S E290: Dr. Greg Carr: "Ida B. Wells is a G!"

This Is Karen Hunter

Knarrative

Empowerment, Africana Studies, Greg Carr, Karen Hunter, History, Education, Society & Culture

4.5 • 888 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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A timely discussion on Ida B Wells, the most impactful and renowned black woman in America of her time. Karen and Dr. Greg Carr (head of the Africana Studies Dept. at Howard University) discuss her legacy, This conversation, ironically, took place days before Wells was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Special Citation for her investigative stories on African American lynchings.

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0:00.0	This is Karen Hunter and this to the weekend so last Saturday I had a conversation with Dr. Gray car
0:29.3	Afrikana car on Twitter C-A-R-R- about history.
0:34.0	And every Saturday I'm going to be posting pieces on YouTube
0:37.1	about history, and we're going to pick figures,
0:39.2	like not hidden figures, because they're only
0:41.2	hidden because people don't talk about them.
0:42.8	So we're going to be talking about people that you should know.
0:45.4	Ish, you should know.
0:47.0	And one of the people we talked about this past Saturday was Ida B Wells,
0:50.8	just randomly, because she's one of my my heroes she's one of the badest
0:54.8	women to ever live to ever walk this earth and I just absolutely love her and so does
0:59.8	great cars so we got into this like geeked out conversation about her and then today she gets a Pulitzer
1:05.2	What are the odds of that? So I think it's you know kiss met and so here's our conversation up next about Ida B. Wells and why she's so dope and I hope you enjoy it.
1:15.0	Let me know what you think. Follow me at Karen Hunter on Twitter. You can follow
1:19.1	Great Card, Dr. Great Carr at Afrikana, C-A-R-R- on Twitter, use the hashtag podcast so that we can check for your comments.
1:27.5	And I hope you enjoy.
1:28.5	Let us know what you think.
1:29.8	Up next, my conversation with Dr.Karr about the Great Ida B Wells.
1:35.0	Hey this is Karen Hunter, you know I'm trying to lose some pounds and the way I stay on track is
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