Black History
Black History
Wednesday Apr 09, 2025
Edmonia Lewis - Bonnie's Creative Expression Pick
Wednesday Apr 09, 2025
Wednesday Apr 09, 2025
We're exploring Creative Expression within rebellion. Bonnie starts us off with the sculpture artist, Edmonia Lewis. Edmonia brought her African and Native American heritage to a neoclassical marble sculpture. Learn all about her incredible work.
Friday Mar 28, 2025
Fannie Lou Hamer - Debbie's Equality Pick
Friday Mar 28, 2025
Friday Mar 28, 2025
Debbi continues Equality Month of our Rebel Era, by talking about the powerful activist, Fannie Lou Hamer.
Monday Mar 17, 2025
Mary Bowser - Bonnie's Equality Pick
Monday Mar 17, 2025
Monday Mar 17, 2025
Bonnie starts off Equality Month of our Rebel Era, by talking about the amazing Civil War spy. Known by a couple of names Mary Elizabeth Bowser, Mary Richards, or Mary J.R. Garmin. Born into slavery she was a Union spy in the Confederate White House.
Monday Feb 24, 2025
Jessie Redmon Fauset - Katie's Solidarity Pick
Monday Feb 24, 2025
Monday Feb 24, 2025
Katie finishes up Solidarity Month by talking about the author Jessie Redmon Fauset. As an editor of The Crisis as well as a poet and novelist, Jessie showcased the true image of African-American life. Her characters were working professionals and dealt with themes of feminism, "passing" and racial discrimination. Learn more about Jessie on this week's episode.
Monday Feb 17, 2025
Tarana Burke - Riwo's Solidarity Pick
Monday Feb 17, 2025
Monday Feb 17, 2025
Riwo continues Solidarity Month with a powerful episode about the work of Tarana Burke and the #MeToo Movement.
Wednesday Feb 12, 2025
Georgia Gilmore - Julie's Solidarity Pick
Wednesday Feb 12, 2025
Wednesday Feb 12, 2025
Julie continues Solidarity Month at Gal's Guide. Julie tells us Georgia Gilmore who used food as a connecting and fundraising tool for the Montgomery Bus Boycott movement. She was the rebel gal behind the "Club from Nowhere."
Monday Jul 15, 2024
Mary Ann Shadd Cary - Barb's Canadian Gal Pick
Monday Jul 15, 2024
Monday Jul 15, 2024
Barb tells the tale of the first female publisher in Canada, Mary Ann Shadd Cary. Mary was born and died in the United States but her time in Canada was marked by her creation of the newspaper Provincial Freeman, a weekly paper starting in 1853 that circulated around southern Ontario that advocated equality, integration, and self-education for Black people.
Monday Jul 08, 2024
Viola Desmond - Katie's Canadian Gal Pick
Monday Jul 08, 2024
Monday Jul 08, 2024
Canada Month continues! This time Katie tells us about the civil rights activist Viola Desmond. She made history when she refused to leave her seat in the Roseland Theater. This Black Nova Scotian challenged Canadian segregation. Today she's on the $10 bill. Learn about this amazing woman on today's episode.