jim crow

Blackface was born of white folks’ racism and tired imaginations. It was about how white people co-opted Black stories and impersonated Black folks. But it was also about how Black people subverted those narratives and constructed their own.

In this episode, Katie and Yves talk about how the practice of blackface has been a pervasive ill in the history of U.S. culture and entertainment — and an opportunity for Black performers to hone their craft.

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New Orleans used to have a legal red light district, and it was THRIVING at the turn of the 20th century. But then, of course, war happened and messed it all up!!! Stupid war! 

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Description: A bold experiment is taking place among Black farmers in the Southeast — a story of hope in an area with a history of plantation slavery, land theft and white violence. The Jubilee Justice Black Farmers' Rice Project is pioneering regenerative farming practices as a means to address systemic racism and make repair. This innovative project combines restorative economics, regenerative agriculture, and asset ownership as the path to address the harm done to Black farmers, and the environmentally harmful methods of rice production. In this exclusive report from The Laura Flanders Show, Laura Flanders reports on-location from Alexandria, Louisiana, where she meets Jubilee Justice Co-Founder and President Konda Mason, veteran civil rights crusader Shirley Sherrod and the Black farmers at the center of this story. Through knowledge sharing, collaboration and community support, this project endeavors to bridge the racial divide and foster a future rooted in justice and healing. Join us to discover how Jubilee Justice helps repair the damage from long-term racism and plant the seeds for a healthful and healing future.

Guests:

Nwamaka Agbo: CEO, Kataly Foundation & Managing Director, Restorative Economies Fund

Donna Isaac: Farmer, Jubilee Justice Black Farmers Rice Project

Myles Gaines: Head of Innovation & Experimentation, Jubilee Justice Black Farmers Rice Project

Konda Mason: Founder & President, Jubilee Justice

Shirley Sherrod: Executive Director, Southwest Georgia Project for Community Education; Co-Founder, New Communities, Inc.; U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Equity Commission

Bernard Winn: Operations Specialist & Mill Manager, Jubilee Justice Black Farmers Rice Project

Caryl Levine and Ken Lee: Co-Founders & Co-CEOs, Lotus Foods; Partners with Jubilee Justice Black Farmers' Rice Project

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“What I didn’t realize at the time was that what I was living through was the death paroxysms of the Jim Crow order.” — Adolph Reed

Prof. Adolph Reed Jr. has been called (by Cornel West) “the towering radical theorist of American democracy of his generation.” His new book The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives is a departure from Reed’s previous work in political science, as it is a personal reflection on his upbringing as part of the last generation to experience the Jim Crow south firsthand. Reed grew up mostly in New Orleans (where this interview also took place) and vividly recalls both the everyday realities of the Jim Crow order and the remarkable process by which the regime was shattered. His book discusses what has changed and what hasn’t in the South. Today he joins to discuss the book and tell us more about how the Jim Crow order functioned in practice, what brought it to an end, and how seismic historical changes happen (sometimes much more quickly than you expect).

Adolph Reed’s previous appearance on the program can be heard here and watched here. He mentions the book Black Masters, and the Supreme Court cases Grovey v. Townsend and Smith v. Allwright. Ben Burgis' review of Prof. Reed's book for Current Affairs is here. The 2020 controversy over Reed's DSA talk is reported on here. The Preston Smith article Prof. Reed mentions is here. 

“When I’m out in different places in the South and see groups of coworkers or neighborhood friends at a Chili’s or TGI Fridays, they’re having drinks and a meal convivially—that doesn’t say anything major about who’s inclined to vote for socialism but that’s a level of complex experience and conviviality that wouldn’t have been possible before 1968.” — Adolph Reed

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It's Tuesday! I had the honor of chatting with the amazing Gin Hammond about her book Returning the Bones. Imagine being in Jim Crow-era Texas, walking in the shoes of a fierce young black medical student, hustling to find her spot in the world. And guess what? This story is woven from Gin's own family history - her aunt, Dr. Carolyn Beatrice Montier. We're diving deep into life's tough choices - how to balance your nation, your people, and you. Stay tuned, it's gonna be real talk! #BetweenTheReads #ReturningTheBones #MustListen
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In what might be called US Supreme Court decisions Part 2, lawyer Marty Moore follows last week's episode on the Creative LLC USSC ruling with a review of the affirmative action ruling issued at roughly the same time. The case itself will have little impact on Canada because we have embedded affirmative action in our Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
 
