Our World Our Time

A little known fact about the underground railroad is that one route led to Florida. Yes, slaves would escape to freedom by going further south. This episode I speak on Fort Moses. Do your own research on this as always enjoy the episode. 

First off, let us make this clear, Shaft was a novel before becoming the iconic cinematic character that we all know of. This episode I share some little known facts about this larger than life character. So as you hum the theme song make sure you also do some research, enjoy.  

Nothing says sellout, traitor and describes someone who has turned his or her back on their Black people like the phrase Uncle Tom. As time has gone on so many people use the word without even knowing the actual origin of it. This episode I shed a little light on where the word comes from. This is a Black history moment indeed.  We also go down memory lane with morning cartoons and how dope Voltron was.  As always go out here and do your research and enjoy.

When you think of Black music there are people, places, things and art forms that come to mind instantly. The Apollo Theater is one of those things. There isn't many places more iconic than building on 125th in Harlem. I will say I lost track of time during the intro so it is a longer intro than normal. Outside of that, it is a great episode, as always do your own research and enjoy

One of the greatest, more compelling stories of slaves escaping to freedom has to be the the story of Ellen and William Craft. The brilliance of the plan alone is great, but to actually attempt to do AND pull it off... There should be a movie made of this at some point. As always do your own research and enjoy. 

This was the second Black History segment of the show from this past Saturday. It is so hard to talk about anything this horrific and not want to go off on a rant. I may have said too much or maybe not enough. but I said what I said and I'm more than okay with that. I have no idea what critical race theory is supposed to be about, I know the past is the past and not exploring it and learning from it in this sense is out right condoning the blatant racism and bad judgment calls that plague many non whites today. Do your research and enjoy.

On Memorial Day weekend I did a two moments in Black History segments. The first one was about the first Memorial Day back in 1865. With that being said to be fair there are those who claim July 4th in 1864 in Philly was the first. I didn't say anything because there was never evidence or mention of it until the early 1900's in Philly. Even the 1865 and 1866 ones were downplayed more than overlooked for years by many historians. Please do your own research and enjoy

Time in America is funny to me. As much as our past is cloaked in slavery, there are stories such as this that confuses me completely. A slave who had her work of poems published? Sounds unreal but true. As always do your research and enjoy

Ever think about who came up with the mail box? Or even why would they come up with such a dull but necessary thing? No... You're not alone, BUT this episode we talk about who did give us such important thing. As always go out and do some research and enjoy  

One of the most redneck backwoods, hillbilly instruments is actually an African instrument... That's right, the banjo has its origin in West Africa. I remember hearing about this as a kid and paid it no mind. Growing up and seeing who uses it the most makes for an intriguing view on things. I'm sure most people using the banjo now have no idea that is an African instrument and if they do it doesn't matter at this point. It is a major fixture to folk, mountain and other really down home music. As always do some research and enjoy