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GBN Daily Drop Podcast: Ethel Payne – “The First Lady of the Black Press” (LISTEN)

GBN Daily Drop Podcast: Ethel Payne – “The First Lady of the Black Press” (LISTEN)

By goodblacknews on February 7, 2022

by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson)

Although I have posted about the fabulous, fierce reporter and White House correspondent Ethel Payne on GBN before (link here), today I’m posting GBN’s Daily Drop podcast much shorter audio version based on the Monday, February 7th entry I wrote in the “A Year of Good Black News” Page-A-Day®️ Calendar for 2022 on “The First Lady of the Black Press.”

(BTW GBN’s Page-A-Day®️ Calendar is now 50% off at workman.com with code:50CAL until 2/28/22!)

You can also follow or subscribe to the Good Black News Daily Drop Podcast through Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, rss.comor create your own RSS Feed. Or just check it out every day here on the main website (transcript below):

SHOW TRANSCRIPT:

Hey, this Lori Lakin Hutcherson, founder and editor in chief of goodblacknews.org, here to share with you a daily drop of Good Black News for Monday, February 7th, 2022, based on the “A Year of Good Black News Page-A-Day Calendar” published by Workman Publishing.

Extra! Extra! Read all about Ethel Payne, the “First Lady of the Black Press.” After her Pullman porter father died from an infection when she was fourteen, Chicago-born Payne scrambled to get an education and eventually found work at the Chicago Defender, which in its day was one of the largest African American newspapers with its informal national distribution carried out by tacit agreements with the Pullman Porters.

Payne’s reporting at the Defender was hugely popular, and she later became the paper’s White House correspondent, famously challenging every president from Eisenhower to Nixon on topics important to her Black readership.

In 1972, she became the first African American woman commentator on a national network (CBS).

If you’re interested in learning even more about Ethel Payne, which I recommend you do because frankly her life and her words are fascinating, check out the extended companion episode on Payne that I’ll be posting within the week as a bonus.

That bonus episode will be based on the longer article I researched and wrote about Payne on Good Black News, and that link will be provided along with links to other sources about Ethel Payne in today’s show notes.

Lori’s Good Black News article on Payne: https://goodblacknews.org/2019/02/03/bhm-extra-extra-read-all-about-ethel-payne-first-lady-of-the-black-press/

More sources:

This has been a daily drop of Good Black News, based on the “A Year of Good Black News Page-A-Day Calendar for 2022,” published by Workman Publishing, and available at workman.com (50% off with code:CAL50 until 2/28/22), Amazon, Bookshop and other online retailers.

Beats provided by freebeats.io and produced by White Hot. For more Good Black News, check out goodblacknews.org or search and follow @goodblacknews anywhere on social.

GBN Daily Drop Podcast: Washington Commanders President Jason Wright, the 1st Black Person to Run an NFL Franchise (LISTEN)

GBN Daily Drop Podcast: Washington Commanders President Jason Wright, the 1st Black Person to Run an NFL Franchise (LISTEN)

By goodblacknews on February 6, 2022

by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson)

Here is GBN’s Daily Drop for Sunday, February 6th on Washington Commanders president Jason Wright, the first Black person to run a National Football League franchise.

You can also follow or subscribe to the Good Black News Daily Drop Podcast through Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, rss.comor create your own RSS Feed. Or just check it out every day here on the main website (transcript below):

SHOW TRANSCRIPT:

Hey, this Lori Lakin Hutcherson, founder and editor in chief of GoodBlackNews.org, here to share with you a daily drop of Good Black News for Sunday, February 6th, 2022, based on the “A Year of Good Black News Page-A-Day Calendar” published by Workman Publishing. It’s in the category for Black Firsts we call “It’s About Time”:

Not many NFL players set their post-career sights on graduate school, but former pro running back Jason Wright traded in his cleats for wingtips when he earned his master’s degree in business administration from University of Chicago Booth School of Business in 2013.

Wright scored even bigger in 2020 when he became President of the Washington Football team (now officially known as the Washington Commanders) and the first Black person to run a National Football League franchise.

If you want to learn more about Wright, links are provided in today’s show notes.

This has been a daily drop of Good Black News, based on the “A Year of Good Black News Page-A-Day Calendar for 2022,” published by Workman Publishing, and available at workman.com, Amazon, Bookshop and other online retailers.

Beats provided by freebeats.io and produced by White Hot. For more Good Black News, check out goodblacknews.org or search and follow @goodblacknews anywhere on social.

GBN Daily Drop Podcast: February 5th – #OnThisDay in Black History (LISTEN)

GBN Daily Drop Podcast: February 5th – #OnThisDay in Black History (LISTEN)

By goodblacknews on February 5, 2022

by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson)

Here is GBN’s Daily Drop for Saturday, February 5th, a bonus episode sharing some of the historical events #onthisday in Black History.

