dahlia is joined by Mark Joseph Stern to talk about the new dynamics of arguments with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson taking her seat at the High Court, the conservative reaction to their favorite text and history rubric being applied by the first African American woman on the court (huh, they don't love it?), and what to expect from a new filing in the Mar A Lago investigation that's on its way to 1, First Street. Sign up for Slate Plus now to listen and support our show.  Dahlia's new book Lady Justice: Women, the Law and the Battle to Save America, is also available as an audiobook, and Amicus listeners can get a 25% discount by entering the code “AMICUS” at checkout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dahlia Lithwick is joined by two key players from this week's consequential voting rights cases at the US Supreme Court. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund's senior counsel Deuel Ross argued part of Merrill v Milligan at the High Court on Tuesday, and Evan Milligan of Alabama Forward is the named plaintiff in one of a pair of cases that argued that Alabama's congressional maps are racially gerrymandered in violation of Section II of the Voting Rights Act. They take listeners inside the arguments, and provide vital context for the challenges faced by residents of Alabama's Black Belt in accessing healthcare, infrastructure and not coincidentally, political representation.  Next, Dahlia is joined by Sam Sankar, Senior Vice President of Programs at Earth Justice to discuss what went down in Sackett v EPA, a case argued Monday that could have wide-ranging effects on the waters and wetlands of the United States.  In this week's Amicus Plus segment, Dahlia is joined by Mark Joseph Stern to talk about the new dynamics of arguments with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson taking her seat at the High Court, the conservative reaction to their favorite text and history rubric being applied by the first African American woman on the court (huh, they don't love it?), and what to expect from a new filing in the Mar A Lago investigation that's on its way to 1, First Street. Sign up for Slate Plus now to listen and support our show.  Dahlia's new book Lady Justice: Women, the Law and the Battle to Save America, is also available as an audiobook, and Amicus listeners can get a 25% discount by entering the code “AMICUS” at checkout. https://books.supportingcast.fm/lady-justice Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dahlia Lithwick is joined by two key players from this week's consequential voting rights cases at the US Supreme Court. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund's senior counsel Deuel Ross argued part of Merrill v Milligan at the High Court on Tuesday, and Evan Milligan of Alabama Forward is the named plaintiff in one of a pair of cases that argued that Alabama's congressional maps are racially gerrymandered in violation of Section II of the Voting Rights Act. They take listeners inside the arguments, and provide vital context for the challenges faced by residents of Alabama's Black Belt in accessing healthcare, infrastructure and not coincidentally, political representation.  Next, Dahlia is joined by Sam Sankar, Senior Vice President of Programs at Earth Justice to discuss what went down in Sackett v EPA, a case argued Monday that could have wide-ranging effects on the waters and wetlands of the United States.  In this week's Amicus Plus segment, Dahlia is joined by Mark Joseph Stern to talk about the new dynamics of arguments with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson taking her seat at the High Court, the conservative reaction to their favorite text and history rubric being applied by the first African American woman on the court (huh, they don't love it?), and what to expect from a new filing in the Mar A Lago investigation that's on its way to 1, First Street. Sign up for Slate Plus now to listen and support our show.  Dahlia's new book Lady Justice: Women, the Law and the Battle to Save America, is also available as an audiobook, and Amicus listeners can get a 25% discount by entering the code “AMICUS” at checkout. https://books.supportingcast.fm/lady-justice Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. Please subscribe now for as little as 5$ and gain access to a community of over 800 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls Check out StandUpwithPete.com to learn more 28 mins Dr Michael Mann is Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science at Penn State, with joint appointments in the Department of Geosciences and the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute He is also director of the Penn State Earth System Science Center  Dr. Mann received his undergraduate degrees in Physics and Applied Math from the University of California at Berkeley, an M.S. degree in Physics from Yale University, and a Ph.D. in Geology & Geophysics from Yale University. His research involves the use of theoretical models and observational data to better understand Earth's climate system. Dr. Mann is author of more than 200 peer-reviewed and edited publications, numerous op-eds and commentaries, and five books including Dire Predictions: Understanding Climate Change, The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines, The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial is Threatening our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy and The Tantrum that Saved the World. We spoke about his new book The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet. 51 mins HASAN KWAME JEFFRIES is associate professor of history at The Ohio State University where he teaches courses on the Civil Rights and Black Power Movement. Hasan was born in Brooklyn, New York, and graduated summa cum laude from Morehouse College with a BA in history in 1994. At Morehouse, he was initiated into the Pi Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.  He earned a PhD in American history with a specialization in African American history from Duke University in 2002. He taught for a year at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, before joining the faculty at The Ohio State University in 2003. Hasan is the author of Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama's Black Belt, which tells the remarkable story of the African American freedom movement in Lowndes County, Alabama, the birthplace of Black Power. He is also the editor of Understanding and Teaching the Civil Rights Movement, a collection of essays by leading civil rights scholars and teachers that explores how to teach the Civil Rights Movement accurately and effectively. Hasan's current book project, In the Shadow of Civil Rights, examines the Black experience in New York City from 1977 to 1993. It connects key political and cultural events, such as the youth rebellion in the South Bronx, to the evolution and implementation of public policies that changed Black communities forever, such as those that undergird the war on drugs. The book aims to provide a new narrative of the Black experience in the post-civil rights era. Hasan has worked on several public history projects. From 2010 to 2014, he was the lead historian and primary scriptwriter for the $27 million renovation of the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee, the site of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He hosts the podcast “Teaching Hard History,” a production of the Southern Poverty Law Center's educational division, Teaching Tolerance. And he regularly shares his knowledge of African American history and contemporary Black politics with the public through lectures, workshops, op-eds, and radio and television interviews. He has also contributed to several documentary film projects as a featured on-camera scholar, including the Emmy nominated, four-hour, PBS documentary Black America Since MLK. Hasan consults regularly with school districts on developing anti-racism programming. This work includes conducting professional development workshops for teachers, speaking to student assemblies, and developing inclusive curricular centered on social studies. In the classroom, Hasan takes great pride in opening students' minds to new ways of understanding the past and the present. This has led him to push the very boundaries of what we think of as a classroom, including taking small groups of undergraduates to James Madison's Montpelier, the Virginia plantation home of the nation's fourth president, to explore the history of race and racism in America from slavery through the present. For his pedagogical creativity and effectiveness, he has received Ohio State's Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching, the university's highest award to teaching, and the Ohio State University College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teaching Award. Hasan resides in Columbus and enjoys traveling to the South to visit friends and returning to Brooklyn to visit family.  View Professor Jeffries' discussion about African American history here.   Check out all things Jon Carroll Phil Round Music  Follow and Support Pete Coe Pete on YouTube Pete on Twitter Pete On Instagram Pete Personal FB page

