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What does making Black history look like in 2026? It's not just marching and monuments. It's the comedian who built a 2.9M view special independently. The man who spent 15 years wrongfully imprisoned and now runs a reentry program. The two Black women VPs changing banking from the inside. The nonprofit leaders building community when funding won't come. Every other Thursday, hosts Liz and Porter interview leaders and change-makers building wealth, breaking barriers, and creating generational impact. New episodes every other Thursday at 5 AM CST. Follow, rate, share.

For more than a century, the city of Atlanta has been associated with Black achievement in education, business, politics, media, and music, earning it the nickname "the Black Mecca." Atlanta's long tradition of Black education dates back to Reconstruction, and produced an elite that flourished in spite of Jim Crow, rose to leadership during the civil rights movement, and then took power in the 1970s by building a coalition between White progressives, business interests, and Black Atlantans. But Atlanta's political leadership has consistently mishandled the Black poor.

Blacksound explores the sonic history of blackface minstrelsy and the racial foundations of American musical culture from the early 1800s through the turn of the twentieth century. With this namesake book, Matthew D. Morrison develops the concept of "Blacksound" to uncover how the popular music industry and popular entertainment in general in the United States arose out of slavery and blackface.