Podcasts about emmet till

Baddies Africa opens up with a BANG! We have some new faces as well as some returning faces. Episode one starts off with intense beef between Natalie and some of her og's, but most importantly...Miss Summer seems to be the talk of the internet. After making a HUGELY inappropriate comment about DTB and referencing Emmet Till, the fans want her CANCELLED IMMEDIATELY! Will Zeus fire their "rising star"? Tune in for this week's dose of mess!    NEW EPISODES EVERY TUESDAY AT 4PM  Connect with us! ============================= Tiana's Instagram Jessi's Instagram Petty Sim Productions =========================== Subscribe and Listen to the The Petty Headquarters Podcast HERE: =========================== ➡︎YT: @ThePettyHeadquarters ➡︎Apple: Apple Podcasts ➡︎Spotify: Spotify Podcasts Our mission is to stay on top of the mess and make sure we deliver it weekly!

In this episode, we delve into the harrowing and pivotal story of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African-American boy from Chicago, who was brutally lynched in Mississippi in 1955. This tragic event became a crucial turning point in the American civil rights movement. We explore the context of the time, marked by severe racial tensions, economic disparities, and the Jim Crow laws. Examining sources such as Wikipedia, FBI files, and Department of Justice records, we discuss how Emmett's innocent visit to a store led to his kidnapping and murder by Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam. The blatant injustice of their acquittal by an all-white jury sparked national outrage, highlighting systemic racism in the South. Emmett's mother, Mamie Till Mobley, played a significant role in bringing this tragedy to light by insisting on an open casket funeral, showing the world the brutality of racism. The media coverage of Emmett's disfigured body galvanized public opinion and inspired future civil rights actions, including Rosa Parks' defiance and the Montgomery bus boycott. We also address the lasting impact of Emmett Till's story on contemporary movements like Black Lives Matter, emphasizing that the fight for racial justice continues. This podcast serves as a call to action to confront and dismantle systemic racism, ensuring Emmett's legacy endures and inspires meaningful change.00:00 Introduction: The Story That Shook America00:41 Setting the Scene: 1955 Mississippi02:41 The Incident: Emmett Till and Carolyn Bryant03:47 The Aftermath: Kidnapping and Murder05:32 The Trial: A Mockery of Justice06:39 The Impact: A Catalyst for Change08:04 Legacy: Emmett Till's Enduring Influence13:04 Conclusion: A Call to Action Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On August 28, 1955, while visiting family in Money, Mississippi, 14-year-old Emmet Till, an African American from Chicago, is brutally murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman four days earlier. Join Me as we discuss the tragic story of Emmet Till

This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay! Today we talk about the 19th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, which is Thursday, August 29. Today is also the anniversary of Emmet Till's (July 25, 1941-August 28, 1955) killing in Money, MS. He would have been 83 this year. He was killed 63 years ago.  We speak with veterans of the Civil Rights Resistance Movement: Dr. Robert H. King (https://www.kingsfreelines.com/), Mr. Malik Rahim, and Baba Kalamu Ya Salaam. (https://liberalarts.tulane.edu/nocgs/about/fellowship-alumni/kalamu-ya-salaam) Music: Nana Sula Spirit's "Humanity", Katrina Bamboula Crazy by Luther Gray.  

Writer and curator Legacy Russell joins Kate Wolf to discuss her new book, Black Meme, which theorizes the history of viral images of Blackness in America from the dawn of the 20th century to the present. The book argues for the centrality of Black culture in the formation of the digital sphere; it also points to the many ways images of Black people have been exploited, decontextualized, and abused both before and after the internet. Russell draws on a variety of examples, from the open-casket photos of Emmet Till that appeared in Jet Magazine, to the phenomena of Michael Jackson's Thriller video, which helped popularize the VCR, to more recent viral videos of police violence and Black social death. Calling for a reexamination of notions of private and public property, Black Meme urges a reconsideration of what an equitable exchange might look like for Black creators online, as well as engagement on the internet that goes beyond a reshare. Also, Miranda July, author of All Fours, returns to recommend Small Rain by Garth Greenwell.

Writer and curator Legacy Russell joins Kate Wolf to discuss her new book, Black Meme, which theorizes the history of viral images of Blackness in America from the dawn of the 20th century to the present. The book argues for the centrality of Black culture in the formation of the digital sphere; it also points to the many ways images of Black people have been exploited, decontextualized, and abused both before and after the internet. Russell draws on a variety of examples, from the open-casket photos of Emmet Till that appeared in Jet Magazine, to the phenomena of Michael Jackson's Thriller video, which helped popularize the VCR, to more recent viral videos of police violence and Black social death. Calling for a reexamination of notions of private and public property, Black Meme urges a reconsideration of what an equitable exchange might look like for Black creators online, as well as engagement on the internet that goes beyond a reshare. Also, Miranda July, author of All Fours, returns to recommend Small Rain by Garth Greenwell.

"When they see Black people living without pain and suffering it is shocking" Michael Harriot analyzes why society is so infatuated with watching trauma in entertainment especially when it comes to stories about Black people. TheGrio Daily is an original podcast by theGrio Black Podcast Network. #BlackCultureAmplifiedSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When the real world collides with the reel, how does Marvel navigate the choppy waters of public perception and narrative continuity? We grapple with this conundrum as we address the recent legal predicaments of Jonathan Majors and the potential impact on his Marvel career. Recasting beloved characters is no easy feat; just look at cases like Edward Norton and Terrence Howard. Our chat takes us deep into the heart of fandom, where the emotional bonds with characters like Black Panther reveal just how intricate these casting decisions can become, especially when race enters the equation.Courtrooms across America are battlegrounds where the scales of justice are often tipped by bias. In today's society, gender and racial prejudices can shape the outcomes of legal proceedings, and we dissect these disturbing truths in our latest episode. From discussing the Central Park Five to the toll taken on families fighting for the exoneration of their loved ones, we share powerful personal anecdotes and explore the moral responsibilities of legal professionals. This episode casts a critical eye on the justice system and the urgent need for systemic reform to prevent wrongful convictions.But it's not all about Marvel and the courtroom. We also peel back the curtain on the struggles within the entertainment industry itself. This episode weaves through the nuances of maintaining one's craft amidst personal misconduct allegations, the ongoing battle for recognition faced by actors like Taraji P. Henson, and the importance of having a supportive community. As we wrap up, we leave you with thoughts on the animated world of Marvel's "What If" series and extend our warmest holiday wishes to all our listeners. Join us for a fun and interesting conversation about all things Marvel and Hollywood celebrities in general.Links as stated in episode: Wrongfully convicted because of legally blind "witness" Chicago Sun Times Link to Central Park FiveLink to Emmet Till *this podcast episode is an excerpt of a nearly 2-hour episode. Other topics were discussed and we were also joined by our friend Rich. If you'd like to hear the entire episode, please check out the entire episode on Youtube. Thank you for stopping by. Please visit our website: All About The Joy and add, like and share. We'd appreciate that greatly. Also, if you want to find us anywhere on social media, please check out the link in bio page. Music By Geovane Bruno, Moments, 3481Editing by Team A-JHost, Carmen Lezeth DISCLAIMER: As always, please do your own research and understand that the opinions in this podcast and livestream are meant for entertainment purposes only. States and other areas may have different rules and regulations governing certain aspects discussed in this podcast. Nothing in our podcast or livestream is meant to be medical or legal advice. Please use common sense, and when in doubt, ask a professional for advice, assistance, help and guidance.

On this episode of Soft Black Woman, host Dr. Akilah Cadet welcomes Betches SUP co-host Milly Tamarez to talk about the latest trending pop culture and news headlines of the week. Plus, they tell us how they're prioritizing softness in their own lives. Be sure to subscribe now so you don't miss an episode of Soft Black Woman, out every Friday. Co-host: @milly_tamarez, Milly TamarezTopics: After watching the Barbie movie, Dr. Cadet and Milly chat about their takeaways. VP Harris delivers speech in Florida after school curriculum on slavery draws outrage. President Biden established a national monument honoring Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley. School board in Missouri revokes anti-racism resolution placed in 2020. President Barbie, Issa Rae, opens up about her insecurities staring in the Barbie movie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode of Soft Black Woman, host Dr. Akilah Cadet welcomes Betches SUP co-host Milly Tamarez to talk about the latest trending pop culture and news headlines of the week. Plus, they tell us how they're prioritizing softness in their own lives. Be sure to subscribe now so you don't miss an episode of Soft Black Woman, out every Friday. Co-host: @milly_tamarez, Milly TamarezTopics: After watching the Barbie movie, Dr. Cadet and Milly chat about their takeaways. VP Harris delivers speech in Florida after school curriculum on slavery draws outrage. President Biden established a national monument honoring Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley. School board in Missouri revokes anti-racism resolution placed in 2020. President Barbie, Issa Rae, opens up about her insecurities staring in the Barbie movie. Check out our latest promo codes here: https://betches.com/promos

La prima parte della storia di Cassius Clay Muhammad Alì. Dall'infanzia ai primi passi nel mondo della boxe, dall'uccisione di Emmet Till al rifiuto di combattere per il Vietnam ed il suo impegno per i diritti civili degli afro americani. Dall'amicizia con Malcom X alla sua conversione all'Islam.

Oppenheimer et Nouveau-Mexique. Sondages sombres pour les opposants de Trump. Joe Biden autorisera aujourd'hui la construction du Emmet Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument.  Chronique de Luc Laliberté, spécialiste de politique américaine.Pour de l'information concernant l'utilisation de vos données personnelles - https://omnystudio.com/policies/listener/fr

Tap In! On the phone w/ Radio Host LXDaOne from WindyCityUnderground.com. We discuss the passing of Jerry Springer, the passing of Emmet Till's killer, Carolyn Bryant Donham, Chance the Rapper video in Carnival and more!

Presented by 3CHI. On this week's Twisted History, Large, Vibbs, Anne, and Jack discuss The Double Jeopardy case of Mel Ignatow, Issei Sagawa, Emmet Till, Jim Crow laws, The Fugitive, and of course, actual Jeopardy!You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/twistedhistory

Should we be carefully letting people see the carnage that weapons of war are inflicting on our schools? If we come to terms with the reality of epidemic gun violence, will we finally do something to prevent it? Nicole Hockley, who's son was murdered at Sandy Hook joins Thom to talk solutions.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In 1955, the brutal murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till sparked a wave of social unrest that gripped America. But while the story of Till became infamous, the truth of how he'd died remained a mystery. Although two men were suspected of killing the teenager, some believed it was the work of many more. Exactly who these people were, though, remained unclear. That was until 2007, when the FBI discovered a chilling deathbed confession, confirming there were others involved in the killing. But with over five decades having passed since the infamous murder, is it too late for justice to be served? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

¡Welcome una vez más a tu loco pódcast! El día de hoy Kiki y Martha te cuentan sobre el horrible asesinato de Emmet Till. acompáñanos y si te gustan las historias de TRUE CRIME que contamos en este pódcast no olvides seguirnos en redes y dejarnos tus comentarios que son de gran ayuda. 🎧¿Ya escuchaste el episodio?🗣👂🎧 .DALE AL BOTÓN DE SUSCRIBIR Y DEJANOS TU ❤ . 💙NECESITAS DIFUNDIR UN CASO EN ESPECIFICO EN NUESTRO SEGMENTO HASTA ENCONTRARTE? LLENA ESTE FORMULARIO https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfmqf4_3d5Sa-uiDNSLYEQPVpxyWjqFHgAJlLFYQOT_UdsDKQ/viewform?usp=sf_link 🖤Tik tok: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTdEG76KJ/ . 💙Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JuegoDeAsesinosPod . ❤Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/juegodeasesinos_podcast/ . 💙Telegram: https://t.me/+DYdsmL2WjJM1YjY5 . .NO OLVIDES CHECAR NUESTRA TIENDA DE MERCANCÍA👕👜🧢👚😷!! Juegodeasesinos.threadless.com . 💟¿Eres fan apasionado de nuestro podcast y quieres más episodios? Esta todo en nuestra opción de mesenas!! Dentro de la misma plataforma! #ivoox . LINK GENERAL: https://linktr.ee/Juegodeasesinospodcast . Chase by Alexander Nakarada | https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4. Fuentes: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/biography-emmett-till/#:~:text=Emmett%20was%20the%20only%20child,died%20during%20World%20War%20II.&text=At%20the%20age%20of%20five,left%20with%20a%20slight%20stutter. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-death-of-emmett-till

¡Welcome una vez más a tu loco pódcast! El día de hoy Kiki y Martha te cuentan sobre el horrible asesinato de Emmet Till. acompáñanos y si te gustan las historias de TRUE CRIME que contamos en este pódcast no olvides seguirnos en redes y dejarnos tus comentarios que son de gran ayuda.

In hour 3, Chris talks about Biden being a goober. He held a screening of the Emmet Till movie, and yelled that some white people still love Lynching. He's fomenting racial discontent for political reasons. Also, Chris talks about penises, but just right at the end. For more coverage on the issues that matter to you download the WMAL app, visit WMAL.com or tune in live on WMAL-FM 105.9 from 9:00am-12:00pm Monday-Friday. To join the conversation, check us out on twitter @WMAL and @ChrisPlanteShow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Afin d'anticiper sereinement la sortie d'Avatar 2, 24FPS, le podcast ciné avec ou sans spoiler, fait le point sur les films vus avant ça. Voici les 21 films abordés sans spoiler par Jérôme et Julien dans cet épisode : Barbare de Zach Cregger (à partir de 0:06:07) X de Ti West (à partir de 0:18:51) Ne Dis Rien (Speak No Evil) de Christian Tafdrup (à partir de 0:42:46) Bones And All de Luca Guadagnino (à partir de 0:48:44) Le Menu de Mark Mylod (à partir de 0:56:02) Black Adam de Jaume Collet-Serra (à partir de 1:03:31) Balle Perdue 2 de Guillaume Pierret (à partir de 1:42:13) Tar de Todd Field (à partir de 1:54:29) Decision To Leave de Park Chan-Wook (à partir de 2:02:02) Amsterdam de David O. Russell (à partir de 2:08:13) She Said de Maria Schrader (à partir de 2:18:00) Emmet Till de Chinonye Chukwu (à partir de 2:24:03) The Stranger de Thomas M. Wright (à partir de 2:30:10) Retrograde de Matthew Heineman (à partir de 2:36:11) Selena Gomez - My Mind And Me (à partir de 2:45:55) Enola Holmes 2 de Harry Bradbeer (à partir de 2:56:05) Violent Night de Tommy Wirkola (à partir de 3:02:30) Beavis & Butt-Head Do The Universe de John Rice et Albert Calleros (à partir de 3:17:12) Black Panther - Wakanda Forever de Ryan Coogler (à partir de 3:35:25) Sans Filtre (Triangle Of Sadness) de Ruben Östlund (à partir de 4:03:45) À l'Ouest Rien De Nouveau de Edward Berger (à partir de 4:17:16) Et Sans Filtre (Triangle Of Sadness) revient pour une partie avec spoiler à partir de 4:45:45 Bonne écoute, et n'hésitez pas à nous dire ce que vous avez pensé de Balle Perdue 2 ! Retrouvez Jérôme dans Le Podcast Qui N'a Pas De Nom pour discuter des coulisses de ses podcasts, C'est Plus Que De La SF et Hyperdrive pour discuter de la série Andor, et The Masters Of Horror Show pour Dark Star, le premier film de John Carpenter. Retrouvez également Jérôme sur YouTube dans l'émission ciné Stranger Films en compagnie de Florian. Crédits musicaux : Bullet With Butterfly Wings des Smashing Pumpkins, issu de l'album Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness (1995), et Children Of The Grave de Black Sabbath, issu de l'album Master Of Reality (1971)

Director Chinonye Chukwu discusses her new film, Till, with fellow director David Oyelowo in a Q&A at the DGA theater in Los Angeles. In the conversation, Chukwu speaks about the care necessary in depicting the tragic story, the political act of where to face the camera, and how she is not precious with her footage during the edit. Based on the true story of Mamie Till-Mobley, the film recounts her relentless pursuit of justice for her 14-year-old Emmet Till, who in 1955, was lynched while visiting his cousins in Mississippi. Please note: spoilers are included. See photos and a summary of this event below: https://www.dga.org/Events/2022/December2022/TILL_QnA_1022.aspx

Justin and Nicole discuss Till and the many paths people take to activism. We appreciated the colorful pallette and rich interiors and the decision not to show violence. We cover Mamie's grief journey and how standing up for her son naturally led to standing up for civil rights. Justin recommends Netflix movie The Harder They Fall, and Nicole recommends the podcast Sentimental Garbage. Website Store YouTube Twitter Facebook Group Page  

On this episode of All Things Local, host Natalie Campbell is joined by playwright Ifa Bayeza and Mosaic Theater's artistic director Reginald Douglas to discuss The Till Trilogy, playing through November 20th at Mosaic Theater. DC Public Library's Adult Services Coordinator David Quick also joins the conversation talk about the Library's ongoing partnership with Mosaic. Listen to learn more.

00:00-11:09: Brian feels jaded when it comes to COVID outbreaks. Aubrey has some numbers to challenge that, but will either of their churches ever go back to wearing masks? 11:09-20:31: “The words of Jesus don't work right now,” some Christians are saying when it comes to loving our enemies. “Not in a culture this hostile to Christianity.” Brian and Aubrey talk about a recent piece by Russell Moore in Christianity Today. 20:31-31:44: How do we deal with celebrity Christians?... how about localizing them? Maybe the answer for situations like Matt Chandler is to take their sermons offline.  31:44-45:58: Aubrey attended an event last night at Wheaton College with the last living witness of the Emmet Till murder.  45:58-53:29: Andrea Coli, Executive Director of Lead Bold and Teaching Pastor at CrossWinds Church in California, joined Brian and Aubrey to talk about the LeadBold conference coming up in Chicago November 3-4. 53:29-1:04:36: Jenny Booth Potter joined Brian and Aubrey to talk about her new book, “Doing Nothing is No Longer an Option.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Amy Nicholson, Andy Klein and Charles Solomon review this weekend's new movie releases in theaters, streaming, and on demand platforms. FilmWeek: ‘Ticket To Paradise,' ‘The Banshees of Inisherin,' ‘Black Adam,' ‘Wendell & Wild'  And More (0:15) “Ticket To Paradise,” Wide Release “The Banshees of Inisherin,” Wide Release “Black Adam,” Wide Release “American Murderer,” Lumiere cinema at the Music Hall [Beverly Hills] “Wendell & Wild,” The Hollywood Theater & Laemmle NoHo [North Hollywood] October 22; Streaming on Netflix October 28 “Hunted,” In Select Theaters; Digital & VOD October 25 “The School for Good and Evil,” Streaming on Netflix “Voodoo Macbeth,” Laemmle Royal [West LA] “V/H/S 99,” Streaming on Shudder “Cat Daddies,” Laemmle Glendale “Slash/Back,” Alamo Drafthouse [DTLA]; VOD & Digital John Horn's Interview about ‘Till' with Director Chinonye Chukwu and head of Orion Pictures, Alana Mayo (32:50) The new film ‘Till' tells the story of Mamie Till, as she brings her 14-year-old son Emmet Till home in a coffin, a victim of a horrific lynching, after a trip to Mississippi from Chicago to visit relatives. Different from other films on the subject, director Chinonye Chukwu makes a point to never show the lynching, but chooses to focus on the aftermath, particularly Mamie's insistence on an open-casket funeral. Mamie wanted the world to see what white hate looked like, even allowing photographers to take pictures of her son's battered face and body. This decision ultimately transformed her into a Civil Rights pioneer. Today on FilmWeek, KPCC's John Horn sits down with the film's director Chinonye Chukwu as well as the head of Orion Pictures, Alana Mayo, to discuss the process of  bringing ‘Till' to the screen.

