Primary Sources, Black History

Join William Jackson as he welcomes Malcolm X's 3rd daughter, iLyasah Shabazz! 

ilyasah Al-Shabazz is a community organizer, activist, motivational speaker, and author of the critically acclaimed Growing Up X . She is co-editor with Herb Boyd, The Diary of Malcolm X , worked with illustrator AG Ford, The Boy Who Grew Up to Become Malcolm X (Simon & Schuster, 2013) and with Kekla Magoon, X . Ilyasah promotes higher education, interfaith dialogue, and building bridges between cultures for young leaders of the world. She produces The WAKE-UP Tour™ and participates on international humanitarian delegations.

She is the founder of Malcolm X Enterprises and is a Trustee for The Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center. Ilyasah serves on the Board of the Harlem Symphony Orchestra, is a member of the Arts Committee for the New York City Opera at Lincoln Center, and a Project Advisor for the PBS award-winning documentary, Prince Among Slaves. Ilyasah holds a Master of Science degree in Education and Human Resource Development and currently resides in Westchester County of NY.

Join The Gist of Freedom as we welcome Pompey Fixico and William L. Katz.  Pompey Fixico ancestors fought US slave-catchers and military units for 42 years in Florida.

Mr. Katz and Mr.Fixico will discuss the three Seminole wars, their goals courage and achievements as seen through his ancestors.

The legacy of  Wild Cat and John Horse will also be discussed as it relates to how they brilliantly led the Seminoles!

Mr. Katz's book Black Indians has three chapters on this unknown American story. Their current leader, William Dub Warrior, has said:

  

   "Black Indians is not only one of the most  thoroughly researched and accurate book on

the subject, it is he best written account I have come across."  William “Dub” Warrior, Chief of the John Horse Band,   Texas and Old Mexico Seminoles

William Loren Katz

williamlkatz.com

Book reading

Join The Gist of Freedom with host Preston Washington as he welcomes William Jackson, Jacksonville, Florida Public School's Bullying Prevention Director! William will discuss how the Dolphins NFL team could have prevented the bullying or hazing debacle.

There's a pattern at work here, much of which resembles an old stereotype: The privileged jock who likes to make life miserable for opponents and easy targets. Indeed, a sign in Incognito's locker boasted, "There are two things Richie Incognito does not like: taxes and rookies." But it's more complicated.

In previous interviews with reporters, Incognito and his father indicated other students ridiculed him for being overweight as a child, especially during sixth grade in Glendale, Ariz. His father, Richie Sr., a Vietnam veteran, told NFL.com that he gave his son advice: "If you let anyone give you (expletive) now, you're going to take (expletive) your entire life."

It's a common cycle for victims of various kinds of abuse, including bullying. Those who suffered often repeat the abuse themselves, especially when they accumulate power over others when they get older.

The Gist of Freedom is pleased to present to The African Burial Ground Lower Manhattan, Playwright, Judy Tate! 

Judy is the Producing Artistic Director of The American Slavery Project, a theatrical response to revisionism in this country's discourse around slavery, the Civil War and Jim Crow. 

 She is a playwright and 4 time Emmy award winning writer and the creator of "Unheard Voices" a monologue play with music collectively written for the unknown men, women and

Free Blacks, formerly kidnapped and Enslaved-Sued their Captors!

Click and Listen tonight at 8pm ET- The Gist of Freedom welcomes Clayton Adams Solomon Northup's descendant. Clayton Adams and Preston Washington, The Gist of Freedom's host will discuss the film 12 Years A Slave!

The Film 12 Years A Slave is an extraordinary true story based on Solomon Northup's autobiography.

Mr.Northup a free black man from upstate New York, is kidnapped and sold into slavery.

September 15th is the 50th Anniversary of the "Four Little Girls" Church Bombing-  Join The Gist  "Gist of Freedom"  host Preston Washington and Historian Leslye Joy Allen as they have a disscussion about "The Four Little Girls". I urge you to pay particular attention to the first 20 minutes of this interview where Fate Morris (brother of Cynthia Diane Morris aka Cynthia D. Wesley) called in and spoke about how his sister's name has been recorded in error; along with his moving testimony of what he remembered and discovered on the morning of the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church on September 15, 1963. This is a long discussion, but one that reveals information and history that is long overdue.  

Also watch the live steam of the stage play Four Little Girls on September 15 at 6pm ET

Russell Simmons' Apology and Redemption after uploading a "Harriet Tubman Sex Tape".. Produce a film on the life and times of Harriet Tubman with her Descendants? “The last few days I have been speaking to some of the direct descendants of Harriet Tubman,”  -Simmons tweeted. “

They have not only accepted my apology but we agree that we should begin immediately to develop the story of Harriet Tubman.” 

-------------- Harriet Tubman's Niece's Letter (Judith G. Bryant)  "Your disgusting portrayal of one of America's most beloved heroines is simply inexplicable.Unforgivable. And you thought this was funny? No excuses possible. Your insolent apologies are embarrassing.  For all your millions, you are worth zero to me.  Please, don't use any of them in connection with her name ever again."

-------------- Join The Gist of Freedom, on WWW.BuriedBlackHistory.com as we continue this discussion with Dr. Kaye Whitehead, Loyola University Maryland

The Christiana deadly Rescue...The Slaver demanded Parker to turn over his “property” meaning the two African Men he was hunting. Parker, a successful escapee himself, told him he had no “property” and commanded the slaver leave his door. Parker and the two courageous black men who successfully escaped from the slaver's plantation refused to come down from their stronghold on the second floor, and instead summoned help from the neighborhood by sounding a horn. -------------------- Watching Now ... Actress Zoey Deschanel connected to The Underground Railroad on TLC Who Do You Think You Are?.....   The William Parker Rescue mission, known as the Christiana Rescue Mission/Riot.   In September 1851, Maryland planter Edward Gorsuch was killed by a group of African-Americans after he tried to take possession of three slaves who had previously escaped from his plantation.   http://www.tlc.com/tv-shows/who-do-you-think-you-are/videos/zooey-deschanel-.htm ----------------------------  Tonight Click to listen to Historian Dwight Thompson?, discuss the Christiana Rescue & The Personal Liberty Law. These laws were used to successfully defend the black and white abolitionists.   www.blackhistoryUNIVERSITY.com   Personal liberty laws were extant in New England and in some other northern states prior to the Civil War to prevent runaway slaves from being kidnapped by slave catchers and taken back to southern bondage.

Harriet Tubman Sex Tape - a discussion with Attorney & Hip Hop Historian Joseph Haynes Davis!