Black History Year is back with a new season, a new host, and a new look. On Black History Year Season 8, now available in video on https://www.youtube.com/@PushBlack, host Darren sits down with 12 new guests, including the James Beard award-winning culinary historian Michael Twitty and birthing doula and community activist Linda Jones, to break down the power of cultural reclamation.  Learning your history makes you - and your people - stronger, and this show connects you to the history,...

On a seemingly ordinary summer day in Americus, Georgia, 15 Black girls eagerly joined a protest, only to mysteriously vanish into thin air. For 45 days, they went missing without a trace, leaving a terrified community asking: what happened to our girls?  To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the West, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin is always seen as one of two things: KGB spy or judo master. But to anyone who’s ever lived in the Soviet Union, Putin is something else entirely: a street kid. Join journalist Julia Ioffe as she explores how Putin’s childhood taught him lessons that shape his thinking and actions to this day. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...

No question too big, no question too small. On Search Engine, host PJ Vogt answers the kinds of questions you might ask the internet when you can't sleep. If you find the world bewildering, but also sometimes enjoy being bewildered by it, Search Engine is here for you.  To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It Was Said, the 2021 Webby Award winner for Best Podcast Series, returns with a new season to look back on some of the most powerful, impactful, and timeless speeches in history. Written and narrated by Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author-historian Jon Meacham, this documentary podcast series takes you through another season of ten generation-defining speeches. Meacham, along with top historians, authors and journalists, offers expert insight and analysis into the origins, the...

What happened at the Capitol on January 6 begs us to look to our past to help us understand our present, and to imagine a better future. From debates around voting rights to immigration to police reform, we find ourselves at a crossroads in American Democracy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The election of President Barack Obama ignited feelings of hope and promise. But the election of the first black president of the United States also intensified hatreds, fears and disappointments. This Episode contains scenes that some listeners may find disturbing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The black freedom struggle of the mid-twentieth century leads to the emergence of white backlash. Here we show how conservatives mobilized immediately, in the courts and in the streets, to undo the promises of the Great Society and the gains of the civil rights movement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Civil Rights movement of the mid-twentieth century begins despite the internal conflicts that shape it. We focus particularly on the complex response to the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963 as well as the ideological debates surrounding the Selma march in 1965. This episode disrupts the standard Civil Rights story of a steady path to racial progress in this country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the aftermath of the collapse of Reconstruction, we chart the emergence of Jim Crow laws and the extralegal violence that made it the law of the land. In many ways, this period laid the foundation for the Black freedom Struggle of the mid-twentieth century. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With the passage of the 15th amendment, some Americans believed the battle had finally been won: the former slave now had the right to vote. But what followed, was a systematic retreat on the promises of Radical Reconstruction and the ascendance of a new regime of American racial rule.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Written and narrated by award-winning author and Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, Dr. Eddie S. Glaude, “History is US” is a 6-part audio documentary produced and developed by C13Originals that asks questions about who we are as a nation, and what race might reveal about our current crisis. Through the voices of distinguished historians and scholars, this limited series gives listeners the background and education to understand how we got here and how we can all...