Black History Year
Learning your history makes you - and your people - stronger. As Black people, we know we’re left out of the history books. That the media images are skewed. That we need access to experts, information and ideas so we can advance our people. Black History Year connects you to the history, thinkers, and activists that are left out of the mainstream conversations. You may not agree with everything you hear, but we’re always working toward one goal: uniting for the best interest of Black people worldwide. BHY is produced by PushBlack, the nation’s largest non-profit Black media company - hit us up at BlackHistoryYear.com.
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Decolonizing How Kids Learn with Akilah Richards
There hasn’t been a time when learning wasn’t important to Black people, whether for enrichment or survival. Unfortunately, white supremacy has corrupted information and spread it through an anti-Black school system. Solutions exist, though, and one solution on the rise is unschooling young black people. Today’s guest is a leading voice in the unschooling movement.
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How Young, Black Voters are Transforming Black ...
For decades, Black people have fought to gain the right to vote. In racism's face, we've marched and protested.
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The Healing Art of Storytelling with Dr. Reva H...
Believe it or not, you’re an artist. You’re a writer, a creator. You’re storyteller with the power to craft the narrative of your life and your future.
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Towards a Liberated Future with Jay from PushBlack
Welcome to season six of Black History Year! For five seasons of Black History Year, thinkers, activists, and scholars have come through with hard-line answers
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Stevie Wonder Was Blind To The B.S. When It Cam...
The audience fell quiet as Stevie Wonder took the stage. Soon, joyous notes reverberated.
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Black History Year Season 6: Building Together
Learning your history makes you - and your people - stronger. As Black people, we know we’re left out of the history books. That the media images are skewed.
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They Enslaved Him – And That Was Their Biggest ...
They kidnapped him as a child. They took him far from home and enslaved him.
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They Left Him To Die – But His Legacy Lives On
They enslaved his family and double-crossed him. And when he fought back, they brutalized him and threw him in an alley, left for dead.
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They Refused To Believe A Black Cowboy Could Be...
“Cowboy Bill” Pickett created a genius technique – and they hated him for it! This Black cowboy revolutionized rodeo, so they wanted him to hide his Blackness to compete?
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She Tricked A Wealthy White Man – And Hid The T...
She leaned over the crackling fire and watched each piece of paper from her lifetime of secrets burn slowly. White supremacy had forced her hand.
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He Exposed The Truth – Even When The FBI Threat...
A secret FBI break-in. Stolen files. A threatening letter sent to a Black minister. And finally, the lawsuit he filed against the US government.
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A Live Conversation with PushBlack
Today on BHY, we’re featuring an episode from PushBlack’s Instagram Live series. Join us for a candid discussion on an issue targeting Black America: fatphobia.
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A Culture You Can't Kill
We're opening up the BHY rolodex to bring you the knowledge that imperialism doesn't want you to hear.
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Black Love: A Return Home with Dianne Stewart
Dianne Stewart is back to talk about Black love.
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The Erasure of Black Disabled Voices with Anita...
Today we're sitting down with activist Anita Cameron, who has spent the last 40 years making sure folks with disabilities have equitable rights.
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Introducing: History is US
A 6-part audio documentary that asks questions about who we are as a nation, and what race might reveal about our current crisis.
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The Black Protest Calendar and the Creation of ...
The Black struggle is real. But life isn’t all oppression. Today's guest, Dr. Keith Mayes, will school us on the empowering history of the holidays we created.
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The Black Barber Shop with Quincy Mills
The Black barbershop is a cultural institution. It's a place where you can get much more than a haircut. You get community. You get jokes. You might get politicized.
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Deconstructing Black Love with Dianne Stewart
White supremacy has systematically broken the heart of Black America. Its toxic presence has, for generations, harmed our self-concept and even how we view each other.
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Digital Blackface and Spectacularizing Blacknes...
Every time we hop on Twitter, Instagram, or any other social platform, we’re running into brands who use insidious tactics to get into our pockets. From "Black" CGI influencers to brands that align themselves as Black allies when they just want Black dollars, it's all digital anti-Blackness and it's causing more harm than we may know.
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Revising White Revisions with David Ikard
No matter what laws change or how much progress they want us to believe we’re making, racism only evolves and makes it even more necessary for us to get creative in the fight for our liberation.
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Black Horror and the Monstrous Fear of Self wit...
They say urban legends aren’t real. That they’re only cautionary tales to keep unruly children at bay, but there are elements underlying these stories that are far more terrifying than any monster or ghoul. The biggest horror? How we as Black people have learned to fear ourselves.
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Dying on a Living Wage with LaToya Johnson
LaToya is the perfect person to navigate this conversation. She is the founder and co-director of the Collective Steps Project, an organization holistically empowering Black women and girls. By providing resources, workshops, and other forms of community support, the collective encourages women to do what they’re so often told not to do, and that’s advocate for themselves.
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What's Required of Us with Hawk Newsome
There's a target on our back. We're not talking about individual bull's eyes. We're talking about one big, red dot aimed at us collectively.
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Black History Year Season 5: Creating The Culture
For four seasons – that’s right, four seasons – we’ve learned histories hidden from us, challenged the systemic structures built to subjugate us, and asked those critical questions that can push us towards Black liberation.
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