Rethinking Our History

Send us Fan Mail Let's go to Britain this week, during the 1800's of it all. 1888 to be specific. After a newpaper article came out bringing light to the terrible conditions of the match making factories management attempted to make people sign a form refuting the article. When they refused, one or more of the employees were fired. This set of a storm of strikes that could have crippled...

Send us Fan Mail This week we are looking at one of the wildest events I personally have ever heard of. In 1985 an organization known as MOVE was causing waves in the community. They had already been run out of one home, and now the cops were on their way to run them out of another. But what they ended up doing would take the lives of 11 people in that house, 5 of them children. and destroy two ci...

Send us Fan Mail Last week we took a journey to look at what drove two men to decide to bomb a federal building, taking the lives of dozens. This week we look at that act that took those lives. On April 19th 1995 at 9:02 am, the bomb that Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols had spent months planning and executing, ripped apart the Alfred P. Murrah Building in downtown Oklahoma City. The loss of life...

Send us Fan Mail This week we are looking back at the worst domestic terrorist attack in US history. After the mess that the US government made during Rudy Ridge and the siege at Waco, many homegrown terrorist were angry and looking to take revenge against the government. Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were two sure terrorist. Having grown up in the US, being former military and white supremaci...

Send us Fan Mail We got a bit of a lighter episode for ya this week, but its still a weird story. On July 14th 1518 Frau Troffea walked out of her home in Strasbourg France and began dancing. But this was not joyful twirling, line dancing, or any of the dancing we have today, instead it was a manic dancing that lasted well into the night and only stopped once Troffea fell asleep. But the next day...

Send us Fan Mail In 1992 the cult classic movie Candyman made it's way to movie theaters, and more than a few people recognized the story line to be much more than just a nightmare. For folks living in the ABLA homes, the thought of someone breaking in through their bathroom cabinets was not an irrational fear, but one they lived with daily. In comes 52 year old Ruthie Mae who had been a resi...

Send us Fan Mail This week we are back in Chicago looking into one of the most infamous names to come out of the city, and can you believe it is not a black man?! Naw, Herman, as he was named at birth, was a descendent of the first english colonist. And just as with many people who were sent to the US, Herman would grow up with a thirst for violence. Many people know his name and have heard of his...

Send us Fan Mail This week we are looking at Ida's life after meeting her husband and having kids. For some women, this would slow down their fight, but not for Ida. No, if anything being a mother to young black children fueled Ida's fight even more. Even with the threat of the federal government at her back, Ida kept on fighting for what she knew in her heart was right. May we all take...

Send us Fan Mail This first episode exploring black excellence during Black History Month looks at one of the bravest and most influencial black women in the history of the US. Ida B. Wells was born as an enslaved child before the emancipation proclimation just a few years later. She became an educator at a young age to take care of her siblings. As an adult she was never quite about the inequalit...

Send us Fan Mail On the night of December 29th 1972 Eastern Airlines Flight 401 was making a regular flight from NYC to Miami. Things were going well until the went to land in Miami, and there was a malfunction with a light in the cockpit. This malfunction led to one of the worse aviation accidents in the history of flying. ROH EP 19 Source Notes: https://www.hauntlanta.com/ https://open.spotify.c...

Send us Fan Mail We recently began binging a new to us show, the United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell and in the 3rd season he goes to the Low Country to meet the Gullah people. While there he learns about Robert Smalls, an enslaved man who stole a ship and sailed his family and friends to freedom. But Roberts tale is a small part of a much larger fight against colonization and enslavement....

Send us Fan Mail We got a short one for ya today folks. Last week on The Paranormal Lovers we covered the infamous Lake Lanier. This week we look at the man for whom the lake was named after. Sidney Lanier was a Georgia boy who loves music. After a short military career during the civil war, during which he contracted tuberculosis, Sidney set out to find his place in the world. But his life would...

Send us Fan Mail We are back for 2025 and boy do we have a good one for ya today. Back in the 1920's infrastructure regulations were not as strong as they are today, and they aren't great today. But by 1920 standards they are leaps and bounds better than they were. One area that got an upgrade in the 1920's was dam engineering in California. That was after one failed and took the li...