A trip to west Texas where moms-to-be travel hundreds of miles to see a doctor; the Supreme Court and affirmative action; keeping Emmet Till's legacy alive; preparing for child flu season; where a library card gives you access to national parks.

On this weeks episode of Acting Up, Cortney Wills is joined by Michael Harriot to discuss ‘TILL' the new film that highlights the life and work of Mamie Till-Mobley, a mother who galvanized the Civil Rights Movement after her 14-year-old son Emmet Till was lynched in 1955.  Starring Danielle Deadwyler, Jalyn Hall, Frankie Faison, Haley Bennett, and Whoopi Goldberg and directed and co-written by Chinonye Chukwu, Cortney and Michael confront the fact that the film is hugely important and deeply heartbreaking. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

So I got this email the other day:  "Dear Richard. I am a fan.  I listen to your podcasts with Jennifer.  I would like you to contact Emmet Till.  It would interesting to hear what he has to say.    Thanks. Regards, Kathie"   I wrote to her that the podcast is controlled by our pal Luana Anders on the flipside, that she is in charge of the "guest list" as she's the one with the "clipboard."   Imagine my chagrin, when today, Luana mentioned this question.   Dear Kathie,   Well, something unusual happened.  Today during the podcast Hacking the Afterlife, Luana mentioned to Jennifer that "someone had asked me a question" that she wanted me to address. I thought of all the questions I get on Quora on a daily basis - and the only one that popped into my head was yours.   So we interviewed Emmett today.    It was emotional - hard to do - but like I say, I let Luana decide who the guest list will be. I tried to ask him the same questions I ask everyone - but my emotions overcame me. He's a courageous person to choose a lifetime that included the trauma he experienced.  But I'll let him speak for himself.    No one will ever believe that we've interviewed Emmett - but that's why we do this work, to show people how easy it is to do this on their own.   I hope it helps someone somewhere.    Best,   Rich   Dr. King stopped by as well - we interviewed him a few times in "BACKSTAGE PASS TO THE FLIPSIDE" and I asked him all the questions I ask everyone. He was very profound and eloquent in his answers. When we started the podcast, I knew we'd have to stop for about half an hour in the middle.  As it turned out, it allowed me to look up a few details about him (while Jennifer worked with a client). We do this podcast to help people who are suffering with pain and grief - including those who knew the Till family, who to this day suffer over his loss - and to the millions who will be moved by his story yet again when the film comes out. I hope it's a good film, but I appreciate Emmett allowing us to chat with him today. Again - hope this helps someone to converse with their own loved ones on the flipside. 

The girls are fighting! Cardi B and City Girls' JT have an epic Twitter feud. Plus, Whoopi Goldberg is accused of wearing a fat suit in the Emmet Till biopic, and Forbes reveals the "poorest" billionaires. The tea is hot, so tune in to today's Dish Nation for a sip!

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Episode 157 of the Cast Worthy podcast "The Rosenhaus of rub and tugs." was recorded on Sunday August 14th, 2022. On this episode of the Cast Worthy Podcast Big Steve is a no call no show flying to Hawaii, VP and EJ run a two man game.VP and EJ discuss how air ports have the international tag being a technical lie. EJ says Dashaun Watson is just a misunderstood freak who needed an NDA. VP still sticks by his opinion saying his rub and tug behavior was excessive. NFL preseason is off to a start, the Browns start Deshaun Watson, VP disagrees with the move but EJ thinks it's genius. Zach Wilson is down and how poetic would it be for Joe Cool to beat the Ravens? Dolphins rest the starters in preparation for the season. VP gives the pod an update on Trump. Officials have built a mountain of evidence on Donny T, but yet VP believes nothing will happen to the Teflon Donny. Charges brought to a detective in the attempted cover up of the Breonna Taylor murder. Carolyn Bryant walks away without being charged for her involvement in the murder of Emmet Till. Black lives... seemingly still don't matter. Rest in peace to actor Anne Heche, Serena Williams retries. This weeks Bingies include: Billions, West World, The Gray Man, NYC point gods, Rick James documentary, The Black Phone, The bear, PValley, Rasining Kanan, Big Brother, Prey, and This Fool.As always the CastWorthy content can be found on most streaming platforms including Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Spreaker and more. Video of the recordings can be found on Youtube and live interaction is available weekly on Sunday mornings via FB live and Youtube live.#nfl #browns #dolphins #jets #prey #hulu #thebear #pvalley #bigbrother #showtime #billions #steelers #vikings #blacklives #rub #Tug #hawaii #tiktok

Damon and Marcel talk mostly news in this episode but manage to squeeze some nerd stuff in there. Missiles, Emmet Till, worst movie you walked out on and so much more. Good listen.

On this episode, we discuss the intersection where food justice meets Black liberation. Joining host Max Rameau are Mama Savi Horne and Baba Fred Carter, two organizers who are also on the board of the National Black Food & Justice Alliance.Baba Fred Carter works with Black Oaks Center for Sustainable Renewable Living, a 40 acre off-grid eco campus in Illinois that is engaged in a campaign against NICOR to stop the development of a pipeline and push for a Renewable Pembroke. Baba Fred is chair of the National Black Food & Justice Alliance.Mama Savi Horne works with Land Loss Prevention Project, a law firm and advocacy organization for farmers and land stewards, which has provided assistance and resources to those at threat of losing their land, as well as engaged in the advocacy and support around debt relief for Black farmers. Mama Savi is co-chair of the National Black Food & Justice Alliance.Baba Fred Carter talks about how the murder of his cousin Emmet Till affected his family, the power of your plate, Monsanto, and being inspired by a new generation of activists. Mama Savi Horne discusses what choices mean when it comes to food, the struggle against Black land loss, the right to food, and food access.See more of the work of host Max Rameau at pacapower.org. Stay subscribed to The Next World for more news from the frontlines of movements for justice and liberation. You can read more about the issues we explore on our podcast and much more at dignityandrights.org, the website of Partners for Dignity & Rights.Please subscribe, spread the word, and support the show.Support the show

In this episode Paul, James and Gwen discuss how the infamous The Twilight Zone series was influenced by the horrific murder of Emmet Till. How it impacted Rod Serling and the steps he took to address such cruelty and racism and the different measures he too to eventually come upon The Twilight Zone as a way to address the issues of discrimination and racism in America. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/gwendolyn-black/support

Emmet Till, seorang remaja kulit hitam asal Chicago, berlibur ke rumah pamannya di Mississippi pada musim panas 1955. Alih-alih kegembiraan, Emmet justru dituduh melecehkan perempuan kulit putih bernama Carolyn, lalu ia dibantai secara keji. Mari susuri kronologinya, dan pengakuan mengejutkan Carolyn pada tahun 2017.

Welcome back to another Episode of Unapologetic the Podcast! EPISODE 100!!! Wow! In this weeks episode we reminisce on how far this Podcast has came. We discuss the guilty verdict for Eric Holder, Bill Gates daughter has a brotha (lol), Tiara Mack twerking, and the senseless murder of Jayland Walker. We also try to figure out which is worse mental or emotional baggage, and is there different sex tiers? Thanks for tuning in to another episode of Unapologetic The Podcast, episode 100 people! Please don't forget to Like, Share, and Subscribe! Timecodes 0:00 - Intro & Episode Recap 15:45 - SPORTS TALK!!! 43:05 - Eric Holder found guilty of murdering Nipsey 46:00 - Bill gates daughter with a black man, Emmet Till news, Rhode Island Senator Tiara Mack twerking, Robert Long Highland Park Parade shooting, Jayland Walker murdered 1:09:08 - What's worse mental or emotion baggage? 1:19:00 - Activating Sex tiers / Caught cheating or lying 1:36:12 - Is it ok not to cum during sex 1:45:25 - Thoughts on 100 Episodes 2:07:08 - Unapologetic Truths 2:32:15 - Outro

Welcome back to another Episode of Unapologetic the Podcast! EPISODE 100!!! Wow! In this weeks episode we reminisce on how far this Podcast has came. We discuss the guilty verdict for Eric Holder, Bill Gates daughter has a brotha (lol), Tiara Mack twerking, and the senseless murder of Jayland Walker. We also try to figure out which is worse mental or emotional baggage, and is there different sex tiers? Thanks for tuning in to another episode of Unapologetic The Podcast, episode 100 people! Please don't forget to Like, Share, and Subscribe! Timecodes 0:00 - Intro & Episode Recap 15:45 - SPORTS TALK!!! 43:05 - Eric Holder found guilty of murdering Nipsey 46:00 - Bill gates daughter with a black man, Emmet Till news, Rhode Island Senator Tiara Mack twerking, Robert Long Highland Park Parade shooting, Jayland Walker murdered 1:09:08 - What's worse mental or emotion baggage? 1:19:00 - Activating Sex tiers / Caught cheating or lying 1:36:12 - Is it ok not to cum during sex 1:45:25 - Thoughts on 100 Episodes 2:07:08 - Unapologetic Truths 2:32:15 - Outro

Emmett Till Legacy Foundation Chief Debra Watts and her team discovered the original arrest warrant involved in the murder of Emmet Till.

Welcome to episode 118 of activist. Today's part three of my three-part conversation with author, financial analyst, and applied mathematician, Brian Romanchuk. In part one, we talked about his journey to MMT, and his 2021 book, Modern Monetary Theory and the Recovery. In part two and today in part three, we talk about the various techniques used by bad-faith critics of MMT. More broadly, these are some of the things simple bullies do, when they would prefer their followers think they're not bullies. This interview was inspired by chapter five of Brian's book, his recent appearance on MMT Podcast, and my own post of several good-faith critiques. (A list of the audio chapters in today's episode can be found at the bottom of this post.) This interview inspired me to write a new post summarizing the techniques Brian and I discuss today, plus my own definition of a good-faith critique. These techniques are not exclusive to MMT, of course, but Brian and I share several anecdotes, and link them to actual MMT critiques and critics. And now, let's get right back to my conversation with Brian Romanchuk. Enjoy. Audio chapters 3:30 - I will only view a child through their report card. 5:57 - Thomas Palley's household analogy 8:11 - MMT is wrong, because if it were right, it would be bad. (Just don't like the politics.) 13:45 - The unwashed masses are kept deliberately unwashed. 15:15 - Killing the messenger 21:38 - You don't define you, I define you. (Emmet Till) 32:38 - The debate is not in the papers but in the world around them. 33:23 - Final thoughts 47:00 - Duplicate of introduction, but with no background music

Welcome to episode 118 of activist. Today's part three of my three-part conversation with author, financial analyst, and applied mathematician, Brian Romanchuk. In , we talked about his journey to MMT, and his 2021 book, . In and today in part three, we talk about the various techniques used by bad-faith critics of MMT. More broadly, these are some of the things simple bullies do, when they would prefer their followers think they're not bullies. This interview was inspired by chapter five of Brian's book, his on MMT Podcast, and of several good-faith critiques. (A list of the audio chapters in today's episode can be found at the bottom of this post.) This interview inspired me to write summarizing the techniques Brian and I discuss today, plus my own definition of a good-faith critique. These techniques are not exclusive to MMT, of course, but Brian and I share several anecdotes, and link them to actual MMT critiques and critics. And now, let's get right back to my conversation with Brian Romanchuk. Enjoy. Audio chapters 3:30 - I will only view a child through their report card. 5:57 - Thomas Palley's household analogy 8:11 - MMT is wrong, because if it were right, it would be bad. (Just don't like the politics.) 13:45 - The unwashed masses are kept deliberately unwashed. 15:15 - Killing the messenger 21:38 - You don't define you, I define you. (Emmet Till) 32:38 - The debate is not in the papers but in the world around them. 33:23 - Final thoughts 47:00 - Duplicate of introduction, but with no background music

Comprehensive coverage of the day's news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Russia and Ukraine enter peace negotiations 12 dead from Russia bombardment of government building in Mykolaiv, Ukraine. Russia announces troop draw down from Kyiev, Biden administration critical-calls it repositioning towards Donbass takeover. United Nations warns Russia's war in Ukraine threatening global food supplies. January 6th committee investigating deadly insurrection holds two former Trump aides in contempt for refusing subpoenas. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas fails to recuse self from January 6th decisions, despite his wife's involvement. Florida Governor signs bill banning gender from K-3rd grade education. President Joe Biden signs bill classifying lynching a hate crime, named after Emmet Till. Bill to extend rental protections clears key state senate committee. Calls mount for Contra Costa County Sheriff to resign, and for Supervisors to audit department. State election reform bills make way through legislature-one would protect privacy of election workers. Photo of government building in Mykolaiv, Ukraine bombed by Russia, killing at least 12 people, by Ukraine's Defense Department.   The post Russia and Ukraine enter peace negotiations; Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas under scrutiny after wife's connection to January 6th; Calls mount for Contra Costa County Sheriff to resign appeared first on KPFA.

In this special episode, Joe Madison is interviewed by Thom Hartmann on SiriusXM Progress about his new memoir titled "Radio Active."Buy the book today: https://joemadison.com/radioactive/

In this episode of Critical Reads, we will be discussing The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James H. Cone. Here's a brief summary of the book courtesy of the author/publisher: "The cross and the lynching tree are the two most emotionally charged symbols in the history of the African American community. In this powerful new work, theologian James H. Cone explores these symbols and their interconnection in the history and souls of black folk. Both the cross and the lynching tree represent the worst in human beings and at the same time a thirst for life that refuses to let the worst determine our final meaning. While the lynching tree symbolized white power and black death, the cross symbolizes divine power and black life God overcoming the power of sin and death. For African Americans, the image of Jesus, hung on a tree to die, powerfully grounded their faith that God was with them, even in the suffering of the lynching era. In a work that spans social history, theology, and cultural studies, Cone explores the message of the spirituals and the power of the blues; the passion and of Emmet Till and the engaged vision of Martin Luther King, Jr.; he invokes the spirits of Billie Holliday and Langston Hughes, Fannie Lou Hamer and Ida B. Well, and the witness of black artists, writers, preachers, and fighters for justice. And he remembers the victims, especially the 5,000 who perished during the lynching period. Through their witness, he contemplates the greatest challenge of any Christian theology to explain how life can be made meaningful in the face of death and injustice." This week's "Musings of Tired Black Social Worker" segment topic is Celebrating BHM and Processing Florida's "White Discomfort Bill"  To purchase the book, visit: The Cross and the Lynching Tree via Amazon or The Cross and the Lynching Tree via Orbis Books Other sources mentioned in this episode include: Critical Race Theory by Wikipedia Florida Advances Bill That Would Ban Making White People Feel Bad About Racism, and No, That's Not a Joke by Bess Levin Florida bill to shield people from feeling ‘discomfort' over historic actions by their race, nationality, or gender approved by Senate committee by Amy Simonson To check out the CR podcast content calendar, visit: https://soulsessionswithneph.com/critical-reads-podcast To find out more about me or to consume more of my content, visit soulsessionswithneph.com. You can also follow me on Instagram and Facebook using the handle @soulsessionswithneph, or email me at connect@soulsessionswithneph.com. Thank you again for your time and support! 

Travel writer/musician authors Josephine Matyas and Craig Jones share stories and experiences from their book about music, travel and the black experience in the heart of the South.Major Delta destinations include Clarksdale, Tunica, Greenville, Dockery Farm, Greenwood and Tupelo, in Mississippi; and Memphis, Tennessee. Museums, homesteads, gravesites, juke joints, frolicking houses, Beale Street, Graceland and Sun and Stax recording studios  are just some of the sites discussed in relation to the blues and the music it influenced. Artists range  from Robert Johnson and BB King to Elvis Presley.Civil rights plays a part as well, from the  grocery store in  Money Mississippi, where Emmet Till meet the woman who would lead to his murder, to the Lorraine Motel, where blacks and whites stayed together during are discussed as part of the experience that related to the music."The Blues are the root. The rest are the fruit." And Craig ends with a fine rendition of a blues song.___Josephine Matyas has published in every major Canadian newspaper and specialized magazines, including a number of American-based publications. Jo specializes in history and culture, soft-adventure and eco-tourism. She loves to talk travel. Craig Jones holds a doctorate in International Political Economy from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. His main gig – and lifelong passion – is as a full-time musician, bandleader, and music teacher. Craig has stepped onto bandstands to play bass and guitar in jazz, blues, rock and roll, Motown, Zydeco, and soul.  Chasing the Blues: A Traveler's Guide to America's Music  is their first book together. The book's Facebook site is: https://www.facebook.com/ChasingtheBluesTravelersGuide _____Podcast host Lea Lane blogs at forbes.com, has traveled to over 100 countries, written nine books, including Places I Remember, and contributed to guidebooks. Contact Lea  @lealane on Twitter; PlacesIRememberLeaLane on Insta; on  Facebook, it's Places I Remember with Lea Lane. Website: placesirememberlealane.com.  New episodes every other week, on Tuesdays. Please follow, rate and review this award-winning travel podcast!

Sophie and Jenna are back at it again! They start the pod with the usual chit-chat. To honor Black History Month, the hosts cover important stories featuring history-changing black individuals. Sophie covers the awful Lynching of Emmet Till. Jenna explains the real-life stories behind the Hidden Figures Book/Movie, featuring Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Christine Darden. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/horriblyhappy/support

Kim Potter's crying in court is more than an expression of remorse; it's part of a history of white women weaponizing their tears against people of color.--Tiffany Bui reports:The jury in the trial of Kim Potter is deciding whether she is guilty of manslaughter for killing Daunte Wright. The 12 jurors have spent over 14 hours in deliberations. Late Wednesday afternoon, the jury asked the judge what happens if they can't come to conesus.  On Friday, Potter took the stand as a witness in her own defense. She was visibly distraught, at times sobbing, when questioned about specific parts of the incident. She recalled her fellow officer's face while they struggled with Wright.“He had a look of fear on his face. It was nothing like I'd ever seen before,” Potter testified.Bianet Castellanos, chair of the American Studies Department at the University of Minnesota, said Potter crying is more than an expression of remorse; it's part of a history of white women weaponizing their tears against people of color. “Potter's tears showcase her fear, thus marking her as vulnerable, as a victim, even though she was one holding and firing the gun,” said Castellanos. “And so by claiming to be afraid, her fear excuses – if not justifies – her use of deadly force.”Castellanos pointed to cases like Carolyn Bryant, the white woman who falsely accused Emmet Till of sexually assaulting her, spurring white men to lynch the young teen. The film The Birth of a Nation perpetuated the racist fear that white women were vulnerable to being raped by Black men. “Historically, white women have been idealized as these vessels of innocence that we have to protect. But again, protect against whom?” asked Castellanos. “Their vulnerability has been used as an excuse to control and punish black people.” The tears of Black women and other people of color aren't afforded this same power, Castellanos said. “In the case of Kim Potter, her tears are critical in her defense case,” said Castellanos. “But then we think about Daunte Wright's mother's tears and his family's tears. In most cases those tears don't get an action or a response.”Castellanos said not all tears are weapons. She said some tears get ignored altogether. 

Pearl Harbor day. The DOJ ends investigation into Emmet Till murder. Advent Health suspends its Vaccine mandate for 83000 employees. Devin Nunes to leave congress to head up Trump Media Network.

