Amanda B. and Rony J. face a choice between a.) silently choking down their guilt at not knowing or b.) reveling in the glory of learning the rich history in 100 AMAZING FACTS ABOUT THE NEGRO, by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. In this, the Mansa Musa of podcast episodes, our heroes spend a couple-odd hours (MORE than enough time to cover 800 years, tbh) rooting through the ignor-gotten history of y'know, a fifth of the inhabitants of this planet. Along the way...

Take a peek into the Platform 9 and 3/4 of internal black politics!
Explore lacrosse! #fairandbalanced
Discover that black people did stuff outside of the American slave story!
Severed heads, so sexaaayyyyyy
Slavery (wait for it) is bad.
Slave rebellions, though, are awesome!
The little-told story of Lt. Jack Robinson!
Seven-eighths ain't enough!
The Black press! Well shoot, what did they use, white ink?
Amanda coins the phrase "knowledge is power!"
Sorry, knowledge :(
General Sherman = OG #ally
Lincoln... come on, Lincoln.
You'll NEVER guess what Florida is good at!
Rony betrays the Kurds.
Black women are taking over the planet while no one's looking. #frocktalk
Animorphs digression!
Why can't I appropriate country music?
Amanda defends the honor of all Jamaica!

Rony has a vampiric need for the blood of misremembering people's names. Apologies to Newberry Medal-winning Ms. KATHERINE Applegate (not Karen), and Ellen G. White, founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

It must be the start of Daylight Saving Time, 'cause we're getting woke WAY too late.

#shouldbeamovie
#blackwatch2020

P.S. YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DID, ARGENTINA.

RURTHER FEEDING:
100 Amazing Facts About the Negro (articles), by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; TheRoot.com, October 15, 2012
Letter from Africa: How not to mangle African sports stars' names by Ade Daramy, BBC News
Vicente Guerrero pic. What up, girl.
The Myth of Whiteness in Classical Sculpture by Margaret Talbot, NEW YORKER Magazine, October 29, 2018
Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror, Equal Justice Initiative. eji.org
Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman, by Michele Wallace
Queen and Slim (trailer, opens 11/27/19)
Suge, music video by Dababy
Bonus - Watch anything Simone Biles has ever done.

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