The Fred Opie Show

In this bonus episode Dr. Opie discusses the systemic underdevelopment in the south including food violence pushed black folk to leave the south and better opportunities pulled blacks to migrate to cities like Detroit during the Great migration between World Wars I and II. And he talks about life in North including Entrepreneurship, domestic servants, migration patterns, and defacto-Jim Crow Host...

Host Fred Opie Interviews Show Runner Jared Andrukanis. His credits include working for Zero Point Zero Productions on the show Points Unknown with host Anthony Bourdain, which is one of the few food shows I watched. This interview is a must for people who want to enter into the production industry from someone who has worked on Emmy award making shows. The principles of getting in the door and cl...

Fred shares a teaching tip from 25 years in the business; avoid boring topics like kryptonite and you will always bring an infectious enthusiasm with you wherever you teach. Host and Producer Dr. Frederick Douglass Opie About Dr Opie: https://www.fredopie.com/courses Books: https://www.fredopie.com/books/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fdopie/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrFredDOpie For Coa...

Food Facts Host and Producer: Dr. Frederick Douglass Opie Associate Producer: Kiara Thomas Rhubarb Stories and Recipes: https://www.fredopie.com/search?q=Rhubarb About Dr. Opie: https://www.fredopie.com/courses Dr. Opie's Books: https://www.fredopie.com/books/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fdopie/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrFredDOpie Want to book Dr. Opie for an upcoming event or media...

A bit size look at the history of tomatoes Food Facts Host and Producer: Dr. Frederick Douglass Opie Associate Producer: Kiara Thomas Tomatoes Stories and Recipes: https://www.fredopie.com/search?q=Tomatoes+ About Dr. Opie: https://www.fredopie.com/courses Dr. Opie's Books: https://www.fredopie.com/books/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fdopie/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrFredDOpie Want to...

Greatest nutritional mind of the 20th century, Dr. Alvenia Fulton Food Facts Host and Producer: Dr. Frederick Douglass Opie Associate Producer: Kiara Thomas Dr. Alvenia Fulton: https://www.fredopie.com/search?q=Dr.%20Alvenia%20Fulton About Dr. Opie: https://www.fredopie.com/courses Dr. Opie's Books: https://www.fredopie.com/books/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fdopie/ Twitter: https://twitt...

What's the difference between yams and sweet potatoes? Food Facts Host and Producer: Dr. Frederick Douglass Opie Assistant Producer: Kiara Thomas Yams Stories and Recipes: https://www.fredopie.com/search?q=Yams Sweet Potatoes Stories and Recipes: https://www.fredopie.com/search?q=Sweet%20Potatoes About Dr. Opie: https://www.fredopie.com/courses Dr. Opie's Books: https://www.fredopie.com/books/ Ins...

Earl Lewis is Thomas C. Holt Distinguished University Professor of History, Afro American and African Studies, and Public Policy and Director of Center for Social Solutions at University of Michigan. He talks about his journey through higher education and why he has created a way to prepare for higher education leadership. Earl Lewis: https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/earl-lewis Host and...

Live event Fred did for Harlem Lacrosse and organization that uses lacrosse to teach life skills. In this excerpts Fred shares the story of how is academic outcomes and opportunities radically improved. Harlem Lacrosse: https://www.instagram.com/harlem_lacrosse/ Host and Producer Dr. Frederick Douglass Opie. Follow Dr. Opie and share a link. Books: https://www.fredopie.com/books/ About Fred: https...

Welcome to our new series Food Facts where we serve up small portions of interesting food history. First up is Greens. Historically Africans, Asians, and Americans ate lots of greens as compared with Europeans. Today most native born US southerners regards less of their zip code is a greens and corn bread eating and pot liquor drinking expert. Food Facts Host and Producer Dr. Frederick Douglass Op...

Host and Producer Dr. Frederick Douglass Opie. Follow Dr. Opie and share a link. Do you procrastinates because your a perfectionist? Not sure what or how to edit your work after you receive feedback from an editor, supervisor, professor, or dissertation advisor? Fred shares practical advice from his experience as an author who has received a ton of feedback from editors calling for revisions. Book...

A bonus for my supporters from the episode The Soul Patrol. From 1980-1991 Hobart College won 12 consecutive NCAA Division III national championships! As part of our ongoing series, A History of African-Americans in Lacrosse, we interview the members of the soul patrol—an African-American midfield at Hobart: Ray “Tiny” Crawford, Mark “Skip” Darden, and Malcolm Anderson. Support Fred Patreon: https...

