The Humanity Archive Podcast

Step into the shadows of history where we rip through the pages of the forgotten and the overlooked. I'm Jermaine, your guide, armed with nothing but a microphone and a thirst for the stories that time tried to erase. Ready for a history lesson like no other? Welcome to The Humanity Archive – we tell the stories of the historically unheard.

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The Woke Panic
Jermaine Fowler Jermaine Fowler

The Woke Panic

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In 'Woke Panic,' we unravel a growing crisis in education where essential aspects of marginalized history are being suppressed and erased.

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First Baptist Church
Jermaine Fowler Jermaine Fowler

First Baptist Church

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In this special episode, I recount my visit to First Baptist Church, where I uncovered the history of struggles and triumphs that shaped a community.

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Atomic Shadows
Jermaine Fowler Jermaine Fowler

Atomic Shadows

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In this episode, we reveal the obscured human cost of the Atomic Age, with a specific lens on Hispanic displacement and the lingering shadows of nuclear fallout.

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An Indigenous People’s History
Jermaine Fowler Jermaine Fowler

An Indigenous People’s History

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In this episode I share some powerful takeaways from the book 'An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States' by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz.

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James Baldwin: The Fire Next Time
Jermaine Fowler Jermaine Fowler

James Baldwin: The Fire Next Time

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Join me as we journey through the fiercely eloquent and starkly candid prose of James Baldwins book 'The Fire Next Time.’

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Women's Suffrage: Remastered
Jermaine Fowler Jermaine Fowler

Women's Suffrage: Remastered

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The women’s suffrage movement was a decades-long fight to win the right to vote for women in America.

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Book Reading- The Humanity Archive Prologue
Jermaine Fowler Jermaine Fowler

Book Reading- The Humanity Archive Prologue

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In this podcast episode, Jermaine Fowler takes listeners on a thought-provoking and emotional journey through his book, The Humanity Archive: Recovering the Soul of Black History from a Whitewashed American Myth.

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Harriet Tubman
Jermaine Fowler Jermaine Fowler

Harriet Tubman

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In the midst of the unspeakable horror of American chattel slavery, figures like Harriet Tubman emerged to challenge the system.

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Beyond 1492
Jermaine Fowler Jermaine Fowler

Beyond 1492

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Essential truths about Native American history have been hidden and concealed.

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The Crack Epidemic
Jermaine Fowler Jermaine Fowler

The Crack Epidemic

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In the early to late 1980s, crack cocaine became public enemy #1 in America.

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September 11th
Jermaine Fowler Jermaine Fowler

September 11th

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As the terrible events of September 11th, 2001 fade into the distant past, the memories of survivors live on to remind us of heroism, loss, and mourning.

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Fake News!
Jermaine Fowler Jermaine Fowler

Fake News!

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In recent years social media platforms have come under fire for spreading fake, but when did this all begin?

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Kill Every Buffalo You Can!
Jermaine Fowler Jermaine Fowler

Kill Every Buffalo You Can!

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The American bison once roamed the prairie in numbers up to 60 million, but when the U.S government slaughtered the animal to near extinction forcing starvation on the Plains tribes.

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On the Fourth of July
Jermaine Fowler Jermaine Fowler

On the Fourth of July

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Seventy-nine years after America declared its independence, in 1855, Frederick Douglass blasted the nation for its hypocrisy as a slaveholding nation.

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Living Black History
Jermaine Fowler Jermaine Fowler

Living Black History

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Black history is human history. In this recorded lecture, I cut through the historical amnesia and hollow Black History Month celebrations to reimagine the past in ways that can move us forward. ⁠

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