Not Your African Cliché

Happy Black History Month (Black Fist Emoji)! In this episode we explore how Black History is celebrated in different parts of the world; discuss differences between BHM celebrations in the US vs UK; share the things we learnt thanks to BHM; shoutout some of our black heroes: Lewis Howard Latimer, Madam C.J. Walker, Maya Angelou, James Baldwin and Toussaint Louverture; and demand our fucking reparations from white people. Resources: • Excerpt from Edward Baptist’s The Half Has Never Been Told - http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2014/11/19/slavery-economy-baptist • BBC’s Britain’s Forgotten Slave Owners - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b063db18 • PBS’s Black in Latin America - http://www.pbs.org/wnet/black-in-latin-america/about/ What we are currently watching/reading/listening to: • Rihanna’s ANTI Album • Mat Johnson’s Loving Day • HBO’s Game of Thrones • Celeste Ng’s Everything I Never Told You Show was mixed by Ifeoluwa Olokode, and theme music is "Ayo" by the über talented Femi Leye