Send us a text So last week we looked at the forced removal of native nations from the southeastern US. One of the largest proponents of this removal was Andrew Jackson, the 7th president of the US. But Jackson's life did not start out in circles of power. In fact tragedy would strike his family just weeks before Andrew was even born. And at the yo…

Send us a text This week we take a look at the forced removal of " The Five Civilized Tribes" of the southeast region of the US. Starting in the early 1800's with the Creek Nation the US government drew up treaties for the native nations, giving the government control of their land, and moving the tribe to new land west of the Mississippi. But when…

Send us a text This week we take a look back in history at a man who changed the world with three simple words: Wash Your Hands!!!!! But during his time on earth Ignaz Semmelweis did not get the recognition he deserved and some people believe that that led him to lose his mind. So here we are telling his story and hoping he knows we all appreciate …

Send us a text This week we have a fun one for ya. Although he only lived till the age of 33, James Banning had quite the influence on the black community and aviation. One of the few black pilots of his day, Banning faced many hardships on his path to flight, from poverty to racism. But he let none of it hold him back. And in 1932 he and friend Th…

Send us a text And we're back! This week we are going to look at one of the few case in which the US government actually, somewhat, held themselves accountable for a terrible event. The Weaver family were seen by most as extremist white supremasist. They wanted to get a piece of land they could live the rest of their days on during the apocolypse. …

Send us a text Hey friends! We are glad to be back in the studio this week for a special update episode. As everyone knows we were in the direct path of Hurricane Helene. From 9/25 till 9/27 our region was, quite literally, drowned with over 40 inched of rain. In the wake of the storm the devastation has been overwhelming, as has the out pouring of…

Send us a text I'm sure most people have never heard of Martin Couney, so we are bringing his story, and a little bit of ours, to the masses. Born in what was German Prussia at the time, Martin's early life is not well known. For what ever reason he was very secretive about his early life. But whatever he did in his early life, can not over shadow …

Send us a text This week are are looking into the case that created OSHA, and paved the way for the labor and safety laws we have today. This laws were put in place after thousands of women began getting sick and dying. Their deaths were at first attributed to and STD, but it soon became apparent that was not the case. ROH Episode 6 Source Notes ht…

Send us a text We have all been taught the story of Rosa Parks in school, but what we were taught was not the whole story. Rosa's actions that day were staged after another woman did the same thing. Claudette Colvin was a pregnant 15 year old dark skinned black girl who one day refused to give her seat up on the bus. But Claudette did not look the …

Send us a text We got a sticky sweet event for yall today. The morning of January 15th 1919 was like any other in the North Boston neighborhood where Purity Distilling kept their 2.3 million gallon tank of black strap molasses. Around 12:30 in the afternoon everything changed when that tank exploded, flooding the neighborhood in millions of gallons…

Send us a text This week on ROH we look at the life and legacy of a woman, who never knew what was done to her. After giving birth to her 4th child Henrietta Lacks was diagnosed with cervical cancer. While undergoing treatment samples were taken of her cells, without her consent. Henrietta would never know how far and wide her cells would end up go…

Send us a text In this second episode of Rethinking Our History we are going through the events of November 10th 1898 when a posse of white men began terrorizing the black community. Once it was all said and done at least a dozen men lay dead in the streets and hundreds more had been forced from their homes. In conclusion, we hope that people becom…

Send us a text In this first episode of Rethinking Our History we take a look at an event that is not talked about in the history of North Carolina. And we say this as two people who spent their whole school years in the NC education system. It was not until the events of January 6th that Felicia learned about the only successful insurrection in th…