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Stuff You Missed in History Class

Two Dorseys: Thomas J. and William Henry

Stuff You Missed in History Class

iHeartPodcasts

History, Society & Culture

4.223.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Thomas J. Dorsey liberated himself from enslavement and became one of the most sought-after caterers in Philadelphia. His son William Henry Dorsey was born a free Black man before the Civil War, and became an artist, collector and scrapbooker.

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0:00.0

I want you to ask yourself right now, how am I actually doing? Because it's a question that we rarely

0:06.6

ask ourselves. All of May is actually Mental Health Awareness Month and on the psychology of your 20s,

0:12.0

we are taking a vulnerable look at why mental health is so hard to talk about. Prepare for our

0:17.3

conversations to go deep. I spent the majority of my teenagers and my 20s, just feeling absolutely terrified.

0:24.3

I had a panic attack on a conference call.

0:26.7

Knowing that she had six months to live, I was no longer pretending that this was my best friend.

0:30.3

So this mental health awareness month, take that extra bit of care of your well-being.

0:34.0

Listen to the psychology of your 20s on the IHart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:40.6

Hi, I'm Sam Mullins, and I've got a new podcast coming out called Go Boy, the gritty true story of how one man fought his way out of some of the darkest places imaginable.

0:50.8

Roger Caron was 16 when first convicted.

0:53.3

I spent 24 of those years in jail.

0:55.9

But when Roger Caron picked up a pen and paper,

0:58.4

he went from an ex-con to a literary darling.

1:01.4

From Campside Media and IHeart Podcasts,

1:03.8

listen to Go Boy on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,

1:07.9

or wherever you get your podcasts.

1:10.9

I'm ready to fight. Oh, this is fighting worse. Okay, I'll put the hammer back.

1:15.1

Hi, I'm George M. Johnson, a bestselling author with the second most banned book in America.

1:20.9

Now more than ever, we need to use our voices to fight back.

1:24.4

Part of the power of black queer creativity is the fact that we got us,

1:29.2

you know?

1:30.1

We are the greatest

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