Landmarking the Former Colored School, Black Gotham Experience, Juneteenth Reader, We Refuse to Forget, African American Food History

In honor of Juneteenth, we are spotlighting underreported Black history and culture. Author Eric K. Washington will join to talk about his quest to get official landmark status for a building in Chelsea in which Black children were educated in the years following the Civil War, known as "Former Colored School Number 4."

We discuss locations with historical ties to Black communities in New York City with artist, historian and Black Gotham Experience founder and lead creative Kamau Ware.

This year is only the second time Juneteenth has been a public school holiday in NYC and the first time it has been recognized as a federal holiday. This month, the New York Public Library put together a list of books for educators and parents to help teach kids about this important day as well as significant historical moments in Black History. Shauntee Burns-Simpson, Manager of School Outreach for the NYPL, joins us to talk about some of the books on this list.

The Creek Nation has had a complicated relationship with its Black members. The tribe once enslaved Black people, but later recognized Black Creeks as full members of the Nation. That changed in the 1970s when the rights of Black Creeks were revoked by tribal leaders. Author Caleb Gayle joins us to discuss this complex piece of history that's central to his new book, We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power.

[REBROADCAST FROM March 1, 2022] A new museum exhibition in Harlem explores African American contributions to our national culinary identity. African/American: Making the Nation’s Table, presented by the Museum of Food and Drink (MOFAD), will run until July 17 at The Africa Center at Aliko Dangote Hall. Curator and culinary historian Dr. Jessica B. Harris (Netflix's "High on the Hog," and recently one of Time's 100 most influential people) joins us to talk about the exhibition.