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Our History Now Podcast
Black History is and has been suppressed in our society either by editing the facts or outright omission to create a false narrative. But that doesn’t mean we have to accept their version of reality. Please visit our website www.ourhistorynow.com.
Our History Now Podcast
Latest Episodes
Weaponization of Urban Renewal and Generational Displacement
We are examining the systemic displacement of Black and minority communities across the United States caused by twentieth-century infrastructure projects and discriminatory urban planning. From interstate highway construction in cities like Hou...
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Decades after desegregation, segregated proms still existed.
We are going to look at the shocking reality that segregated proms still existed in parts of the American South as recently as 2013. Though schools were legally integrated decades earlier, communities used “private event” loopholes to preserve ...
The Sixteen-Word Trap: How a Constitutional Loophole Rebuilt Slavery in America
History is rarely tidy. If you look closely at the 13 amendment, tucked between the promise of liberty and the signature of the state, you will find a constitutional trap door. With a mere sixteen words, the architects of the amendment did not ...
The Great Migration: Beyond the "Promised Land"
Between 1910 and 1970, a mass exodus of six million African Americans fundamentally reshaped the American landscape. In 1910, roughly 90 percent of the Black population lived in the South; by 1970, that figure had plummeted to 47 percent. This ...
The Economics of Slavery - Calculated, Recorded, and Exploited
When Americans think about slavery, the picture is often a familiar one: men and women bent over fields of cotton or rice, driven by the lash, forced to labor from sunup to sundown. That picture is accurate—but it is incomplete. It depicts viol...