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Mary Ann Shadd descendant Irene Moore Davis speaks with sculptor Donna Mayne! The Life of Black Abolitionist Mary Ann Shadd by Scholar Irene Moore Davis and sculptor Donna Mayne. A ceremony unveiling the statue of Mary Ann Shadd took place Thursday, May 12, 2022, at the University of Windsor in Canada. Join Scholar and Historian Irene Moore Davis a…

A Tribute To Fannie Lou Hamer : Mzuri MohoBy Gist of Freedom

Did You Know... with Robert Green and Black Aviators Historian Guy E. Franklin Emory Conrad Malick In 2004, Pennsylvania native Mary Groce was going through a box of family papers with her cousin Aileen when she found a sheet of old letterhead for an “Emory C. Malick, Licensee: Pilot No. 105.” Included on the letterhead was a photograph of a handso…

Descendant Tamara Lanier Explains Suit Against Harvard And Slavery Images The Gist of Freedom and Guest host Kimberly Simmons welcomes Tamara Lanier. Join us as Mrs. Lanier updates us on her suit against Harvard Lawsuit by gr-gr-gr-granddaughter of slavery survivor blasts Harvard for collecting licensing fees on the photos of her ancestors which we…

Langston Hughes, Jesse B. Semple by Lewis Cole, Now TheaterBy Gist of Freedom

Slavery Survivors' Descendants Own Nat Turner Plantation! Turner Family offer Nat Turner's Cave, to be part of driving tour | http://bit.ly/NatTurnerTour The Turner descendants gained a piece of history when they inherited his two farms. Nat Turner was an enslaved African American who led a rebellion of enslaved and free black men in Southampton Co…

Lt. Wilson, Bible Talk, Soldier In The Army Of LordBy Gist of Freedom

Origins of Watch Night Service! Black Methodists and Baptists celebrate Watch Night, December 31, 1862 the Emancipation Proclamation would go into effect at midnight. The celebration continues in African American churches today, striking a more joyous note than prior repentance Watch Nights. --------------- The first Watch Night was Dec. 31, 1862, …

Greetings friends, Tonight on ..."Make Some Noise," with Empress Mariam" and The Gist of Freedom... is Mr. Timothy Pigford. He is a black farmer who won a class action lawsuit against the federal government. Problem is... trying to get settlement monies before Obama leaves office. JOIN IN .... Tonight @ 8 pm... Call 305 848-8888, code: 906-701-9860…

Former CIA Operative Robert Baer says if the CIA can prove that Russia interfered with the 2016 election then the US should vote again... http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2016/12/10/robert-baer-new-election-russia-hacking-nr.cnn/video/playlists/donald-trump-and-russia/ Election Fraud Speech led to brutal beaten on the Floor of Congress.... and su…

4 Million+ Petition Electors To Dump Trump Meet The organizer Brezenoff Petitions, Black Abolitionists & The Gag Rule Thousands of Anti-Slavery Petitions led to the "Gag Rule" “Am I gagged or am I not?” In May of 1836 the House passed a resolution that automatically "tabled," or postponed action on all petitions relating to slavery. In 1837—38, for…

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Cecilio Binn, T & L host and- History of Blacks Combating Fascism; Paul Robeson As William L. Katz explains in The Lincoln Brigade: A Picture History, “Most Lincolns were activists and idealists who had worked with and demonstrated for the homeless and unemployed during the Great Depression. They were poets and blue-collar workers, professors and s…

Join The Gist of Freedom, Scott Young Prison Survivor, shares his personal story of redemption and activism. Photo of Scott with a little admirer. The little boy greeted him with a leap on his lap. He immediately noticed The Cross Scott was wearing, amazedhe asked Scott "do you go to church?"By Gist of Freedom

T and L Radio History in Review, Celebrating Our Victories Not our Miseries-By Gist of Freedom

In speeches Mrs. Walker, the founder of St. Luke Penny Savings Bank. had reasoned, "Let us put our money together; let us use our money; Let us put our money out at usury among ourselves, and reap the benefit ourselves." In 1903 she founded the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank. Mrs. Walker served as the bank's first president, which earned her the recog…

Black Anti-FascistsBy Gist of Freedom

East New York Radio Live, 4th of July Weekend! Sojourner Truth and all other New York enslaved Blacks were emancipated on The 4th of July, 1827. In 1799 the New York Legislature passed "An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery" with only token opposition. It provided for gradual manumission. The law freed all children born to slave women after J…

Officer Throws Female High School Student Across Classroom A video of a "school resource officer" at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, South Carolina throwing a female student out of her desk to the ground and across a classroom Roy Paul is a highly sought after commentator specializing in the areas of education, social and economic justice, a…

