Episode description Ella Fitzgerald, celebrated as the “First Lady of Song,” was a highly influential jazz vocalist with a career spanning six decades. Her early life, marked by hardship, led to a musical journey beginning at Harlem’s Apollo Theater and her rise to...

Episode description Bessie Coleman was a pioneering aviator who broke racial and gender barriers to become the first African American woman and first Native American to earn a pilot’s license. Facing discrimination in the United States, she trained in France and...

Episode description Ida B. Wells-Barnett’s “Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases” is aProject Gutenberg eBook, originally published as a pamphlet in 1892. Wells-Barnett provides a firsthand account of the causes of lynch law in the South and argues that it is...

Episode description Ida B. Wells’s autobiography, “Crusade for Justice,” details her lifelong fight against racial injustice, particularly lynching, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The text covers her early life, her activism as a journalist and speaker,...

Episode description Ida B. Wells-Barnett’s The Red Record is a powerful exposé of the systemic lynching of Black people in the United States during the late 19th century. The text presents statistical data on lynchings, meticulously documented by white sources like...

Episode description Rosa Parks’ autobiography, Rosa Parks: My Story, recounts her life from childhood to her role as a civil rights icon. Parks describes growing up in the segregated South, detailing the racism and discrimination she faced. She highlights the...

Episode description The Mises Institute’s documentary, “Playing with Fire,” critiques the Federal Reserve and its impact on the U.S. economy. It argues that the Fed, despite its intended role, destabilizes the economy through actions like fractional reserve banking...

Episode description This is a newsletter from the “No Agenda” show, hosted by John C. Dvorak and Adam Curry, seeking listener support through donations and subscriptions. The newsletter promotes various contribution methods and acknowledges the audience’s crucial role...

Episode description This excerpt from Frederick Douglass’s autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, recounts his determined pursuit of literacy while enslaved. Douglass details how he learned to read and write through unconventional methods,...

Episode description William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips introduce Frederick Douglass’s narrative as a powerful indictment of slavery. Douglass recounts his life, beginning with his birth and early experiences of witnessing brutal treatment and the dehumanizing...