Supreme Court of the United States: Opinions of the Court

Supreme Court of the United States, Jun 29, 2023: Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College

Students for Fair Admissions

Justice Laws Website: Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

Robert Barnes in The Washington Post, Jun 29, 2023: Supreme Court rejects race-based affirmative action in college admissions

USA Today via MSN, Jul 6, 2023: After Supreme Court's affirmative action ruling, race-based scholarships under scrutiny

Constitution Annotated: Fourteenth Amendment

Britannica: Jim Crow law, United States [1877-1954]

National Archives: Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

Britannica: Bakke decision (from Jun 28, 1978)

Reason, May 12, 2020: An Interesting Historical Note About the Bakke Case

Britannica: Bollinger decisions (from Jun 23, 2003)

Spencer Brown in Townhall, Jun 29, 2023: Clarence Thomas' Concurring Opinion on Affirmative Action Is Incredible

The Christian Science Monitor, Jun 29, 2023: With affirmative action gone, California shows what may come next

BBC, Jun 14, 2023: Starbucks ordered to pay $25m to ex-employee in racial discrimination case

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As conservative governors try to score political points by depositing busloads and planeloads of migrants in liberal cities, it can seem like an unprecedented exercise in cruelty. But it’s a page ripped from an earlier playbook in U.S. politics, one that was forgotten for decades for a very good reason. Rachel Maddow and Isaac-Davy Aronson revisit the racist Reverse Freedom Rides of the 1960s.

Featuring:

Dr. Kellie Carter Jackson, Michael and Denise ‘68 Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Wellesley College, author of Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence, and co-host of the podcast This Day in Esoteric Political History.

WBUR reporter Gabrielle Emanuel, who has done groundbreaking reporting on the Reverse Freedom Rides.

Rev. Juan Carlos Ruiz, pastor of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.

Hello and welcome back to Unveiling the Matrix. Today's episode will be titled "Juneteenth." 

Unveiling the Matrix, where Truth will shine.
The Truth will make you Free.
Life is Light and Light is Life.
TruthSeeker, Seeking the Truth.
Pluto has returned and is settling in here.
The Age of Aquarius will be upon us shortly.
The return of the Dove will make its mark shortly.
The All in All.
400 year reign is over.
70 year reign is over.
Unveiling the Matrix.

Unveiling the Matrix.

• Reporters: Jameela Hammond @JameelaHammond, Katherine Nagasawa @Kat_Nagasawa, Anya Groner @anyagroner
• Interviewees:
  • Residents
    • Nate Bradford, Sr.
    • Nate Bradford, Jr.; Instagram: @gline_ranch
    • Theola Cudjoe Jones
    • Fannie Washington
    • Patricia Harris
    • Amanda Bradford
    • Henrietta Hicks
    • Damien McCormick
  • Dr. Willard Tillman
  • Kendra Field Ph.D.; Twitter: @TuftsRCD
  • Melissa Stuckey Ph.D.; Twitter: @melissanstuckey
  • Russell Cobb Ph.D.; Twitter: @RussellSCobb

• Reporters: Jameela Hammond @JameelaHammond, Katherine Nagasawa @Kat_Nagasawa, Anya Groner @anyagroner
• Interviewees:
  • Residents
    • Nate Bradford, Sr.
    • Nate Bradford, Jr. ; Instagram: @gline_ranch
    • Theola Cudjoe Jones
    • Fannie Washington
    • Lucy Ellis
    • Patricia Harris
    • Henrietta Hicks
    • Dr. Francis Marzett Shelton, Ed.D. (Mayor)
    • Damien McCormick
  • Claudio Saunt, Ph.D.Twitter: @ClaudioSaunt
  • Kendra Field, Ph.D.; Affiliate Twitter: @TuftsRCD
  • Melissa Stuckey, Ph.D.Twitter: @melissanstuckey
  • Russell Cobb Ph.D.; Twitter : @RussellSCobb

Dr. Gerald Horne, the 🐐historian and author of "Race to Revolution: The U.S. and Cuba during Slavery and Jim Crow”, discusses the intricate history of race and slavery between the U.S. and Cuba, the profound influence of U.S. slavery on Cuban society and politics, and the ongoing consequences brought on by the U.S. Blockade.

