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Black History Year

Black History Year Season 3: Fighting Forward

Black History Year

PushBlack

History, Society & Culture

4.32.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2021

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Learning your history makes you - and your people - stronger. As Black people, we know we’re left out of the history books. That the media images are skewed. That we need access to experts, information and ideas so we can advance our people. Black History Year connects you to the history, thinkers, and activists that are left out of the mainstream conversations. You may not agree with everything you hear, but we’re always working toward one goal: uniting for the best interest of Black people worldwide. BHY is produced by PushBlack, the nation’s largest non-profit Black media company - hit us up at BlackHistoryYear.com. PushBlack exists because we saw we had to take this into our own hands. You make PushBlack happen with your contributions at https://BlackHistoryYear.com​. Most people do 5 or 10 bucks a month, but everything makes a difference. Thanks for supporting the work. The Black History Year production team includes Tareq Alani, Abeni Jones, Patrick Sanders, Tasha Taylor, William Anderson, Jareyah Bradley, Brooke Brown, Shonda Buchanan, Briona Lamback, Akua Tay, Tasha Taylor, Leslie Taylor-Grover, and Darren Wallace. Our producers are Cydney Smith and Ivana Tucker, who also edits the podcast. Black History Year’s Executive Producer is Julian Walker. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

What does black liberation look like to you?

0:03.0

In essence, several determinations.

0:05.0

The right to determine destiny of our communities.

0:07.0

Many people attempt to devalue our struggle for liberation.

0:10.0

That struggle to tap into the more conscious of other communities

0:15.0

will have the realities again that the right to determine destiny of our communities.

0:21.0

This is Jay from Push Black.

0:23.0

And I'm proud to announce that season three of Black History Year is almost here.

0:30.0

Push Black is the nation's largest nonprofit black media outlet.

0:34.0

And on this show, we're here to bring you the history that you didn't get in school,

0:38.0

as well as strategic, visionary thinking about the future of our community in America and worldwide.

0:46.0

Like Malcolm X said, the future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

0:52.0

We look to the past to help us better understand the present,

0:56.0

but also to help us build a liberated black future.

0:59.0

But what are we really fighting for?

1:02.0

What does a liberated black future actually look like?

1:07.0

What we have to fight for is not a racial integration.

1:10.0

What it to fight for is independence.

1:13.0

It's having black people in control and being able to use the resources of our country

1:19.0

to improve the living conditions of our people.

1:22.0

The theme for this season is fighting forward.

1:26.0

We want to look at things like Patrice Lamumba's work to liberate Africa from European colonizers.

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