Minisode 62: A Brief History of the Black Panther Party

February 13, 2023 Tux Loerzel

Happy Black History Month! Last week’s episode touched upon the critical role of the Black Panther Party in making the 504 sit-in the success that it was. In this mini STEPHANIE shares an overview of their rise and fall and some of the things textbooks get wrong.
Black Panther Party - Wikipedia
Denzil Dowell - Wikipedia
What We Don’t Learn About the Black Panther Party — but Should - Zinn Education Project

ALSO MENTIONED: Celebrations, Fred Hampton, collective action, intersectionality, Denzel Donzel, human decency, MLK, COINTELPRO, Well That’s Interesting podcast, Florida telling itself to hold its beer, book bannings and toxic masculinity, the strongest drug on earth.

Episode 27, HOW TO KILL A REVOLUTION:
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Black History is American History: Episode 29 (The Forgotten Story of Seneca Village, and the Origins of “40 Acres and a Mule”)

February 1, 2021 Tux Loerzel

In this very special episode in honor of Black History Month we drink the iconic Knickerbocker cocktail. The term comes from OG Dutch settlers and refers to an old fashion style of pants. This New York City cocktail was popular in the 1850s, the era and the setting of Tux's scandal.

ALSO DISCUSSED: Sportsball, who shot JR, Tux’s altered sense of taste, 12 Years a Slave, Peculiar Picture Show, Harry Belefonte, iphone snitchery, Hashtag History, finkin’ it frough, Joni Mitchell, long ass receipts, town of Bushwick, eyelash beads, white supremacist unity, How to Save a Planet, and Soul Fire Farm.

For more info on our episode cocktail: Knickerbocker
Knickerbocker - Drink Recipe – How to Make the Perfect Knickerbocker
Discover the Knickerbocker, an original cocktail from New York
The Knickerbocker Cocktail, Circa 1850 – Bottle Pro Blog

TUX talks about the construction of Central Park and Seneca Village, one of 19th century New York's largest free black settlements. We toast to setting the record straight!
A look at Seneca Village, the early black settlement obliterated by the creation of Central Park
Opinion | The Death of the Black Utopia
Seneca Village: When New York City Destroyed a Thriving Black Community To Make Way for Central Park
An entire Manhattan village owned by black people was destroyed to build Central Park
A Village Dies, A Park Is Born
Wiki - Seneca Village
Seneca Village: the lost neighborhood under New York's Central Park
DISCOVER SENECA VILLAGE
Before Central Park: The Historic Neighborhood Lost to Time
New-York Historical Society
Seneca Village - The Excavations

STEPHANIE talks about “40 acres and a mule” and how the scandal of what happened to this land shows so much of what was possible at this one moment in history and what Reconstruction could have been if this country was about freedom and justice for all of its citizens. We raise a glass to a quote from Nikole Hannah-Jones’s essay in the 1619 Project..
RACE - The Power of an Illusion . Background Readings
Wiki - Tunis Campbell
American Capitalism Is Brutal. You Can Trace That to the Plantation. (Published 2019)
40 Acres and a Mule: Role-Playing What Reconstruction Could Have Been
Wiki - Special Field Orders No. 15
The Story Behind '40 Acres And A Mule' : Code Switch
The Truth Behind '40 Acres and a Mule' | African American History Blog | The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross
Forty acres and a mule: The idea of reparations for slavery is not new –
Wiki - St. Catherines Island
Sherman's Field Order No. 15 | New Georgia Encyclopedia
Tunis Gulic Campbell (1812–1891)
Take that, Scarlett O'Hara: The tale of Tunis Campbell is the true story of Georgia Reconstruction – Brambleman
Hinshaw: Historic marker does injustice to black preacher
Freedmen's Bureau (1865-1872)
The Real Story of Racism at the USDA
Booker, Warren, Gillibrand Announce Comprehensive Bill to Address the History of Discrimination in Federal Agricultural Policy

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How to Save a Planet | Gimlet
SOUL FIRE FARM – Ending racism and injustice in the food system

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The Legend of Highball Jackson: Episode 18 (Ma and Pa Ferguson & the Story of York)

March 3, 2020 Tux Loerzel

SPECIAL GUEST ALERT Y'ALL! This episode we are joined by Josh from the Bloody Beaver Podcast to cheers with us and share a very scandalous tale of his own. We toast Whiskey Highballs this episode, a crisp and simple sparkling mix loved by all who love spirits.

SPECIAL GUEST ALERT Y’ALL!
This episode we are joined by Josh from the Bloody Beaver Podcast to cheers with us and share a very scandalous tale of his own. We toast Whiskey Highballs this episode, a crisp and simple sparkling mix loved by all who love spirits. Cheers y’all, to whiskey, podcaster friends and to fixin’ to talk about scandals!

ALSO DISCUSSED: The Legend of Highball Jackson, state-sponsored cashmere sweaters, doing crime better, that good butter, Mortal Kombat, Stephanie’s grandmother vs Tux’s grandfather, reproducing iphones, a dog named Semen, and the absence of heroes in history.

