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
11 episodes
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...