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#BlackHistoryMonth - daily short history audio features

Posted February 7, 2022 by 'mpger

"Everyday in the month of February #WMPG is airing a short audio feature about an influential Black man or woman in history. We’ll hear about people from Maine to Malawi. We celebrate scientists, radicals, teachers, preachers, musicians, athletes, and those who fought to followed their dreams.

You can hear them all again right here:
Billie Holiday, Leonard Cummings, Macon Bolling Allen, Harriet Tubman, Nelson Mandela, Shirley Chisholm, Marsha P. Johnson, Gordon Parks, Jackie Robinson, #MaryMcleodBethune, #JosephineBaker, #GeraldTalbot, #DukeEllington, #NinaSimone, #LewisLatimer, #AudreLorde, #SojournerTruth, Thurgood Marshall, Shirley Chisolm, Tarana Burke, #ScottJoplin, Angela Davis, #EmmittTill, #BarackObama, #ClaudetteColvin, #RubyBridges, Cornel West, #AliciaGarza #PatrisseCullors and #OpalTometi"

Link to mp3 audio files:
https://www.wmpg.org/black-history-month-audio-history-stories/
#BlackHistory #BlackMusicians #BlackHistoricalFigures #CommunityRadio #WMPGFM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2xZ_gN-OWo

#book
#TheBarn: The Secret #History of A Murder In #Mississippi

by #WrightThompson

#EmmittTill #antiblackmurder #hidinginplainsight #antiblackracism

“I’ve always heard that America was the home of the brave, but we’re not brave enough to face our history?”
—Lonnie Bunch on @thereidout@twitter on
@MSNBC@twitter
#EmmittTill

#QT - https://newsie.social/@PACPurdue96/110271779298826099

I don't know why there's a symmetry to #JerrySpringer and the woman who falsely accused #EmmittTill dying on the same day. There just is.