STEPHANIE & TUX’s scandal revolves around Ma & Pa Furguson, a very outrageous couple that both made history in their own ways. Governor Jim Ferguson became the first person in Texas to ever be impeached--rightfully so. Then his wife Miriam very conveniently became the first female governor of Texas. She openly campaigned as a stand-in for her husband and won! Two governors for the price of one! What a pair?!
“Me For Ma—and I Ain’t Got A Dern Thing Againts Pa”
Texas Politics - Governors: James E. Ferguson
In UT Regent Controversy, Echoes of Texas History
Wiki - Dan Moody
Texas Politics - Governors: Miriam A. Ferguson
Ma Ferguson, A Puppet Governor
Miriam A. Ferguson
James E. Ferguson
How Chicken Salad Helped Bring Down a Texas Governor
Meet James 'Pa' Ferguson, the First Texas Governor to Face an Indictment
Ma Ferguson Unmasks the Klan

JOSH tells the scandal of York, the African-American explorer, best known for his participation with the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Enslaved by William Clark's father and passed down through a will to his son, York participated as a full member of the expedition. Despite his unpaid contributions to the team his freedom would not come until decades after the expedition. Classic.
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West
The Fate of York
Wiki - Zenas Leonard
Adventures of a Mountain Man: The Narrative of Zenas Leonard

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True stories from the wild and woolly west. Also really lame jokes! Each episode covers a real life person or event from the wild west era (gunfighters, outlaws, lawmen, Native Americans, frontiersmen, etc). Josh neither a historian nor a comedian, just a fan of history. He does, however, try to be as accurate as possible when covering these topics. All whilst dispensing dad jokes and totally butchering the English language.

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Minisode 14: What Fostered Our Interest in History & Politics

February 17, 2020 Tux Loerzel

This minisode we discuss what sparked our interests in American history and politics. TUX reflects on his political awakening during the runup to the 2008 election, and how his interest in history started in college.

This minisode we discuss what sparked our interests in American history and politics.

TUX reflects on his political awakening during the runup to the 2008 election, and how his interest in history started in college. He took a circuitous path when writing a report about the history of the American food system fostered a love for food history, and then a book about the unfinished America Eats! manuscript by the Works Progress Administration fostered an interest in learning about the New Deal.

STEPHANIE talks about the frustrations of being born black and political. She learned a dry, white-washed version of history that never rang true.

ALSO MENTIONED: The New York Time’s Dialect Quiz and Teaching Slavery (Season 1, Minisode 3).

DIALECT QUIZ
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/dialect-quiz-map.html

We want to hear from YOU! What is your experience? What made you interested in politics and history? Was there a specific event that opened your eyes to these subjects? Or were you always politically aware? Was there a teacher or adult that modeled political awareness or fostered in interest in American history? Did listening to a podcast like ours get you into these topics? If so, which ones? Please send your stories and anecdotes—any feedback you have, we’d love to hear it!

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Minisode 3: Your Slavery Education Stories

January 7, 2019 Tux Loerzel

We're back with another minisode with YOUR thoughts and stories on a heavy but important subject: TEACHING CHILDREN ABOUT SLAVERY! We believe that taking a more honest approach to this country's foundation would make this country stronger as a whole. Slavery in the United States is not just Black History, it is American History.

We’re back with another minisode with YOUR thoughts and stories on a heavy but important subject: TEACHING CHILDREN ABOUT SLAVERY! We believe that taking a more honest approach to this country’s foundation would make this country stronger as a whole. Slavery in the United States is not just Black History, it is American History.

With the help of our brave listeners, we discuss the teaching of black history month in a New Orleans public school, a pricey New England boarding school and a predominately LatinX public school in Massachusetts. We hear from parents of kids in public schools, a parent who supplements their child’s education at-home, and another parent who homeschools her children.

Thank you all so so so very much for reaching out to us with such thoughtful insights on this very challenging topic. Y’all came through with such strong feedback this episode! We can’t tell you how much we appreciate it, and how good it makes us feel to know there are so many out there who feel just as strongly about the need to talk openly about American History as we do.

Honestly. It means so much to us.

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To prepare for our next minisode, we also announce next month’s subject, and ask you to write/call in with your thoughts and stories on that subject.

An Instagram post we put up, taken from a Texas textbook, caused quite a stir. The post, which highlights an intentionally misleading portrayal of slavery, introduced us to our first white supremacist troll. As nube podcast hosts are still navigating the world of social media promotion and would love to hear about your experiences with internet trolls. Trolls, according to wiki, is a person who starts quarrels or upsets people on the Internet to distract and sow discord by posting inflammatory and digressive, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community with the intent of provoking readers into displaying emotional responses and normalizing tangential discussion--whether for the troll's amusement or a specific gain. How do you handle trolls, in what situations do they appear, what things are you discussing, on what platforms?

Please listen to the episode and drop us a line by Saturday January 12th. We’ll read our favorite responses on minisode 4 next month!
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