Podcast appearances and mentions of william katz

This movie has it all!! Ghosts, Ghouls, Monsters and laughs! 1985's House starring William Katz is a kooky horror comedy about a horror author staying in a haunted house! Check it out and tell us what ya think! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/itcamefrom-thevideostore/support

A CIA Officer, a comedy writer, a New York Times Editor, and a Tonight Show Talent Coordinator walk into a bar. Actually, it’s William Katz of Urgentagenda.com who wandered into the dining room and sat down with Hunter. They discuss the current state of media in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. How information is reported, and what shapes our “news feeds.” There’s a lack of editors out there and we’re forced to become our own. Along the way, Bill recaps a bit about his careers including his time as a Tonight Show Talent Coordinator, a comedy writer for Bob Newhart, and a New York Times editor. His experience with the CIA is another revealing insider look on how we use information, and disinformation. Visit Bill at: http://www.urgentagenda.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/winhff/message

Join Shalom Klein on his weekly radio show, Get Down To Business with guests: Brad Cole Dr. William Katz

William Katz joins Mark to discuss his job as talent coordinator on The Tonight Show in NY, Johnny's discipline, receiving a bizarre phone call from Gloria Swanson, attempting to book Betty Grable, and discovering David Brenner at an audition.

ANNOUNCING THE LINCOLN BRIGADE THE AUDIO BOOK!!! How to order the audio book? Go to -- www.fightingfascism.com to order the audio book. This is the introduction to the audio book by Producers Lesley Gist and William Loren Katz: "In 2016 when one Presidential candidate has revived fascism's many appeals to hate, THE LINCOLN BRIGADE story offers vital lessons. In 1936 General Francisco Franco's fascist armies marched on Madrid, Spain, supported by planes and troops from Hitler's Germany and Mussolini's Italy. This was fascism's first invasion of Europe and the U.S., England and France did nothing. "Then 35,000 men and women from 53 countries -- who hated war and fascism -- formed International Brigades, their volunteer effort to "stop fascism at the gates of Madrid." "The 2,800 American volunteers of The Lincoln Brigade were white and black, men and women, farmer and professor, student and unemployed.  "Before 1936 the Lincolns had been active in support of racial equality, trade unions, aid for the poor and unemployment insurance. 

William Katz lectures on The Standing Rock Protest against the XL Pipeline and Black Lives Matter to the history uncovered in Black Indians.     Why Black Lives Matter is fighting alongside Dakota Access Pipeline protesters On Aug. 27, Black Lives Matter activists from Minneapolis and Toronto traveled to the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, which straddles North and South Dakota, to support indigenous tribes protesting the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL).  And now, members of New York City's most active BLM groups plan on visiting Standing Rock this week to prevent the proposed 1,172-mile, four-state oil pipeline from being built on Native treaty lands.     Image: These donated supplies, which were collected at the Rally for Standing Rock in New York City's Washington Square Park on Sept. 9, 2016, will be delivered to #NoDAPL protesters in North Dakota.

THE LINCOLN BRIGADE FIGHTS WORLD FASCISM w/ Author William L. Katz     At this moment in history, in 2016, many feel more is at stake than the White House or the election of a woman as President of the United States. They point to massive state  suppression of minority votersand even the youth vote. Wealthy corporations and individuals pick candidates and use money to winprimaries and elections.     They see a connection between these events and the march of Fascism in Europe by Hitler and Mussolini in the 1930s. They see danger here at home.      80 years ago this year in 1936 Hitler and Mussolini began their first march into Europe during the Spanish Civil War. At the same time volunteers from countries around the world, including the United States, rushed to Spain to defend its Republic. These men and women were sounding a personal warning of the Fascist danger.      This is the story of the American volunteers, black and white, who rushed to Spain in 1936, to put their bodies between the Republic and the march of world Fascism. They were telling their government and fellow citizens to wake up. A copy of "The Lincoln Brigade: A Picture History", by William Loren Katz and Marc Crawford, has been presented to U. S. President Obama by Spain's Podemos leader, Pablo Iglesias.  The inscription reads: "The first Americans who came to Europe to fight against fascism were the men and women of the Lincoln Brigade. Please convey to the American people the gratitude of Spanish democrats for the anti-fascist example set by these heroes. Among them was Oliver Law, the first African American to command American troops. In memory of these heroes. An embrace, President Obama. Pablo Iglesias."    

