Holidays

Episodes and information related to commonly celebrated holidays.

Alcatraz: An Untold Story of Indigenous Resistance

Alcatraz. What comes to your mind when you hear the name of that little island off the coast of San…

I’ve always thought Mildred and Richard Loving’s last name was kismet: Mildred was a Black woman and Richard was a…

If you are not Muslim, perhaps you’ve seen Ramadan listed as holiday on your calendar but don’t really know what…

The holiday season can be a beautiful time of celebration, but if we’re being honest, it can also be extremely…

I made my “Untold Story of Thanksgiving” episode to help me — and hopefully you — understand the true, accurate…

Juneteenth is the oldest celebration of the abolition of slavery here in the United States. Every year on June 19th…

54 years ago today Richard and Mildred Loving won their landmark Civil Rights case against the state of Virginia. Because…

The story that we learned about Christopher Columbus could not be further from the truth. He was a colonizer, enslaver,…

Thanksgiving is right around the corner and that means that us parents are faced with the question of what to…

You probably learned in school all about the story of Francis Scott Key watching the “rockets red glare” and “bombs…