Podcasts

Podcast (audio library):

Podcast are ongoing collection audio speeches, interviews and lectures of black elders, professionals, young people and others who are invested in our community. It was conceived as learning tool of the black 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 text articles in our website.
Support the oral traditions that are the trademark of black people.

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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

As I talk with learned people, I have heard a strange remark, Quite beyond my comprehension, And I'm stumbling in the dark. They advise: Don't be too modest, Whatsoever thing is said, Give to... A SPADE IS JUST A SPADE by Walter Everette Hawkins.

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