September 7, 2014
September 3, 2014 - Segment 2 - Lisa Crawley, Resource Center Manager of the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of African American History and Culture, shares a moment in Maryland Black History with us.
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.
September 5, 2014
September 3, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including Fredrick Douglass' escape from slavery, the death of e.e. cummings, and the start of the Allied invasion of Italy.
September 3, 2014
September 2, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day the United States Department of the Treasury was founded, the day Joseph W. Hatchett was appointed to the Florida Supreme Court, making him the first African American Supreme Court Justice in the South, and the birthday of artist Romare Bearden.
September 3, 2014
September 1, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day Ethel Waters passed away, the day the first Black person graduated from the Harvard Dental School, and the day a coup d'état in the Central African Republic overthrew President David Dacko.
September 3, 2014
August 29, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day Ishi emerged from the wilderness of Northeastern California, the day the Mutual Black Network was purchased by the Sheridan Broadcasting Corp., and the birthday of jazz saxophonist Charlie "Bird" Parker.
September 3, 2014
August 28, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the Slavery Abolition Act, which banned slavery throughout the British Empire in 1833, the kidnapping of Emmett Till, and Martin Luther King Jr. delivering his "I Have a Dream" speech.
September 2, 2014
August 27, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day petroleum was discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania, the day W.E.B. Du Bois died, and the birthday of President Lyndon B. Johnson.
August 29, 2014
August 25, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the independence of Uruguay, the liberation of Paris from Nazi occupation, and the imprisonment of Toussaint L’ouverture.
August 22, 2014
August 22, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including a 1791 slave revolt in Saint-Domingue, which marked the beginning a 12 year revolution that led to the formation of Haiti, the killing of Irish activist and politician Michael Collins, and the murder of Huey P. Newton.
August 21, 2014
August 21, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day the Tlingit Indians destroyed Fort Selkirk, the day the Ruby Ridge Standoff began in Idaho, and the birthday of Count Basie.
August 20, 2014
August 20, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, which crushed the Prague Spring, the births of Connie Chung and H.P. Lovecraft, and the end of the Iran-Iraq war.
August 19, 2014
August 19, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day news broke on the East Coast about the gold rush in California, the day Radio Caroline was raided, and the birthday of singer and harmonica player Lynwood Slim.
August 18, 2014
August 18, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc discusses events from this day in history, including women's suffrage passing in 1920, the Battle of Britain in 1940, and the first black person graduating from the University of Mississippi in 1963.
August 17, 2014
August 15, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day the Republic of the Congo gained its independence, the day the Panama Canal opened and the day Belgian painter René Magritte died.
August 14, 2014
August 14, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the things that happened on this day in history, including the US invasion of Nicaragua in 1912, the birth of Molefi Kete Asante, Afrocentrist and Professor of African Studies at Temple University, and the death of William Randolph Hearst.
August 13, 2014
August 13, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc discusses some events from this day in history, including the deaths of Florence Nightingale, HG Wells, and Julia Child, and the births of Annie Oakley, Alfred Hitchcock, and Fidel Castro. It is also the day the Central African Republic declared its independence.
August 12, 2014
August 12, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day American painter and musician Jean-Michel Basquiat died, the day Isaac Singer was granted a patent for his sewing machine, and the day South Africa was banned from the Olympic Games due to the country's racist policies.
August 12, 2014
August 11, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the start of the Watts Race Riots, the day civil rights attorney Oliver White Hill Sr. was presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Clinton, and the day the world's first roller rink opened in Rhode Island.
August 12, 2014
August 8, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day the African Baptist Church was organized in Boston, the day Janis Joplin bought a headstone for the grave of her greatest influence Bessie Smith, and the day Cesar Chavez was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Bill Clinton.
August 12, 2014
August 7, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day President George Washington invoked the Militia Acts of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania, the day in 1960 Black and white students staged kneel-in demonstrations in Atlanta churches, and the day Simón Bolívar triumphed over Spain in the Battle of Boyacá.
August 6, 2014
August 6, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares come of the events that happened on this day in history, including the founding of Bogotá, Colombia, the independent of Bolivia, and the death of Rick James.
