Black History Month: Interview with Olympic legend Wyomia Tyus from Ep 53

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🗓️ 26 February 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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This week, to send off Black History Month in style, we are re-releasing an interview each day highlighting a Black person we’ve had on Burn It All Down in the past whose words and actions still resonate with us all. In May 2018, Amira talked to Wyomia Tyus, a two-time olympian, track legend, and author. They talk about Tyus’ experiences playing sports in the Jim Crow South, the 1968 Olympics, and athletic protest. They also discuss Tyus’ memoir, Tigerbelle: The Wyomia Tyus Story. For more on her book and to order it: http://www.akashicbooks.com/catalog/tigerbelle/. For a list of previous guests and more info about BIAD, check our website: www.burnitalldownpod.com To help support the Burn It All Down podcast, please consider becoming a patron: www.patreon.com/burnitalldown For BIAD merchandise: teespring.com/stores/burn-it-all-down Find us on Twitter: twitter.com/BurnItDownPod; Facebook: www.facebook.com/BurnItAllDownPod/; and Instagram: www.instagram.com/burnitalldownpod/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:39.3	Oh yeah.
0:43.3	Hey, Flamethrowers and happy Black History Month.
0:46.1	Amira here.
0:47.2	I wanted to pick my interview with Wyoming Tias for our Black History Month hot take this week. I interviewed her back
0:56.8	in episode 53, which is actually our byad's one year anniversary. It was our first birthday. And it was
1:04.6	really special to be able to interview Tyas, who looms so large in my research. But the reason
1:10.2	why I'm re-upping it now, well, of course,
1:12.4	it's an Olympic year, but also I think her account and her story about the way she protested
1:17.2	in the 1968 Olympics and her general experience maps on to discussions we've had about the IOC's
1:24.1	recent ruling, recent interviews that I've done with Gwen Barry, and I could think of
1:28.8	no better person that I would want to honor on Black History Month, and also whose tale holds
1:33.9	so many kind of keys and lessons for our contemporary moment. So here it is my episode with
1:41.2	Wyoming Taya's from episode 53. Check it out.
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