Election Firsts

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And Yet They Persisted: How American Women Won the Right to Vote

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In the Name of Emmett Till: How the Children of the Mississippi Freedom Struggle Showed Us Tomorrow

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Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin

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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics

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Ladies First: 40 Daring American Women Who Were Second to None

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Black Hands, White House: Slave Labor and the Making of America

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Walk with Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer

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Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement

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American Resistance: From the Women's March to the Blue Wave

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Rebuild the Dream

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A Slow, Calculated Lynching: The Story of Clyde Kennard

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The Citizenship Education Program and Black Women's Political Culture

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March Forward, Girl: From Young Warrior to Little Rock Nine

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Birmingham 1963: How a Photograph Rallied Civil Rights Support

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In Haiti, a Mission of Religion and Medicine: Agents for Change

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The March Against Fear: The Last Great Walk of the Civil Rights Movement and the Emergence of Black Power

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Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama

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Helping Others (Unabridged)

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The Cultivation of Stable Habits (Unabridged)

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Pourin’ Down Rain: A Black Woman Claims Her Place in the Canadian West

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Civil Rights Pioneer Ruby Bridges On Activism In The Modern Era

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Separate Is Not Equal

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Cleveland Sellers and Bakari Sellers

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Dr. King and the National Civil Rights Museum

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Civil Rights Activist John Hope Franklin

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Reparations or Death

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Striving for Justice: A Black Sheriff in the Deep South

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I, Dred Scott: A Fictional Slave Narrative Based on the Life and Legal Precedent of Dred Scott

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Pro-Voice: How to Keep Listening When the World Wants a Fight

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Sing the Old Songs (Unabridged)

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Anne of Green Gables

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How Do You Live?

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I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 (I Survived #1)

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Allies

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Little House on the Prairie

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By the Shores of Silver Lake

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The Sword Thief (The 39 Clues, Book 3)

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Cleopatra VII: Daughter of the Nile

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One False Note (The 39 Clues, Book 2)

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Little House in the Big Woods

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Making Bombs for Hitler: A Novel

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Hitler's Last Days: The Death of the Nazi Regime and the World's Most Notorious Dictator

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The First Four Years

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Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two

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The Lost Heir (The Gryphon Chronicles, Book 1)

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I Survived the Attacks of September 11, 2001(I Survived #6)

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These Happy Golden Years

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On the Banks of Plum Creek

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A Night Divided

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The Long Winter

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Little Town on the Prairie

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Projekt 1065: A Novel of World War II

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Words on Fire

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Refugee

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Iceberg

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A Place to Hang the Moon

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Edge of Anarchy: A Post-Apocalyptic Survival Thriller

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Heroes: A Novel of Pearl Harbor

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Ground Zero

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Mark of the Thief (Mark of the Thief, Book 1)

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African Americans in Paris, Episode 426: African Americans have been present in Paris for centuries, with a significant number of them living in the city during the early 20th century. Many were artists, writers, and musicians who were drawn to the city's cultural scene. The period between...

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The Edna Lewis Episode: Edna Lewis was a Black Southern chef and writer who deeply influenced the movement toward fresh, seasonal American cuisine. Anney and Lauren dip into the life, career, and legacy of this sometimes unsung culinary hero.

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‘1619,’ Episode 4: How the Bad Blood Started

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Strange Fruit #185: What It Means To Be A Professional Black Girl: “We are professional code-switchers, hair-flippers, hip-shakers, and go-getters. We hold Ph.Ds and listen to trap music; we twerk and we work. We hold it down while lifting each other up, and we don’t have to justify or explain our reason for being. This is us.” That's how Dr. Yaba Blay describes the inspiration for her latest project, Professional Black Girl. The video series features interviews with seventeen Black women and girls ranging in age from 2 to 52, and aims to challenge racist expectations of what is "respectable." And a lot of the interviewees talk about a topic that sits right on top of their heads. "Some of my closest friends, one of the things that we tend to bond over, laugh about, kiki, has to do with hair memories," Blay says. "Whether it's old-school hairstyles or old-school products." Blay joins us this week to talk about the project, which debuts on YouTube September 9th (and features our own Dr.

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‘1619,’ Episode 3: The Birth of American Music

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‘1619,’ Episode 5: The Land of Our Fathers, Part 1

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HAP 50 - Nation Within a Nation - Martin Delany: He is called a “father of black nationalism,” but Martin Delany also promoted integration in American society. Can the apparent tension be resolved?