You can also follow or subscribe to the Good Black News Daily Drop Podcast through Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, rss.com or create your own RSS Feed. Or just check it out every day here on the main website (transcript below):

Bob Douglas, the “father of Black professional basketball”

SHOW TRANSCRIPT:

Hey, this Lori Lakin Hutcherson, founder and editor in chief of GoodBlackNews.org, here to share with you a bonus daily drop of Good Black News for Saturday, February 5th, 2022, based on the “A Year of Good Black News Page-A-Day Calendar” published by Workman Publishing.

Today I’m taking a look at some of the historical events in Black History that happened on this day. Because honestly, pick a day, any day, and I can tell you some good Black facts about it. And right now it’s February 5th, so were going to do that.

On February 5, 1972, Bob Douglas, owner and coach of the New York Renaissance who was known as “The Father of Black Professional Basketball”, became the first Black person elected and inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame. Then seventeen years later on the same date, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar became the first NBA player to score 38,000 points and to this day the former Lakers center remains the all-time leading scorer in the league with 38,387 points.

On February 5th, 1994, the white supremacist murderer of Mississippi NAACP field secretary and civil rights leader Medgar Evers was finally convicted and sentenced to life some thirty years after he perpetrated his hate crime.

We’d also like to mention some Aquarians born on this day – Major League Baseball homerun king Henry “Hank” Aaron, Saturday Night Live and Ladies Man comedian Tim Meadows, New Edition and “My Prerogative” singer Bobby Brown and Barrett Strong, singer of Motown’s very first hit single “Money (That’s What I Want).” Strong turns 81 years young today – Happy Birthday to one and all.

Today also would have been the 27th birthday of Trayvon Martin, who was unjustly murdered almost ten years ago. May he forever rest in peace and never be forgotten.

This has been a bonus daily drop of Good Black News, based on the “A Year of Good Black News Page-A-Day Calendar for 2022,” published by Workman Publishing, and available at workman.com [50% off until 2/28/22 with code:CAL50], Amazon, Bookshop and other online retailers.

Beats provided by freebeats.io and produced by White Hot. For more Good Black News, check out goodblacknews.org or search and follow @goodblacknews anywhere on social.

GBN Daily Drop Podcast: Professor John Henrik Clarke, Pioneer of Pan African Studies (LISTEN)

GBN Daily Drop Podcast: Professor John Henrik Clarke, Pioneer of Pan African Studies (LISTEN)

By goodblacknews on February 4, 2022

by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson)

Here is GBN’s Daily Drop for Friday, February 4th on John Henrik Clarke, professor and advocate of Pan African Studies.

You can also follow or subscribe to the Good Black News Daily Drop Podcast through Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, rss.com or create your own RSS Feed. Or just check it out every day here on the main website (transcript below):

SHOW TRANSCRIPT:

Hey, this Lori Lakin Hutcherson, founder and editor in chief of GoodBlackNews.org, here to share with you a daily drop of Good Black News for Friday, February 4th, 2022, based on the “A Year of Good Black News Page-A-Day Calendar” published by Workman Publishing.

GBN Daily Drop Podcast: Drs. Joanna and Elmer Martin and the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum (LISTEN)

GBN Daily Drop Podcast: Drs. Joanna and Elmer Martin and the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum (LISTEN)

By goodblacknews on February 3, 2022

by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson)

Here is GBN’s Daily Drop for Thursday, February 3rd, 2022, about the creation of The National Great Blacks in Wax Museum in Baltimore, MD, the first all African-American wax museum in the U.S.

(Also available for streaming and download at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, rss.com or create your own RSS Feed.)

Transcript below:

SHOW TRANSCRIPT:

Hey, this Lori Lakin Hutcherson, founder and editor in chief of GoodBlackNews.org, here to share with you a daily drop of Good Black News for Thursday, February 3rd, 2022, based on the “A Year of Good Black News Page-A-Day Calendar” published by Workman Publishing. It’s in the category for Black Museums and Landmarks we call “Get the Knowledge”:

Sociologist Dr. Elmer Martin and his wife, Dr. Joanna Martin, wanted to teach Black history in a way that would grab kids’ attention—so they did it with wax. The Martins had wax heads made in the likenesses of Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Mary McLeod Bethune, and Nat Turner, then used department store mannequins for the bodies.

They originally presented the figures at schools and community centers in Baltimore, Maryland but after garnering donations and grants, the figures were upgraded, expanded in number, and permanently installed at the Great Blacks in Wax Museum in 1983.

Just over two decades later, in 2004, the Great Blacks in Wax Museum was recognized by the United States Congress and designated The National Great Blacks in Wax Museum. If you want to learn more about the Martins and the Great Blacks in Wax Museum, check out the links provided in today’s show notes.

This has been a daily drop of Good Black News, based on the “A Year of Good Black News Page-A-Day Calendar for 2022,” published by Workman Publishing, and available at workman.com, Amazon,Bookshop and other online retailers. Beats provided by freebeats.io and produced by White Hot. For more Good Black News, check out goodblacknews.org or search and follow @goodblacknews anywhere on social.

