Sources:<a href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/eleanor-anderson/" target="_blank">https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/eleanor-anderson/</a> <a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-marian-anderson-became-iconic-symbol-equality-180972898/" target="_blank">https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-marian-anderson-became-iconic-symbol-equality-180972898/</a> - Alicia Ault <a href="https://www.npr.org/2014/04/09/298760473/denied-a-stage-she-sang-for-a-nation" target="_blank">https://www.npr.org/2014/04/09/298760473/denied-a-stage-she-sang-for-a-nation</a> - Susan Stamberg Wikipedia Ave Maria - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GksRp42s3S8&amp;t=98s" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GksRp42s3S8&amp;t=98s</a> My Country Tis of Thee - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAONYTMf2pk" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAONYTMf2pk</a> He's Got the Whole World in His Hands - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRGZrv0Hl6k" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRGZrv0Hl6k</a><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/15/books/review/the-essential-octavia-butler.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/15/books/review/the-essential-octavia-butler.html</a><a href="https://web.mit.edu/m-i-t/articles/butler_talk_index.html" target="_blank">https://web.mit.edu/m-i-t/articles/butler_talk_index.html</a><a href="https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20200317-why-octavia-e-butlers-novels-are-so-relevant-today" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20200317-why-octavia-e-butlers-novels-are-so-relevant-today</a><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/books/second-read/octavia-butlers-prescient-vision-of-a-zealot-elected-to-make-america-great-again" target="_blank">https://www.newyorker.com/books/second-read/octavia-butlers-prescient-vision-of-a-zealot-elected-to-make-america-great-again</a>

<description>&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sources:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/eleanor-anderson/" target="_blank"&gt;https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/eleanor-anderson/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-marian-anderson-became-iconic-symbol-equality-180972898/" target="_blank"&gt;https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-marian-anderson-became-iconic-symbol-equality-180972898/&lt;/a&gt; - Alicia Ault&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.npr.org/2014/04/09/298760473/denied-a-stage-she-sang-for-a-nation" target="_blank"&gt;https://www.npr.org/2014/04/09/298760473/denied-a-stage-she-sang-for-a-nation&lt;/a&gt; - Susan Stamberg&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Wikipedia&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Ave Maria - &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GksRp42s3S8&amp;amp;t=98s" target="_blank"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GksRp42s3S8&amp;amp;t=98s&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;My Country Tis of Thee - &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAONYTMf2pk" target="_blank"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAONYTMf2pk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;He's Got the Whole World in His Hands - &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRGZrv0Hl6k" target="_blank"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRGZrv0Hl6k&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/15/books/review/the-essential-octavia-butler.html" target="_blank"&gt;https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/15/books/review/the-essential-octavia-butler.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://web.mit.edu/m-i-t/articles/butler_talk_index.html" target="_blank"&gt;https://web.mit.edu/m-i-t/articles/butler_talk_index.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20200317-why-octavia-e-butlers-novels-are-so-relevant-today" target="_blank"&gt;https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20200317-why-octavia-e-butlers-novels-are-so-relevant-today&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.newyorker.com/books/second-read/octavia-butlers-prescient-vision-of-a-zealot-elected-to-make-america-great-again" target="_blank"&gt;https://www.newyorker.com/books/second-read/octavia-butlers-prescient-vision-of-a-zealot-elected-to-make-america-great-again&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Ep 122 |  The First African-American to Perform at the Metropolitan Opera

Marianne Anderson was considered one of the best musicians of her time. She performed across Europe, where she became a massive celebrity, and once the Third Reich began to gain steam, she returned to America to perform in her home country. She was also a Black woman singing opera during Jim Crow - which meant she had to fight twice as hard to earn half the respect of peers with a fraction of her talent. She had many triumphs throughout her life and her voice and legacy remain renowned and acclaimed to this day.

Marian Anderson, A Musical Icon | Episode 122

Sources: <a href="https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/639299/octavia-butler-author-facts" target="_blank"> https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/639299/octavia-butler-author-facts</a><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/15/books/review/the-essential-octavia-butler.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/15/books/review/the-essential-octavia-butler.html</a><a href="https://web.mit.edu/m-i-t/articles/butler_talk_index.html" target="_blank">https://web.mit.edu/m-i-t/articles/butler_talk_index.html</a><a href="https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20200317-why-octavia-e-butlers-novels-are-so-relevant-today" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20200317-why-octavia-e-butlers-novels-are-so-relevant-today</a><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/books/second-read/octavia-butlers-prescient-vision-of-a-zealot-elected-to-make-america-great-again" target="_blank">https://www.newyorker.com/books/second-read/octavia-butlers-prescient-vision-of-a-zealot-elected-to-make-america-great-again</a>