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It's a beautiful day in The Mile High City, but it wont last. More 90's next week. The temperature, not the decade (we wish). Tay Anderson has no original thought, which is indicative of the left. The man has said previously that he was suicidal, which we take very seriously on this program, but proceeds to open his statements at the board hearing with the incorrect number to the suicide hotline. Let that marinate for a second. He disgracefully continues to quote MLK and reference Emmet Till. The word "and" is the only original thought in his brain, apparently. In disgust and confusion as to why that didn't work, along with his skin color, he throws down his BIC Pen in outrage, and storms out of the board room.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rebecca Wheeler Watson - CRT Instagram Live 8/28/2021 NotesRebecca lives in Virginia, has completed  Law School at UCLA, holds a Master's in Marriage and Family Counseling, is also a licensed minister.What is Critical Race Theory? We need to define it before we actually step into defending or refuting, coming to the pros and cons, in order to have informed discussions. Rebecca says, CRT is a way of thinking or engaging a topic, event, perspective or field of study, and asking the question are there racial dynamics at play that move beyond the individual intentions of the players involved and looking at structural things “baked into the cake” that are making decisions based on race, often time that are to the detriment of the minority group (or disempowered group). Started in the 1970s by legal scholars - looking at the gains that they thought would come through the Civil Rights Move Act.They saw gains in the legislation and in the law (Brown vs Board of Education) but were not being felt or seen in real time experiences on the ground.Early CRT scholars Derrick Bell and Kimberle Crenshaw were asking questions, why is this happening? If we apply a neutral sounding law to a scenario where racism is already “baked” into the structure, they found that you will not actually get at the structure, the racism that's built into the structure. Classic law case would be regarding: Hate SpeechThere is freedom of speech. The law on its face is neutral and doesn't mention race at all. However, if we apply that basic principle to a cross burning as a freedom of speech, we must take into account the history of the terror that a burning cross was meant to strike terror into the hearts of African Americans and newly freed slaves. We don't at the structure or the symbol if we simply say “all speech is free”Danielle asks, so without including race in the discussion we aren't getting the full picture?Rebecca says yes!  And other disciplines have adopted this framework. COVID-19: When the numbers started to show that Black and Brown communities were getting disproportionately affected by COVID, members of the health profession started to take a Critical Race Theory approach and ask are there things ‘baked' into our health system and to our economic system that actually produced the disparate results we are seeing in COVID-19? And if we ask those questions, can we undo some of the inequity and imbalances that are built into the health care system and economic systems so we don't see these disparate impacts moving forward? Danielle says what she is hearing from Rebecca is that it is not an attack on a certain group of people but a way to get to racism that is built in the structure by an invitation to look at the history of how the laws were made (and by whom they were made) and how racism got baked into them. [Can we look at the disparities and care for one another well?]Rebecca says it's a good point -- this is not about an individual but a method for getting at racism built into the structure and therefore transcends individual actions. For example Darrin Chauvin, the police officer who was convicted of murdering George Floyd. You can look at that scenario and say the individual act of one police officer, and if we address that one case with Darrin Chauvin going to prision for the murder of George Floyd, then “the problem has been solved.” But the issue is there are far too many George Floyds and Darrin Chauvins across the police communities across this country. In fact today (8/28) is the anniversary of the death of Emmet Till. There are many names and many scenarios. So if we simply stop with Darrin Chauvin then we don't get at the question of do we have a problem with the way we imagine policing in this country? Do we have a problem with the way we imagine innocent behavior as threatening or criminal when the actor in that scenario has black skin? CRT invites us to look at the structure of policing altogether to engage not in villainizing a single person but to look at the whole system, as a country. Danielle adds, it doesn't sound like it is a villainization of a system either. It is a look at where we are now and saying we don't want to be here now. A historian looks at where we came from in order to help us understand how to make decisions about where we go from now moving forward.  Rebecca says recently Professor Crenshaw gave the example of asbestos: The medical community and the science community has now determined that we should not use asbestos because it has been found to contain carcinogens. But there was a previous generation that built every generation with asbestos in it. Same with lead paint. There are hundreds and thousands of buildings across America where asbestos is built into the building. And you don't usually know that until something happens to stir it up and expose it. Would we just ignore that? Of course not. When we discover asbestos in the building we move to remediating. Granted that process is costly. And it's probably painful and expensive. But it is the right thing to do going forward to protect future generations and to make the building safe for those who will inhabit it. It is the same for Critical Race Theory. We go along and things seem fine until something exposes racism and we see that racism is baked into this country and it's harmful to Black and Brown communities. When we encounter it, will we have the guts to pay the cost to remediate it?Danielle said being married to someone who works in constructions, she knows that you have to have extensive training and have special gear to go into buildings with asbestos for removing it. It wasn't just anyone, but you had to know what you were doing and how to do it. It's an invitation for change.Rebecca says you can come at this from a political standpoint: are we going to be the country political and socially that works towards becoming the “more perfect union” that we profess to be? And if that's true, when we come to imperfections, will there be the political capital to address them? Rebecca says we're at one right now with what to do with Afghanistan -- will we have the political guts and the will to address it or not?  The same is true from racial issues. The history of slavery and genocity against not just Africans, but Native Americans, Latinx Americans, Asian Americans...  There are moments where we are confronted with the realities of these stains and what it brings to present day for people?You can also look at it from a theological standpoint: There are places as believers where we fall short on how we treat our fellow man. And when we are confronted in that moment, do we have the capacity, the spiritual strength to face that moment and decide that it's true that “greater is He who resides in me” and by his strength and in His wisdom I can face this moment and bring His economy to bear in this scenario?There is one place where Rebecca agrees with the opponents of CRT and that is that we should not be segregated by race, it is contrary to the kingdom of God. Danielle says that folks call “White Fragility” the inability to face our history and past and act in the moment. Danielle offers some push back - let's give those younger places that didn't learn about race growing up, a chance to grow. It's not so much that we're fragile but we've not given ourselves chances to grow. When we engage race topics we find ourselves feeling really small (young) because we've not learned about this before. Danielle says this is especially true for those in the dominant culture. This is an area for repentance: What do I know, what don't I know? It's an invitation to learn and embrace what we know now and make change. Danielle likens racism to a thousand little paper cuts - we need to tend to those wounds in an honorable way. Can you engage the harm you've done? How do we move forward together?Rebecca -  It is good to engage the white fragility. People will say, “Well I didn't own slaves” or “I'm not racist, I have a Mexican friend.” Okay. Okay. If we could approach the conversation with just what I have personally done, that would be nice. But there is more than that in the text. The Christian faith is built on the idea of the capacity of one standing in the gap for many. Otherwise the cross and person of Jesus is meaningless. Jesus paid a substitutionary death for all of us. Call of scripture is to stand for others in the gap, not for the salvation of all, but also for the repentance of all. One is asked to stand in the gap for many. God honors the naming of that sin, God moves to repair and restore. We can't take the easy way out, and say “I didn't do that, I have no stake in the game.”Danielle, asks why has CRT become a hot button topic right now across the country? The theory is many years old… why now?Rebecca says the answer lies within the cyclical nature of racism. Ta'Nahesis Coates in his book “8 Years in Power” talks about the rhythm of racism - one step forward, two steps back. One step forward, one step back. You can track throughout history the gains and backlashes. Emancipation Proclamation and Beginning of Reconstruction there are massive gains for Black in those two years following the end of the Civil War.  And then there is a huge backlash that comes with the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, the invention of “Black Codes” which became Jim Crow. You can see the movement in the 60s and Civil Rights Movement, followed by the massive retraction of that in the 70s. What we're looking at now is the country's reaction, White America, White Evangelicalism's reaction to a summer of reckoning last year when the world's eyes watched America -- Darrin Chauvin and George Floyd. It wasn't a he said she said, it was all televised, for all to see and watch. There is a sense in the country that this is so much bigger than George Floyd and Darrin Cauvin. There were some gains that were made in the collective consciousness but before they can be solidified or codified into law we are feeling and seeing a massive backlash. What has happened, according to Kimberele Crenshaw, is the plucking of this obscure doctrine (CRT) that was really reserved for the legal field. This is not something taught in K-12 or is a part of our everyday lexicon. People on the Right took this unfamiliar obscure category and poured all kinds of information that wasn't accurate, and in many ways were outright lies in an attempt to take away the gains that were made last summer. What we are seeing is the repetition of the cyclical nature of racism. The insidiousness of racism is that we were never supposed to see what is happening, but the curtain got pulled back; we're not supposed to see how it is working in our country and in our systems. When people feel exposed, their reaction is to cover it up, rather than have the individual and collective integrity to face the moment and be better. Danielle says this is what has happened in her community -- in 2019 on the 3rd of July, a Native man was killed at a Independence celebration in front of crowds of people and children. He was supposedly holding a screwdriver when cops surrounding him. There has since been some effort from indegenious community and the police of Poulsbo to form some kind of a bridge back to one another. And then this past weekend a man comes into our town, known for hate speech by the and acknowledges he doesn't know about Critical Race Theory (he got his definition from wikipedia), a wound is just ripped open in our community. The backlash is not just collective but it's also personal to this community and specific bodies in this area, as well as personal to people of faith. Rebecca says we have to keep our eye on what's happening collectively as a country, and also remember that these are individual people whose lives are forever changed. She thinks of George Floyd's daughter who said, “Daddy changed the world” and she's right, but it was at great cost to her and her family because they will spend the rest of their lives without him. Danielle said everywhere she goes they will know her story. What do you think is the step forward?Rebecca thinks we need to note and watch for the cyclical nature of racism and note it when it happens. We need to know how we're going to respond in those moments. We need to recognize there is a system at play in this country that judges people on the basis of race (and gender, class and some other things) and it's baked into the system. We have to be intentional to watch for it, looking for it, and we have to be willing to pay the cost to remediating it. There is work to do:There will be some training and education required. What are the contours of harm? How does it happen? How do we prevent it?We must do this work individually and collectively. We need to be able to have conversations that are calm and reasonable, well-educated. Then we need to move to practically respond to things when we see them. We need to have critical conversations about: Policing, Education. Health Care, Economics...We must be willing to pay the cost -- costs money, time and talent to step into places of remediation, individually and collectively if we want to be a “more perfect union” and bring the kingdom to God bear here on Earth.

We discuss MLK Jr and Emmet Till. Melanie has a list of things we should know topped off with trivia and more. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/timothy-lankford5/message

“A person has to want to change in order to change,” Sylvester Boyd Jr. Our history largely defines who we are as a people and explains why we do things the way we do them. Unfortunately, many people do not know their history leave alone that of other people that they live with. This lack of knowledge about history explains many ills that are being experienced today and could be avoided if people are taught accurate history. This is according to our guest today, Sylvester Boyd Jr, who has been a teacher and has lived to experience what it means to be historically informed. Mr. Boyd has a passion for history and geography. He has been interviewed by radio and TV programs across the U.S., Great Britain, and other countries covering issues of race relations, perseverance, disparities in education, and current events. His laser focus on the truth, helps him make historical connections within these topics. He uses family stories across generations and his personal life experiences to write The Road from Money series; hoping to teach and uplift readers; while pointing out injustice and racism. Mr. Boyd's expertise in business, education, motivational speaking, the entertainment industry, and world travel gives him a unique perspective and insight into current racial and poverty-driven tensions around the world. Currently he can be seen on several major TV series and movies with Academy Award-winning actors such as Taraji P. Henson and Forest Whittaker. As a background actor, he has also appeared with other well-known actors in The Dilemma, Transformers 3, Empire, The Boss, Chicago PD/MED/Fire, Shameless, Lovecraft Country, Fargo, and other TV episodes. In today's episode, we will have a conversation about history and why people need to be aware not only of their own history but also of other people's history. We will also discuss more on the reasons behind ‘The Road from Money' book series. Listen in! Social media handles http://www.boydbooks.net  Author interview: http://www.boydbooks.net/bio  FB links: https://www.facebook.com/sylvester.boyd.3  https://www.twitter.com/SylvesterBoyd1 I have a degree in both history and geography. [4:04] One of the problems we have right now is that we are not taught accurate history. [4:32] History, as I read it from the books, doesn't match with what I learned in high school. [4:38] Once I got into college and got deep into history, I learned a lot of things that I thought were true or not true and a lot that were omitted. [4:48] For example, we talk about a time when Colombus discovered America and generations upon generations believing it as their history. [5:03] Europeans, Caucasians, or white people our history tend to make them better and diminish everybody else and that is purposeful. [6:32] We have to start to look at the real facts because if you do not, falsehood will always lead you down the wrong path. [6:16] I think all secondary schools should have a history as a requirement. [6:35] History and where people come from and where they are, their customs and traditions should be discussed. [6:52] Once you start going into history you may be shocked what it is versus what you think it is. [7:00] People don't know about history, and if they are not taught right, then they cannot act right. [8:32] Our education system has played a part in that because I have been a teacher and I know we are not giving our kids the right education. [8:44] To diminish black, brown, or native American history, you also have to diminish white history because history will always be true. [8:56] An educated person not only knows their history, but they also know the history and culture of others. [9:58] Our kids were not taught the right history and therefore they don't know. [10:32] Another thing is that you do not know what you lose and therefore hold your country back. [10:50] Minorities are a big part of the country, coming up to be the majority of the country. [11:10] Democracy without a vote is not a democracy because once you lose the vote and do not let people vote, you have lost your democracy. [11:22] We have to look at ourselves as a people and question where we want to end up [12:10] Commercial Break. [13:29] Money Mississippi was the town that Emmet Till was killed and thrown in Tallahatchie River and that was the beginning of the American civil rights movements and it happened in the year 1955.[15:10] My folks came from the town that started the civil rights movement in America. is a really important connection with history I have that most other people don't have. [15:41] Another thing I have been fortunate to do is to live in all different societies. [15:54] My mother was incisive enough to know that she did not want her children raised in some of the environments that the kids did and so she moved her kids to an environment that she felt was conducive for their learning. [16:40] These are things that people had to do to make adjustments to the society they lived in so that they could develop. [17:10] I always say the minorities have to look twice than the majority. [17:50] Culturally I have been able to live with everybody. [21:00] You cannot make a person change their heart or what they think, but you can educate them. [21:52] Race is a social construct of man and it has nothing to do with how smart you are. [22:55] A person has to want to change in order to change. [25:50] We have not taken of the environment the way we are supposed to and we are a society that uses and loses and that will come back to haunt us. [26:17] My aunt deserved the honor of the book and it was important for me to put her story out there. [28:25] It is also a story of all people who struggled to be part of what they should have been a part of from the very beginning. [28:40] We are a country of many people and races, but we as a people have never accepted that we are all created equal. [28:55] If you take from me you take from yourselves at the same time. [29:16] Don't be afraid of change and take advantage of the opportunities that come towards you because they last for only a brief moment and it is fickle it moves on to the next person if you are not ready. [32:24] …………………………………………………………………………………… Thank You to our August Sponsor! Tired of the time and expense to get a manicure or pedicure? Try Color Street today! Base, color, and top coats of high-quality liquid nail polish in each strip results in a brilliant, salon-quality manicure in just minutes. No dry time, smudges, or streaks, and your mani/pedi lasts up to 10 days. Color Street is 100% real nail polish, not stickers. 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Find Michael Chen on instagram @aapi.liturgy Michael Chen lives in Philadelphia with his wife Rachael and their two boys.  He is a graduate of Princeton Seminary earned his Master of Divinity, and is currently working on a PhD in Marriage and Family Therapy at Eastern University.  As a long time campus minister, he has a heart for helping people live more fully into their  unique identity and vocation.  In his free time he likes exploring cities and eating dumplings.  Also, he is a karaoke champion. Maggie had the privilege and honor to meet Michael at Allender Center where they were trained in Narrative Focused Trauma Care - Level II.Michael is coming in tired and grateful. He's coming off of a few late nights but also good conversations and meaningful work. He's been in quarantine lock-down since the beginning (March 2020). Having married his wife Rachael in October of 2019, they enter their first year of marriage and hit the “accelerator” to get to know each other: getting to know all the quirks and dynamics of newly married life during the pandemic. They've hit wall emotionally and spiritually in this season. They've definitely triggered each other but have so much faith, trust and love in one another. He is looking froward to Philadelphia opening up a bit more. His boys start hybrid school next week and baseball season is starting up.Maggie checks in with Michael around how he is holding the Derek Chauvin verdict. He's angry that his Black siblings felt so much relief at something that should have been a “no brainer.” And he certainly has mixed emotions because he too felt relief. There was this sense of, “how can it be the case that something so seemingly straightforward and clear would even be in question?”Danielle says that white folks talk about justice in a way that they are entitled to it, that justice is a right. This exposes historical narratives back to Emmet Till, people along the border, and so many others that have been murdered… But justice is not a built in right for all people. Michael adds, “and hence the relief…I don't like that.”Michael asks how Danielle and Maggie processed the verdict and also hearing the news of Ma'Kaia Bryant on the same day, and what a tail spin that was. Maggie agreed that tailspin is a perfect way to describe her feelings — it was a sense of not knowing which direction is up or down. She too held a mixed bag of emotion - A sense of relief at the accountability, a small measure of justice, at the guilty verdict for Derek Chauvin, as well as anger knowing how much work there is to be done with police reform, gun control and white supremacy in our country. And then feeling the overwhelming sense of, “How long, Oh Lord?” When hearing the news of Ma'Kaia Bryant. Watching videos of her showing her peers how to do hair… She wept. The only thing she could say was “How long?” Because there was no knowing of how to make meaning or sense of all that had happened in that one day.Michael believes that, “we were not built to take in this much information this quickly without a sense of ritual, a sense of grief, or a space for mourning.” There is a feeling that our bodies can not process the amount of trauma in the news at the rate and intensity it is coming at us. He reminds himself to stay cognizant of that.Danielle wrote an essay on April 19th about Adam, Dante and the impact of the massacre in Atlanta along with her journey to become a therapist. No sooner had she sent it off to get published when the verdict came in and Ma'Kaia Bryant was killed. She went to bed and felt like “this essay is no longer true.” She pulled the essay, edited it and resubmitted it today (April 23) to be published on May 3rd and her thought was, “Oh Lord, will I have to change this again? Will there be more stories to tell? I already know in my bones that it won't feel right to leave a name out…”  She agrees with Michael, it is too much to take in. And sometimes she says feels like all we can do is to say their name. Michael adds, which feels like another injustice or violation.Maggie mentioned Michael's new work with AAPI.liturgy on instagram and read a recent post about looking at trauma in a way to include collective trauma. The post says: “A group experience of pain, loss or catastrophe that shatters the social bonds that form a community, resulting in loss of trust, dissolution of roles and boundaries, and the breaking of group identity.” - Kai EriksonIn beginning to define trauma with the collective, it is expanding our idea of trauma from an individual felt embodied experience to “as individual bodies experiencing trauma collectively.” Maggie said that is in fact what we just described as we have processed what it has been like to live in our bodies even just the last few days with collective trauma.Michael has thought for a long time that he does not know what it means to be Asian. He has grown up in a predominately white spaces in Minnesota and had taken a position in an a ministry organization as the director for cross cultural ministry, where he functioned as a mediator between white leadership and predominately Black staff. It felt like he had to do a lot of work on African-American History.Race as a construct in his experience has been a binary between Black and white.  He has been inspired by his friend Cole Arther Riley of Black Liturgies in bringing Black history, identity, literature and poetry into liturgical spaces of prayer and spiritual formation. He thinks that the people he is talking to, whether that is professors or people on instagram, are still asking the question: what does it mean to Asian American and Christian?Michael believes that we are in a coming of age moment; people are seeking identity right now.  So it is with that in mind that he started aapi.litgury with a sense of openness. He believes there is something to be explored around trauma, history and trying to formulate and articulate a way of being that might be helpful to Asian Americans as they grapple with their identity.  He says, “What if we started with a collective definition to the question, what is trauma? Would that change our ideas of how we conceive of healing?” He doesn't have the answer but he found the quote provocative as it was shared by Kai Cheng Thom, a Trans woman, at a trauma conference called Tending the Roots. It has been a journey for Michael to put himself in spaces and places to listen and learn from folks at the margins. And then at the margins of the Asian-American Community. The margins of the margins.Trauma primarily as collective is the violation of boundaries and the breaking down of roles and identities. He still has a lot of questions about gender and sexuality, but it is his understanding that in traditional Asian cultures there is evidence that trans individuals, those with more gender fluidity, took on the roles of priests and mediators for the community. They mediated between binaries, they had roles and identities, and there is a sense in these cultures of not letting people fall  into the margins: People get a place in the community. Colonialism and Western Individualism holds us back at some level to imagine people with various identities having roles for healing and connecting.Danielle says there is a unity in viewing the collective trauma that has a way of stripping shame of its power; the shame for the trauma you've experienced as an individual. Shame weds us to beliefs about ourselves and communities. There is something powerful about coming together.Michael notes it is a different perspective to think of trauma starting from the collective standpoint. To figure out how to deal with rules and shame with the collective in mind is a different emphasis and a different way of seeing trauma.What Maggie likes best is about this new way of looking at trauma is that it is expanding outside of ourselves. There is a tendency in Western Culture to think of only how we are individually impacted by trauma, and certainly trauma is an individually felt and embodied experience. But to open it up to a broader, bigger felt experience of connectedness shows our beautiful interconnected nature as human beings.Maggie as a witness to Michael's offerings on aapi.liturgy sees how he has named and acknowledged some of the common felt experiences of the Asian community. His recent post, “Appeasement and apology have been too much a part of our daily liturgy. These are our survival instincts. The new AAPI liturgy will be full of quiet strength and holy wonder.” She says it is a way name and reclaim, and move forward the experience of Asian Americans.Michael recalls a book his professor wrote called “At the Margins: Asian American Theology.” It is a theology of liminality and being caught in the margins. One part that Michael got stuck on in the book was that his professor was a US Citizen for 50 years and still felt unwelcome; Like an outsider, he was still needing to defer and appease those around him. This resonated so much with Michael's own experience; The most current iteration for himself was the experience of volunteering to be a baseball coach. He was the first one to respond to the email and the commissioner made him the head coach. Immediately Michael said no, he could not take on the role. And feeling like he still has that voice of “sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry.” Or “Don't take up space.”  “I'm not going to get in your way.” “I'm not a problem.” It is such a survival technique to not be a destructive presence and there is also something honorable in pursing harmony and equanimity and peace, but Michael asks, at what cost?Danielle says she imagines that the minute you don't enter the space with appeasement and apology, there is disruption for dominate culture folks.Michael responds, “Yeah absolutely and then we have to decide. And typically we haven't been in power, we've been more at the margins, at the periphery of society, organizations, the church… Then we're gonna decide how much we're gonna bear.”Danielle names that as soon as the disruption happens, then there is so much more that follows if you then additionally say something.In a previous Christian ministry employer, the role of director of cross cultural ministry, people would only last a year or two. Michael stayed for five years. A lot of that time he said was appeasement and sometimes apology. He said, we tend to ‘eat it.”Danielle said that someone once asked her, “how much sin do you want to eat from a white folk?” And that stuck with her because sometimes we (as People of Color) just do. We eat the sin of white folk.Michael said it is a continual calculation of the costs of do I want to stay in this context or be ostracized, marginalized, off on the periphery again?Danielle named that even as we talk, the center is still whiteness. Even the conversation, it is still whiteness at the center. She asked Maggie what she is thinking.Maggie said she is pondering the cost for Michael to show up in spaces and bring the fullness of who he is. First in the very public space of his work on the AAPI.liturgy and but also in the pursuit of his PhD.Michael says his PhD cohort is another space where he is the only Asian: Amidst a beautiful diverse group of black and white, the only Asian face. He has learned to try to advocate for himself and his people in ways that feel potentially costly. He said it is a safe group, but there is the fear that is still there for him. With respect to instagram, he does not feel he is in danger. Michael wonders who is this for? He reminds himself when posting, if it can be of meaning for other Asian Americans trying to figure out their identity in God, then beautiful. But is it also for him. He has to ask himself, “How much teaching do I want to do? How much work do I want to do in explaining?” Overall he feels that if there are a number of people who are benefiting, and it is putting words and language to help move them through trauma and bring healing, to be seen and heard, then it's worth the cost.Michael is curious about where we grew up and our experiences of Asian Americans, the narratives that came out in our growing up. Part of what he is doing on the instagram account is trying to name some of these stereotypes and narratives and then deal with them, engage them. “Asians are good at math,” so the wrote a post about math.Maggie has grown up in the PNW and has had many interactions with Asians, but one of the posts that he put about Asians being silent hit her: “To be Asian American is to be silent. Silence has been both our greatest feat and our worst fear. Silence grounded in mindfulness brings unflinching fortitude. Silence driven by fear leads to an even deeper shame.” When Maggie thinks about interacting with Asians as a child she does think of that stereotype of Asians being quiet. And into her high school years, one of her best friends was half Chinese and she was not quiet at all. She recalls, “We tore it up.. We would have a good time and were kinda wild.” It was interesting because when she read the post she had the sense that it was true but that she didn't even know where that stereotype came from (and certainly didn't fit her experience with her friend). She asks, what is the history behind the idea of Asian's being silent?She mentioned that Michael, in advocating for himself to his PhD cohort, suggested they watch the PBS documentary called “Asian Americans.” Maggie went and watched the first (of six) parts as well. Being from the Northwest there is so much Asian American History here, she says. When her family moved to Bainbridge Island she learned about the Japanese internment. One of the properties that her parents were looking at purchasing was previously a strawberry farm owned by Japanese farmers who were interned during WWII. To know the history of the land, that two irrigation ditches went unkept for so long that they connected at the ends forming a long lake with a long skinny island in the middle, was to have a deep sadness. She remarks that Bainbridge Island has done a phenomenal job of marking the history with a Japanese Internment Memorial (Nidoto Nai Yoni - Let It Not Happen Again) and also at the Bainbridge Island Historical Museum. She recalls a haunting set of pictures (in the museum) of the school house on Bainbridge the year before internment and the year after — a beautiful mix of diverse face before and the next year completely white.Michael feels like he wants to make a pilgrimage to Angel Island, outside of San Francisco. He didn't learn about it's history until recently.Danielle says they could have a whole conversation about Asian and Latinx history. She recently had her DNA done. She recalls a cousin who often received derogatory remarks about her eyes, racial slurs of Asian eyes. Her family would always say no, there is no Asian ancestry. Danielle would think that the cousin did indeed look like she could be Asian. [She mentions the book Brown Theology by Robert Chao Romero]. Well her DNA confirmed she (Danielle) does have a percentage of heritage from the Northern Philippines. She said, so it is there! Besides that, her DNA is a tour of colonialism. She said, that's a part of me and she wonders if what's in our bones, what we're attracted to, where we feel at home, is in the DNA. She gravitates towards her Asian brothers and sisters. She has always felt a kinship. Maybe there is some evidence.Michael says, yes the Chinese diaspora is vast! There could be more intersectionality between Latinx and AAPI communities. It would be worth doing a bit more research.Michael says AAPI, the term, has become a demographic term. It was invented in the 1960s as an activist term for Chinese and Japanese people join in during the Civil Rights movement. It was so they could have a collective term to take up this movement towards justice. But it has become a bland and/or meaningless term because Asian Americans are so diverse with something like 58 countries represented and just as many languages.And so it starts with the collective and then moves into particularity.Join us for part two...

