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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

#KeenanAnderson, cousin of #BlackLivesMatter co-founder, #PatrisseCullors dies of cardiac arrest after being repeatedly tased by #LAPD https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/13/us/keenan-anderson-black-lives-matter-cousin-police-death/index.html A 31-year-old father and English teacher died, marking the third officer-involved death in the city this year.
January 3 at the site of a traffic collision in Los Angeles’ Venice neighborhood
As police struggled to arrest Anderson, they tased him repeatedly #PoliceBrutality #PoliceReformNow #PoliceRacism #PoliceCrimes
#BLM

#BlackLivesMatter co-founder #PatrisseCullors has expressed outrage over the death of her cousin, who died after being tasered by LAPD officers.

Washington DC high school teacher #KeenanAnderson, 31, suffered a cardiac arrest and later died in hospital after he was held down and repeatedly tasered following a traffic accident on 3 January. #PoliceBrutality. #PoliceReform

Black Lives Matter co-founder's cousin Keenan Anderson dies after LAPD officers use Taser on him
N'dea Yancey-Bragg
#BlackLivesMatter co-founder's cousin #KeenanAnderson dies after #LAPD officers use #Taser on him
Keenan Anderson, 31, a #teacher and relative of Black Lives Matter co-founder #PatrisseCullors, went into cardiac arrest four hours after a struggle with officers on Jan. 3, Los Angeles Police Chief #Miche Moore said in a news conference.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/01/12/keenan-anderson-black-lives-matter-co-founder-cousin-dies-lapd-officers-taser/11038325002/