Black Ivory Roots’ Podcast
From the innovators of Black Sistory: The Storytelling Genre, Black Ivory Roots Podcast unveils the dark hidden truths of His-story and amplifies the voices that White supremacy tried to silence…
Tune in and reclaim the narratives they never wanted you to hear.
Episodes
19 episodes
Chicago Is Bleeding: When Clout Becomes a Casket!
BLACK SISTORY SPEAKS: We take a direct aim at the violence traumatizing Chicago neighborhoods. This segment calls out the YNs’, challenges the glorification of guns, retaliation, and street credibility while exposing the painful reality behind ...
We Built It! White America Destroyed It!!
Episode 15 of the Black Ivory Roots Podcast exposes the truth behind the claim that Black people failed to build wealth. From Tulsa and Rosewood to Forsyth County, Black communities created businesses, owned land, opened banks, and built thrivi...
THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES… WHO THE FUCK GAVE THESE MEN A COUNTRY!!!
From Founding Fathers preaching liberty while enslaving Black people to Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden, we are taking a raw,...
The White Crowd Beneath the Black Bodies!
In 1930, in Marion, Indiana, three young Black men were accused of a violent crime before they ever had the chance to face a jury. Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith would never make it to trial. A white mob stormed the jail, dragged them into the st...
The Privilege You Never Had to Notice.
What does it mean to move through the world without your race being seen as a threat? In this episode of the Black Ivory Roots Podcast, we examine the historical roots of white privilege, the stereotypes placed on Black people, and how centurie...
William Tucker: The First Documented Black Child Born in the English Colonies
William Tucker is recognized as the first documented Black child born in the English colonies that later became the United States. He was born around 1624 or 1625 in Virginia to Anthony and Isabella, two Africans brought to the colony after the...
Who Really Broke the Chains?
This episode challenges the idea that freedom was simply given to enslaved Black people by political leaders. It examines how Abraham Lincoln, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the Thirteenth Amendment are often presented as the full story, wh...
Eartha Kitt: The Woman Who Made the White House Flinch!
This is not a Hollywood fairy tale. This is the story of one Black woman who told the truth in a room full of powerful people and paid a brutal price for it. Join us as we explore the pivotal moment that led her to confront authority head-on, i...
Skin Deep: The Holmesburg Experiments
Between 1951 and 1974, hundreds of Black men incarcerated at Holmesburg Prison in Philadelphia became unwitting test subjects in one of America’s most disturbing chapters of medical exploitation. Dermatologist Albert Kligman, backed by pharmace...
How Five Black Women Challenged the Klan!
The 1980 Chattanooga shooting, where five Black women were attacked by members of the Ku Klux Klan while standing on a public sidewalk in Chattanooga, Tennessee. This episode explores the racial violence of the attack, the courtroom failures th...
SAM Insurance: Behind the Policy
This episode examines the tension between institutional protection and racial injustice through the lens of S.A.M. (Sexual Abuse and Molestation) insurance policies that shield organizations from misconduct claims. It contrasts these protection...
Anna Murray Douglass: Sidelined and Overshadowed!
Before Frederick Douglass became a legend, Anna Murray Douglass, his wife, made his freedom possible. This episode confronts the truth behind his rise, and the black woman history chose to overlook.
One Bloodline! Two Injustices.
Before the world knew the name Emmett Till, there was his father, Louis Till, a young Black man whose life became entangled in war, accusation, and a justice system that did not move equally for everyone. His story was buried in silence for yea...
Salt in the Wound: The Cruelty of Punishment in Enslavement
In this deeply unsettling episode of our podcast, we dive into the harrowing reality of physical punishment endured by enslaved people at the hands of their captors. Through the lens of brutality, we uncover the horrifying practice of whipping ...
Lula Sherman’s story
We uncover the story of Lula Sherman, a fourteen-year-old black girl whose life was taken by violence, and her suffering was nearly lost to history. This is not just a story of tragedy, but a story of truth, memory, and the fight to make sure h...
The Lynching of Claude Neal
In 1934, Claude Neal, a 23-year-old Black farmworker in Marianna, Florida, was accused of murdering a white woman. Before he could ever see a courtroom, a white mob took him from jail. What followed was not justice. It was spectacle.Thou...
Call Her Peggy
This episode centers on Virginia in the 1700s, where control was engineered and suffering was routine. Her name was not preserved. What follows is a reconstruction based on documented punishment devices and recorded conditions because the archi...