So I came across this petition to help accuse Carolyn Bryant Dohnam who lied and accused Emmet Till of whistling at her which later resulted in his death. She must be held judicially responsible for her involvement of his murder. 65 years she walked free with racism and hate in her heart while Emmet Till laid in the ground. Have a heart and sign or be a silent bitch. Copy and paste the link below or go to my bio on Instagram @shufihadool to sign the petition. https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/charge-surviving-accomplice-in-65-year-old-emmett-till-open-murder-case-now-justiceforemmetttill?fbclid=IwAR30XGm42KgDkfvKVzctEWyAEVC4ib8pdQYjC5Xy_lymHICqtJAgoanIxYU

The following podcast contains graphic historical content. Listener discretion is advised. On Part 2 of "Black Lives White Terror" we discuss the tragic events that led to the killings of Emmet Till, Fred Hampton, Breonna Taylor & the Rosewood Massacre. Paperboy also talk about their own experiences and how their life is on the line everyday while fighting to spread love.

Em um caso muito semelhante ao de Emmet Till, George Stinney Jr, um garoto negro de 14 anos, foi acusado de ter matado duas meninas brancas. A desculpa da acusação foi apenas que ele morava na casa mais próxima do crime, mas o motivo real foi o racismo na época do apartheid estadunidense. www.1001crimes.com.br Live sobre Lovecraft Country da Andreza com a Jéssica: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSVJQxROFI8 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Em um caso muito semelhante ao de Emmet Till, George Stinney Jr, um garoto negro de 14 anos, foi acusado de ter matado duas meninas brancas. A desculpa da acusação foi apenas que ele morava na casa mais próxima do crime, mas o motivo real foi o racismo na época do apartheid estadunidense. www.1001crimes.com.br Live sobre Lovecraft Country da Andreza com a Jéssica: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSVJQxROFI8 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After coming off of our Horror month and Indigenous Spotlight month back to back, we're continuing our stay in Lovecraft Country. We talk Emmet Till, empowerment, identity, and how somehow the main character of the show is our least favorite?!?Thanks for listening!Listen to us and rate/review on iTunes or Wherever you get your podcastsYouTubeSupport us via PatreonFind us on twitter @PolitiPopPodFind us on Instagram @PolitiPopPodcastEmail us at PolitipopCast@gmail.comFind our Show notes and Sources at Politipoppodcast.wordpress.comSpecial thanks to all of our listeners and to Antonia Chava for logo design.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-politipop-podcast9815/donations

This week’s episode is a dedication to Black History Month as the discussion is on prominent figures in black history who advocated for racial equality and civil rights for black lives. Black lives have always mattered and this is not something we have come to realise due to recent events. The likes of Mami Till, the mother of Emmet Till, was instrumental in the fight for change in an era of extreme racism. Today’s episode also focuses on what is happening in Nigeria with #EndSars. The Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) is a unit of the Nigerian police that was set up, in 1992, to tackle and solve violent crimes.Members of SARS have abused their power by carrying out the same crimes they were put in charge to solve. For all inquiries you can contact us at thinkingoutloud@mail.com Follow on Spotify and Subscribe on Apple Podcasts. Share your thoughts on this episode or any of the other episodes in the catalog by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts as your feedback is highly appreciated. Please be sure to subscribe to the Youtube channel- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfMwC0J2ZDBeJIuU8K2mxNg/videos Hosts: Jermaine Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/maine_thoughts/ Ben Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/benacquaah_/ Thinking Out Loud Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/thinkingoutloudpod_/

Episode 8 of Lovecraft country deals with the death of Emmet Till as well as the effects of it in chicago in 1955 as well as Tic Tapping into his bloodline to learn magic. The guys tackle the story of Till, the ramifications of Tics actions and the suffering and trauma that black girls have to endure in society. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/magicalnegro/support

This emergency episode was made quickly during a time of uprising following the killing of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and countless other African Americans by police.We hear readings of “A Small Needful Fact” by Ross Gay. perhaps, in all likelihood,he put gently into the earthsome plants which, most likely,some of them, in all likelihood,continue to grow, continueto do what such plants doFellow-AIDS scholars, Drs. Jih-Fei Cheng and Nishant Shahani (co-editors with me of the book AIDS and the Distribution of Crises, Duke 2020) make resonant connections between ecology, blackness, strength, and violence. How plants, earth, and seeds center rather than scatter us. This reminds Nishant of the daily bounties of the earth, the mundane and sustaining connection to the food we grow and eat, another poem: Eve Ewing’s “I saw Emmett Till this week at the grocery store.” The histories of violence written into plants and fruit—seeds, tobacco, and viruses—and attendant histories of pleasure, labor, medicine, and colonial and global capitalist theft will then focus Jih-Fei’s reflections, also borne from poetry and protest.Eric Garner and Emmet Till were silenced by violence. But their stories persist -- voluminous, angry, peaceful, and mundane -- through the words of poets and critics. In this way, we connect to the hardtruth #69 written for the online primer on digital media literacy, “ghosts can’t tell stories” by Quito Zeigler. Poems are not a solution but rather an invitation and an invocation to act and do a little differently, perhaps as plants do: help us breathe so we can engage together to better the internet and ourselves. Join us in the change! Read or respond to a poem or hardtruth found at the online primer of digital media literacy, #100hardtruths-#fakenews or fakenews-poetry.org.To read Jih-Fei and Nishant's full pieces of writing on which this episode relies, please see "Following A Small Needful Fact," by Jih-Fei Cheng and "Thinking about Small, Needful Facts," by Nishant Shahani on the Duke University Press blog: Dispatches on AIDS and COVID-19: Continuing Conversations from AIDS and the Distribution of Crises (Dispatch Three).Organize your own Fake News Poetry Workshop.Reach out with questions or content @ 100hardtruths@gmail.com.Twitter: @100HardTruthsInstagram: #100HardTruthsYouTube: 100 Hard Truths#BlackLivesMatter See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Steven Rinella talks with Rue Mapp and Janis Putelis. Topics discussed: A solid two-syllable, navigational name; when your cowboy dad hangs pigs in your garage and you don't want kids on the school bus to see; how parades mean different things to different people; Outdoor Afro re-connecting black Americans to the outdoors; upping your nature swagger; unpacking statistics; how black children drown at five times the rate of white children in the US; Harriet Tubman as a wilderness leader; losing sight of the sociological factors that have lead people to be where they are; the great migration; how the outdoors and nature has not always been regarded as a safe place for black people; Emmet Till; how being on the other side of too much intrigue just isn't welcome; in cases of racism, rarely do you ever get the proof and rarely do you need it; gauging the age of an airplane by whether or not its bathroom has an ashtray; how looking at communities as needing to be saved isn’t the right way to go; picnicing vs. birding and tailgating as day camp; and more.   Connect with Steve and MeatEater Steve on Instagram and Twitter MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop MeatEater Merch  

What was supposed to be Patreon Only content didn't actually matter in the end as Noelle is blocked from Faire now so we don't care anymore. We talk about the horrors in the world from a quadriplegic doctors refused to treat to the Golden State Killer. The tragedy of Elijah McClain. We talk about the Try Guys giving a Fuck You to JerK Rowlings by raising money for the Trevor Project, how Terry Crews really needs to be quiet, We talk about The Chicks and their song March and how it shows a list of everyone who has died from when it came out all the way to Emmet Till. We're hoping for a better second half, but we have another episode to explain that. We are raising funds so Gretchen has to do pole dancing as Boba Fett to Fett's Vette by MC Chris for $750. We are currently at $40Visit us at http://www.xchromosomepodcast.com where we also write shit. See our latest blogpost about the WWE promoting domestic abuse.Contact us at writeus@xchromosomepodcast.com we want to hear your stories. We want to discuss what is on your mind. We may even drag you on as a guest.We record the podcast live on Discord. Our Discord server is at https://discord.gg/w4PtpWK … feel free to chat us up there. Bill will talk about editing the podcast while he’s editing it too.We are constantly bombarding our facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/weallhaveanxchromosome/Bill cries on twitter at @xchromosomepod and shares memes and graphics on instagram @xchromosomepodPlease Like, Review, Rate, and Subscribe on all podcast platforms you have… it helps us to try to get more listeners so we can afford crowdsource more people to give a better podcast by bringing down paywalls and investing in technology so it doesn’t sound like crap.You can help us at patreon at https://www.patreon.com/xchromosomepodcast If you don’t want us to have a Hiatus next year, helping us here will help in the long run.Merchandise https://xchromosomepodcast.threadless.com/ – We have a new design available to remind people to Stop Sending N.U.D.E.S.Music provided by Alpha Riff http://www.patreon.com/AlphaRiffPodcast Name by Emma TaylorPodcast graphics done by Ilea Hamrick https://www.behance.net/ileaWe All Have an X-Chromosome is a xchromosomepodcast.com ProductionCo-Executive Producers are Noelle Dial (she/her) and Bill Malvasi (he/him)Patreon Executive Producer: Vanessa LoveExecutive Director is Bill MalvasiAssociate News Director is Brian Grimes (he/him)Hosted by Noelle Dial and Bill Malvasi, Music for this episode"Revolutionary Love Letter" by Alpha Riff Track 20 from his albumn "From Beta to Alpha Riff" (2013) find it on his Bandcamp at https://alphariff.bandcamp.com/SHOW LINKShttps://twitter.com/stevenspohn/status/1277679775172214789https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/25/arts/music/dixie-chicks-change-name.htmlhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwBjF_VVFvEhttps://www.thecut.com/2020/06/the-killing-of-elijah-mcclain-everything-we-know.htmlhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/man-accused-of-being-golden-state-killer-expected-to-plead-guilty/2020/06/29/b3457ca6-ba0b-11ea-8cf5-9c1b8d7f84c6_story.htmlhttps://www.theverge.com/2018/10/11/17964862/family-dna-crime-search-golden-state-killer-forensicshttps://scontent-lga3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/106949571_10157565187457934_3428523160922483804_n.jpg?_nc_cat=108&_nc_sid=110474&_nc_oc=AQmGeTfll1Y1uJ2WgnX6xuUI7fPYsZzs7t9HS_doF519WbTlBLQ-BwPqdeAArUXvuVRtcSWkpXUPFXC4FioIENF0&_nc_ht=scontent-lga3-2.xx&oh=fa4cdc67fb278e39d69ebaa21aba9be1&oe=5F24603Dhttps://scontent-lga3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/106671100_10100414781781601_250319259222750701_o.jpg?_nc_cat=111&_nc_sid=1480c5&_nc_oc=AQmLXuSdIEwKAGGyDLKV_epWckSPKEPAs9_FUIzbv_0Bj4T8A6PREecY8iefg6k-n4mQmd9TBuEOW5OeHBhMlYqh&_nc_ht=scontent-lga3-2.xx&oh=1b3a1f7976b5a5fe7ce8feaaf62be139&oe=5F23B914https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZLeaSWY37Ihttps://tenor.com/view/they-had-us-in-the-first-half-not-gonna-lie-gif-13620240 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

An African American boy was murdered in August 1955 in a racist attack that shocked the nation and provided a catalyst for the emerging civil rights movement. He lived in Chicago but went to visit family in Mississippi and was murdered 5 days later in brutal fashion by a family who claimed they had harrassed a white woman. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mugerwablack/message

In this episode, Lillian talks with Margaret Angel, who is speaking out against Multi-Level Marketing companies who are capitalizing on the Black Lives Matter Movement. Sources listed in order with show timing: 1. Margaret Angel Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/margaretangelxo/ 2. DoSomething.org - https://www.dosomething.org/us/articles/black-lives-taken 3. Back Lives Matter - https://www.dosomething.org/us/statement-black-lives-june-2020 4. Amplify Melonated Voices Challenge- https://wwd.com/fashion-news/fashion-scoops/amplify-melanated-voices-challenge-instagram-1203645150/ 5. Margaret's YouTube Video - Comments on BLM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUHcbhlIrBg&feature=youtu.be 6. TroyceTV's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wayEgEzg0xc 7. "White Fragility" named by Dr. Robin DiAngelo. White Fragility: "a state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves. These moves include the outward display of emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and behaviors such as argumentation, silence, and leaving the stress-inducing situation. These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium and prevent any meaningful cross-racial dialogue." TheConsciousKids interview - https://www.theconsciouskid.org/white-fragility 8. The bombing of 16th Street Baptist Church: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5KqCMsHlq0 9. James Meredith: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8VvNkTXVCM 10. Emmet Till and his Mother's decision to show his body: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V6ffUUEvaM 11. President Obama's Remarks on 50th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvAIvauhQGQ 12. Guidelines for being strong White Allies: https://www.racialequitytools.org/resourcefiles/kivel3.pdf 13. Script Review: -Grace Wilson -Cameron Edgeworth -Margaret Angel Original Music: -Grace Tillman

What is the role of poetry in the midst of difficulty?On episode 062, Paul Holdengräber is joined by poet, scholar, and president of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Elizabeth Alexander. They discuss the importance of art, and in particular, how poetry can serve as a place to bring our deepest questions, even in the midst of trial.Elizabeth Alexander – poet, educator, memoirist, scholar, and cultural advocate – is president of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the nation’s largest funder in arts and culture, and humanities in higher education. Dr. Alexander has held distinguished professorships at Smith College, Columbia University, and Yale University, where she taught for 15 years and chaired the African American Studies Department. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, serves on the Pulitzer Prize Board, and co-designed the Art for Justice Fund. Notably, Alexander composed and delivered “Praise Song for the Day” for the inauguration of President Barack Obama in 2009, and is author or co-author of fourteen books. Her book of poems, American Sublime, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 2006, and her memoir, The Light of the World, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography in 2015.The Trayvon Generation by Elizabeth Alexander (The New Yorker, 2020)

Deacon Art Miller has seen a lot in his lifetime. Been arrested numerous times, marched with Dr. King and his brother was Emmet Till's best friend. I'm talking about Emmet Till who was brutally lynched at 14 years old- that's 8th grade. He shares his wisdom, his insight and his radical love for people and justice with me on the podcast today.

