10 episodes
BAPcast More Banana
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5.0 • 11 Ratings
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BAPcast, a Black and proud herstory podcast, is set to release its first episodes on June 19th. With a focus on Black women who tend to exist in the periphery of U.S. history lessons, host Mary Eliska Dorn seeks to fill in some of the gaps she suspects are as prevalent in the average American’s understanding of Black history as they have been in her own. Mary Eliska is a Brooklyn photographer whose interest in critical race theory and history has only been piqued in recent years. “As a kid growing up in a predominantly white Austin, Texas suburb, I instinctively recoiled from anything that stood to set me apart from my peers, including suppressing any curiosity about Black history or culture,” Dorn says, “The way my history education was set up made it almost seem like Black people didn’t exist between slavery and the 20th Century Civil Rights Movement, and those lessons tended to focus on the struggle and victimization Black people endured. I remember being taken aback the first time I saw images of Black Victorians. Of course, there were Black Victorians… why are these images of dignified, ornately dressed, wealthy Black people from late 19th century America so surprising?”
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Assata Shakur
To many, she's a hero, to others, a terrorist. One thing is for certain: there's a lot more to Assata Shakur than the FBI has told us, and Mary doesn't even care that the FBI agent who lives in her phone knows she knows that.
Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jul/13/assata-shakur-civil-rights-activist-fbi-most-wanted
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/assata-shakur-was-convicted-of-murder-is-she-a-terrorist/2013/05/08/69acb602-b7e5-11e2-aa9e-a02b765ff0ea_story.html
https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/wanted_terrorists/joanne-deborah-chesimard/download.pdf
http://www.assatashakur.org
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assata_Shakur
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvYqYlvboEg
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Elizabeth Jennings Graham
On a sweltering July day in 1854, Elizabeth Jennings had zero intention of letting racial discrimination make her late to church. Her violent removal from the “whites-only” streetcar she had been riding was the beginning of the end for racial segregation on New York streetcars.
https://daily.jstor.org/the-woman-who-refused-to-leave-a-whites-only-streetcar/
https://ny.curbed.com/2020/2/4/21120447/nyc-history-elizabeth-jennings-graham-public-transit
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/elizabeth-jennings-graham/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Jennings_Graham
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Stagecoach Mary
Mary Fields had to be tough as nails to thrive in the untamed American midwest as the first Black woman to be a star-route mail carrier.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mary-Fields
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMxSTtRBa-o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khhIwpxrtFk
https://www.history.com/news/meet-stagecoach-mary-the-daring-black-pioneer-who-protected-wild-west-stagecoaches
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Fields
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Esther & Flo
Vaudeville child mega-star Esther Lee Jones has been gaining more recognition as the true inspiration behind the cartoon character, Betty Boop. However, Baby Esther herself gained a lot of inspiration for her act from 1920s Broadway star, Florence Mills.
https://www.thecut.com/2017/03/the-forgotten-black-woman-behind-betty-boop.html
https://bettyboop.fandom.com/wiki/What_Ever_Happened_to_Baby_Esther%3F
https://www.harlemworldmagazine.com/the-amazing-story-of-harlems-esther-jones-videos/
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Florence-Mills
http://www.florencemills.com/music_and_shows.htm
https://songbook1.wordpress.com/fx/si/african-american-musical-theater-1896-1926/blackbirds-1926-selected-recordings-of-songs-in-the-revue/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Mills
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Barbara Jordan, Part II
Barbara Jordan is in with the in-crowd as a Texas State Senator, but she’s faced with new challenges and exponentially increased recognition as the first Black United States congressperson from the south.
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Barbara Jordan, Part I
Young Barbara Jordan was blessed with incredible determination and a powerful voice. Both would be essential in her ascent from Houston's Fifth Ward to the Texas State Capitol.
Barbara Jordan: American Hero by Marybeth Rogers
https://www.chron.com/local/history/houston-legends/article/In-a-life-of-firsts-Barbara-Jordan-won-a-lasting-7966574.php
https://userpages.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/come_out.html
https://victoryinstitute.org/black-history-month-spotlight-barbara-jordan/
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Customer Reviews
Educational AND entertaining!
So much more than a standard history podcast--Mary uses period music, funny accents, and concise but beautifully written essays to paint a full picture for listeners about the important Black women our sophomore year snoozefests left out. Mary is a star!
Juneteenth BAPcast
Brilliantly done, Mary: Informative, witty, insightful. I learned something, and that says a lot, since I teach this material to college students. Every semester, I cover the Texas Justification of Causes for session (which mentions slavery a dozen times and “states’ rights” not once); the Emancipation Proclamation; the Civil War Amendments; and the aftermath of the Civil War. In 30 minutes, you neatly cover material that I spend hours covering — and you do it in a more enjoyable way. In future, I’ll include your BAPcast on my syllabus. You’ve made me proud!
Dad
Things you don’t know
Entertaining, thoughtful, interesting, provocative. What more could you ask? I knew nothing about Charity before. Now I do.