History

December 9, 2013 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of what happened on this day in history, including the establishment of New York City's first daily newspaper, the day the first African-American served as a governor of a U.S. state, and the day Kweisi Mfume was elected President and CEO of the NAACP.

December 5, 2013 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of what happened on this day in history, including the day Pope Innocent VIII appointed inquisitors that defined how to torture and execute "witches," the day the Montgomery Bus Boycott began, and the birthday of famous cowboy of African-American and Native heritage, Bill Pickett.

December 4, 2013 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of what happened on this day in history, December 4th.

December 3, 2013 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of what happened on this day in history, including the International Day of the Basque Language, the day the first issue of the North Star, an antislavery paper, was published, and the anniversary of African-American classical composer William Grant Still's death.

November 21, 2013 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of what happened on this day in history, including the Columbine Massacre, the day six Colorado coal miners striking for better working conditions under the IWW banner were killed, and the birthdays of French philosopher Voltaire and surrealist painter René Magritte.

November 20, 2013 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of what happened on this day in history, including the day New Jersey became the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights, President Kennedy issued an executive order barring racial discrimination in federally financed housing, and Microsoft Windows 1.0 was released.

November 19, 2013 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of what happened on this day in history, including Puerto Rico's "Day of Discovery," Mali's Liberation Day, and Garifuna Settlement Day in Belize, celebrating the settlement of the Garifuna people in Belize after being exiled from the Grenadines by the British army.

November 18, 2013 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of what happened on this day in history, including the day Christopher Columbus first sights the island now known as Puerto Rico, the day Robert Edward Chambliss, a former KKK member, was convicted of first degree murder in connection with the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, and the day Man Ray died.

November 15, 2013 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of what happened on this day in history, including the founding convention of the Federation of Trades and Labor Unions in Pittsburgh, the day Charlie Chaplin's satirical comedy The Great Dictator opened, and the day the Amistad Research Center was incorporated as a research library.

November 14, 2013 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of what happened on this day in history, including the death of Booker T. Washington, the founding of the Washington Society of Colored Dentists, and the day Ray Charles went No. 1 with "Georgia On My Mind."

November 13, 2013 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of what happened on this day in history, including a Western Federation of Miners strike crushed in 1914, the US Supreme Court decision making segregated busses illegal, and the day President George W. Bush signed an executive order allowing military tribunals for foreigners suspected of connections to terrorist acts on the United States.

November 12, 2013 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of what happened on this day in history, including the birthday of Bukka White, the day the treaty of the Durand Line was signed between present day Pakistan and Afghanistan, and the day Ellis Island in New York closed.

November 11, 2013 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of what happened on this day in history, including Veterans Day, the day of Sherman's March to the Sea during the American Civil War, and the day Louis Armstrong recorded the first of Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings that influenced the direction of jazz.

November 8, 2013 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of what happened on this day in history, including the New Orleans general strike, wherein black and white American trade unionists united in a successful four-day general strike action for the first time, the creation of the Civil Works Administration during the Great Depression, and the birthday of journalist Dorothy Day.

November 7, 2013 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of what happened on this day in history, including the day Douglas Wilder becomes the first African American to be elected as governor of a U.S. state, and the day in 1990 when the National Football League responded to the state of Arizona's refusal to observe a Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday by rescinding their plan to hold the 1993 Super Bowl in Phoenix.

November 6, 2013 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of what happened on this day in history, including the day Mohandas Gandhi was arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa, the day Cuba and the United States formally agree to begin an airlift for Cubans who want to go to the United States, and the day composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky died.

November 5, 2013 - Marc shares some of what happened on this day in history, including Shirley Chisholm being elected the first black woman in Congress, Guy Fawkes night, and the day that Nat Turner was tried and found guilty.

November 1, 2013 - Segment 1 - We start the show with a look at the day in history. We honor Samhain and All Saints Day, and remember Puerto Rican nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempting to assassinate US President Harry S. Truman at Blair House, the African Free School opens in New York City, and 50,000 women in 60 cities participating in the inaugural Women Strike for Peace (WSP) against nuclear proliferation.

October 31, 2013 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of what happened this day in history, including the day the Kabba caught fire and burned down, the end of the First Seminole War, and the death of Indira Ghandi.

October 30, 2013 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of what happened on this day in history, including the day Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility was published, the day Nat Turner was captured, and the day Orson Wells caused mass hysteria with a radio broadcast.

October 29, 2013 - Segment 1 - We take a look at the day in history, and remember Hurricane Sandy, Black Tuesday, and the death of Pearl Primus and Duane Allman.

October 28, 2013 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of what happened on this day in history, including the establishment of Harvard University, the dedication of the Statue of Liberty in NY, and the Black Monday Wall Street Crash of 1929, among many other things. We also honor the legacy of the Velvet Underground's Lou Reed, who passed away yesterday.

October 25, 2013 - Segment 2 - We look back at the day in history, including a strike in Patterson, New Jersey, Evander Holyfield knocking out James "Buster" Douglas to become the undisputed world heavyweight champion, and Nelson Mandela being sentenced to five years in prison

October 24, 2013 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of what happened on this day in history, including National Workers Demand a Raise Day, the "Black Thursday" stock market crash in 1929, the "Bloody Friday" stock declines in 2008, and the anniversary of the death of Rosa Parks.

October 23, 2013 - Segment 1 - We discuss the day in history, and look back at, among other events, the release of "The Times They Are A-Changin'," the end of Communist rule in Hungary, and a revolt in Harlem over the ban of public smoking.

October 22, 2013 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of what happened on this day in history, including the October 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation that has been mobilizing every year since 1996 for a National Day of Protest and the birthdays of songwriter James A. Bland and author Dorris Lessing.

October 10, 2013 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of what happened on this day in history, including the birthdays of jazz legend Thelonious Monk, and singer and civil rights activist Oscar Brown, Jr.

October 9, 2013 – Segment 1 - Marc shares some of what happened on this day in history, including the birthday of Mary Ann Shadd, publisher of Canada's first antislavery newspaper, The Provincial Freeman, and the first woman in North American to publish and edit a newspaper.