The Black History Buff Podcast

21: Proverbs, Myths and Legends: The Big game

Support the show on Patreon OR Buy me a coffee Show Notes:  Todays Proverb is an Igbo saying from Nigeria: “The big game often appears when the hunter has given...
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Black History Buff Blitz: Stage Coach Mary

Black History Buff Blitz: Stage Coach Mary

Mary Fields, later to be known as Stage Coach Mary was born in Hickman County Tennessee at around 1832 
Liberated from enslavement at the end of the American Civil war, Fields headed North working on Riverboats till she eventually found permanent work in an Ohio convent.
Her gruff style and constant cursing raised eyebrows in the quiet convent, and though she faithfully served the nuns, news of her habitual drinking, smoking, shooting guns and wearing men’s clothing. Caused upheaval. 
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20: Kandake Amanirenas - Konquering Queen of Kush

Support the show on Patreon OR Buy me a coffee Show Notes:  This Episode is about an African Queen who defined Rome and carved out a place for herself in...
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19: Black History Buff Blitz: Stage Coach Mary

Support the show on Patreon OR Buy me a coffee Show Notes:  To tide you over while Im researching and writing longer episodes I've created a new segment called Black...
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Black History Blitz: Cathay Williams Buffalo Soldier

Black History Blitz: Cathay Williams Buffalo Soldier

Today's Black history Blitz is about Cathy Williams. The first African American Woman to enlist in the United States Army and the only one we know about who did so posing as a man!! 
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18: Black History Blitz: Cathay Williams Buffalo Soldier

Support the show on Patreon OR Buy me a coffee Show Notes:  To tide you over while Im researching and writing longer episodes I've created a new segment called Black...
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Brother Jourdan’s response

Brother Jourdan’s response

Todays episode features a scathing response to possibly the most Ill advised “take me back” letter ever and some wisdom from an ancient African proverb.

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17: Brother Jourdan's Response

Support the show on Patreon OR Buy me a coffee Show Notes:  Todays episode features a scathing response to possibly the most Ill advised “take me back” letter ever and...
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