Marlene Rivero portrays York's mother, whose son was the African-American Guide on the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The painting is a self portrait as York's Mother Rose.Marlene Rivero developed her character in response to a Need to tell York's Story in 2003. The National Park Service first saw the program in Cairo, Illionois, and it has been seen …

Smart Hip Hop, CEO/Artist Larry LakBy Gist of Freedom

Melani N. Douglass is the Community Engagement Manager for Everyman Theatre - host of the Capacity Building Workshop presented by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development. She was introduced to Everyman Theatre during her tenure as an Urban Arts Leadership Fellow while obtaining her MFA in Curatorial Practice from the Maryland Institute a…

Twelve Years A Slave, Solomon Northup descendant, Irene Zahos..Call To Action! Join The Gist of Freedom as we welcome Irene Zahos! Mrs. Zahos is promoting a CALL TO ACTION on behalf of Solomon Northup, her great, great grandfather. The Solomon Northup Legacy is initiating a campaign to have Solomon recognized for his activism role to end slavery. H…

Join The Gist of Freedom, www.blackhistoryblog.com, as we welcome William Lambert's descendant Christina Streety-Napier! Lambert was a friend of radical abolitionist John Brown and, like the more militant abolitionist leader Henry Highland Garnet, Lambert called for the slaves to rise up against their masters. At times Lambert very publicly helped …

Sermon - The Battle Is Not Yours~ Rev. Hilton Mount Olive Baptist Hackensack NJBy Gist of Freedom

Listen to socio-political analyst Cleo Manago discuss, Two officers shot in Ferguson... Don't Shoot Them Down, Shut Them Down! Two cops were shot in front of the Ferguson Police Department early Thursday. The shots were fired just as a small crowd of protesters began to break up after holding a demonstration in the wake of the resignation of the Fe…

Brain Awareness Day! SYNAPTIK FOUNDATION. Come out to The Learning Tree at 801 Bartholdi Street in the Bronx this Saturday from 1-5pm for Pi and Brain Awareness Day. LavonneHunter@gmail.com Listen and learn more about Brain Awareness Day on The Gist of Freedom Www.blogTalkRadio.com/blackhistory Saturday March 14th SYNAPTIK FOUNDATION. Come out to T…

Listen to The Gist of Freedom tonight as we talk with Jennifer Nelson a descendant of the historical black town, Boley OK. One of the first nationally chartered black-owned banks, Farmers and Merchants Bank in Boley, Oklahoma, an all-black town successfully fended off “Pretty Boy” Floyd’s Bank Robber's Gang! ON NOVEMBER 23, 1932, three members of C…

100 Black Men In Law Enforcement 100 Black Men In Law Enforcement discuss the Brooklyn Nwe York police officers killed. Suspected shooter reportedly kills himself after shooting two officers inside their patrol car. 100 BLACKS IN LAW ENFORCEMENT WHO CARE 591 Vanderbilt Avenue, Suite 133, Brooklyn, NY 11238 (718) 455-9059 EMAIL: BlacksNLaw@aol.com P…

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Get Out The Vote with Activist Stella Antley! This show is dedicated to the memory of Octavius Catto ~In 1871, during the the first election in which blacks could vote, Octavius Catto was murdered by a Democratic party operative while canvassing for Republican candidates. On his way back from the polls, Catto, who had spearheaded a get-out-the-vote…

The Ebola outbreak, please Join The Gist of Freedom, The Black History Internet Radio show in welcoming Sierra Leonean Hindowa Saidu! "On Thursday the World Health Organization said that more than 1,900 people have died in West Africa Ebola out break. There have been 3,500 confirmed probable cases in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. More than 40 p…

Playwright Rickerby Hinds and NAACP Criminal Justice Chair Terry Taalib Major - Standing Up For Justice! Wednesday October 15, 6-9pm PCT Special performance of DREAMSCAPE Cesar Chavez Community Center Auditorium 2o60 University Ave. Riverside, CA Dreamscape depicts the true story of the death and inner life of a young woman, "Myeisha Mills," who dr…

Join The Gist of Freedom tonight as we welcome filmmaker, Thomas Allen Harris. Inspired by Deborah Willis’ book, Reflections in Black, THROUGH A LENS DARKLY (Willis is also a co-producer) casts a broad net that begins with filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris’s family album. It considers the difference between black photographers who use the camera to def…

Ron Westray -Live at Jazz at The Lincoln Center! Ron talks about his latest CD Jimi Jazz, a tribute to Jimi Hendrix http://www.bluecanoerecords.com/jimi-jazz.html One of the most highly regarded trombonist of his generation, Ron Westray continues to expand upon the legacy set before him with his CD releases, "Jimi Jazz", "Live From Austin" and "Med…

