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Black History Declassified is a forensic documentary podcast about African American history - the people, events, and turning points the textbooks skipped, reconstructed from the record. No myth-making, no fluff: documented history, sourced and told straight. Companion video on YouTube.
Unknown Host hosts Black History Declassified, a history show with 7 episodes published.
In 1940, the French Resistance recruited the most famous entertainer in Europe to spy on the Nazis. Her name was Josephine Baker. She was an American who had fled Jim Crow for Paris in 1925, become the highest-paid perfo
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, America celebrates a familiar story — the dream, the marches, the landmark civil rights laws. But in the final years of his life, Martin Luther King Jr. was fighting for something far more
Between one and two million Africans were shipped to Iran through the Indian Ocean slave trade. Iran abolished slavery in 1929 — then built a system to make them disappear. No census. Ever. The enslaved came from Zanziba
In this documentary, we delve into the life of Medgar Evers and the systemic injustices of Jim Crow law that allowed his killer to evade accountability. Join us as we explore the impact of Evers' legacy on the civil righ
In 1961, George Jackson was sentenced to one year to life in California state prison for a $70 gas station robbery. He was eighteen years old. Under California's indeterminate sentencing law, the parole board could hold
On February twenty-sixth, 1971, Huey Newton and Eldridge Cleaver spoke on television for the last time. The FBI had spent nearly a year writing letters. Within seven weeks, two Panthers were dead and thirty to forty perc
In 1949, Paul Robeson was the most famous Black man in America. All-American football player at Rutgers. Columbia Law graduate. Broadway star. Hollywood actor. Concert singer who sold out Carnegie Hall and Royal Albert H
In August 1966, Martin Luther King Jr. marched into Marquette Park expecting resistance. What he didn’t expect was the scale of hatred he would face from ordinary white Chicagoans — not police, not segregation laws, but
In 1970, Renaldo "Obie" Benson of the Four Tops witnessed police beating anti-war protesters in Berkeley, California, and wrote a song about it. Motown wouldn't touch it. He brought it to Marvin Gaye, who rewrote the lyr
Judge Julius Hoffman ordered Bobby Seale — chairman of the Black Panther Party — bound and gagged in a federal courtroom. The COINTELPRO campaign that turned a co-founder into a symbol. The government tried to silence hi
The most effective weapon COINTELPRO deployed against the Black Panther Party wasn't assassination. It was the conspiracy charge. 0:00 Introduction 14:20 The Conspiracy Weapon 14:50 Panther 21 15:20 Angela Davis 17:30 Ge
Meet Eunice Hunton Carter, the brilliant Black woman prosecutor who single-handedly cracked the case that brought down Lucky Luciano and America's most powerful crime syndicate in 1935. While stuck in what others conside
The NRA didn't just support the Mulford Act. They helped draft it. In 1967, Assemblyman Don Mulford collected police intelligence files on the Black Panther Party while writing Assembly Bill 1591, and the National Rifle
William O'Neal was seventeen years old when the FBI recruited him, dropped his federal charges, and put him on a $300-a-month payroll to infiltrate the Black Panther Party. He became Fred Hampton's head of security. He d
When Malcolm Little entered Charlestown State Prison in 1946, he was twenty years old, barely literate, and known on the streets of Harlem as "Detroit Red." When he walked out in 1952, he had read every book in the priso
In August 1996, journalist Gary Webb published "Dark Alliance" in the San Jose Mercury News — a three-part investigation documenting how CIA-backed Nicaraguan Contras had funneled cocaine into Los Angeles through dealer
On March 15, 1990, a Black Panther walked out of a New York prison after nineteen years. He wasn't released because he'd served his time. He wasn't pardoned by a governor. He was freed because a judge ruled that prosecut
In April 1969, twenty-one members of the New York Black Panther Party were arrested in pre-dawn raids and charged with 156 counts of conspiracy to bomb police stations, department stores, and the Bronx Botanical Gardens.
Huey P. Newton couldn't read when he graduated from high school. He taught himself — starting with Plato's Republic and working through every major political philosopher he could find. By twenty-four, he had co-founded t
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