Following Harriet is a podcast that takes a closer look at the life of one of the bravest and most extraordinary women in our country’s history. It also puts Harriet in a broader context, examining the 19th Century experience of African Americans, especially in Virginia.
Categories: Education, History, Society & Culture
Tags: african american, civil war, enslaved, harriet, harriet tubman, slavery, underground railroad, virginia
Aer’La only wants to be free…The Confederated Worlds are unparalleled as a society of free people, yet, somehow, slavery still manages to exist. Aer’La, a non-human, was bred to serve as a pleasure slave. Years ago, she escaped her masters and masqueraded as a human, joining the Confederate Navy, where she worked her way up to ship’s Bos’n under the heroic Captain Jan Atal. Now, Aer’La’s secret has been discovered by Atal’s superiors, the media, and the world at large. Branded a sociopath, she learns that even a free society isn’t willing to grant freedom – or justice – to all.Library Journal says: “The author of the Arbiter Chronicles, an award-winning audio drama, vividly brings to life a cast of compelling characters while telling a story that measures the cost of freedom. The far-future military setting should appeal to fans of David Weber’s “Honor Harrington” series as well as the military sf of David Drake.”
Categories: Fiction
Tags: action, Adventure, Freedom, Libertarianism, Military, opera, scifi, sf, slavery, Space
Human trafficking is one of the greatest injustices in our world today. It’s the exploitation of vulnerable people for their bodies and labor. It’s modern-day slavery, and it’s generating billions of dollars each year. In this podcast, we will unpack the problem of human trafficking, share powerful stories from the frontlines, hear from thought leaders in the fight for freedom, and equip you to make a difference–right where you are. A21 is a global anti-human trafficking organization operating across 19 locations, in 14 countries. We are working to Reach, Rescue, and Restore lives—by reducing vulnerability, assisting victims, and empowering survivors. Our mission is to abolish slavery everywhere, forever. And with your help, we will.
Categories: Business, Education, Society & Culture
Tags: a21, abolitionist, campaign, exploitation, Freedom, frontlines, human trafficking, injustice, justice, movement, reach, rescue, restore, slavery
What we don’t know about American history hurts us all. Teaching Hard History begins with the long legacy of slavery and reaches through Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the civil rights movement into the present day. Brought to you by Learning for Justice (formerly Teaching Tolerance) and hosted by Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries and Dr. Bethany Jay, Teaching Hard History brings us the lessons we should have learned in school through the voices of scholars and educators. It’s great advice for teachers and good information for everybody.
Categories: Education, History
Tags: american, Arts, civil, Curriculum, ELA, english, Hasan, History, jeffries, K12, kwame, language, lesson, movement, plans, race, reconstruction, rights, slavery, SPLC, teaching, tolerance, war
The Global Center for Women and Justice launched the Ending Human Trafficking podcast in April 2011 and it has passed the 160 podcast milestone as of January 2018. Our mantra is Study the Issues. Be a voice. Make a difference. We believe that if you do not study first, you may say or do the wrong thing. The National Family and Youth Services Clearinghouse promoted EHT as “a good way to get up to speed on human trafficking”. Our audience includes students, community leaders, and even government leaders. EHT listeners come from all corners of the world, which accomplishes our mission of building a global community that works together to end human exploitation.
Categories: Business, Religion & Spirituality
Tags: dave, Human, morgan, sandie, sex, slavery, stachowiak, trafficking
As the South reels following the Civil War, a group of survivors unite to rebuild a school in Tennessee. Over the next twenty years, they will navigate Reconstruction politics and social upheaval to found the University of the South. Told from eight perspectives – freed slaves, Confederate Veterans, widows, locals, and students – These Hallowed Halls is an epic saga about building a university that has lasted for generations.
Tags: CivilWar, fiction, History, reconstruction, slavery, Society
The Race and Redemption podcast exists to provide first-hand testimonies along with Biblically and factually accurate, non-partisan content so that our listeners are empowered to pursue racial redemption right where they are planted.