Jennie Dean (1852-1913) Undaunted Faith~ Manassas Industrial School & Jennie Dean Memorial The most significant person in the founding of the school was Jane Serepta Dean. Dean was born into slavery in western Prince William County, Virginia around 1852. . Dean was a deeply religious woman Manassas Industrial School & Jennie Dean Memorial Tonight l…

Tonight join The Gist of Freedom with host Roy Paul as we talk with the executive producer Walter Puryear, the director Michael Green and cast members of the dynamic play Black Wall Street! Please Mark your calendar.. Black Wall Street is running at The Andrew Freedman Home, 1125 GrandCouse Bronx, NY starting Thursday September 18th thru Sunday Oct…

Tonight on The Gist of Freedom www.BlackHistoryUniversity.com, we'll talk with Jamel Robinson, founder of the Jamel Robinson Child Welfare Reform Initiative! ------ 1837-1915 Amanda Berry Smith devoted her life to the ministry of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church. Her most noted achievement is the opening of the first orphanage for black…

Tonight on The Gist of Freedom Join Historian Yul Anderson. He will explain the State of Black Studies and his statement below. "Black Studies program throughout American have been taken over by others from the Diaspora community such that African American studies becomes Diaspora study programs. Leadership of Black/Afro-American studies programs h…

Join The Gist of freedom and host Roy Paul at The Still Family's 145th Reunion! The Underground Railroad First Family ~The Still Family William Still, Dr. James Still and Peter Gist-Still The Gist of Freedom is Still Faith chronicles the faithful ties that bound three incredible families of activists; all from an array of generations and races. The…

EURweb’s Lee Bailey caught up with Dr. Yamma Brown James Brown's daughter on the red carpet at the Essence Festival in New Orleans. She talks about the film, “Get On Up” the new James Brown bio-pic the family’s reaction to it, her father’s legacy. ------. Portside Article: James Brown belongs to us, the black masses, and for us to be excluded from …

Join The Gist of Freedom as we talk with Lak, Hip Hop at it's best! Larry “LAK” Henderson is the founder of Smart Music Entertainment, and the creator of a new sound of hip-hop music that is used as a tool to educate and awaken the consciousness of youth and people in our communities. His album, Lesson One: Hip-Hop & Education, has hit Amazon bests…

Join The Gist of Freedom as we listen to Chapter 6, Music for Jesus Lyrics of Freedom and a lively discussion with Pan-Africanist Dr. Sidney and Pianki. Evangelical preaching had caused some whites to question the justness of slavery, but still more were all the more careful to censor what messages from the Bible slaves could hear. Born in 1800, Na…

Bordentown School -volunteers needed - restoration underway with volunteer electrical contractor John White! A museum on the once thriving black school's cam[us kknown as The Tuskegee of The North is John's Mission. The Bordentown school, was originally established in 1886 by Rev. W. A. Rice, a minister of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, as…

Have you ever watched the blockbuster hit movie, Lean on Me, starring Morgan Freeman? Have you ever wondered what happened to the REAL students from the Lean on Me movie? Well, Dr. Pinky Miller is a graduate along with the producer of The Gist of Freedom, Lesley Gist. Dr. Pinky is telling OUR story about the experiences at Eastside High School (198…

Listen in now, Freedom Summer Survivor, Harvey Boyd, formerly of The Washington Post! Image: Reporters for the New York Amsterdam News at work in the newsroom, 1936. Photo by Lucien Aigner. Harvey Boyd reflects on his extraordinary life and opportunities as an African American man during the time of segregation. He begins by describing his childhoo…

Chet Whye, Charles Rangel's Campaign Consultant, Talks about The Victory w/ Roy Paul "Rangel defeated his main challenger Adriano Espaillat by fewer than 2,000 votes in Tuesday's Democratic primary for the 13th Congressional District. Campaign consultant Chet Whyte says voters did not abandon the congressman who has represented Harlem for more than…

Vicente Guerrero, Mexico’s first black president Texas President Sam Houston lamented that " two valuable negro boys for which I had paid in cash $2100 previous to my visit to Nashville, ran away last spring to Mexico. Thus you can see I am in bad luck." Just two and a half months after Mexico abolished slavery, officials were uneasy about the numb…

Vicente Guerrero, Mexico’s first black president Texas President Sam Houston lamented that " two valuable negro boys for which I had paid in cash $2100 previous to my visit to Nashville, ran away last spring to Mexico. Thus you can see I am in bad luck." Just two and a half months after Mexico abolished slavery, officials were uneasy about the numb…