Hey there beautiful people and welcome to FANTY, the podcast for all those complex and

complicated conversations about the great area in our lives is I'm senior producer,

Laura Swisher.

And I'm baby producer by Meet em when you use and as you can tell Jerry and Trayvall are

not here today.

That's right, while your regular FANTY hosts are way getting some much needed rest and preparing

for a brand new season coming up March 2nd, by the way, we the producers wanted to take

a moment to celebrate the end of season 3 with a few of our favorite moments from past

episodes.

And we thought we might finish this month of a mini-sodes with clips in the spirit of

Black History Month.

With that said, this first segment is from episode 53 entitled Every Day Is Black History.

It aired in February of 2021 and Jared and Trayvall are discussing the origins of

Black History Month and what they love about it and you know, not so much.

Let's take a listen.

So Black History Month began as Negro History Week in 1926.

The idea was to create a cool, coordinated effort in public schools nationwide to teach

Black History.

Carter G. Woodson is the man who came up with it all and he felt that, quote, if a race

has no history, it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought

of the world and it stands in danger of being exterminated.

Though initially not widely accepted by 1970 at the proposal of Black educators and students

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