Encyclopedia Womannica: Ida B. Wells
The Brown Girls Guide to Politics
Acast Creative Studios
3.3 • 845 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2020
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Every weekday, listeners explore the trials, tragedies, and triumphs of groundbreaking women throughout history who have dramatically shaped the world around us. In each 5 minute episode, we’ll dive into the story behind one woman listeners may or may not know -- but definitely should. These diverse women from across space and time are grouped into easily accessible and engaging monthly themes like Pioneers, Dreamers, Villainesses, STEMinists, Warriors & Social Justice Warriors, and many more. Encyclopedia Womannica is hosted by WMN co-founder and award-winning journalist Jenny Kaplan. The bite-sized episodes pack painstakingly researched content into fun, entertaining, and addictive daily adventures.
Encyclopedia Womannica was created by Liz Kaplan and Jenny Kaplan, executive produced by Jenny Kaplan, and produced by Liz Smith, Cinthia Pimentel, and Grace Lynch. Special thanks to Shira Atkins, Edie Allard, and Luisa Garbowit. Theme music by Andi Kristins.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey y'all. I'm Ashanti Golar, host of the Brown Girls Guide to Politics. |
| 0:05.1 | The BGG is the one-stop shop for women of color who want to talk and shape the world of politics. |
| 0:12.9 | This season, we're getting deep into the details of Project 2025. |
| 0:18.7 | In 900-plus pages, it's proposing dramatic conservative changes to education, |
| 0:24.3 | health care, and foreign affairs. But underpinning it all is an entirely new vision for how |
| 0:31.1 | the government operates, and that could change everything. Thank you so much to our friends |
| 0:37.2 | at Way to Win for supporting us |
| 0:39.0 | and making this season possible. Listen to the Brown Girls Guide to Politics wherever you get |
| 0:44.8 | your podcast. Hey everyone. Ashanti here, the founder of the Brown Girls Guide to Politics. |
| 0:57.0 | As we're hard at work preparing to bring you season three of the pod, we have a special treat. |
| 1:02.0 | I was a guest host on another Wonder and Media Network show Encyclopedia Womanica. |
| 1:08.0 | Normally hosted by Jenny Kaplan and Psychoppedia Amanica is a daily five-minute podcast about women from throughout history. You may or may not have heard about all of these women, but you definitely should. Today, I'm proud to bring you an episode all about the one and only Ida B. Wells. I hope you'll give it a listen and subscribe to |
| 1:29.0 | Encyclopedia, Wamanica. Until next time, Browngirls. Having lost by paper, had a price |
| 1:39.9 | put on my life and been made an exile from home for hinting at the truth, I felt I owed it to |
| 1:45.7 | myself and to my race to tell the whole truth. |
| 1:50.7 | This is Encyclopedia Womanica. |
| 1:53.6 | I'm Ashanti Golar, host of the Brown Girls Guide to Politics, guest hosting today's episode. |
| 2:00.4 | Born into slavery, today's warrior became a journalist, educator, civil workers' rights activists, |
| 2:07.1 | and suffragists. |
| 2:08.3 | She is best known as the leader of the anti-lynching movement, her reporting on the violent |
| 2:12.6 | injustices faced by African Americans and the work to make the United States a more equitable place |
| 2:18.2 | significantly impacted American society. Let's talk about Ida B. Wells. Ida Bell Wells was born |
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