Beginning in the late 1950s, Fultonia’s Health Food and Fasting Center was a local hub for health foods and natural remedies, always buzzing with customers. And while Chicagoans frequented the store for freshly prepared meals and alternative medicine, notable figures from all over the country—politicians, musicians, activists, actors, and athletes alike—came to the shop to hear the sagely wisdom o...

Recording of a lecture that Food Historian Dr. Frederick Douglass Opie did at Harvard University about Food and Romance in Zora Neale Hurston’s writings. As an anthropologist she did fieldwork in the US South during the Great Depression as a WPA writer. For More of Fred's Work on Zora Neale Hurston: https://soundcloud.com/thedinnertablewithfredopie/zora-neale-hurston-the-culinary-world-of-an-liter...

Audio Courtesy of NPR Fred Opie contributes to an historic Thanksgiving Day food fight on NPR's Code Switch: what's better sweet potato or pumpkin pie? What are the cultural roots of this debate. Link to the original story: https://www.npr.org/2017/11/22/565777176/a-code-switch-thanksgiving-feast Host and Producer Dr. Frederick Douglass Opie. Follow Dr. Opie, review the show, tell others about it,...

Today's show is different from our usual episodes and it is much longer but worth the listen. The topic is on diversity and inclusion in sports, schools, and industry; a subject most white folks are scared to talk about and black and Brown people regularly talk discuss behind closed doors. Special thanks to Matt Holman for sharing audio from his YouTube series entitled Overtime. Today's show is an...

In 2006, the Yankees announced plans to build a new $800 million dollar stadium. In order to do so, the administration of former billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg doled out public welfare to the privately owned lucrative sports franchise. The welfare included $444 million in rent and tax breaks, free land in the form of 28 acres of city-owned public parks, ball fields and tennis courts, state-su...

Today's show is twofold first it a remembrance of Congressman John Lewis 1940-2020 and activist CT Vivian 1924-2020. Like revolutionaries John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, Lewis and Vivian died on the same day after a life time of advancing the revolution started in this country in 1776. Second a unique look at the March on Washington through the lens of food HOST AND PRODUCER DR. FRED OPIE, ATHLET...

A debrief of an introduction to African Diaspora studies course on Africa, the Americas, and Europe through the lens of history and food using a methodology borrowed from the study of Judaism. The framework allows one to understand empires, colonization, and the migrant communities and the cultures they produce. This debrief include students reflections on the content, skills acquired, life lesson...

Today’s show is a remix of a 2015 panel comparing and contrasting the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, of the late 1960s with the Black Lives Matter movement of today featuring Historian Fred Opie and Youth Pastor David D. Price of the First A.M.E. Church of Los Angeles. The show includes excerpts from comedian/activist Dick Gregory (1932-2017) who participated in the civil rights movement, b...

Today's show is an historical look at the Black Lives Matter movement. We start with a look the Great Migration, Defacto Jim Crow in New York and contrast with the Jim Crow South during roughly the same period in US history. We end the show with a look at revolutionaries and revolutionary movements from the Atlantic slave trade to the civil rights and black power movements Related Links: The Tarry...

Observed from a episode titled "How Can I Help Black Folk Too Mr. Douglass? In which Topic of racism is unpacked and you might be surprised by the answers Dr. Tina Opie shares. Here's a link to the entire episode: http://www.fredopie.com/sports/2020/6/4/how-can-i-help-black-folk-too-mr-douglass Dr. Tina Opie Bio: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tina-opie-pittman-b070597/ Check out Dr. Tina Opie's Shar...

A native of Chicago’s South Side, Khalil Gibran Muhammad is professor of History, Race and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School His research and writing examines race, democracy, inequality and criminal justice in modern U.S. history. He is the author of The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America which won the 2011 John Hope Franklin Best Book award in Am...

Today's show," How Can I help Black People Too Mr. Douglass?," should be rated PG 13 because of the topic—US racism and solutions to turning this ship in the right direction. What you hear may make you cry, angry, laugh, and cry some more and get angrier. The show features interviews with three guest: Dr. Tina Opie Babson Professor and Host Fred Opie’s wife Dr. Tina Opie. She and Fred get raw in t...

A 1959 graduate of St. Lawrence University, Hall of Famer Jackie Pitts played club lacrosse for the Philadelphia Bandits and the Philadelphia Women's Lacrosse Association. She was a member of the U.S. Women’s Team and U.S. Reserve Team from 1964-74. She later served as the head coach of the U.S. women’s squad from 1979-87, winning the first World Cup in 1982. Pitts' lacrosse experience spans the e...