SoCHiology

6 wings, salt-pepper, mild sauce, fried hard. A variation of that order is common and usually said all in one breath whenever you walk into a Harold's Chicken anywhere on the Southside of Chicago or in the suburbs. This episode is about fried chicken, mild sauce and the chicken king, Harold Pierce

Racist real estate covenants and restrictions became so widely used in Chicago that it was estimated that 80% of the city’s homes were covered by racial covenants in the first half of the 20th century. The home Carl Hansberry purchased for his family was one of them and then his daughter decided to tell their story, her way. This episode is about the playwright, Lorraine Hansberry.

Like every institution in this country, the medical field has been infected with racism which has created a huge distrust amongst the Black community. So what do you do when there are no proper hospitals for Black people? You create your own. This episode is about the surgeon, Dr. Daniel Hale Williams

Slavery is an evil in this country that will never be erased, but in the face of that evil many ancestors rose up and fought it head on even if it risked their lives. This episode is about the abolitionist Mary Jane Richardson-Jones and her family's heroics on the Underground Railroad in Chicago's early days.

Editor's Note: The Joneses were APART of the founding group for Olivet Baptist Church, they were not the ONLY founders.

The lottery games use to be called the "numbers" or "Policy". It was illegal at the time but it was big business. This episode is about the Policy Kings of Bronzeville who were netting $25 million a year.

The Illinois first congressional district has the longest stretch of Black representation in this country's history and it doesn't appear to end anytime soon. I've discussed a couple ChicaGOATS already in this series from this district so I would be remiss if I didn't mention the rest. This episode is about the Congressmen.

Art imitates life AND transforms it as well. This episode is about the artist, Margaret Taylor-Burroughs.

How many Black girls wanted to be JET beauty of the week? How many Black boys saw prosperity as an alternative to the poverty they were in? This episode is about Ebony & JET the two publications of Johnson Publishing Company, the brainchildren of the publisher John H. Johnson

The first Black female reporter for CBS television was apart of national news even before her career started and once her journalism career officially began it was off to a strong start, but then tragedy struck. This episode is about the correspondent, Michele Clark.

***Editor's Note: She was the FIRST BLACK Female reporter for CBS, not the first Black reporter overall.

The silver screen has rolled the credits of plenty Black filmmakers in the past 40 years, but it was over a century ago that the FIRST film with an all Black cast and director made its debut. This episode is about the filmmaker, William D. Foster.