The Global Black History Podcast

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A comprehensive podcast on black history and black issues around the world. You’ll hear about subjects in black history that you won’t find in your average history curriculum. Each story is told in an entertaining narrative fashion that’s easy to listen to. I used to get bored in history class too. But black history is far from boring. The rich tapestry of experience that makes up the diaspora deserves its attention and that’s the mission of this podcast: bringing black history from around the world to average people.

  1. 03/26/2021

    Brief History of Caribbean Carnival Celebrations from Trinidad to Nottinghill

    Brief History of Caribbean Carnival Celebrations from Trinidad to Nottinghill A brief history of Carnival celebrations from colonization to the modern day. How did carnival originate in the Caribbean and spread across the world? Get to know some of the carnival traditions like Jouvert or Dirty Mas and get to know more about the traditional masquerade characters. This episode will also connect the original carnival celebrations to the 'pretty mas' celebrations today and discuss the role of the Caribbean diaspora in making carnival an international event. As usual, I'll address some controversial questions: - Why do some people dress like Native Americans for carnival? - Is participating in carnival cultural appropriation? - Who invented carnival? - Who brought carnival around the world? - Has carnival been ruined by commercialization? Listen to the episode and find out. E-MAIL blackhistorypod@gmail.com Find me on social media and say hello. SUBSCRIBE and follow for a new weekly podcast. Find me on twitter: www.twitter.com/blkhistorypod Subscribe on Patreon: www.patreon.com/blackhistorypod Music by rising star Pres Morris: Twitter: www.twitter.com/pres_morris radiofreeglobe.bandcamp.com Sources: History of Carnival And Its Elements  http://www.ncctt.org/new/index.php/carnival-history/history-of-carnival.html What is Ash Wednesday? https://www.christianity.com/church/church-life/what-is-ash-wednesday-why-do-christians-celebrate-it.html Carnival | Wikipedia Article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival#Trinidad_and_Tobago Traditional Mas Terminology https://traditionalmas.com/carnival-terms/ Old Mas Costumes http://www.tntisland.com/carnivalcharacters.html Midnight Robber (Additional Information) https://www.midnightrobber.com/history Moko Jumbie (Additional Information) https://traditionalmas.com/portfolio/moko-jumbie-mas/ Calypso’s Subversiveness https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20171010-the-surprising-politics-of-calypso Soca Music Article https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2011/03/14/134264326/soca-the-music-of-trinidads-carnival

    48 min

  2. 03/19/2021

    Brief History of Afro-Cuban Santeria (Blood Sacrifice, Magic, Yoruba Religion & the Orishas)

    Brief History of Afro-Cuban Santeria (Yoruba Religions, Orishas, Blood Sacrifice, Magic) An exploration of Santeria and how this Yoruba religion syncretized with Catholicism. This hour long podcast is my aim to combat misinformation about Santeria. With research from Migene Gonzalez-Wippler and some additional context, this episode is great for anyone who enjoyed my episode on Rastafarianism and wanted to learn more about another religion originating from West Africa. This podcast is on the lighter side and I'll talk about all the interesting parts of Santeria you're dying to learn about. I'll give details about the Orishas such as Chango, Oshun, Yemaya and Obatala amongst others. Learn about the rites and rituals of Santeria NEVER seen in the media... You can find out how people "join" Santeria and learn about Afro-Cuban magic as well as the TRUTH about blood sacrifice within the faith. This has an Afro-Caribbean historical focus and might be a great listen if you're interested in Afro-Latino history or Caribbean history. Sources: Brief History of Afro-Cuban Santeria (Orishas, Blood Sacrifice, Magic) by Migene Gonzalez-Wippler Powers of the Orishas: Santeria and the worship of the Saints by Migene Gonzalez-Wippler E-MAIL blackhistorypod@gmail.com Find me on social media and say hello. SUBSCRIBE and follow for a new weekly podcast. Find me on twitter: www.twitter.com/blkhistorypod Subscribe on Patreon: www.patreon.com/blackhistorypod Music by rising star Pres Morris: Twitter: www.twitter.com/pres_morris radiofreeglobe.bandcamp.com Closing Track License    https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/xhCgbUS5Qo/

    1h 1m

  3. 03/05/2021

    Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans (part 3) | Slum Clearance Poses As Disaster Relief, Media Racism, Kanye Being Kanye

    Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans (part 3) | Slum Clearance Poses As Disaster Relief, Kanye Being Kanye & Media Racism My third, final, and longest episode on Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. I'll detail more about the National Guard, Michael Brown from FEMA, Michael Chertoff, head of Homeland Security and the five days at the Superdome. Toward the end of this episode, expect an intellectually rigorous (not basic) discussion on the role the media played in New Orleans. All the hot topics get their time of day in this episode: FEMA incompetence, shredding in the Superdome roof, Barbara Bush's comments, Kanye West's infamous interview, looting, and a topic that's not so hot (but ought to be hotter): white vigilantism and racist violence in the storm's aftermath. **This episode contains a correction based on an error I presented in Episode #2. The comments about people better off at the Astrodome were made by Barbara Bush not Laura Bush and will be further contextualized here.** Books Come Hell or High Water by Michael Eric Dyson The Great Deluge by Douglas Brinkley How to Kill A City by Peter Moscowitz Articles  New Orleans Police Chief Resigns (Sept 27, 2005) https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna9503273 Symptoms of Trauma https://www.helpguide.org/articles/ptsd-trauma/coping-with-emotional-and-psychological-trauma.htm Troops told shoot to kill in New Orleans (Sept 2, 2005)  https://www.abc.net.au/news/2005-09-02/troops-told-shoot-to-kill-in-new-orleans/2094678 False reports of lawlessness made Katrina situation worse (Aug 15, 2015)  https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/16/hurricane-katrina-new-orleans-looting-violence-misleading-reports White Vigilantes During Katrina (Jan 5, 2009)  https://www.propublica.org/article/post-katrina-white-vigilantes-shot-african-americans-with-impunity Interview with Arkansas National Guard https://www.wwno.org/post/katrina-files-arkansas-army-national-guard-and-shoot-kill-order Archived CNN Report | Kathleen Blanco Shoot To Kill Remarks (Sept 2, 2005)  https://www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/09/02/katrina.impact/ How Hurricane Katrina Deaths Were Determined (Academic Source) https://ldh.la.gov/assets/oph/Center-PHCH/Center-CH/stepi/specialstudies/2014PopwellRatard_KatrinaDeath_PostedOnline.pdf When Louisiana Lost It’s Foster Children https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/katrina-foster-kids

    1h 19m

  4. 02/26/2021

    Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans (part 2) | Let Me Eat Cake: Politicians Straight Up Chilling While Black People Drown

    Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans (part 2) | Let Me Eat Cake: George W Bush, Kathleen Blanco, Michael Brown, Mayor Nagin Fail Black Americans In New Orleans, Louisiana Oops, I did it again. I played with your heart. And there will be one more episode in this series. This is the second part of a 3 part series. Today's episode will be following the immediate aftermath of New Orleans. I'm talking about the levees breaking, the Lower Ninth Ward, the 17th Street Canal breach, the Superdome and where the federal government was for the days after the storm in New Orleans. I'll talk more about FEMA and its director, Michael Brown, Governor Kathleen Blanco as well as Mayor Ray Nagin. Black New Orleans was devastated by New Orleans and we'll ask a very important question: Were the people in New Orleans left to drown on purpose because they were black? I will seriously address this question directly throughout this episode. Books The Great Deluge by Douglas Brinkley  Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster by Michael Eric Dyson  Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink  How To Kill A City by Peter Moscowitz Articles August 29th 2005 | The Day Katrina Hit https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/hurricane-katrina-slams-into-gulf-coast Essential Timeline (less political | possible paywall)  https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/9/weather-hurricane-katrina-timeline/ Timeline for Hurricane Katrina  https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/08/24/timeline-hurricane-katrina-and-aftermath/32003013/ Sound Clips George W Bush Sound Bite From Introduction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUyx-vBwcog&t=7s Ray Nagin's Chocolate City Remarks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEH9u26Vlhk E-MAIL blackhistorypod@gmail.com Find me on social media and say hello. SUBSCRIBE and follow for a new weekly podcast. Find me on twitter: www.twitter.com/blkhistorypod Subscribe on Patreon: www.patreon.com/blackhistorypod ALL music by rising star Pres Morris: Twitter: www.twitter.com/pres_morris radiofreeglobe.bandcamp.com

    1h 2m

  5. 02/19/2021

    Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans (part 1) | Category 5 Natural Disaster Devastates Gulf Coast & Chocolate Cities, But Who Profits?

