The Humanity Archive

Black history is human history. In this recorded lecture, I cut through the historical amnesia and hollow Black History Month celebrations to reimagine the past in ways that can sustain us and move us forward.  ⁠

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How do we honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King jr.? Did you know that his holiday faced almost 15 years of rigid opposition?  In this episode, Jermaine looks beyond the acclaimed I have a dream speech to explore what King really stood for. And how his message is still painfully relevant today. 

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The Middle Passage was a brutal journey of unimaginable proportions.  A voyage filled with disease, despair, and death. Africans were ripped from their homes and shipped off as the labor force for an exploding plantation economy in the Americas. In this episode, we’ll explore this horrific time in history, the lives, and the harrowing stories of those who lived, revolted, and died on the Middle Passage.

WARNING: Intense subject matter. 

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In the course of human history, the scourge of slavery has haunted societies across the globe. In part one of this twelve-part series, we explore the beginnings of slavery and how it has manifested itself everywhere. 

WARNING: Intense subject matter. 

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Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese Americans were forced to abandon their homes and live in prison camps. 

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Juneteenth is an annual holiday that celebrates the end of slavery in the United States. Commemorating June 19, 1865, the day a group of enslaved Black people in Galveston, Texas, finally learned they were free — some two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.

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After Fred Hampton’s meteoric rise, J. Edgar Hoover and the F.B.I mount an all-out war on his Chicago Black Panther Party.  It all ended with the wholesale murder of Hampton and other Black Panther Party members in a violent raid. In this final installment of a two-part series, we reckon with this legacy.

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In the midst of economic inequality and racial unrest, a young man emerges as the fiery leader of the Illinois Black Panther Party. Pushing for radical change and uniting working people for his revolutionary cause.

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Ignored in Western history, the seventeenth-century African queen Njinga was one of the most extraordinary rulers of the past. In an era dominated by men, she shattered gender roles through her political skill and military agility. After her rule was threatened in 1626 by the Portuguese, she transformed herself into a fierce slave trader and waged endless war against the colonizers. 

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Is women's history month only meant to highlight and celebrate their greatest achievements? Or is there room to reckon with a past filled with glaring gender oppression? Here we take a critical look at the history of women, told by women, and the ways they have been treated all over the world. 

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