Untold Stories

Episodes and information that are part of our Untold Stories series.

The Untold Story of the Story That I Told: Correcting Mistakes When Teaching Kids About Slavery

Did you read the title of this episode? It’s a doozy! As convoluted as “The Untold Story of the Story…

To say Martin Luther King Jr.’s work has impacted my own anti-racism work is an understatement. His legacy is foundational…

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

We hear all the time how the episodes in our Untold Stories series are some of everyone’s favorites — and…

When the team here at First Name Basis was doing the research for our recent episode “Alcatraz: An Untold Story…

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

As a Black bi-racial person, learning about slavery growing up was so hard for me for so many reasons —…

What did you learn about Rosa Parks growing up? You may have learned, like I did, that she was a…

We need to stop celebrating Columbus Day — immediately. The story that we learned about Christopher Columbus could not be…

This month we have the opportunity to celebrate one of America’s greatest heroes, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Today we’ll…