IDKMYDE: The 100-Year Blueprint- Carter G. Woodson Was Playing Chess

The Breakfast Club

The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts

Comedy

4.4 • 14.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2026

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Before Black History Month, there was Negro History Week—launched 100 years ago
in 1926 as a strategic counterattack against erasure. B Daht reframes BHM not as a
"gift" but as a long game Carter G. Woodson designed 100 years ago... and it's still
working.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.3	Guaranteed Human.
0:04.5	The original 100.
0:07.1	Carter G. Woodson was playing chess.
0:11.1	Welcome back, No-It-Alls to Season 5.
0:15.5	One, two, three, four, five.
0:16.5	Of the most anticipated podcast on the Black Effect Podcast Network,
0:22.1	especially in February, entitled,
0:25.1	I am your host, B. Dot, and boy, oh boy, a lot has changed since last February.
0:35.6	What a start.
0:36.5	First order of business, I won Mr. Alumni, Winston-Salem State University, 2025.
0:43.3	It was a fundraiser for scholarships, and I raised over $16,000.
0:48.1	My platform was a dollar in a dream.
0:50.8	I just asked everybody I came across to give $1,4 quarters, 20 nithful. I was trying to show the power of
0:57.9	group economics and collaborative efforts, and it worked. I wear my crown everywhere. Gas station,
1:04.8	basketball games. Just aimlessly walking around the house with a WSSU robe on and my crown.
1:11.5	Her Winston-Salem State University got 33,000 alumni, but there's only one Mr. alumni, and I am he.
1:19.7	As for the podcast, man, we have grown.
1:23.0	Starting last March, we started dropping weekly episodes.
1:26.8	That's right, and it's not just about weekly episodes. That's right.
1:29.2	And it's not just about black history.
1:31.5	It's anything that I didn't know.
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