Categories: Education, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture
Tags: africanamerican, America, antiracist, bettertogether, Bible, black, blackandwhite, BlackHistory, blacklivesmatter, blm, christianity, church, Discrimination, dothework, Equality, equity, faith, God, History, holyspirit, institutional, Jesus, justice, listen, massincarceration, nojusticenopeace, oneblood, onechurch, onerace, peace, policebrutality, Protest, race, raceandredemption, Racism, racisminamerica, racist, reconciliation, restoration, RIoT, slavery, socialjustice, systemic, systemicracism, Unity, USA, white, whiteprivilege
WINNETKA is a ten-episode memoir created and produced by award-winning actress Jessica Harper, with original music. The podcast features the voices of the Harper family, who share in the telling of their remarkable story.
WINNETKA tells of six Harper kids coming of age in Eisenhower’s post-war America, in a Chicago suburb called Winnetka. The siblings are buffeted by the rages of a father with PTSD, challenged by life in a big family, rocked by social change in the sixties, and ultimately stunned by a long held family secret.
Categories: Arts, Society & Culture
Tags: advertising, ancestry, Chicago, childhood, civil rights, drugs, family, funeral, History, legacy, Memoir, new york, nyc, Politics, PTSD, Racism, secrets, sex, sex drugs rock and roll, slavery, Suburbs, winnetka
There’s a lot more to Notting Hill Carnival than a great street party. This album gives you a true insider guide, by some of the people who have made the Carnival what it is today. Its story reaches back to the darkest recesses of European tradition, through Colonialism and slavery, to racist Britain of the 1950’s and 60’s. It merges contemporary ideas with art forms reaching back via the Caribbean slave plantations to tribal Africa. And its setting in West London brings out a history of the area which some of its residents might prefer to forget. The album also contains academic perspectives from Susie West, Lecturer in Heritage Studies at The Open University; Hakim Adi, Reader in the History of Africa and the African Diaspora at Middlesex University; and Ruth Tompsett, Visiting Lecturer in Carnival Studies at Middlesex University. This material forms part of The Open University Course AD281 Understanding global heritage. You can discover something of what it’s like to study the course by using the downloadable ‘activities’ files to explore some ideas which connect carnival with the study of heritage in contemporary society and the way in which heritage is related to multiculturalism and the production of a sense of identity and community.
Categories: Education
Tags: Afro-Carribean, black, colonialism, Culture, heritage, History, Notting Hill Carnival, procession, Racism, slavery
The church and religion has played and continues to play a big role in the African-American community. Yet, many of us who grew up in the traditional black church do not have an understanding of how our faith evolved under the duress of slavery and discrimination to be and to represent what it does today. The purpose of this broadcast is to provide that background knowledge while also pointing out the dividing line between what is just tradition and true faith in Jesus Christ.
Categories: History, Religion & Spirituality
Tags: africanamerican, blackamerica, blackchurch, BlackHistory, CivilRights, History, slavery
Still a rascal and a wanderer, Huck Finn, now nearing thirty, narrowly escapes a shotgun wedding, outwits a crafty Treasury Agent bent on connecting him with the killing of President Lincoln, meets up with Tom Sawyer and his old river pal Jim, executes a clever con in saloons across Nebraska, and explores the American Frontier with a traveling band of Shakespearean actors. Along the way our free-spirited hero falls head-over-heels for an English heiress, gets involved in a series of brawls, survives a gun battle, has a run-in with a poisonous snake, builds a raft, almost drowns, survives a San Francisco earthquake, and is forced to disguise himself as a woman. All this in an effort to catch a boat to Australia to prospect for opals “as big as your thumb.”
Categories: Uncategorised
Tags: abraham, agent, and, artist, australia, con, Finn, hairball, hand, huck, huckleberry, Jim, Lincoln, Mark, Mississippi, Missouri, Moonshine, opal, prospecting, Raft, river, Sawyer, Shakespeare, Shotgun, signing, slavery, still, Tom, treasury, twain, wedding, Whiskey
Footnoting History is a bi-weekly podcast series dedicated to overlooked, popularly unknown, and exciting stories plucked from the footnotes of history. For further reading suggestions, information about our hosts, our complete episode archive, and more visit us at FootnotingHistory.com!
