Correcting History: Confederate Monuments, Rituals and the Lost Cause
The Lost Cause narrative would have us believe that Confederate monuments have always been celebrated, but people have protested them since they start...
Teaching Hard History: American Slavery
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Description: What we don’t know about American slavery hurts us all. Teaching Hard History brings us the lessons we should have learned in school through the voices of leading scholars, educators, and your host Hasan Kwame Jeffries. It’s good advice for teachers, good information for everybody.
Reconstruction 101: Progress and Backlash
Just months after the Civil War ended, former Confederates had regained political footholds in Washington, D.C. In her overview of Reconstruction, Kat...
The History of Whiteness and How We Teach About Race
Historian Ed Baptist provides context on the creation and enforcement of a U.S. racial binary that endures today, as well as Black resistance as a for...
Creating Brave Spaces: Reckoning With Race in the Classroom
People from all corners of public life are telling teachers to stop discussions about race and racism in the classroom, but keeping the truth of the w...
Jim Crow: Yesterday and Today
This season, we’re examining the century between the Civil War and the modern civil rights movement to understand how systemic racism and slavery pers...
Baseball, Civil Rights and the Anderson Monarchs Barnstorming Tour (special) - w/ Steve Bandura and Derrick White
In 2015, Coach Steve Bandura loaded the Anderson Monarchs, a little league baseball team from Philadelphia, onto a 1947 Flxible Clipper Bus for a barn...
Walking in Their Shoes: Using #BlackLivesMatter to Teach the Civil Rights Movement
The civil rights movement offers critical context for understanding the systemic police violence, voter suppression efforts, ‘law and order’ rhetoric ...
The Black Panther Party and the Transition to Black Power
The history of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense can help us understand the transition from civil rights to Black Power, as well as contemporar...
Malcolm X Beyond the Mythology – w/ Clarence Lang
Historian Clarence Lang joins us for a conversation about Malcolm X. We discuss his commitment to Black pride and self-determination and his rejection...
Malcolm X Beyond the Mythology – w/ Clarence Lang
Historian Clarence Lang joins us for a conversation about Malcolm X. We discuss his commitment to Black pride and self-determination and his rejection...