Podcasts

Podcast (audiovisual library):

Our Podcast is an ongoing collection of audio speeches, interviews, and lectures by Black elders, professionals, young people, and others who are invested in our community. It was conceived as a learning tool about the African and African diaspora experience.

The purpose of the Podcast is to:

Use the audio “Theater of the Mind” to convey Blackness.
Serve as a voice for our views, advice, affirmations, and critique.
Enhance existing video content on our website.
Support the oral traditions that are the trademark of Black people.

Say It Plain: A Century of Great African American Oratory (various people).

Martin Luther King, Jr., “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop”, 1968

Mary McLeod Bethune, “What Does American Democracy Mean to Me?”, 1939

Stokely Carmichael, “Black Power” speech at UC-Berkeley, 1966

Barack Obama speaking at the Democratic National Convention 2004

Marcus Garvey, Explanation of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, 1921

Jesse Jackson, “Keep Hope Alive” Democratic National Convention, 1988

Fannie Lou Hamer, Democratic National Convention Credentials Committee testimony, 1964

Clarence Thomas, “Be Not Afraid” American Enterprise Institute, 2001

Shirley Chisholm, “The Black Woman in Contemporary America”, 1974

Dick Gregory, Civil Rights speech after Birmingham arrest, 1963

Barack Obama, inauguration address, January 2009

Barbara Jordan, Watergate Hearings, House Sub Committee, 1974

Booker T. Washington’s 1895 Speech to Atlanta Cotton States Expo

New Poem Each Day

Poetry Corner

He draws a man, bright swirls of red. And I say give me a tree. He points to the middle of his red and says “there’s a tree!” Tonight without complaining he... PICTURE OF A MAN by Calvin Forbes.

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