If you're interested in learning about the songwriter who co-wrote "Lift Every Voice and Sing" and led the NAACP during the 1920s, then my James Weldon Johnson Black History Short is for you.
Show notes and sources are available at http://noirehistoir.com/blog/james-weldon-johnson.
A review of “Soul Food”, a 1997 George Tillman Jr. drama about the Joseph family's descent into dysfunction after the matriarch goes into a coma.
Show notes are available at http://noirehistoir.com/blog/soul-food-movie-review.
If you're interested in learning about an armed resistance in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania where a local resistance group of free and formerly enslaved Black people repelled an effort to recapture four escaped slaves, then my Christiana Resistance Black History Short is for you.
Show notes and sources are available at http://noirehistoir.com/blog/christiana-resistance.
A review of "The Color of Law" by Richard Rothstein which charts the history of how local, state, and federal government policies and programs segregated cities across America.
Show notes are available at http://noirehistoir.com/blog/color-of-law-book-review.
If you're interested in learning about the first Black female surgeon in the South and the first Black woman to be a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, then my Dorothy Lavinia Brown Black History Short is for you.
Show notes and sources are available at http://noirehistoir.com/blog/dorothy-lavinia-brown.
A review of “Confirmation”, a 2016 HBO film about the hearings for Judge Clarence Thomas' (Wendell Pierce) nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court. In Washington, D.C. Thomas seems likely to be confirmed until a former employee, Anita Hill (Kerry Washington), surfaces with allegations of sexual harassment.
Show notes are available at http://noirehistoir.com/blog/confirmation-movie-review.
If you're interested in learning about the first Black graduate of West Point and the army's first Black commissioned officer, then my Henry Flipper Black History Short is for you.
Show notes and sources are available at http://noirehistoir.com/blog/henry-flipper.
A review of “Americanah” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a book about immigrants leaving and coming home but also finding fulfillment as well as romantic, familial, and platonic relationships. It's a whole bunch of different stuff that somehow all fits together.
Show notes are available at http://noirehistoir.com/blog/americanah-book-review.
If you're interested in learning about the Mason-Dixon Line and how the border it created between Northern and Southern states played a role in defining the land of freedom versus bondage, then my Fugitive Slave Acts Black History Short is for you.
Show notes and sources are available at http://noirehistoir.com/blog/fugitive-slave-laws.