Dr. Horne discusses what slave resistance in Cuba looked like, the Haitian Revolution's deep significance and far-reaching impact on the Caribbean, and the surprising connections between Confederate slaveowners and the white Cubans who fled the island following the revolution in 1959. We also discuss the African nature of the Cuban Revolution (yes, it was an African revolution), the result of anti-communism and anti-Blackness on the island prior to the Cuban Revolution, and the long history of strong solidarity from Cuba to the African world.

This episode invites you to reflect on the historical threads that continue to weave the contemporary social and political fabrics, not only in Cuba but in the broader context of African liberation and international relations. 

Check out Dr. Horne's book "Race to Revolution" here and "The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century" here. 

The clip you hear at the end of El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz describing his meeting with Fidel Castro can be found here. 

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We start this episode, a week after Easter Weekend discussing the unimaginable story of Denise Frazier who was charged for sleeping with a German Shepard.  After sharing the illicit act via Social Media, the authorities arrested and charged Denise accordingly.  She now faces up to 10 years in prison for the immoral act.  Could she have identified as a dog and gotten away with it?  Will that be her defense? 

In the world of sports, we covered the draft and the basketball championships.  Eddie and Gabriel discussed their love for baseball and how they have been fans of first Jose Conseco before the steriods, and then Ken Griffey Jr. making them lifelong fans of the Seattle Mariners.  So much so, that they went to Ken Griffey Jr's induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame where they saw Pete Rose.

We revisited the murder of Bob Lee and the coincidence of the FedNow App.  Is this the government's way to eliminating cash all together?

Gabriel talks about being bamboozled into registering Republican and we realize that Jose may have also been bamboozled as well!

• Reporters: Jameela Hammond @JameelaHammond, Katherine Nagasawa @Kat_Nagasawa, Anya Groner @anyagroner
• Interviewees:
  • Residents
    • Nate Bradford, Sr.
    • Nate Bradford, Jr.; Instagram: @gline_ranch
    • Theola Cudjoe Jones
    • Fannie Washington
    • Patricia Harris
    • Amanda Bradford
    • Henrietta Hicks
    • Damien McCormick
  • Dr. Willard Tillman
  • Kendra Field Ph.D.; Twitter: @TuftsRCD
  • Melissa Stuckey Ph.D.; Twitter: @melissanstuckey
  • Russell Cobb Ph.D.; Twitter: @RussellSCobb

• Reporters: Jameela Hammond @JameelaHammond, Katherine Nagasawa @Kat_Nagasawa, Anya Groner @anyagroner
• Interviewees:
  • Residents
    • Nate Bradford, Sr.
    • Nate Bradford, Jr. ; Instagram: @gline_ranch
    • Theola Cudjoe Jones
    • Fannie Washington
    • Lucy Ellis
    • Patricia Harris
    • Henrietta Hicks
    • Dr. Francis Marzett Shelton, Ed.D. (Mayor)
    • Damien McCormick
  • Claudio Saunt, Ph.D.Twitter: @ClaudioSaunt
  • Kendra Field, Ph.D.; Affiliate Twitter: @TuftsRCD
  • Melissa Stuckey, Ph.D.Twitter: @melissanstuckey
  • Russell Cobb Ph.D.; Twitter : @RussellSCobb

This week I share part 2 of The War on Drugs: 1920-1970. If you prefer the video format with lots of images and videos, you can find it on YouTube at The Dr. Junkie Show channel.

I cover Harry Anslinger, the origins of the war on drugs in the early 1900s, alcohol prohibition, stigmatization, and the recipe used by every politicians since to ramp the war up a bit more.

"They call me Mr. Tibbs!" - Virgi Tibbs

This episode is featuring my mom who talks about her experiences growing up in the segregated south and how she went from being told she would only be a secretary to starring on Broadway. We all need encouragement and this episode is giving us a glimpse at the past that I call generational wealth.