Best Blackcommunity Podcasts (2024)

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Elevating the Everyday f. Briana Thompson 19:57

2M ago19:57

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The face of luxury has always looked one way for so long — but we're redefining luxury for our community, and finding sustainable ways to elevate our everyday lives. Tune-in to our conversation with Founder and CEO of Spiked Wellness and Nike Trainer Briana Thompson about how we can find luxury in big and little ways.…

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Culture Outside the Lines f. Reyna Noriega 19:56

2M ago19:56

19:56

The cornerstone of our culture is Black art. What we create can define eras and fuel progress — but what happens when we're shut out from the art world? In this episode, visual artist, designer, and author Reyna Noriega speaks with us about investing in art, how we can deepen our understanding of ourselves and our world, and how we can empower Blac…

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Replanting our Legacy f. DeAnthony Jamerson 19:41

2M ago19:41

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Black farming is making a comeback, and it's gaining popularity with the younger generation. This week, DeAnthony Jamerson — someone who has been carrying on his family's centuries-long farming legacy — joins us to talk about how we can find greener pastures in our everyday lives.By dentsu good

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The Power of the Cookout f. Moe Cason 19:56

2M ago19:56

19:56

The cookout: the hallmark summer celebration our community looks forward to every year. And as we chat with Moe Cason, we'll discover the history behind the cookout, and how we can do good with good cooked food.By dentsu good

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Healing the Community f. Coach Gessie 19:57

3M ago19:57

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Can herbs be the key to healing our community's chronic illnesses? Health Activist & Founder of The Detox Now, Coach Gessie Thompson, joins us in this episode to talk about healing the hormonal imbalances BIPOC suffer with in silence.By dentsu good

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Mind, Body and Soul for Black Men f. The Hosts of the Nice & Neat Podcast 19:25

3M ago19:25

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More Black men are expanding their vision for our communities and are leaning into their power. In our Season 4 premiere episode, the hosts of the Nice and Neat Podcast join us to speak on the joys and challenges of cultivating friendships and how taking care of yourself — mind, body, and spirit — positions you for success.…

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Glimpse of the Soul Meditation f. Devi Brown 11:39

12M ago11:39

11:39

Resources: Watch More Than That on TV Devi Brown Well-Being Devi Brown's Deeply Well PodcastBy dentsu good

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A Journey of Juneteenth f. Sam Collins III 19:50

1y ago19:50

19:50

In this country, the history of Juneteenth is skewed, one-sided, and incomplete. For this year's Juneteenth special, we're having an intergenerational conversation with Professor Juneteenth Sam Collins to unveil the hidden history of this newly nationally-recognized holiday. Listen now as we find the missing pieces of the puzzle, illuminate the sto…

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Safe Spaces for Black Men f. Mike Hill & Kier Gaines 19:53

1+ y ago19:53

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For our Black men that carry the weight of the world on their shoulders and don't have the space to feel vulnerable, this one is for you. In our Season 3 finale, TV Host & Author Mike Hill, and Therapist & Content Creator, Kier Gaines, share what safe spaces can look like, the importance of therapy, and how our community can support Black men as th…

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Black Futures and Beyond f. Mumu Fresh & Hannah Beachler 19:46

1+ y ago19:46

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Our current realities inspire us to dream of a future where Black people are seen, honored, and celebrated in our humanity and for our gifts. In other words, Afrofuturism. This week, award-winning production designer Hannah Beachler & Grammy Award-nominated artist Mumu Fresh share how our imaginations bring us closer to this dream, and how artistry…

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Building Communities to Last f. E. Buckles, Chike Ozah & Kimberly Dowdell 19:41

1+ y ago19:41

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Climate change is no joke, but that doesn't mean there's no hope. Kimberly Dowdell, Edward Buckles & Chike Ozah share concrete disaster preparedness tips we can use to stay ready, and share their thoughts on what our institutions should do to protect those without the means to protect themselves. Resources: Katrina Babies Documentary Hurricane Prep…

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House Hacking Ingenuity f. Carmeon Hamilton & Jewel Pearson 19:52

