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What's happening. We're back, Like the name on a jersey,
Welcome back to I didn't know. Maybe you didn't either,
the podcast where every episode proved that your high school
history teacher was a liar. I didn't know. I didn't know.
I didn't know. I didn't know. I didn't know. I
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didn't know. Now, if you've been locked into all ninety
five episodes of the podcast, and you know, season one,
we came out swinging hit, y'all with the grimy, gritty stuff,
black babies used as alligator bait, clowns rooted in racism
with black face and nursery rhymes that were never meant
for naptime. And y'all, remember when I told you about
dunkin boots back in the day. They didn't aim at
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a target. The target was the face of an enslaved
black man. Yeah, we had all the smoking season one.
Then in season two we had to show you the wins,
like how Winston Salem, North Carolina had a black on
bus system that would have made Rosa Parks proud, or
how black people save PEPSI Well, one of my favorite
people in history, Robert Small's My Dudes stole a whole
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Confederate ship and said, get me and my family up
out of here. You heard of the Underground Railroad. My
boy Robert Smalls had the Underground Cruise line for season three.
Last year, we had a focus on stem science, technology, engineering,
and math. Black folks out here innovating even when they
don't give us the credit. Talked about how DJ's used
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math and neuroscience to keep the parties lit, how drones
could find black towns that's been buried under water, and
of course we shared massacres and atrocities like when Philly
bombed its own citizens in the nineteen seventies. This season,
we're talking about the queens black women who changed the game.
Each week, we've got a highlight on HBCUs. We're talking
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about medical injustices and malpractices, and of course we got
more massacres because apparently white supremacy had seasons two. But
it's not all bad. We've got stories of success and
innovation to remind you all that Black history is about resilience, brilliance,
and us never folding. So tell a friend to tell
a friend. Could we dropping new episodes daily this month
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on the Black Effect Podcast Network. Hopefully you'll laugh you'll learn,
and you might just be mad at your history teacher
all over again. Season four. I didn't know. Maybe you
didn't either. Starts right now.