Black History Year
Learning your history makes you - and your people - stronger. As Black people, we know we’re often left out of the history books. That media images are skewed. That we need access to experts, information, and ideas so we can uplift our community. Black History Year connects you to the history, thinkers, and activists that are usually excluded from mainstream conversations. You might not agree with everything you hear, but we’re always working toward one goal: uniting for the best interests of Black people worldwide. BHY is produced by PushBlack, the nation’s largest non-profit Black media organization - contact us at BlackHistoryYear.com.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 14 minutes
- Episodes
- 628
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
This Powerful Rebellion Sent A Clear Message To Hollywood
Coons. Mammies. Jezebels. That’s how Hollywood wanted to paint us on the big screen. But one group of Black filmmakers refused to play nice. Would their ambitious rebellion defeat the ignorant portra…
00:03:30 |
Tue 13 Dec 2022
Building Better Labor Unions with Bianca Cunningham
Today’s History Story: White Americans Kept Unions Exclusive – But Black Workers Still Triumphed
The right to earn a living wage under just and safe work conditions is as inalienable a right as our…
00:44:39 |
Mon 12 Dec 2022
Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline with Judith Browne Dianis
Today’s History Story: The Five Terrible Ways Schools Are Preparing Our Children For Prisons
Hundreds of thousands of Black students are trapped in schools where officers and authority figures unfa…
00:46:09 |
Mon 05 Dec 2022
This Legendary Singer's Most Famous Song Sparked Suspicions Around His Untimely Death
Sam Cooke's smooth voice and good looks created the pop music we know today. However, 60 years after his lifeless body was found stripped naked in a seedy motel, questions still linger surrounding hi…
00:03:14 |
Wed 30 Nov 2022
Why The KKK Was Sick of this Black Doctor
One of the most famous doctors of his time could not step foot in a hospital to treat his own patients, even if they were about to die! What did he do to deserve such treatment from the medical commu…
00:03:05 |
Tue 29 Nov 2022
Healing Generational Trauma in Your Own Backyard with Yonnette Fleming
Today's History Story - Racists Poisoned This Black Farm - But her Comeback Made Them Sick
There are some wounds that no amount of antiseptic can heal, and these open wounds have, for generations,…
00:22:48 |
Mon 28 Nov 2022
A Brutal and Bloody Battle Of The Soul We Should All Know About
"We will fight the white men. We will fight till the last of us falls in the battlefields." - Yaa Asantewaa. She bellowed these words, a charge to her people. They wouldn’t bow out from this fight - …
00:03:03 |
Fri 25 Nov 2022
The Sour, True History Behind The Baby Formula Shortage
New parents looking for baby formula are likely to find empty shelves these days! Everyone’s throwing blame for the shortage, which is causing infant deaths and illness. But for Black parents, baby f…
00:03:12 |
Thu 24 Nov 2022
Harry Belafonte Tricked A Racist Landlord In The Most Genius Way
When yet another landlord denied Harry Belafonte's rental application, he knew it could only be because of race. So he got an idea – and they were NOT ready for the trick he had up his sleeve.
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00:02:56 |
Wed 23 Nov 2022
The Fight for Food Justice with Cheryl Whilby
Today’s Black History Story: White People Are Stealing From Us AGAIN Using This Scheme
White supremacy is starving Black America, almost literally snatching food from its mouth. Access to healthy fo…
00:38:55 |
Mon 21 Nov 2022
Blaxit to Africa and Redefining Freedom with Toddré Monier
Today’s Black History Story: His Trip Proved He Had The Wrong Idea About Africa
W.E.B. DuBois. Maya Angelou. Stockley Carmichael. Pauli Murray.
These are just a few names of prominent Black activi…
00:38:48 |
Mon 14 Nov 2022
Decolonizing How Kids Learn with Akilah Richards
Today's Story: Could This Be The Alternative Our Children Need For Education?
There hasn’t been a time when learning wasn’t important to Black people, whether for enrichment or survival. Unfortunate…
00:42:43 |
Thu 10 Nov 2022
How Young, Black Voters are Transforming Black Futures with Arekia Bennett-Scott
For decades, Black people have fought to gain the right to vote. In racism's face, we've marched and protested. While the list of heroes who risked—and lost—their lives in the fight is never-ending, …
00:43:29 |
Mon 31 Oct 2022
The Healing Art of Storytelling with Dr. Reva Hines
So many of our stories have historically been hijacked, buried, and rewritten until our very essence has been silenced and erased. Our voices are strong, however. We can be the storytellers of our li…
00:40:37 |
Fri 28 Oct 2022
Towards a Liberated Future with Jay from PushBlack
Welcome to season six of Black History Year! For five seasons of Black History Year, thinkers, activists, and scholars have come through with hard-line answers that lay bare roadmaps you can use to o…
00:31:26 |
Mon 17 Oct 2022
Stevie Wonder Was Blind To The B.S. When It Came To MLK
The audience fell quiet as Stevie Wonder took the stage. Soon, joyous notes reverberated through the air, filling the entire night air with hope, power and inspiration. But this was no ordinary conce…
00:04:26 |
Wed 12 Oct 2022
Black History Year Season 6: Building Together
Learning your history makes you - and your people - stronger. As Black people, we know we’re left out of the history books. That the media images are skewed. That we need access to experts, informati…
00:01:09 |
Mon 10 Oct 2022
They Enslaved Him – And That Was Their Biggest Mistake
They kidnapped him as a child. They took him far from home and enslaved him. Who would have thought that he would be the voice to unravel their cruel institution?
Today on 2-Minute Black History, we …
00:04:02 |
Wed 05 Oct 2022
They Left Him To Die – But His Legacy Lives On
They enslaved his family and double-crossed him. And when he fought back, they brutalized him and threw him in an alley, left for dead. And yet, he WASN’T dead. Not by a long shot!
Today on 2-Minute …
00:04:36 |
Wed 28 Sep 2022
They Refused To Believe A Black Cowboy Could Be This Genius
“Cowboy Bill” Pickett created a genius technique – and they hated him for it! This Black cowboy revolutionized rodeo, so they wanted him to hide his Blackness to compete?
Today on 2-Minute Black Hist…
00:03:45 |
Wed 21 Sep 2022
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