Pain and Power

Delta blues musician Robert Johnson grew up in Memphis Tennessee, at an early age he practiced to be a good blues musician his rise to fame was fast, so fast rumors has it, he sold his soul to the devil for success in music. Tune in for story. Instagram: @painpowerpodcast Email: painpowerpodcast@gmail.com Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Johnson https://www.robertjohnsonbluesfoundatio...

Latasha Harlins was a young girl from Illinois who grew up in South Central Los Angeles. She was dealing with grief from losing her mother to the hands of her father’s new girlfriend. Latasha was doing her best to be a good student and good big sister to her younger brother and sister. One Saturday morning store run changed the lives of Latasha and her family forever. Tune-in for full story. Insta...

Ruby was a young, beautiful, successful African American woman, a staple in her community in Live Oaks, Florida. Due to her husband’s gambling and liquor business. For 1934 the McCollum family was on top of the world. Fast forward 20 years later Ruby’s on trial for murdering her doctor. Tune-in. Instagram: @painpowerpodcast Email: painpowerpodcast@gmail.com Sources: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki...

When the world was on lock down during the COVID-19 pandemic, image consultant Kevin Samuels made waves on Instagram live coaching women. Described as a hyper masculine individual and a males male the interactions and interviews with the various women was deemed controversial. Instagram: @painpowerpodcast Email: painpowerpodcast@gmail.com Sources: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Samuels http...

Living in 19th century South Africa, Baartman was orphaned at a young age and was taken advantage of young as well. Standing no more than 5 feet her body shape and proportions and the people around her very curious. Tune- in for full story. Instagram: @painpowerpodcast Email: painpowerpodcast@gmail.com Sources: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Baartman https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-352409...

German duo Rob Pilatus and Fabrice Morvan, met at a dance seminar in Munich. Determined to be successful they worked hard until they were noticed and they were. Frank Farian, producer and writer had a project for them, their voices weren’t used but yet they performed the songs recorded tune in for full details. Instagram: @painpowerpodcast Email: painpowerpodcast@gmail.com Sources: https://en.m.wi...

In Wrightsville, Arkansas 1959. A dormitory with 69 sleeping African American boys ages 13-17 mysteriously caught fire… Full story inside. Instagram: @painpowerpodcast Email: painpowerpodcast@gmail.com Sources: https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/negro-boys-industrial-school-fire-of-1959-5500/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Negro_Boys%27_Industrial_School https://katv.com/amp/news...

This episode features young Robert “ yummy” Sandifer, he was featured on the cover of Time magazine “ Too young to kill too young to die.” This is a Chicago story based around the Roseland community. Tune in. Instagram: @painpowerpodcast Email: painpowerpodcast@gmail.com Sources: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Sandifer https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/11/20/i-wasn-t-a-superpredator-...

In this season opener we discuss Nikki Giovanni, the poet of the black revolution. Tune in for interesting facts about the writer who dreams or the dreamer who writes. Instagram: @painpowerpodcast Email: painpowerpodcast@gmail.com Sources: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikki_Giovanni https://nikki-giovanni.com/ https://news.vt.edu/articles/2024/12/clahs-giovannimemoriam.html

Mamie Till sent her only child, 14 year old Emmett to visit his family in the Delta, Mississippi for the summer in 1955, two weeks later his body was returned in a casket. Instagram: @painpowerpodcast Email: painpowerpodcast@gmail.com Sources: https://www.pbs.org/video/the-murder-of-emmett-till-j6dpye/ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/till-timeline/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w...

Born into slavery; young Frederick Douglass realized that knowledge was his pathway to freedom he began his quest and never looked back. Instagram: painpowerpodcast Email: painpowerpodcast@gmail.com Sources: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/frederick-douglass https://publicseminar.org/essays/frederick-douglass-on-multiracial-democracy/

The Queen of Soul. American singer, pianist and civil rights activist. Instagram: @painpowerpodcast Email: painpowerpodcast@gmail.com Source: https://www.arethafranklin.net/ https://youtu.be/RKfkvbOP1sc https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/aretha-franklin-tribute-cover-story-queen-729053/amp/

