Gettin' Free: A Juneteenth Collaboration

Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized Podcast

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🗓️ 19 June 2023

⏱️ 157 minutes

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Gettin’ Free! : A Juneteenth Collaboration brought to you by Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast. We know that history is told from the side of the colonizers but that leaves room for misinformation and false narratives. We are on a mission to change that. 11 Black podcasts have come together to reclaim our history and tell it our way - flavor and all. Welcome to a chronological journey to get free. Learn where we’ve come, what we’ve overcome, and how much further we need to go. Let this be the soundtrack to your Juneteenth afternoon and evening, gather around with the family, play it at the function or kickback before the food come out or on the way to the juneteenth umoja festival somewhere or meditate on it in the silence and peace of solitude. How ever you choose to spend juneteenth, get into this Black education, history, mystery, intrigue and delight in being Black everyday. Sistas Who Kill IG: @SistasWhoKillPod 22:16 Hoodrat to Headwrap IG: @ihartericka 42:25 Black Millennial Marriage IG: @blackmillennialmarriage 54:03 Journey to Launch IG: @JourneyToLaunch 1:05:36 So what are you reading IG: @sowhatareyoureadingpodcast 1:22:28 Chile, Please IG: @itshoneychile 1:34:36 The Professional Silly Podcast IG: @itsprosilly 1:47:00 Jokes on You IG: @JokesOnYouPod 2:04:07 Black Fashion History IG: @blackfashionhistorypodcast 2:15:31 Zora’s Daughters IG: @zorasdaughters 2:26:35 Black True Crime IG: @blacktruecrimepodcast

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0:00.0	What's going on, everybody? I'm Mara. And I'm Tez. And welcome to our very special Juneteenth
0:06.1	episode of Sisters Who Kill. If this is your very first time hearing our voice, welcome, welcome.
0:14.9	If this is not your first time, welcome back. Hey girl, what's going on?
0:18.6	Each year for Juneteenth over here at Sisters Who Kill, we do a really special episode.
0:22.7	Last year we covered Angela Davis. That one was really fun. And the year before we covered
0:28.3	Usada Shakur. Tazzy, you chose Angela Davidson. I chose Usada Shakur. And these are like
0:33.6	killer women in history. If you do not know about these women, after you listen to this episode,
0:38.3	go and listen to our covering of those for the past two Juneteenths, I promise you will not be
0:43.6	disappointed. And the feedback we got from that was really overwhelming. And we loved it. And we
0:47.2	were like, okay, this year we have to do something really special. And so we did. This year we decided
0:53.2	that we were going to bring together 11 different black podcasters to tell you some amazing
0:59.9	stories. But to kick us off, what is Juneteenth? Juneteenth became a national holiday in 2021.
1:06.5	And the celebration originated in Galveston, Texas. Now here's your down and dirty history,
1:11.9	the Civil War, right? A fight between the Union Army, the Northern States and the Confederacy,
1:16.5	the Southern States. Many will say that the main cause for this war was slavery. Well, it's not
1:22.3	that simple. It was also about the state's rights and Western expansion. The South is like,
1:28.7	listen, we're making all this money. We've got the land, the crops, the cotton, the tobacco. We
1:32.9	have the big farms. But now America is moving west and all these abolitionists from up north are
1:38.6	trying to tell us how to run things down here. And we're not having that, okay? So this led to the
1:44.6	most expensive and deadly war on American soil. So Abraham Lincoln, he was the president and he
1:51.3	put out the emancipation proclamation. And he did that on January 1st, 1863. Now in this thing,
2:00.0	he, remember the Civil War is still going on at this time. And during this, he writes that all
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