The Little-Known Black History Of The Easter Holiday
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🗓️ 30 December 2024
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When you think of the Easter holiday, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Is it Black history? It should be. Here’s why the holiday is one of the Blackest celebrations of the year.
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| 0:00.0 | When you think of the Easter holiday, what's the first thing that comes to mind? |
| 0:04.0 | Is it Black History? Well, it should be. Here's why the holiday is one of the Blackest celebrations of the year. |
| 0:12.0 | This is too many Black History, what you didn't learn in school. |
| 0:28.0 | The Easter holiday is a special time for Christians around the globe, but for black people is also a time with deep connections to our history. Here are three interesting |
| 0:34.3 | facts about these connections. Let's look at Easter's origin. While Easter |
| 0:41.5 | itself is a mash-up of Jewish and pagan practices, it was a black pope, Victor I |
| 0:48.7 | the First, who created Resurrection Day. Victor standardized the practice of celebrating on Sunday, but he made another part of Easter happen as well. |
| 1:00.0 | St. Victor, the first, also created the tradition of wearing special outfits for Easter. |
| 1:09.0 | Victor mandated newly baptized Christians to wear all white |
| 1:14.4 | linen garments during this time. Eventually, this evolved into the practice of dressing in one's |
| 1:21.6 | best clothes to attend Easter services. Rooted in black tradition, the Easter speech was meant to train black children to be |
| 1:32.8 | excellent oriators and public speakers. |
| 1:36.4 | Icons like Oprah Winfrey and Martin Luther King learned how to speak comfortably to an audience |
| 1:42.1 | by reciting speeches in front of the congregation on Easter |
| 1:46.5 | Sunday. |
| 1:59.0 | Easter may be a time for celebration now, but what if we kept reimagining how to honor it? |
| 2:06.0 | What would an Easter that encourages resurrecting the lost parts of our history, sharing sweet |
| 2:12.3 | stories of our ancestors, and dressing up our fight for freedom in its best action look like. |
| 2:20.0 | In order to move towards the future, you've got to look to the past. |
| 2:24.4 | This has been two-minute black history, a podcast by Push Black. |
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