August 6, 2014
August 5, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day 1,500 Iroquois attack the village of Lachine in New France, the day Nelson Mandela was jailed, and the day Marilyn Monroe died.
August 5, 2014
August 4, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the destruction of the second ancient Jewish Temple, the arrest of Lizzie Borden, and the birth of Louis Armstrong.
August 5, 2014
August 1, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day slavery was abolished in the British Empire in 1834, the day of the Warsaw Uprising during World War II, and the day Puerto Rican revolutionary Lolita Lebrón passed away.
August 4, 2014
July 31, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the expulsion of Jews from Spain, Columbus landing on Trinidad, and Fidel Castro handing over power to his brother Raul.
July 30, 2014
July 30, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day the city of Baltimore was founded, the day President Lincoln issued an “eye-for-eye” order to shoot a rebel prisoner for every black prisoner shot, and the day Charles Mingus recorded his solo Piano Album ‘Mingus Plays Piano'.
July 30, 2014
July 29, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the 1968 Papal ban of the contraceptive pill, as well as all other artificial means of birth control, the birth of Kwame Toure', formerly known as Stokley Carmichael, and the death of Cass Elliot.
July 28, 2014
July 28, 2014 - Segment 1 - Today is the birthday of singer Ethel Waters, whose tough childhood didn't keep her from success.
July 25, 2014
July 24, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the abolition of slavery in Chile, Alabama dropping rape charges against the so-called "Scottsboro Boys," and the birth of Barry Bonds.
July 25, 2014
July 23, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the creation of the Province of Canada, the validation of African American citizenship through the 14th amendment, and the launch of anti-Chinese riots in San Francisco. It is also the day Amy Winehouse died in 2011.
July 23, 2014
July 22, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the births of Emma Lazarus and George Clinton, the death of Errico Malatesta, and 1946 King David Hotel bombing, when a Zionist underground organization, the Irgun, bombs the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, site of the civil administration and military headquarters for Mandate Palestine, resulting in 91 deaths.
July 22, 2014
July 21, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the publication of the first daily Black newspaper, The New Orleans Tribune, in 1864, the births of Don Knotts, Ernest Hemingway, and Marshall McLuhan, and the death of Robert Burns.
July 22, 2014
July 18, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including Detroit declaring bankruptcy in 2013, the births of Screamin' Jay Hawkins and M.I.A., and the deaths of Mimi Fariña and Jane Austen.
July 17, 2014
July 17, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day of the 1771 Bloody Falls Massacre, the birthday of Frank Snowden, foremost scholar on blacks in ancient history, and 1967 race riot in Cairo, Illinois.
July 17, 2014
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 17, 2014
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
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 10, 2014
July 10, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the charging of John T. Scopes, with teaching evolution, a 1966 rally at Soldier Field in Chicago in which Martin Luther King Jr. spoke to a crowd of 60,000 people, and Boris Yeltsin taking office as the first elected president of the Russian republic.
July 9, 2014
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 9, 2014
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
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.
July 6, 2014
July 4, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the adoption of the Declaration of Independence by the Second Continental Congress, the abolition of slavery in New York, and the publication of “America the Beautiful” by Katherine Lee Bates.
July 6, 2014
July 3, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the 1835 strike of children in Paterson, NJ, the legalization of same-sex marriage in Spain, and the births of Mississippi John Hurt and Franz Kafka.
July 2, 2014
July 2, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened today in history, including the birth dates of Thurgood Marshall and Patrice Lumumba, the assassination of Andrew Garfield, and more.
July 1, 2014
July 1, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened this day in history including, the 1929 streetcar workers strike in New Orleans, Clarence Thomas' nomination to the Supreme Court in 1991 and the birthday of civil rights activist and NAACP leader Walter White.
June 30, 2014
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 26, 2014
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
June 26, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc chats about various events from this day in history, including a few landmark governmental passings.
June 25, 2014
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 24, 2014
June 24, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day the Supreme Court ruled the state of George was unfairly exercising control over the Cherokees after the arrest of Reverend Samuel Worcester, the day the Supreme Court ruled that obscenity was not protected under free speech, and birthday of Agnes Nestor, president of the International Glove Workers Union and longtime leader of the Chicago Women's Trade Union League.