Amelia Bloomer
Amelia Jenks Bloomer was many things: writer and publisher, public speaker, temperance reformer, advocate for women’s rights and dress reform, and adoptive mother. She was not the inventor of the trou...
10 Mar 202538min
The Color Line
My guest today is Dr. Martha S. Jones, the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor, professor of history, and a professor at the SNF Agora Institute at the Johns Hopkins University and author o...
3 Mar 202537min
The Women of the Universal Negro Improvement Association
The Universal Negro Improvement Association is often most closely associated with Marcus Garvey, but from the beginning, the work of women was essential to the development of the organization. Amy Ash...
24 Feb 20251h 1min
The Racist History of Property Taxes in the United States
After emancipation, formerly enslaved Black Americans knew that the key to economic freedom was land ownership, but as soon as they began to acquire land, local tax assessors began to overassess their...
17 Feb 202555min
Ericka Huggins & the Black Panther Party
For Ericka Huggins, the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, which she attended at just 15 years old, was a turning point in her life, inspiring her toward activism. She later joined the Black Pa...
10 Feb 202544min
Land Displacement & the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians
Thousands of years ago, a band of Cahuilla Indians migrated south into the Coachella Valley, calling the area Séc-he, meaning boiling water. The Mexicans translated this as agua caliente (hot water), ...
3 Feb 202539min
The History of Interracial Marriage in Mississippi
In 1865, when Black people in Mississippi first gained the legal right to marriage, so-called Black Codes outlawed interracial marriage, punishable by life in prison. Five years later, Republicans in ...
27 Jan 202545min
The Panama Canal
The completion of the Panama Canal in 1914 positioned the United States as a global power, but the U.S. didn’t complete the feat single-handedly. It required land from Panama, equipment and informatio...
20 Jan 202548min
