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Part One: Charlotta Bass: The Black Journalist Who Refused the Red Scare

49 min · 27 de jul de 2026
Portada del episodio Part One: Charlotta Bass: The Black Journalist Who Refused the Red Scare

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Margaret talks to Cristen Conger about an organizer who was the first Black American woman to own a newspaper and once scared off the Klan. Source: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-20-op-anderson20-story.html [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-20-op-anderson20-story.htmlhttps://www.npr.org/2021/05/04/993605428/beneath-the-santa-monica-freeway-lies-the-erasure-of-sugar-hill [https://www.npr.org/2021/05/04/993605428/beneath-the-santa-monica-freeway-lies-the-erasure-of-sugar-hillhttps://americacomesalive.com/california-eagle-newspaper-black-readership-ahead-time/ [https://americacomesalive.com/california-eagle-newspaper-black-readership-ahead-time/https://www.pbs.org/blackpress/news_bios/ca_eagle.html [https://www.pbs.org/blackpress/news_bios/ca_eagle.htmlhttps://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf6c60052d [https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf6c60052d]  The Untold Story of Charlotta Spears Bass, Groundbreaking Politician, Nicole A. Mansfield  https://www.history.com/articles/nat-turner-rebellion-literacy-slavery [https://www.history.com/articles/nat-turner-rebellion-literacy-slaveryhttps://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2021/02/brown-s-first-black-female-graduate-ethel-robinson-s-legacy-on-college-hill [https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2021/02/brown-s-first-black-female-graduate-ethel-robinson-s-legacy-on-college-hillhttps://ncph.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Redlining-and-Racial-Covenants_pdfversion.pdf [https://ncph.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Redlining-and-Racial-Covenants_pdfversion.pdfhttps://www.segregationbydesign.com/los-angeles/sugar-hill [https://www.segregationbydesign.com/los-angeles/sugar-hillhttps://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/progressive-party-platform-1948 [https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/progressive-party-platform-1948https://mutterhood.com/charlotta-bass/ [https://mutterhood.com/charlotta-bass/https://www.blackwomenradicals.com/blog-feed/charlotta-spears-bass [https://www.blackwomenradicals.com/blog-feed/charlotta-spears-basshttps://lamag.com/lahistory/charlotta-bass-kkk/ [https://lamag.com/lahistory/charlotta-bass-kkk/https://web.archive.org/web/20090819013517/http://www.socallib.org/SCLWebsite/hiseagle.htm [https://web.archive.org/web/20090819013517/http://www.socallib.org/SCLWebsite/hiseagle.htmhttps://www.myblackhistory.net/Charlotta_Bass.htm [https://www.myblackhistory.net/Charlotta_Bass.htmhttps://www.aaihs.org/charlotta-bass-and-the-cold-war-peace-movement/ [https://www.aaihs.org/charlotta-bass-and-the-cold-war-peace-movement/]  See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

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Portada del episodio Part One: Charlotta Bass: The Black Journalist Who Refused the Red Scare