<description>&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sources:&lt;br&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/639299/octavia-butler-author-facts" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;br&gt;https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/639299/octavia-butler-author-facts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/15/books/review/the-essential-octavia-butler.html" target="_blank"&gt;https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/15/books/review/the-essential-octavia-butler.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://web.mit.edu/m-i-t/articles/butler_talk_index.html" target="_blank"&gt;https://web.mit.edu/m-i-t/articles/butler_talk_index.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20200317-why-octavia-e-butlers-novels-are-so-relevant-today" target="_blank"&gt;https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20200317-why-octavia-e-butlers-novels-are-so-relevant-today&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.newyorker.com/books/second-read/octavia-butlers-prescient-vision-of-a-zealot-elected-to-make-america-great-again" target="_blank"&gt;https://www.newyorker.com/books/second-read/octavia-butlers-prescient-vision-of-a-zealot-elected-to-make-america-great-again&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Ep 121 | Was She Ahead of Her Time? Or Just Paying Attention?

Octavia Butler is one of the greatest science fiction writers of all time, known more recently for practically predicting the presidency of Donald Trump, and yet she did not become a New York Times Bestseller until long after she died, in September 2020. Today, we're talking about the brilliance of her words and concepts and we hope that you, too, will finally discover the incredible legacy of Octavia Butler.

Octavia Butler, Visionary Science Fiction Writer | Episode 121

Sources:<a href="https://medium.com/history-of-yesterday/when-leprosy-made-her-the-most-reliable-spy-of-world-war-ii-4b3043b95199" target="_blank">https://medium.com/history-of-yesterday/when-leprosy-made-her-the-most-reliable-spy-of-world-war-ii-4b3043b95199</a> - Jhemmylrut Teng<a href="https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/philippines-spy-joey-guerrero" target="_blank">https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/philippines-spy-joey-guerrero</a> - Lea Schram von Haupt<a href="http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,798844,00.html" target="_blank">http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,798844,00.html</a> A lot of this info also comes from the book Leper Spy: The Story of an Unlikely Hero of World War II by Ben Montgomery: <a href="https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781613734308" target="_blank">https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781613734308</a>

<description>&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sources:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://medium.com/history-of-yesterday/when-leprosy-made-her-the-most-reliable-spy-of-world-war-ii-4b3043b95199" target="_blank"&gt;https://medium.com/history-of-yesterday/when-leprosy-made-her-the-most-reliable-spy-of-world-war-ii-4b3043b95199&lt;/a&gt; - Jhemmylrut Teng&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/philippines-spy-joey-guerrero" target="_blank"&gt;https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/philippines-spy-joey-guerrero&lt;/a&gt; - Lea Schram von Haupt&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,798844,00.html" target="_blank"&gt;http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,798844,00.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;A lot of this info also comes from the book &lt;em&gt;Leper Spy: The Story of an Unlikely Hero of World War II&lt;/em&gt; by Ben Montgomery: &lt;a href="https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781613734308" target="_blank"&gt;https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781613734308&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Ep 120 | The Stigma of her Condition Gave Her A Special Angle in Espionage

Josefina Guerrero was a Filipina spy during World War II who was responsible for saving the lives of thousands of American soldiers. She spied undetected on behalf of the Allied forces for years and was so effective because of her particular affliction: leprosy. She used her illness, which had caused her so much trauma and grief since her diagnosis, to save countless lives and help turn the tide of the war, and for that, she must be celebrated.

Josefina Guerrero, the Outcast Spy | Episode 120

Sources: <a href="https://www.salon.com/2018/10/06/7-things-the-united-daughters-of-the-confederacy-might-not-want-you-to-know-about-them_partner/" target="_blank">https://www.salon.com/2018/10/06/7-things-the-united-daughters-of-the-confederacy-might-not-want-you-to-know-about-them_partner/</a> <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/time-to-expose-the-women-still-celebrating-the-confederacy" target="_blank">https://www.thedailybeast.com/time-to-expose-the-women-still-celebrating-the-confederacy</a> <a href="https://www.facingsouth.org/2019/04/twisted-sources-how-confederate-propaganda-ended-souths-schoolbooks" target="_blank">https://www.facingsouth.org/2019/04/twisted-sources-how-confederate-propaganda-ended-souths-schoolbooks</a> Wikipedia Links: American Hysteria - Televangelists: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/772vY8mSMPZz6ml4jnTHew?si=bOfoMaPNTnKExvOI7A3TGQ" target="_blank">https://open.spotify.com/episode/772vY8mSMPZz6ml4jnTHew?si=bOfoMaPNTnKExvOI7A3TGQ</a> Dixie's Daughters by Karen L. Cox: <a href="https://upf.com/book.asp?id=9780813064130" target="_blank">https://upf.com/book.asp?id=9780813064130</a>

