June 12, 2015
June 12, 2015 - Segment 1 - On this day in history, Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life in prison for sabotage against the apartheid government of South Africa and Anne Frank received her first diary as a 13th birthday gift.
Marc talks about some of the lesser celebrated and remembered events that happened on this day in history, with a particular focus on Black, Native, women’s, and labor history.
June 12, 2015
June 11, 2015 - Segment 1 - On this day in history, the IWW launched a strike in New Orleans against United Fruit and the Buddhist monk Thick Quang Duc set himself on fire to protest the dictatorial regime of South Vietnam.
June 12, 2015
June 10, 2015 - Segment 1 - Today in history, it's Abolition Day in French Guiana, Howlin Wolf was born in White Station, Mississippi, and a 75-day filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended.
June 11, 2015
June 9, 2015 - Segment 1 - On this day in history, the Tiananmen Square student protests began in China and writer Charles Dickens passed away.
June 11, 2015
June 8, 2015 - Segment 1 - Today in history, Muhammad died in Medina, the Supreme Court declared restaurants in Washington D.C. could not deny service to black patrons, and Apache leader Cochise was laid to rest.
June 11, 2015
June 5, 2015 - Segment 1 - Today in history, the Supreme Court of the United States issued three important decisions that undermined the legal foundations of segregation, Mexican general Pancho Villa was born, and Compton Mayor Doris Davis became the first African American woman to be mayor of a major city.
June 11, 2015
June 4, 2015 - Segment 1 - Today in history, academic and activist Angela Davis was acquitted of all charges against her, Haitian writer and political activist Jacques Roumain was born, and the United States refused to allow the MS St. Louis to land in Florida.
June 9, 2015
June 3, 2015 - Segment 1 - Today in history, Memphis Minnie was born in the Algiers community in New Orleans, African American woman composer Florence Price passed away, and the Zoot Suit Riots began in Los Angeles.
June 9, 2015
June 2, 2015 - Segment 1 - Today in history, Harriet Tubman led 150 Union soldiers under the command of Col. James Montgomery in the Combahee River Raid, The Snyder Act gave Native Americans the right to vote in 1924, and Cornell West was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
June 8, 2015
June 1, 2015 - Segment 1 - We look back at some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the burning of Black Wall Street in Tulsa, Oklahoma on this day in 1921.
June 4, 2015
May 29, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including Sojourner Truth delivering her "Ain't I a Woman?" speech and a Quebec court upholding the "right" of Canadians to hold Native people as slaves.
June 2, 2015
May 28, 2015 - Segment 1 - Today in history, poet Maya Angelou passed away, Betty Shabazz was born, the Palestinian Liberation Organization was founded, and Parren Mitchell was elected.