Join The Gist of Freedom with guest host, author William Katz! and Maroon Descendant Pompey Fixico! www.blackhistoryUniversity.com "The successful Maroon Day organizer, Excellency Dr. Ambassador Fidelia Grand-Galon,  invited Pompey Fixico and the other delegates to Suriname, a country of half a million people and 120,000 maroon descendants of enormous ethnic diversity. The 2015 National Celebration of Maroon Day recognizes the 255th Anniversary celebration of the “Peace Treaty” signed in 1760 by the Dutch Colonizers in favor of the Maroons, who won their Freedom from the Dutch oppressors through arduous combat and also won the land that they resided on." See front page of my website, below.        William Katz, the authoer of Black Indians, will speak to Mr. Fixico about the Maroon role as Black Indian freedom-fighters and about what they accomplished in the Americas, the role of women as Maroons leaders and The Maroon  gathering.       photo [l-R] Pompey Fixico, who was chosen to represent the North American Maroon;  Her Excellency Dr. Ambassador Fidelia Grand-Galon; and Jeremy Peretz,  a California doctoral students, who made a video of the event.      

Today on The Gist of Freedom at 2:30 please join guest host William Katz and author Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz for a lively discussion about her latest book "An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States" WWW.BlackHistoryblog.com  archived on iTunes www.BlackHistoryUniversity.com ----------------------- The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples   Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history. Now, for the first time, acclaimed historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the United States told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples and reveals how Native Americans, for centuries, actively resisted expansion of the US empire. And as Dunbar-Ortiz reveals, this policy was praised in popular culture, through writers like James Fenimore Cooper and Walt Whitman, and in the highest offices of government and the military. Shockingly, as the genocidal policy reached its zenith under President Andrew Jackson, its ruthlessness was best articulated by US Army general Thomas S. Jesup, who, in 1836, wrote of the Seminoles: “The country can be rid of them only by exterminating them.”   Spanning more than four hundred years, this classic bottom-up peoples' history radically reframes US history and explodes the silences that have haunted our national narrative.

Join The Gist of Freedom as we listen to Chapter 6, Music for Jesus Lyrics of Freedom and a lively discussion with Pan-Africanist Dr. Sidney and Pianki. Evangelical preaching had caused some whites to question the justness of slavery, but still more were all the more careful to censor what messages from the Bible slaves could hear. Born in 1800, Nat Turner was identified as a bright youth who developed a zeal for Scripture, though this did not prevent his masters from employing him merely as a common field hand. Turner also became a preacher to slaves from surrounding plantations and farms, preaching against slavery to his brethren but carefully keeping up the appearance of the respectful, dutiful slave to whites. Turner’s spirituality and reputation took on a mystical quality as an adult, and during this time he secretly began dreaming of revolution, believing God had specially chosen him to smite the institution of slavery. Because previous conspiracies had been discovered when members had informed on them, Turner developed his plans for revolt only among four trusted followers. He and his confederates struck on August 21, 1831, slaughtering white men, women, and children using axes and other ad hoc weapons. "I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whaatever benefits humanity as a whole." Malcolm X

Join The Gist of Freedom, www.BlackHistoryBlog.com,  as we continue our audio book reading Breaking The Chains by William L. Katz - Chapter 5 Urban Slave Resistance~ Jordan Hatcher was a seventeen-year-old enslaved tobacco worker in Richmond, Virginia, who in 1852 rose from obscurity to notoriety when charged with assaulting and killing white overseer William Jackson.  According to newspaper accounts and trial records, Hatcher was working at the Walker & Harris tobacco factory when Jackson began flogging him with a cowhide for performing poorly.  Hatcher initially warded off the blows, but Jackson continued to beat him.  In response Hatcher grabbed an iron poker, struck Jackson unconscious, and immediately fled the factory.  When Jackson later awoke, he claimed to feel no pain, but the next day he collapsed and died.  Hatcher was immediately found, arrested, tried and sentenced to execution.  His sentence, however, was later commuted by Virginia Governor Joseph Johnson, and he was sold and transported beyond the limits of the United States.   This case is significant because of Jordan Hatcher's unusual working and living conditions.  Hatcher was a hired slave; though legally bound to Parmella Goday of Chesterfield County, Hatcher had been hired-out to a tobacco manufactory for the year.  During that year, Hatcher, like hundreds of other hired slaves, was allowed to find his own lodgings, secure his own meals, and receive the wages for his labor.  During the antebellum era, the urban slave system provided an essential labor pool for city businesses and was highly lucrative, but under conditions that made white Richmonders nervous.  Critics of the system believed the hiring-out process made urban slavery unstable and encouraged slave workers to be more rebellious and defiant.  Hatcher did not hang.      