1+ y ago19:52

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These days, everything costs too much. And as the cost of living goes up, more people are looking for creative ways to keep more money in their pockets. Jewel Pearson and Carmeon Hamilton join us on this episode to talk about how DIYing and tiny homes allow us to reimagine where we live, so we can transform them into spaces we love. Resources: Tiny…

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The Creator Culture f. Angela Yee & Rhonda X 19:56

1+ y ago19:56

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Owning a business has learning curves. But when a person becomes their own brand, it's a whole new ballgame. This week, Angela Yee and Rhonda X share business tips for Black creators, how they can stay ready for the future of social media, and the importance of giving them their flowers. Resources: RXVR Brands NYC Small Business Services Mastercard…

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Black Love f. Jannah Handy + Kiyanna Stewart & Brittany + Reggie Cunningham 19:39

1+ y ago19:39

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Black love is so much more than affection. It's rebellion, tenacity, and the seeds for joy like no other. This week, Jannah Handy & Kiyanna Stewart from BLK MKT VINTAGE, and Brittany Packnett-Cunningham & Reggie Cunningham join us to talk about the different kinds of Black love, its thriving existence, and more. Resources: Couples Therapist Directo…

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The Crossroads of Career and Parenthood f. Tina Meeks & Erica Campbell 19:53

1+ y ago19:53

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While juggling career and parenthood may be easy for some, for others it’s a constant push and pull. In this episode, guests share how their personal needs shaped their choices, the different roles in parenting dynamics, and how our decisions leave lasting effects on our families. Resources: Her Life Sparkles Blog Get Up Mornings with Erica Campbel…

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Legacy in the Making f. DJ Envy & Dr. DeForest Soaries 19:49

1+ y ago19:49

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Building generational wealth and a family legacy is a need for our community. In this week's episode, we chat with DJ Envy and Dr. DeForest Soaries about what our ancestors did to get us where we are today. And what our efforts now will accomplish for future generations to come. Resources: DFree Online Academy - https://academy.dfreefoundation.org/…

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Fueling our Futures f. David Banner & Cari Champion 19:46

1+ y ago19:46

19:46

HBCUs are a catalyst for our community's progress, and drive us toward positive change. Tune-in as we chat with journalist and TV host Cari Champion and rapper and activist David Banner about the influence of HBCUs, and how they still empower our community. Resources: NNPA, Chevy's "Discovery the Unexpected" Program - https://www.nnpa.org/chevydtu/…

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July 5 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 2:06

2y ago2:06

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for July 5. Frederick Douglass gave his speech "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?". He was an African American abolitionist, orator, newspaper publisher, and author. He became the first Black U.S. marshal. Douglass was born into slavery on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay in Talbot Cou…

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July 4 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 1:57

2y ago1:57

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for July 4. Marian Anderson and Ralph Bunche receive the first Medals of Freedom. She was an American singer, and an important figure in the struggle for African-American artists to overcome racial prejudice. Bunche was an American political scientist, diplomat, member of the United Nations for more…

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July 3 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 2:17

2y ago2:17

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for July 3. Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. He was an American professional baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era. After demonstrating exceptional athletic abili…

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July 2 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 1:54

2y ago1:54

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for July 2. Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act. In the landmark 1954 case Brown v. Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in schools was unconstitutional. The 10 years that followed saw great strides for the African American civil rights movement, as non-vio…

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July 1 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 1:52

2y ago1:52

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for July 1st. Roland Hayes named soloist with Boston Symphony Orchestra. He was the first African American singer to achieve success on the classical concert stage. Hayes was born in Curryville, Georgia, to Fanny and William Hayes, who were former slaves. He wanted an education, but he had to drop o…

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June 30 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 1:54

2y ago1:54

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 30. Lena Horne was born. She was an African-American dancer, actress, Grammy-winning singer, and civil rights activist. Horne left school at age 16 to help support her ailing mother and became a dancer at the Cotton Club in Harlem, New York City. She was discovered by producer John Hammond,…

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June 29 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 1:54

