Building Black Institutions: Autonomy, Labor and HBCUs – w/ Jelani M. Favors and Tera W. Hunter
Teaching Hard History
Learning for Justice
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🗓️ 3 December 2021
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Historian Tera Hunter describes Black institution-building post-slavery and throughout the Jim Crow era, illustrating how Black workers reorganized labor to their advantage, despite virulent white resistance. During the same period, historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) produced future leaders while cultivating resistance to white supremacy—and continue to do so. Educator Jelani Favors explains the evolution of these institutions, noting their legacies of social activism and student advocacy.
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| 0:00.0 | One reason I love living in Columbus, Ohio, in addition to Buckeye football, of course, is the airport. |
| 0:11.0 | Seriously, it's the airport, the John Glenn Columbus International Airport, C.M.H. |
| 0:20.0 | First, the Columbus Airport is only 12 minutes from downtown. |
| 0:26.6 | Second, you can park your car for just $7 a day, just $7 a day. And third, you can usually get through TSA in less than 10 minutes. |
| 0:40.2 | But the John Glenn Airport isn't perfect. |
| 0:44.1 | Good eats? |
| 0:45.5 | Nope. |
| 0:46.7 | Just pizza and fake Philly cheese steaks. |
| 0:49.4 | And direct flights? |
| 0:51.4 | Not nearly enough. |
| 0:53.7 | John Glenn isn't a hub making connections necessary. |
| 0:58.0 | So, when I fly out of Columbus, I do two things. |
| 1:04.0 | I never eat there. |
| 1:08.0 | And I try to route my connecting flights through Atlanta. |
| 1:13.6 | Now, why Atlanta? |
| 1:16.6 | It's that whole two birds with one stone thing. |
| 1:20.6 | I have to connect someplace. |
| 1:23.6 | And Atlanta's Hartsfield Jackson Airport has some good eats. |
| 1:28.3 | And I mean some good eats. |
| 1:32.3 | My favorite place to grab a bite at Atlanta airport is Pascals. |
| 1:38.3 | Pascals serves traditional soul food, fried chicken, mac and cheese, candy yams, collard greens, cornbread, |
| 1:49.6 | every bite, delicious. And every bite? A bit of history, too. The original Pascals was a 30-seat |
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