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Francisco Nzumbi
The Black History Buff Podcast is a fully independent project. We aren’t backed by a publishing house, advertising partners or a major enterprise. For our existence, we depend on our loyal listeners – we depend on you. So if you enjoy...
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Mary Turner: A Young Black Woman Dehumanized
On May 16, 1918, a plantation owner was murdered, prompting a manhunt which resulted in a series of lynchings in May 1918 in southern Georgia, United States. White people killed at least 13 black people during the next two weeks. Among...
Weird History
What the South Was Like During Reconstruction
On April 15, 1865, Lincoln was gunned down in Ford’s Theater by John Wilkes Booth, a man sympathetic to the defeated Confederacy. In the years following the end of the Civil War and Lincoln’s assassination, his successor Andrew Johnson...
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The Little Rock Nine: Separate and Unequal
Separate but equal was a legal doctrine in the United States that permitted segregation in everything water fountains to buses to schools. Services were definitely separate in the United States in the first half of the 20th century, but...
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Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Sister Rosetta Tharpe was one of the most influential artists of the 20th Century born on the 20th March 1915 in Arkansas, U.S. She was a talented singer, songwriter, and recording artist who attained popularity in the 1930s and 1940s...
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Della Reese: the First Black Woman to Host a Talk Show
Decades before Oprah, Della Reese was the first Black Woman to host a talk show. Born in Michigan in 1931, Della Reese began making records and performing on television variety shows in the 1950s. Reese was the first black woman to host...
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Benedita Souza Da Silva Sampaio
Benedita Souza Da Silva Sampaio is Brazilian politician and the first-ever female and Black person to become governor of Rio. She's a figure that reinforces racial equality for the blacks of Latin America.
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The Man Who Planned to Make Antigua an African State
Do you know about the great Prince Klaas? In 1704, 10-year-old Kwaku nicknamed Prince Klaas was captured from Ghana during the Eguafo Civil war and was shipped to the Caribbean where he was purchased by a rich sugar planter. At that...
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Ellen and William Craft: The Journey to Freedom
This video tells the story of Ellen and William Craft's daring escape from slavery, which included Ellen's disguise as a white man. The video also covers their life in England, where they fleed to avoid re-enslavement and to start their...
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Anna Arnold Hedgeman
Anna Arnold grew up in Anoka, Minnesota. Even though veryone was white except her family, she did not experience segretation growing up. However, when she went out into the world, she found that she had to fight for people to see her and...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Steven S. Rogers - Successful Black Entrepreneurs
Steven Rogers retired from Harvard Business School (HBS) in 2019 where he was the “MBA Class of 1957 Senior Lecturer” in General Management. He taught Entrepreneurial Finance and a new course that he created, titled “Black Business...
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What are Sundown Towns?
A sundown or sunset town was a city, town or neighborhood in the US that excluded non-whites after dark. The term sundown came from the signs that were posted at the towns borders stating "Negro, Don't Let the Sun Set On You Here." A...
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Doris Miller: Hero of Pearl Harbour
Doris Miller was a United States Navy cook third class who was killed in action during World War II. He was the first Black American to be awarded the Navy Cross. In this episode, we take a brief look at his heroic life and his amazing...
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Harriet Jacobs: The Journey to Freedom
This video tells the life story of Harriet Jacobs, the writer of "Life of a Slave Girl." The video details her childhood and her yearslong journey to be reunited with her children, who were sold to slaveowners in different states. It...
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Benjamin Banneker: Time Lord
Benjamin Banneker was a self-taught mathematician, astronomer, compiler of almanacs, a writer, an inventor and the man who may have completed the design for Washington DC Capitol City of the United States of America from memory. Banneker...
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Literary Icons You NEED to Know From the Harlem Renaissance (feat. Princess Weekes)
Novels like Passing by Nella Larsen, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, and the poetry of Langston Hughes were all written during this period and have become important pieces of the American literary canon. Still, when...
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Yasuke: the Forgotten African Samurai
There is a Japanese proverb which says “For a Samurai to be brave, he must have a bit of black blood.” Yasuke first appears in history in 1579 as an attendant of the Jesuit missionary Alessandro Valignano coming to Japan to visit the...
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Why Richard Pryor is still funny
From minstrels to vaudeville to Instagram, comedy has come a long way. Richard Pryor is arguably your favorite comedian's favorite comedian so in this episode, Hallease and Evelyn look at how comedy has changed throughout modern history,...
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Famous Black Women in History
A quick overview of famous Black women in history and a bit about what they have accomplished.
60 Second Histories
The Zulu Wars - part 1
This video gives an introduction to Zululand in Africa and its people.
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What Missy Elliott did for Afrofuturism
Missy Elliott and her frequent collaborators have produced over two decades of music videos that we are going to attempt to justify as Afrofuturistic work. Grab your inflatable trash bags, as we take a stroll down memory lane.
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Ama Mazama - "Sale" by Léon-Gontran Damas
Ama Mazama (aka Marie-Josée Cérol) is Associate Professor and Director of the Graduate Programs of the Department of Africa American Studies at Temple University. She received her PhD with highest distinction from La Sorbonne Nouvelle,...
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Cicely Tyson: American Actress and Fashion Model
Cicely Tyson (December 19, 1924 – January 28, 2021) was an American actress and fashion model. With a career span of more than seven decades, she was a recipient of several awards (three Primetime Emmy Awards, four Black Reel Awards, one...
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Is It Time To Cancel Black History Month?
Should we cancel Black History Month? October is Black History Month in the UK - a month to highlight the achievements of the Black community, celebrate their contributions to the UK and learn about the important Black historical figures...