Black History Month: Interview with THE Amira Rose Davis from Ep 20

Burn It All Down

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4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2020

⏱️ 16 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. Waaaaaaay back in Sept 2017, before she became a permanent fixture on BIAD, Dr. Amira Rose Davis, Professor of History and African American Studies at Penn State, was interviewed by Brenda and Shireen. This interview was during an episode focused on the intense sexist and racist response to Jemele Hill calling Trump a white supremacist, including Trump calling for ESPN to fire Hill. They talk about black women in sports media, the old boys club of sports journalism and sporting spaces, and the history of African-American sporting press. Dr. Davis: "And I think that that’s compounded by the fact that she is a black woman because then you get exactly this misogynoir read onto that where it’s not just that they’re saying, “Get out of the kitchen. Get off the SportsCenter and go back to the kitchen.” But they’re also saying, “Go back to Africa.”" 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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0:39.5	Oh yeah
0:40.5	Oh yeah
0:41.4	To you scream and shout oh
0:43.6	The episode that I chose to feature
0:45.8	Or the interview for Black History Month
0:48.7	Is one episode 20
0:51.2	Which was in solidarity with Jamel Hill It's from back in September of 2017 when
0:58.7	Hill had made some pointed comments about the racism and hypocrisy of the President Donald Trump.
1:07.6	And Donald Trump called for ESPN to fire her.
1:11.9	And we had a discussion about the tweets and about the badass awesomeness that is
1:18.7	Jamel Hill, former guest on the podcast and friend of the show.
1:22.6	And at that time, Shereen and I asked Amira Rose Davis to come on and talk to us about the history of the
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