8.1: Bite-Sized Black History
First Name Basis Podcast
Jasmine Bradshaw
5 • 629 Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Bite-sized Black History is a podcast just for kids that empowers you to teach the little ones you love about brilliant Black Americans who have been largely overlooked by our history books. We featured 28 different people, one for each day of Black History Month! Invest today and use the coupon code BLACKHISTORY15 for 15% off until February 22nd.
We take purchase orders! If your a teacher or librarian interested in submitting a purchase order please email us at [email protected]
Check out all 28 episodes of Bite-Sized Black History below!
Episode 1: Wilma Rudolph
Episode 2: Richard & Mildred Loving
Episode 3: Garrett Morgan
Episode 4: The Hines Brothers
Episode 5: Claudette Colvin
Episode 6: Sidney Poitier
Episode 7: Charles Drew
Episode 8: Marie Van Brittan Brown
Episode 9: Bayard Rustin
Episode 10: Norma Merrick Sklarek
Episode 11: Bessie Blount
Episode 12: Ella Baker
Episode 1: Dr. Debi Thomas
Episode 2: Mary J. Wilson
Episode 3: Ronald McNair
Episode 4: Eartha Kitt
Episode 5: Azellia White
Episode 6: Dr. Kenneth & Dr. Mamie Phipps Clark
Episode 7: Lyda Newman
Episode 8: Gwen Ifill
Episode 9: CJ Jones
Episode 10: Marva Collins
Episode 11: Ernestine Eckstein
Episode 12: Charles L. Sifford
Episode 1: Gerald "Jerry" Lawson
Episode 2: Lois Curtis
Episode 3: Glenn Burke
Episode 4: Eloise Greenfield
Song Credit: “Sleeper” by Steve Adams” and “Dive Down” by VYEN
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the First Name Basis podcast, Season 8, Episode 1, bite-sized black history. |
| 0:13.6 | Teaching our children to be inclusive and anti-racist starts with us within the sacred walls of our home. First-name basis is designed to |
| 0:23.5 | empower you with the confidence you need to be a leader in your family and a changemaker in your |
| 0:28.8 | community. Together, we will wrestle with hard questions and use the answers to create the |
| 0:34.7 | world we want, a world that reflects our values of inclusion, compassion, and courage. |
| 0:41.3 | I'm your host, Jasmine Bradshaw, and I am so excited to be on this journey with you. |
| 0:49.0 | Hello, First Name Basis, fam. I am so glad you are here. All right, y'all, let's get right into it. Bight |
| 0:57.2 | Size Black History is here. The grand finale of Bitesize Black History is available and I'm so excited to |
| 1:03.0 | share it with you. Okay, so here is what we're going to do. Today, I'm going to tell you all about |
| 1:08.1 | bite size black history if you haven't heard of it before and I'm going to give you all about bite-sized black history if you haven't heard of it before, and I'm going to give you a free sample. |
| 1:14.1 | One of the episodes that I made for the grand finale episode will be embedded at the end of this episode. |
| 1:20.0 | So if you keep listening, you can hear a free sample of bite-sized black history and see if it is something that you love. |
| 1:26.5 | Okay, some of you are thinking, what in the world are you |
| 1:29.2 | talking about? Let me tell you, bite-size-lock history is the program that I created so that you |
| 1:35.1 | can have a meaningful Black History Month celebration, both in your home and in your classroom. |
| 1:42.1 | So here's the real real. When I was growing up, I hated Black History Month. |
| 1:46.2 | I grew up in the suburbs of Arizona, very, very, very, very white suburbs of Arizona. |
| 1:53.2 | We were one of the only black biracial families as far as the eye could see. |
| 1:59.4 | And it was just really, really difficult. And Black History Month |
| 2:02.7 | would come around and we would talk about the same people and the same things over and over again, |
| 2:07.8 | civil rights and slavery. And every time I was heartbroken and sad and didn't really know what to do |
| 2:13.6 | with everything that I was feeling. And my teachers were in no way prepared to handle the |
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