What's good job, I'm Jean Tempe.

I'm Shereen Marisol Maraji and this is Code Switch.

From NPR.

Next week on the Code Switch podcast, we're going to hear from you about, you know,

how you all feel about the COVID vaccine.

I'm packed, some of that skepticism that a lot of Black people are expressing about the COVID

vaccine, which yes has a lot to do with Black history. But that's, that's not the whole story.

We're dealing with an untrustworthy healthcare system.

And we're dealing with people's reaction to that healthcare system,

which is unfortunately a logical reaction.

So that's next week, but this week our play cousins,

Rund Abdel Fata and Ron Teen Arawi,

over at Thru Line, take a long look at a man who was one of the most famous and powerful Black

figures in the United States a century ago.

Mm-hmm, he was an immigrant. He was a firebrand. He was a businessman.

And he was viewed with deep suspicion by the civil rights establishment.

We're talking about Marcus Garvey. And as Rund and Rund Teen Layout,

he is still mostly remembered for his most audacious idea.

The Black Star Line, which was a controversial shipping venture to repatriate Black Americans

back to Africa.

In the late spring of 1921,

Josie Gatlin, a resident of Okmoggi, Oklahoma, saw a note come through the crack beneath her door.

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