Send us Fan Mail I once heard someone say, it's not crazy to say people are after you if people are after you. I have a feeling Fred knew people were after him, but that did not stop him from living his life's purpose. Helping people. From the age of 10 when he cooked breakfast for other neighborhood kids, to running the Chicago chapter of the Black Panther Party, Fred worked his whole l...

Send us Fan Mail I do hope this episode finds you well after the holiday weekend and ready for a few laughs. Back in 1932 after the end of WW1 veteran's set out in Western Australia to farm wheat for the world, but they had a native problem, just not the one we grew up hearing about. This was an EMU problem. Thousands of Emus set out each year in the spring( our fall) to head to the coast, th...

Send us Fan Mail We have come to the end of the tale of the life and legacy of the 7th president of the United States of America, Andrew Jackson. After his busy military career Jackson set out, and accomplished, reaching the highest office in the land. His presidency was filled with drama, petty disputes, and genocide. Which aren't they all? But I do believe one of the greatest takeaways from...

Send us Fan Mail So last week we looked at the forced removal of native nations from the southeastern US. One of the largest proponents of this removal was Andrew Jackson, the 7th president of the US. But Jackson's life did not start out in circles of power. In fact tragedy would strike his family just weeks before Andrew was even born. And at the young age of 14 Jackson would become and orph...

Send us Fan Mail This week we take a look at the forced removal of " The Five Civilized Tribes" of the southeast region of the US. Starting in the early 1800's with the Creek Nation the US government drew up treaties for the native nations, giving the government control of their land, and moving the tribe to new land west of the Mississippi. But when they refused to leave, the gover...

Send us Fan Mail This week we take a look back in history at a man who changed the world with three simple words: Wash Your Hands!!!!! But during his time on earth Ignaz Semmelweis did not get the recognition he deserved and some people believe that that led him to lose his mind. So here we are telling his story and hoping he knows we all appreciate him now. ROH EP 10 Source Notes: https://en.wiki...

Send us Fan Mail This week we have a fun one for ya. Although he only lived till the age of 33, James Banning had quite the influence on the black community and aviation. One of the few black pilots of his day, Banning faced many hardships on his path to flight, from poverty to racism. But he let none of it hold him back. And in 1932 he and friend Thomas Allen would make history, sadly just months...

Send us Fan Mail And we're back! This week we are going to look at one of the few case in which the US government actually, somewhat, held themselves accountable for a terrible event. The Weaver family were seen by most as extremist white supremasist. They wanted to get a piece of land they could live the rest of their days on during the apocolypse. What they ended up getting what a petty nei...

Send us Fan Mail Hey friends! We are glad to be back in the studio this week for a special update episode.  As everyone knows we were in the direct path of Hurricane Helene. From 9/25 till 9/27 our region was, quite literally, drowned with over 40 inched of rain.  In the wake of the storm the devastation has been overwhelming, as has the out pouring of for our region.  So enjoy this update episode...

Send us Fan Mail I'm sure most people have never heard of Martin Couney, so we are bringing his story, and a little bit of ours, to the masses. Born in what was German Prussia at the time, Martin's early life is not well known. For what ever reason he was very secretive about his early life. But whatever he did in his early life, can not over shadow what he did later in life. After alleg...

Send us Fan Mail This week are are looking into the case that created OSHA, and paved the way for the labor and safety laws we have today. This laws were put in place after thousands of women began getting sick and dying. Their deaths were at first attributed to and STD, but it soon became apparent that was not the case. ROH Episode 6 Source Notes https://www.britannica.com/science/pitchblende htt...

Send us Fan Mail We have all been taught the story of Rosa Parks in school, but what we were taught was not the whole story. Rosa's actions that day were staged after another woman did the same thing. Claudette Colvin was a pregnant 15 year old dark skinned black girl who one day refused to give her seat up on the bus. But Claudette did not look the way they needed her to look to get the symp...