May 27, 2015
May 22, 2015 - Segment 1 - Today in history, Langston Hughes passed away, the Caribbean island of Martinique abolished slavery, and Katherine Mary Dunham, the "Queen Mother of Black Dance," passed away.
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.
May 26, 2015
May 21, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the birth of the Notorious B.I.G and the abolition of slavery in Martinique.
May 22, 2015
May 20, 2015 - Segment 1 - On this day in history, we remember the signing of the Homestead Act and the announcement of "Josephine Baker Day" by the NAACP.
May 21, 2015
May 19, 2015 - Segment 1 - Today in history, Malcolm X and Ho Chi Minh celebrate birthdays, Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from a Birmingham Jail was published, and thinker, philosopher and activist C.L.R. James passed away.
May 20, 2015
May 18, 2015 - Segment 1 - Today in history, "The First Lady of the Struggle" Mary McLeod Bethune passed away, the infamous Plessy v. Ferguson decisions were handed down by the Supreme Court, and the Bath School Massacre took place in Michigan.
May 19, 2015
May 15, 2015 - Segment 1 - We look back at some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the killing of a protestor in Berkeley.
May 18, 2015
May 14, 2015 - Segment 1 - Today in history, the British colony of Jamestown was established, Israel was declared an independent state, and and the Jackson State University massacre, when two African American students, Philip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green, were gunned down by Mississippi State Police during an anti-war protest.
May 15, 2015
May 13, 2015 - Segment 1 - Today in history, Britain's King Victoria issued a "Proclamation of Neutrality" on the Confederacy, enslaved African American Robert Smalls fought against the Confederacy in Charleston, and the Philadelphia police bombed the headquarters of radical Black nationalist movement MOVE.
May 15, 2015
May 12, 2015 - Segment 1 - Today in history, Samuel "Toothpick Sam" became the first African American to pitch a no-hitter, the birthday of boxer William "Gorilla" Jones, and the day the British took control of Charleston, South Carolina during the Revolutionary War.
May 11, 2015
May 11, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the death of Bob Marley, the launch of the Poor People's Campaign, and the foundation of Ghana, the first postcolonial independent nation on the continent of Africa.
May 7, 2015
May 6, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the birth of Martin Delaney, the death of Otis Blackwell, and the suspension of two DJs at a Colorado radio station for playing songs by the Dixie Chicks a few days after they criticized President George W. Bush.
May 5, 2015
May 5, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including Gwendolyn Brooks winning the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1950, the death of Elsie Bernice Washington, the “mother of the African American romance novel,” in 2009, and the birth of Blind Willie McTell.
May 2, 2015
May 4, 2015 - Segment 1 - Today in history, an event in Chicago spurred International Workers Day, the first Black-owned and -operated hospital in the United States opened, and the Freedom Riders left Washington DC for New Orleans to challenge segregation on interstate busses and bus terminals.
April 30, 2015
April 30, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day Bessie Coleman died, the day Christopher Columbus was given the money to set sail into the Western Hemisphere, and the day Hawaii became a territory of the United States.
April 30, 2015
April 29, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the birthday of Duke Ellington, the day Maryland voted not to secede from the Union, and the birthday of Maryland’s of Baltimore first Black congressmen Parren Mitchell.
April 30, 2015
April 28, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day the famed Mutiny on the Bounty took place, the day over 30 dynamite bombs were to be sent to people on an "anarchists" enemies list, and the day Anne Petry, the first African American woman writer to have a book sell more than a million copies, died.
April 24, 2015
April 24, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened today in history, including the day Duke Ellington received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide, and the day Augustine John Tolton became ordained as a priest after being born enslaved.
April 24, 2015
April 23, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including Hank Aaron hitting the first of his 755-major league home runs on this day in 1954 in a game against the St. Louis Cardinals and the death of Cesar Chavez.
April 24, 2015
April 22, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened today in history, including the first slave revolt in continental North America, the day Howard University students sat in at Thompson's Restaurant, and the birthday of jazz great Charles Mingus.
April 23, 2015
April 21, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstration in Beijing, the death of Haitian dictator François “Papa Doc” Duvalier, and the birth of singer Clara Ward.
April 21, 2015
April 20, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the birthday of Lionel Hampton, the day the Civil Rights Act of 1871 was passed; and the day Billie Holiday recorded "Strange Fruit".
April 10, 2015
April 10, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened today in history, including the day Emiliano Zapata was tricked into riding into an ambush, the day Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler escaped from the Birkenau death camp, and the day that singer Little Eva died.
