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Panther: Blueprint for Black Power is the story of the unexpected birthplace of the Black Panther, a site that changed the course of the nation. But it’s not where you might expect. Far from Oakland, the Black Panther and its principles came from just outside Selma, Alabama. Lowndes County, Alabama: a county where every single thing Black folks did was an act of rebellion. A county where an all-Black party made it to the ballot in the year 1966. A county that paved the way for revolution. The fourth season of the Murrow Award-winning Reckon Radio examines the first year the Voting Rights Act was put to the test, deep in the heart of the Jim Crow South. Pulitzer Prize finalist Roy S. Johnson and journalist Eunice Elliott tell the story of Lowndes County and the election that shaped politics - and activism - as we know it.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 29 minutes
- Episodes
- 24
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2023
S4E6: How Movements Make Us Taller, featuring DeJuana Thompson & TN Rep. Justin J. Pearson
In the final episode, Woke Vote founder and Birmingham Civil Rights Institute President, DeJuana Thompson, and Tennessee State Rep Justin J. Pearson sit down with hosts Eunice Elliott and Roy S. John…
00:40:10 |
Wed 09 Aug 2023
S4E5: The Black Panthers' Blueprint for Change
Election Day for the Lowndes County Freedom Organization’s candidates didn’t go the way they wanted. But their party’s work - and its mascot the Black Panther - has rippled down through the years and…
00:33:24 |
Wed 02 Aug 2023
S4E4: The Peril of a Black Party on the Ballot
How will the first election with an all-Black party end? It’s Election Day, 1966, and the Voting Rights Act is being put to the test. The Lowndes County Freedom Organization’s candidates have canvass…
00:38:58 |
Wed 26 Jul 2023
S4E3: Don't Back a Panther into a Corner
What did the Lowndes County movement look like? Everything Black folks did was an act of rebellion—it wasn’t just door knocking and registering to vote. Plus the story of how the Black Panther symbol…
00:31:28 |
Wed 19 Jul 2023
S4E2: “Bloody Lowndes” - The County that Changed the Nation
How did a county known as “Bloody Lowndes” become the birthplace of the Black Panther? Because the people of Lowndes met vicious, racist violence with a powerful response.
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00:34:48 |
Wed 12 Jul 2023
S4E1: Between Selma and Montgomery, a Black Panther is Born
It’s a story we think we know well. It’s 1965, and the Civil Rights Movement is in full swing. Thousands are marching on Montgomery, protesting the treatment of Black Americans. But what about the pe…
00:35:08 |
Wed 12 Jul 2023
Introducing 'Panther: Blueprint for Black Power'
This is the story of the surprising roots of the Black Panther and the election when America truly became a democracy.
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00:02:47 |
Mon 03 Jul 2023
S3E6: Point 14
The killing of Bonita Carter in 1979 changed Birmingham, and its leadership. Protests following her death forced the city to reshape its police department, four decades before Black Lives Matter made…
00:44:52 |
Mon 14 Dec 2020
S3E5: "Shoot her again"
Who is Officer George Sands? The Birmingham police officer had amassed more than a dozen complaints before fatally shooting Bonita Carter. He’d been seen as a problem by some city leaders, while othe…
00:33:35 |
Mon 07 Dec 2020
S3E4: Catching the Devil on All Sides
The status quo was broken in Birmingham, Alabama, in the weeks after the Bonita Carter killing. The city once known as Bombingham, as the Johannesburg of the South, reeled from protests, and counter-…
00:35:28 |
Mon 30 Nov 2020
S3E3: The Shoebox
What was it about the killing of Bonita Carter that sparked police reform? The search for that answer led the Reckon Radio team into the bowels of the Birmingham Public Library, to a recently discove…
00:37:07 |
Mon 23 Nov 2020
S3E2: Anger and action
Protest began to swell in Birmingham began to swell the night Bonita Carter was killed, and it grew larger and larger in the days that followed. Black people, who had marched for voting power and int…
00:38:56 |
Mon 16 Nov 2020
S3E1: 'It was a girl in the car'
June 22, 1979, just another evening in Birmingham Alabama, and Bonita Carter and her friends ride their bikes to a convenience store as the sun sets. What happened there would change their lives, and…
00:27:43 |
Mon 16 Nov 2020
Trailer: Unjustifiable
Reckon Radio presents: “Unjustifiable,” an investigative series from Pulitzer-prize winning columnist John Archibald and Roy S. Johnson examining an overlooked moment of civil rights history in the h…
00:02:21 |
Mon 02 Nov 2020
S2E3 - Recused Episode 3
In the 1980s and 1990s, Jeff Sessions fought political corruption and drug traffickers as a U.S. Attorney and Alabama attorney general. He didn't mention immigration until his first term in the U.S. …
00:27:41 |
Tue 25 Dec 2018
S2E2 - Recused Episode 2
Years before he was the U.S. Attorney General, Jeff Sessions served as the Alabama Attorney General. And in that post, he faced a situation similar to the Russia investigation.
It involved a Republic…
00:28:54 |
Tue 18 Dec 2018
S2E1 - Recused Episode 1
In 2016, Jeff Sessions was announced as President Donald Trump's pick for attorney general. For nearly two years, he held his dream job -- but the experience turned into something of a nightmare due …
00:33:06 |
Tue 11 Dec 2018
Doug Jones: The Reckon Interview
Episode Notes
Reckon's John Hammontree spoke with U.S. Sen. Doug Jones about Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Jeff Sessions and President Donald Trump.
See acast.com/privacy for privacy and op…
00:49:30 |
Wed 21 Nov 2018
Trailer: Recused
Episode Notes
Reckon’s Amy Yurkanin dives into the untold story of Jeff Sessions, from the people who knew him best.
• How did Jeff Sessions become President Trump’s most controversial cabinet member…
00:00:59 |
Tue 13 Nov 2018
S1E4 - Greek Gods Episode 4
Episode Notes
Episode Four: What does The Machine teach students about real world politics? John Archibald shares his reflections on how student politics has real world ramifications. His wife Alecia…
00:35:09 |
Mon 27 Aug 2018
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