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GBN Daily Drop Podcast: Classical and Opera Singer Marian Anderson – “The Voice of Freedom” (LISTEN)

GBN Daily Drop Podcast: Classical and Opera Singer Marian Anderson – “The Voice of Freedom” (LISTEN)

By goodblacknews on February 8, 2022

by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson)

Today’s GBN Daily Drop podcast expands on the Tuesday, February 8 entry in the “A Year of Good Black News” Page-A-Day®️ Calendar for 2022, which offers an inspirational quote from famous contralto Marian Anderson.

I include that, as well as a bit more historical context and links to sources, which can be found in the show’s transcript below.

(Btw, GBN’s Page-A-Day®️ Calendar for 2022 is 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 Tuesday, February 8th, 2022, based on the “A Year of Good Black News Page-A-Day Calendar” published by Workman Publishing.

Today, on #OperaDay, we offer an inspirational quote from famous contralto Marian Anderson, the first Black performer to sing at the Metropolitan Opera.

In addition to her commanding voice, Anderson is widely known for singing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday in 1939 after the Daughters of the American Revolution enforced their segregationist beliefs and denied Anderson the opportunity to sing to an integrated audience at Constitution Hall in Washington D.C.

First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and President Roosevelt supported Anderson, and over 75,000 people showed up to watch her outdoor concert.  To quote Anderson:

“Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.”

To learn more about Anderson, you can check out her 1956 autobiography, My Lord, What a Morning, the book about her landmark performance called The Sound of Freedom: Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Concert That Awakened America by Raymond Arsenault or the 2011 award-winning children’s book The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Russell Freedman.

You can also watch Voice of Freedom, the 2021 PBS documentary about Anderson. Links to these sources 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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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.

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.