2y ago1:54

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 29. NAACP chairman S.G. Spottswood criticize Nixon's administration. Stephen Gill Spottswood was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He went on to Albright College, earning a B.A. in history in 1917; Gordon Divinity School; and Yale Divinity School, where he earned his doctorate. He joined the N…

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June 28 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 1:48

2y ago1:48

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 28. The U.S. Supreme Court invalidated the use of racial quotas for university applications. The medical school at the University of California, as part of the university’s affirmative action program, had reserved 16 percent of its admission places for minority applicants. Allan Bakke, a wh…

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June 27 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 1:58

2y ago1:58

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 27. Frederick Jones invents the ticket dispensing machine. He was an U.S. inventor credited with more than 60 patents. After a challenging childhood, Jones taught himself mechanical and electrical engineering, inventing a range of devices relating to refrigeration, sound, and automobiles. I…

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June 26 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 2:00

2y ago2:00

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 26. Sit-in demonstrations and passive resistance began in Cairo, Illinois. Despite Illinois’s relatively liberal reputation, Cairo, a small city far south from Chicago, was thoroughly segregated and violently racist. Local youths formed the Cairo Nonviolent Freedom Committee (CNVFC) and inv…

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June 25 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 2:10

2y ago2:10

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 25. Sonia Sotomayor was born. She is an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, the first woman of color, first Hispanic, and first Latina member of the Court. Sotomayor was raised in a housing project in the Bronx. After the death of her father, her mother worked long …

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June 24 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 1:51

2y ago1:51

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 24. John R. Lynch became first African-American to preside over deliberations of a national political party. Born into slavery in Louisiana, he became free in 1863 under the Emancipation Proclamation. He became active in the Republican Party by the age of 20. Although too young to participa…

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June 23 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 2:01

2+ y ago2:01

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 23. Wilma Rudolph was born. She was an American sprinter, the first American woman to win three track-and-field gold medals in a single Olympics. Physically disabled for much of her early life, Rudolph wore a leg brace until she was twelve years old. Because there was little medical care av…

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June 22 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 2:14

2y ago2:14

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 22. Arthur Ashe leads UCLA to the NCAA tennis championship. Ashe was coached and mentored by Robert Walter Johnson at his tennis summer-camp home in Lynchburg, Virginia. Johnson helped fine-tune Ashe's game and taught him the importance of racial socialization through sportsmanship, etiquet…

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BlackFacts Presents - The History of Juneteenth 5:54

2+ y ago5:54

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JUNETEENTH - A Celebration of Freedom. Juneteenth (a portmanteau of June and nineteenth) is also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Liberation Day, and Emancipation Day. It is a holiday celebrating the emancipation of those who had been enslaved in the United States. It is now celebrated annually on the 19th of June throughout the United States. HI…

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June 21 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 2:03

2y ago2:03

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 21. Painter Henry Ossawa Tanner was born. He was an American artist and the first African-American painter to gain international acclaim. After a childhood spent largely in Philadelphia, Tanner began an art career in earnest in 1876,painting harbour scenes, landscapes, and animals from the …

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June 20 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 1:40

2y ago1:40

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 20. Harry Belafonte became the first African American to win an Emmy award. As one of the most successful African-American pop stars in history, he was dubbed the “King of Calypso” for popularizing the Caribbean musical style with an international audience in the 1950s. He was an early supp…

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June 19 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 1:56

2y ago1:56

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 19. Solidarity Day March In November 1967 civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., and the staff of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) met and decided to launch a Poor People’s Campaign to highlight and find solutions to many of the problems facing the country’s poor. T…

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The Awakening f. Dr. Ben Chavis & Nse Ufot 19:54

2y ago19:54

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Our country has experienced racial reckonings multiple times over — and we're still fighting for change. We've come a long way, but we need more. In the final episode of our 2-part Juneteenth Special, we talk with Civil Rights Activist, Dr. Ben Chavis, and Community Organizer, Nse Ufot. Listen for an impactful discussion about protecting the progre…

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June 18 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 1:32

2+ y ago1:32

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 18. W.H. Richardson patents Baby Buggy. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and he made a huge improvement to the baby carriage. Richardson decided to create a stroller to be shaped more like a symmetrical basket, rather than a shell, as it was back then. This new design made it easier for …

