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Left Out, Then and Now
Every day, Marcus and Denise take one story from Carlos L. Young Sr.'s 12-volume book series 'Left Out of the History Books' and draw the line straight to today's headlines — humor first, then the receipts. The stories they tried to erase, told anyway. From The Digital Black Voice. 📚 The books: Etsy — https://www.etsy.com/shop/TheDigitalBlackVoice · Complete Collection — https://payhip.com/b/jDIZc · ERASED paperback, buy direct —…
Episodes
- Left Out, Then and Now
The Real Black Friday Then, the Viral Myth Now
A special episode. Marcus and Denise check the receipts on Black Friday: the viral claim that the name comes from discount sales of enslaved people has no…
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Black Friday Then, Two Records Now
A special episode. Two records answer the Black Friday question. One was carried by mouth: Black families passing down that the day after Thanksgiving carried…
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Blocked from the Bench Then, Elected by the People Now
Scott Colom — blocked by Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith from a federal judgeship — defeats her after eight days of counting to become Mississippi's first Black senator…
- Left Out, Then and Now
First in the Courtroom Then, Eight in the Capitol Now
Marcus and Denise pair the Black Women Who Changed the World volume — Constance Baker Motley, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund lawyer who won nine of ten Supreme…
- Left Out, Then and Now
Left Off the Stone Then, Set in Stone Now
Marcus and Denise pair the Black Soldiers volume — Adams County's free Black men who enlisted in the United States Colored Troops after Gettysburg, then were…
- Left Out, Then and Now
The Long Count Then, The Long Count Now
Marcus and Denise pair Reconstruction's first Black officeholders — Hiram Revels and Blanche K. Bruce, Mississippi's Black senators of the 1870s, from the…
- Left Out, Then and Now
Paved Over Then, Petitioning Now
Marcus and Denise pair Seneca Village from ERASED, America's Lost Black Towns — the Black landowning community New York seized by eminent domain in 1857 to…
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Unmarked Then, Named Now
Marcus and Denise pair America's Black Massacres — Elaine, Ocoee, Rosewood and Tulsa's Greenwood, where the dead were buried unmarked and the crime was renamed…
- Left Out, Then and Now
The Vault Then, The Vanguard Now
Marcus and Denise pair Black Educators — the HBCUs that became the vaults of Black history, from Du Bois's typewriter at Atlanta University to Hale Woodruff's…
- Left Out, Then and Now
One in Four Then, Back in the Saddle Now
Marcus and Denise pair Black Explorers, Cowboys & the West — Bass Reeves, Stagecoach Mary Fields, and the one in four Black cowboys Hollywood cropped out of…
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One at a Time Then, Five at Once Now
Marcus and Denise pair Reconstruction's first Black officeholders — P.B.S. Pinchback's 35 days as America's first Black governor — with Election Night 2026…
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Patented Then, Building What's Next Now
Marcus and Denise pair Black Innovators — Lewis Latimer, Granville Woods, Elijah McCoy, Garrett Morgan and Thomas Jennings, who patented the telephone…
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Unbought Then, On the Ballot Now
Marcus and Denise pair Black Women Who Changed the World — Shirley Chisholm's Unbought and Unbossed run and Carol Moseley Braun's Senate first — with Election…
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Hush Harbors Then, Souls to the Polls Now
From the Black Faith volume: Richard Allen walked out of St. George's in 1787 and built the AME Church — and the Black church became the movement's…
- Left Out, Then and Now
Hitsville Then, Every Voice Now
Marcus and Denise pair Motown from "The Sound of Us" in the Left Out of the History Books series — Berry Gordy's eight hundred dollar Hitsville bet and "The…
- Left Out, Then and Now
Honored at 105, Still Waiting Now
Marcus and Denise pair the Buffalo Soldiers and Colonel Allen Allensworth from the Black Soldiers volume of 'Left Out of the History Books' with this week's…
- Left Out, Then and Now
Built It Then, Building It Back Now
Greenwood, Tulsa: 35 blocks of Black-owned businesses built from 1905, destroyed in 1921, rebuilt anyway — from 'Black Wall Streets' (Vol. 5). Today a $105…
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Out of the Room Then, Out of the Room Now
From 'The Black Press' (Vol. 11): an editor whose office was destroyed and whose life was threatened for printing the truth — and the modern version, where the…
- Left Out, Then and Now
On the Map Then, Off the Map Now
After the Civil War, Black voters and Black officeholders redrew American politics — the story in 'Reconstruction' (Vol. 6). Today, a Louisiana congressional…
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Banned Then, Banned Now
Reading was once a crime. Marcus and Denise open with the anti-literacy laws from 'Black Educators' (Vol. 7) — when teaching an enslaved person to read was…