182. Fannie Lou Hamer
Fannie Lou Hamer, a civil rights activist and victime of teh Mississippi Apendectomy, a woman who history deserves to remember,Hosted by Katie CharlwoodDonate at: Patreon Tip JarBeacons (at the bottom...
5 Mar 55min
181. Katherine Johnson - NASA's Human Computer
Katherine Johnson was a woman whose calculations at NASA helped launch men into space (and bring them home again) shattering barriers for women and Black scientists. She was a mathematician, a human c...
17 Feb 1h 3min
From the Vault - William Dorsey Swann- Queen of Drag
It's Black History Month, so let's pull a story from the vault, that of one William Dorsey Swann, who entered the world enslaved and would be the beacon of ballroom. Joy is an act of resistance, so li...
10 Feb 41min
180. Robert Smalls Vs the Confederacy
Some stories from history are so impresive that they sound like you ripped them from a novel; an enslaved man steals a confederate ship, sails it to freedom and then fights the very nation that kept h...
4 Feb 1h 31min
179. Black Dahlia - Part 2
On January 15th 1947 a mother strolling with her toddler comes across a body in a vacant lot, a body that would become one of America's most infamous cold cases, the murder of Elizabeth Short, the Bla...
31 Jan 1h 47min
178. Black Dahlia - Part 1
On January 15th 1947 a mother strolling with her toddler comes across a body in a vacant lot, a body that would become one of America's most infamous cold cases, the murder of Elizabeth Short, the Bla...
27 Jan 1h 15min
177. John George Haigh - The Acid Bath Murderer
John George Haigh murdered at least six people over the course of five yers 1944-1949. A notorious fraudster he killed for convenience...and profit, and tried to dispose of his victims by liquifying t...
21 Jan 1h 20min
176. Who Killed the King of Siam?
On the 9th June 1946, a shot rings out from the bedroom of the 20 year old monarch, Ananda Mahidol, King Rama VIII of Siam.And so continues our month long dive into 1940s crime...Hosted by Katie Charl...
14 Jan 1h 1min
