History

July 16, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including kissing was banned in England as an attempt to stop the spread of disease; La Paz, Bolivia declared its independence from the Spanish Crown; and journalist and civil rights activist Ida Bell Wells-Barnett was born.

July 15, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the day All-Negro Comics, the first known comic magazine written and drawn by African American writers and artists, was copyrighted; the day the steel strike of 1959 began; and the birthday of jazz pianist Philly Joe Jones.

July 14, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some events from this day in history: The beginning of the French Revolution, the birth of singer Lady Bo, the arrival of Marcus Garvey in Jamaica, and the day Alabama and Mississippi Democrats walked out of the DNC.

July 9, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc discusses events from this day in history, including an important moment in the Boxer Rebellion, the founding of the Wimbleton tourney, and the death of actor James Baskett, the first African American to win an honorary Oscar.

July 8, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc discusses events from this day in history, including the US congress allowing the registration of trademarks in 1870, and the start of the Wall Street Journal in 1889.

July 7, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc discusses events from today in history, including the birthday of Charles Albert Tindley, and duel holidays Saba Saba Day in Tanzania and Tanabata Day in Japan.

June 30, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including Independence Day in Korea, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Burundi, the day Congress created present day Oklahoma, and the birthday of Lena Horne.

June 27, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened in this day in history, including the day the Liberty bell came home to Philadelphia after the British departure, the day Prudence Crandall, a white woman, was arrested for conducting an academy for black girls in Canterbury, CT, and the birthday of anarchist Emma Goldman.

June 26, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc chats about various events from this day in history, including a few landmark governmental passings.

June 25, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about the events of this day in history, including Virginia becoming the tenth state to ratify the US Constitution, and, four score years later, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina being readmitted to the Union. It is also the day the Zip code was introduced to the United States fifty-one years ago, and the day the Supreme Court upheld the male-only draft as constitutional thirty-three years ago.

June 18, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day the U.S. Congress declared war on Great Britain, Canada and Ireland starting the War of 1812, the day the Supreme Court banned racial discrimination in the sale and rental of housing, and the birthday of Italian actress Isabella Rossellini.

June 16, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day the treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States was signed, the day of the 1976 Soweto Uprising in South Africa, and the birthday of rapper Tupac Shakur.

June 12, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the dedication of the first known monument erected by African Americans, the day Anne Frank received her diary, and the day civil rights leader Medgar Evers was murdered.

June 10, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day US Marines landed on Cuba during the Spanish-American War, the day the Six Day War ended, and the day actress Hattie McDaniel was born.

June 4, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day Massachusetts established a minimum wage (becoming the first state to do so), the day the 19th Amendment was added to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing women the right to vote, and the day Herb Reed passed away.

June 2, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day The Quartering Act was enacted, the day President Calvin Coolidge signed the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States, and the day songwriter and guitarist Bo Diddley died.

May 30, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day Nigeria banned same-sex marriage, the day composer and bandleader Sun Ra passed away, and the day Joan of Arc was burned at the stake by an English-dominated tribunal.

May 29, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares information about some of what happened on this day in history, including the day the Tribes of the Powhatan Confederacy signed a treaty with the English in Virginia, the day Sojourner Truth delivered her infamous "Ain't I A Woman?" speech to the Ohio Women's Rights Convention, and the day guitarist Doc Watson passed away.

May 27, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day Ernest Green graduated from Little Rock's Central High School with six hundred white classmates, the day Australians voted to count Aborigines in the census, and the day Virginia had its first significant battle between Indians and European settlers.

May 23, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day Cherokees were forced to move to Oklahoma as part of the New Echota Treaty, the day the 1946 railroad strike started, and the birthday of singer General Johnson.