I went to the slaver and inquired what was her price for me. She said a thousand dollars.... I opened a regular place of business...  During this time I had found it politic to go shabbily dressed, and to appear to be very poor, but to pay my mistress for my services promptly. I kept my money hid, never venturing to put out a penny, nor to let any body but my wife know that I was making any. The thousand dollars was what I supposed my mistress would ask for me, and so I determined now what I would do. I opened a regular place of business, labelled my tobacco in a conspicuous manner with the names of “Edward and Lunsford Lane,” and of some of the persons who sold it for me, — established agencies for the sale in various parts of the State, one at Fayetteville, one at Salisbury, one at Chapel Hill, and so on, — sold my articles from my place of business, and about town, also deposited them in stores on commission, and thus, after paying my mistress for my time, and rendering such support as necessary to my family.  I found in the space of some six or eight years, that I had collected the sum of one thousand dollars. ------------ Listen in as The Gist of Freedom continues The Summer Audio Book Series with William Katz, Breaking The Chains www.BlackHistoryBLOG.com ---------------------- I could not legally purchase it, and as the laws forbid emancipation except, for “meritorious services.” This done, Mr. Smith endeavored to emancipate me formally, and to get my manumission recorded; I tried also; but the court judged that I had done nothing “meritorious,” and so I remained, nominally only, the slave of Mr. Smith for a year; when, feeling unsafe in that relation, I accompanied him to New York whither he was going to purchase goods, and was there regularly and formally made a freeman, and there my manumission was recorded.

Tonight at 8pm learn more about William Lambert on The Gist of Freedom as we resume our reading of William Katz's book Breaking The Chains, Chapter 12 "Black Militias"  William Lambert created the “African American Mysteries; the Order of the Men of Oppression,” a complicated set of rituals that protected the very existence of the Underground Railroad. Lambert was a friend and confidant of well known abolitionist John Brown, who Lambert insisted was a sane and reasonable man who voluntarily sacrificed himself to fan the flames of liberty. Blackburn, Thornton and Ruth (or Lucie)  The Blackburns successfully and bravely escaped slavery from Louisville, KY. They had been settled in Detroit, Michigan, for two years when, in 1833, Kentucky slave hunters captured and arrested the couple. The Blackburns were jailed but allowed visitors, which provided the opportunity for Ruth to exchange her clothes - and her incarceration - with Mrs. George French; Ruth escaped to Canada. The day before Thornton was to be returned to Kentucky, the African American community rose up in protest. While the commotion was going on, Sleepy Polly and Daddy Walker helped Thornton to escape to Canada. The commotion turned into a two day riot and the sheriff was killed. It was the first race riot in Detroit, and afterward the first Riot Commission was formed in the U.S. Once in Canada, Thornton designed, built, and operated Toronto's first horse-drawn carriage hackney cab and cab company. 

Tonight at 8pm learn more about William Lambert on The Gist of Freedom as we resume our reading of William Katz's book Breaking The Chains, Chapter 12 "Black Militias"  William Lambert created the “African American Mysteries; the Order of the Men of Oppression,” a complicated set of rituals that protected the very existence of the Underground Railroad. Lambert was a friend and confidant of well known abolitionist John Brown, who Lambert insisted was a sane and reasonable man who voluntarily sacrificed himself to fan the flames of liberty. Blackburn, Thornton and Ruth (or Lucie)  The Blackburns successfully and bravely escaped slavery from Louisville, KY. They had been settled in Detroit, Michigan, for two years when, in 1833, Kentucky slave hunters captured and arrested the couple. The Blackburns were jailed but allowed visitors, which provided the opportunity for Ruth to exchange her clothes - and her incarceration - with Mrs. George French; Ruth escaped to Canada. The day before Thornton was to be returned to Kentucky, the African American community rose up in protest. While the commotion was going on, Sleepy Polly and Daddy Walker helped Thornton to escape to Canada. The commotion turned into a two day riot and the sheriff was killed. It was the first race riot in Detroit, and afterward the first Riot Commission was formed in the U.S. Once in Canada, Thornton designed, built, and operated Toronto's first horse-drawn carriage hackney cab and cab company. 

