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Podcast: #WeNeedToTalk
Episode: #WeNeedToTalk: Black History and Rising Through Pain
Description: Growing up in school we learned a sugarcoated version of slavery and Black history. We learned how Harriet Tubman freed the slaves, the role Martin Luther King Jr. played during the civil rights era (and became convinced that the only speech he ever gave was “I Have a Dream”) and sometimes, if we were lucky, we learned how Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man and how that action led to change.But in the wake of everything changing around us and the threat of our history being erased, we m...