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Welcome to The Household. Take your shoes off. Make yourself at home!
The show started five years ago when I found the story of the Black press and the vibrant lives they worked so hard to document. I approached podcast studios, hoping to be picked up but the risk of making a podcast based on archival Black newspapers, without a celebrity attached, that required extra time for sound design, research and writing, was not one they were willing to take.
So, I've been investing my own time and money into creating the show independently, but that can only get me so far. With donor support, I'm able to cover ongoing production expenses like the cost of subscriptions to newspaper archives and sound libraries, audio editing software, monthly hosting fees and more. Members of The Household and their support have also allowed me to begin imagining a season two for this show. Thank you for considering investing, I hope you'll join us.
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A Tribute to The Black Press aka Soldiers Without Swords
The heart and soul of these stories are the newspapers in which I found them. Before the 1960s nearly every major city in the nation had a newspaper written for, by and about Black Americans. During their “Golden Era” - the 1930s to 1950s - there were thousands of Black periodicals in circulation with an estimated reader count of nearly 1 million. The editors, reporters, and columnists of these papers included legends like Ida B. Wells, Frederick Douglass, Langston Hughes, W.E.B. DuBois, and Zora Neale Hurston, among many others. They reported on local, national, and international news from the Black perspective and they kept track of what everyone was up to in their segregated communities. Spoiler alert: there was never a dull moment!
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