    Connecting Environmental Racism/segregation in this political true crime saga. Hurricane Katrina, the August 29, 2005 Category 5 hurricane that slammed into New Orleans and the Gulf Coast devastated black American communities, including the historically black Lower Ninth Ward. Learn about the key players involved: Mayor Ray Nagin, D-Governor Kathleen Blanco, and George W Bush, the at the time vacationing president of the United States. Why did the levees break? How was the Lower Ninth Ward destroyed? How could a disaster like this happen? Part 1 of a 2 part series. Books The Great Deluge by Douglas Brinkley Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster by Michael Eric Dyson  Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink  The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein How to Kill A City by Peter Moscowitz  Articles Native People of New Orleans  http://www.ala.org/aboutala/offices/nola-tribes Mardi Gras Indians  https://www.mardigrasneworleans.com/history/mardi-gras-indians/ Kofi Annan Declares Iraq War Illegal:  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/16/iraq.iraq August 29th 2005 | The Day Katrina Hit https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/hurricane-katrina-slams-into-gulf-coast Essential Hurricane Katrina Timeline | National Geographic {Paywall} https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/9/weather-hurricane-katrina-timeline/ Hurricane Katrina Timeline | USA Today https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/08/24/timeline-hurricane-katrina-and-aftermath/32003013/ White Vigilantes During Katrina  https://www.propublica.org/article/post-katrina-white-vigilantes-shot-african-americans-with-impunity Mayor Ray Nagin (Follow Up)  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Nagin Levees (a basic summary) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levee Sound Clips Memorable Moments Hurricane Katrina [Timestamp 1:45-2:18] CBS News John Roberts Reporting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD0-dvQfARk Weather Channel - Hurricane Katrina - August 25, 2005 (Tropical Update) [Timestamp 3:15-4:05] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZo2kBWQRzU&feature=youtu.be  Hurricane Katrina Coverage: (8/26/2005) - The Weather Channel [Timestamp 1:49-2:46] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOX8gkbCMnU&feature=youtu.be C-Span | August 28 2005 President Bush Remarks [1:09-1:41] https://www.c-span.org/video/?188604-1/presidential-remarks C-Span | August 30 2005 Kathleen Blanco Remarks [0:00-1:18] https://www.c-span.org/video/?188622-1/hurricane-katrina-relief-efforts blackhistorypod@gmail.com Find me on social media and say hello. SUBSCRIBE and follow for a new weekly podcast. Find me on twitter: www.twitter.com/blkhistorypod Subscribe on Patreon: www.patreon.com/blackhistorypod ALL music by rising star Pres Morris: Twitter: www.twitter.com/pres_morris radiofreeglobe.bandcamp.com

    56 min

  6. 02/12/2021

    Concentration Camps, Trials & Executions In Nairobi, Kenya | Britain's Shameful Colonial Past in Kenya AKA "The Emergency" (part 3)

    Concentration Camps, Trials & Executions  In Nairobi | Britain's Shameful Colonial Past in Kenya AKA "The Emergency" (part 3) Let's talk about the  end of the KLFA rebellion, British withdrawal from Kenya, the rise of Jomo Kenyatta, General China, the fate of the Gikuyu and the trials and executions carried out by the British. This is part 3 of a 3 part history podcast series on how Kenya gained independence from England... I'm going to take us through the brutal end of the KLFA rebellion and the end to the British occupation of Kenya. We're talking about controversial stuff today including British re-education camps, the fate of the Gikuyu people and political organizing in Kenya until official independence from Britain. In this episode, I'll detail more about the concentration camps, re-education, the colonial government's destruction of the Kenyan state and the outcome of the KLFA rebellion. We get a relatively happy ending with Kenyan independence but the journey there has many twists and turns... This will be my first black history month doing this podcast... This is a 3 part series documenting the Kenyan emergency. My next episode will be on a relatively recent event influential in African American history.  I mention it at the end of this episode. Share this with your history class, cite me in a paper or better yet, email me. blackhistorypod@gmail.com Find me on social media and say hello. SUBSCRIBE and follow for a new weekly podcast. Find me on twitter: www.twitter.com/blkhistorypod Subscribe on Patreon: www.patreon.com/blackhistorypod ALL music by rising star Pres Morris: Twitter: www.twitter.com/pres_morris radiofreeglobe.bandcamp.com SOURCES: Facing Mount Kenya by Jomo Kenyatta How to pronounce Gikuyu:  https://forvo.com/word/g%C4%A9k%C5%A9y%C5%A9/ Histories of the Hanged: The Dirty War in Kenya and the End of an Empire by David Anderson   BBC news source:  https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-12997138