Part One: Charlotta Bass: The Black Journalist Who Refused the Red Scare

Margaret talks to Cristen Conger about an organizer who was the first Black American woman to own a newspaper and once scared off the Klan. Source: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-20-op-anderson20-story.html [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-20-op-anderson20-story.html]  https://www.npr.org/2021/05/04/993605428/beneath-the-santa-monica-freeway-lies-the-erasure-of-sugar-hill [https://www.npr.org/2021/05/04/993605428/beneath-the-santa-monica-freeway-lies-the-erasure-of-sugar-hill]  https://americacomesalive.com/california-eagle-newspaper-black-readership-ahead-time/ [https://americacomesalive.com/california-eagle-newspaper-black-readership-ahead-time/]  https://www.pbs.org/blackpress/news_bios/ca_eagle.html [https://www.pbs.org/blackpress/news_bios/ca_eagle.html]  https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf6c60052d [https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf6c60052d]  The Untold Story of Charlotta Spears Bass, Groundbreaking Politician, Nicole A. Mansfield  https://www.history.com/articles/nat-turner-rebellion-literacy-slavery [https://www.history.com/articles/nat-turner-rebellion-literacy-slavery]  https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2021/02/brown-s-first-black-female-graduate-ethel-robinson-s-legacy-on-college-hill [https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2021/02/brown-s-first-black-female-graduate-ethel-robinson-s-legacy-on-college-hill]  https://ncph.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Redlining-and-Racial-Covenants_pdfversion.pdf [https://ncph.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Redlining-and-Racial-Covenants_pdfversion.pdf]  https://www.segregationbydesign.com/los-angeles/sugar-hill [https://www.segregationbydesign.com/los-angeles/sugar-hill]  https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/progressive-party-platform-1948 [https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/progressive-party-platform-1948]  https://mutterhood.com/charlotta-bass/ [https://mutterhood.com/charlotta-bass/]  https://www.blackwomenradicals.com/blog-feed/charlotta-spears-bass [https://www.blackwomenradicals.com/blog-feed/charlotta-spears-bass]  https://lamag.com/lahistory/charlotta-bass-kkk/ [https://lamag.com/lahistory/charlotta-bass-kkk/]  https://web.archive.org/web/20090819013517/http://www.socallib.org/SCLWebsite/hiseagle.htm [https://web.archive.org/web/20090819013517/http://www.socallib.org/SCLWebsite/hiseagle.htm]  https://www.myblackhistory.net/Charlotta_Bass.htm [https://www.myblackhistory.net/Charlotta_Bass.htm]  https://www.aaihs.org/charlotta-bass-and-the-cold-war-peace-movement/ [https://www.aaihs.org/charlotta-bass-and-the-cold-war-peace-movement/]  See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

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Portada del episodio Part Two: Robin Hood and the Legacy of Outlaws in Medieval England

Part Two: Robin Hood and the Legacy of Outlaws in Medieval England

Margaret continuing talking to Joe Kassabian about how Robin Hood might not have been real, but bandits who supported the peasantry was. Sources: https://mercian-as.co.uk/chester.html https://entertablementabroad.com/2026/06/sheriffs-and-shires-the-geography-of-governance/ https://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/culture-leisure/country-parks/history-of-sherwood-forest-robin-hood-and-major-oak https://mercian-as.co.uk/about_sherwood.html https://www.etymonline.com/word/tithe https://www.etymonline.com/word/tour https://www.jstor.org/stable/3678889 https://mercian-as.co.uk/outlaws.html https://sites.nd.edu/manuscript-studies/tag/sloth/ https://www.medievalists.net/2021/05/piers-plowman-great-uprising-1381/ https://robinhoodlegend.com/the-legend/ https://web.archive.org/web/20201116124922/https://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams/text/gest-of-robyn-hode https://traditionalbritain.org/blog/walter-scott-as-a-conservative-thinker/ https://web.archive.org/web/20201115204031/https://d.lib.rochester.edu/robin-hood/text/chandler-robin-hood-development-of-a-popular-hero https://www.academia.edu/6274298/Robin_Hood_and_the_Social_Context_of_Late_Medieval_Archery https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Robin_Hood See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

22 de jul de 202650 min
Portada del episodio Part One: Robin Hood and the Legacy of Outlaws in Medieval England

Part One: Robin Hood and the Legacy of Outlaws in Medieval England

Margaret talks to Joe Kassabian about how Robin Hood might not have been real, but bandits who supported the peasantry was Sources: https://mercian-as.co.uk/chester.html https://entertablementabroad.com/2026/06/sheriffs-and-shires-the-geography-of-governance/ https://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/culture-leisure/country-parks/history-of-sherwood-forest-robin-hood-and-major-oak https://mercian-as.co.uk/about_sherwood.html https://www.etymonline.com/word/tithe https://www.etymonline.com/word/tour https://www.jstor.org/stable/3678889 https://mercian-as.co.uk/outlaws.html https://sites.nd.edu/manuscript-studies/tag/sloth/ https://www.medievalists.net/2021/05/piers-plowman-great-uprising-1381/ https://robinhoodlegend.com/the-legend/ https://web.archive.org/web/20201116124922/https://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams/text/gest-of-robyn-hode https://traditionalbritain.org/blog/walter-scott-as-a-conservative-thinker/ https://web.archive.org/web/20201115204031/https://d.lib.rochester.edu/robin-hood/text/chandler-robin-hood-development-of-a-popular-hero https://www.academia.edu/6274298/Robin_Hood_and_the_Social_Context_of_Late_Medieval_Archery https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Robin_Hood See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

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