A very very special guest has a conversation about witnessing/Experiencing the Martin Luther King , Rodney King, and George Floyd riots. We Briefly talk about Emmet Till & her experiences dealing with racism in Marianna, Arkansas.

On the sixty-eighth installment of Tristan's Tips, our amazing host Tristan Layfield talks about why you need to keep an eye on statements made (or not made) by your current employers and any potential employer you are considering. As Tristan says, "It’s necessary for our sanity and well-being that we position ourselves in spaces where we are welcomed, appreciated, and allowed to show up as our true selves so we can thrive." Connect with Tristan on LinkedIn, IG, FB, and Twitter. Links in order.http://bit.ly/2G7d6HKhttp://bit.ly/2XDcp3zhttp://bit.ly/2JEbg1Rhttp://bit.ly/2JCmKTzFind out how the CDC suggests you wash your hands by clicking here or below.https://bit.ly/2Ug4l5KHelp food banks respond to COVID-19. Learn more at FeedingAmerica.org.https://bit.ly/2WD73UkCheck out our website.https://bit.ly/living-corporateTRANSCRIPTTristan: Hey Living Corporate, It's Tristan of Layfield Resume Consulting, and I'm back to bring you another career tip. This week isn’t like all of the other weeks that I’ve come to you. We are in the middle of what many are calling riots but I prefer to call an uprising, rebellion, or revolt due to police brutality that has largely gone ignored and unpunished due to systemic racism and white supremacy. This has proven to be a call to action for many companies to step up and assert their stance on the matter. Some, like Ben and Jerry’s, have provided statements that show direct unwavering support. Others not so much. I want to talk about why you need to keep an eye on statements made (or not made) by your current employers and any potential employer you are considering.Over the last couple of years, a cornerstone and conversation starter in both the job search and corporate environments has been company culture. With large corporations trying to shift their narratives and the public’s opinion of them, this has largely been a tiring and frustrating dance for job seekers who are trying to understand how they may fit within a certain company. Our current social and political climate has required many companies to begin speaking out about their stance on police brutality, racism, systemic oppression, and white privilege. Many are rising to the occasion but many more companies and organizations are falling short. I believe the statement these companies and organizations are giving is a very good indicator of their current culture. Companies and organizations who are truly dedicated to the work of reforming an unjust system will have already put processes in place to build teams that can respond to this with the fervent passion and action that the moment calls for. The companies and organizations who simply created a diversity and inclusion statement because they felt pressured or see this work as trendy have provided tone-deaf statements that lack substance, action, and passion.Need an example of a great statement? Look to Ben & Jerry’s. For me, they set the standard of how a company responds when they truly values Black lives and the contributions of Black people within their company because they leave no room for doubt and ambiguity. They understand that the perceived risk of losing customers, members, partnerships, etc. does not outweigh the countless lives lost at the hands of an unjust system. I want to break down the key components:First and foremost, they called a spade a spade instead of skirting around the issue. They directly stated the words Black Lives Matter, police brutality, racism, and white supremacy. Personally, I’m side eyeing any statement that misses those 4 key words and phrases. If a company or organization can’t directly name their support, call out the oppressive system, and clearly state the things that led up to this moment they are likely to only be providing lip service with their Diversity and Inclusion or Social Justice initiatives.Second, they named many of our fall brothers and sisters including George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Oscar Grant, Eric Garner, Travyon Martin, and Michael Brown. They even took it all the way back to Emmet Till and provided some classy shade by including Martin Luther King Jr. as another victim of inhumane police brutality. Companies who are giving those generic statements know that saying these names directly can cause quite a stir so they avoid it similarly to how they avoid the words I previously talked about.Third, they say Black people instead of African American and they were sure to capitalize the B. You always, and I mean always, capitalize the B in Black when you are speaking about Black people. Also, I’m really apprehensive about people or organizations who state they are dedicated to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion work but are hesitant to say Black when referencing us.The Fourth and final point, they didn’t rely solely on their words but they tied them to action. They called for political, systemic, and structural changes. Words are cool but action is better. If the company or organization isn’t actively changing policies and implementing new ones, breaking partnerships with law enforcement, or donating to organizations doing the work I question how invested they are in the fight for true justice.Many companies or organizations have not made a statement or made a generic statement that only expresses vague solidarity with the Black community and eludes the specific of what is wrong, what needs to change, or in what ways they will do anything about it. If you are currently at one of those companies and feel you are in a position to speak up, do so in whatever way you feel is appropriate. If you don’t feel you can speak up, I’d encourage you to start reflecting on if this is a place you’d want to be and, honestly, if they even deserve to have you as part of their team. If you are ready to jump ship, there are plenty of Black resume writers and career coaches that are here to support you in this endeavor.While this time is truly a trying for each of us, if anything it has given us much clearer indicators to evaluate if companies and organizations are truly as dedicated to the work as they say they are or if they are only dedicated when they feel the pressure or because they believe it’s trendy. It’s necessary for our sanity and well-being that we position ourselves in space where are welcomed, appreciated, and allowed to show up as our true selves so we can thrive.This tip was brought to you by Tristan of Layfield Resume Consulting. Check us out on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook @LayfieldResume or connect with me, Tristan Layfield, on LinkedIn.

#BlackLivesMatter George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Oscar Grant, Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Emmet Till.  The names change but the colours don't. Be an ally. George Floyd Memorial fund Black Lives Matter  

Michelle explores The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James H. Cone. She discusses racism, Christianity, Civil Rights, and more. From the back cover: "The cross and the lynching tree are the two most emotionally charged symbols in the history of the African American community. In this powerful new work, theologian James H. Cone explores these symbols and their interconnection in the history and souls of black folk. Both the cross and the lynching tree represent the worst in human beings and at the same time a thirst for life that refuses to let the worst determine our final meaning. While the lynching tree symbolized white power and black death, the cross symbolizes divine power and black life God overcoming the power of sin and death. For African Americans, the image of Jesus, hung on a tree to die, powerfully grounded their faith that God was with them, even in the suffering of the lynching era. In a work that spans social history, theology, and cultural studies, Cone explores the message of the spirituals and the power of the blues; the passion and of Emmet Till and the engaged vision of Martin Luther King, Jr.; he invokes the spirits of Billie Holliday and Langston Hughes, Fannie Lou Hamer and Ida B. Well, and the witness of black artists, writers, preachers, and fighters for justice. And he remembers the victims, especially the 5,000 who perished during the lynching period. Through their witness he contemplates the greatest challenge of any Christian theology to explain how life can be made meaningful in the face of death and injustice."

Dr. John, Papa Stro, Robin McCray, Tony Felosi and Devin Tait present Mueder123: The horrific murder of Emmet Till

The rage is real because the video of Ahmaud Arbery's murder is traumatizing. The rage is real because that video is just one of many we all can see on our mind's screen at any time because they're burned into our memory banks from Tamir Rice to Sandra Bland to Philando Castile to Eric Garner. And they all tap into the pain of seeing the horrifying final photo of Emmet Till. And the lynching photos. And on and on. Why do we watch these videos? And what's it doing to us to have them inside us? Danielle and Toure dig in today on Democracyish. Hosts: Danielle Moodie & Touré Executive Producer: Adell Coleman Producer: Ryan Woodhall Distributor: DCP Entertainment  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I’m Glen Ford, along with my co-host Nellie Bailey. Coming up: Bail has been abolished for some offenses in New York State, but people held on one dollar bail find it hard to get out of jail; A Black professor says Emmet Till and Trayvon Martin both died on the alter of white womanhood; and, Mumia Abu Jamal makes some comparisons between 21st century poverty and the Great Depression. Most people think of environmental damage as having to do with pollution of the air and water. But Willie Wright, a professor of geography and African American Studies at Florida State University, in Tallahassee, says the landscape can also be damaged by using it to commit or conceal acts of violence against Black people. Professor Wright wrote an article for a radical journal on geography. New York is one of several states that have abolished cash bail, which has been used to keep poor people locked up before they’ve even been convicted of a crime. But it’s often difficult to get out of jail, even if the bail is set at only one dollar. Amanda Lawson is a student at New York University and a co-founder of the Dollar Bail Brigade, whose volunteers have helped hundreds to navigate the jail bureaucracy. Fifty seven years transpired between the murder of Emmet Till by white racists in Mississippi, and the killing of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman, in Florida. But Angela  Own-WATCH-ee, a professor at Boston University School of Law, says both Black teenagers were killed for much the same reasons. Professor Own-WATCH-ee wrote a paper for the Dubois Review, titled “From Emmet Till to Trayvon Martin: The Persistence of White Womanhood and the Preservation of White Manhood.” Mumia Abu Jamal, the nation’s best known political prisoner, sees parallels between low paid workers today, and during the Great Depression. He files this report for Prison Radio. 

