Pseudopod is extruded into this universe from a dimension of purest fear.

It's beautiful in its own alien way, but what's to come will unsettle you.

Sudopod, episode 980B for June 19th, 2025, also known in the United States as Juneteenth.

Jesus Christ in Georgia by W.E.B. Du Bois, narrated by B. McFly.

I'm Josh, associate editor here at Sudapod, your host for this week.

Incidentally, I'll also be your host tomorrow for episode 981, Robert Blocks, The Shambler from the Stars.

So, twice in one week. Yay.

One quick note, it's been raining and thundering for nearly a day here and it is not going to stop, so if that makes it into the audio, I apologize.

Just think of it as mood.

William Edward Berghardt Du Bois was an American sociologist, socialist, historian, and pan-Africanist civil rights activist.

After completing graduate work at Harvard University, where he was the first African American to earn a doctorate,

Du Bois rose to national prominence as a leader of the Niagara movement,

a group of black civil rights activists seeking equal rights.

Du Bois was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored

People, the NAACP, in 1909.

If you missed it, make sure to go into the back catalog here or at Nightlight and listen

to The Comet, which is an amazing 1920 precursor to Day of the Triffids and 30 days later.

Jesus Christ in Georgia was originally published in the 1911 Christmas issue of the crisis in response to a lynching in Georgia. After a particularly bad one in Texas

a few years later, the story was tweaked slightly and re-released because it was relevant.

And we wish it was a relic of the time period and did not remain relevant. One of the key legal

approaches against lynching is arguing for the personhood of the victim of the lynching.

If they're a human being, then it's a crime, as human life is generally held in both religious and secular contexts to be sacred,

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