Hello, delicious friends and welcome to an episode from the vault of Who Did What Now,

the History Podcast that is not your history class, with me your host, Katie Charlwood, History

Harlet and Reader of Books. As many of you know, it is Black History Month over in America, but not only

that, it is the centenary of the origins of Black History Month. So like a hundred years ago,

it started out as like a Black History Week and then slowly but surely became Black History Month.

And so historically, this is a big deal.

And since I've started doing themes, both on the social media and on the podcast, I thought,

well, you know what, let's just do it.

Let's just do a Black History Month and we'll do it, like as we were doing things before. We'll start off with the transatlantic slave trade and just

try and go as chronologically forward as we can. Like we'll just try, you know. And I thought that

would be like a really good, a really good way to teach and share this information because it's not something that's taught

in every single history class. Like I was just lucky that this was part of my education.

And also because I'm a hungry, hungry hippo when it comes to history. I'm a flozy for facts,

let me tell you. They don't call me the history hallad for nothing.

And the thing about history is, like as a general rule, is that it's quite depressing.

Bad things keep happening consecutively, one after another, in a row.

And that's the stuff that people write down.

So when I do get the chance to talk about

someone amazing and wonderful and brilliant, like I grasp that with two hands, especially when you

have to talk about just the horrible injustices that people had to go through consistently.

And I've been talking about some bad stuff over the last week in a bit so far.

And I think, let's have a palate cleanser and talk about someone fucking fantastic.

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