In this fourth episode, we talk with Chris’s parents Rufus and Demalda Newsome of Newsome Community Farms in Greenville, Mississippi at Christmas. While Rufus pulls seeds from cotton he talks about growing up at ten years old working in the cotton fields as a weed chopper, a hoe filer, and a water boy. While Demalda chops vegetables for the Christmas meal, she describes growing up harvesting fruits from neighborhood trees and beans from an overturned bean truck, and getting watermelons from the watermelon man. While she and Chris make tamales, we talk about how they’d always eat them with hot donuts in the Delta at Christmas, which brings us to talking about segregation and desegregation. She describes her advocacy and food sovereignty work with Newsome Community Farms, Community Food Security Coalition, and Food First. There’s a hidden track at the very end where Rufus opens his very first moringa pods (see the videos here) and the grandkids get to taste the seeds and the way they transform water, and we discuss seed maturity and storage, and the importance of eating good bacteria. SEED AND FOOD STORIES TOLD IN THIS EPISODE:CottonMustard and Turnip GreensTamalesMoringa MORE INFO FROM THIS EPISODE:Newsome Community Farms, by WhyHungerDemalda Newsome, Food FirstFood FirstAn Introduction: Hot Tamales and the Mississippi Delta, Southern Foodways Alliance.The brutal murder of Emmett Till in Money, Mississippi, by the History Channel.Fannie Lou Hamer founds the Freedom Farm Cooperative in the Mississippi Delta, by SNCC.  ABOUT:Seeds And Their People is a radio show where we feature seed stories told by the people who truly love them. Hosted by Owen Taylor of Truelove Seeds and Chris Bolden-Newsome of Sankofa Community Farm at Bartram’s Garden.trueloveseeds.com/blogs/satpradio FIND OWEN HERE:Truelove SeedsTumblr  |  Instagram  |  Twitter FIND CHRIS HERE:Sankofa Community Farm at Bartram’s Garden THANKS TO:Rufus Newsome and Demalda Bolden NewsomeAunt VeronicaJala, Jacob, AmareionSara Taylor PARTIAL TRANSCRIPT:Rufus NewsomeRufus Newsome:Years ago as a boy. Um, the field wasn't very far away from where we live. We lived in Mississippi, Greenville Mississippi. We lived on white people's land. They were called the Dominic's. They were pretty decent folks also. But we went to other people fields to pick and chop cotton. I can remember as a small child smelling that fresh cotton smell and I crave the smell now. But this cotton doesn't smell the same way it did 50 years ago. It's different. Doesn't have a smell at all. But, progress goes on.Owen Taylor:Do you remember the first times you smelled cotton and what was that like and where were you? What were you doing?Rufus Newsome:I was in the fields when I was about 10 years old. At that time I was chopping because I think people had stopped picking cotton. That was combines picking cotton then, but we still needed to chop the weeds between the rows and there weren't a lot of herbicides used on that time. So we had to chop the weeds and I can remember seeing maybe 60 or 70 people chopping cotton. It seemed like those rows were a hundred feet long, hot. And so we're chopping and the aroma of the cotton, the smell just rises from the cotton and the smell is all around. Every so often you stop and pull some cotton and just sniff it up your nostrils and then you'd go back to work.Owen Taylor:What does it smell like? Can you describe it to someone who's never smelled it before?Rufus Newsome:It was fresh smell. I mean it was fresh. Uh, it smell like fresh air. Beside that, I can't describe it though. It's just really fresh. Like after a new rain when the sun comes out and clears up, everything smells so fresh. Remind me of the wash. My mom used to wash outside and hang the clothes up on the line and once the sheets, the white sheets dried that aroma and it would just, I mean it would just suffocate you.Owen Taylor:So what are you doing right now?Rufus Newsome:Right now I'm removing the seeds from, uh, some cotton that I picked from a field about two weeks ago on my way home from work. Uh, this is left over cotton in the field. So I went out and picked some, I'm sure the owner doesn't mind. And so what I'm doing now, I'm removing the seeds from the cotton itself. This is what our ancestors did. Everything was done by hand. They removed the seeds from the cotton. It was done by hand. And this is what I'm doing and I'm reminiscing of my ancestors, my great, great grandparents. As they sat there on the plantation, probably after noon, they've done all that picking. Now it's time to remove the seeds and so they're sitting there removing the seeds, talking and having a good time. It was very important that they remove the seeds because of course you know those seeds were planted the next year.Owen Taylor:Have you ever grown cotton at your house?Rufus Newsome:Oh yes we have. We, we grew cotton in Oklahoma. It was so beautiful. People would stop by older people, and say, you know what? That reminds me when I was a boy, when I used to pick cotton, I hadn't seen cotton in 50 years. And so we had planted a couple rows out in front of the house on the main street there, one of the main streets there in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It was, it was a beautiful sight to see. That was about four feet tall. This is white and beautiful. That's why so many people stopped - they had never seen cotton up close before, just on television.Rufus Newsome:Well, you know, cotton been around for thousands of years. They Egyptians grew cotton and cotton is what kept the South alive. Major crop. Major crop cotton.Owen Taylor:Do you have a question? If so, get close to the mic?Jala Newsome:Did you ever have a brother or sister that died during slavery?Rufus Newsome:Well Jala, you know, I wasn't in slavery, but I'm sure we had relatives that died in slavery that we, we've never met.Owen Taylor:How old were you when you worked in the, in the fields chopping cotton?Rufus Newsome:I started in the field when I was about 10 years old. I started, uh, I think first I did do a little picking and then as I said, the combine, it was already developed, but I guess he was a poor farmer. He hadn't had it yet, but he got it later. And so we just basically chopped. I started off as a chopper chopping grass between the rows and then I was promoted to the water boy. That was a great promotion. All you did would carry water back and forth, uh, to, uh, the workers. And I did that so well I was promoted to a hoe filer. I filed hoes. Kept the hoes sharp and all. That's what we cut the weeds with. And I did that all the way up to high school. I earned most of all the money during the summer, uh, by working in the field cause Mama was working a job, she wasn't making that much. But I, I worked the field all summer and I made $13 a day for almost a month and a half. Imagine how much that was. So that helped bought my clothes along, my sisters and my brothers and food for the house also, I never regretted working so hard and rushing home and I couldn't wait to get home and get my money to my mother. You were paid in cash of course? Actually we made $15 an hour, but the driver took three.Demalda Newsome:$15 a day.Rufus Newsome:$15 a day. I'm sorry. Actually, we made $15 a day and the driver took three of it I guess for transportation and all. And I recall Mama, I would get up early in the morning about two, three o'clock because the truck left about five and mom would fix me my breakfast and fix me lunch also. She would make me baloney sandwiches and um, I think even she would put some, uh, teacakes in the bag/container. Teacakes were like homemade cookies and all. I mean they were just wonderful. They were like just a flat cookie, just delicious. We call them teacakes.Owen Taylor:Was it like the sugar cookies that Jala made the other day?Rufus Newsome:They weren't sugar, they didn't have sugar on it outside, but they were sweet though just from the inside.Chris Bolden Newsome:It's basically a sugar cookie recipe. Just thicker.Rufus Newsome:It's thicker. Yeah, it was a thicker, it was a thicker cookie. It was. It was a flat cake.Owen Taylor:So did, did other people in your family work in the same field? Did your brothers and sisters do the same work?Rufus Newsome:I remember my brothers, well my brothers had left already, but I do remember my sister, they tried it. Uh, the oldest sister. Um, of course you understand it was hot during that time, really hot. And I do recall my sisters going a few times, but they, they couldn't maintain. And then my baby sister Emma, she tried and she couldn't maintain because it was just so hot. Well there were several people that just couldn't do it. They couldn't work in the field. But for me, I worked, I had to work, I needed to work for my family's sake.Jala Newsome:Did you ever get tired of picking cotton for them?Rufus Newsome:I didn't pick cotton a whole long time. I didn't do it a long period of time because the cotton machine... Someone developed the cotton machine. The combine. Yeah.Jala Newsome:I thought they didn't care?Rufus Newsome:You thought who didn't care?Jala Newsome:The people that you had to pick cotton for.Rufus Newsome:Yes they cared, they want their crop in and they want things done cheap, they want things done as cheap as possible.Chris Bolden Newsome:That's why people use machines. Even though the machines hurt the earth.Rufus Newsome:One machine can do the work of 100 men or more.Chris Bolden Newsome:They wouldn't have pay to have paid 100 men or boys $13 a day.Rufus Newsome:For example, when I was watching the BBC, the history channel on BBC was talking about talking about a certain whale can eat up to like 200 pounds of a certain fish a day, but now the fishery can collect four to 5,000 tons of it in a day. And so they just, I mean what they're doing, they're taking more fish. They just taking too much.Chris Bolden Newsome:Pretty soon won't be none left.Rufus Newsome:There won't be any because they're taking too much. They're taking too much.Jala Newsome:Like in this article I read about penguins. Penguins are dying off because their parents are leaving them for food and then they're searching for fish and fishermen get too many fish and the adult penguins have to go farther and farther away from their children to get fish.Rufus Newsome:They're dying because when they leave predators come by and snatch their babies or if they don't return, they die from starvation unless they're adopted by another mother penguin.Owen Taylor:Can I ask you another question about when you were growing up? Um, how was your, what was your day to day life like? Like how did it compare to the life that your grandchildren live now? Like at home and in the community?Rufus Newsome:Because we had hardly, we only had enough to sustain ourselves. Um, of course we had a television, but of course we didn't have what the kids have now. And I can't compare because - I can't compare and say, well we didn't have games and they have the computer games now. Um, everything we did - basically we was outside a lot. We stayed outside a lot and we did a lot outside activities and all. Uh, we played outside a lot. We, we produced our own toys if we didn't have any - picking up a stick or something going around dragging on the ground, rolling a tire down the road, the gravel street there. That's the type of fun that we had. Uh, going fishing, not staying in the house all the time, watching video games or playing video games or etc. or things like that. We were, we were more active than kids are. Sure. I was more active than what my grandkids are now, even though my oldest grandson plays football, I was way more active then than the way he is right now because they have video games and he's on that a lot. And of course he's also preparing himself for when he go to college by watching other football players, by playing video games. And I'm not saying that it's not helpful. I think it is helpful, but we didn't have that. We learned, we basically, we learned by trial and error. We were out there, we learned to play sports just by doing it. We learned from my parents by watching what they were doing and they had us participate in it. It wasn't like, well I don't want to do it, you did because you had to do it. You had to do it.Owen Taylor:Um, what did, did you all have a, um, a kitchen garden at the house or a farm at the house. And what were the things that were the most important crops that you would grow at home?Rufus Newsome:Oh yeah, we did. We lived in the country. Matter of fact, the whole family lived in proximity of each other no more than 20-25 feet away. There's my grandmother in the middle, my uncle on the left, and my mother and I, we're on the right side. Grandmother lived in a shotgun house. If you're not familiar with a shotgun house, just what it says, one door in the front, one door in the back. So you go straight out. That's why they call them shotgun homes and all - just a little box with a front door and a back door. So my grandmother lived there and we lived in a regular house with two bedrooms. My mother, well, let me rephrase that: two rooms. We had a front room - that's where mother slept. There was a back room where all the kids slept. There was two beds in the back. Everybody slept together, boys and girls. We had a wash, a metal wash tub that we bathed probably I think maybe once a week, maybe once a week on the weekend. Um, girls, they washed first and then we will come in second. We didn't change the water, used the same water, bathed in it, then once it was finished we threw it out. And we didn't have an indoor toilet. We had what we call a slop pot. It was about pot about three feet tall, usually white and that's what we use for the indoor toilet. Once that thing is filled, you can't use it, so you have to go outside at one, two in the morning and all to down the outhouse, what we call it. And an outhouse was just a building, a small building with a hole dug about four - five foot deep. And the house was set over the hole and that's what we…that was our, our toilet, our outside toilet. And once that toilet was filled, we moved the house. The dirt that we recovered from that we, we use that and cover that back up and dig another hole and put the house over that hole. And so the process continued on: here, here, here, here.Chris Bolden Newsome:One of the ways they kept their soil fertile.Rufus Newsome:Yeah.Jala Newsome:I have question: Did any children, um, little babies in your house? I mean, little sisters or brothers that was babies - did they sleep in little drawers where you put clothes at?Rufus Newsome:Your uncle - Uncle Chris slept in a baby drawer, in a dresser drawer. He slept there as he was a baby. We didn't have dressers. We were too poor. We didn't have nothing like that. When we lived in the country, everything would just stored where ever in boxes and all. We didn't have a dresser with four or five drawers where you can store stuff. We didn't have that. We were too poor. And so we just managed the way we did. That was then.Owen Taylor:And so, and so what, what would be in the kitchen garden? What kinds of things would be grown outside?Rufus Newsome:Oh, the garden? Yeah, we got away from that. Yeah, we usually, okay, in the garden there'll be corn, okra, squash, mustard greens of course mustard greens. Turnips, huge turnip bottoms. Um, peas, beans, watermelons, sweet potatoes. And of course around the house you would have a mess of mustard greens right there, right available for you, right beside the house, the front door. And we'd just go out and pick them. When you needed some.Owen Taylor:Just like you had an Oklahoma. That's how you grew up. Always having a big patch of mustard greens.Rufus Newsome:Oh yeah, we always had a patch of mustard greens. Mustard green was a favorite green. Um, of course we ate other greens also, but it was the favorite green, but every black that I knew during that time, everybody loved mustard greens.Chris Bolden Newsome:Still do!Rufus Newsome:Oh yeah, still do.Owen Taylor:Where we live, people, people think of collard greens as the Southern greens. What do you have to say about that?Rufus Newsome:Oh, that's fine too. We've eaten collards also but I think I prefer the mustard myself though.Chris Bolden Newsome:We don't in Mississippi, we don't favor the collard in this part of the country. People don't favor the collard. I was in conversation with a woman in Kroger today. She said, I've never eaten any. She didn't know how to cook it. This is a grown woman older than me. And so I gave her a recipe how to cook it and she was afraid because we don't eat them. You go to the grocery store here, you go to the grocery in Mississippi, first top shelves are turnip greens and mustard greens and then collard greens on the bottom because it's the least picked. She didn't know how to pick it. It was too tough. But I also, I believe that there was a reason we ate turnip and mustard greens. The main ailment of enslaved Africans and then our descendants, their, their descendants. Um, has always been stomach ailments. It's always been infections to the stomach oftentimes, but just infections, you know, and particularly gut health has always been real important. You eat mustard greens, you know what I'm saying? Because traditionally black people got, even in daddy's lifetime, they got the worst of the food. They got the worst of the food, they got, they got, after white folks was finished and then had thrown it away. That's what you got to eat. When you used to get in a second rate food, spoiled over, molded... and I ain't talking about during slavery and time in the 60s, you know, you would get used to getting second rate food. Which is how many black people still live today. Many poor people all over the country still live today.Rufus Newsome:I remember the place that we live on the.. the Dominic place. We would shell peas for him. And once we completed that, he would send all his leftover fruit to us, like grapes, apples, pears, cherries. Of course, they had been picked over by everybody. And so they would send us a box full of boxes full of grapes that were all cracked open and juice running out. But hey, we saw that boy, Oh my goodness, that was a treasure, but they didn't know there was a treasure for us. They just getting rid of that mess. But it was a treasure for us because we didn't really get fresh fruits like that. We had no fruit trees around, no fruit trees at all, none. And we went out to pick blackberries. There weren't any blackberry bushes around where we live, so we had to go elsewhere and picked the blackberry. But that box of fruit was, was a treasure to us. We enjoyed it.Owen Taylor:What else would you pick in the neighborhood or in the wild?Rufus Newsome:All I can recall is we picked blackberries, but once we moved to the city, there were pears, there was peaches. The neighbor had several pear trees and during the summer all the families got together and harvested pears and made preserves and all.Chris Bolden Newsome:If you plant a fruit tree, a fruit tree, implies permanence. Really ownership. So you say y'all didn't have any fruit trees. That makes sense. You don't own your land, you didn't own your land, you did not put up fruit trees. Fruit trees was a sign that I live here now and I'm going to be here for a while.Rufus Newsome:Of course, we didn't stay there either long. I mean when I became of age we left. We left all that behind. Sure did. But uh, yeah, but during the fall of the year, we'd harvest our sweet potatoes and all, and we had a good huge crop. Of course, we all, we'd already harvested our corn and stuff like that. And I can't recall putting up any corn, but Mama did can peas and beans and I know my grandmother loved, uh, what is it Rumal that goes in the ground? Purple...beets, your grandmother, your great grandmother loved beets. Planted them all the time. Yeah. All the time.Chris Bolden Newsome:Great grandma? Ari?Rufus Newsome:Mm hm. She loved beats and she had this one collard plant for years and it just grew and grew and she'd just take the leaves off and one day I was, I was cutting the grass and I accidentally cut it down. It didn't come back. It didn't come back. It didn't come back. Sure didn't. And this is the reason why we lost our fingerprints also. Picking cotton and removing the seeds if you continue to do that.Chris Bolden Newsome:You don't have no fingerprints Daddy?Rufus Newsome:I have fingerprints. I'm saying our ancestors endured so much they had lost fingerprints they didn't have fingerprints because especially during that season there. But of course, when you stop, they were, they did return the prints they returned back to you. Yeah.Chris Bolden Newsome:Didn't know that. There's something, there's something kind of really deep and powerful about the idea that you lose your fingerprints picking through cotton, because, um, it's kind of also what happened in a real way. In this culture and in this century, fingerprints are used to identify people. So to say you lost your fingerprints, you know, also sounds like you've lost your identity.Rufus Newsome:I didn't think of it like that but yes you did. That's, that's what it was - during that period of time, we lost our identity. Yeah. Sure did.Chris Bolden Newsome:That's something powerful. We lost our fingerprints. I know that people will use, um, I asked you about that and now that the kids aren't in the room that people would use during slavery times. I know that our grandmothers would use cotton as an abortifacient in order to abort their pregnancies. You know, abort their babies. Yeah. And that if things got real....that was the last resort. Things were terrible, terrible, terrible. This was knowledge that women kept amongst themselves and never let out. So very rarely used, but for people who were tired of getting... Women who were tired of being constantly impregnated by force, especially by their white masters...course, you have to worry about the white men and black men if you were an enslaved woman. But you really had to worry about the white man who had absolute indiscriminate power over you. Did you know that? You never heard of cotton being associated with abortion?Rufus Newsome:Never. First time.Chris Bolden Newsome:Well, I'm very glad to, you know, to have my father in my life and I'm very proud to be able to do the work, um, that he did and that his father and his mothers did and their fathers and mothers did. Even if they did it. Um, you know, by force, you know, I'm really proud to be able to...that we did not like so many other black people in this country abandon the knowledge and the skills just because it came with some pain, you know? So I, I credit my being a Christian, being able to be able to understand that.Rufus Newsome:I told you about what Ms. Walker said. Mr. Walker's wife: "I'll never go back to the farm. I thought that was so rude of her to say.Chris Bolden Newsom:She said the farm, or to the South.Rufus Newsome:No, the farm. I'll never go back because they made me do all that. They made me do that. They made me do it.Chris Bolden Newsome:You have a lot of people for whom that was their only experience that they could never see it as something that they...Rufus Newsome:But it sustained them though. And they didn't see it like that. That tells me that that was some secret, or some hatred, some type of hatred that they have for the farm or the family - didn't want to work on it. "They made me do it". How else were you to survive if they didn't make you do it or force you, because apparently you didn't want to do it.Chris Bolden Newsome:You're talking about, at this point, family making, making the kids work.Rufus Newsome:Yeah. But everybody has to work. How was you going to eat if you didn't work?Chris Bolden Newsome:I think there's so much. It's we, we, we just as a people have lost so much of that work ethic. You know, that sense of ownership and then they can, people can blame the experience with the land, you know, as being the reason they don't want to do, you know, don't want to work, don't want to do anything outside especially, but you know, at the end of the day I don't, I don't, yeah, I don't understand why we don't have that.Rufus Newsome:I've come to the conclusion they just don't want to do anything. Why would they have to make you do it, why can't they just tell you "go ahead and get this done". You saw them do it. Why was so hard for you to do it? Because you didn't want to do it.Chris Bolden Newsome:What you said: "You got too much."Rufus Newsome:We had too much. Yeah. Too much.Chris Bolden Newsome:When you have too much, you start getting a sense of entitlement. e, but do you remember.Demalda Newsome:Demalda Newsome:I think it had to be in the early or mid sixties when I was a little girl. There was a food truck, you know we had trucks coming through neighborhood all the time. The one bad thing was that in our neighborhoods they all had ditches. The streets were not like regular streets in other neighborhoods. So what ended up happening is one day a bean truck came down through the neighborhood and I guess it may have taken a wrong turn off of highway number one, but the next thing we knew, this huge truck had tipped over in the ditch. It was a huge truck. The truck was full of beans, green beans. Oh back then that was like a treat to have like fresh green beans. So they had been freshly picked. That word went all through the neighborhood. People sent their little babies and children. Everybody with a pillow case, like...we would fill them up, and get those beans. It was a white driver driving the truck and he was just screaming and then he just gave up cause it was so many people there just grabbing those beans off the ground even though they were grabbing sometimes dirt. It was just like a rush. And what I remember during that time it was like, it just seemed like everything was really dark and dingy and, and people were in a state of hunger at that time. Why I felt that way, I don't know. But I remember feeling like that was something from God that was so miraculous that this truck tipped over in our neighborhood and people had so many green beans to eat and back then, you know, we had to snap them and do all that. But nobody cared because you had food then. It was like you had fresh green beans. Guy couldn't call the police, he could call anybody because there were no cell phones back then. He just sat on the curb and just watched his whole truck get demolished. I mean just everything was taken off of those, I mean no green beans left. Not one. (Laughter).Owen Taylor:So did you grow up also shelling peas?Demalda Newsome:Yeah, I mean it was just a regular thing to do. Like if you wanted to eat, it was a way of keeping your food for the winter. It was so much work and it was so hot in Mississippi, there were no air conditions for a long time. People only had box fans. And the way I got cool was I would, I would go and hide in the closet and lay on the cold floor, cause it was just I, it was as if I wasn't even from Mississippi itself. Like I just could not take the heat. I would lay there for hours on that floor trying to cool off. And then air conditioners came along, you know before then everybody had screen doors and screen windows and they were up all night, all day. And you put the box fan in there. But it was just blowing hot air. So we were just blessed that when air conditioners did come out, we were one of the families that was able to get an air conditioner. But it was a lifesaver for me because I just knew I was not gonna make it.Owen Taylor:So your memory of shelling peas is just heat.Demalda Newsome:It was just so much heat. And it was, it was like you had to get it done, you had to get it done, you would get a big bowl and then you think, “Oh well I'm done”. You were never done. It was never ending. It just seemed like it went on and on and on, you know, but we were thankful for it in the winter time when mom would come out and, you know, take it out the freezer and, and, and make these peas that we had put up for the summer that we had shelled. It was me and my three sisters. We all shelled peas.Owen Taylor:Where'd the peas come from?Demalda Newsome:You know, it used to be people that come out, come, you know, down the street in cars...well, old fashioned trucks. They would come in these trucks and, and they, they'd scream, you know, watermelon, watermelon man. Or then they'd have peas and fresh greens and they would holler out in a song of sorts to let you know what they had that day and people would rush to the truck and purchase it. That was the way that they did it.Owen Taylor:Do you remember at all any of the songs they might sing?Demalda Newsome:I just remember the one, the watermelon man, but I can't sing so I don't wanna embarrass myself, but he would say, "watermelon, watermelon man whoa, watermelon, watermelon man." You know, every kid in the neighborhood loved watermelon. So we'd all be begging our mom to "please mom get us watermelon, get us a watermelon." But they would also, like I said, they'd sell peas and things, but always, there was a neighbor that grew a lot of things like that and they would share with the next door neighbors. You know, some of their bounty that they would, that they would get, but I don't know. It had become to some people a source of shame to get garden-raised food. They didn't want people to know because it made it seem like they were very poor, if they were having to grow a garden to eat, which I as a child never understood that and I'm thinking "ah you know, these vegetables look great", but some people felt it was, you know, shameful do to grow a garden or to eat from a garden. But that was a lifesaver for most people. I remember too in the summers, the way I would eat, it would be a group of girls and we, you know, we were on our own little posse so we, we gathered together in the morning in one, you know, special location and then we'd wait to the - to whomever house that we were gonna go to - that they had gone to work. And so, we knew where every peach, plum tree, pear tree, we knew where every one of them were in our neighborhood. And we'd wait till they go to work and raid the trees. I remember just sitting, you know, somewhere in the empty vacant lot and laying on the ground and just eating peaches or plums and you know, the juice dripping all over our faces and arms, you know. I just remember that. And then a rumor went out and I don't know if it was ever true but it became really bad cause a lot of people when they got home their branches would be broken down. And that wasn't our group of people. Apparently, you know, some other group had done that, but we would tried to be (FRONT DOOR) really careful when we would go in to get the peaches and plums and things. But, um, a rumor had gone out that this woman (FRONT DOOR) had sprayed her tree and some child had gone while the people were gone and eaten the fruit and died and that, that kind of put an end to what we were doing. Cause after that our parents said, you all are probably going around eating. You know, cause we never brought our loot of fruit home. We just ate it in you know, an empty lot or something that was in the neighborhood. Like I said, that was the end of it.I just remember relocating back here to Mississippi and the first thing I wanted to find was where are those neighborhood trees that were in the front yards and, and backyards? And they were all gone and I couldn't understand it. I remember going to a, um, farm service agent, an NRCS person too and asking them like what happened to all the fruit trees. This place was abundant with fruit trees, you know, pomegranates, big, huge pomegranates and all those things that when I was in Oklahoma you paid a lot of money for, and these were just on trees here, but the, the trees were all gone. And what I was told that that some, some um, some kind of virus had hit back in the 90s that took out a lot of the fruit trees and they just never, people never put them back cause the people that would have owned it would've been great grandparents. And so I, I guess the, the ones that were still here didn't find that, you know, as valuable. Or they didn't think that people would eat off those, still eat off the trees. I don't know, but I know, I was very disappointed. And one of the things I'd like to do is to kind of maybe perhaps look into some sorts of funding to bring back those neighborhood fruit trees and teach children that they're edible. You can eat directly from the tree. (PHONE DING) We didn't wash them off or anything. Now I'm not saying don't wash your stuff off, but I'm saying as a kid we did not wash our stuff off. We were so happy to get those plums and pears and none of us got sick.Chris Bolden Newsome:I think that's why you all didn't get sick, because you ate foods with all the microbes and all the good bacteria on it. Now they understand, white man's science proves, there are more probiotics for your gut health contained in the core of an apple than eating yogurt. So when you eat apple, the skin and the core and that sort of thing, you get all of that good bacteria in a way that you just would never get it.Demalda Newsome:Now we would, you know, back then, we weren't scared of worms. We'd like eat around and try to pull the worm out with our finger or something and just eat the part where the worm wasn't. You know, we, we didn't freak out about seeing a worm in something, you know, you just ate around it and you know, just kept eating. And I remember eating figs, figs have so many ants in it and we didn't care about eating the ant back then. You know, it just cause the, the fig is so good. We were just like, Oh my God, it's so sweet. Cause back then parents didn't let you have a lot of sweet stuff. You know, it was something, this new disease that it was only talked about in whispers and they thought for sure that that's what caused people to have this disease. And they called it "sugar diabetes" or no they would say "sugar". That person has sugar. But it was said in a whisper like: "Oh yeah they got sugar. Shh don't talk about it". And they looked at it as a cancer almost and that's the way they talked about it. And then back then we actually got worms, you know, like real ones, you know, you'd go to the bathroom when you found a worm coming out of you. And I mean, you know, as a kid you're freaking out because something has come out your body that wasn't like the regular stuff that comes out your body. Now that freaked us out. We didn't care about eating worms and stuff but you didn't want one coming out of you. Sorry, but that's, you know, that's just one of those stories that people don't know about that back then. Now I never hear of any kids having worms, you know? So apparently maybe the immunizations or something else. I don't know what they're doing.Chris Bolden Newsome:Kid's don't get worms now?Demalda Newsome:They don't get worms anymore. Most young parents have never heard of what I'm telling you today that you could actually go to the restroom with a stomachache and then you, then you give birth to a worm. The longest damn worm you've ever seen.Chris Bolden Newsome:Mommy they had worms when I was a kid! We had worms!Demalda Newsome:I know you all were the last generation to have worms and it was, it was, it was sort of an anomaly that you all had them.Chris Bolden Newsome:No.Demalda Newsome:Yes, it was the doctor...they have not really been treating a lot of children for worms.Chris Bolden Newsome:But you see, this is why we kept mustard greens in our garden mustard and turnip greens in our gardens. They were fumigants. They were fumigants. Most of our ailments were stomach ailments. I didn't know people didn't get worms anymore. I had no idea.Demalda Newsome:But the worms you all had got were pinworms that come down at night. These were not the worms that you, you sat on the toilet and just gave birth to. I mean that was different. And I mean now thank God nobody has to birth a worm anymore.Chris Bolden Newsome:Well I don't know about that cause I think that probably not, I don't know if I would thank God for it because not worms means that there's something not in the environment. It's good. I mean I don't want to have worms again ever, but what does it mean that we in such a sterile environment and then we also don't have near as many birds. You know what I mean?Demalda Newsome:Though when you're a little kid and you're there screaming, somebody got to pull that worm out. Yeah. That's not cool.Owen Taylor:So switching gears a little bit. (Laughter) We really went down a wormhole.Chris Bolden Newsome:I think it's important to talk about those old ailments though, baby. Particularly for people especially like in the North and stuff where there's just so little like connection to...people didn't take care of...like, I don't even know, did you go to the doctor if you had worms?Demalda Newsome:No, everything got taken care of at home. Back then, you didn't go to a doctor they gave you, um, what, what was that one? Turpentine. Turpentine either killed you or healed you. I mean that's what it was. You had a little bit of it.Chris Bolden Newsome:But there's other stuff we took for worms, I have it written down on that list of Mississippi cures.Demalda Newsome (15:55):I just remember if you had to get turpentine, you were dealing with something real serious, it was like the mother of getting rid of anything that was serious. Like if turpentine couldn't do it then you are going to die anyway.Owen Taylor:Do you remember other home remedies?Demalda Newsome:Now see my grandma was the kind of person that she didn't do a whole lot of, you know, old fashioned remedies. Well she did things like when I had a baby, you know, um, and I was having real bad cramps. And then, um, I went to take my shower and when I got back and I laid down in the bed and I didn't have any more severe cramps and, and she asked me, "are you still cramping?" I said, "no". And what I found out she had done was she had put a sharp axe between the mattress and the um, you know, what do you call it? The board. And it cut off the, the sharp cramps that I was having. You know, unbeknown to me, I didn't know why they just stopped. It was miraculous. Thank you God. I was just so glad they stopped cause they were, you know, real extreme and I guess that's a uterus, you know, contracted and everything trying to get back into shape. But I know things like that. She didn't really do a whole lot of things like um, my husband's mom where she would use fat back and put it on open wounds and things like that. I found that really shocking. That was different than I had grown up with. I think mine was mostly... We got medication, my grandma would buy Castoria if you needed it or you know, um, whatever, constipation, whatever, things like that. Or we had Creomulsion and it had the things in it. It had those old kinds of medicines in it. Um, and we never took Father John because it had castor oil in it. We took Castoria, which would taste better. But my husband, they were taking Father John and they were taking a big dose of Cod liver oil.Chris Bolden Newsome:But you all took castor oil too, you gotta remember, especially like nowadays castor oil is considered a home remedy. And it wasn't medicine.Demalda Newsome:Well we didn't do caster oil. Mama didn't do it.Chris Bolden Newsome:Why'd you all give us castor oil? You didn't take castor oil?Demalda Newsome:I only remember taking it like one time and I don't know why mom did it that one time. It was not a continuum.Chris Bolden Newsome:Why did y'all give it to us?Demalda Newsome:Um, because your dad had used it. So I was like, okay, well you know, he grew up with that and he felt like that was something you wanted to do. He said it really helps the kids get through the flu, the cold season, all of that. And you've got that during cold and flu season. You got that big dose of warm castor oil with a little bit of sugar in it. And then you just took the biggest spoonful you could. It was horrible tasting, but the kids, they really didn't get a lot of colds and things.Chris Bolden Newsome:I think it protects you for old age too.Demalda Newsome:Perhaps. So since you had it while you were young.Owen Taylor:So we're sitting here preparing for big Christmas meal. I'm wondering if you remember the like quintessential, like most important dishes from this area, from your grandparents' generation that have made maybe some that made it to the future, maybe something that didn't.Demalda Newsome:Well, one of the ones that didn't and I tried to bring it back and, and I did at Thanksgiving was Ambrosia. Ambrosia was one of the ones that, and I don't, I'm, I'm pretty sure every household didn't do it. Um, for I guess I grew up mostly what was black middle class. And so Ambrosia is this really delicious, um, concoction of fruit with coconuts, oranges in it. We use Mandarin oranges. Um, this year I use the seedless orange, but not the Halo oranges. It was another type of orange. I used that with the coconut and pineapples. And, um, and we had nuts and you put, um, I'm thinking that we put cranberry, we put cherries in it. And so you blend all of this together. But that's one of the ones that, um, if you go and you look at old Southern cookbooks is still there. And the giblet gravy, um, is something that's a must have at Christmas and Thanksgiving. But you usually do a goose - upper middle class again - you do a goose along with the turkey for, for Christmas and um, a duck and turkey or Thanksgiving. Yes. We always had like two different meats.Owen Taylor:Besides the meats. You know, I know that Southern peas are super important. Crowder peas, butter beans. What are like the vegetable dishes, whether they have meat in them or not. What are the most important vegetables of this region?Demalda Newsome:Of course, all of the greens, you know, this, uh, collard greens, mustard greens, turnip greens, and not the curly ones, you know, just a straight leaf, uh, mustard greens. My, my mom never really did collard greens that much. And Rufus, he didn't, he didn't do collard greens. He didn't like them. I don't know. So we've had a time trying to, you know, um, fix them in a way that, that he would eat them also. So what I've come up with now that people eat them is with, I blend them with cabbage, so I stir fried them with cabbage and all that. What has changed is I do more stir frying of greens than ours - they were just boiled with lots of meat and lots of um, you know, fat back and uh, salt pork and things like that. Um, and that's how the greens were made. We had sweet potatoes, you know, they were candied sweet potatoes is what we called it. And peas. Now these were not things that... peas were not really things that we ate at the holiday time. We did mostly greens and dressing and things like that.Owen Taylor:Hmm. So not the, not the butter beans either.Demalda Newsome:No, because remember they weren't in season. Those were things you, you kept in your freezer for hard times. You didn't, it wasn't brought out during celebratory times, it was just kind of brought out during hard times, getting through the winter.Making TamalesChris Bolden Newsome:Making tamales with my mama at Christmas. We eat tamales in the Mississippi Delta. They were introduced by Mexican immigrants in the 30s and 40s. They were brought up here to work and we adapted and adopted their food ways because we Africans, we liked spicy food anyway. It was a perfect mix.Demalda Newsome:Some things have changed. I'm finding more people uh, African-Americans that can't tolerate spicy foods and yeah, I found that real strange cause when I was growing up we, we enjoyed tamales and a little spice and Tabasco. Now people like "I don't want tabasco", you know.Chris Bolden Newsome:It goes hand in hand with deterioration of a lot of black culture. We can't eat our foods anymore.Demalda Newsome:I know like our trip to Africa, it was so surprising. I don't know why I found it surprising that the food was really spicy. You know, I didn't think of African food as being that spicy.Aunt Veronica:You go to Nigeria, your food be burning up.Demalda Newsome:I mean, yeah, but the, the African food here has been, I don't know, it's been kind of toned down for, for Americans, but in Africa you get the full African flavor and the spiciness, like it's really spicy,Chris Bolden Newsome:You grew up eating hot food. Black people, to my knowledge, I always ate hot food everywhere. There was one thing that distinguished us. One thing was common to us, no matter where I went, Negros in Omaha or in Oklahoma, well I don't know about Oklahoma, well, a that's a different breed of Black. They don't really eat hot food. Shoot, they don't really eat no hot food. I don't know what to say about that.Demalda Newsome:But I always thought, you know, coming up and especially being in my young twenties that, that, um, that was just something almost sacred to black people is that we, we, we could eat spicy foods, but now I'm finding more and more people like, "Oh, like this hot"Chris Bolden Newsome:Even white people in the South ate spicier food than white people in the North. I expected when I went to the North... Black people up there, you know, they can't take nothing. Black pepper to them is hot.Demalda Newsome:Yeah. I used just a tiny bit of cayenne when I, when I moved back here and people were like, my tongue is on fire and it's like, it's a very little bit in there. So when I have guests now I have to really know that they can tolerate any kinds of spice.Chris Bolden Newsome:I don't ask, child. I just make it and you're going to eat it. You're not gonna eat. And most times they like it and they've had to drink a lot of water, whatever. But I ain't, I ain't tolerating, these folk need to learn how to eat their traditional foods in they traditional way. I ain't making no concessions.Demalda Newsome:People here act like you need to call the fire department when they eat something like it's so hot, so, so hot. And it is, it is. It's like, this it's not fun.Chris Bolden Newsome:Maybe people are old and they stomach can't take anymore what they used to be, what they used to be able to take.Demalda Newsome:But you see, this something, you know, cause our grandchildren, they can eat hot chips and hot Cheetos and all kinds of hot spicy chips, but they cannot stand in spicy foods.Chris Bolden Newsome:These kids can't eat our food?Demalda Newsome:No. These, these do because, you know, it's forced upon them that if you're gonna, you know, they, they see the, the analogy between hot Cheetos and, um, and eating hot food, you know, so that's the difference. They, they, they see that it's, it's real.Owen Taylor:Can you tell us what you're doing here? Like what's the process?Demalda Newsome:Okay, so we, we, we started our, um, our steaming pots going. Um, we put the insets in there, the steaming basket part, and then we have the bamboo, um, steamers going. So we actually have like four pots on, but a total of six steamers. Or three pots. How many is that? It's about five steamers, maybe five steamers going, yeah, we've got them doubled up.Owen Taylor:Okay. So what's the next step?Chris Bolden Newsome:You make the masa. Take the masa and put the masa in the leaf. And we soak the leaf.Demalda Newsome:So we clean the leaves off. And so I was telling him, like, you really still have to look at them and clean them, make sure that they're clean. They look clean, but we gotta make sure that they're clean. Um, and so, um, and so after that they soaked for a little bit to make them, um, more moveable as we're putting the, um, we're doing vegetarian ones, so we're putting the beans and cheese and, and jalapenos and onions, garlic, putting all that together. So we, we pat the, we form the dough, we make the masa and mix it up and form the dough into little clumps. So we gather a little clump and we pat it into the husk and then start layering from that. Layer our beans and, and, um, peppers and cheese and rolled it up.Chris Bolden Newsome:Well, you know what, I saw mommy, when we was in Africa. This is not, I know why we adapted this so quickly. It's why, why is the Mexican workers, they brought it. Probably they was eating it for their lunch and share it with us cause I'm sure they had to live where we lived. And I know they didn't live where white people lived.Demalda Newsome:That's the story that I read on Southern Food Alliance is that the Mexicans were also working in the fields. Um, and this was during...I understand this was during the time of slavery.Chris Bolden Newsome:Slavery?Demalda Newsome:I'm pretty sure. Maybe I may have that messed up.Chris Bolden Newsome:There were no Mexicans working in the fields during slavery, mommy.Demalda Newsome:No, that's what they're saying, I don't know. Let me look it back up just to be sure. But it was either after that or after the civil war that they were here, but they were working side by side in the fields together.Chris Bolden Newsome:This is late. This is in the thirties this is like in the thirties. But see when we went to Africa we saw that they were all, when we got there they were, they... People were eating basically what were tamales. In Ghana, West Africa they call it Banku and Banku is fermented masa. All it is is Masa that's fermented, wrapped up in a corn leaf look just like this. It is flavored by its fermentation and you use that as a base and you eat, you eat stuff with it, you take it out, they heat it up and then they heat it up and they use it as a starch to each your meat with to eat your beans with. So it was basically the same thing. So you know, and I'm sure before corn made to Africa, we were already eating, we were eating something else. All a tamal is is a dumpling. Everybody eat dumplings. Every culture got their own dumpling.Demalda Newsome:Hmm.Owen Taylor:Can you describe what you're doing right this minute and the plate that's in front of you?Chris Bolden Newsome:Breaking up. Shit, messing this up. Damn.Owen Taylor:Can you use a little more imagery?Chris Bolden Newsome:I'm folding the tamal with the, with the masa and the filling in it, you know I'm tying it up with another string from that I made out of ripped up hoja of the the mais corn leaf.Demalda Newsome:I like that it tears right along the grain. I mean, it makes a straight tear. So, yeah, I like that. Makes it lot easier to put it together. So we're closing the top and the bottom. So when we steam them, it won't just, you know, seep out of the top. I'm thinking if we put them tightly together as tight as we can without, you know, putting any indention in it so deep that it doesn't look like a tamale, I think it'll be all right.Owen Taylor:Did you make these when you were in Oklahoma?Demalda Newsome:We did when, um, when Rumal would come home, um, during the holidays, him and I would, um, at the Christmas break make these tamales together. I would make the meat ones and he'd make the vegetarian and sweet dessert ones. Yeah. I didn't think about making them until he, um, you know, he kept reminding me of, of having them back in Mississippi and never really thought about making them and how it was.Chris Bolden Newsome:In Mississippi people don't make them, people buy them. I mean, it is always just one lady who make it in the neighborhood and everybody else buy it from her. It's getting like that in Mexico too, from my understanding. Traditionally this is Christmas food. This is like Holy day food. You make it, I don't know why Christmas. It’s a native American tradition, but people make it at Christmas time and it used to be, my understanding, in Mexico, everybody, people would make it. All ladies get together and you make an literally a tub, a big old tub and it was an all night affair and you did it Christmas Eve and you had them all and then you just had tamales upon tamales, upon tamales. And now people just wait for the person, for whoever the lady is who knows how to make it, to make it so, cause I'm vegetarian and in Mississippi you can get a lot of tamales in the Delta but you can't get none vegetarian nowhere.Demalda Newsome:Well now this one guy started selling some, but I don't think he makes it. Yeah, he doesn't make it in mass quantities. You may have to order them.Chris Bolden Newsome:But you know, Mexicans don't make a lot of vegetarian tamales. The only vegetarian tamales that I've had has been from Salvadorians or central Americans. They usually make it just straight corn.Aunt Veronica:(Hard to hear) Pepper tamales, vegetables, I've seen all that.Chris Bolden Newsome:Well, not in Mississippi. In Mississippi, they only want the pork and they want their tamal to be red and dripping with grease.Demalda Newsome:Oh yeah. Grease make it better. Chris Bolden Newsome:Eat it with Coca-Colas Demalda Newsome:Yeah. Coca-Cola's, crackers, or when we were younger, we had it with donuts, hot donuts. We eat the tamale, the sweet and salty together.Owen Taylor:Where would you get them?Demalda Newsome:We got it at Shipley donuts.Chris Bolden Newsome:Best donuts in creation.Demalda Newsome:That's what they say. The best donuts. So you get to see them being made and, and you get to get hot donuts.Owen Taylor:That's the doughnut place that's still downtown there?Demalda Newsome:Um, they have one store downtown, but it's one...Chris Bolden Newsome:Uh uh, we didn't go to the one downtown.Demalda Newsome:Well we did go to the one downtown because this other one wasn't here.Chris Bolden Newsome:No, that's downtown mommy? The one...Aunt Veronica:Over the railroad tracks.Demalda Newsome:That, right. That's the one we went to. Cause the other one wasn't here.Demalda Newsome:The one on number one, highway number one.Chris Bolden Newsome:Oh you are talking about when you was little.Demalda Newsome:When I was little. When you were little, it was there.Chris Bolden Newsome:When I was little that's the one we went to.Demalda Newsome:Right. But when we were little...Chris Bolden Newsome:But, that one was not open then why to they have pictures in there from segregation days.Demalda Newsome:Ok. They took some of the pictures from back then.Chris Bolden Newsome:I thought so, cause they got only them pictures of all them nice white ladies eating their donuts.Demalda Newsome:We never drove out that far. You know, it was kind of scary to drive into territory that you know, you knew was all white. Um, so we wouldn't have really come out this far.Aunt Veronica:Yes, we would have. We came that far with the mall being there.Demalda Newsome:No I'm talking about before that, before that.Aunt Veronica:We did if you were going down to South Bend the back way down Reed Road.Demalda Newsome:I don't remember going down Reed Road when I was younger, I remember that was coming this way. This was too far. Cause you didn't have cell phones. If you got in trouble with people. No cell phones.Owen Taylor:Did you hear stories of people getting in trouble out here?Demalda Newsome:Well getting in trouble, like if your car broke down, you're in an all white neighborhood. I mean you know that anything could have happened.Aunt Veronica:(Disagreeing).Demalda Newsome:I don't know why you didn't think they would do anything to you, but it was rumored. It was rumored.Aunt Veronica:It was rumored, but there was book. Greenville, Mississippi…(Disagreeing).Demalda Newsome:Yeah, but I lived in a lot of fear. I couldn't wait to get away from it. Having grown up in fear.Aunt Veronica:We didn't think about as much about prejudice as much as the other....Demalda Newsome:That's not true. I don't know where she grew up.Chris Bolden Newsome:Well you know mommy? That's true. No, what she's saying - Greenville - no she is true. The Delta.Aunt Veronica:Greenville didn't have that problem.Demalda Newsome:No, I'm not going to say that they didn't have the problem, but there was more black - this was the seat of black power. She's right. She right. There was more black-white cooperation here. You don't know, mommy. You grew up in Greenville, thank God. But honestly, the rest of Mississippi was hell for black people. The Delta. I, I, she right. I'm gonna tell you what - I have in Mississippi history textbook that states, and this textbook speaks with such vitriol and venom about the Delta, especially about Greenville. That's how I know that black people were successful. They talk about, they say, "Oh black..." They believed that black people were being put over white - over poor white farmers here. Because black people were successful. After reconstruction and stuff, black people here had got more clout and so the Delta has always been prosperous for black people, historically. You've got to think about this is this is the seat of Mt Bayou and Fannie Lou Hamer. Oh no, you was always scared cause white - I mean white folks still, you know, were rude and they still had a lot of wickedness in them. Especially people in power, you know? Yeah, absolutely. But I'm saying that it'd be better to be black here. You have more chance of being successful, which is why I would imagine per capita you have fewer black people leave the Delta historically until recently than you did other parts of Mississippi.Aunt Veronica:It is, it is a article that was written up. I don't know if it was the Dallas newspaper or what...Demalda Newsome:I don't care about no article. I'm telling you it was a scary time to grow up in Mississippi here. Maybe it wasn't a lot of things directly with the Klan activities and stuff, but just hearing about it - like we grew up hearing about Emmett Till. But just hearing about it, it was enough to put a lot of fear in you and hearing about hangings and things like that and that that could happen to you. I mean, to me that was, that was fearful.Chris Bolden Newsome:But here in the Delta was a place, mommy, that historically has always been more successful black people and more black people getting together. I mean, you, um, even it's even the stories you all tell about Sacred Heart and stuff, how, how, you know, you have white nuns and priests and stuff, even though they were foreigners, there was more cooperation. People who actually gave black people a chance and, and allowed, you know, I mean, it wasn't as suffocating as it was in other parts of the state or in other parts of the South even. We were more prosperous here because you think about the bad, the proof of it is at Greenwood in Tulsa was named Greenwood and I didn't know that. I learned that it was named Greenwood after Greenwood, Mississippi. Yes. It wasn't named Gulf Port. It wasn't named Spit Bucket or none of them other places. It was named Greenwood because black people were successful in the Delta and they wanted to remember, they want you to remember where they came from. So I'm not saying it wasn't bad, it was bad all over. I mean Malcolm X said all of America is Mississippi. You know, but um, but I think pound for pound, if you had - and I didn't live in the 60s or the 50s anything, but they say if you had to be black in Mississippi, you rather be black in the Delta than somewhere down South.Aunt Veronica:And even when we integrated schools for the first time in early ‘72 or whatever, and I was going to the seventh grade they said we didn't have no problem with riots, people fighting.Chris Bolden Newsome:Didn't have people clubbing and stuff like that.Demalda Newsome:No, it wasn't quite that easy because we went before it actually segregated. Connie and I went to Solomon before it was, yeah, before I was actually desegregated and it was, it was rough. We were, we were kicked. We were, we were hit from behind. All kinds of stuff. Yeah. Yeah. They kicked us in our butts when we got out of that classroom and then finally some of the girls felt bad because we were girls and they were watching us…Chris Bolden Newsome:White girls?Demalda Newsome:Um, yeah, few of them felt bad and said, "you know what, that's still a girl. Don't, don't do that to girls." And then we had some that actually stood up for us, but they were poor kids that did that, that stood up for us. But we had a really good principal, Mr. Dunaway and he, he, he was ready for integration. Yeah. When I went to public school and he's like, he, he had a conversation, I guess they, they had a conversation with the white kids and then he came in, you know, we had a meeting with all of the black students, so anytime we would have real problems, um, mr Dunaway, um, we didn't have to convince him of what had happened. He knew what was going on and what, what we said when we, you know, took anything to him that it was true. I mean just hit, kicked...cause the prints of their feet would be on the back of our clothes and things like that. They knew we weren't making it up. And they had to assign the seats on the bus cause the white students didn't want to, they wanted to sit in the front but they didn't allow them to sit in the front. They made us sit, all of the black students sat in the front two seats they were reserved for us. Oh yeah. They were angry about that.Chris Bolden Newsome:They would make up lies that we was being put over them when really folks were just trying to get equality or, or trying not to be in the back of the bus where any number of ungodly things could have happened to you in the back of the bus.Demalda Newsome:Some of the white students got off of the bus. Rather than ride with us sitting in the front. I'm telling you it was, it was, it was something. Now I remember all of that. They'd stick us with, you know, stick pins and all kinds of stuff and sometimes the black guys would stand up for us when the white boys would do stuff and then they would end up fighting and then a lot of them would jump on the black boys and you know, so it'd be an all out fight, its awful.Chris Bolden Newsome:But could you imagine, mommy, something like that could have turned into a dangerous situation in which death could have occurred in another part of Mississippi. That's all I'm saying.Demalda Newsome:Good thing nobody used knives back then, now probably people would use knives and guns.Chris Bolden Newsome:But you think about it, Emmet Till was killed for a lot less than that. Just in another part of the state. Could you imagine a black boy standing up for some black girl's honor? Um, you know, somewhere else. Them white folks wouldn't tolerate that.Owen Taylor:Can we ask you about your work with social justice through your farm Oklahoma, but also with your national work and your work in the South in general, supporting black farmers and poor farmers?Demalda Newsome:Well, one of the things was um, in Oklahoma, you know, we did, we opened up the first farmer's market on an actual farm since the history of statehood. So, I did a lot of work around um, getting farmer's markets and..well Chris and I did it together. Chris moved back home for almost a year and him and I worked on Oklahoma, not Mississippi, cause he considers his home to be here in Mississippi. We both were born here, but, um, so Chris and I worked on getting them the WIC, um, extension of the Women Infant Children program where they got fresh vegetables. And so we worked with the state. I think we were one of the only, um, non-governmental agencies to be invited into the conversation when they were starting out. We help with surveys and putting surveys together, um, for the program before it actually started. And so we did, uh, did that and we were able to successfully, you know, with the, with the state, get that put in place. And so with the WIC, uh, they're able to get fresh vegetables at farmer's markest. And then also through the snap they're able to get extra, uh, fruits and vegetables. Um, and so also with the senior WIC program, we were working with that also. Um, we were one of the first ones in Eastern Oklahoma to work with the, um, a native American tribe to get, um, with their WIC program and they, they, uh, we did their WIC and their senior farmer's market. Um, so we, we had farmers, uh, to come and sell their vegetables to them. Um, we also started the first school garden on the East side of Oklahoma as well. And that's, no, I'm talking about Newsome Community Farms. That's one of the things that we did along with, um, going out and promoting community gardens in the community and not just promoting them. We were getting seeds for them and for backyard gardeners along with, um, anyone who started a community garden. We did community garden trainings and school garden trainings. Those were some of the things that we put on, uh, in Oklahoma. But we also worked... Um, Chris and I worked to get the healthy corner store initiative going in, in Oklahoma. Our group, we did all of the research and you know, on it being developed in another area. At that time I was on the Community Food Security coalition board. And so they were working on the healthy corner store nationally. It was a national program. And so Philadelphia is where they did the first big training of it. And so we were in there. It w

