The Break: 40 Acres and a Mule – THROWBACK!

*Listen in to a round table discussion as KC and the family discuss what the Black community would/should/could do if ever given reparations. Podcast guests include Chris Lehman, DJ A-ski, Toria Williams, Mike Eagle, Malcolm Darrell, Tash Moseley, Brother T, Jamila Farwell, and Darius Gray.

*Parental Discretion is advised with this podcast.

15 Minute Break: 40 Acres and a Mule Part II

*Listen in to a round table discussion as KC and the family discuss what the Black community would/should/could do if ever given reparations. Podcast guests include Chris Lehman, DJ A-ski, Toria Williams, Mike Eagle, Malcolm Darrell, Tash Moseley, Brother T, Jamila Farwell, and Darius Gray.

*Parental Discretion is advised with this podcast.

 

Black Is: On This Day…

On this day, June 9th:

1989 – Call for Reparations. Congressman John Conyers D-Michigan announced a call for a reparations study.

1929 – R&B singer Johnny Ace was born John Marshall Alexander, Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee. His major hits include “My Song” and “Pledging My Love.”
1948 – Oliver W. Hill elected to Richmond, Va., City Council. His work against racial discrimination helped end the doctrine of “separate but equal.” He also helped win a landmark legal decisions involving equality in pay for black teachers.

1877- Meta-Vaux Warick Fuller ~ (sculptor) born.  Best known as the first African American artist to make art celebrating Afrocentric themes.
1904- James Napier ~ organizes the first bank begun by a Black American (in Tennessee)