Reese, Jasmin and Emily talk about the deadly fire that took place in a Bronx public housing building, how Biden's infrastructure spending may or may not help solve sewage problems in Alabama's Black Belt, the death of retired landmine-sniffing African Pouched Rat Magawa in Cambodia, and New York State's Fashion Sustainability and Social Accountability Act.

I'm excited to invite you to my conversation with Christopher Joe, a 3rd generation Black Angus cattle farmer, a District Conservationist for the National Resources Conversation Service, and the founder of Connecting with Birds and Nature Tours. Christopher's family has owned 200 acres forests and fields in Alabama's Black Belt since the early 1900s. Christopher was raised with a deep respect of agriculture, land stewardship and the natural world. In addition to running the farm, Christopher's father worked as an agribusiness educator for over thirty years and Christopher earned a Bachelor of Science in Agribusiness Management from Alabama A&M University.Chris is a wealth of knowledge when it comes to finding creative ways to use your land to benefit yourself, your community and the greater ecosystem - no matter if you have hundreds of acres or a small allotment. At the NRCS Christopher works farmers and land owners to help them best utilize and conserve their property. While looking for creative ways to diversify the Joe Farm's income streams, Christopher reached out to different area organizations and universities to get their thoughts on ways of incorporating agri-tourism into their farming operations. Connecting with Birds and Nature Tours was born in 2018, giving birders and naturalists access to explore and birdwatch on Christopher's family's farm. By partnering with local small businesses, Christopher has created opportunities for the entire local economy. This has led to the creation of jobs, regional economic development, and support for local landowners/businesses, in his historically underserved community. In addition to the birding tours, Christopher and his father have begun to receive grants to build bird houses, towers and boxes for University studies. He has also discovered a deep love of birding and photography. These days he never leaves home without his camera and his "rocket launcher" birding lens. Christopher's Instagram is filled with beautiful captures of the birds he finds and now he is selling his photo prints to visitors. In addition to his photography, they have added camping, nature walks, mountain biking, bird houses and other offerings to further diversify their farm income and ensure they can continue to maintain and keep their family land in the future. My hope is that Christopher's journey into agritourism will inspire others to think up creative ideas for diversified rural entrepreneurship and land stewardship. It's amazing to see the power and opportunity that one agritourism business can have on the greater natural and economic ecosystem. I highly encourage anyone going through Alabama, even if you aren't a birder, to go take a birding or naturalist tour at the Joe Farm. To learn more about their programming or schedule a tour visit their website. To see photos of the Joe Farm, birding tours and Christopher's birding images, visit the Urban Exodus Blog

Alabama's Black Belt has always been a place of migration: the site of both forced and elective movement. Today, our reasons for leaving and coming home are still shaped by the desire for better lives and livelihoods. In "Migration: Making Meals and Homes in Alabama," we meet three women whose very different paths all led to a home in the Black Belt: Maria escaped violence in Mexico; Margaret fled religious persecution in Egypt; and Sarah came home to do some good, opening Abadir's Light Fare and Pastry in Greensboro. Their stories remind us that the Alabama Black Belt is and always has been home to all kinds of people and all kinds of passage.

