People’s History Audiograms

Each month we learn from people’s history scholars in our Teach the Black Freedom Struggle classes. We invite you to listen to the audiograms from the sessions below and then sign up for the rest of the series this year.

Kellie Carter Jackson on We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance


Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò on Reparations and Climate Justice


Julius B. Fleming Jr. on Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation


Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr. on The History of Black Music — A Love Supreme


Heather McGhee on Everyday Solidarity and The Sum of Us


Khalil Gibran Muhammad on The Condemnation of Blackness


Michael Hines on the Fight for Black History in Schools


Blair L. M. Kelley on A People’s History of the Black Working Class


SNCC veteran Courtland Cox on the importance of determination


Dr. Kimberlé Crenshaw on Teaching Truthfully About U.S. History


Howard French on Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War


Linda Villarosa on Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation, April 24, 2023


Kidada Williams on I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction, March 20, 2023


Jeanne Theoharis on Starring Mrs. Rosa Parks: Film Excerpts and Behind the Scenes Commentary, Feb. 6, 2023


Dayo Gore on Want to Start a Revolution? Black Women Radicals Confront the Red Scare, Jan. 23, 2023


Bryan Stevenson on the History of Racial Terror in the United States, Dec. 12, 2022


Matthew Delmont on “We Return Fighting”: The Black Freedom Struggle During World War II, Nov. 14, 2022


Ashley Farmer on Queen Mother Moore, Black Nationalism, and the Centuries-Long Fight for Reparations, Oct. 17, 2022


Alaina Roberts on Black Freedom on Native Land, Sept. 12, 2022


Kelly Lytle Hernández on the 1910 Mexican Revolution, June 6, 2022


Kidada E. Williams on “Seizing Freedom”, May 9, 2022


Johanna Fernández on the Young Lords, April 25, 2022


Martha S. Jones on Reconstruction and Issues of Citizenship, Suffrage, and Movement Building in the 19th Century, Feb. 1, 2022


Jarvis Givens on Fugitive Pedagogy Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching, Dec. 21, 2021


Clint Smith on How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America, May 10, 2021


Tera W. Hunter on The Atlanta Washerwomen’s Strike, March 22, 2021


Judy Richardson on Julian Bond and the Southern Civil Rights Movement: Focus on Georgia, Feb. 15, 2021


Kidada E. Williams on Reconstruction: Repression and Resistance, Dec. 14, 2020



Greg Carr on Reconstruction and Juneteenth, June 19, 2020


Dave Zirin on Black Athletes and the Black Freedom Struggle, May 15, 2020


Jeanne Theoharis on The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, March 27, 2020

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