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I'm Glen Ford, along with my co-host Nellie Bailey. Coming up: Bail has been abolished for some offenses in New York State, but people held on one dollar bail find it hard to get out of jail; A Black professor says Emmet Till and Trayvon Martin both died on the alter of white womanhood; and, Mumia Abu Jamal makes some comparisons between 21st century poverty and the Great Depression. Most people think of environmental damage as having to do with pollution of the air and water. But Willie Wright, a professor of geography and African American Studies at Florida State University, in Tallahassee, says the landscape can also be damaged by using it to commit or conceal acts of violence against Black people. Professor Wright wrote an article for a radical journal on geography. New York is one of several states that have abolished cash bail, which has been used to keep poor people locked up before they've even been convicted of a crime. But it's often difficult to get out of jail, even if the bail is set at only one dollar. Amanda Lawson is a student at New York University and a co-founder of the Dollar Bail Brigade, whose volunteers have helped hundreds to navigate the jail bureaucracy. Fifty seven years transpired between the murder of Emmet Till by white racists in Mississippi, and the killing of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman, in Florida. But Angela  Own-WATCH-ee, a professor at Boston University School of Law, says both Black teenagers were killed for much the same reasons. Professor Own-WATCH-ee wrote a paper for the Dubois Review, titled “From Emmet Till to Trayvon Martin: The Persistence of White Womanhood and the Preservation of White Manhood.” Mumia Abu Jamal, the nation's best known political prisoner, sees parallels between low paid workers today, and during the Great Depression. He files this report for Prison Radio. 