Categories: Education, Society & Culture
Tags: africa, AGEs, America, australia, colonialism, Conspiracy, Education, Empire, england, Europe, france, heresy, History, Literature, medieval, middle, modern, monarchy, power, religion, revolution, running, slavery, SPorts
Math. Geometry. Physics. Violence? Is this the same book I read in school? Yep. One of the joys of rediscovering old books is that they still have the ability to surprise, even shock. “If my poor Flatland friend retained the vigour of mind which he enjoyed when he began to compose these Memoirs, I should not now need to represent him in this preface, in which he desires, fully, to return his thanks to his readers and critics in Spaceland … But he is not the Square he once was. Years of imprisonment, and the still heavier burden of general incredulity and mockery, have combined with the thoughts and notions, and much also of the terminology, which he acquired during his short stay in Spaceland. …” You may remember Flatland as a clever children’s story about squares and triangles and such living a happy life in a sheet of paper, a story about math and geometry and such. No, not so much. Sure, there’s no Adult Language or Sex. But there’s plenty of violence. I recall recording one scene wherein over 120,000 people were stabbed to death, torn to pieces and eaten by their fellow Flatlanders. Yes. Way. Assuming you consider Isoceles Triangles people. In Flatland, they are. Mostly. “Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface, but without the power of rising above or sinking below it, very much like shadows–only hard with luminous edges–and you will then have a pretty correct notion of my country and countrymen. Alas, a few years ago, I should have said ‘my universe,’ but now my mind has been opened to higher views of things. …” Flatland is very old Hard Science Fiction, if you look at it right. It’s clever, satirical, funny and sad. It includes well-fleshed-out alien society with similarities to our own, several different alternate universes, genetics, politics, religion, slavery, tyranny, war, rebellion, imprisonment, madness, and death. And math. And geometry. And some rather clever Puns. “Written by A. Square?” Also known as Edwin Abbott Abbott. Get it? As if the Brothers Grimm had gotten much, much Grimmer. “To The Inhabitance of SPACE IN GENERAL, And H.C. IN PARTICULAR, This Work is Dedicated By a Humble Native of Flatland, In the Hope that Even as he was Initiated into the Mysteries Of THREE DIMENSIONS, Having been previously conversant With ONLY TWO, So the Citizens of that Celestial Region May aspire yet higher and higher, To the Secrets of FOUR, FIVE, or EVEN SIX Dimensions, Thereby contributing To the Enlargment of THE IMAGINATION, And the possible Development Of that most and excellent Gift of MODESTY, Among the Superior Races Of SOLID HUMANITY.” Bring a pencil. And use your imagination. I dare you.
Categories: Arts, Society & Culture
Tags: alternate, death, genetics, Politics, Rebellion, religion, slavery, tyranny, universes, war
GROW Greatness Reached over Oppression through Wisdom Love not hate will make the World 🌎 Great. God’s Law is to Love. Different skin, One Love and that is God who commands from above. We are GROWing over Oppression. We are Spiritual Beings and are not bound under Religion, We are bound by God to Love. Religion is about Money and Control A battle of Good vs Evil. Are you ready to GROW?Break free of the Mental chains Conqueror! We are the Keepers of the Dream as we head full steam on the Soul Train gang,Love 💞, Peace✌🏽 And Soul 💥The Freedom Train has began, no longer the Underground Railroad, it’s horn Blaring LoudlyGROWGreatness Reached over Oppression through Wisdom Destination up ahead: Genuine Equality and Righteousness, while we Rise to Greatness in God, Great MountainThe Oppression has trickled down in the Spiritual Warfare in the form of Narcissistic behavior. Dr King dream was for us to Love one another and Rise from Oppression. He said Love drives out hate, it doesLove not hate will make the World Great Sow Love, GROW all over the World💫💞
Categories: Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture
Tags: alcoholism, building wealth, christianity, church, covid-19, dating, depression, drugs, Federal prison system, marriage, oppression, Racism, rehab, slave mentality, slavery, suicide