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22/09/2025

New Episode! "How Pullman Porters Outsmarted Jim Crow"

In the Jim Crow South, Black newspapers like the Chicago Defender were banned, seized, and silenced. But the porters found a way. Tucked in suitcases, hidden in stacks of linens, they smuggled news, hope, and opportunity acro...

In the Jim Crow South, Black newspapers like the Chicago Defender were banned, seized, and silenced. But the porters found a way. Tucked in suitcases, hidden in sta…

08/09/2025

New Episode! "The Bet That Made Pepsi the Black Soda"

Under Jim Crow, Pepsi did what others wouldn’t, hired a Black sales team and put Black folks in its ads. Sales soared but then came the internal backlash. How did a nickel soda become quiet powerhouse and who tried to kill it...

Under Jim Crow, Pepsi did what others wouldn’t, hired a Black sales team and put Black folks in its ads. Sales soared but then came the internal backlash. How did a…

06/09/2025

Join us while we celebrate 200k subscribers and talk about Black History

05/09/2025

This book sold the same stove, suit, or pair of boots to anyone at the same printed price. When Rural Free Delivery brought it to the mailbox, the Sears, Roebuck catalog landed on Black families’ porches it turned shopping from a ritual of humiliation into something closer to dignity.

Here’s how the Sears mail‑order catalog quietly beat Jim Crow

05/09/2025

New Episode! "How the Sears Outsmarted Jim Crow"

This book sold the same stove, suit, or pair of boots to anyone at the same printed price. When Rural Free Delivery brought it to the mailbox, the Sears, Roebuck catalog landed on Black families’ porches it turned shopping fr...

This book sold the same stove, suit, or pair of boots to anyone at the same printed price. When Rural Free Delivery brought it to the mailbox, the Sears, Roebuck ca…

02/09/2025

New Episode! "How the Sears Catalog Outsmarted Jim Crow"

This book sold the same stove, suit, or pair of boots to anyone at the same printed price. When Rural Free Delivery brought it to the mailbox, the Sears, Roebuck catalog landed on Black families’ porches it turned shopping fr...

This book sold the same stove, suit, or pair of boots to anyone at the same printed price. When Rural Free Delivery brought it to the mailbox, the Sears, Roebuck ca…

30/08/2025

Dive into Black history with Today at 3pm 3/30

We going to be talking about the sears catalog accidently fought Jim Crow, then talk about the this week in black history

Afterward we be taking questions and thoughts

27/08/2025

Long before Amazon, there was the Sears catalog.

For many Black families in the Jim Crow South, this wasn’t just about shopping, it was a little bit of freedom.

22/08/2025

The movie Life might make you laugh, but the history behind it is no joke. From wrongful convictions to brutal chain gangs and prison farms, the reality was far harsher than the comedy. In today’s video, we’re diving into one of those shocking real-life stories.

20/08/2025

Life, Life

In the Comedy “Life,” we open at Spanky’s Harlem Nightclub in 1932, Ray meets Claude under the glow of jazz and glamour.

But that sparkle? Built on struggle.

By ’32, the Harlem Renaissance was fading under the weight of the Great Depression; Black unemployment hit 50%. Creativity thrived, but survival meant hustle.

Claude’s steady bank job was rare; hustlers like Ray were more common, running numbers, bootlegging, porter work, rent parties, and just to get by.

And with Prohibition still on, nightlife lived in the shadows, Bootleggers could earn a week salary and just one run but it was fueled by risk.

For Black bootleggers, danger doubled under Jim Crow, crooked cops, rival bootleggers, and threats across the Mason-Dixon.

That’s why, when Ray and Claude get framed in Mississippi, it echoes real stories: the Scottsboro Boys, chain gangs, prison farms.

The film plays it for laughs but the fear underneath? Deadly real.

18/08/2025

New Episode! "The Day The Police Dropped a Bomb On a Black Neighborhood"

In 1985, In a stand off with the Black organization MOVE. Philadelphia police dropped a bomb on a Black neighborhood, killing 11 people and leveling an entire city block. Audio Onemichistory.com Follow me on Instagram: ...

In 1985, In a stand off with the Black organization MOVE. Philadelphia police dropped a bomb on a Black neighborhood, killing 11 people and leveling an entire city …