Podcast episodes
Season 1
S01 E150 - GBN Daily Drop for May 30, 2022: Memorial Day and its African American Origins
Memorial Day, an American national holiday dedicated to the memory of fallen US soldiers, is celebrated on the last Monday of May. Its beginnings however, started on the first day of May in 1865, when by a group of newly liberated...
S01 E132 - GBN Daily Drop for May 12, 2022: Mary Eliza Mahoney, 1st African American Licensed Nurse in U.S.
S01 E132 - GBN Daily Drop for May 12, 2022: Mary Eliza Mahoney, 1st African American Licensed Nurse in U.S.
Born in 1879, Mary Eliza Mahoney worked hard for nearly two decades to earn her nursing license, overcoming discrimination to become the first African American person to do so in the United States. To learn more about Boston-born...
S01 E131 - GBN Daily Drop for May 11, 2022: Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson (Black Inventors)
The first African American woman to earn a doctorate at M.I.T., Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson is responsible for the major advances in telecommunications research that led to the invention of the touch-tone phone, portable fax, fiber op...
S01 E129 - GBN Daily Drop for May 9, 2022: Oliver Lewis, the Inaugural Kentucky Derby Winner
Jockey Oliver Lewis won the inaugural Kentucky Derby atop the colt Aristides on May 17, 1875. Lewis was one of thirteen Black jockeys in the fifteen-strong field. But even though Blacks dominated horseracing in the late 1800s, by ...
S01 E128 - GBN Daily Drop for May 8, 2022: Olympic Gold Medalist Wilma Rudolph (Quote)
On Mother's Day 2022, we offer a quote from three-time Olympic gold medalist and international track star Wilma Rudolph on when you have a choice, always choose to believe your mother.To learn more about Wilma Rudolph, read her 19...