BLVCK | STORY: The Podcast Marquis D.B.

On January 15th 2021 - Dr. King's 92 birthday - I was privileged to speak with global company, Kimball Electronics, for their first Diversity and Inclusion Black History luncheon. It was broadcast in 8 different countries and had an attendance of well over 400 employees. 

This moment captures the history before Dr. King in order to better understand what world he was born into, a brief highlight of what made Dr. King who he is during the peak of his activism, and where we are today, including our responsibility to fulfill his Dream for the American Dream. 

I hope you enjoy

“Any time, any time while I was a slave, if one minute's freedom had been offered to me, and I had been told I must die at the end of that minute, I would have taken it. Just to stand one minute on god' earth a free woman–I would”

In this episode, we learn the story of the resourceful, courageous, and intelligent Elizabeth Freeman - An woman enslaved in Massachusetts who learned from revolutionary writings of freedom and filed a lawsuit against the state to declare her own.

A husband and wife, both enslaved from Macon, Georgia decide to make a daring escape 810 miles away to Philadelphia for freedom -- traveling, NOT in secret or by underground trail or in the dead of night chased by barking hounds... but in plain sight of White society
 As a white male and his Black personal servant
This is the story of Ellen and William Craft.

For Those Who Want to Understand History and Systemic and Structural Racism in America.
401 years summed up in 60 historical facts connecting the very 1st slaves in 1619 to the death of George Floyd in 2020. 
Contrary to popular belief, history does not exist in a vacuum and racism and discrimination does not need to be overt with white hoods and water hoses to be real. 
Everything is connected.
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Holy Sh*t We Did It !!! The 1st Episode and what better day to start things than on June 19th aka "JUNETEENTH"

155 years ago today, Blacks were officially free in the United States. This episode discusses the history of the 4th of July, protests and riots, and why June 19, 1865 is so significant.

“People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them” - James Baldwin 

Things We Never Knew

Stories They Never Told

The Good, Bad, and Painful ....

This is Blvck History. This is Our Blvck Stories.