Sojourner Truth Read By D'Atra "Dee Dee" Jack...

Ballerinas and Basketballs! Welcome back to an EXCITING new episode of The Weekly Sports Show. Pepper Persley is here to talk about Misty Copeland coming out of retirement and the Oscars and she gives us a sneak peek at her Final Four picks for WBB! Catch new episodes every Thurs ...  Show more

Anaïs Mitchell is a singer-songwriter, playwright, and the creator of Hadestown — the Broadway musical that has won eight Tony Awards and is now the 40th longest-running show in Broadway history. In this interview, Junior Reporter Paloma sits down with her to talk about discoveri ...  Show more

Emma Mashinini (1929-2017) risked her life and reputation to fight for Black worker’s rights under apartheid in South Africa. She spent months isolated in prison without chargers for her work as a trade unionist and activist for African and women’s rights. For Further Reading: Em ...  Show more

Greg Jenner is joined in 19th-Century America by Dr Michell Chresfield and comedian Desiree Burch to learn all about abolitionist and suffragist Sojourner Truth. Born into slavery in a Dutch-speaking area of New England, Sojourner Truth fought to free herself and then others, bec ...  Show more

Nina Mae McKinney (1912-1967) was a Black American actress who performed in Hollywood and internationally in the 1930s. She was dubbed “The Black Garbo” and was the first African-American performer to receive a five-year contract with MGM. Yet because of racism and miscegenation ...  Show more

Just in time for Black History Month, we share an episode we’ve been excitedly working on for a number of months now. Ethnomusicologist Maya Cunningham brings us “The Sound World of Harriet Tubman.” Maya Cunningham is an activist and jazz singer currently completing a Ph.D. at th ...  Show more