From 2020: Ancestral Power

In The Thick

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🗓️ 21 February 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Our Best of ITT series continues, as we celebrate our 7th year anniversary! In this episode from July 2020, Maria and Julio are joined by authors and historians Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross to talk about their book “A Black Women's History of the United States.” They analyze the history of Black women in America and their legacy of activism, resistance and entrepreneurship.

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0:00.0	We are continuing our series on the best of in the thick and today, as we continue to
0:23.9	celebrate and uplift Black History Month in the country, we're throwing it back to
0:28.9	one of our favorite episodes. Yeah, this is one of my favorite episodes of all-time,
0:34.2	Maria. You and I talked with authors and historians, Dine Out, Raimi Berry, and
0:39.4	Callie Nicole Gross about their book, A Black Women's History of the United States.
0:44.6	And it really was such an incredible book. They look at the history of Black
0:49.6	Women in America and their legacy of activism, resistance, and entrepreneurship.
0:55.6	There you go. And we dropped this episode around the July 4th holiday in 2020 when the entire
1:01.8	country was mobilized and taking to the streets to defend Black Lives after the police murder
1:07.6	of George Floyd. And I just love that we were going back to the roots of Black History in the
1:11.8	United States, while centering and highlighting the incredible women, Black women at the forefront.
1:18.8	It's such a great conversation, Maria, and the relevance of it is so important because it
1:25.3	uplifts this history and these voices as we're seeing these continued white supremacists attacks
1:33.2	on Black and brown communities happening and also our access to education.
1:39.6	So use this episode to get a little bit of the education that might not be available in
1:46.4	other parts of the country now. Let's just get to it. For the next installment of The Best of
1:52.4	In The Thick, our series shows from the last seven years. Here's the next episode in the series
1:59.0	and it's from July 3rd, 2020.
2:13.5	Hey, welcome to In The Thick. This is a podcast about politics, race, and culture from a POC
2:18.8	perspective. I'm Maria Innohosa. And I'm Julio Ricalo Arella. You know, a lot of people talk about
2:24.1	patriotism on this kind of a holiday weekend. And so we are going to honor some of the OG patriots of
2:30.9	this country. Oh heck, yes, you know who we're talking about, Black women. So it's been just over a
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