Join The Gist of Freedom as we welcome Pompey Fixico and William L. Katz.  Pompey Fixico ancestors fought US slave-catchers and military units for 42 years in Florida. Mr. Katz and Mr.Fixico will discuss the three Seminole wars, their goals courage and achievements as seen through his ancestors. The legacy of  Wild Cat and John Horse will also be discussed as it relates to how they brilliantly led the Seminoles! Mr. Katz's book Black Indians has three chapters on this unknown American story. Their current leader, William Dub Warrior, has said:       "Black Indians is not only one of the most  thoroughly researched and accurate book on the subject, it is he best written account I have come across."  William “Dub” Warrior, Chief of the John Horse Band,   Texas and Old Mexico Seminoles William Loren Katz williamlkatz.com

Book Reading, Breaking The Chains by William Katz with The Gist of Freedom and guest Yul Anderson. 

Courageous Freedom Seekers were said to have contracted a disease... Drapetomania! The Gist of Freedom is pleased to present author Dr. William Katz! According to Cartwright, the illness resulted from masters who “made themselves too familiar with [slaves], treating them as equals” and prescribed “whipping the devil out of them” as a “preventative measure.” In his work, Diseases and Peculiarities of the Negro Race, Cartwright's justification for drapetomania is primarily Biblical, citing the idea that slaves must obey their masters  

Courageous Freedom Seekers were said to have contracted a disease...  Drapetomania!   Drapetomania was a purported mental illness that caused enslaved black  to flee captivity, described by American doctor Samuel Cartwright, in 1851.    -------- Click & Listen to William Katz, author "Breaking The Chains"  Thursday at 8pm WWW.BlogTalkRadio.com/BlackHistory --------   According to Cartwright, the illness resulted from masters who “made themselves too familiar with [slaves], treating them as equals” and prescribed “whipping the devil out of them” as a “preventative measure.” In his work, Diseases and Peculiarities of the Negro Race, Cartwright’s justification for drapetomania is primarily Biblical, citing the idea that slaves must obey their masters.   The title of the exhibition is taken from an article in the monthly Southern journal entitled The Georgia Blister and Critic, v. 1, #7 (Sept. 1854), p. 156 (exhibit #20). The journal dealt with the “diseases and physical peculiarities of the Negro race.” In the article, the word drapetomania was created by the noted    Louisiana surgeon and psychologist Dr. Samuel A. Cartwright by combining the Greek words for runaway slave andmad or crazy.    It was used to describe the mental disease that “induces the negro to run away from service, [and] is as much a disease of the mind as any other species of mental alienation, and much more curable, as a general rule.”     Click & Listen Thursday @ 8pm ~ William Katz?, author, Breaking The Chains!"

Black Indians Author, William L. Katz is the radio interview guest on The Gist of Freedom's American History through the Black Experience series,  www.blackHistoryBLOG.com, on May 8 at 8 p.m. EDT.    William L. Katz will discuss his book Black Indians as it relates to African and Indian resistance to colonization and slavery. ------------   Don't forget to VOTE TO SAVE THE CARTER G. WOODSON HOME, FOUNDER OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH!!   https://www.preservedmv.com/ ------------   Topics -Republic of Palmares, Genga  -Pope's Revolt, -Pueblos unite   Santa Fe statue The Black Seminole  Mexican President Vicente Guererro,   

Join The Gist of Freedom as we welcome Historian and Author, William Katz. Mr. Katz will discuss his latest book Black Indians and the Afro Mexicans in who fought in the  Mexican American War like Colonel Carmen Amelia Robles. Mexico, what is now known as Texas was a safe haven for escaping enslaved Africans from America.   Learn More about William L Katz's 40 books at http://williamlkatz.com!