Erica talks about the history of the Ouija board and Steph talks about the history of Emmet Till. **Cheers From The Grave advises listeners to listen at their own risk and does not take responsibility for demonic possessions or spontaneous hauntings** Find all of our links here! https://linktr.ee/cftg If you enjoy what we do, consider donating to us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/CheersFromTheGrave or by buying us a Cup of Coffee at https://ko-fi.com/cheersfromthegrave

Stanley Nelson Jr. came of age as a filmmaker in the 1970s as Hollywood was making 'blacksploitation' films like 'Shaft.' But as the son of a librarian and a dentist, fictional stories of the ghetto didn't resonate with Nelson - so instead he became a documentary-maker. More than three decades after his first film appeared on PBS, he looks back on a career that includes documentaries about the Black Panthers, Freedom Riders, Miles Davis, and the murder of civil rights leader Emmet Till. On this special edition of Global Journalist, the winner of a MacArthur "genius" award and a National Medal in the Humanities sits for an extended interview with guest host Stacey Woelfel.

L’invité : Julien Blottière, professeur d’histoire-géographie et animateur de l’Histgeobox La discussion : Comment est né le blog Histgeobox, et son principe de fonctionnement Quelles pratiques pédagogiques pour associer chansons et histoire ? Un parcours à travers les chansons : Bob Dylan, The Death of Emmet Till (1962) Zeca Afonso, Grândola Villa Morena (1972) Bob Marley, Zimbabwe (1979) Fela … Continue reading "79. L’histoire en chansons sur l’Histgeobox, avec Julien Blottière"

Michael Imhotep host of The African History Network show on 4-13-19 discussed the story of Johnson Publishing Co. ex-publishers of Ebony & Jet Magazine filing for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy. What happened?  John H. Johnson founder of Johnson Publishing Company passed away in August of 2005.  In 1982 he was the first African American listed on Forbes Magazine list of the richest 400 Americans.    Donate to The African History Network through PayPal @ TheAHNShow@gmail.com or http://www.PayPal.me/TheAHNShow or visit http://www.AfricanHistoryNetwork.com and click on the yellow “Donate” button. E-mail us at CustomerService@AfricanHistoryNetwork.com for more information about Advertising with The African History Network and on the podcasts of “The African History Network Show” with Michael Imhotep which is on multiple podcasts platforms including Blog Talk Radio, Itunes, Stitcher, TuneIn, CastBox, FMPlayer, Acast, etc.

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A chat with Davis Houck, a communications professor and expert on the Emmet Till case.

Emmett Till

We talk about Edward Bernays, Magic vs. Bird, Genesis, hitting folks with bricks, Orlando Castile, Emmet Till and exposure to violence, another championship for the Bay Area, hair vs. fur and Jeff spills some whiskey.

Comedian, actor and prolific tweeter Cyrus McQueen joins Chloé at her kitchen table to figure out who, what and why we should be boycotting, lie that killed Emmet Till and how to have a Brooklyn wedding. Follow Cyrus: Twitter @CyrusMMcQueen Follow Chloé: Twitter & IG @chloe_hilliard

Charles Barkley has always been an ass. In this episode of Sports, Society and Spirits T.J. and Scott trash Chuck for taking cheap shots at Lebron James. We also talk about the Cavs problems, and how J.R. Smith is the key to solving everything, as the Cavs miss his perimeter defense. We also both predict the Falcons win the Superbowl. In the society portion of the show we discuss the Trump's immigration policy, and Carolyn Bryant admitting she lied about Emmet Till, which led to the murder of Till, then a 14 year old in 1955. We revisit events in our recent past and discuss how we tend to sanitize or ignore the deplorable occurrences of not only our distant, but relatively recent past.

I programmet medverkar tre musiker och tonsättare som alla har djupa rötter i den amerikanska södern: kontratenoren och pianisten M Lamar, pianisten Althea Waites och trumpetaren Wadada Leo Smith. Kontratenoren, pianisten och posören M Lamar är känd för en svensk publik, och har bland annat spelat vid Stockholm International Queerfeminist & Anti-Racist Performance Festival. M Lamar tar upp ämnen som makt, kön och slaveriets historia. Vi hör delar av hans musikstycke Speculum Orum. Många slavar försökte begå självmord genom att bita sig igenom sina egna handleder. Andra vägrade äta. Då uppfann vita doktorer Speculum Orum, en saxliknande anordning för tvångsmatning, berättar M Lamar, vars stycke The Tree handlar om lynchning. Författaren James Baldwin sa att Historia är inget som vi läser om i böcker. Historia är inte det förflutna, historia är nu!. Att förstå lidandet och var det kommer ifrån ger mig kraft att fortsätta. Vi bär ju med oss lidandet antingen vi vill eller inte, säger M Lamar.Kuriosa: M Lamar är enäggad tvillingbror till transpersonen Laverne Cox, som spelar transkvinnan Sophia Burset i Netflix-serien Orange is the New Black. Pianisten Althea Waites upplevde 50-talets segregation i New Orleans.Där fanns skiljeväggar mellan säten för vita och svarta i bussarna, just det som Rosa Parks upplevde. Althea kunde inte prova kläder i varuhusen och det fanns biografer för vita dit svarta aldrig fick tillträde. Hon har uruppfört flera bortglömda pianoverk av svarta tonsättare, bland annat Pianosonat i e-moll av Beatrice Price. Flera är mästerverk och det krävs en bländande teknik och djup musikalitet för att tolka dem, förklarar Althea Waits.Jazzlegenden, trumpetaren Wadada Leo Smith, komponerade sviten Ten Freedom Summers. Sviten spelas av kammarensemble och jazzkvintett. Styckena har titlar som Emmet Till, Rosa Parks, Medgar Evers, Black Church, John F Kennedy och Martin Luther King. Denna musikaliska svit är en omfattande undersökning av medborgarrättsrörelsen i USA mellan 1954 och 1964, förklarar Wadada Leo Smith. Jag vill visa att svarta erfarenheter är amerikanska erfarenheter, inte isolerade rasistiska företeelser. De två absolut viktigaste uppgifterna idag är att bekämpa rasismen och sexismen, säger Wadada Leo Smith.I sin Golden Quartet spelar Wadada Leo Smith med Anthony Davis på piano, John Lindberg på bas och och Susie Ibarra på slagverk.Pianisten och tonsättaren Margaret Bonds levde 1913 - 1972. Hon var en av de första svarta tonsättarna och utövarna av klassisk musik som vann erkännande i USA. Hon samarbetade bl a med poeten och dramatikern Langston Hughes. Margaret Bonds tonsatte det virtuosa stycket Troubled Water, en noterad improvisation kring en negro spiritual med titeln Wade in the Water. Musiklista:SYMFONI NR 1 William Grant Still,          John Jeter/ Fort Smith Symphony     NAXOS 14590, 8.559174 Muted Laughter William Grant Still,          Althea Waites     Cambria Master Recordings, CAMBRIA CD-1141 Rosa Parks and the Montogomery Bus Boycott Wadada Leo Smith,          Wadada Leo Smith     CUNEIFORM RECORDS, RUNE 350/351/352/353 The Tree M Lamar,          M Lamar     Speculum Orum M Lamar,          M LamarTrying to leave my body M Lamar,          M LamarIn The Belly Of The Ship M Lamar,          M Lamar     Muted Laughter William Grant Still,          Althea Waites     Cambria Master Recordings, CAMBRIA CD-1141 WADE IN THE WATER Trad Från Usa, Patsy Ford Simms    Trad Från Usa     Delise Perkins-Hall/ The Fisk Jubilee Singers     SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS 14631, CD SF 40072 Troubled Water Margaret Bonds,          Althea Waites     Cambria, CAMBRIA CD-1097 JUST A CLOSER WALK WITH THEE Trad,  Preservation Hall Jazz Band         Preservation Hall Jazz Band     COLUMBIA 00149, MK 38650 Piano Sonata in E minor - I. Andante, Allegro Florence Price,          Althea Waites     Cambria, CAMBRIA CD-1097 Piano Sonata in E minor - III. Scherzo Florence Price,          Althea Waites     Cambria, CAMBRIA CD-1097 Cloud Cradles William Grant Still,          Althea Waites     Cambria Master Recordings, CAMBRIA CD-1141 Rosa Parks and the Montogomery Bus Boycott Wadada Leo Smith,          Wadada Leo Smith     CUNEIFORM RECORDS, RUNE 350/351/352/353 Emmett Till - Defiant, Fearless Wadada Leo Smith,          Wadada Leo Smith     CUNEIFORM RECORDS, RUNE 350/351/352/353 John F. Kennedy's New Frontier and the Space Age Wadada Leo Smith,          Wadada Leo Smith     CUNEIFORM RECORDS, RUNE 350/351/352/353

As Black History Month draws to a close today, we shall review some highlights and prepare to go into the Virgin Islands History Month which starts tomorrow, the first of March. Tune in and be surprised! Better yet, call in and surprise us. The number is 347-237-4374. From 12:00 pm noon to 1:00 pm Atlantic, 11:00 am Eastern, 10:00 am Central, 9:00 am Mountain, 8:00 am Pacific. Remeber: Our new schedule is as follows: We are here on the first and fourth Saturdays monthly and on the fifth Saturdays in the months that happen to have five Saturdays.

I det sjätte programmet av tio medverkar tre musiker och tonsättare som alla har djupa rötter i den amerikanska södern. Kontratenoren, pianisten och posören M Lamar är känd för en svensk publik, och har bland annat spelat vid Stockholm International Queerfeminist & Anti-Racist Performance Festival. M Lamar tar upp ämnen som makt, kön och slaveriets historia. Vi hör delar av hans musikstycke Speculum Orum. – Många slavar försökte begå självmord genom att bita sig igenom sina egna handleder. Andra vägrade äta. Då uppfann vita doktorer Speculum Orum, en saxliknande anordning för tvångsmatning, berättar M Lamar, vars stycke The Tree handlar om lynchning. – Författaren James Baldwin sa att ”Historia är inget som vi läser om i böcker. Historia är inte det förflutna, historia är nu!”. Att förstå lidandet och var det kommer ifrån ger mig kraft att fortsätta. Vi bär ju med oss lidandet antingen vi vill eller inte, säger M Lamar. Pianisten Althea Waites upplevde 50-talets segregation i New Orleans.Där fanns skiljeväggar mellan säten för vita och svarta i bussarna, just det som Rosa Parks upplevde. Althea kunde inte prova kläder i varuhusen och det fanns biografer för vita dit svarta aldrig fick tillträde. Hon har uruppfört flera bortglömda pianoverk av svarta tonsättare, bland annat Pianosonat i e-moll av Beatrice Price. – Flera är mästerverk och det krävs en bländande teknik och djup musikalitet för att tolka dem, förklarar Althea Waits. Jazzlegenden, trumpetaren Wadada Leo Smith, komponerade sviten Ten Freedom Summers. Sviten spelas av kammarensemble och jazzkvintett. Styckena har titlar som Emmet Till, Rosa Parks, Medgar Evers, Black Church, John F Kennedy och Martin Luther King. – Denna musikaliska svit är en omfattande undersökning av medborgarrättsrörelsen i USA mellan 1954 och 1964, förklarar Wadada Leo Smith. Jag vill visa att svarta erfarenheter är amerikanska erfarenheter, inte isolerade rasistiska företeelser. De två absolut viktigaste uppgifterna idag är att bekämpa rasismen och sexismen, säger Wadada Leo Smith. Manus och produktion: Birgitta Tollan

The cross and the lynching tree are the two most emotionally charged symbols in the history of the African American community. In this powerful new work, theologian James H. Cone explores these symbols and their interconnection in the history and souls of black folk. In a work that spans social history, theology, and cultural studies, Professor Cone explores the message of the spirituals and the power of the blues; the passion and death of Emmet Till and the engaged vision of Martin Luther King, Jr. He invokes the spirits of Billie Holiday and Langston Hughes, Fannie Lou Hamer and Ida B. Wells, and the witness of black artists, writers, preachers, and fighters for justice. And he remembers the victims, especially the 5,000 who perished during the lynching period. Through their witness he contemplates the greatest challenge of any Christian theology -- to explain how life can be made meaningful in the face of death and injustice.James H. Cone, Charles A. Briggs Distinguished Professor of Systematic Theology at Union Theological Seminary, is widely regarded as one of the most influential theologians in America. His books include A Black Theology of Liberation, The Spirituals & the Blues, God of the Oppressed, and Martin & Malcolm & America: A Dream or a Nightmare.  Recorded On: Thursday, March 1, 2012

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