American Singer and song writer. Aretha Franklin’s story part one discusses young Aretha personal and professional life. Instagram: painpowerpodcast Email: painpowerpodcast@gmail.com Source: https://www.arethafranklin.net/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aretha_Franklin

American Abolitionist. Sources: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Tubman https://www.businessinsider.com/8-amazing-facts-about-harriet-tubman-2016-4 https://www.history.com/.amp/topics/black-history/harriet-tubman https://instagram.com/30seconds?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= https://instagram.com/litehousegrill?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= Instagram: @painpowerpodcast Email: painpowerpodcast@gmail.com

American abolitionist and political activist. Instagram: @painpowerpodcast Email: painpowerpodcast@gmail.com Sources: https://www.history.com/.amp/topics/black-history/harriet-tubman https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Tubman https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1535.html

Robert Smalls was an enslaved man who was captain of a confederate steamer CSS Planter during the civil war, he commandeered the CSS planter and steered past confederate flag post to freedom. Instagram: @painpowerpodcast Email: painpowerpodcast@gmail.com Sources: https://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/history/which-slave-sailed-himself-to-freedom/ https://en.m.wikipedia.or...

American Minister. Malcolm Little ran the streets from city to city as Detroit Red and New York Red after serving time for grand larceny, he emerged as Malcolm X. A representative of The Nation of Islam and The Black Nationalist and Civil rights movement. Instagram: @painpowerpodcast Email: Painpowerpodcast@gmail.com Sources: Malcolm X: Quotes, Movie & Autobiography - HISTORY Malcolm X Assassi...

Malcolm X, American Minister. Instagram: @painpowerpodcast Email: painpowerpodcast@gmail.com

American Professor, Author. Instagram: @painpowerpodcast Email: painpowerpodcast@gmail.com Sources: 12 Things You Need To Know About The Death Of Donda West | by Alfred Hood | Sociomix Donda West - Wikipedia The Suspicious Death of Donda West - YouTube Donda West's Surgeon Blames Kanye's Cousin for Her Death - YouTube Donda West Died of Heart Disease after Surgery | PEOPLE.com Donda West Is the He...

American Minister and Activist. Instagram: @painpowerpodcast Email: painpowerpodcast@gmail.com Sources: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Collection | New York Heritage (nyheritage.org) Freedom: The Dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (youthforhumanrights.org) Martin Luther King Jr. – Biography - NobelPrize.org Martin Luther King Jr. - Wikipedia The King Center | The Center for Nonviolent Social Change...

American Novelist, anthropologist, folklorist and story writer. Instagram: @painpowerpodcast Email: painpowerpodcast@gmail.com Sources:   About Zora Neale Hurston | Zora Neale Hurston Biography: Zora Neale Hurston (womenshistory.org) Black Excellist: 10 Things to Know About Zora Neale Hurston (Harlem Renaissance Writer) - YouTube Zora Neale Hurston - Quotes, Books & Sweat - Biography Zora...

American Writer. Instagram: @painpowerpodcast Email: painpowerpodcast@gmail.com Sources: Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 78 (theparisreview.org) James Baldwin | Poetry Foundation James Baldwin - Wikipedia James Baldwin - Quotes, Books & Poems - Biography

American Chef.  Instagram: @painpowerpodcast Email: painpowerpodcast@gmail.com Sources: The Story of George Crum, Inventor of the Potato Chip (thoughtco.com) The Potato Chip Was Invented by a Black Man Named George Crum | Black History George Speck - Wikipedia George Crum (1824-1914) • (blackpast.org)

American Entrepeneur, philanthropist and activist. Instagram: @painpowerpodcast Email: painpowerpodcast@gmail.com Sources: Madam C.J. Walker | African-American Entrepreneur, Philanthropist, and Activist (madamcjwalker.com) Madam C. J. Walker - Wikipedia MADAM by MCJW - Walmart.com Madam C. J. Walker - HISTORY

Womens' rights and anti-slavery activist. Instagram: @painpowerpodcast Email: painpowerpodcast@gmail.com Sources: Biography: Sojourner Truth (womenshistory.org) Sojourner Truth - Quotes, Facts & Speech - HISTORY Sojourner Truth - Wikipedia Sojourner Truth - Quotes, Speech & Facts - Biography