Let's Get Ella Bakered with Dr. Barbara Ransby
Hello Somebody
The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 768 Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Our former history professor SNT prophesizes with respected historian, author, activist, intellectual and educator, Dr Barbara Ransby. These two history teachers make an intersectional analysis on where we’ve been and where we’re going by looking specifically at the Black woman’s experience in America and how that affects ALL people. Looking back to our foremothers and sisters like Ella Baker and Anita Hill, Turner and Ransby – bonded in defense of ourselves – present an educational prelude to how we must reimagine society in a fundamental way to see a future that embraces equality across race, class, gender, economics and wealth. Hello Somebody!
Ella Baker & the Black Freedom Movement : A Radical Democratic Vision by Dr Barbara Ransby
https://uncpress.org/book/9780807856161/ella-baker-and-the-black-freedom-movement/
African American Women in Defense of Ourselves Organization (several links)
https://www.thehistorymakers.org/taxonomy/term/48098
https://timeline.com/anita-hill-hearings-sexual-harassment-was-dominated-by-white-fb97385b1104
https://www.sisterstestify.com/
Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14563865
Teachers for Social justice
http://www.teachersforjustice.org/
Chicago Teacher’s Union
Zinn Education Project – Curriculum for Teachers
https://www.zinnedproject.org/
What is Owed by Nikole Hannah-Jones, NYT Magazine
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/24/magazine/reparations-slavery.html
Dr Ransby’s Reading Recommendations:
Are Prisons Obsolete by Angela Davis
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/213837/are-prisons-obsolete-by-angela-y-davis/
Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era by Dan Berger
https://uncpress.org/book/9781469629797/captive-nation/
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Dr Heather Ann Thompson
https://www.heatherannthompson.com/
Black against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party by Joshua Bloom & Waldo E. Martin Jr.
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520293281/black-against-empire
Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self Determination by Adom Getachew
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691179155/worldmaking-after-empire
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Hello Somebody, a production of the Black Effect Network on I Heart Radio. |
| 0:10.1 | Before we begin, I want to give a big thank you to my team, the team that makes this show happen every week. |
| 0:17.4 | Thank you, Grace and Co. for graphics. |
| 0:20.7 | Pepper Chambers, the hot one for writing. |
| 0:23.8 | Angelo Greco and Anna Mesa for social media. Tiffany Hale for everything. Erica Eklan for |
| 0:31.7 | Patreon support and production by the folks at large media. |
| 0:40.4 | That's L-A-R-J media. |
| 0:52.5 | Well, Dr. Ransby is so great to be with you. I am thinking about the first time we met in person in 3D, as folks are saying, |
| 1:01.6 | these days with COVID. And you see you organized 100 black women for Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. |
| 1:12.7 | We did. We did. In defense of her. In defense of her, President Trump was going after her |
| 1:19.6 | really hard and some of his supporters joined in on that and she could not catch a break |
| 1:25.4 | every where she turned. She was being attacked. And so you organized that and she could not catch a break every where she turned she was being attacked and so |
| 1:29.3 | you organized that and of course we attracted people from other ethnicities to lift and support |
| 1:40.7 | our work but you led that what what what motivated you to do that? And why did |
| 1:46.0 | you reach out to black women from a variety from the spectrum? I mean, you didn't just, |
| 1:51.0 | you reached out to black women of from all walks of life. Right. Well, you know, I, I, I'm reluctant to |
| 1:58.3 | take credit all by myself. I mean, I think there was a, there was a collective of us. |
| 2:02.2 | I think we were watching Ilhan take so many blows and get so much both racist and sexist, |
| 2:10.1 | harassment, attacks, treatment from this, you know, who is supposed to be the most powerful person |
| 2:15.9 | in the country, the president of the United |
| 2:17.8 | States and his supporters. And we just really felt we had to say something. So the Movement for Black |
| 2:25.1 | Lives, which I work with very closely, Tenguea McHarris, you know, my old friend Angela Davis, |
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