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June 17 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 2:10

2y ago2:10

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 17. Tuskegee Boycott began. The issue of the boycott was segregation and voting rights. The voting districts for the city of Tuskegee were changed dramatically to prevent black citizens from electing local officials. The Tuskegee Civic Association (TCA), a predominantly black organization w…

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June 16 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 2:11

2+ y ago2:11

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 16. Kenneth A. Gibson became the first African American mayor of Newark. He entered politics in the 1960s, during the Civil Rights Movement, by joining the National Urban League, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and the Congress of Racial Equality (COR…

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June 14 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 1:49

2+ y ago1:49

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 14. William H. Gray was elected Democratic Whip of the House of Representatives. He graduated from Simon Gratz High School in 1959 and enrolled in Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, majoring in sociology. In 1972, Gray succeeded his father as the senior minister at Br…

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June 15 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 2:30

2+ y ago2:30

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 15. Henry Ossian Flipper became the first African American to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point. He was born into slavery in Thomasville, Georgia, the eldest of five brothers. His mother, Isabelle Flipper, and his father, Festus Flipper, a shoemaker, and carriag…

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June 13 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 2:04

2+ y ago2:04

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 13. Thurgood Marshall named the first African-American Court's justice. After being rejected by the University of Maryland Law School because he was not white, Marshall attended Howard University Law School; he received his degree in 1933, ranking first in his class. He established a privat…

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June 12 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 1:59

2+ y ago1:59

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 12. Michael Jordan leads Chicago to 1st NBA Title. The Chicago Bulls defeated the Los Angeles Lakers 108-101 at the Great Western Forum to capture the NBA Finals in five games. It was the Bulls’ first-ever NBA title in their 25th anniversary season in the league. Jordan scored 30 points and…

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June 11 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 2:19

2+ y ago2:19

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 11. Kennedy's Report to the American People on Civil Rights. It was a speech on civil rights, delivered on radio and television by President John F. Kennedy from the Oval Office in which he proposed legislation that would later become the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Kennedy was initially caut…

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The Reckoning f. Young Guru, Lynae Venee, & Mike Muse 20:00

2+ y ago20:00

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What does Juneteenth mean to us? Is it a celebration? A day of reflection? Atonement? Mourning? Or is it all of that and more? In this episode, we talk to Political Expert, Mike Muse, Grammy Award-Winning DJ, Gimel "Young Guru" Keaton, and NAACP Image Award Nominee, Lynae Venee, about the history of Juneteenth and how it translates to the reckoning…

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June 10 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 1:59

2+ y ago1:59

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 10. Howlin' Wolf was born. Born as Chester Arthur Burnett, he was an American blues singer and composer who was one of the principal exponents of the urban blues style of Chicago. He was brought up on a cotton plantation, and the music he heard was the traditional tunes of the region. He st…

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June 9 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 1:57

2+ y ago1:57

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 9. Oliver W. Hill became the 1st Black person elected to the city council in Richmond, Virginia. He was a prominent civil rights attorney. His work against racial discrimination helped end the doctrine of "separate but equal." Hill first practiced law in Roanoke, Virginia, before settling i…

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June 8 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 2:15

2+ y ago2:15

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 8. James Earl Ray, the suspect in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination, was captured. On April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Martin Luther King Jr, was fatally wounded by a sniper’s bullet while standing on the balcony outside his second-story room at the Motel Lorraine. During the next several w…

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June 7 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 2:21

2+ y ago2:21

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 7. Nikki Giovanni was born. She is an American poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator. Giovanni grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Knoxville, Tennessee, and in 1960 she entered Nashville’s Fisk University. By 1967, when she received a B.A., she was firmly committed to the civil rig…

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June 6 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute 1:42

2+ y ago1:42

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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 6. Marian Wright Edelman was born. She is an American attorney and civil rights activist who founded the Children’s Defense Fund in 1973. After work registering African American voters in Mississippi, she moved to New York City as a staff attorney for the Legal Defense and Educational Fund …

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