A profile of Elizabeth Freeman, an enslaved woman who utilized the Massachusetts State Constitution to file suit against her owner and gain her freedom.

Show notes and sources are available at http://noirehistoir.com/blog/elizabeth-freeman.

A movie review and discussion of the social thriller "Get Out" which was written and directed by Jordan Peele. If you haven't seen the movie already you can still listen but stop when you reach the spoiler section. That way you can still see and enjoy the movie without having the plot twist ruined for you.

Show notes and video are available at http://noirehistoir.com/blog/get-out-movie-review.

A profile of Hiram Rhodes Revels, an educator and minister in the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church who also served as the first Black U.S. Senator.

Show notes and sources are available at http://noirehistoir.com/blog/hiram-revels.

A review of "Forty Million Dollar Slaves" by William C. Rhoden, a chronicle of Black athletes navigating efforts to limit their participation in sports.

Show notes and video are available at http://noirehistoir.com/blog/forty-million-dollar-slaves-book-review.

A profile of Queen Amina, a Hausa princess who later became the warrior Queen of Zazzau an area in present-day Nigeria.

Show notes are available at http://noirehistoir.com/blog/queen-amina.

In this episode of the career interview series, we are joined by Dr. Kalvin Chinyere an internal medicine doctor who discusses not trading time for money.

Show notes are available at http://noirehistoir.com/blog/kalvin-chinyere-internal-medicine-doctor.

A profile of Granville T. Woods, a mechanical and electrical engineer who received more than 60 patents for his inventions.

Show notes and sources are available at http://noirehistoir.com/blog/granville-woods.

A discussion of the original 1968 version of Night of the Living Dead. I assume most people have already seen the film and thus it contains spoilers.

Show notes are available at http://noirehistoir.com/blog/night-of-the-living-dead-movie-review.

A profile of Jo Ann Robinson, a school teacher and college professor who launched the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Show notes and sources are available at http://noirehistoir.com/blog/jo-ann-robinson.

Part two of a profile of Harlem Black History covering 1929 to the present as well as the backstory on several Harlem historic landmarks such as the Apollo Theater, the Schomburg, and Sylvia's.

Show notes are available at http://noirehistoir.com/blog/harlem-black-history.