April 10, 2015
April 9, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the foundation of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in 1816 and the birth of Ralph Ellison.
April 8, 2015
April 8, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day Oriole Frank Robinson became the manager of the Cleveland Indians, the day 128 men were killed in a mining explosion at Banner Mines outside Birmingham, and the founding of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee.
March 25, 2015
March 24, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the birth of Pasemaster Mace of De La Soul, the abolition of slavery in Venezuela in 1854, and Halle Berry becoming the first Black woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress in 2002 for the movie “Monster’s Ball.”
March 24, 2015
March 23, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened today in history, including the birthday of guitarist Sticks McGhee, the day 101 Wobblies were charged with opposing the draft and hindering the war effort, and the day Mussolini started his fascist movement in Milan, Italy.
March 23, 2015
March 20, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the births of Spike Lee and Sister Rosetta Tharpe and the suicide of Ota Benga.
March 22, 2015
March 19, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the birth of Moms Mabley, the foundation of the New Negro Theater by Langston Hughes, and the death of Luther Ingram.
March 18, 2015
March 18, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the births of Wilson Pickett and Queen Latifah, the declaration of the Paris Commune, and the first Bat Mitzvah.
March 17, 2015
March 17, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the birth of Bayard Rustin and the Carrolton Massacre.
March 16, 2015
March 16, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the death of Rachel Corrie and the My Lai massacre.
March 13, 2015
March 13, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened today in history, including the birthday of Erma Franklin, the day Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin died, and the day the Confederacy approved the use of Black troops.
March 13, 2015
March 12, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the birthday of activist Clara Fraser, the day artist Romare Bearden passed away, and the day Charles "Bird" Parker, Jr., hall of fame jazz saxophonist and composer, died.
March 13, 2015
March 11, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened today in history, including the day the Bureau of Indian Affairs was established, the day A Raisin In The Sun debuted on Broadway, and the birthday of artist William Edouard Scott.
March 11, 2015
March 10, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the first telephone call, the Louisiana Purchase, and the death of Harriet Tubman.
March 11, 2015
March 9, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened today in history, including the birthday of free jazz musician Ornette Coleman, the day the Barbie doll hit the shelves, and the day Marylander and African American explorer Matthew Henson passed away.
March 9, 2015
March 6, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened today in history, including the day the Battle of the Alamo ended, the day the Supreme Court handed down the Dred Scott V. Sanford decision, and the day artist Georgia O’Keeffe passed away.
March 8, 2015
March 5, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the Boston Massacre and the birth of Rosa Luxemburg.
March 4, 2015
March 4, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the death of actor and comedian Bert Williams and the birth of inventor Garrett Morgan.
March 3, 2015
March 3, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened today in history, including the day President Thomas Jefferson signed a law banning the importation of slaves to the United States, the day the Freedman's Bank was established, and the day the LA police beating of Rodney King was caught on tape.
March 2, 2015
March 2, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened today in history, including Dr. Seuss' birthday, the day The Weeping Time took place in 1859, and the day saxophonist Theodore Walter “Sonny” Rollins was given a National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama.
March 2, 2015
February 27, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day the Dominican Republic declared itself independent from Haiti, the day the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote was held up as constitutional, and the birthday of opera singer Marian Anderson.
February 26, 2015
February 26, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the birth of Johnny Cash and the first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993.
February 26, 2015
February 25, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day Hiram Revels became the first Black man to sit in the United States Senate, the day playwright Tennessee Williams passed away, and the birthday of Bo Diddley.
February 25, 2015
February 24, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the Battle of Los Angeles in 1942, the day the Supreme Court made a decision in the Marbury v. Madison case, and the day Clara Fraser, co-founder of Radical Women, died.
February 25, 2015
February 23, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the start of the battle of the Alamo and Woody Guthrie writing "This Land is Your Land."
February 24, 2015
February 20, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the birth of Kurt Cobain and the death of Frederick Douglass.
February 19, 2015
February 19, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day the phonograph was patented by Thomas Alva Edison, one of the bloodiest days in the Bread and Roses Strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and the day President Gerald Ford finally rescinded Executive Order 9066, which ended the internment of Japanese-Americans.
February 18, 2015
February 18, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the birth of Dr. Dre and the founding of Morehouse College.
February 18, 2015
February 17, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc discusses what happened today in history, including the birthday of Black Panther founder Huey Newton, the day Bedonkohe Apache leader Geronimo passed away, and the day the United States House of Representatives passed the Missouri Compromise.