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Sara E. Brown, “Gender and the Genocide in Rwanda: Women as Rescuers and Perpetrators” (Routledge, 2017): Thanks to Scott Straus, Leanne Fujii and others, we know quite a bit about how men behaved during the genocide in Rwanda. But we know surprisingly little about women’s actions during that crisis. Sara Brown begins to remedy this in her excellent new st...

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Dr. Farah Jasmine Griffin–I Love Black People: Dr. Farah Jasmine Griffin is a brilliant woman who heads the African-American studies department at Columbia.

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British Royal Family Considers Hiring a Diversity Czar | Michelle Obama

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Sarah Phillips Casteel, “Calypso Jews: Jewishness in the Caribbean Literary Imagination” (Columbia UP, 2016): In Calypso Jews: Jewishness in the Caribbean Literary Imagination (Columbia University Press, 2016), Sarah Phillips Casteel, associate professor of English at Carleton University, explores the representation of Jewishness in Caribbean literature.

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Ursula Burns on the Dangers of Exceptionalism: In conversation with Roxanne Coady

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Episode 1: Trusting: Tara upends her life to join a group of Black scuba divers searching for lost shipwrecks from the transatlantic slave trade. She meets a legendary Black diver and learns about his efforts to place an underwater memorial at the wreck site of the British vessel Henrietta Marie.

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Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh, "The Souls of Womenfolk: The Religious Cultures of Enslaved Women in the Lower South" (UNC Press, 2021): An interview with Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh

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Yolande Du Bois and the Weight of W.E.B. Du Bois's Dreams: (Elizabeth) In the 20th Century, W.E.B. Du Bois was one of the leading intellectuals of the movement to gain equality for African-Americans. His daughter, Yolande Du Bois, found much of her life shaped by her father's desire for his daughter to be the exe

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A Conversation About Natural Black Hair, Identity, and Discrimination - Beyond the Scenes

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Skulls and Skin (Seeing White, Part 8): Scientists weren’t the first to divide humanity along racial – and and racist – lines. But for hundreds of years, racial scientists claimed to provide proof for those racist hierarchies – and some still do.   Resources for this episode: ...

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A Pro Football Player's Secret Shame: From October 18, 2005: Oprah talks to former New York Jets football player Laveranues Coles, who shares the story of the sexual abuse he experienced as a child by his stepfather. Oprah also talks to his mother. Psychologist Dr. Robin Smith weighs in on how people can let go of the shame they feel about their pasts and move forward unshackled.

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‘1619,’ Episode 5: The Land of Our Fathers, Part 2

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Rachel Lindsay: Former Bachelorette, television correspondent and author, Rachel Lindsay shares what it took to write a tell all book, “Miss Me With That," and how she manages her busy schedule. Plus, find out how she avoids the thorns after giving...

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’1619,’ Episode 2: The Economy That Slavery Built

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The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy with Robert P. Jones

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Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates: In an intimate letter to his son, a father explains his identity and fears within the galaxy of America, its race invention, and the mythology it has produced.  The father: Ta-Nehisi Coates  The Book: BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME BY TA-NEHISI COATES LET'...

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David Ambroz: A Fostering Success Story: Please join us for a conversation with an inspirational person who is using his lived experience to help build a more humane and compassionate nation, and how you can too.

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The Negro Problem and Asian Hate: The Fight for White: This episode is dedicated to the memory and power…

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Marcia Chatelain, "Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America" (Liveright, 2020): Chatelain examines the relationship between the fast-food industry, Black business owners, and the communities where they set up franchises after the Holy Week Uprisings of 1968...

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EP84: Deirdre Cooper-Owens on Medical Bondage, Racial and Gynecological Trauma: What She Shares: The relationship between slavery and modern medicine Learning to read between the lines of the medical literature produced during slavery The emotional strain of researching archives of enslaved people Her own gynecological...

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Growing Up With Toni Morrison: Experiences of growing up with the beloved writer.

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You Might Be A Colonizer If...

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More Uncommon Yet Delicious Crops: More Uncommon Yet Delicious Crops Connect With Richard Kuehnel: Richard Kuehnel is the owner of Small Island Seed Co, where they specialize in rare, unusual, cold-hardy vegetable and herb crops. Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5%...