This month's episode dispels three popular myths about Black food.

The guest is Dominique Charles, founder of Plots and Pans, and fab creator of edible gardens!

Dominique takes a break from visiting the Today Show and consulting aspiring gardeners to chat with us about:

• Soul food vs Black food vs Southern food
• Is Black food unhealthy?
• Is Black food just the descendant of the scraps enslavers left for Blacks?

Sources:

High on the Hog by Jessica B. Harris

Eating While Black by Psyche A. Williams-Forson

The Gift of Southern Cooking by Edna Lewis and Scott Peacock

Meals, Music and Muses: Recipes from My African-American Kitchen by Alexander Smalls and Veronica Chambers

Recommendations:

Cook Out: Recipes and Tips for the Great Outdoors by Rashad Frazier

This is an All Ears episode about the Free Breakfast Program for School Children with co-host, 7 year old Naz.

The Black Panther Party is known for a lot of things, but how much do we know about the Free Breakfast Program that inspired a nation to feed its poorest citizens breakfast?

Hear the UnderTold history of this program and it's lasting impact.

Kid-Friendly Sources here:

1. Kids Meet Former Black Panthers (video)

2. Five Things to Know About the Black Panthers (video)

For Parents (also check out the Adult Episode preceding this one!)

1. Power Hungry by Suzanne Cope (book)

2 . Service to the People (free online book)

Did you know that the Black Panther Party's Free Breakfast Program provided grits and eggs for kids in the 70's that inspired our government to provide over 2 BILLION breakfasts for students today?

Sources:

Videos

1.  No Kid Hungry Discussion on Free Breakfast Movement

2. 1969 Special Project: Black Panthers Feed the Children

Books

1.  Power Hungry Women of the Black Panther Partyand Freedom Summer and their Fight to Feed a Movement by Suzanne Cope

2.  To Die for the People by Huey Newton

3.  The Black Panther Party: Service to the People edited by David Hilliard by the Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation

Articles

1.      Breakfast: a Good Habit, not a repetitive custom. In the Journal of International Medical Research. In 2008.

2.  Breakfast is most important meal (BBC)

3.  Sorry, There’s Nothing Magical About Breakfast y Aaron E. Carroll

4.  Black Past: Black Panther Party’s Free Breakfast Program (1969-1980)

5.  Black History Month: Celebrating the Origins of Free Breakfast and the Food Justice Movement on NoKidHungry.org

6. Fact Sheet on School Breakfast Program by No Kid Hungry

7. Nonviolence Project on Free Breakfast for Children: Nonviolent Legacies of the Black Panther Party

8.  The Greenwood Food Blockade by Southern Foodways Alliance

9. African American Intellectual Historic Society: The Black Panther Party and the Free Breakfast for Children Program

10.  Solid Ground: Radical History of the Free Breakfast Program

11.  Wikipedia: School Breakfast Program

This is an All Ears episode about Anna Murray Douglass with co-host, 7 year old Naz.

Frederick Douglass attempted to escape from slavery twice. He failed. And then he met Anna and Anna had a plan. The rest is history.

Hear the UnderTold history of Anna Murray Douglass, the woman who dedicated her life to antislavery and civil rights for Black Americans.

Sources: Anna Murray Douglass, My Mother As I Recall Her by Rosetta Douglass Sprague

In this episode, we bring light to Anna Murray Douglass, the first wife of Frederick Douglass.

Frederick Douglass tried to escape slavery. He failed twice.

Then he met Anna, and he never failed again.

Here the UnderTold love story of Anna & Frederick.

Sources:

1.    Anna Murray Douglass – My Mother As I Recall Her by Rosetta Douglass Sprague

2.  My Bondage and Freedom by Frederick Douglass

3.  Free City of Baltimore

4.  Life and Time of Frederick Douglass, byFrederick Douglass; Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

5. North Star Front Page

6. Putting Out System.

7.  Demographics of Free Blacks

This is an all ears episode about Robert Smalls - the pirate/superhero from South Carolina. Listen in as CM and her 7 year old co-host, Naz (who hand selected the sounds effects) chat about this legend.

Sources:

• Be Free or Die by Cate Lineberry (book)
• The Jealous Bragging Turtle, Gullah (South Carolina ETV Commission)

Recommendations:

• Defiant: The Story of Robert Smalls by Rob Edwards (graphic novel)
• Dr. Binocs on YouTube
• The Wild Robot by Peter Brown

In this episode about the most courageous South Carolinian, we learn about Robert Smalls' dramatic and legendary escape from slavery in a Confederate ship, and the details you'd never guess about what happened afterwards.

The guest is Christopher Lomax, Founder/Principal at Lomax Legal.

The main source is the book Be Free or Die by Cate Lineberry.

Writer, Producer, Creator: Crystal Marie

Theme music created by Alexa Gold

Welcome to UnderTold. Here with the help of friends, we tell the jaw-dropping, unexpected, heart-wrenching details you didn’t know about Black people, events and stories you’ve probably heard about your whole life.  

This teaser introduces you to the host, co-host and the season.

Theme music by Alexa Gold