THE BLACK NATIONALIST Queen Mother Audley Moore

What'sHerName

Dr. Katie Nelson and Olivia Meikle

Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.8 • 538 Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Queen Mother Audley Moore was one of the most respected, most influential, longest-lasting influences on the US Black Nationalist movement, the Pan-African movement, the movement for Reparations, and the Black American organizing community in general across almost the entire 20th century. So why have most of us never even heard her name? Returning guest Ashley Farmer introduces Olivia to the incredible, unexpected force that was Queen Mother Audley Moore. Music featured in this episode provided by Daniel Henderson and his Big Band, The New Hot 5, Cynthia Meng and Kim Onah, TrackTribe, Kevin Macleod, and Emmit Fenn. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:46.0	Hi, Katie. Hi, Olivia.
0:52.6	Today I want to tell you about one of the most powerfully influential,
0:59.2	crucially important, visionary, relentlessly determined figures in 20th century, Black America.
1:02.3	Wow.
1:03.8	She was central to the movements for black nationalism, pan-Africanism, community care.
1:13.5	She was a wealthy, powerful, socially privileged and important black elite in Creole society,
1:23.7	who would become the foremost black nationalist of the 20th century, lead the call for reparations and a return to Africa,
1:33.0	and eventually lead a coalition of black Americans to declare independence from the United States,
1:41.3	secede from the nation, and declare a new nation, the Republic of New Africa,
1:48.0	within the borders of the United States.
1:50.6	Wow.
1:52.3	And somehow, we've never heard of her.
1:55.2	I've never heard of her.
1:56.1	Whoa.
1:57.8	This is an incredible and incredibly complicated story.
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