Alabama's Black Belt stretches in a strip 25 miles wide across the center of the state. Named for the rich soil that enabled cotton to flourish, the Black Belt was once Alabama's most prosperous and politically powerful region. It held most of the state's enslaved people, and African Americans still comprise the majority of the Black Belt population today. "New Stewards on Old Homesteads in Alabama" provides a contemporary look at Black Belt land and its stewards: the most recent chapter in a long history of transformation. Younger generations are now returning to family land in the Black Belt, often to find it reclaimed by wilderness. We learn how they strive to make a living from the land and the challenges faced in a rural food system. We consider opposing notions of agricultural life: one that inflicts trauma, and one that heals from it. Andrew Williams of the Deep South Food Alliance in Linden and Yawah Awolowo of Mahala Farms in Cuba are our guides.  This batch of Gravy is reported and produced by Jackie Clay, Executive Director at the Coleman Center for the Arts in rural Sumter County, AL; Matt Whitson, production audio mixer and video editor at Alabama Public Television in Birmingham, AL; and Emily Blejwas, Executive Director of the Alabama Folklife Association. The Southern Foodways Alliance is the organization behind the podcast.

    Alabama's hunting Region lies above the Coastal Plain and below the Appalachian foothills, stretching across the state through 23 counties.  So named because of the nutrient rich soil, Alabama's Black Belt was once an agricultural epicenter.  This fertile habitat is known to produce high-quality whitetails, making Black Belt deer hunting a desirable outing among hunters across the globe. In fact, the Alabama Black Belt hunting and fishing opportunities bring an estimated $1 billion economic impact to the state, sustaining 11,000 jobs. Both wildlife managers and sportsmen alike recognize that the area consistently produces great weights and excellent antler characteristics in white tailed deer , placing  Black Belt hunting on the radar of those seeking a record buck for their trophy collection. This week we are recording at the beautiful  Piney woods hunting lodge in Eufaula Alabama. Find us on Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/underpressuroutdoors Join The Community- https://www.facebook.com/groups/215742899927592 Piney Woods Hunting Lodge Eufaula Alabama- http://www.pineywoodshuntinglodge.com/home Common Man Outdoors- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjb1GKVb6J9meYj8bVqHtXA Ethan Greene Fishing- https://www.instagram.com/eg_fishing_/

Every third Thursday of the month, the Virginia Council for  the Social Studies hosts a virtual* meeting called "Scholars' Hour" in which teachers from around the state can gather to discuss social studies content, strategies, and technology. February is Black history month—a time to reflect on the complexity of Black history in the United States and to celebrate Black excellence. But social studies teachers in Virginia know that Black history, culture, voices, and stories belong in our classroom every month of the year. That's why the Virginia Council for the Social Studies wants to embrace antiracist education and support teachers and students around the state in this movement. Join us as we discuss strategies for "hard history" and antiracist teaching in the social studies classroom with our esteemed guest, The Ohio State University associate professor Dr. Hasan Jeffries. Among Dr. Jeffries' numerous accolades as a historian are several prominent books on the civil rights and Black Power movements, including In the Shadow of Civil Rights and Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama's Black Belt. He also hosts the podcast "Teaching Hard History," and many of our VCSS members will remember his moving discussion with Chris Matthews at the 2019 VCSS Conference. We were pleased to welcome him  as the leading scholar for this event.

Chuck Sykes, Director of Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries, joins us to recap the statewide success of the 2019-2020 Alabama deer season. www.outdooralabama.com Rex Pritchett, owner of Great Southern Outdoors Plantation in Union Springs, shares about their great property and all of the trophy sporting opportunities in Alabama's Black Belt. https://www.greatsouthernoutdoors.com/ Rick Bourne, aka "The Dove Daddy", recounts his duck season and shares about a great 37 acre property in Lowndes County, AL. www.selandgroup.com/agents/rick-bourne Randall Upchurch shares some of his best memories of growing up on a farm in our Farmland Report. www.selandgroup.com/agents/randall-upchurch Tim Baker encourages everyone to start preparing for next deer season right now in our Outdoor Update. www.selandgroup.com/agents/tim-baker