GBN Daily Drop Podcast: Carter G. Woodson – “The Father of Black History” (LISTEN)

GBN Daily Drop Podcast: Carter G. Woodson – “The Father of Black History” (LISTEN)

By goodblacknews on February 2, 2022

by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson)

Here is GBN’s Daily Drop for Wednesday, February 2nd on Carter G. Woodson, “The Father of Black History” (transcript below):

SHOW TRANSCRIPT:

Hey, this Lori Lakin Hutcherson, founder and editor in chief of GoodBlackNews.org, here to share with you a daily drop of Good Black News based on the “A Year of Good Black News” Page-A-Day Calendar published by Workman Publishing. This is Wednesday, February 2nd, 2022.

Known as “The Father of Black History,” author and historian Carter G. Woodson was born in 1875 to formerly enslaved parents who were never taught to read and write. To make ends meet, Woodson often had to forgo school for farm or mining work, but he was encouraged to learn independently and eventually earned advanced degrees from the University of Chicago and Harvard.

In 1915 he helped found the Journal of Negro History, then in 1926, he began promoting the second week of February as Negro History Week. This holiday led to the month of February officially becoming Black History Month in 1976.

Additionally, Woodson wrote and published The Mis-Education of the Negro in 1933, which is now available for free download in the public domain. This collection of articles and speeches became a classic touchstone for educators, as Woodson advocated for excellence in the education of Black students and demanded that school systems across America eliminate curricula designed deliberately to “mis-educate” Black children and promote the fallacy of white supremacy.

To learn more about Carter G. Woodson, check out articles on him at history.com and biography.com, or pick up the full-length biography published in 2014 called, Carter G. Woodson in Washington, D.C.: The Father of Black History. Links to all of these sources are provided in today’s show notes.

This has been a daily drop of Good Black News, based on the “A Year of Good Black News Page-A-Day Calendar for 2022,” published by Workman Publishing, and available at workman.com, Amazon,Bookshop and other online retailers. Beats provided by freebeats.io and produced by White Hot. For more Good Black News, check out goodblacknews.org or search and follow @goodblacknews anywhere on social.

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Introducing Good Black News: The Daily Drop Podcast – “Because Just One Black History Month Isn’t Enough” (LISTEN)

Introducing Good Black News: The Daily Drop Podcast – “Because Just One Black History Month Isn’t Enough” (LISTEN)

By goodblacknews on February 1, 2022

by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson)

Happy Black History Month 2022! Good Black News is here once again to celebrate what we work to contribute to and highlight all year long.

This year we’re happy to share we are now offering a daily podcast based on the “A Year of Good Black News” Page-A-Day® Calendar for 2022 published by Workman Publishing, posting one per day as an audio companion to the calendar, plus bonus episodes on the weekends with brand new content.

We call it the “daily drop” because, well, it drops daily, and also because it’s no more than a few minutes long and just a drop of GBN.

We are doing this for a few reasons:

  1. To increase accessibility to the calendar to those need an aural source, who may have difficulty reading or acquiring a physical copy of the calendar but still want to experience the content.
  2. So we can update and expand on some of the entries as well as offer links to relevant sources for those who want to learn more.
  3. To archive the work GBN did to research, write and produce the calendar so it may exist in a digital format long after its physical one has served its purpose.

Starting today, we will embed each podcast into a post here on the main page, with the transcript and show notes, which will then be archived and accessible in the masthead category menu by clicking on “GBN Daily Drop Podcast.” (We will also be adding the January episodes we’ve already recorded.)

Alternatively, you can follow or subscribe to the Good Black News Daily Drop Podcast through Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, rss.com or create your own RSS Feed. Or just check it out every day here on the main website.

So, without any more fuss, here is GBN’s Daily Drop for Tuesday, February 1st (transcript below):

SHOW TRANSCRIPT:

Hey, this Lori Lakin Hutcherson, founder and editor in chief of GoodBlackNews.org, here to share with you a daily drop of Good Black News based on the “A Year of Good Black News Page-A-Day Calendar” published by Workman Publishing. This is Tuesday, February 1st, 2022. Today we’re celebrating the start of Black History Month with a West African proverb:

“Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.”

Tomorrow we’ll get into how Black History Month was created and who created it. But to get a little personal, I selected this quote and placed it on February 1st in GBN’s physical Page-A-Day calendar for 2022 not only because it’s apropos and reflective of the mission of the month ahead, but also because it’s a reminder to me for why I created Good Black News. Not enough of the people, events, stories, accomplishments, acts of heroism, or acts of creation that are part and parcel of African American and thus American culture have been known, let alone celebrated widely in the U.S. or abroad. That has been by design and as current events reveal, continues to be so. So offering this information and sources to learn more about what’s printed every calendar page, on the Good Black News website, on Good Black News social, and in these expanded audio versions, it’s my way of, so to speak, helping the world hear the lion’s roars.

This has been a daily drop of Good Black News, based on the “A Year of Good Black News Page-A-Day Calendar for 2022,” published by Workman Publishing, and available at workman.com, Amazon,Bookshop and other online retailers. Links to these sources provided in today’s show notes. Beats provided by freebeats.io and produced by White Hot. For more Good Black News, check out goodblacknews.org or search and follow @goodblacknews anywhere on social.