<description>&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sources:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.salon.com/2018/10/06/7-things-the-united-daughters-of-the-confederacy-might-not-want-you-to-know-about-them_partner/" target="_blank"&gt;https://www.salon.com/2018/10/06/7-things-the-united-daughters-of-the-confederacy-might-not-want-you-to-know-about-them_partner/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/time-to-expose-the-women-still-celebrating-the-confederacy" target="_blank"&gt;https://www.thedailybeast.com/time-to-expose-the-women-still-celebrating-the-confederacy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.facingsouth.org/2019/04/twisted-sources-how-confederate-propaganda-ended-souths-schoolbooks" target="_blank"&gt;https://www.facingsouth.org/2019/04/twisted-sources-how-confederate-propaganda-ended-souths-schoolbooks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Wikipedia&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Links: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;American Hysteria - Televangelists: &lt;a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/772vY8mSMPZz6ml4jnTHew?si=bOfoMaPNTnKExvOI7A3TGQ" target="_blank"&gt;https://open.spotify.com/episode/772vY8mSMPZz6ml4jnTHew?si=bOfoMaPNTnKExvOI7A3TGQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Dixie's Daughters by Karen L. Cox: &lt;a href="https://upf.com/book.asp?id=9780813064130" target="_blank"&gt;https://upf.com/book.asp?id=9780813064130&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Ep 119 | Smash Cut to Wednesday, January 6, 2021, White Supremacist's Attempting a Coup on Our Nation's Capital

The United Daughters of the Confederacy is the group primarily responsible for the erection of allll those Confederate statues we've been arguing about for years - yet their name is still largely unknown and untarnished in the eyes of the general public. But as the group largely responsible for the way the South has spent the last 150 years learning about Civil War history (aka, the Lost Cause myth versus what actually happened) and for spending millions on Confederate monuments, we think it's high time that you know who these women (white, Southern, and genteel) are - and what they have wrought.

Daughters of the Confederacy, the Southern Women's Cult to White Supremacy | Episode 119

Sources:The Woman Who Invented the Hollywood Screenwriter By&nbsp;​Pamela Hutchinson: https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6948-the-woman-who-invented-the-hollywood-screenwriter Links: Without Lying Down by Cari Beauchamp: <a href="https://bookshop.org/books/without-lying-down-frances-marion-and-the-powerful-women-of-early-hollywood/9780520214927" target="_blank">https://bookshop.org/books/without-lying-down-frances-marion-and-the-powerful-women-of-early-hollywood/9780520214927</a> Donate to Reverend Warnock: <a href="https://secure.actblue.com/donate/warnockrunoff" target="_blank">https://secure.actblue.com/donate/warnockrunoff</a> Donate to Jon Ossoff: <a href="https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ossoffrunoff" target="_blank">https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ossoffrunoff</a> Donate to Fair Fight: <a href="https://fairfight.com/" target="_blank">https://fairfight.com/</a> Volunteer to help Fair Fight wherever you are: <a href="https://fairfight.com/fair-fight-2020/" target="_blank">https://fairfight.com/fair-fight-2020/</a>

<description>&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Sources:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;The Woman Who Invented the Hollywood Screenwriter By&amp;nbsp;​Pamela Hutchinson: &lt;br&gt;https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6948-the-woman-who-invented-the-hollywood-screenwriter&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Links: &lt;br&gt;Without Lying Down by Cari Beauchamp: &lt;a href="https://bookshop.org/books/without-lying-down-frances-marion-and-the-powerful-women-of-early-hollywood/9780520214927" target="_blank"&gt;https://bookshop.org/books/without-lying-down-frances-marion-and-the-powerful-women-of-early-hollywood/9780520214927&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Donate to Reverend Warnock: &lt;a href="https://secure.actblue.com/donate/warnockrunoff" target="_blank"&gt;https://secure.actblue.com/donate/warnockrunoff&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Donate to Jon Ossoff: &lt;a href="https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ossoffrunoff" target="_blank"&gt;https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ossoffrunoff&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Donate to Fair Fight: &lt;a href="https://fairfight.com/" target="_blank"&gt;https://fairfight.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Volunteer to help Fair Fight wherever you are: &lt;a href="https://fairfight.com/fair-fight-2020/" target="_blank"&gt;https://fairfight.com/fair-fight-2020/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Ep 118 | She Literally Invented the Role of Screenwriter

Frances Marion was, at the height of her career in the early 20th century, one of the highest paid people in Hollywood. A prolific and powerful writer, she is credited with creating the job of screenwriter as we know it in Hollywood. She was besties with Mary Pickford, Marie Dressler, and one of the most trusted scenarists in the industry for decades. Even once her career began to decline, the name Frances Marion was respected and revered by Hollywood's biggest creators for years to come.

Frances Marion, the Original Screenwriter | Episode 118

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