    51 min

  7. 02/05/2021

    The Authoritarian Police State | Britain's Shameful Colonial Past in Kenya AKA "The Emergency" (part 2)

    Part 2 of a (now) THREE PART series. The Authoritarian Police State | Britain's Shameful Colonial Past in Kenya AKA "The Emergency" (part 2) Let's talk about the authoritarian police state and white nationalist response to Kenyan sovereignty. The Mau Mau rebellion, the Kenyan Land and Freedom Army,  Jomo Kenyatta, Nairobi, Gikuyu/Kikuyu history.  Part 2 of a 3 part history podcast series on how Kenya gained independence from England... Warning: it's unpleasant. I'm going to outline the stakes for Kenyan independence, the political issues faced by Africans and the W I L D behavior of the British (United Kingdom) colonial governments in African countries. In this episode, I'll detail more white nationalism, African nationalism and talk about the Lari Massacre, one of the most significant events in changing public opinion in favor of the colonial government (but not for the reason you think.) BACK from my hiatus and ready for black history month. This will be my first black history month doing this podcast... This is a 3 part series documenting the Kenyan emergency. The 3rd part will be here soon because I am finally back in my office and can record, write, and ruin everyone's day by constantly talking about obscure black history.  Yay! Find me on social media and say hello. Let me know if you cite this podcast in a class paper. Don't be shy. SUBSCRIBE and follow for a new weekly podcast. Find me on twitter: www.twitter.com/blkhistorypod Subscribe on Patreon: www.patreon.com/blackhistorypod ALL music by the talented Pres Morris: Twitter: www.twitter.com/pres_morris radiofreeglobe.bandcamp.com SOURCES: Facing Mount Kenya by Jomo Kenyatta How to pronounce Gikuyu:  https://forvo.com/word/g%C4%A9k%C5%A9y%C5%A9/ Histories of the Hanged: The Dirty War in Kenya and the End of an Empire by David Anderson   BBC news source:  https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-12997138

    54 min

  8. 01/29/2021

    Leave Kenya Alone! Britain's Shameful Colonial Past in Kenya AKA "The Emergency" (part 1)

    Leave Kenya Alone! (Britain's Shameful Hidden Past AKA "The Emergency").  The Mau Mau rebellion, the Kenyan Land and Freedom Army,  Jomo Kenyatta, Nairobi, Gikuyu/Kikuyu history. A brief introduction into how Kenya gained independence from England. Warning: it's unpleasant. I'm going to outline the stakes for Kenyan independence, the political issues faced by Africans and the W I L D behavior of the British (United Kingdom) colonial governments in African countries. BACK from my hiatus and ready AF for black history month. My first black history month doing this podcast... This is a two part series documenting the Kenyan emergency. The second part will be much longer because I am finally back in my office and can record, write, and ruin everyone's day by constantly talking about obscure black history.  Yay! Find me on social media and say hello. Let me know if you cite this podcast in a class paper. Don't be shy. SUBSCRIBE and follow for a new weekly podcast. Find me on twitter: www.twitter.com/blkhistorypod Subscribe on Patreon: www.patreon.com/blackhistorypod ALL music by the talented Pres Morris: Twitter: www.twitter.com/pres_morris radiofreeglobe.bandcamp.com SOURCES: Facing Mount Kenya by Jomo Kenyatta How to pronounce Gikuyu:  https://forvo.com/word/g%C4%A9k%C5%A9y%C5%A9/ Histories of the Hanged: The Dirty War in Kenya and the End of an Empire by David Anderson Books by David Anderson: https://www.google.com/search?q=david+anderson+author+histories+of+the+hanged&client=firefox-b-1-d&sxsrf=ALeKk03ag-gZOsng2oQreowMY_9zg2zxpw:1611951634035&source=univ&tbm=shop&tbo=u&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwizrKrk-8HuAhUzB50JHaiQBfsQ1TV6BAgJEGo&biw=1420&bih=950 BBC news source:  https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-12997138

    45 min
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A comprehensive podcast on black history and black issues around the world. You’ll hear about subjects in black history that you won’t find in your average history curriculum. Each story is told in an entertaining narrative fashion that’s easy to listen to. I used to get bored in history class too. But black history is far from boring. The rich tapestry of experience that makes up the diaspora deserves its attention and that’s the mission of this podcast: bringing black history from around the world to average people.

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